my best friend Murtaugh we went to submachine together
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my best friend Murtaugh we went to submachine together
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Was going to do the 'two nickels' meme but then realized I had a funnier option
When The Lights Come On by They Might Be Giants for Murtaugh from Submachine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKd9ZgKSLXs https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/submachine/images/0/0e/Murtaugh.png/revision/latest?cb=20240319221849
Does it fit?
Yes
Lyrics, but not vibes
Vibes, but not lyrics
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Lyrics below cut:
I&'m at the point in life where I& fear that if I& don't post these unfinished WIPs they'll just rot in my& art folders forever so take my& forever unfinished Liz redesign and the finished Mur that was meant to go with her
bonus shitposty doodle of Murtaugh if he were in Cookie Run underneath
World Watercolor Month day 10: Buried
This is the day I started falling behind previously, but this year I'm on time!
I think the lighthouse from Submachine is a great topic for today's prompt, don't you think?
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Also tbh I& actually much prefer the Flash version of the very first note in S1 than the Legacy one. Like, let's compare:
There are two major differences between the notes - first is the obvious recontextualization of the event as a whole, but the second is tone.
In the original series, you were introduced to the world of Submachine slowly, starting out with things that could ostensibly happen in the real world and gradually adding more and more mysterious and supernatural elements. This level of familiarity helped new people get easily invested, immersed, and established great pacing for the mystery, letting the player spiral into the worldbuilding much like the researchers themselves.
When reading the new note, you are immediately introduced to a lot of new concepts at once: your questions are "what is karma", "what is the Structure", "what's the religious significance of Kent", etc. In comparison, the original note left us with just one question: "Can we trust this guy or is that third arm stuff made up?" - And you have to admit, that's a much more thematically fitting question considering Murtaugh's narrative.
As for the tone, the first game establishes Murtaugh as a bit eccentric, dismissive of his own safety (lost his own arm and didn't care? Kind of badass) and of others (looking down upon them), which explains a lot of his later actions. Of course he'd be careless with human lives, he views everyone besides Liz as below him because they can't understand him.
It has been mentioned before that the later games in the series feel like they're trying to retcon some of Murtaugh's personality traits, such as S9 recontextualizing his invasion of the Core in S6 as not motivated by revenge (although it doesn't really clarify what else he was seeking then. Just a chat with Liz??). However, because it's all happening in the later games, it feels much more like progression, following Murtaugh's journey of regret and redemption. It feels cathartic and satisfying. But making him softer and kinder from the very start, right in chapter 1? That undermines the catharsis somewhat.
Lore-wise, there isn't much that the new note clarifies or introduces either, frankly. In the later games, we already found out about:
The nature of the Kent waterfall as the source of karmic energy due to the crystal
The fact that Murtaugh lived in a highly structured and religious society (having his research team call him a holy usher)
The fact that the main reason behind the ostracization was from the actual deaths he was causing and not just because he was considered a freak
The fact that the society he lived in had access to karmic technology (they buried him using karma portals of their own)
And so on and so forth. The note rewrite ends up being a bit reductive as well, doesn't it?
So yeah. I& miss Murtaugh going "...but what the hell."
You are Murtaugh. Your worst fear ever was to be buried alive.
That night, you woke up to a thunderous roar - the very walls around you creaking under the rolling dirt putting pressure on the wood of your soon-to-become casket. It took you a moment to even process what was happening, and in that moment, like a deer in headlights, you simply watched as clumps and piles of rocky dirt poured in through the window.
Bangs my& head against the wall MUR AND LIZ HAVE ALWAYS REPRESENTED THE WAR BETWEEN THE HUMAN INFESTATION AND THE SHIVA SUPERCOMPUTER. AND FRANKLY SHIVA IS THE ONE IN THE RIGHT
The way the game initially frames Shiva as an AI gone rogue, a malevolent force of destruction spreading across the Submachine network that we mist infiltrate and stop. And the way that even if S6 makes you question for a moment if Mur's intentions were good, it's still not until you fully witness Elizabeth's side of the story and find out that the supercomputer is actually the god Shiva that you start seeing that. Hm. Maybe we're the bad guys
LIKE. It initially presents the narrative of exploring (conquering) a vast and completely devoid of life void. Sure, there's hints that these places were built by humans, that people lived there before, but clearly they're all long gone by now, right? So we persist and follow Murtaugh's orders, and he seems to be quite the helpful fellow with getting us out of the Loop and all. We kind of owe him
But then you start uncovering more and more. You find out that he has deserted every previous researcher we've heard from leaving them to die alone (surely means nothing for us). Well okay now we got abandoned as well and we find out that it's his portals that have been causing all of this destruction we've been seeing all along (but even though Liz asked us not to use the portals, we kind of have to in order to find her, right?). And oh shit what do you MEAN they buried him because "the collapse death toll was growing exponentially"
And don't get me& wrong, despite everything he realized his mistakes eventually thanks to Elizabeth but it's just. On a macro scale you see how the Subnet is not the malevolent growth it's made out to be. Sure, there's rogue submachine networks overtaking some Outer Rim edges, but we see that it's trying to keep them in check just as much as we are. The guns on the Edge belong to a DEFENSE system, not offense. Shiva is the one who granted Murtaugh his powers in the first place (note the "he didn’t gain his powers, they were given to him" etching) and She tried to reason with the humans at first. It wasn't until Mur's carelessness with the portals and organized effort to send as many explorer teams as he could all over Subnet that Shiva begun taking measures.
And if you think about it, She wasn't just protecting the Core from Murtaugh. She was also protecting Elizabeth.
And Elizabeth was protecting Her when she tried to shoot Murtaugh dead.