#subnautious

Fandom: Subnautica Below Zero (Al-an x Robin)

Notes: Wasn’t too sure about this ‘cause there aren’t too many writers in the BZ fandom but then I read someone complaining about lack of content in the tag so here you go I guess XD got more prompts if anyone is interested

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 1) TV SHOW AU

Sam and Robin are super taken with this  dumb tv show called "wedding at first sight" where the two spouses are literal strangers and only get introduced at the altar two minutes before getting hitched. Five seasons down the line, Sam is so obsessed with it Robin gets them both application forms for the thing as a joke. They laugh and giggle a lot while filling and sending said papers in a fit of alcohol-induced madness. The documents might not have been as fake as they thought 'cause Robin actually hears back from the producers. The show pays for everything and only requires they live together for a few months while filming, then there's a clause which allows for annullment if they don't consume the wedding.

She is bored enough to go for it for the sake of a whole new experience. He is exasperated enough to go for it out of spite of those who whishes he'd have a big public wedding.

He is a pompous, socially challenged grump about as fun as a log. She is an impulsive, crazy adventurer with little self-control.

EYY REEFIES!! :D

Ey! would you look at that! it’s the whole family all together! Awww~

@wonderlanddragon: are you ok? Are you going to starve of thirst?

Me: I might if I marry Sean

@therealjacksepticeye: "I prefer death"

They updated the “Robin Goodall research notes” in The PDA (it was only a string of random numbers before), now it tells us a little more about how Robin feels regarding alien life. Aside from being very sweet and poetic … well, let’s just say the last two sentences are VERY interesting to me.

This and the “we are different but we go together” repeating at the very start of the game … makes me think we just might get a little romance between Robin and Al-an after all

Edit: had to repost this because it wasn’t showing in the tags, but now the screenshot is blurry and hard to read. It says:

“What people don’t think about is how much we have in common with these creatures from across the stars. It may be that they have experiences very different from ours, but I’m sure that where there are eyes there is colour, and shape. Where there are ears there is music. At the base level all senses are just complicated forms of touch.

Been messing with these for two weeks, they went from 3 to 14 lol

WARNINGS: vague spoilers for "Subnautica: Below zero", the last one is shippy, my english is not perfect

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1) Robin was indirectly responsible for the accident that killed her mother back in Auwell; She was pretty far from the colony, playing around with some "newly discovered creature", when her mother went to call her back home and unknowingly startled the animal, which attacked her. Robin has still nightmares and guilt episodes to this day, but she tries to always keep herself busy enough to not let her mind wander. Sam blames her too to some degree, but none of them is willing to talk it out.

2) Robin and Sam's relationship is a little bit weird, a little bit strained. They're only half sisters to begin with and had trouble getting along even as kids because of their big age difference and contrasting personalities. After the accident involving their mother they coped each in their own way and kinda went in separate directions from there. When they were finally reunited on the Vesper, Robin "went straight to the planet" to avoid confrontation, but she still loves her sister dearly and is now trying her best to smooth things out. Sam is receptive enough but still on the fence about it. They're generally not as tightly knitted as they could be.

3) Robin is calm and laid back in nature, but she strongly dislikes to idle about for prolonged periods of time as she gets ansty very quickly. This sometimes leads her to be careless and not give a second thought about the fact she may or may not get injured while doing something. She is actually the most relaxed when multitasking.

4) Once he's sufficiently warmed up to her, Alan slowly starts fretting over Robin's safety in his own indirect way: providing her new technology to fish more efficiently so she won't starve to death, giving her teleportation devices so she'll escape faster if needs be, even sometimes nagging her about safety hazards and potential risks. They complessively make a good team.

5) Robin can also be extremely stubborn at times. Once she makes one choice and her sight is set on an objective, she usually see to it no matter the cost. This is both a blessing and a curse as trying to persuade her in any way usually gets the opposite result.

6) Photography is another passion of Robin's as well as it being a basic requirement for her job in documenting new species. She built up quite the skill over the course of the years and can handle any kind of equipment. She also has a knack for gardening and interior decorating and prefers to keep colorful clutter around to contrast Alterra's white and gray environments. her indoors often looks more like they're actually outdoor.

7) She has quite a number of tattoos under that wetsuit. She's gotten a big flowery one all around one of her thights and down to the knee, then another on her lower back and a smaller old-fashioned alien head on her shoulder. She's mortified when Alan takes notice of that particular one

8) Alan is very nearly Robin's exact opposite in many aspects. While she is a woman of action, Alan is the kind of guy who believes a problem will solve by itself if he just waits long enough. Being stuck in the sanctuary for over 1000 years was quite the good training in patience. He is also very cautious and easy to scare off whereas she is courageous and impulsive.

9) Staying so long at the bottom of a damp and half-collapsed cave also made him a little iffy when it comes to humidity and water in general

10) He was not one of the minds involved in the Kharaa research efforts. Alan was left behind to guard and operate their various installations in a completely different area and wasn't allowed anywhere near the primary containment facility as he did not have permissions to be there. You know the stabby thing at the quarantine enforcement platform? yeah, THAT little shit was Alan.

11) While he IS an extraordinarily powerful alien with a superior intellect, Alan is also rather peaceful and relatively harmless as long as you don't threaten him or put him in a spot where he has no choice but to defend himself; behind his high and might front he's actually a sweet weakling who'd rather not fight. He never lifted a single thing his whole life and has no idea what physical extertion is.

12) Being confined inside a human mind whith no physical form is obviously immensely limiting. Among many other things, he'd normally have actual telekinetic abilities which he'd use to hover about and would have no need for transportation as he could just teleport himself wherever like a warper. His own body is both a computer and a vast comprehensive of various tools.

13) Robin's bad habit of cracking her bones first thing in the morning never fails to leave Alan disgruntled and quite baffled. At some point she starts doing it at random intervals just to irk him and get some good ol' banter.

14) After years Alan asks Robin permission to upload her mind into a vessel to interrupt her aging process. Robin tells him being virtually immortal together sounds a whole lot like a proposal. He says he does intend to spend forever with her and that he means forever in the literal way. She tells him to go get a ring and ask again because she loves to tease the crap out of everyone.

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