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What do you MEAN the glass, the porthole, the only way Simon was able to see out into the world and into the blood ocean was made from scavenged parts of Filament Station? The only way Ava and the rest of the crew saw him was literally through his biggest regret, the reason he ended up there. And he pleads for someone to listen when he says Filament Station wasn't supposed to end that way, but he cannot be separated from it.

The only way he's able to be viewed is through the remnants of a station where 62 people died, and the only way he can see out is through the ocean of blood. And only when he chooses to break that glass is he finally choosing freedom in a way he fought against. He just wanted to live, and it was too much to ask for.

vampirecatprince

Something something the oxygen meter going up and Simon somehow having enough air for days longer then he should and how the sub essentially becomes a part of Simon and how blood carries oxygen and what is the purpose of a real Iron lung anyways and iron is what carries oxygen in human blood after all and the blood trying to make him one with the ship because it was already breathing for him and the eldritch forces genuinely can't understand why he's still fighting to maintain his autonomy and sense of self in the face of something so much bigger than him, when it would just be so much easier and less painful to allow himself to be subsumed

Something about the indomitable human spirit in the face of something that's so incomprehensible that it can make metal breathe for you

funkylittlebats

Iron Lung is great bc it asks the question what if the sacrificial lamb was evil. What if the lamb thought itself evil. What if everyone else thought the lamb evil. What if the lamb wasn't evil what if the lamb is just a lamb, bleeting desperately to escape its undue sacrifice. What if the lamb knew it was a sacrifice from the start. What if the lamb just wanted to live. What if the lamb wanted to live so fucking bad. What if the lamb wanted the flock to live more. What if the lamb accepts its own sacrifice, leans into the glinting knife, in the hopes that the flock survives.