piecing alien stage branding lore crumbs together: overview on 'branding', and my theories on placements and its character implications. so far, we have five confirmed branding placements for the main cast: till (neck), sua (neck), mizi (arm), ivan (arm) & hyuna (chest) 🧵
ALIEN STAGE Q&A translations
— 9 questions
— discussion points:
#alienstage
backstory, character deaths, aliens, setting, character costumes, production thoughts, brief mention of r7
note: roughly-translated korean text from @/omijhy's thread and a weibo post🧵
#ALNST
#에이스테
luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka vs. till thoughts luka
thoughts on alien stage pet-human care system, which serves to preface my human experiment and collar color coding thoughts. this is heavily based on the manual “how to raise excellent pet humans”, a guide for first-time alien guardians⬇️
if loving someone with our whole being was enough to make them love us back, maybe we wouldn't know loneliness, desperation, yearning, the grief of the unattainable— we wouldn't know love the way we do now. and alien stage wouldn't hit us as hard. ⬇️
the problem with alnst fandom is that everyone says that till can't reciprocate ivan's feelings bc he's in love with mizi. which is partly true but i dont think thats the only case, i think even if he didnt care about mizi at all, he wouldn't fall for ivan either
“other characters were derived from sua.” taking again the nuances and alien stage being sci-fi, what if sua is a genetic donor to clones— like a source, or a parent cell?
Q3: Which character has changed the most between the beginning and now?
this is me killing myself slowly, prologue. also SUA SEES ALL NARRATIVE IS WINNING
lost in forever's embrace, never seeing eye to eye— the light coming to one's eyes as it dims in the other, the perspective shift, and its consequent narrative implications. my thoughts on alien stage cure fulfilling ivantill's "live in darkness" narrative ⬇️
why i think it makes sense that ruler of my heart is currently the most popular alien stage music video. i want to just highlight the promotional efforts of ruler of my heart because idt i need to explain why the video and the song is a banger here ⬇️
something i cant understand is that why is ruler of my heart the most popular alnst mv. like whats so special about it. I wasnt here when it dropped but i guess there wasnt that much hype around it as after round 6 so just. why
alien stage round 7 luka vs till ahahaha do you see the colors that i see— left is from round 3 black sorrow. what are you thinking right now? idk my complete thought yet but vivinos and qmeng conditioned the brain to doubt the slightest of coincidences
my thoughts on ivan's final thoughts about till in "confession". i've been thinking a whole lot about ivan's regrets, but i think more about how he 'ended' everything with— "thank you for being the victim of my shallow emotions."⬇️
the creative direction of ivan’s obsession with till’s neck associated with setting him free through tenderness and violence, versus him putting up with the distance and learning if he cannot free the bird from its cage, he must stay with it
thoughts on alien stage round 6 cure vocals. how it made me feel and why i think it’s so artistically done; i feel their pain firsthand, i don’t know why i’m doing this to myself when life can be happier ⬇️
sua knows humans on earth are living normally and they gave a part of a population including the children as pet-humans for humankind survival on earth, and that the great anakt is actually a human birth facility system— okay but imagine
this is alien stage birthday graphic for our beloved mizi. jellyfish symbolize faith and immortality— they can reverse their aging process and restart their life cycle. luka's are pointed out to be fetuses. i agree, but with how it's drawn, i thought they resembled jellyfish.
"so you're the one with the crush on the lesbean who died on live television in the first round of hit series alien stage?"
acorn: *opens his mouth because this is his interview????*
till (out of nowhere): "COME ON!"
Q3: Which character has changed the most between the beginning and now?
this is me killing myself slowly, prologue. also SUA SEES ALL NARRATIVE IS WINNING
[mv direction] ivantill divergence starts from the meteor scene and bleeding into r6, the differing flashbacks support this. but if we represent ivan as red and till as green, the switching of places is already hinted prior to their convergence (kiss scene)
Q6: In R5, did Luka imitate Sua just to win?
highkey luka fandom flex. he's so complex, we love that. everyone is so hnrk. HEPERU GRANDPA I WILL NOT GIVE YOU YOUR MAINTENANCE MEDICINE
till's flute gave me a headache at first tbh because this photo of him (first) looks like it was pre-anakt (assuming before adoption) and yet he already has the flute, when supposedly mizi was the one who gave him the flute. but i realized the color of the joints are different
telling alien stage magazine you’re looking forward to singing with your childhood friend and they have your unrequited gaze immortalized as an album cover
Q2: What are Alien Stage's initial plans?
this is au fodder,
#alnsttwt
are you seeing this, i bet it's already in ao3 but anw i think this was already mentioned before
thinking about how hyuna and hyun woo are likely from a surviving human family and were forcibly separated from them by aliens— where are the human adults? the “great anakt”? are their parents alive somewhere? what if they’re watching alien stage too? sweet dream, alien stagers
@Official_ALNST
luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka vs till luka
i really want to see how the alien stage audition went for ivan, till, hyuna, luka and the rest. if i understood till’s feature correctly, he showed an ordinary performance and so, everyone was shocked with what he did in round 2– “murder on stage”
till vs. luka thoughts aside, “it was okay because the kids enjoyed it” when the kids looked visibly concerned just checks in with aliens finding pleasure in human discomfort
there’s a belief in anakt garden where if you win a singing contest as a kid you’ll win your season of alien stage — luka won as a child and won season 49 . WHO ELSE WINS THE SINGING COMPETITION AS A KID? TILL!!!!!!! TILLS GONNA WIN!!!!!
sleeping with the thought that luka had no flashbacks in round 5 ruler of my heart like this performance is all he has now, this song is all he is, this stage is all he will be, i know there is more— sweet dream, alien stagers
same guy thought he wouldn’t be able to leave a trace behind— i have so much to say about that, as much as the thoughts i have on these ivan-centric comics, vivinos what are you doing?
memories are tied to emotions. the stronger the emotion, the clearer you remember the details. and at the height of their feelings, this is what they thought of. i have decided to end it all
thoughts on alien stage round 6 cure vocals. how it made me feel and why i think it’s so artistically done; i feel their pain firsthand, i don’t know why i’m doing this to myself when life can be happier ⬇️
Q7: About the relationship between pets and their owners— for example, Mizi‘s owner sent her to the even though she liked her very much.
tbh one of the q's i always here and i usually just say, it's like how furparents treat their pets. mizi we love you
Q4: What was the most memorable episode while creating Alien Stage?
"I had a lot of energy in the beginning, so I had a lot of energy when I was making the character, but now I feel like it's not that, so I erased all of mine." QMENG YOU ARE SO REAL
the second you start asking if this is before or after the black sorrow meteor scene is the exact moment you let go of happiness why would you do that to yourself? now, everyone’s here
ivan's regrets... like a lot of us, i've been thinking about it too; since black sorrow. ivan is introspective but at the same time repressed so he holds himself back. at this moment of unmasking, for a split second, i like to think ivan was able to see till's expression shift ⬇️
@_momorxn
ok thoughts! i think education is still fundamental to build them as “humans”, like aliens consider them as pets but this development entirely makes them attractive to pit against each other. if you have your own sets of beliefs, you will develop your own worldviews that will ⬇️