nali ⋆.𐙚 ̊

- more hyuna and hyunwoo relationship stuff. itd be nice to dive into their relationship as siblings and how they probably interacted a little bittersweet over luka

- phan’s treatment of Hyuna and Hyunwoo, i KNOW they are supposed to be the irrelevant negligent alien BUT itd be cool to dive into why hyuna makes dark jokes about them and why she is so avoidant and independent.

- luhyu post hyunwoo death!! we’ve only really seen tidbits of this.. and even then, it’s very scarce in information!! id love to see flashbacks of season 49 through both luka and hyuna’s perspective

- and finally, A LUKA POV COMIC!! seriously, why are they gatekeeping this??? does he hallucinate hyunwoo?? how did he react to the clone kids?? and how does he act now that hyuna is dead and that his face (which is a representation of how aliens tie beauty to worth) is messed up??

PLEASE OLEASEEE PLEASEEE JM STARVED. IM SO READY FOR MORE. VIVIMENG BURNER ACC IF YOU SEE THIS YK WHAT TO DO!!!

it’s really tragic, because even as a young child, hyuna was forced into a hard situation. in face of their negligent (and who i interpret as unpredictable) guardian, hyuna was forced to grow up and feel an urge to protect and save her brother, because of the overwhelming threat of the society they exist in. even though her wanting to save people isn’t WRONG, it’s widely her only focus, which neglects her own needs. plus, this perspective aligns with her “bigger picture” mentality, which greatly clashes with mizi.

the factor that makes this EXTREMELY saddening is that because of the way she was treated as a child, and how this made her into a fundamentally avoidant person, she cannot grasp how much people love and want to protect her. hyunwoo always wanted to protect his big sister, even if they had issues. luka, while heavily misguided because of his OWN abuse, loved and cherished Hyuna so much, and wanted to keep her by his side for safety. even in their last moments together, luka covers her chest and cleans the blood off of her face. the rebellion, her friends and family, really cared for deeply, even if they had trouble seeing her issues.

but if you are, will you update it to fit the current canon?

I really loved your swap au so far and thought you did an excellent job with staying loyal to the characters!

I’d especially want to see Sua being a rebel and Ivan blowing everything up lol

YES ACTUALLY!!! I NEVER ABANDONED IT LOL ! it just got pushed to the side with my interest in analyzing the current canon characters..

ALSO AAAA TY!!! and yes ive been thinking of updating it soon!!!! i have MOST of it planned out, and there were some changes (more expansion with luka’s relation to the rebels :)…)

love how qmeng draws ivan, he always ends up looking so handsome

NEW ALIEN STAGE MERCH!! FINALLY!!

mizi looks adorable!!! i love her eyes in this, it’s more reminiscent of older art

sua looks so SMART OMG!!! smart nerdy sua is so real, look at that hair flip she’s trying to impress her gf 😭

hyuna’s angry face is so funny, like what made her a tsundereomg 😭 also does she have a prosthetic leg in this?

ivan looks so smug, like he’s trying to impress till (my son)

why is till carrying his bag on his head??!? am i confused??? lol

hyuna, as a child, seemed to have a very optimistic outlook on the world, and that she was going to end up saving the world that the seygein had tried confining her in. however, because of her trauma, with losing her other half, Hyunwoo, and how the man she loved was so mentally unstable and traumatizing, she gained the mentality that in her society, the people she loved and herself could never have a chance of a normal life, even as she led her rebel friends forward. despite this, she still wants to save other lives, so she follows the rocket plan, in hopes of making someone in the future happy. however, because of her own selfish fears, she cannot bring herself to save the people in the present, because a deep part of her believes that she would be ruined all over again.

mizi, on the other hand, does not want to sit back and do nothing for the future, because she has already done something similar to that once. the lack of initiative for sua is something that she deeply regrets, and she does not want that to happen again, with her friends that are still alive. she doesn’t want to think that people in the future are the only ones who deserve happiness, because to her, it means that all of her actions to live would mean that sua died for nothing. this is why she takes initiative in karma, because she’s at her lowest, and seems to accept the idea that no human deserves happiness, because in the end, it would still cause suffering. hyuna’s death was enough reason for her to believe that this plan wouldn’t work for anyone.

their entire dynamic, even platonic, shows how deep alien stage relationships can go. hyuna, because of how she joined the rebellion after her immense trauma, believes that love can only exist after the catalyst of hurt, which is why she chooses to go through with her plan, and it is also why she dies for luka, not only as a revenge, but for a fleeting hope, that he might be able to grow from the event, because she doesn’t want him to keep suffering in the same environment. mizi believes that letting suffering happen only leads to worse things, because of the way that it affected not only her, but sua. she let sua hurt herself and die, because she wanted to keep up their fantasy, and it only slapped her in the face after sua’s death.

there are a lot of more parallels for these two, much of which that i will list out quickly as they couldn’t fit in the main text.

- mizi wearing glasses for a facade of innocence in anakt, but that facade falling in the main story, which is why she has no glasses, while hyuna doesn’t wear glasses in anakt, but in the rebellion, she does, showing how she seems to want to overlook the events of alien stage.

- mizi regressing back into the past post karma, while hyuna actively avoids it, as seen with her alcohol addiction.

both luka and sua experience jealousy from different people. sua with her sisters, and luka with heperu and hyunwoo. however, both of these cases are sort of different, which is why they are able to differentiate more. luka craves affection through being more controlling, and sua craves affection but thinks she has to gain it by being passive. why?

luka, from a very young age, taught that if he couldn’t rise to the top, he wouldn’t be worth anything to anyone. if he couldn’t dominate others and have a strive to win, he should die. he should be “grateful” that he was lucky enough to rise above all of his clones. so, of course luka associates love with dominance, because of how heperu abuses him. he wants to feel control over hyuna and his situation, because to him, without it, he’d be worth nothing. ironically, hyuna felt interest towards him because she thought he was someone she could be able to protect.

meanwhile, sua thinks that she has to be passive and submissive to be loved, which is why she is so elusive and quiet around others. when she tries to interact with her sisters that are not hia, she gets pushed away, which to her, means that she cannot be confrontational or else she will be rejected. additionally, with hia projecting onto her, and with nigeh’s obsession with forcing her into femininity, sua thinks that she can only be loved if she’s weak, because that’s all she’s worth. this is what made her relationship with mizi a veil of innocence from everything else, and also why she cannot make friends with others easily.

ironically, this is where their parallels come full circle. because of how they were taught love and how they give love, it hurts those around them, and it fractures their ability to explore their identity more. luka can’t see what he did wrong, because in his eyes, he did exactly what was expected of him to be loved, which is why he shows not a lot of regret about hyunwoo until it slaps him in the face. sua, because of how she was treated, never had faith in herself to be stronger for others, so she chose to die for mizi, because she believed because of her fragility, she was doomed from the beginning.

AHAAHHAAAAA THANK YOUUUUU!!!!!!!

even though he canonically seems to think lowly of himself and is shy, ive seen a lot of people see him as a cocky guy who gets angry a lot and bullies others, which does.. not make sense at all, considering that he is LITERALLY called timid when it comes to stats.

i also dislike the misconception that till was mainly at fault for how the ivantill dynamic ended up so hurt and messed up. ivan was the one who, from till’s perspective, was always teasing him, and also takes his stuff and crushes the gifts that he gives to him. and till didn’t even hate ivan either (which is something that we all know). both of their clouded judgement affected the relationship.

im making this post to say that i feel like its sad to see how much till’s trauma and his mental state is brushed aside unless shoved in the face of the audience. ivan will show up ONCE in an official art and people will make an angst fest, but till will be shown self harming himself and it gets shrugged off.

i love ivan, i do, but i really do think that till being a reactive abuse victim to his abuse isn’t a reason to ignore how sensitive he is and how much he suffered. someone being able to stand up for themselves doesn’t mean their hurting doesn’t matter to them.

i feel like hyuna’s desperation for the rebellion is mainly rooted in a deep desire to keep a family that she once lost. isaac and dewey are her closest friends, her companions, and in choosing to not save the people on stage, she is trying to run away from the fear that once again, the society she is from will tear her family apart.

as she cannot forgive what luka has done to her, as he has traumatized her for years to come, even in the rebellion, part of herself cannot forgive herself, for still subconsciously loving him, as it feels like not only a disrespect to herself, but her little brother as well.

this is why hyuna copes through alcohol and partying for others, because i believe that a part of herself feels that she cannot open herself up to others again, or she will be hurt again, and still begrudgingly care about them.

i love her so much, because even in spite of all of this, her social and caring personality is still there. she wants to guide others to a path of safety, and give others the life that she feels she might never achieve. despite all of her guilt, she is still one of the most caring and courageous individuals in alien stage.

because of io, till chases after the affection of the idea of a person, due to having fragments of the warm memories left behind. he falls for the facade mizi puts up as a defense mechanism, and in turn, it makes their relationship strained. meanwhile, io and ivan both show versions of themselves to till, both of which fail to fully reflect their true emotions. while io chooses to indulge in till’s singing, even though she knows and fears for the future that will likely come, ivan chooses to try running away with till, despite knowing he’d be leaving everything behind. while i do think that till chose to stay partially for mizi, i also believe that because of his separation anxiety, he internally felt that following happiness like that was impossible, and that like the warmth of his provider, the warmth of ivan would be stripped away from him too.

hia was definitely made in the idea that she was supposed to represent two sides of a coin. on one hand, hia and mizi are very similar for providing warmth and comfort for sua, which helps with her sensitivity to the whole situation. however, while mizi is happy to keep up sua’s fantasies of innocence, hia decides to break it, for fear and bitterness of sua. this is where hia parallels ivan, as they both tease sua and force her to see the reality of her situation. my thoughts is that while sua is able to be somewhat passive towards it when it is hia, she actively avoids ivan for it, due to not seeing a caring personality from him, making their relationship more strained.