I Tried To Logic BloodyMary
I think I’ve come up with a half-decent explanation for how BloodyMary could be a thing.
I've watched both PHM and Iron Lung now and have been...enraptured...by both (sorry). I think that the potential dynamic between protagonists is fascinating, especially as their stories and character arcs mirror each other so closely - two sacrificial lambs sent off to die in space attempting to save what's left of humanity. Lots of animal and religious symbology, stories of despair and dying stars and overwhelming odds and ultimately of hope.
[And also I really REALLY want to give Simon a break. Like seriously he deserves one and then some. So I wanted them to have a happy ending together, and this is kinda the only viable way that Simon would have a happy ending in ANY scenario in my eyes.]
Human blood does not naturally mutate humans into horrifying Eldritch eel abominations. So the blood of the Blood Ocean has some essence of The Light and/or The Pinhole God in it, I imagine - the Light is very likely the pinhole (or a fragment of it, or a result of it) through which the God looks from its original dimension. And it’s been proven that the God’s essence/presence gives other creatures supernatural abilities - Elli is like its prophet, able to communicate telepathically with Simon, guarding the Light, trying to use the power it gave them them to “save” humanity in a twisted way (assimilating them all into their being).
Long story short: the Pinhole God’s essence/influence is what’s mutating Simon, and some of its power is transferred to him. So what if, as the sub implodes and Simon ostensibly dies, Simon pokes another pinhole through the fabric of reality and falls through it into Grace’s universe?? Perhaps that’s what the sprout does - it takes life and death (the blood, Elli’s life/lives) and uses that as “fuel” to break through the multiverse fabric of space-time. It seems as though the Pinhole God requires life and/or death to enter into Simon’s universe - killing all planets and moons in the Quiet Rapture and creating the blood oceans. (That, or it just…kills everyone because it wants to. Or it’s a side effect of its presence. Or something.) But Simon is a much smaller entity, and would require much less life-juice to go through - maybe the blood ocean and Elli is enough, and the sprout erupting is the catalyst - SIMON’S Quiet Rapture!!
Question is, though - where he comes through in the PHM universe, and when, chronologically. It could be on the Hail Mary, but the odds of that are slim to none. Maybe close to the Mary, and they detect the anomaly on their sensors? OOOHHH or maybe it gives a HUGE massive infrared/energy surge that can easily be picked up from like across star systems or something, and Simon is just barely able to survive the time for them to reach him and get him on board (still running off of Pinhole God power…maybe kinda permanently)
Another problem: Simon is ROYALLY cooked with the radiation and other forms of physical (and mental) trauma to which he is subjected. Not to mention being crushed by the imploding of the sub. Well maybe he got pinholed out before/right at the implosion, but still…radiation. So maybe the God’s power keeps him alive in a horrible, Deadpool-esque death-and-regeneration cycle until he’s able to mutate enough to adapt to the radiation and/or purge it from his body. I do think he would still lose the arm, though; it would be a symbol of his sacrifice, his scars (internal and external), and his ultimate persisting humanity.
He and Grace and Rocky would probably have to be separated for a WHILE due to the radiation thing when they first find him, until he mutates out of it. I like the headcanon that Armando is able to remove the malignant tissue from his body, so everything save the teeth on his cheek and maybe gill-like growths on his face, left ear and neck are cleaned up. I'm all for semi-Eldritch appearances, and the eel mutations have so much potential.
The nice thing too is that with this logic, data/information about the Light and dimensional rifts/travel would be successfully relayed to the COI; if they can crack it and somehow harness its power, humanity IS saved because they can escape that universe into another - perhaps PHM's like Simon...ooh there's potential there
Ok thank you for reading my TED Talk :)
(Someone else may have very well come up with this already but if so I'm not even mad. Like pop off you know what they say about great minds)
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