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I tend to go for a middle ground between the two. Someone with scars from injuries that no human being should be able to survive, but also let her care about eyeshadow and lipgloss because it’s just a fun thing she can do to express herself in a busy life of hunting down criminals and super predators. Give her absolutely chiseled abs and towering height, yes, but let her smile with the people and little critters she’s saved along the way. I’m not saying you can’t have your buff, grizzled veteran of many battles with the scars to prove it, but she’s still human, she still needs to live a little. But yes, give her a massive co-
People who draw Samus Aran as a 5 foot nothing girl with an hourglass figure, flawlessly smooth skin, perfectly applied makeup, absolutely no musculature, and a bubbleheaded smile are cowards. That woman has been put through the ringer and should look like it. Give her towering height. Give her absolutely chiseled abs. Give her terrifying scars snaking across her skin. Give her weird feathers and scales covering her body. Give her a scowl that could shatter glass. Give her a massive co-
I had a similar idea for a side game called “Ridley’s Rage” where it’s about him conquering worlds and causing more destruction nets you a higher score.
Anyways, similar to Halo Wars, you could have different commanders with different capabilities, such as Ridley, Weavel, and Mother Brain for the Space Pirates, against Castor Dane, Adam Malkovich, and Alex Miles in the Federation. Perhaps Castor Dane would be good for air support tactics while Alex Miles would be good for mechanized warfare, and Adam would be sort of an all rounder, Jack of all trades. For the Space Pirates, Ridley might focus on heavy explosives that would cause a lot of collateral damage, Weavel could focus on swarms of weak troops, and Mother Brain could be more strategic and mobile, requiring some more thought and foresight.
Maybe the story mode could be Dane vs Weavel, but a vs mode could feature those other commanders.
In my head I’m imagining a real time strategy game like halo wars focusing on caster Dane as you command federation troops, vehicles, etc in a prolonged conflict with the space pirates over a planet they’re trying to conquer. While also being able to send in bounty hunters like spire or noxus as special units, or if it’s set before prime 3 maybe rundas, gorr, and gandrayda. Or even introduce new bounty hunters to expand the world further.
Meanwhile the chief rival to Dane in command of the pirate forces would be weavel. Perhaps getting some help from trace or kanden
I have no idea how this would work and it probably only appeals to me specifically so I highly doubt Nintendo would ever do it, but what do y’all think? Deep down I think really I just want a game that expands a bunch on the GF and the space pirates and their abilities and tactics.
In the original Metroid 2, all stages of Metroid could fly, except the Queen, and even that example might’ve just been limited by a cramped room. The same could’ve applied to Fusion’s depiction of the Omega; But by Samus Returns (and I guess Other M), the Metroids have been retconned as losing flight capabilities past the Gamma stage. And even the Gamma’s flight has become limited; Presumably because its weight has become too cumbersome for its propulsive force, which hasn’t increased with each stage, to support.
In other words, gravity. But this makes me wonder; Could the Metroid’s method of propelling itself still exist, and it just isn’t strong enough anymore? Could the Queen still have that trait, vestigial as it is? And what if gravity was not there to tether a Metroid down to a surface?
We know Metroids can survive in the vacuum of space, so imagine seeing a Zeta, Omega, and even Queen Metroid flying there. They’d still be much slower than the preceding stages, but they’d still be able to move and navigate at all, just like in the original game. and that terrifies me. Imagine the Omega Metroid in Fusion escaping the BSL through the open hangar; Though it’d probably be stranded in space and if SR388’s explosion didn’t reach it, it’d have starved before finding a food source because space is vast. But man imagine the Federation employing a Metroid space fleet…!
Ya know, one thing I like to think of with Metroid Prime is that Samus lands on this planet full of Chozo history that she’s never seen before and starts scanning everything in site like an excited little kid at a museum. She grew up with the Chozo, learned their ways, and lost them all to the pirates. Now, she has a world full of the remains of her home culture. You can just imagine her scanning every single statue of a Chozo to find out this was, why their statue is here, and what they were like. And she wants to know what the people of Tallon IV did. What was life like there? What did the average citizen do there?
Basically, Samus getting brain rot over her own culture’s history of which she’s been deprived of information about until now.
Decided to draw V today. I still haven’t quite cracked the code on her hair, but I’m getting there.
I rarely reblog stuff but… I suppose I can start somewhere, yeah?
Because I certainly do, and I love every single one of them and their work.
LITERALLY ME AND @your-local-squip-fanatic !!!! LITERALLY JUST US!!! YURI NUZI IS ME AND ASTRID!!!! I LOVE HER!!!! I LOVE MY FUCKING WIFE!!!! I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!!!
draw to nuzi yuri, kisses in bed (tw suggestive 16+)
here is your tw suggestive 16+ nuzi yuri kissing on the bed. i know the anatomys weird but its 12 am its not my biggest worry