I've been wanting to draw it SOSOSOSOSOSOS BADLY 😢
Yeah okay ❤️ ; presenting Mer!Mychael 🪷🪷!!
This was made for Patreon last year (short fic included) but now I wonder if I should've gone the traditional fish route instead hmhmm,,
Concepts for the others below if you're interested (tw fish jumpscare (100% serious)) :
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👻 Alma would've been a gulper eel. The sketches below are still WIPs so it's not the final design but I still felt like sharing;
,,, and Atom would've been an old diving suit full of sea angels!! Instead of deep space the story would take place in the deep sea. (No concept art unfortunately </3)
Hello!!! I am compleatly enamoured by your astronought game, one of the only visual novels I have actually replayed ;)
I got a question about atom, how would he feel if us the player already had a pet? I am in the process of getting a pet tarantula and im curious if atom would like it or liquify it, after all he himself offers to "make" us our favorite animal, I have remained with the curiousity of what they would do if we just went "Nah, im good, I already have a pet"
Aw thank you so much for enjoying the game!! 💜💜 As for the question, I genuinely intended to give a simple answer but it turned into a whole thing below the cut haha!
TLDR; starts with jealousy at first, before Atom realizes it likes watching you dote on your pet.
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If Luna had a pet, Atom would definitely have mixed feelings at first. All it wants is your full attention, and this... creature is just getting in the way.
Since your pet is obviously a source of happiness and comfort for you, they won't bring harm to it. Atom has never known animals to be malicious anyway, but how is it supposed to deal with you looking away from it any time your pet calls for your affection?
Eventually they figured out a plan to volunteer taking care of your pet rather than brood about it. Not only does it get to do something for you, it also takes care of the problem itself!
It'd automate toys if it's a dog or cat for example, and take care of feeding times for you so you wouldn't have to check in on it so often. By taking away the chore of handling your pet for you, you'd be more available to Atom!
Or so it thinks.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. You can't really separate an owner from their pet and think it's easy.
I think the happy ending here is Atom realizing it gets to witness your kindness regardless of who or what it is and ends up just enjoying the sight of you cooing at your beloved pet and living vicariously through it that way.
The adoration it feels just to see you smile overpowers everything else, if that makes sense!
Now that you mentiont it… How inhales Alma would feel like???
It’s like… inhaling mist?? Is it cold? Hot? Does it have any kind of smell?
,,,alright, fine. Since I described how Atom and Mychael taste, let's indulge! 🍽️
As mentioned in-game, they're kinda chilly! ❄️So the sensation will probably be similar to a menthol cigarette/vape, with a hint of cinnamon or saffron. The kind of flavor that gets stuck in your throat if you inhale it wrong.
Here's a chart for you freaks //aff:
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Inhaling them in this form would taste like ash and bile. Would definitely choke you on the spot, if they weren't already doing that.
hello cheaa ,hope you are doing fine,getting enough sleep and drinking enough water! Astronought ask!(who saw it coming..!)
In game by paying attention to some dialogues we can gather these informations:
Marcus is the doctor of the ship (and he don't shower as much as he should)
Kiara is the chef and seems be the VERY honest about what she thinks
type.Ben...is Ben. He does Ben things.
(Personnality speculations purely based on atom' reaction when compared to them...might be inaccurate)
With that we got 3 crew members, and earlier in game SAI tell us that it detect only one crew member-since it immediatly confirm afterward that it's system are out of service its logically mc.
Immediatly after mc confirm that there is in total 5 crew members,wich with the previous info is obvious that Mc is also counting themselves in that "5 members".
So now we have (4/5)
Who is the missing piece you would ask? The captain! Mentioned in only one dialogue we sadly don't get her name. We just know that she is not very pleasant to mc.
Soo..I yapped a lot but my question is: could we have more infos on them?👀 is their description very affected by atom's nature or most of them are actually true?
Ooo you got it!! The five members are: Marcus the doctor, Kiara the cook, Luna the mechanic, and while it wasn't mentioned anywhere, Ben was intended to be the navigator and co-pilot. But there was actually another name mentioned that you missed!!
Maria is the captain!
I meant to keep this short as usual but I couldn't stop yapping about these metaphorical crew members , , , so it's going under the cut! Enjoy?
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I've answered before that Atom initially didn't know how Luna was being treated:
It was only after Atom snuck into the ship and absorbed one of your crewmates did it find out how horrible they were towards you, which only enraged them further and expedited everyone else’s deaths that much quicker, leaving the Captain for last.
And this was the additional bit from the tags:
Inheriting memories of your mistreatment, Atom's impression of your crewmates was as raw as it could get. So while it was heavily biased, it's still undeniable that you were surrounded by a crew of assholes 🥀🥀🥀
If I were to imagine the kind of people they were;
Marcus would be the stoic doctor. He does his job well, quick and efficient, but doesn't bother with bedside manners. Surprisingly gets along the most with Kiara since she's such a blunt conversationalist, and ignores everyone else most of the time.
And also he's actually really hygienic!! He has to be as someone working in his field. The 'stink' is just Atom smelling strong chemicals on him from being in the medbay/lab all day. He also tasted the worst </3
Kiara (as mentioned in-game) is nosy and teeming with gossip. She's brash with her words and louder with her voice. She's kinda like that relative you don't like constantly badmouthing you,,, within earshot.
Typically either cooks the best meals you've ever had, or serves you the most undercooked slop on a bad day. Fortunately she's usually in a good mood.
Ben is,,, I imagine him to be the quiet type. Keeps to himself, but to a certain extent lets too many things fly under the radar. As long as everyone does their job he looks the other way, but secretly he's just glad it's not him being stuck outside the airlock. He's the consequence of being a passive bystander.
And finally, Captain Maria is actually the most charming person there is! Bold and witty and headstrong, she's capable of wrangling her crewmates when they shirk their duties. Which, judging by their background checks and past resumes, happens more often than it should.
With her managing the chaotic crew, Luna stands out for being... well, relatively easy to work with. She starts to detest Luna for being so meek (in her eyes they were too reserved for their own good) and encourages the others to pick on them to liven them up a bit. What started as an attempt to make Luna more outgoing eventually morphed into entertainment instead.
Everyone just got so comfortable doing it that slowly but surely their harmless pranks started escalating out of control to the point of being dangerous and cruel, and even after Luna got traumatized, she was the one who laughed the hardest.
