#greatshot

Ended up also designing him a humanformer design during this

His humanformer name I ended up with was Shimura Seiji, keeping his double S and combining the names of two classic samurai film actors, Shimura Takashi and Miyaguchi Seiji, because of his whole samurai movie dialect thing he has going on.

Like sure, they and their bot could die all sorts of ways, but from the perspective of a human? Who're lucky to hit 80 or more? A century or two without aging may as well feel like vampire-style immortality.

Once folk come to terms with the existential crisis after realizing they aren't aging, perhaps noticing it a decade or two in, perhaps they'll have silly, mundane opinions about the circumstances. Y'know, beyond the agony of outliving other humans and experiencing dread/euphoria in regards to the immense amount of future they're facing, and so on.

Like, "Haha, man, I'm so glad I get to be 30 until I die, lmao"

And, "Lucky bastard, I wish the aliens showed up sooner. Now I'm 50 forever, and I just have to deal with the back pain and arthritis and occasional mid-life crisis until the end of time."

Or, "God. I thought it would be great to be young forever, but after the last two centuries of having a 21-year-old brain, I'm desperate. Let mw age a little more. I keep jumping between the decades of earned wisdom, and being just the stuuuupidest motherfucker in the world."

OR, age unrelated, "yaaay, I won't die of old age before the series im following ends <3" and "by god, I can finally write my novels without worrying that the many years each one takes will kill me..." and "I can nap so much, omg... I have so so so so much time to waste now :'D " and "I have enough time to listen to every song ever and watch every movie ever... bless..."

Plus the occasional "fuck, I'm so bored with existing now, how tf do the bots do this"

Sorry for the long ask, but I looove thinkin about far-future scenarios like this xD

🤣 poor humans. Their aging is so slow after fully bonding that they don’t seem to age at all anymore and the human brain doesn’t deal well with tedium.

Forever

Greatshot x Reader

• Staring at yourself in the mirror, your fingers touch your face under an eye. Trying to decide if you look any different, if maybe that line at the corner of your eye is new. Had thought you’d stopped aging altogether at first, but the medics had explained that you were still aging. Just so slowly as to be nearly imperceptible to you. But for all intents and purposes, you might as well be immortal. Your lifespan tied to your conjunx’s and much longer than a human’s should be. See movement behind you right before arms wrap around you. “Shotty,” you gasp, laughing as your mass displaced conjunx rests his chin on top of your head to study your combined reflection.

Drawings

Yes I used frame-by-frame rather than tweening for their heads in that second part because it just would not follow the vision otherwise

Also this anim genuinely gave me the biggest jumpscare and it also caused my new phone to glitch out for a fat minute so thanks 🫩

Echo and Jaruga doodle