Quote 1: "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won't mind if i think of you as a friend" - Solanum, Outer Wilds
Quote 2: "Why are we still here, just to suffer? Every night I can feel my leg and my arm, even my fingers. The body I've lost, the comrades I've lost, it won't stop hurting. It's like they're all still there, you feel it too, don't you?" - Kazuhira Miller, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Propaganda
Quote 1:
The whole game centers around the Nomai and their sudden deaths. A whole species wiped out in an instant without rhyme or reason to reach Sol you have to go through the same tests and trials a Nomai would've taken to reach adulthood. All the while you're learning about these long dead people and how much they loved and lost. The echo they leave on the story is massive and is entirely through the writing on walls or logs they left behind. You hear about the couple separated by miles of space not knowing if the other survived. But they're dead. You follow the path the young of the dead once walked. There is a quantum moon that appears and disappears randomly landing on which is the goal of the trials. You learn what the dead once learned and are able to get onto the shifting moon and head to the place these people once worshipped. You've spent hours learning about them. You've spent hours reading the words of ghosts. Against all odds as you approach the place of worship. someone is THERE. A single Nomai who had traveled to the quantum moon to complete her trials just as the entire Nomai population was wiped. The quantum moon exists in several different states- Sol's corpse can be found on every single one but the final one where she lives. She is Schrodinger's Nomai and the only one left. You can speak to her by combining images together. The language gap is too big for proper communication. You combine the images of her and yourself. She has never met you. You have met her ghost hundreds of times. She is stained on the ruins of her people. She is their last whisper of their existence.Your people walk in the massive footprints they left behind and here you are finally meeting them. What is this meeting but special?I have 60 hours in this game. 60 hours of reaching out to the stars and learning of the pain and happiness and grief of the Nomai. What else could describe that relationship; if not 'Friend'? Anyways all this to say i let out the WILDEST sound when i saw Sol. Its dozens of hours thinking youll never meet them than BAM Sol comes into view. I cried when she called me friend. It rlly is a culmination of the whole game and the story of the Nomai - @the-silver-vessel, written in tags of first round
Quote 2: Iconic and memed to death but most people haven't actually played the game its from. Good delivery and pretty touching if you've played the game/series and know the context - Submitter
When you were piecing together the story of the Nomai it dawned on you that this is the decision you have to make. There is only one choice you are given, and it’s a terrible one, but there are no alternatives. This has to happen.
When you were bringing the Strangers’ buried secrets to light you realised that this is a kindness, that you can look towards the future knowing that you’re doing a good thing, that it’s okay. This has to happen.
Everyone loves the true ending for good reason, but I feel like the weight of this moment right here, removing the AWC and ending the loop, doesn’t get appreciated enough on its own merit, regardless of what follows, even or maybe especially if what follows is nothing.
Some sketches from today! I wanted to finish my sketchbook so I asked for some requests to fill the pages and here they are !
The sillies !! Just doing a little prank
Rie rie! Left is my design, right is cobaltbluesu 's. And also slate and felds the duo ever
Tloow drawings ! (Elwensà's au)
Left to right, Citrine, Emery and Ritcherite. Emery is my oc and the other two are cobaltbluesu 's :]
And here's a couple sketches of a new oc that I love very much. I'm still learning to draw her and her pirate peers, but I like how this sketch turned out !
Realized that my daydreams about retrieving Solanum from the Quantum Moon play out shockingly (hell, poignantly even) close to some sort of reverse tale of Orpheus
howdy all. i have had a lot of outer wilds sketches lying around so i've compiled another mini doodle dump :)
i am. a very messy sketcher. so be warned
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gossan my beloved 💕💕🙌🫶
solanum!! vvv (canNOT decide on one design for her to save my life)
feldspar ! (desperately needs a therapist.)
and here's my take on one of my favorite nomai, pye! i've been seeing a lot of fanart of her and then remembered i had a sketch of her around here somewhere