Rileyyellow6

he/him (or any) Cheeseburgers. BYEAH. Hotdogs. BYEAH.

[rileyyellow6]

MY INBOX IS ALWAYS OPEN, FEEL FREE TO TELL ME YOUR DEEPEST DARKEST SECRETS ....

proship/darkship and nsfw dni, i block freely otherwise

im a minor also lmao (in my late teens, you'll never know the real number......)

hi my name is riley, im a male. im a he. my pronouns are u/s/a (he/him but idrc what you use for me lol). i also speak only english but im trying to learn spanish ..

current interests (stuff im currently super into):

-look outside

-left 4 dead

-dead rising

in general i love horror and the supernatural! and videog ames (specifically fps-boomer-shooter type stuff)

other stuff that im not as into as i was before but i still like them:

-postal

-typical colors 2

-dan vs

-stardew valley

-arcane odyssey

-toontown

if you wanna be friends dont be afraid to message me anywhere (i would link a strawpage with sll my socials but i need to remake that and i dont feel like linking the outdated one, just ask me for my socials lol) i dont bite. just know that IM SUPER DUPER SHY AND WILL ALMOST NEVER EVER REACH OUT FIRST, sighs wistfully

[abberantmachine]

okay I wanted to wait on this a bit to collect my thoughts but basically, I think the idea of the worms to me is that they're these cables of muscle and nerves extruded from their hosts - but the "head" end contains a packet of stem cells and can form into a lot of different structures, or fuse with other structures, something like that.

this is why the extra "hands" disappear after the fusion becomes more complete, the cables either became more interwoven with Eugene's body or started developing into more mouth-like appendages.

that's also why they can be quite varied in how they present, depending on the host and the circumstances

similar thing with Nestor's eyes, essentially the optic nerves have been converted into bundles of these prehensile cables that can do weird stuff

the worm colony relies both on more permanent "core" hosts that can be left intact, and ones that can be dispersed, extracted for resources. I could also potentially see this being a kind of defensive mechanism - you can't take out an entire colony if it's been scattered everywhere, in all directions.

my last kind of note/theory is... I think one of the reasons Nestor is terrified of being without a body is part of him can intuit that if he disperses too much, he may completely lose his mind.

Human brains are extremely resource intensive. Worms are not. Being without the mammalian equipment required to maintain it puts him at even greater risk of losing himself. This is part of the line of reasoning behind finding a more permanent host...

[abberantmachine]

[rileyyellow6]

whatever man

[boopgagglethevapor]

my favorite cheese bugs

Vomiting context and stuff

long story short cus I could get more specific probably, I like to think the worms form strictly from muscle tissues and organs, fats get absorbed or something and bones, with enough effort can get transformed too from the inside out, but they tend to avoid doing that as it takes more energy to break the bones down enough and absorb them, so the pieces either just

hang out, somewhere in the worm mass,

Theyre kept as structure, as the worms struggle to support themselves without that or a Eugene, or the bone pieces are repurposed as “teeth”

yeah so they basically liquify

like cheese bugs

Except Eugene, they need him in one piece

liquification occurs when major organs are hit (heart, lungs, brain especially I’ll elaborate on that)

infiltration of the brain is the quickest way to transform, giving the victim almost immediate “worm brain”

the panic, pain and disorientation all serve to quicken the process and contribute to the whole ordeal, ultimately resulting in rapid worm growth and the complete destruction of what once was the body

like Nestor and Marshall

with slower infiltration you get Eugene, he assimilates after a day passes compared to what had to have been like five minutes for the other two to get assimilated

and Eugene stays in one piece, he’s deformed still but he’s not spanning multiple floors

yeah anyway that’s enough context look at my artwork

big bug warning, and abrasive colors I’m pretty sure

cheebug

[king-magppi]

I wonder what your favorite look outside character is. Looks around your blog and strokes my chin.

YES.... I WONDER WHO INDEED...

[rileyyellow6]

general julian propaganda

[boopgagglethevapor]

Eugene worm tongue thing

Body horror wooo

Real life worms do freaky things and I’ve been desperately wanting to incorporate that into these guys and I just thought of subjecting it to Eugene in particular because he can’t have anything

I didn’t really do it justice so just pretend he moves like this little guy here this is the inspo :)

It’s just a quick thing though because it’s been hard to draw or write anything else I’ve been thinking of, I get too excited and I’ve generally been scatterbrained so

enjoy my worm slop

[mangomoths]

you're tellin' me a worm baked this pie?

[aksjjswq]

Nestor x Eugene or Eugene x Nestor whatever you call it

And this ships ranking thing I did (template by Pewter Crunchies)

[1x1x1x1smalewife]

Rafta humanization of sorts... I wish more people drew her

[king-magppi]

I couldnt rest until I drew this

[abberantmachine]

I really love your interpretation of Eugene and Nestor and Rafta :))!!! Keep up ur so awesome art

thank you!! ahhh I have more ideas I wanna explore with them when my brain is less foggy so I really do appreciate it - couple of odd sketches I had floating around

[abberantmachine]

theory of mind

I also did these just trying to pin down thoughts.

[abberantmachine]

among more serious abstractions of the worms I sometimes imagine them something more like this

[abberantmachine]

OK ANYWAY.

more importantly.

suit jacket Nestor.

that's all.

[koipondfih]

Dont look

Eugene looked so ugly sorry