The reason why Samus loses most of her upgrades at the end of Prime 2 is because she leaves them behind on Aether so the Luminoth can hopefully use the technology involved to rebuild and defend their ruined society.
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The reason why Samus loses most of her upgrades at the end of Prime 2 is because she leaves them behind on Aether so the Luminoth can hopefully use the technology involved to rebuild and defend their ruined society.
Samus's height is usually listed as 6'3", either in the armor or out. However, that was actually only her height for her Zero Mission. Samus spent the majority of her developing years on Zebes, a planet with extremely high gravity. Once she spent more time in gravity closer to Earth's or lower, Samus's spine decompressed and she ended up with a height of 6'7" out of the armor.
You know the floating-orb-head things in Norfair? Violas, they’re called? I always hc’d that they were singing the choir parts in the upper and lower norfair musics.
Do you allow BayoSamus submissions? It's such a good ship.
Shipping headcanons are all good! My only rule is SFW, that applies generally to all submissions. So go ahead :)
Making some posts!
In light of completing Pokemon SwSh and no longer avoiding spoilers, I’m gonna try and be a bit more active online. With that said due to irl stuff I am still going to be a bit slow. I should be able to keep up the reblogs/queue, BUT chances are I will be slower at responding to asks, submissions and private messages.
I still have a backlog of asks to answer, I will do so at some point and promise I have seen them! But it may just take a while, especially with PMs.
(Same on here- I’ll at least try to keep headcanon submissions coming through as soon as possible after they’re posted! Actual asks/questions that require an answer will probably take longer.)
Do you think Samus tastes or feels anything when she absorbs an X Parasite?
I suspect so. She probably adjusts after a while, but it's a very unnatural thing to be doing on the regular. There's a chance the X parasites have some kind of "self-cloaking" mechanism by which they sneak into the body unnoticed, but tbh I doubt it. Given what they're like, I doubt they have any need to hide themselves. Once they're in, they're tough to remove and take over quickly.
I don't know about taste, but I definitely imagine she'd feel it through her skin. It wouldn't necessarily feel nice, at least at first- maybe after a while she starts to make the association that absorbing parasite = healing- but given how she didn't seem too distressed in the Fusion intro until it actually started killing her, I don't imagine it would be the worst feeling in the world. Maybe like a tickle, or cold/warm sensation?
Ridley is still intelligent in the games. He just chooses to revert to his primal instincts to make killing his enemies more entertaining.
It’s already been stated in canon that the power suit’s primary function is to protect Samus under any conditions. I think that this can explain certain things in the games, such as moments where the power suit lost upgrades. The example I like to use is in the beginning of Metroid Prime, where the impact against a wall from an explosion caused most of Samus’s basic arsenal to malfunction. The suit itself offers a heavy degree of protection, but it’s not invincible. In this case, the force of that impact might have caused cranial or spinal damage severe enough to halt Samus’s escape from the exploding frigate. threatening her life. The power suit deferred most of the force from the impact to a number of non-critical subsystems, using them as a sort of cushion. How? Well, we know that the power suit is easily capable of transforming energy to matter and vice versa. We can infer that many of the suit’s systems exist as energy and data, especially when not in use. Much like certain species of terrestrial life, the power suit can shed parts of itself to save the whole. In moments where the suit’s shielding is not enough to prevent a life-threatening injury, Samus’s Chozo power suit will essentially burn an upgrade, in the form of energy, to create a last-resort barrier against harm.
This behavior is seen again after metroid prime is defeated, and attempts to take Samus with it as it detonates. The power suit sheds the phazon suit upgrade in its physical form to release metroid prime’s grip on her, allowing her to escape. In Metroid Prime 2, Samus loses most of her basic upgrades to an Ing ambush. Here, we could say that the power suit expended these upgrades as energetic barriers that were consumed by the Ing before they could reach Samus and possess her. The Ing are capable of manipulating energy, and much of their forms exist as energy, so this checks out.
This general principle falls directly in line with our understanding of what the power suit is: a hyper-advanced cybernetic nervous system and modular exoskeleton. The nervous system plays the main role in threat response, so an artificial one would have its own methods for protecting its user.
Gandrayda's True Origin
Strap yourselves in, because this is gonna be a long one.
First of all, let’s go over what we know about Gandrayda:
She’s an ally of Samus, a fellow bounty hunter hired by the Federation to investigate the Phazon incident.
She possesses shapeshifting abilities that blatantly disregard the law of conservation of mass. She can shapeshift into things MUCH smaller and larger than herself, and in any form, she can control bioelectricity.
She also possesses the power to drain energy in the boss fight against her, and can then reverse it in a sort of overclocking-attack.
Her backstory is a complete mystery. All we know for sure is that she’s mentally immature and she possesses some similarities to another shapeshifting race who live on Jovia XIII, but she can do things that are impossible for them.
She considers Samus her main rival in bounty hunting, and wants to outshine and surpass her. She talks passive-aggressively at Samus in general. Despite this, it seems like Samus had no idea who she was prior to meeting her in Prime 3, so the rivalry is one-sided.
She prefers being sent on combat missions where she can fight directly, but due to her abilities she is consistently relegated to stealth missions, much to her chagrin.
Whereas Rundas just stays stone-cold silent when mind controlled and Ghor retains his primary personality other than constantly taunting and boasting about how powerful Phazon is, Gandrayda loses it. She apparently was called “Mistress Gandrayda” by the space pirates, implying she joined and cooperated with them, and yet she delights in going around their homeworld killing them indiscriminately. She’s also incredibly giddy at the idea of gruesomely murdering Samus and presenting her bloody helmet to Dark Samus.
So, all in all: Gandrayda is a shapeshifting entity who is mentally immature and has an irrational view of Samus as her rival. Her shapeshifting abilities can seemingly defy the laws of physics, and in all forms she has a few consistent abilities, including draining energy from adversaries. And finally, she has a violent streak that she keeps mostly under wraps until she’s corrupted by phazon. This isn’t a lot to go on without some outside-the-box thinking.
Anyone remember Gorea?
Gorea was the final boss of Metroid Prime: Hunters, that Prime spinoff game that mainly focused on the multiplayer PvP mode. What do we know about Gorea?
Gorea arrived on the Alimbics’ homeworld with no warning and no clear goal other than completely annihilating them. It “is power beyond reckoning and evil unrelenting. The universe has not known terror such as this.” It sounds like a genuine eldritch abomination, similar to Phantoon.
“At first we thought Gorea was a comet. It crashed upon our planet and emerged as a vapour, it mimicked our cellular structure and replicated itself in solid form. We have seen Gorea alter its atomic structure between polarizing states. Our scientists believe it may also possess other shape-changing abilities.”
“We deployed our deadliest weapons to defeat the beast. To our horror, every weapon was somehow used against us… It devoured our people’s life energy and grew even more powerful from such sustenance.” Indeed, Gorea’s most frightening abilitity is that it can effortlessly steal the abilities of any warrior who tries to kill it, usually manifesting this power as tendrils of light that literally pierce through its prey and rip out their own powers.
To summarize: Gorea is an eldritch monstrosity with seemingly infinite shapeshifting power, whose original form was beyond physical comprehension before it took on a physical body in the image of the Alimbics. It has no goal other than annihilating seemingly all life it encounters. It also possesses the ability to drain energy, life, abilities, and powers from those who fight it, immediately turning what it steals against them.
Sound familiar? And the kicker is, Gandrayda was introduced in Metroid Prime 3. Metroid Prime Hunters takes place between Metroid Prime 1 and 2.
The truth is this: Gorea, in all of its ridiculous just-will-not-die-ability, somehow survived its final battle with Samus Aran - but in a different, much weaker form. In losing to Samus Aran, it was obliterated so thoroughly that it lost all of its memories other than a few base instincts, i.e. a desire to destroy all life with impunity and a deep loathing of Samus Aran for managing to kill it.
The reason nobody knows what exactly Gandrayda is is because she’s a completely unique life-form, the same way Gorea was, and even she’s not aware of her real origins. She’s only following her base instincts to cause havoc and become stronger than Samus Aran, while also having to obey the laws of the Galactic Federation now that she’s in a much more “normal” form. Even their names are similar - Gorea and Gandrayda.
Does this mean Gandrayda was doomed to return to her evil ways from the start? Not at all. She did have an amicable relationship with the Federation, Ghor, Rundas, and even Samus at times. But as soon as she was corrupted by phazon, her instincts to cause havoc went from harmless pranks to gleeful murder with no regard for the consequences, and her desire to become stronger than Samus went from an unrequited rivalry to a deathwish on her.
Whether Gandrayda’s memories came back and she realized her true nature as Gorea’s next “incarnation” when she was corrupted is unclear. Maybe if she had never been involved in the phazon incident, her desire for mass destruction would never have awakened, and she could have curbed her instincts with maturity. We may never know.
Any other ideas for horsey ridley? Maybe about if he was an actual horse? Like, what would his breed be?
I’ll have to admit here that I don’t know enough about horses to say :( a lightweight, aggressive one for sure, if such a thing exists. Something more practical than elegant. Anyone else know horses better than I do?
One last addendum to the Ylla post; since different variations of recurring fauna are pretty common across the galaxy, (probably spread by the Chozo) calling the Ylla 'Shriekbats' would probably be a somewhat common method of insult, even if the Ylla's reclusiveness means most people usually don't have much reason to insult them in the first place.
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention in the big Ylla post, is that due to echolocation and sound being a big thing for them, it probably developed into a big cultural emphasis on music and song, which at least does give some common ground with other races.
Also, while they probably still sleep upside-down just due to evolutionary biology, they probably have some sort of pod/bed/thing specifically for it; staying in any old cave would be analogous to a human sleeping out in a field somewhere without protection. On a similar note, they'd probably favor high places and cliff-side architecture as somewhere easy to swoop down from, but due to the geological instability of their homeworld, they'd have to invest in developing really strong building techniques to keep their homes from being easily destroyed by frequent earthquakes.
Baseless Ylla Headcanon Thing
So, from the logbooks we know that the Ylla were peers of the Chozo, Luminoth, and Reptilicans, and not much more than that. Still, as an educated guess, I think it isn't too much of a stretch to assume their technology is compatible with Chozo stuff, they've been around for a while, and they probably have at least some amount of ability to tamper with genetics (like the Chozo) or heavy terraforming and climate control. (like the Luminoth and Reptilicans.) We haven't seen them directly, but that doesn't necessarily mean much given how remote most of the Metroid games have been, but going off the pattern of the other races, they're probably quite reclusive nowadays.
One other thing I like to think, is that since it's been hinted the Chozo weren't always so peaceful, and some darker groups may still be around somewhere, the Ylla have probably seen the Chozo at their worst. So while they eventually allied with them and shared technology, they're also probably among the few who still know about their more militaristic expansionist past, and so might be a bit more suspicious of Chozo influence than most; even if not hostile to Samus, they'd probably be quite wary of her regardless.
Another idea I like, is that since we have lizard aliens, moth aliens, bird aliens, etc., the Ylla would probably keep to that theme in some fashion; I have gone with the idea of them as being quite bat-like, kinda like this. I also had this idea of them being somewhat foils to the Luminoth, favoring darkness rather than light; the races probably got along amicably enough, but the fundamental culture difference probably took a while to overcome.
From this idea of them favoring darkness, I had the idea that their planet of origin is an extremely remote place, at the very edge of the solar system it's in (if it's not a rogue altogether) and so recieves very little sunlight. It has lots of moons that produce strong tidal geothermal activity, and a dense atmosphere to keep the heat in. (Said atmosphere also means they can probably still glide despite being of humanoid size, so their wings can still function as such, instead of becoming vegistal arms like the Chozo. This would also make them retain a fairly spindly, lightweight frame; much better suited to stealth than direct confrontation. Because of the geothermal activity, they still evolved to have normal eyesight, (to steer clear of glowing lava flows and whatnot) but it's still fairly weak, and sensitive to brighter lights; sound would still be really important to them, and they'd probably have a lot of technology involving sonics. (Possibly some parallel to the Annihilator Beam, but without the convoluted matter/antimatter shenanigans.) Also, they, and probably most other creatures on their planet, would have developed bioluminescence as a means to find one another visually in the dark, foggy environments. Still, light in general is off-putting to them rather than welcoming; while most cultures in general tend to have some amount of appreciation for their suns, the Ylla very much do not; combined with the danger association from volcanic activity, there's a lot of culture clash with other races. For them, saying someone 'shines brightly' would be an insult rather than a compliment.
Once they became spacefaring they probably attempted to terraform other worlds, but due to most habitable locations being closer in to their respective suns and stuff, it would take a lot more effort to reproduce the unique conditions of their homeworld. Between that and encountering the early Chozo still steamrolling the rest of the galaxy to their needs, they probably retained a fairly limited presence in general, and like the Luminoth, potentially decided to just stick to one planet altogether. They probably also aren't that involved with the Federation either as a result, preferring to be left alone rather than get thrust into major galactic politics again. Still, that they are more aware of the Chozo's darker side, would mean any hostile groups still around and still harboring greater ambitions, would want to target the Ylla quickly to prevent them from warning the rest of the galaxy...
(Sorry for the giant text-wall here. I've put waaay too much thought into this concept, still debating possibly trying to do something with it.)
Maybe this kinder ridley samus rides like a horse has a reason samus rides it like a horse? Any ideas on your end?
I think if Samus were to have a dragon mount, it would have to be one used to humans (and other people) from an early age- raised from the egg if possible. Doubting Samus has the time on her busy bounty hunting schedule, assume this little dragon was raised from the birdy-thing stage and maybe took to Samus in particular. Perhaps she was the only one determined, stern but sympathetic enough to calm him down!
I hope future installments introduce more new races and factions. Also, seeing non-human Federation members for a change. (I have some headcanons for the Ylla mentioned in certain Logbooks, though since all we got on them was the name, admittedly none of it has a shred of canonical basis, whoops.) Are there any ideas like that that you think could be cool to explore in new games?
I love cool alien designs so much and I am SO down to meet some more aliens. I’d be careful about it because I think Prime 4 could benefit from emphasising the sense of isolation, and another U-Mos or the likes of the hunters from Prime 3 might detract from that in parts- though tbh I don't mind so much because Prime 3 could easily compensate with isolation in other areas of the game, and U-Mos wasn't that intrusive. But in any case, there's also the Prime Hunters option of "cool weird aliens who are your enemies" to keep that loneliness intact!
As for other ideas to explore? I'm actually not sure Since there's been BIG hints about Sylux coming back, I suspect there'll be focus on the Federation and modern (in-game) space society, which in its own way is super interesting. I hope they're portrayed as grey and Sylux's story is a slightly more complex one. The greyer on both sides, the better! Despite the whole thing I said about isolation, it would be interesting to know more about galactic civilisation and how various aliens, of various cultures and biologies, interact and integrate. I’m sure there could at least be scans that tell us about that, or corpses on a crashed ship a la Prime 2.
As much as the Chozo have maybe been done to death, it might be interesting to see non-typical Chozo civilisations, perhaps even a "dark side" to the Chozo which shows they were actually varied peoples with varied intentions (but since the Chozo memories in SR I'm guessing that's what the sidescrollers are going for instead). Or perhaps another mysterious, enlightened and long-lost race with their own mystery and something to set them apart from the Chozo, but make them interesting in their own right instead of generic.
I'd love to hear some of those Ylla headcanons btw- if you fancy submitting them!
Any idea what the teen ridley personality would be liek, other than being samus’ best horse buddy?
I don't doubt grumpy. If his adult self is anything to go by, I can imagine him being pretty selfish, without any tactful restraint that’s yet to be learned- causing trouble and being snappy without having the experience to think his actions through. Probably quite full of energy and needing to run it off, usually by hunting and chasing smaller creatures- larger if he thinks he can get away with it. I don't doubt he'd spend this time testing his limits, seeing what he can get away with and indulging in the pride when he is successful. Being grumpy and covering it up when he isn't.
ridley’s constant revival means that samus is never allowed to have peace as the source of her torment and trauma is constantly brought back to life and pitted against her… every time she sees him she has to relive the worst day of her life over and over. it’s an endless cycle of rage and grief that’s become a part of her life and at this point killing him doesn’t even bring her temporary satisfaction because she knows that she’ll have to fight a version of him again sooner or later.