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#lil orc guy#hes just a lil guy#hes an iwatex oc#works in geoponics and loves it but is still a little helio shithead#iwatex#orc
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Actually, woe, an incomplete list of fanfic ideas I eventually want to write be upon ye
( Technically under the list of things that belong in the continuality of Floriography for the Recursive Funeral but 9 times out of 10 can stand on their own without it )
Tang going to work in geoponics like she told Cal she would during the pixie bean event , except now its a week later and she's at an emotional low and her hair is a knotted mess all of the smells, and sounds of geoponics are overwhelming her but she doesn't wanna just give up because she should be able to ignore her feelings like an adult already, and she doesn't want to ask for help because she's not a little girl who needs help anymore, but one of the adults who works in geoponics told her that she can't go work in the fields with her hair loose and it needs to be in a bun or in a tight braid she can tuck away, and she's been sitting at the entrance to one of the domes for like 20 minutes trying not to have a breakdown when Sol shows up. Cue Sol knowing how to help without forcing Tang to accept it or make her like a little kid (even if the genuine and gentle affection that respects her boundries makes her cry a little bit, not that she wants to tell Sol that & they won't push)
Dys and Nomi getting back from an expedition pretty early in their friendship and Nomi's parents having been waiting for them at the depot and oh they are SO excited to see their Nomi Nomi making friends, they were worried that there weren't going to be other kids their age working out in the jungle, because it's so scary and dangerous out there and all that, and wow son you look like a bundle of twigs whens the last time you had a good family meal :) ? And Dys gets pulled into a family dinner at Nomi's before the stun debuff can even wear off. [Tentatively named "Loving Home"]
Teenage Utopia having a Teenager moment on the Stratospheric a bit before her 14th birthday / around Sol's first birthday, where she's upset about [something to mirror the pixie bean stuff that Sol later goes through but like the spin the bottle part not alien bean drugs] because theres so many things (read: kissing and dating) she can't do or take part of because the next youngest Earthborne kid is already 18 and the oldest Shipborne kid is barely 10 - But, luckily, counciler Besk is here just for moments like these! And as always, she knows just what to say and when she just needs to listen, and it really does help Utopia feel better. Thanks stars for that, what would they do without counciler Besk??? [Tentatively named "Special Age"]
Early 20s Cal and Marz watching some romantic couple their age doing something romantic and Cal mentioning Tammy and Marz just turning to him and going "She's been gone a decade Cal, obsessing over your theoretical relationship with a dead 11 year old is getting a little creepy. Like. Seek help. You're 24. " which. Cal does not take gracefully. [Tentatively named "Seek Help"]
A bunch of the planetborne kids keep following Dys around and he asks Tammy about it, and she has to explain to him that he's like catnip to the average 4 year old in the way that batman or dinosaurs are (can't get scared of anything, goes outside and has adventures all day, gets to explore ancient ruins and see all sorts of cool scary aliens, doesn't have follow the rules or listen to anybody). [Tentatively named "Newfound Popularity"]
Anemone coming to dinner at Anne's place in the first time in ages after her mother keeps bothering her about it, and she arrives a little bit earlier than expected and catches the triplets at the end of some sort of argument that she can't hear before its over. Things stay calm for a little bit and Nem keeps being surprised at how much her brothers have grown while shes been focused on the garrison, often not knowing what their hobbies or interests are now, especially prominant with Nimbus as the youngest. It all culminates in the triplets earlier fight coming to the forefront again, at the heart of it being each one of them coping with the loss of Kom and the colony's situation in a very different way and their relationships with eachother deteriorating because of it, all while Anne tries to get them to keep it together so Nem comes back again, and while Nimbus doesn't seem to super react to it and instead keeps trying to get Anemone's attention while he can. [Tentatively named "Family Dinner"]
I might add on to this list later, because it is Not all of the ideas I have, and none of these are ones delving into other chains of timelines or other aus (of which I have... too many concepts...)
#i was a teenage exocolonist#iwatex#god i have no idea what else to tag this as uhhh#wips#yeah that works
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“So, that’s my shitty parents. What about yours?” Vace asked, taking a quick swig from their stolen bottle of liquor before passing it off. “They even make it to the wormhole? Get eaten by some xeno during the first raids? Fuck off to nowhere important?”
Solane took the bottle, watching the liquid inside. He suddenly felt exhausted, weight tugging at his bones as his eyes lifted skyward, taking in the starry expanse before them. Quietly, he offered, “...You’ve already met them.”
Before Vace could respond, he took a heavy drink from the alcohol, coughing on the burn in his throat. He took a second, and tried for a third before a metallic hand snatched his wrist. “Fuckin’ greedy,” Vace growled, prying the bottle out of Solane’s grip. Sol glanced at him, seeing the tenseness in his shoulders, and laughed.
“Quit fuckin’ with me,” Vace muttered, taking another sip.
Solane sighed, gripping his knees tight to his chest. “...I’m not.” He could feel Vace’s eyes on him, but didn’t bother looking back. He didn’t look down, either, where he knew the fields of Geoponics would be visible from where they sat on the Heliopause.
“Geranium and… Fluorescent.”
“Oh fuck. The farm fugitives?” Vace asked incredulously.
Solane snorted, letting the laugh ease the tightness in his chest. “Yeah… Yeah. Those are the ones.”
“The fuck is that story?”
Vace’s inability to keep his mouth shut was a blessing, occasionally. Refreshing, at the very least. Everyone in the original colony knew who his parents were. Knew that, seemingly overnight, they went from being a close-knit, happy family unit to not speaking at all. They’d tracked every movement for a while, waiting to see who would be the first to break the silence, to finally bridge the gap. By the raid that destroyed the original colony, few still paid attention. Afterward? Well… There was too much else to do.
“A few weeks after my thirteenth, she sat me down first thing in the morning. Started going off about how she was watching me, and she didn’t like what she saw. About community, and needin’ to fit in. That it wasn’t some fucking holovid, this is real life, and I needed to get my shit together,” Solane stated, bitterness creeping into the words.
“Yeah? You not like the reality check?” Vace asked, and Solane could hear the derisiveness in his voice.
Solane waved a hand at the fields below them. “You know the Vertumna Carrtatos? Our staple food?” Vace nodded, opening his mouth to answer, but Sol didn’t give him the time. “I created that. I spent months in the xenobotany lab working on the math, on the DNA. Running simulations, and watching them fail, and tweaking them, and doing it again. Learning how to alter DNA. Not just theoretically, but how to actually do it. Because nothing else was working. Because my parents came home from the fields every fucking night, whispering back and forth like I couldn’t fucking hear them. About how our earth crops were failing, and we couldn’t domesticate native ones. About how our colony was going to slowly starve. Trying to figure out how much time they had to fix it before they had to tell Eudicot.”
He snatched the bottle from Vace, swirling what little remained before downing it all. “So I fixed it. I sacrificed time I could’ve used for school, or Sportsball, or making friends. I stopped going beyond the wall, stopped learning about what’s out there. So I could save them.” He stood up, wobbling for a moment as his feet settled into the slightly curved surface beneath him. Vace’s metal arm snaked around the back of his calf, around the inside of his knee to dig the fingers into the front of his lower thigh, stabilizing the doctor.
Solane drew his arm back, and hurled the bottle out towards the fields with a snarl. He tilted forward in the follow-through, but the counterpressure provided by Vace’s hand kept him from tumbling over. They both silently watched the glint of the starlight on the bottle as it dropped into darkness, before they heard the shattering of glass on dirt.
“...And a few days later, I turned thirteen.”
“Fuck,” Vace hissed under his breath, refusing to lax his bruising grip.
“I told her she had no fuckin’ clue what she was talking about. That if what I’d already done wasn’t good enough, then nothing I did ever would be. Then I shoved some shit in a bag and left. Haven’t… Haven’t talked to ‘er since,” Solane muttered, swaying gently side to side.
“Geranium tried, a couple times, but… He always said shit like she shouldn’t have said it so harshly, or we needed to talk it out, that she’s under a lot of pressure, or just trying to help me… But never once did he say she was wrong. Or sorry. Just kept trying to convince me with excuses covering her ass, until I stopped listening altogether.”
Solane shook his leg, easing Vace’s grip as he stumbled toward the overhang where they could climb down onto Command’s balcony. He hopped off, realizing a minute too late that he’d overestimated his ability to make a smooth landing, and lurched into the railing, lashing a white-knuckle grip on it as he steadied himself.
Vace’s footsteps approached the edge and a moment later, he dropped down beside Solane. The soldier seemed more steady on his feet. “We should get you back to your apartment,” he muttered, half-turning toward Solane and leaning just slightly into his space.
With a snort, Solane turned towards the stairs. “Walk me proper or stand there and look pretty, but don’t start that herding dog trick with me,” he cautioned as he took the first step down, clutching the railing as his feet shook.
Vace squeezed beside him on the staircase, wrapping his metallic arm around Solane’s waist at the same time his right arm slung the doctor’s own over his shoulders, letting Solane lean into his broader frame.
Walking down the steps took Solane’s full focus, but as they leveled out onto the dirt track, he murmured, “I think she’s been angry her whole life. Always had someone to fight. The adults who failed her, the world governments, the terrors of space… She was a soldier. But when we landed here, she wasn’t anymore, and… And I think maybe, she was still angry anyway. And she decided it was my fault.”
He realized Vace had stopped in front of the door to Dys’s quarters, and Solane wondered how long it had taken him to get that thought out. “It… It wasn’t fair,” he murmured into Vace’s shoulder.
He felt Vace’s words as he quietly murmured back, “It wasn’t.”
The door opened, and Solane beamed a smile at Dys, who seemed barely awake. The scout glanced at Sol’s face and his eyebrows narrowed before his accusatory eyes snapped to Vace, barely-hidden contempt in them. Vace muttered something, but Solane was too tired to hear it now, just swaying to the melody as his two friends conversed quietly, Dys’s posture easing at whatever Vace had to say.
Dys’s arm curled around him then, and Solane felt Vace’s leave. Glancing over his shoulder, he gave a soft smile to the soldier and whispered, “Goodnight, Vace.”
He wasn’t sure if the boy responded as the door shut quietly, and Dys guided Solane towards his bedroom. He was seated on the edge of his bed as Dys undid the laces of his boots just enough to slip them off. The dark-haired boy walked away for a moment and came back with a damp cloth.
“Let’s wipe off your cheeks, alright? Don’t want them crusting over while you sleep,” he said gently, smudging the cloth against Solane’s skin, tracing tear tracks.
“I was crying?” Solane asked, tiredness quickly beginning to sweep him away.
Dys looked up and gave one of his not-really-a-smile smiles. Solane felt a deep appreciation for those smiles in that moment. “I’m sure it was happy crying,” Dys whispered, helping Sol scooch up to the top of the bed.
“Yeah… Yeah, I think so too,” Solane murmured as the blanket covered him, and he drifted away.
#wanna know a secret?#i wrote this before i even made this blog#it was the very first doc!sol x vace moment i thought of#but i wanted there to be context by the time i posted it#so here! enjoy!#i was a teenage exocolonist#iwate#iwatex#olivaceous#vace#vace exocolonist#solane#solana#solanaceae#sol
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question. homework for the life series enjoyers, assign each life series player into Engineering, Geoponics (animals and farming), Command (government), Expeditions, The Garrison (security, sports, and military)
i have grian, joel, and mumbo in engineering. scar is in command. that’s it.
#life series#traffic life smp#traffic life series#life series smp#double life#secret life#third life#limited life#last life
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Cal dreams of a world with dirt and a sun before he's allowed to touch the hydroponic harvests.
He dreams of creatures his mom can't find the story story of. A young boy has an active imagination, and his friends join his games about the odd creatures.
"Maybe we'll find some on Vertumna," Cal says wistfully.
When he is 11, the Stratos is finally approaching Vertumna, their new home away from their exiled world, Cal's dreams begin to feel...real.
And frightening, but wonderful, even as the details slip away when he wakes.
Then the day of landfall arrives. Cal is so excited to finally see a world outside of Stratos. He's gathered with his friends, and the ship violently rocks. Sol and Tammy are thrown, and Cal throws himself forward.
(Here lies the first main choice, does he cover Tammy, or does he cover Sol?)
If Cal reaches for Tammy, he is a knight in shining armor, whirling briefly as he takes the majority of the blow.
She is horrified and smitten all at once.
If Cal reaches for Sol, Sol wriggles to try and save him, and both slam headfirst into the Stratos wall.
Tammy is caught by an adult and cries over both of them when they are rushed to the medical wing.
Cal awakens a week later on Vertumna, regardless of who he saved. He is besotted by the world and the dirt under his feet. As time goes on, he spends his time in Geoponics, on the farm, thriving.
His dreams are more vivid, and more frightening than they ever were before though. He sees people, alien and different, who are friends and enemies; he sees the bug life, the dirt, rising and falling and being monstrous and beautiful.
Life goes on.
(In one, Sol becomes his shadow in Geoponics, remembering and regretting how they were both hurt)
(In other, Tammy acts as she did before but...with more interests than just the children. She listens even with confusion to lectures about the farm. She seeks out the Medbay even when it gets jumbled in her head)
Then the first Glow happens.
(Depending on stats and who is and who is not in the Geoponics greenhouse determines what happens but...Cal comes out scarred)
(Sometimes literally)
Cal throws himself into more work, deeper into the ground. He's worrying people. He's scaring people.
Then one day, when he is not shadowed, he ventures out.
Vertumna doesn't deserve to die to save them. But Cal doesn't want the colony to die.
He catches a glimpse of a person who's not human, and the dreams come into sharp focus.
They are not alone, but few believe him. Dys might. Sol always does. Tammy humors him (maybe...sometimes she believes more sometimes not). The adults certainly don't.
Cal dreams of famine and death. Of more and more frightening Glows.
Of choices taken and lost.
Cal tries to be the best damn farmer he can, while searching for the people hiding from the Stratos. He tries so, so hard.
Cal eventually befriends some Gardeners without human guises.
(Here is his second major choice...does he stay the farm boy Stratos is crafting him into, or does he venture into Vertumnan wilderness to discover life beyond the walls?)
If he chooses Stratos, he must be a solid foundation for those trying to mend and break and heal the various parts of the colony, especially when the Helios take over.
Everyone needs food, even if they kill and kill and kill.
If he chooses the Gardeners, he disappears for a week. He learns a lot about the biology and the history and the past. He is like a child and a pet to the Gardeners who never leave the guises of trees and vrikis and once a unisaur.
When Cal comes home, he looks at everything so critically. He isn't sure he can bring humanity in line...make them stop trying to control what isn't theirs to control.
(But there is still time until the final decision. There is still time before the final solution)
Cal's endings are, ultimately, how human or Vertumnan he decides to be, who he decides to listen and follow.
Tammy, if saved at the beginning, will follow him even if she quietly gives questions to Cal's decisions.
Sol, if saved, will unerringly follow Cal to the end of it all.
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Cross-posted on pillowfort
#i was a teenage exocolonist#iwatex#fanfiction#my fanfiction#cal (iwatex)#I have others vaguely planned#and will post all on ao3 once#I finish them#which might be some time lol#my commentary in tags
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the only annoying thing about iwatex is that in the middle of the game they move where all the buildings are. I will go right for geoponics every fucking time.
#iwatex#i was a teenage exocolonist#that and the fact that one of your friends becomes a space fascist :(
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Cheeseaged Exocolonist Age 18: Use my compassion and mental health literacy to set up a coup and crush my enemies
In which we fill the hole in our friends' lives with logs and eggs, use ill-fitting clothes to convince my people to make me their queen, and thwart an alien invasion by being the world's best barista.
CW for discussion of domestic abuse.
Having done most of the work needed to get a perfect ending, you'd think year 18 would go by pretty quickly. However, I now have the power to give gifts every month instead of once per season, and with great gift power comes great gift responsibility. After all, we're nearing the end of the game. I deliver a gift to every single friendable character each month. So I will dedicate this log to my friends. The virtual ones.
Nomi is self-conscious about being an artist and asks what I want to be when I grow up. I give the same answer I have given everyone else: I want to be in charge.
I've been throwing cakes at Vace, in hopes that his terrible attitude is caused by low blood sugar. Vace sees that I've been grinding friendship with his girlfriend, and he doesn't want any grinding going on with his girlfriend. He threatens me, telling me not to make him worry about me hanging out with his girlfriend.
I reassure him there's nothing to worry about, then immediately go talk to Nem and tell her to break up with him. Telling people they are in an abusive relationships is always a hard conversation, but she's ready to have it now because I have fought valiantly by her side, heroically tried to save her brother, but mainly because I have given her dozens of eggs over the course of this run. I use my teenage drug-slinging psychotherapist skills to diagnose Vace with being a dick.
Because I have high friendship with Vace, I get him to open up about his problems, discovering that his girlfriend suddenly broke up with him. Rallying all my baristastic expertise and courage, I suggest this is because he's an abusive dickhole. Vace does not put two and two together and realize that I tanked his relationship, so we can keep befriending him in our cynical ploy to manipulate him into becoming a better person, like a blue-haired Christmas Wraith.
After these therapeutic successes, I have a therapy date with Tangent. She asks for extra-strength blep tea, which I do not give to her because that will Help Tangent. Recall that even one Helped Tangent will trip the flag for the Engineered Plague. This girl is a cup of very strong tea away from wiping out all non-terran life on the planet. I love her.
I start getting people to 100 Friendship. Marz tells me about her plan to overthrow Lum, and I promise to keep her on her toes.
I decide the best way to keep her on her toes is by running as her opposition. This requires 50 Persuasion, which I have from equipping the Emojiproji (+10 to social skills), the Brain Trainer (+15 to everything) and, in a real stab in the back, Marzipan's second-hand jacket (+20 Persuasion). This is such an audacious Ides of March that Marzipan can't help but be impressed.
It also requires you to have consistently shown opposition to the existing authority, to the tune of 70 Rebellion. This is why I have been talking back to my mom so much. Now it's time to confront her. I spend the month farming, solely because the other Geoponics jobs will all give me events that will override the event where I meet my mom. I explain to my mom that I'm not a bad kid, I was just grinding Rebellion to go for the golden ending. She finally understands and promises me her full support in overthrowing Lum.
Immediately after this, I get an event where I have to save Socks from being put down, because this event happens in Geoponics starting in year 17 and, since saving her the first time, I've put off working in Geoponics for so long that the game has gotten impatient with me.
The same month, I use my baristatherapist skills to talk down Dys from planting a bomb on our walls as part of a deal he made to become an alien and live happily ever after with his alien boyfriend Sym. This is a very strange deal that gets even stranger when you learn that he made this deal with Nocticulent, not Sym.
Having gotten my mom's approval for the first time in my eighteen years, I then move on to recruit Seeq, the administrator. They agree that Lum needs to be deposed, but, showing no solidarity with their fellow trans person, demand a bribe in the form of kudos. To make clear how utterly preposterous this is, we are living in a mostly communistic society, where kudos are the currency given by adults to children for good deeds, spendable exclusively on luxury items in the Supply Depot, which Seeq is in charge of.
Because I saved Eudicot's life, she shows up to rebuke Seeq, making them the first person in this planet's history to attempt to bribe themselves and fail. This is good because I have spent all my money on overpriced accessibility devices, spa days and plying Vace with baked goods.
I then recruit Rhett by reminding him of how Lum nearly got some of us killed in a stunt to look cool, and Instance with a persuasion check.
At the end of the year, the enemy is ominously waiting just outside our walls. We know from past lives that they're waiting for Dys to blow up the bomb, not realizing that I have turned him to good with the power of coffee and medicinal roots. For their trouble, they get Socks sicced on them.
In the final year, because of my talks with Sym, the Gardeners will negotiate peace with humanity. I like to think that has something to do with them just having suffered the most embarrassing defeat in the history of their war with humanity. And I owe it all to being a barista.
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I will die on the hill that cal is a least a little bit in love w sol in most timelines. They ARE the definition of more than friends not quite lovers!!! In my first playthrough it felt SO set up for them to end up together, then y'know, Tammy which is FINE and FAIR and they're cute!!! They are!!! But there's some part of me that can't shake that both of them (cal and tammy) fell into "childhood friends to lovers everyone expects us to be together and like we never really reached out to anyone else so of course we'll end up together"
also how do you be the child of the head of geoponics and NOT have cal fall in love with you?
#im also thinking about the whole socks situation....#cal and sol were meant to be best friends at the LEAST#and this is coming from someone who always romances dys#i was a teenage exocolonist
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - Playthrough 1
True Run
Romance: Tang/Cal/Rex (final romance: Cal)
Ending: Botanist
Last night I finished my first playthrough of I Was a Teenage Exo-Colonist and hoooooly shit... I've never come across anything that captures the essence + aesthetics of me so well?! Even to the point where some of the character arcs/dialogue were so eerily similar I wondered who had been listening in on my life and relationships.
I almost cried when I was first presented with the character design with its gender and pronoun slide, with its super comprehensive list of terms I could adjust to suit me/my Sol, and then it continued to just hit all of the super sweet "yes!" spots for me: cool a.f narrative about human-xeno relations and time loops? check! beautiful pastel art aesthetic? check! super hot romanceable companions and very well written characters? check!!
My Sol (Solane) this time round was a nerdy but also super tough non-binary babe who worked in geoponics their whole life whilst also seriously dabbling in engineering and expeditions. Their best friends were Tang and Dys, and they romanced Tang, Rex and Cal.
Literally my *only* grumble was that *of course* I would romance the two boys who were not both polyam compatible and I had already hooked up with Cal by that point so couldn't continue my adventures with Ultimate Good Boy, Rex. I love the reality of having monogamous/polyamorous characters but damn... will a game just let me unleash my entire polyam desire please?
Guess that's what a future run will have to be for ;D
(also I just rejoined Tumblr on a new account as part of the mass exodus from Twitter and sooooo excited to find an exocolonist fanbase hereeeeeee. I need to scream all of this love out of my system!)
#I was a teenage exocolonist#exocolonist#sol exocolonist#solarpunk#solarpunk games#hopepunk#hopepunk games#video games#indie games#give me big buff boys and good puppy boys#exocolonist diaries
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Rough doodles of what if Sunny was in I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
Thoughts but there is no cut bevause tumblr keeps exploding when i try to do that
With his reduced hunger, he probably gets pressured to work harder during the famine since he feels its effects the least (uhhh on the bright side, lots of hangout time with basil in geoponics probably! yaaaaaay)
I'd imagine his card is something like. Sunny's Patience or Sunny's Solitude, mental, value increases the less cards you play or less cards you have in your hand maybe?
Yes i put a tulip in his third stage design
Because of his reduced hunger he can basically just hibernate lol . so basically just what happens in omori route hfssyrgsrh
Despite how similar he looks to Dys, he is actually terrified of him but in a sort of respectful way
#cookie lords art#omori#i was a teenage exocolonist#omori sunny#iwatex spoilers#iwate spoilers#omori exocolonist au
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So I did a delusions playthrough where I got my brain surgery at age 12. Now the game is acting weird and I wanna know if anyone can confirm if this is because of it. Obviously I don’t have any memory options (except for a couple times when I do?), but this stuff is extra weird. SPOILERS inbound
First: I went to Valley of Vertigo and to exclamation point mark with the spot of lumpy ground where you can get the food to fix the famine. A text box pops up that says “the ground is weird. You’ve spent enough time in geoponics to know something is strange here” but no ability check comes with the textbox, you just click done and exit out of the event. Every time you come back to the Valley the exclamation point mark is still there, but the same text pops up. Anyway my mom died of course
Second: I got all my meetings with Sym in year 14 and had the moment where you pounce on him. He says “I am a Gardener, and you’re tresspassing on my territory” and then you get the “done” option and he just leaves? You don’t even get to ask him one question. Then in all the places Sym is usually standing, he’s not there. He’s shown up a couple of times in dialogue, once in a question mark popup close to the colony, and once in the excalamtion point pop up at the Wresting Ridges where you’re about to go into the cave and you can ask him if this is an alright thing to do.
Can anyone help me figure this out? Is this because I did the delusions brain surgery choice path?
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i want soomeone rub my hair then ill stop making attention geoponics posts
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exocolonist round 8
ACCIDENTAL PROFESSOR ENDING !!!! this is the first time i haven't gotten botanist without trying ;jlksdfl;kjd but it makes sense since i did so much tutoring to get close to nomi
also got second engineer to get the manuals for next round!!
did all the delusional options but didn't come across enough to get lobotomized, or i at least should've maybe chosen a diff dialogue option when it was brought up :/ pwease slice my brain up mommy instance ;-;
i romanced cal so i could break up him and tammy. i liked the idea of cal more on earlier playthroughs i think because he reminds me so much of ger, but he's... kind of missing a level of consideration that makes ger such a malewife? at least from what i observed when he was with tammy. he kinda never grew up. i got him on the home menu at least this time.
it is kinda cool to be second engineer because you become chief when instance retires, but idk when she retires so you could very well be working on the same-ish level as flulu (or ger) OR with cal which is kinda cool when ur married to him.
cal is a pushover and tammy is a people pleaser and this shows a lot in the ending i got with him, how he's not as good as pushing people as flulu was and it takes a toll on him. i think that's another part of why i find him and tammy a bit unbearable the more i play j;aklslkdjf they're just... too conventional/nice in a way i don't vibe with, whereas i like rex and nomi's flavor of kindness and support more.
this was also my first ending since my initial playthrough with nem where i got to have kids!!! with nem i had 2 but with cal we had a ton so that's a cool change of pace. thinking about flu and ger being grandparents ;-;
i lowkey wish cal and i broke up here (i know we have communal raising but THAT many kids plus us both being chiefs means that's gonna be stressful) but he fucking DIES in his fifties while defending geoponics during an attack (i didnt make peace w the gardeners lol) so at least i'm free to go fuck other people now.
this was the first time i got nomi in an ending!!! i love their creativity and that they end up sooooorta being a rancher? and getting a pet unisaur? perfect for them. horse nb vertumna style.
god also i got to read their writing project and i love that it's just... a mini version of exocolonist meets animorphs
OH AND I GOT THEM TO GET WITH REX <3 though i hadn't talked to rex a ton so AFTER i got them dating i had a dialogue option with him that's supposed to come before that discusses how they're just friends sj;klf
another sad ending for tang, she was my second and got obsessed with what happened to dys since he did the bomb. the ending talks about her being in a nightmarish waking state due to her augment or something? awful, i hate it. this reminds me i probs couldve done the plague this round.... will do after the next couple.
i stayed in the creche etc during attacks a lot more this time and had an option to save tammy from an attack during the one where kom dies. i kinda wonder if she wouldve died if i didnt bother but i didnt wanna fuck up the achievement for breaking up her and cal. tempted to let her get severely injured though or not save her next time... but i do like having free cakes to give other people, so maybe i'll let her live. gonna keep letting her lose her dad in a brutal attack tho.
i think up next is the transcendence ending, and THEN i can recalibrate the shields and i think that'll result in a situation where flulu is more chill so i'm excited to see that.
the only person left to put on the homescreen is vace though :| i will consider getting close to him and shoving him into therapy after the above, maybe with an ending in mind that also involves getting close to nem again.
i think apart from the vace, friends, and all endings achievements everything else i need to do is card related so i'm gonna be a tad directionless apart from looking for diff endings to beat once i get through vace.
i also do need the 4 pets one though ive heard thats glitchy, but getting closer to vace does bode sorta well with that.
#iwatex tag#i really need to go be productive now lmfao#i love how 7.3% of players unlocked vace on the homescreen....#compared to everyone else being so much more desired#about 2% less ppl got the all friends achievement tho which points to quite a few getting close to him for just completionism reasons#would love to study the ones who voluntarily went for him like bugs#though maybe some of that was also with the intend of an all endings achievement#but less than 1% of ppl got there so who knows
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on my first playthrough i really liked xenobotany so i dove into that a lot (mixed with exploration because ✨yes✨), and got the event to create the native hybrid right around when i turned 13. and then immediately after got the event where fluorescent yells at you about needing to do better and stop treating this like a holovid
and when i tell you i was MAD
like, excuse me bestie. i, a barely trained prepubescent child, just accomplished what you and your entire department of people who DO THIS FOR A LIVING couldn’t. jealousy isn’t a good look on you, flulu.
like, i get that it’s a scripted event that always happens on the same month. that the xenobotany had nothing to do with it. it’s probably tied to rebellion, but i don’t know because i’ve never had mine below 50 when it triggers because fuck the police.
but the sequence of events did flu dirty. like, i was so outraged over it that it’s a foundational part of doc!sol’s life. same shit happened, and he hasn’t talked to his mother since. left their quarters and never went back. moved in with dys and tang because he knew them both from work, but more importantly because they have no adult supervision. never went back to geoponics and switched straight to studying for medical, and now he’s the colony’s only doctor.
(instance is there too, but like… unless it’s bad, she’s not getting involved, she has other shit she wants to be doing)
(and geranium did try to talk to sol about it, but ended up always saying things like “she shouldn’t have said it so harshly” or “she shouldn’t have yelled” or “she does mean well, you know” and never once that she’s wrong. eventually sol just stopped listening altogether.)
#iwatex#iwate#i was a teenage exocolonist#geranium#fluorescent#flulu#solane#solana#solanaceae#i was BIG MAD#like#pick every rebellious option when talking to her for the rest of the game mad#then i didn’t stop the famine because i thought more xenobotany was the answer#(spoiler alert: it’s not)#and so she died horribly#i did feel kind of bad about that#(i would’ve continued being a rebellious pain in her ass had she lived)
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