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It ain't fantasy but I feel like Jerry would play through the bioshock series atleast once, he definitely simps over Elizabeth and thinks booker is a badass and has a figure or two of a Big daddy and Big Sister cause they look awesome and cool
Mayhaps a drawin of Jerry in Jack from bioshocks attire? (If ur still doing drawing requests mabe)
ugh i really need to get into bioshock š also i just opened art requests this is my first one :>
No thoughts just subject Delta and Sinclair drawings
Iām sorry for how bad there might be I have never drawn Delta or Sinclair before.
might outline and color these one day
Thinking of Johnny topside but as a selkie and what it would mean for subject delta
Would Subject Delta see his old seal skin and know that it's his, would he just see it and not know?
When they turned Johnny Topside into Subject Delta did they take the seal skin and toss it away, in the trash or in a fire to be turned to ash? Would Johnny Topside know or see them throw his seal skin away? Or would they keep it? Would try try to splice it or turn it into something like seal skin boots, or would they just keep it in a box somewhere
Or did they let him keep it? If you took off Subject Deltas armor would his seal skin be somewhere in there? Melted into him or just against him?
If he found his seal skin and it was intact would he just leave it? Seeing it as nothing of interest? Leaving it to rot along with rapture? Or would he grab it? Would he know what it truly was or would he just find it interesting? Would he try to gift it to Eleanor or Sinclair?
If he does survive getting up to the surface do you think he would crave the ocean? Do you think he would feel guilty about having a want to go to the sea?
If he died and he gave the skin to Eleanor would she know what it truly is? That the seal skin is her father but not, that it's the only part of Johnny Topside that's left, how would it feel that the last gift your father give you is the last part of him that's not really him, Subject Delta and Johnny Topside are two different people but also the same, Subject Delta came from Johnny Topside, Johnny had to die for Delta to live...
If Subject Delta gotten out of the suit would he still be able to turn into a seal? Or would he have forgotten how? Would he want to but not be able to?
Would he stay up and night and feel guilty at feeling at home in the sea? Rapture was hell but it calmed his instincts to go to the sea, it was oddly homily, now he not only has to deal with being on the surface for the first time but also having the want to go back to the place he spent so long trying to leave.
I might make a story or short fanfic or something about bioshokc but some of the characters are selkies, like they are already under the water, maybe they lost their pelts during the fall of rapture or their pelts were already lost before the came down. Maybe a big daddy was once a selkie and wonders apon his old seal skin and maybe he knows it holds value and for some reason he finds it important but can't remember why so he gives it to his little sister, maybe sinclair or Stanley or even Jack or Ryan is a selkie, maybe one of the reasons why Ryan wanted rapture to be under the sea was cause he lost his seal skin long ago and wants to live under the ocean.
okay this is really cool, does Bioshock Infinite with its multiverses and lighthouses fit into this idea, and if so, how?
I interpret the first two Bioshock games as a cosmic horror story that the protagonists are just glancing off the outer edges of. Slugs don't do that to your genetic code, for one thing, and genetic code has very little bearing on pyrokinesis or teleportation or the ability to grow swarms of bees inside yourself. It's also mighty convenient that Ryan happened to have picked the one spot in the ocean that happens to have The Slugs That Can't Do That- it's obviously part of the mythmaking of Ryan Amusements that they put such a fine point on where he abruptly stopped the boat and declared that he was going to put down the foundations of Rapture, and there's a dash of narrative anthropic principle on top of that, but it's still very convenient. And In terms of aesthetic and narrative outcome Rapture from 1960 onward is certainly checking all the boxes; madness, mutation, moisture. Impossibly grandiose societies brought down by hubris, science run amok, "look upon my works ye mighty", horrible familial truths, the whole shebang. And of course you have that brilliant light below Persephone.
The story doesn't necessarily parse as cosmic horror immediately because it fronts the impression that there's a grounded explanation for every insane thing that happens. You're supposed to just take it as part of the premise that they can build something like Rapture with human technology in 1945. You mostly hear about plasmids from professionals doing practical research and development with them, so you get the impression that there's a well-understood body of science here that just happens to be outside of your personal understanding. But for every Professor Armitage who understands the whole shape of the Dunwich Horror, there are a hundred Massholes who just saw a barn explode for no reason and now have to cope with the very real invisible something laying waste to the countryside regardless of the full truth of the matter. And from within the exploding barn of Rapture it doesn't matter to Jack or Delta whether the foundations were laid down atop Rl'yeh or whether ADAM is actually the extracted blood of a Great Old One or whatever the fuck. Maybe there's someone down there who understands the deep lore and went mad from the revelation in the genre typical way. But nothing about the situation requires you that you dig that deep to develop a working understanding of what's going on. Rapture's downfall is totally legible as a mundane death spiral of bad leadership, shoddy ideology, economic pressures and bog-standard human greed. Impossible weapons swung in careless arcs by human hands.