Der-shing Helmer
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Mare Internum End page 3
🕑 Added 2019-12-04 02:03:15 +0000 UTCMy favorite page :']
Pretty self-explanatory, I suppose. A horrid bluethrip and the true hero of our story, LEVi, start a new generation of Martians... these a promising shade of green?
LEVi was designed to be gold because (in my head, not really laid out in the story) the Processor used parts of LEVi's original body to build his new one, especially since the original LEVi was not as complex/ more intuitive to build than an organic creature like Kalla. So he gets a little bit of gold from the insulation built in, and who knows what else is going on in that strange little body of his.
Do the babies have the gold in them too? Did they fail the directive to Keep Mars Red? is they about to overrun the planet and make it completely unliveable with annoying noises and questions? the answer to all of those is: probably
TBH I kept things vague, but personally I wanted "Kalla" to "die" at the end. I think her time was well past, and as much as I enjoyed writing her and believing in her/ Processor, if you extrapolate a little further there was just no real way for Kallakore as a being to survive. She can't live on the surface. She would have probably been treated like a research subject the rest of her terrible life in any case... there was no way for Mike and Bex to escape that wouldn't dramatically reduce the quality of Kalla's life, esp once separated from the Processor. I have some internal ideas about what happened to Processor but at least we know that some small part of old Mars has survived to see a bright new future, hopefully on their own terms.
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Mike's End page here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32013657
Bex's End page here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31948832
Comments
Patrick Greene
I absolutely love the idea of the Thrips as stow-aways. It is some how unifying knowing that the Martians also just couldn't keep the critters out of what they created.
Quinton
This was the most heart-warming of the epilogue pages for me.
Saberbeam
I should probably turn myself in for egregious punning, but I have no regrets 😅
Der-shing Helmer
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/384/545/7b9.jpg
Saberbeam
So they settled down and raised some Thriplets? :D
Der-shing Helmer
Tbh I’m not sure if the Thrips were even programs as much as they were stowaways. They eat trash, but... there’s other stuff down there that can eat trash too, and Thrips are a little messy themselves anyway.
Der-shing Helmer
They are a breeding pair, lol. Idk if gender matters. And as for the rest of them, I’m sure the volcano didn’t take them all out, but Thrips are like cockroaches and can survive in the harsh conditions where maybe some of the larger or fully aquatic programs couldn’t
So Ville
Are they a girl and boy thrip or both neutral thrips? Did any other mars animals/animated programs survive to live on the surface or was this blue thrip just super lucky?
So Ville
b e s t boi <3
Madeleine
Levithrip and Evathrip :D
Duke BG
what a good boy
Der-shing Helmer
He disappeared as soon as she safely reached the surface to be retrieved by the folks from Devotion... had to go back to look for Michael...
Duke BG
I thought Levi would be with Bex when she's saved
Verteiron
On the surface? Tough little pseudo-arthropods...
