u/A_Hyper_Nova

My general impression of Luke while reading the original thrawn trilogy is "I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm trying to be very patient about it"

Jimmy is acting on his insecurities to a degree, but his logic is still sound.

Thought they might need a guest animator to do this scenario justice

They did it in the laziest way imaginable

In Steven universe there's an affliction known as "corruption" which is very similar to abstraction in digital circus. To the point where I wouldn't be surprised if abstraction was inspired by corruption.

In Steven universe we see someone get corrupted on screen, Jasper. And her corruption is handled much better than Jax's abstraction in my opinion. Let me explain.

First of all it was actually shown on screen, we see the painful process of corruption physically happen, it's the finale of the episode with a lot of buildup and shock. Meanwhile Jax's abstraction, HAPPENED OFF SCREEN. I didn't even know it was Jax at first, I thought it was ones from the basement.

Second, Jasper is was more deserving of it than Jax. Not only was Jasper a proper villain and a combatant, it made sense narratively. Jasper prided herself on being the perfect quartz soldier, seeing herself above the planet (earth) she was born on. Now she's falling to the same affliction that was cursed upon her birthplace. Jax abstracting, on the other hand, opens up a whole can of worms about suicide being inevitable.

Third, and probably the most important, she refuses help while corrupting. Steven tries to use his healing spit on Jasper. For while his healing spit hasn't worked on corrupted gems in the past, it might work on someone mid-corruption. But Jasper slaps his hand away and stands her ground. Refusing to accept aid, seeing it as Steven's tactic to turn gems over to his side

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT, IF YOU WANT TO TELL A CAUTIONARY TALE OF A CHARACTER REFUSING HELP COMMIT TO IT!!! The moment Jax said "I don't want to go" it turns the message of one about how people can only improve if they let themselves be helped, to one where sometimes you really are too far gone to be saved. Which is how suicides happen in real life, where people think there's no way out and their life is a dead end. Sending the message that you're beyond saving, it's awful.

Also Jasper was humanely put in stasis after being corrupted, with their mangled mind being able to rest. Instead we have a lobotomized Jax being kept around as a family pet.

I'm not against Jax being Abstracted, but it should've happened over the course of the finale. We see the decent and Pomni trying to help him, but Jax won't let himself be forgiven. "It won't ever feel like forgiveness"

And don't give me that shit about how it's realistic, realism doesn't automatically equal good story telling. It's good if something is realistic, but it still has to be satisfying. But Jax's fate just feels cheap.

By popular demand I learned how to shade and color a manga, turns out the multiply layer is very useful for that task.

Shirt kinda came out ass, but I'm happy with the skin and hair.

The dev team state they wanted to discourage players from killing the wildlife, and I get where they're coming from. But making the enemies invincible in a open world survival game is quite un-immersive, especially for smaller fish like Bulletheads. So I think they should be killable, but have consequences for killing too many.

And in my proposal, I think that consequence should be a jellyfish bloom.

If you don't know, a Jellyfish bloom usually happens during the last stage of a ecological collapse. Where the the water is low on oxygen becomes hypoxic, the perfect place for jellyfish to breed. The exact details of this is above my pay grade but the concept is there.

When you first kill a predator your PDA gives out a message "Self defense is natural, but the wildlife is already in a delicate balance. Killing too many may lead to an ecological collapse"

When you've killed up to 20% of predator fish "warning, low amount of predators detected. Continue removal will lead to ecological collapse"

Then at 40% "warning, ecological collapse imminent. any further removal will lead to eco collapse"

Then at 50% the jellyfish bloom starts.

A flood of jellyfish will flood the world and be in nearly every biome. They damage The player and vehicles alike, while clogging up turbines which affect base power. You can kill them, but they just keep respawning. This is a consequence, akin to the old bethesda games where you kill important NPCs and it dooms your world.

But there is a way to fix this, fish breeding. re-implement the eggs and breeding mechanics from subnautica 1 and below zero. Where you can breed predator fish then release them back into the world. You have to fix the environment you messed up.

And if you didn't collect any eggs before you destroyed the environment, there can be a late game area where you can collect eggs from. Like some sort of alien ARK which dispenses renewable eggs.

My idea is ambitious and may be a bit much. But having some sort of consequence for killing fish is a lot better than fish just being invincible.

The song if anyone wants it