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I'm not angry im just clarifying some stuff! take ur time
bonus Joel
Oh lmao sorry, accidentally deleted the og headcannons trying to delete the clarification one so I’m jsut gonna paste them back here:
Fuck you mean he’s apart of the trench digger 😭
Also sorry if this is shit, I do not have the game and I’m relying on playthroughs and my insanity for these headcannons. I am in agony
I thought his body was like. Kinda small and octopus like. Nahhh that’s a big bitch/pos 😭
I still believe he can go through the interior of the walls, otherwise he’d have some trouble fitting through doorways. I think he can flatten himself? Like just compress himself and crawl sideways through the walls
Also still clinging to that helmet theory, and making it worse! You know how old timey corsets used to literally force organs out of the way? That’s what the helmet on his body does whenever he needs to become compact
Has turtle speed. If he’s not focused on anything and just moving around, he’s slow as shit, if he’s attacking or actively looking for something? Pick a god and pray, this bitch will RUN YOU DOWN. Has trouble with turning corners at high speeds, so is forced to either slow down or tip over
The other soldiers stay out of his way, if Mr Henderson shows up in a doorway any of them in the room will try and leave or hide as fast as they possibly can. This is because he’s been ‘eating’ any soldiers that get in his way and incorporating them into his mass. They quickly loose the ability to talk or scream, but you can see their pupils flitting around desperately if you can get close enough
Bad sight, but makes up for it in smell. Stray soldiers will often attempt to cover themselves in gunpowder/other strong smelling materials in an attempt to disguise themselves.
More often than not, this does not work.
(None of the playthroughs I’ve watched have shown the mutant camp??? I will reblog this later with more headcannons once I see them)
Jeanne, for the Look Outside headcanons?
Ohhh the skrungle!! The tormented silly!!!
- I actually really appreciate the way her body’s started resembling that of a flatworms. She probably doesn’t, but I think she’s actually really cute post mutation. Minus the part where she’s backseat in her own body
- I think she’d appreciate being misted or in a damp space. Started getting dry skin more easily after mutation and the moment she was within a few feet of a humidifier nearly cried in relief
- Starts hating the taste of meat after mutating, reminds her too much of what the victims of her other heads tasted like.
- Her mouth runs all the way down her long ass body, she loses taste once it gets past her eyes. Unconsciously nibbles at the floor. Bottomfeeds even. Like, if she moved I feel like the space that was under her previously would be clean af. Subconsciously having a little snack (dirt)
- she’d probably feel like a worm does, ridged, soft, her frills (?) on the side would probably be firmer than the rest of her skin.
- Capable of sleeping sitting up, did nothing but sleep the first few days because her new heads were taking up most of the body’s energy and she also just wanted an ‘out’ from reality in general
- Clumsy at first, kept knocking things in her apartment over as she got used to her new size/features. Pretty used to it now and has excellent control of herself (minus any extra heads)
- I feel like she and Sam exchanged numbers, like sort of a ‘hey lmao, thanks for helping me, mind giving me your number in case my body decides to get homicidal again?’
- Attempted to fight with her other heads, quickly gave up because the attacked head and others close by turned on her instead of whoever they dragged in. The only reason they didn’t kill her was because she fled fairly quickly, they liked her distress, and I’m pretty sure they need her to continue living
- Her bloods blueish in color
Wasn’t planning on making more, but this reblog scalped me with the Mr. Henderson part and I just had to do it. Nobody else look, this is for madscientists1mp ONLY!!1!/j
MR HENDERSON
- The type of landlord that promises to call someone about that black mold problem three times and still doesn’t do anything about it
- Mildly bigoted? I don’t know. Like, no problems with people but sometimes he just says some shit that makes everyone go “oohh….” And then it’s back to normal
- I feel like his post mutation form has some sort of grounding in the walls, like he can squeeze himself down like an octopus and travel through the interior. If he encounters any blocks he’ll repeatedly ram his helmeted head into it until it cracks and then he’ll scrape out the blockage with his tendrils
- The helmets fused to his head, more a natural armour now than something that can be removed. If it cracks or breaks he’ll flee somewhere and go stationary for a bit to allow it to reseal itself. Doesn’t have skin under it anymore, just a brain
- Lost most of his logic/reasoning when he mutated, only knows rent and war now (if he didn’t already before). Also explains why he keeps ramming his head into things despite his brain having no other protection than the helmet
SYBIL
- trans woman, definitely has a “oh, OH!! Where’s my dick at!?” Moment when she was first becoming goop (if what beryl (?) said about her state was to be true)
- Autistic, does not understand most social cues. Got worse post mutation, hence her just peeking through a hole in your wall and talking to you casually. Respectful though
- She and jasper weren’t together, were on the BRINK of being something more before the visitor put its foot through the relationships door
- In her dreams she can remember everything clearly, as quick and collected as she was before. Always vows to remember when she wakes up, but never does. Gets confused and distressed whenever pressed about her dreams because she KNOWS there’s something (someone?) important her mess of a brain is keeping from her
LEIGH
- two autistic people in this post huh. Projecting on her a bit, but she was very excitable and prone to violence pre apocalypse too, she just didn’t get to act on it then
- Has a sort of code? Idk. She doesn’t harm any one of your other roommates, even going so far as to care for the rat baby and feed it her blood, but she has nothing against barreling at Sam at full speed as the grinning beast to knock him on his ass. I think if she’d managed to catch and kill Sam, she’d be surprised at his death, like a dog playing with a small animal and accidentally killing it. Only seems to want to wrestle around really, probably doesn’t care as much about the killing part as she cares about the scuffling part
- Nearly had a fucking aneurism post denial ending, literally vibrating with excitement. Jumped on him and bit the shit out of one of his tentacles in an attempt to instigate a fight. Got scruffed by the collar of her shirt immediately
Post truth, I don’t think she realized anything was wrong until Sam started attacking the others. I think she got attacked first for approaching him and was like “ah! Right to business!” Held her own against him pretty well until he attacked someone else, which caught her off guard and made her falter for a moment and allow Sam the killing blow because she thought he liked that person? Why’s he strangling THEM??
- probably waits outside Sam’s door in the morning for him to open it, then tackles him to the ground and attempts to put him in a headlock. Sam now has to hype himself up to open the door every morning. Good for getting rid of grogginess though
RAT BABY AGAIN
- Obsessively licks itself. Literally everyone hates it because it’s just silence then the sound of rat baby aggressively licking its leg for five minutes straight. Mainly does this after Sam washes it, does not like the smell of any soap products used on it, no matter how hard Sam tries to find one it likes
- Chewed up a belt that was left laying around and hid in the closet for an hour while the others tried to calm the goth (can’t spell her fukcing name 😭) down and convince her not to strangle it like Homer with Bart
- Likes sitting on Sam’s shoulders and will attempt to get under his shirt. I had a rat once and its favourite hobby was swan diving down the collar of my shirt (if it was loose) and leaving me scrambling to catch it before it fell out. I feel like it’d be much the same
LAVA LAMP
- idk. I call it the lava lamp because it’s kinda shaped like one. Sister recommended calling it the buttplug because it’s also shaped like that and I’ve never been able to look at it again the same
- Chitters sometimes. Like you’re just chilling in the apartment, making food or some shit, then suddenly there’s a rattling sound from the corner and you turn to see one of Sam’s stalkers staring back at you like that sound was your fault
- Almost no concept of boundary’s. Watches Sam sleep sometimes after he tells it off and lets it stay in the apartment
- Doesn’t really comprehend the idea of fear? Idk. Like it let the rat baby into its robe and I feel like it got surprised when it ran out nearly pissing itself
Also counts for pain, doesn’t realize the hell it’s got in store for Sam because that’s it’s constant state, it knows nothing else and assumed Sam would be the same
Ahriugh, look outside headcannons upon ye
SAM
- possesses a pair of fluffy slippers and often wears them around the apartment.
- Really bad at kissing, like, did you HEAR the sound it made when he kissed Lyle in the game?? Motherfucker nearly sucked Lyle’s lens(?) off. Apparently Lyle doesn’t mind though
- Deals with OCD. Most of his repetitive habits and quirks are considered normal now next to how everyone else is acting and he is very grateful for it (from someone with chronic OCD)
- Hasn’t brushed his hair in years, keeps it short enough to where it’s not really a problem but probably fears the eventual day he has to deal with it
- trans man. I’m not gonna fuckin elaborate. Has gotten top surgery but cares not for bottom surgery, doesn’t really get dysphoric anymore now that his tits were lobbed off
RAT BABY
- Whenever Sam goes out without it, it’ll grab one of Sam’s slippers and drag it somewhere (likely under the couch or bed), doesn’t chew it, either sucks on the fur of it or just sits with it until it’s taken away or Sam gets back (inspired by my rat dog, reminded me of it)
- Sam attempted to get it something to play with at first, but after it destroyed and shredded everything he’d offered it in play, Sam just.. looted one of those aggressive chewer dog toys from one of the nearby apartments for it.
- Eyes are very sensitive to light, due to most of them being semi-freshly grown and also just.. not having enough time to get used to heavy light. Re-enacted the ash baby meme when it first went outside after the visitor left
LYLE
- Look up photos of spider paws. Hes got those hidden in that robe of his somewhere I just fucking know it
- Has a second row of teeth further back in his main mouth, irritates him sometimes while he’s trying to eat or clean his teeth.
(post denial ending) he’s hesitant on getting them removed despite having the ability to
(Idk, I feel like post-denial would end up with surgery for removing “unwanted parts”, shit like Jeanne’s heads or just stuff the afflicted don’t wanna deal with or have)
- Whenever he’s shocked or flustered, his body automatically takes a shot of whatever’s in front of him. I feel like if he ever got comfortable enough to let Sam kiss him without making him keep his eyes closed, he’d flashbang Sam every damn time
- capable of purring, doesn’t know it
DAN
- Screams like a little girl, refuses to admit it. Sometimes if he catches himself mid scream he’ll cough and continue the scream in a lower tone
- (If he’s looked outside) actually still mostly mentally there, just a cunt about it.
- Coughs like a little kid. Opens mouth, sticks his tongue out, and lets out the most horrific hack before casually going about whatever he was doing
JOEL
- His left eyes still there, just kinda in the back behind the teeth? Not too useful for actually seeing, due to both being in the back of his “throat” and becoming nearly vestigial. Had poor eyesight while he was human too, but refused to wear his glasses
- Very careful around rat baby’s mouth whenever he interacts with it, both because it’s a biter and because of what his baby sister ended up doing to him
- you know that anxiety you get whenever you’re in another persons house? had whatever the opposite of that when he was first moved in with Sam, literally fucking slept in Sam’s bed with him for the first few days because he felt safe around him/just lost his entire family. Hes eight, he’s gonna cling to the closest dude.
Ahriugh, look outside headcannons upon ye
SAM
- possesses a pair of fluffy slippers and often wears them around the apartment.
- Really bad at kissing, like, did you HEAR the sound it made when he kissed Lyle in the game?? Motherfucker nearly sucked Lyle’s lens(?) off. Apparently Lyle doesn’t mind though
- Deals with OCD. Most of his repetitive habits and quirks are considered normal now next to how everyone else is acting and he is very grateful for it (from someone with chronic OCD)
- Hasn’t brushed his hair in years, keeps it short enough to where it’s not really a problem but probably fears the eventual day he has to deal with it
- trans man. I’m not gonna fuckin elaborate. Has gotten top surgery but cares not for bottom surgery, doesn’t really get dysphoric anymore now that his tits were lobbed off
RAT BABY
- Whenever Sam goes out without it, it’ll grab one of Sam’s slippers and drag it somewhere (likely under the couch or bed), doesn’t chew it, either sucks on the fur of it or just sits with it until it’s taken away or Sam gets back (inspired by my rat dog, reminded me of it)
- Sam attempted to get it something to play with at first, but after it destroyed and shredded everything he’d offered it in play, Sam just.. looted one of those aggressive chewer dog toys from one of the nearby apartments for it.
- Eyes are very sensitive to light, due to most of them being semi-freshly grown and also just.. not having enough time to get used to heavy light. Re-enacted the ash baby meme when it first went outside after the visitor left
LYLE
- Look up photos of spider paws. Hes got those hidden in that robe of his somewhere I just fucking know it
- Has a second row of teeth further back in his main mouth, irritates him sometimes while he’s trying to eat or clean his teeth.
(post denial ending) he’s hesitant on getting them removed despite having the ability to
(Idk, I feel like post-denial would end up with surgery for removing “unwanted parts”, shit like Jeanne’s heads or just stuff the afflicted don’t wanna deal with or have)
- Whenever he’s shocked or flustered, his body automatically takes a shot of whatever’s in front of him. I feel like if he ever got comfortable enough to let Sam kiss him without making him keep his eyes closed, he’d flashbang Sam every damn time
- capable of purring, doesn’t know it
DAN
- Screams like a little girl, refuses to admit it. Sometimes if he catches himself mid scream he’ll cough and continue the scream in a lower tone
- (If he’s looked outside) actually still mostly mentally there, just a cunt about it.
- Coughs like a little kid. Opens mouth, sticks his tongue out, and lets out the most horrific hack before casually going about whatever he was doing
JOEL
- His left eyes still there, just kinda in the back behind the teeth? Not too useful for actually seeing, due to both being in the back of his “throat” and becoming nearly vestigial. Had poor eyesight while he was human too, but refused to wear his glasses
- Very careful around rat baby’s mouth whenever he interacts with it, both because it’s a biter and because of what his baby sister ended up doing to him
- you know that anxiety you get whenever you’re in another persons house? had whatever the opposite of that when he was first moved in with Sam, literally fucking slept in Sam’s bed with him for the first few days because he felt safe around him/just lost his entire family. Hes eight, he’s gonna cling to the closest dude.
Spoilers for look outside under the cut, just some ramblings about Lyle’s form teehee. Also might not be coherent because I’m banging this out before my sleep meds get my ass
Anyways, I think Lyle can pull something real close to Leigh’s grinning beast thing, because there’s NO WAY he’s hiding all this under that robe.
(Ignore shitty screenshots please lmao)
In his average sprite, it looks like he has two eyes, and a (mostly) normally sized mouth, plus he’s a little smaller than the form he takes if Sam chooses to open his eyes after kissing him.
I’m actually pretty sure he’s only able to do this partially (his overworld sprite is kinda long, and he constantly covers himself, so maybe he’s only able to squash himself down a bit?). And it probably breaks if he gets startled, hence the sight Sam sees if you have him peek… That, or he’s kissing Sam in his monstrous form. Gay rights I guess
He asked Sam if he could sleep with him
What even is this game about
When the curse of "oof ouch my womb is a bitch" is so powerful even eldrichood doesn't save you
(totally not relatable to me lmao)
How it feels to go the roof and Exposure starts playing while the world around you is in horrible irreversible damage but you never expect that the end of the world could be so beautiful
Look Outside Posting Part 2: Infectious Mutations
Today we're talking about the contagious mutants. The tooth family, the rats, the hands from the bus, and so on (including those, like the SWAT truck, that fuse with their victims as part of the process).
These, I suspect, are more common than we actually see firsthand.
I think the likeliest explanation for most of the groups of enemies with similar themes is that they're from one or two people getting witnessed, and then attacking everyone else around until they're all a big, happy monster family. People just looking together, if they don't merge into a single amalgamation, doesn't appear to necessarily give them similar monstrous forms.
You would also expect a lot lower than a 100% mutation rate for, say, Vincent's party, which had at least seven people present, and not that big of a window in the apartment - someone would avoid the window where weird things were happening, try to flee, or at least get killed by one of the Onlookers and end up as a corpse on the floor. Same goes for the taxidermy or frozen apartments.
I think Vincent's party had two primary witnesses: Vincent, and the Gawker in the bathroom (who's at a later stage than the others).
And for something a lot of players might never find out about - the concealed eyeball gang is actually the one and only non-ending chance Sam has in the game to get infected by a monster himself, to my knowledge. There's a random event that can occur at the table, where Sam has an intrusive thought to cut himself open and see if he has eyes inside him like the wounded man at the beginning - and there's a 1 in 3 chance that his hunch turns out to be correct. Neato!
Anyway. It also struck me as strange that, in the endings where something doesn't literally, physically, personally grow to reach around the entire earth, there isn't a whole new zombie apocalypse with whichever infectious mutation happened to fare the best in the arms race. We know that this mechanism still works after the Visitor leaves, because of the Truth ending... so what I think is that in order to be an infectious mutant, you have to be a primary witness, i.e. people you infect can't continue to spread it - naturally limiting any potential outbreaks to direct contact with their single carrier.
I searched for a counterexample, but couldn't find any among the game's enemies. Rafta was a witness herself, the pipe men that got Placide were witnesses, the Rat King has plenty of mouths to be responsible for all the rats (though I still wonder where all those people even came from).
I thought for a moment that the landlord's attack might disprove it- HOWEVER! From Memorial's account of events on the bus, all of the mutated passengers were infected by a single witness, who exploded into dozens of tiny crawling hands that climbed on everyone. Very similar to the ones that that attacker was keeping in its stomach to release onto the landlord! How...... sweet? Some of the passengers literally scooped up a little of their primary witness to share. I guess it's nice that tiny hands guy is still alive?
It also makes it a little more plausible that Sam (and whichever companions) got through hand-to-hand combat with so damn many potentially contagious creatures without anybody getting turned.
Why this happens in the first place, seems to follow pretty naturally from my previous post's theories. The Visitor isn't great at telling individuals apart at the best of times. If I hold you close, or draw your blood... the division between our separate flesh blurs, and something might slip across.
I think about this moment a lot. How does it feel to stand before a grand, incomprehensible entity from the cosmos and hear them sincerely apologise for everything they've done?
Porque Te Vas
Would Lyle ever know/find out what Sam turned into during the Denial Ending?
Victim 7 is @a-physical-avatar-of-scribbles's interpretation of Flawed Ritual Sam, the shark-like features really vibe with me and I think it's a really cool take on it. Never would have thought to make him a shark, but it looks sick as hell man
THE PAIN IS FINALLY OVER. I finished drawing @jellazticious's (aka victim 6) interpretation of flawed ritual Sam. I love how much movement you can make when drawing this guy; honestly, mapping the arm tentacles was probably my favorite part of this drawing, if only because I got to make everything really wavey.
I LIVE, BUT ONLY BARELY
I STILL HAVE TO DETAIL EVERYTHING AND CLEAN UP THE SHAPE AND COLOR AND SHADE AND
this is going to take the rest of my life to finish. goodbye chat, this might be the last time you'll ever see me. if i don't return, know that i died attempting to finish this.
I went in with the intent to simplify this design and ended up making things worse
@lyder-aka-olddog4941
@fexarii this is what you get for peer pressuring me: really low quality doodles of Leigh bullying your Sam
Victim numero cinco is @mtgc858 and her AU's version of Sam. Not a lot of fullbodies of this guy so I had to improvise a bit OOF. I know nothing about the mandela catalogue but he kinda looks like an alternate and I think that's awesome, I really love uncanny valley stuff OOF
I've been tryin to come up with my own flawed ritual sam design that vibes with me without feeling too similar to other peoples' stuff, I tried not to turn him into a dragon but I think dragons are the only thing my brain can design right now OOF
This is definitely somethin that I vibe with a bit more, might need to simplify later because I'm a lazy fuck and I don't want to draw all those arms again OOF
The fourth person on my hitlist is @potatobugz, I love their interpretation of the Flawed Ritual ending from this post.
This is by far the most abstract flawed ritual Sam design I've seen, taking a lot more creative liberties than others out there, but I think that's really cool and it really helps to set their design apart from other interpretations. The ring of arms is really cool and I keep imagining that his hugs would be a bit awkward because he'd be like a facehugger OOF
VICTIM 3 HATH BEEN ATTACKED. @fexarii's flawed ritual Sam (mostly based off this drawing of his), fexarii's Sam is very blob shaped and was surprisingly fun to draw OOF. I love how he interpreted Sam's mouth too, it's super gnarly and the monk's cap hairstyle is an interesting choice (and a cool way to keep his hair OOF)
Also I read up on fexarii's headcanons for his version of Sam and I gotta say they are really interesting to read
I think I'm getting better at this whole "drawing different flawed ritual sams" thing
Victim 2 is @furiouskettle's Flawed Ritual Sam, I love how they draw all the arms n how centaur-like they make him. Also I love how they draw his expressions, they manage to convey his emotions really well even with his inhuman form.
10/10 recommend checking out their art, it's really awesome and their drawings of flawed ritual sam is just yes. I can't stop going back to read it again OOF
AHAHA IT'S FINALLY DONE, my first victim is @godslush and their rendition of flawed ritual sam because HOLY HELL the moment I saw their post I learned what true love felt like
Seriously though, their art is absolutely baller I suggest you guys check it out if you haven't already, I don't think I did their Sam rendition enough justice in my drawing OOF
I forgot to mention that I think turning his hair into a mane of sorts is really creative and genius, I love that detail a lot
i remember when i thought this would a simple doodle... i was so naive then, 24 hours ago...
