For their profiles, I like to imagine them as information the aliens give out to the public to get to know them for marketing and such. So that means they were interviewed before hand about themselves, and some alien had to write it all down, which given their answers I can only imagine how that went.
Alien: "So what do you dislike - "
Till: "A l i e n s."
Alien: "Um."
Till: "I hate them all."
Alien: "Uh, okay, so this is supposed to endear yourself to the audience so maybe you shouldn't - "
Till: "Especially Urak; ugh, I can't stand him! I fantasize about killing him everyday; I wish he'd just choke on the air he doesn't even deserve to breathe!"
Alien: *tries not to look at Urak, who brought Till here and is literally standing right there*
Alien: "Sorry, you said you like...toothbrushes?"
Mizi: "Yup! 🥰"
Alien: "...why?"
Mizi: "What do you mean? Because they clean my teeth?"
Alien: "Well, it's just that's not very personal."
Mizi, completely sincere: "Brushing teeth is a personal activity though? Does someone else brush your teeth?"
Alien: *just moves on*
Alien: "Oh! You dislike rudeness?"
Ivan: "Yes?"
Alien: "Sorry, it's just that your file says you follow around that other boy, Till?"
Ivan: "Uh huh?"
Alien: "Well, his file doesn't exactly make him seem all that polite."
Ivan:
Alien:
Ivan:
Alien: "Uh, well anyway - "
Alien: "So what do you dislike?"
Hyuna: "Hmm, nothing really. I'm pretty chill with most anything!"
Alien: "Alright. Well, Luka is coming in after you so - "
Hyuna, gags a little in disgust: "UGH. 😡"
Alien: "????"
Alien: "So, what do you like?"
Luka:
Alien: "Uh, what do you dislike?"
Luka:
Alien: "...Any talents?
Luka, immediately: "The splits."
Alien, happy to finally have someone with normal answers: "Oh, you didn't really mention much about what you dislike; what would that be?"
Sua: "Oh, I'd have to say strangers."
Alien: *a stranger, and is now trying to figure out if that was a dis or not*
I'm more shocked that his name is actually Acorn, I thought we were just calling him that because of his haircut???
My new favorite headcanon is that poor acorn has been witnessing all the stupid love square ivan→till→mizi⇆sua relationship drama bullshit ever since they were children, and hasn't known a day of peace because of them. Even in round 2 till starts to sing the song he wrote for mizi and acorns like "YOU CAN'T BE FUCKING SERIOUS"
I keep thinking about this and its probably major copium on my end, but why is Ivan the only losing contestant that wasn't shot in the head?
Sua was shot in the head
Presumably Acorn boy and the other background characters that competed against Till, Ivan and Luka were shot in the head
When Mizi beat up Luka she was pulled off of him and was about to be shot in the head
In the top three video, red haired girl was shot in the head (or at least heavily implied given the screen cracked and all that blood)
But Ivan is shot three times in the back (or around that area).
The security didn't pull him off of Till the way they did with Mizi and Luka, they just started blicking.
Is Till that worthless to them that the aliens don't care enough to save him from his assaulter (like they did with Luka), or is Ivan's owner possibly trying to fake his death?
We don't exactly know what the limits of alien technology are, so for all we know it could be really easy to save Ivan's life.
I could be overthinking heavy but its really fucking weird that Ivan was shot like that compared to literally everyone else.
I desperately need to know how Luka sees Hyuna and Alien Stage as a whole before the final showdown (especially since Hyuna's got a Schrodinger situation going on right now. Is she dead or just seriously injured??? VIVINOS WHEN I CATCH YOU--). I think he's the only character left that we don't have any insight on of their outlook towards everything.
What we know of him is through his actions towards Mizi and Hyuna's memories of him.
Idk if I'm the only one who didn't know (I don't really see anyone talking about it), but apparently Ivan orchestrated the Dog Alien incident??
Like, bestie, I have so many questions- What was the goal here? Was he trying to pull a Luka and get rid of Mizi? (I hope not ;-;) Was he friends with Till at this time?
It's scary how many similarities he shares with Luka, they both have selfish, messed up ways of showing their love and trying to get their person to notice them. However, I do believe Ivan is at least a bit more ''human'' than Luka in some ways. I'm excited to see if we get to learn more about Luka's past (could he have come from a lab of some sort?) and hopefully we get to see a confrontation with him and Hyuna.
Question. Do you think that Alien stage as a corporation is fair ? I was wondering if rounds could be rigged either by powerful enough people or brands, do they place bets on the contestants like sports matches ??
For me it's not the IvanTill moments, it's the implication of the post credit scene.
Ivan and Till could have been rescued
Whether or not you ship IvanTill, or maybe always thought Ivan is a total creep. There could have been more to their story.
Ivan's behaviour towards Till could border on uncomfortable sometimes but I also LOVE Ivan because I think it's a very complex interpretation of a character who never learned to process their emotions healthily when stuck in a life of single mindedly striving to achieve one goal.
That's why the fact they might have been able to escape is SO. FUCKING. DEVASTATING.
It's not just "IvanTill could have had time to be free together and in love" but they would have had time and freedom period. They both have an unhealthy unrequited love with another character. Love that maybe only stemmed from being trapped together since childhood, the only things they are taught being to entertain or die.
It could be argued their feelings aren't just a result of their situation, that they would stay the same even if they had the time to live outside of performing on the alien stage, but we will never know.
Maybe Till would realize that Mizi won't love him, maybe Till would realize that Ivan was the one who always wanted to save him, maybe he would finally look at Ivan the way Ivan wanted since the beginning.
Or maybe they wouldn't. Maybe they would be friends, maybe they would continue to stick to their unrequited obsessions and they would never talk to each other again, but at least they would be free to live their own lives.
But Mizi and Hyuna didn't make it in time, so we'll never know.