r/ImNotAHuman

A game's vibes moodboard

Last time I asked the question if you were stuck in a timeloop of this cataclysm with someone else, who are you picking. You guys seemed to agree on Immortal Man and I do too, but this been on my mind so I made a full tier list. This was a hard list to make and I’m still not confident on my answers. Here’s explanations for the tiers

The red tier is for those that are pretty much essential for figuring out how we got in this mess and more importantly how he are getting out of this. We are getting out in a few days tops

The orange tier is for those who he really helpful in some form(figuring out pieces of the loop, keeping us protected to limit the loops, etc) but will take longer for us to get out

The orange-yellow tier is for those helpful in some form like red, but have more requirements to be useful like if the situation is something specific, they require something to be useful, or the need of a temporary truce(reason Coat Guy is orange but Cat Lady is yellow is he feels more willing to help me. Cat Lady only left us and the cat safe cause of orders. Coat Guy admits in one of the tests to wanting to be useful and repay us)

The yellow tier is for those not really helpful in the traditional sense, but could help keep spirits up for at least a while so we don’t go insane doing trial and error(reliving the cataclysm over and over gonna do things to your sanity)

The light green tier is for those that could be helpful, but a truce isn’t happening for at least several loops

The cyan is for those that wouldn’t really be useful except maybe morale, and even then I would hope they wouldn’t be in the loop because that means going through what they did on repeat which would make me feel awful for them to go through that. Sure, this could mean preventing what happened to them but it be really hard(Firefighter was here but his felt more preventable in a timeloop and I didn’t know how to judge his usefulness if we prevent it)

The blue for those that are pretty much dead weight in a loop and will drive me bonkers putting up with them

And grey for those I couldn’t narrow down

1. I think the game's timeline is intentionally vague, so some events feel more like the 1990s, some like the 2000s, and some like the present day. It's an indefinite era, a kind of timelessness (much like the film "It Follows," which the developers cited as one of their sources of inspiration). Could even go further and suggest that all the events take place in a dream or fantasy of the Protagonist, who has different years of his life mixed up in his head, but that's a stretch.
2. Regarding the origin of the Visitors: tbh it feels more like an apocalyptic phantasmagoria, playing on biblical motifs, in which the returning dead are just one of many catastrophes about to destroy humanity. Therefore, you don't have to choose any specific version or interpretation, but rather lean toward the one that you like best or find most interesting at the moment. But on a plot level, I like to think that corpses burned by the Sun (and perhaps some living people) are then transformed into Visitors by some force. Perhaps it's the Body Eater, or Death itself, or something else, it doesn't matter. It's also possible that the Visitors aren't copies of specific dead people, but rather rough casts of them, a revived memory, an idea, something like what the Gravedigger is talking about. It's even possible that several different people with similar traits and destinies are fused into a single composite image in the process, which is kinda creepy. On a symbolic level, I also like the idea that the visitor versions of characters are like their twisted dark counterparts, like what they become when something goes particularly wrong for them, when something within them that held their original personality together is destroyed. While this doesn't work for all characters, it does for many.
3. Speaking of It: sometimes it seems to me that It is the reason for the visitors' existence and something like their leader. I have a theory (or maybe more of a hc) that It creates new visitors when It devours and digests burnt corpses. Well... or at least that's how It creates regular visitors. And as for people who haven't yet died, It can turn them into super-visitors. That's exactly what happened to the Pale visitor (the Huntsman said he was terrified of something when he ran to his hut and begged to be let in). And perhaps It tried to do the same to the Blinded man, so the guy just did his best to prevent it. (I don't even know whether I like this hc or not, because for me, the Blinded man's story is, first and foremost, a story of deep psychological trauma and PTSD, where "It" could be anything. But still a curious idea).
4. And finally, I have a theory that the Death and It are two different forms of the same entity. It's similar to how cultists talked about Death being able to protect them from death itself (from nonexistence? from dying?). In short, that death isn't a single, indivisible thing. Maybe it's somehow both at once, at different times or from different perspectives. Like two sides of the same coin.

they made the best character a visitor :(

Yello! 👋 I'm a pretty new NINAH fan who's spent the last few weeks scraping through naming websites, family registries, and Wikipedia articles to put together my own definitive list of headcanon names for the characters, and I'm finally satisfied with it enough to share it with others. I've seen potential names discussed for a number of the more popular characters, but I thought I'd take a crack at covering the entire roster, including a few guys that are unseen or only referenced.

I must of course preface this with the disclaimer that I'm an American, doing this with an American's perspective and tastes. It's entirely possible I've overlooked some cultural/historical references (as the extent of my knowledge comes from what I've learned from the wiki and posts from Russian fans), as well as connotations and/or stereotypes certain names may hold.

When taking on this project, it was important to me to both 1) give everyone a unique name and 2) keep my choices relatively logical in terms of both the time period of the game and the general popularity of the names themselves (with some exceptions, which I'll get into). I also purposely did not pick names for the FEMA Agent, as it's implied there's more than one who comes to the door and it's a vague situation overall, nor the Raincoat Child, as I don't know enough about Static Dread to have much opinion on its characters.

All that said, if you'll allow me to dump a few of my thoughts and reasonings down below:

• The Neighbor and the Vigilante's names both mean 'lion' with different etymologies. Lev I've seen used for the Neighbor by others and liked, and I chose Ruslan for his brother to match because I think they both suit that name in different ways - the Neighbor for his courage and willingness to help others even when it cost him his life, and the Vigilante for his ferocity and relentless pursuit of the Visitors (like a lion hunting its prey, you could say).
• I can see where some folks come from in wanting to call the Widow Jena, as it's a perfectly legitimate name in English, but it's just the word 'wife' in Russian. I've opted instead for the phonetically similar Zhanna, comparable to Jeanne (as in d'Arc). For her dearly departed I've chosen Fyodor (Theodore), after the many, many Orthodox saints and martyrs named the same.
• I really fought with myself over keeping Alkonost and Sirin for the Twins, but at the end of the day the chances of someone being named that in real life are too slim to justify. I finally settled on the names Anastasya and Irina, which I find similar-sounding enough to not be too bummed about letting the other names go.
• Seductive Woman I've named Nadezhda (hope) as a direct foil to Protag's wife, Vera (faith).
• A number of characters related to Death and her cult have been given Biblical names or names associated with religion, because I'm a sucker for allegories. The three Cultists are all named after Apostles - Cultist #2 in particular is named after Thomas the skeptic, in line with his doubt and anxiety about the cult's mission. In the same vein, Egghead/the Prophet is named Gavriil after the archangel Gabriel, AKA God's messenger. Angry Guy's wife, who joined the cult, is named after the biblical princess Tamar. The Cult leader, who I've called Konstantin, is named so both for the literal meaning (constant, steadfast) and because Constantine I was the first Roman leader to convert to Christianity.
• Initially I was going to keep the Morbid Romantic's name as it is in the files, Edgar, as it's not entirely unheard of for Russian or Russian-born folks to have the name (see Sevikyan, Streltzov, Prib - all footballers, funnily enough). After further consideration I decided instead to name him Orest after Orest Somov, a Russian author and literary critic who also dabbled in Gothic fiction as Edgar Allen Poe did.
• A more egregiously out-of-the-box choice is the Sleepless Man's name, Morfey, as it's simply the Russian form of Morpheus (AKA Greek God of sleep and dreams). Realistic? Probably not, but I'm allowing myself at least this sliver of leniency here for the bit. Also it's kinda difficult to look at a character like That and picture him with an average Joe name, even before the cataclysm--
• The Mushroom Eater is named Prokhor after the Saint Prochorus, whose name allegedly means 'leader of the dance/chorus.' Appropriately whimsical!
• Tattooed Woman and Rash Guy are named directly after their design references, 'Tosha' and Eldar Kaimarazov. I've chosen to overlook the similarity between Tattooed Woman and Conspiracy Theorist's names in this instance because I think it's kind of funny in an ironic sense that TW essentially has to share a name with her biggest opp.-- My other option for her was Natasha, which I think fits her just as well.
• Fairytale Enjoyer and his sister, Artyom & Diana, are both named after Artemis. I like to think they're also twins. :)
• According to the wiki, College Runaway's design reference says if he had to pick a canon name for him, it would be either Maksim or Andrey - so I used them both! I've chosen Maksim for the Runaway, while Andrey is his beloved brother.
• The Tourist is clearly East Asian, though his origin isn't known for certain beyond that. I've therefore developed the headcanon that he's from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, mostly to be contrarian as we hardly ever see or hear of Mongolian characters in a modern setting. The name Tsolmon means Venus or morning star.
• EnerJeka Addict's name is also based on his design reference, who goes by 'Seva Goblin.' I recognize it's more likely that in this case Seva is short for Vsevolod, but I chose the far less common Sevastyan instead because I think it lends well to Addict's overall bizarre nature. An unusual lad deserves an unusual name!

The rest are fairly straightforward, though if there's any question as to why I might have made certain choices, I'll be happy to explain myself! As I'm sure is obvious from this wall of text, I do love a good discussion 🕺

For me it was "Rise up and Walk" (actually, I got it yesterday, specifically with this goal in mind). And before the update, it was "Martyr," that took a really long time too, unlike the other achievements.

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my oc with you all, this is Artie aka rodent guy!! Feel free to ask any questions or give me any assumptions you may have of him 👀 I’d love to answer