If Not Us, Then Who?

Ayo I write headcanons for Metro 2033, Last Light, and Exodus (also the books), but I mostly write Sam stuff. (I’ll write other stuff if requested!) ASKS ARE ALWAYS OPEN

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Ok wait is Metro 2039 gonna have Artyom or a completely different character? I heard they’re doing a fully voiced protagonist what is happening

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In light of the recent trailer, holy shit. Let Artyom rest. But also I’m very excited for the new game

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Hey 👋 are you taking requests? If so do you have a rules list or smth?

Thanks for your time, have a good day

I’ve been in kind of a backseat from the fandom for a bit, but I still love it! I’ll take a request, I’m just not great at writing impromptu, but I have fun doing it lol.

I don’t think I have any rules? I haven’t really taken enough requests to have any. Shoot an ask and I’ll see what I can do!

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In continuation of my last post about Sam’s dumbass one-liners (I love them so much), here’s a list of all the ones I’ve heard so far. If you have favorites that aren’t on this list feel free to let me know 🫡.

First of all, the entire fight scene between Tom’s guys and Sam right in the beginning of the DLC? Just him throwing out insults and expletives every two seconds while fighting for his life is so America-core I love that for him.

The bit at the theatre/bandit base:

“Too much TV is bad for your eyes.” ☝️🤓

Then he grabs the ONLY tape with an American flag printed on it and shoves it into the tape player and says “How about something educational for a change?”

When Stealthily knocking out an enemy:

“Lights out”

“Sleep tight”

He also just shushes them? Lmao

Confrontationally knocking out an enemy:

“Jaw, meet knuckles!” I has to pause the game for a second and take a breath cause of how dumb that one was 😭

Kicking open doors:

“Open sesame!”

“Knock knock!”

Also any time he picks anything useful up and sometimes speaks a different language. In the English dub he speaks Russian and I think I’m the Russian dub it’s the other way around.

(Btw I can’t stand to play Sam’s story in the Russian dub cause his voice actor is very obviously not American especially when he speaks English. It kinda breaks the immersion.)

I know there’s more but I can’t remember them all. Lmk your favs that aren’t on here.

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Folks I am almost through replaying all the metro games again and am currently playing Sam’s Story. Idk why I didn’t think about it much before but Sam is such a nerd?? He’s so goofy he has these little one-liners that sound so corny? I just kicked down a door as Sam and homie yelled “knock knock!” Like? He acts like he’s the main character in a cheesy American action movie what a guy.

He really just was like “I need to make this horrific situation jovial and make fun of it or I’m gonna dissolve from the inside out” and just ran with it huh

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finally drew out that comic idea based off @metro-headcanons' post

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YOOOO

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Debating on replaying the metro series to get back into it lemme know if I should start from the beginning or just do one of the games 🫡

What should I do

Start from the beginning and make your way through

Just play one of the games (lmk which one)

Voting ended onMay 12, 2024

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Idiot's (Sergei's) Name

Guys I'm such a fool I never really looked that much into Dostoyevsky when my metro fixation was huge and I just realized something - he wrote a book called The Idiot. I had to look into the book for a class I'm taking rnw so be aware I haven't read it in full. What's interesting is that I don't personally see a lot of similarities between Idiot (metro) and the protagonist of the book, however I'm gonna tell you a description of the main character from one of our assigned readings on the book and tell me who this sounds like to you.

"The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a novel that delves into the complex psyche of a naive and pure-hearted protagonist who struggles to navigate the corrupt and hypocritical society around him. It explores themes of innocence, love, and the destructiveness of human nature."

Artyom???

Anyway I thought that was cool, and potentially could tell us about what Idiot was like when he was younger? Maybe he named himself that because of the book? Maybe he saw himself in the protagonist. But from a writing perspective how cool is it to draw comparisons between Dostoyevsky's character and someone that becomes an important part of Artyom's life. Artyom's journey on a base level is pretty similar to that character.

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HOW COULD I FORGET YERMAK IM SORRY, @bourbon-the-huckster

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Favorite Old Man™️ in the Metro series

Colonel Miller/Melnikov

Khan

Alex Sukhoi

Andrew the Blacksmith

Captain Baranov

My favorite Old Man™️ is not on this list (reblog and put it in the tags please

Voting ended onMar 3, 2024

I did not expand this list that much so I probably missed several Old Men™️

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from @metro-headcanons

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Oh my god?? Beautiful art???

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Playing all the metro games in gaming marathon in front of my partner was the only correct way I could've played them

Highlights

Pavel's gay ass

Artyom's excessive fear of water in Exodus

The postcards

Artyom's constant peril

Him putting his hands on anyone and everyone

"He's an animal!"

Artyom Noises ASMR

I think this dude is a pyromaniac

Stealthiest unit of man covered head to toe in metal and guns

Oh shit- He's planning to head back

Guil being Guil

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Bxoд в мeтpo Mитинo

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Do you think hunter ever went back to exhibition to tell artyom and sasha that he was alive? Or did they have to find out through disparate rumors, like how hunter learned of artyom's success

Hi thank you for the ask! I’m gonna be so for real with you I do not remember a lot from the second metro book.

From what I do remember, I feel like it would be more realistic (and true to the sort of stuff Glukhovsky writes) if Hunter doesn’t come back to exhibition. On the other hand, Hunter is a very determined and ambitious guy, even though he was beaten down a lot after the first book.

At the very least I’d say he would send messages to exhibition in whatever way he can, especially since he and Sukhoi were friends and he obviously saw potential in Artyom or he wouldn’t have given him his quest in the first book. I’m sure they’ve heard rumors and legends about him as well, though.

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The aurora crew guys (mostly Alyosha, Duke, and Damir) seem like the type of guys to scream at each other in the gym to hype each other up

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This was hidden in the tags I felt it my duty to share the gold with the masses

Credit to @classified424

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