The Higgs Archive @higgsarchive - Tumblr Blog

INTRO!

I'll be posting official reference material for my favorite freak of nature, as well as potentially reblogging other content for him :] This intro is mostly a tag directory!

As for lil ol me, I'm 23, he/him, and you can just call me Mod or Curator, since this is my silly little Higgs Museum™

When order is important, i'll typically add 'previous' and 'next' buttons for ease of navigating. I won't lie, being able to read the journals chronologically with ease is partially why i made this blog

Just a warning this is still sorta in WIP mode as I figure out how exactly everything is gonna lay out and be organized

The Tags

Posts with Death Stranding 2 content are tagged DS2 if you want to avoid them!

Anything that isn't just me writing casual posts will be tagged with either Image or Text, if you'd like to just browse one or the other. Image will include screenshots, fanart, gifs, and the like, while text will include journals, mail, transcribed audio, so on and so forth.

Journal - All his journal entries! Each also sport their individual entry number as a tag as well

Mail - Anything from him in the mail category, each will be tagged with the title of the mail as well

Interview - Mostly a catchall for anything from other characters

Transcript - Anything that's just me copying down audio into text

Concept Art - Self explanatory, any official concept art of him

Promotional - Any promo images of him!

Reference - Anything that might be useful as reference material. Screenshots and gifsets might go here, and concept art will have this as a secondary tag

Official - Anything ripped straight from the game or pulled from dev statements! You can use this tag if you want to reference whats 'canon' or unedited

Unofficial - Fancontent, including things like art, writing, or theories

Ds1 demen, Ds1 bridges, Ds2 human, and Ds2 android - Used for images of any type, separates out his main designs!

Curator Chatter - Anything that includes my own personal thoughts or conversations with others!

Masterpost under cut!

#Curator Chatter #i also love to talk about this guy feel free to send asks or submissions with headcanons or whatever else you'd like!#i literally want to eat him and every piece of content that includes him #also plssss if you have / know where to find more official stuff from DS2 let me know!#im reliant on others for info and assets because i dont own the game sadly :[#death stranding #death stranding 2 #higgs monaghan

nihillion

#unofficial #fanart #image #Ds2 #Ds2 android #he's so pretty AUGH

be1ikesuperman

#unofficial #fanart #image #Ds2 #Ds2 human #suuuuper funky composition I'm always a whore for an animal covering one of the eyes with their own

chpalyana

Lotus

#unofficial #fanart #image #Ds2 #ds2 android #fun textures and colors OMG

chpalyana

Kitten

#unofficial #fanart #image #KITTYYYYYYYYYYY

supershura-blog

obsession

#unofficial #fanart #Ds2 #Ds2 android #Ds2 human #OHHHHH THIS FUCKS #image

King Midas and the Chiral Crystals

Who: Heartman When: Two and a half years ago Where: Heartman's Lab

Rumors have been circulating regarding a man who calls himself "King Midas." Unlike his namesake from Greek mythology, however, this gentleman does not turn all that he touches to gold. Instead, he claims to wield the power to create chiral crystals at will.

The stories suggest that he gained this power as a result of experiments involving organisms which possessed a similar ability. I am of course aware of the existence of microbes that could melt and condense gold, in effect extracting it from ore deposits, but this is the first I have heard of any organism that can do something similar with chiralium. These organisms are apparently akin to cryptobiotes, as well as the coral that is found in the Seam, in that they exist outside of time. If this man truly managed to harvest such organisms, then it is an extraordinary achivement which could lead to untold posssibilities, veritable bio-alchemy, even.

Much like his mythical counterpart, however, King Midas is said to have paid a heavy price for his power. Indeed, his body has turned into a mass of particles—a side effect of crystallizing all the chiralium with which he came into contact. It is said that the only evidence of his existence are two golden handprints he left behind...

Now, I must temper this rather dramatic story by stressing that no microbes capable of the previously described ability have been detected. As such, I suspect the king is nothing more than an urban legend—the kind of story spun by dreamers in a world where chiral crystals are rare and precious and can only be collected from perilous, timefall-soaked places. Perhaps we could even consider it a morality tale. The moral being, of course, that greed is never good, whether one lusts for gold or for chiral crystals.

It is, however, a remarkable coincidence that, not long after I first heard talk of this modern-day King Midas, I also started to hear rumors concerning a man wearing a golden death mask. Might the two be related? Who knows...

#official #text #interview #higgs monaghan #hes just mentioned vaguely at the end but hes there!!#death stranding

People Think Bridges Are Terrorists...

Sender: Charles Kahn

Location: Waystation North Of Mountain Knot City

Hope you’re kicking ass and taking names, Sam.

We heard HQ suspects the whole Central Knot voidout thing mighta been terrorism. Kinda blew my mind to think they’re hitting the east coast already. Things’ve been getting worse out here, too. It was way quieter in this neck of the woods when we first showed up, that’s for sure.

Back then, it didn’t matter what breed of crazy they were. Separatists, isolationists, leavemealoneatarians, whatever—you could at least get ’em to sit down and talk. Now it’s blow shit up first, ask questions later, all cause some folks got it in their heads that Bridges and the UCA are the real baddies. Not that I’m saying we shouldn’t keep on trying to speak sense to these guys. If we don’t, we’ll be stuck beating each other over the head with bigger and bigger sticks till the world’s covered in craters.😢

But on top of everything, now we’ve got these Demens whackos and their whacko-in-chief Higgs to deal with. Not that he was always a total fruit loop. Used to be a porter. Ran his own outfit hereabouts. And then the postmaster went postal. Don’t ask me how or why—I don’t think even he could tell you.💀

End of the day, only way forward is with each other, hand in hand with our fellow man. That’s what the UCA is all about, am I right?👍

#Official #text #mail #higgs monaghan #death stranding

I've Reached My Limit

Sender: Veteran Porter Location: S41-46

Road treating you all right, Sam?

Got to say, you give us porters something to be proud of. Truly, you do. Before I went solo back in the day, I was making runs with this delivery outfit. Wasn’t easy living, these parts being unforgiving as they are, but that didn’t stop our guys and gals. We had ourselves a damn good leader – didn’t have DOOMS or nothing, but he had a nose for BTs. Which made it an even bigger boot to the gonads when he went over to Demens. Yeah, that’s right – Higgs is my old boss.

You got to understand, though, those were crazy times. Guys were losing their minds left and right, going MULE – seemed we had a one-way ticket to shitsville. A few like me went independent, but most couldn’t hack it. Got out of the game before the game got them. Stubborn old me knuckled down and kept on keeping on, but this life takes its toll. Glad you come along when you did, partner.

#Official #mail #higgs monaghan #death stranding #text #thank u to some besties on discord for saving me and telling me abt other mentions of him #bc otherwise i would just have to comb through every email and interview myself #and i dont want to