Just a little thing I wanna say about zombie Mizi
There are mainly two things I wanna say here, the first thing is about Mizi’s outfit during round 1, the second thing is about her infection and what it might tell us about characters like Till and Luka for when we see them.
1: the color of Mizi’s outfit during the performance
This might be me reading to much into it, but Mizi’s outfit is a bright pink, unlike in alien stage where her round 1 outfit was black. While this just might be noting and it ends up just being a thing like, “well it’s a completely different AU, of course her dress is a different color!” or “she has to wear a flashy color for the performance!”, I don’t think that’s the case. If it was, why not make Sua’s outfit blue, like the blue her fans are wearing on the headbands and the glow sticks they’re waving? It’s still a pure white like in ALNST. I think the different color outfits are supposed to tell us how similar the characters are to their ALNST counterparts. Sua’s dress is still white because fundamentally, she is almost exactly like how she was in ALNST, both Suas in some what sacrificed themselves for Mizi. Mizi’s dress is a bright pink, showing how different she is from the ALNST Mizi. While in ALNST, Mizi believes she manipulated everyone to survive, that she used her sex appeal and innocent charms to get everyone to die for her. This Mizi let herself be manipulated, changed, hated. She was abused by the industry she spent a large part of her life idealizing. This might just be me overthinking but vivinos tends to make us do that anyway.
2: Mizi’s infection and how it affected her and might affect the other Alien Stage survivors in this AU
We see that Mizi’s infection covers much more of her body than Sua’s, especially on her head considering her eyes were stolen. I think her infection is destroying her brain, causing her to not be aware of things around her. When Sua was holding her hand, she didn’t hold it back. While this might be because she couldn’t see it was Sua, she would’ve recognized her voice surely? Not to mention that absent minded singing. I don’t know anything about Korean children’s songs, but the subtitles made it seem like the song Mizi was singing when Sua was going to be chopped up was a children’s song. This makes me think that it was something someone with a child-like brain might do. I don’t know too much about psychology though so I’ll leave that bit up to you. Anyway the whole point of this rant is that Mizi is mostly “dead” now. All of her preforming might have been stuff like muscle memory or training her to do it on command. Sua seems to have much more brain function than Mizi, meaning in this au, Sua is “alive”. This makes me think that all the characters that survived ALNST, Mizi, Till, and Luka, while have the infection destroy their brains or something that lets them keep whatever humanity they have left, “killing” them. This means characters like Hyuna, Ivan, and of course Sua will keep their brains, meaning they “live”.
And again, all this much just be my overthinking, it makes a lot of sense to me, so these are the two ideas I’m rolling with