#killikposting

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So Lyde got to have her reunion with Vector today! And I'd already watched other people's version of the cutscene on youtube, so I kind of knew how that was going to go. Something I'm glad I wasn't spoiled on, however, was The Hole

Y'know. The giant hole in the wall, directly across from Vector.

Its positioning in relation to him gives the general impression that, upon hearing his wife was back in town, Vector was seized with such euphoria that it rippled out into the entire nest, and he was borne upon a tidal wave of bugs and burst through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man.

After which he seated himself politely in the nearest chair to await her arrival.

environmental storytelling

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tumblr user killikhive unsurprisingly having many thoughts about killks and killik ecology

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family portrait

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saw this post on my dash & immediately experienced whiplash bc my bug-infested brain assumed it was about IRL KILLIKS and not. carpentry.

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FDSFUHIFDGHF GIRL HELP I STARTED RECORDING THE REUNION CUTSCENE AND THE MOMENT VECTOR BROUGHT UP THE NEST THE GROUND BEGAN VIOLENTLY SHAKING

so yeah, as far as i'm concerned, oroboro sensed that Lyde was back from war & immediately made a bee-line (hah) to her location

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i can only assume they did this to hurt me

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haven't had the energy to read more Bugtext nor type up anything very detailed about what i've read thus far. but the book has insinuated one thing about killik reproduction, which is that there doesn't appear to be drones & a primary reproductive, everyone just fucks each other nasty.

i googled if there is a precedent for this in nature and there is! it's more "everyone lays eggs that hatch into genetic clones" rather than "everybody mates", and it happens on a synchronized cycle. like menstruation.

however given the immense genetic diversity of killiks & the fact that there are hostile NPCs in swtor called "queens" (except they kick your ass rather than being massive and laying eggs in a room all day) i am confident that this is not necessarily the rule for all nests everywhere

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what she says: i'm fine

what she means: it's Iesei. it's fucking IESEI, i-e-s-e-i, YAY-say, it isn't LEI-sei, with an L. i know this because all killik hive names are palindromes and they all start and end with vowels, the SAME vowel, this is extremely consistent through the entire game and also supplemental material. except in this ONE instance. and i know it isn't an exception, because the captioning for that cutscene spells it right; but both Vanessa Marshall AND Ifan Meredith get it wrong, so that means they either both read that uppercase "I" as a lowercase "L" or else one or both of them asked and whoever directed them during those recording sessions gave them the wrong answer. it drives me fucking insane because HOW did nobody CATCH this, THE HIVES ARE ALL PALINDROMES, WHO FUCKING PERMITTED TH