I really love the idea of Simon’s injuries and amputations being both from Ellie/the blood ocean -and- psychosis.
The blood cutting his skin open, the Iron Lung breathing for him, wanting Simon to be a Part of the Blood, taking his arm, 100%
But also! The radiation, the alcohol poisoning, the claustrophobia, the starvation, etc. Simon clawing at his own flesh, ripping it open, vomiting stomach bile instead of blood, hallucinating the voices and the dripping. Like the Blood as a sentient thing is certainly not fucking helping, but I want more credit to go to the horror of the “mundane” as well.









