#zooz

[biggirlwithbigdreams]

Holy Blue Cyanotype Crop Top by Zooz Art Studio

[ghostmoor]

Zooz gets a routine refresher every now and again since they're my very first Oddworld character. A former Flub Fuels worker, Zooz had a hard time with the culture shock on being thrust out into the free world with little guidance and none of the conveniences or (few) comforts industrial life afforded.

Trill is a former vykker test subject who escaped the lab he was held in in the midst of an accident that left him momentarily unattended and unsecured. In the chaos he suffered a nasty chemical burn and after breaking out crash-landed in Zooz's figurative back yard. Zooz, at the time, was at the end of his tether, struggling with isolation and his inability to integrate into the local community. Finding Trill exhausted, bloodied, and still bearing the markers of his previous captors, Zooz felt a certain kinship with him. Where a lot of people would have found a pissed-off, unfamiliar apex predator and decided to leave well alone or put it out of its misery, Zooz' inclination was to help.

Caring for Trill gave Zooz a distraction and new sense of purpose, and being forced to reach out to others in the community finally gave him a foothold into developing new relationships.

Once healed, Trill showed no desire to leave. Far from the natural range of his species and provided with a relatively comfortable life with Zooz, he had no reason to. These days Zooz has him fitted with a saddle and acts as a kind of scout/messenger/general errand-runner, with the ability to travel further and bypass difficult terrain that terrestrial travellers are limited by. They enjoy exploring but unfortunately make the most dogshit maps you've ever seen in your life.

The village Zooz lives in is called Halfway. Originally nothing more than a hastily-constructed camp for newly-free mudokons, it attracted the attention of some of the native population. These people had no culture, no land, no real home--and as alien as they might seem, they would never have these things if nobody taught them how to survive.

Ambassadors were sent. Agreements were made. Halfway would be a meeting point, a middle ground, for knowledge to be shared and understandings to be reached, in pursuit of saving what rampant industrialism had brought to the brink of extinction.

Halfway has been slowly growing ever since. It's not explicitly allied to any resistance movement and tries to keep a low profile, so as not to attract unwanted attention from corporate entity that might decide it owns their land and wants to plonk a factory down on there, or that it's justified in raiding the place for escaped workers, but it's a common drop-off point for the Spirit of 1029 branch operating out of a collapsed paper mill a few hours away by land vehicle, for those who decline to join the militia themselves.

The people who wind up in Halfway are deeply traumatised, and its leadership are acutely aware of that. Halfway has few rules, but those rules are strict: No brew. No fighting. Respect your neighbour. Break 'em, and expect swift intervention. Generally, the peace is kept. A mudokon's own home is entirely private--a concept new to many--but those in need of help, or simply desiring social contact, will never find themselves more than a few feet from a fiendly face.

As well as providing a safety net for newly-free mudokons, it has notable populations of displaced native mudokons, many of whom have seen the last of their clans or tribes captured or killed, if they know their fate at all. Halfway welcomes them with open arms just the same, and some of them are quite willing to pass on knowledge to fresh minds in the hope that the memory of their people might not die out completely.

It's not always an easy place to live, but its people are carving out a fresh future.

[exoddus]

guhhh. @cardo-de-comer n @ghostmoor s fellas. Felt like doodlin

[johnnyprimecc]

The perfect power lunch at @tuscanysteakhouse - check out my @zoozbikes ride and review video on YouTube. Link out in my stories. #zooz #olivemartini #zoozbike #zoozbikes #bmx #bmxbike #bmxbikes #ebike #ebikes #nyczoozclub #steak #steaks #meat #beef #mediumrare #beefitswhatsfordinner #carnivore #stripsteak #nystripsteak #newyorkstripsteak #🥩 #🚲 #dirtymartini #powerlunch #lunch #shellsteak #ginmartini #steakhouse #martini #🍸 (at Tuscany Steakhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj-uQq3OWgR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[homeishalfway]

One of the few modern devices Zooz carries around with them is a camera. They carry around a lot of notebooks and document the things that they find while they’re out exploring in pictures, but sometimes it’s just faster and easier to take a photo, especially if they come across something too large/complex to sketch out. It’s also one of the reasons why they have to return to Halfway periodically; scavengers who procure industrial goods for the village supply them with the film and batteries they need to keep using it.

[lukaslussi88]

Findet Nemo, Dory und andere Fische 🐠 🐟⁣ Finding Nemo, Dory and other fishes 🐠 🐟⁣ ⁣ In den Wasserbecken sind über 600 Arten von Fischen und Wirbellosen aus einem breiten Spektrum der Flüsse und Weltmeere zu sehen! In naturnah gestalteten Unterwasserlandschaften tummeln sich Fische und Krebstiere wie zierliche Seepferdchen, bunte Korallenfische, heimische Forellen, kleine Haie, fossile Knochenhechte, Lungenfische, Einsiedlerkrebse und dicke Hummer. Zu den Wirbellosen zählen etwa Schwämme, Quallen, Tintenfische oder Muscheln, aber auch Korallen und Seeigel.⁣ ⁣ There are over 600 species of #fish and invertebrates in the water #basins, from a wide range of the rivers and oceans of the world! In underwater landscapes that have been designed according to the natural habitat of their inhabitants, fish and crustaceans, delicate sea-horses, colourful coral fish, trout, which are at home in this area, small sharks, fossil billfish, lungfish, hermit crabs and big fat lobsters. Those water creatures that are not fish but, due to the history of their development, belong to other related groups, are counted as invertebrates. Among these are sponges, jellyfish, cuttlefish and octopus or mussels, but also corals and sea urchins.⁣ ⁣ #zootopia #zoogang #zooboo #zooz #aquarium #seaaquarium #sealifeaquarium #aquariumworld #aquariumlovers #newaquarium #reefporn #coraladdict #fishingvacation #smartfish #allfish #fischi #fischis #fische #ig_stuttgart #visitstuttgart #deinstuttgart #zoologischergarten⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ (hier: Wilhelma Zoo And Botanical Garden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHLVP_loigw/?igshid=1mqa0jecf550p

[andreabuzzichelli]

Again from my archive, from an old on going project about zoos all over the world . Ancora dal mio archivio , da un vecchio progetto sugli zoo in giro per il mondo. #zooz #zoo #tiger #child #animals https://www.instagram.com/p/BwPXPfcgpKk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f9mmspz9aqdr

[mortemcatabasis]

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