Feb 8, 2025
🎵"Give it to your sister and never wonder, if the same pressure would have pulled you under"🎶
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ITOPIA SERIES 3 AT THE END!
Hunter Sisters my beloved <3
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🎵"Give it to your sister and never wonder, if the same pressure would have pulled you under"🎶
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ITOPIA SERIES 3 AT THE END!
Hunter Sisters my beloved <3
Group C Round 1
Satyarani (Raven: The Secret Temple) vs Alys Hunter (Prosiect Z/Itopia)
Satyarani
Alys Hunter
[image ID: the first image is of Satyarani, and Indian woman with long brown hair, wearing an orange top, and gold jewelry on her forehead, ears, and neck. the second image is of Alys Hunter, a white woman with long brown hair, wearing a red leather jacket and a gray shirt. end ID]
Satyarani
The physical embodiment of her homeland (god?). Very dedicated to her duty of protecting the elixir of life. Very stubborn, insists on things being done the thorough and proper way, and does not yield to intimidation, however is willing to compromise as long as it does not explicitly violate her rules. Stares down demons unarmed. Willing to let herself be used as a distraction. Can turn into sand, uses sand to do magic. Likes flower petals.
Alys Hunter
She’s the protagonist of one show and the deuteragonist of another. Both are Welsh-language kids shows, and on the internet you don’t get more obscure than that! Prosiect Z is a gameshow about kids who need to solve escape rooms to escape their school in a zombie apocalypse, without getting infected themselves. Alys is the voice on the other end of the walkie-talkie, offering hints and guidance. And if the kids are successful, she’s their getaway driver, risking her own life to help them escape. She does this to make up for the fact she was one of the scientists who worked on the device which caused the zombie apocalypse, even though she realised the risk and tried to warn people - until she was captured by the company to silence her. And by the time she manages to escape it’s too late, so she tries to help people survive instead. Itopia is basically a retelling and reimagining of the backstory for Prosiect Z. In it, Alys is revealed to be the worlds most overprotective sister (to a very rebellious teenager, which goes as well as you’d imagine). She also takes responsibility for everyone around her, and blames herself for anything bad that happens to them - which, in a zombie apocalypse show, means she carries around a lot of guilt and emotional baggage. The apocalypse in Itopia is a very soft one, with lots of teamwork and humanity banding together. Also, Alys doesn’t have a love interest, with most of her emotional drive coming from her relationship with her sister, and the platonic bonds she forms with people around her. Also she’s my blorbo of all time. Vote for her if you like Women in STEM, Welsh people, overprotective siblings and people being crushed by guilt.
“I helped develop the Z. It’s my fault that one of my friends was infected. I promised her I’d find a way. I have to fix this.”
Itopia S2 - Alys Hunter
🩷💜💙 Alys Hunter🩷💜💙
16th of December let's go!!!!
It looks like we've got Lwsi, Zac, Alys (<3) and Sara carried forward. I don't know why Zac is on the Amber side given that he was never infected... maybe something happened in between series?
I assume Ash, Freddie, Nansi and Eli are the four teens along the bottom. Ash, Freddie and Eli are all fairly androgynous names so I can't really make guesses for who is who. We'll probably get more info in the month to come.
We also have two new adults, no idea how they're going to be involved in the plot. Really hoping the woman is someone's mother though, to restore balance.
Things I want from Itopia Series 3
This is a mix of genuine wants and also some silly things
A basic plot of Nina kidnapping Lwsi to try and create her own cure, and the others having to rescue her, therefore keeping the stakes high.
Cameo from Kit Reeve (English Alice) as a Zed because Lara Catrin cameo-d in Project Z and I think it would be funny.
Brian Hunter-Ed Thomas-FN Stine dynamic. Single dad club! Brian and Ed have a great deal of respect for each other but can’t stand Stine. Stine desperately wants someone to like him again and doesn’t understand why they can’t get over the ‘enabled the zombie apocalypse and endangered their children’ thing.
ALSO SOMEBODY’S MUM. Alive and preferably non-abusive. At this point I’m starting to wonder if there’s a shortage of middle aged welsh-speaking women.
Nonbinary Mari Thomas. You have the opportunity. Take it.
Lwsi having another crisis, this time about whether she still counts as human.
More people sacrificing themselves for Alys, much to her distress
Nina going on a proper messed up evil science power trip. Or, even more than she has already.
Alys and Macs NOT getting back together. Keep them platonic, Zac and Lwsi are doing an excellent job of carrying the romance.
Lwsi-Mari dynamic. Lwsi’s spent the last 3 years with Alys’ full attention on her. With Alys now having Mari to worry about, I imagine Lwsi must be experiencing a weird mix of relief and jealousy which could lead to some interesting interactions.
Lwsi-Ceri dynamic. Ceri is a walking reminder that Lwsi got lucky. Again, some interesting interactions.
Also just more of Ceri Stine as a character instead of a backstory.
JUSTICE FOR DR MEGAN CRANE! THE OG ALYS SACRIFICER! aka: please cure her.
Alys-Zac dynamic. I still haven’t gotten over the fact their first interaction was her chasing him out their house because he was helping Lwsi commit cybercrime only for their second interaction to be her asking him to commit more cybercrime. Also let Alys give him the shovel talk.
Zayn/Zane equivalent character! Alys rescues some strange skateboarding sixth-former from a school, who then follows her around for a bit and then continues to save other people when Alys has to return to the main plot.
The thing about Alys Hunter is that she desperately needs to sacrifice herself. Sacrificing herself would fix her in 30 different ways (and make her atlas personality x3 worse). It’s integral to her character. She’s the big sister, she’s meant to look after them! But she can’t. The narrative won’t allow her to. She’s the deuteragonist. She’s just too important to lose.
So instead she’s doomed. She’s always making friends, connecting to people, getting close quickly. Dr Ed Thomas takes her under his wing and trusts her enough to send his daughter to her. She reaches out to a distressed Dr Megan Crane even when all evidence says she can’t be trusted. She barely knows Sara for a day and de-lone-wolf-s her almost completely. She even tries to give a second chance to Nina, for all good that does.
She’s always trying to help, trying to protect. She’d do anything to save the people she loves. And because of that, they’d do anything to save her.
Including sacrifice themselves.
Dr Megan Crane and Mari Thomas get infected to save her. Only luck saves Macs Woodward and Lwsi Hunter from the same fate. And that haunts Alys’ every moment - it should have been her. But don’t worry! She can save them! She has to save them. After all, she’s the big sister…
Scientist. Survivor. Silly. Sister.
Thinking about Alys Hunter again, so I put some of my favourite gifs of her together as tribute. A mix of Itopia series 1 and 2 with a bonus Prosiect Z.