category 54 petals resolution moment

Actually devastated by the central theme of the Io and Till comic.

Io loved him and yet she knew she couldn’t protect him. She couldn’t keep him. In this world, she doesn’t have the luxury of keeping something as precious and fleeting as Till. He’s a tool and she is his maker. She brought him into a world where she fears he will only suffer. And Till has suffered. Till has suffered so much.

But Io wanted him to be loved. Prayed that someone could ever possibly love her baby as much as she did because she knew one day she couldn’t offer him love anymore. All a mother can hope for is that someone will love you like you deserve when I’m gone.

And someone did.

Someone loved Till. Someone protected him. Someone’s entire life was driven by love for her baby.

Someone on Twitter pointed out that Ivan’s name means “gift of God.”

Ivan was Io’s gift from whatever being she desperately prayed to.

Ivan didn’t think he mattered to anyone, but look.

He was everything Io ever hoped and begged the universe for for her child.

at the end of the day, we’re the same

my day be so fine then boom ivantill alien stage

leave no regrets

Ivan spreading the agenda

as much as i believe you can headcanon whatever you like i really think that the idea that till secretly was also in love with ivan the whole time but was in denial about it or didnt realize it kind of detracts from their story

till doesn't have any reason to be in denial about his feelings, he just simply doesn't feel the same. he wasn't raised in an environment that would give him any reason to have internalized homophobia. nothing would change if ivan was a girl. he just doesn't love him back.

but looking at any of the supplementary material like the beach scene art COUGH or any official actor or student AU stuff shows that maybe, in another life. till could have loved ivan. if the two of them were raised in a different environment and met and lived under different circumstances, they could have been in love. in another life. in another universe.

but in the world of alien stage, it was never going to be that way. and that's what makes it all the more tragic.

longing stare

waaa

Can I pleeease chew you like a squeaky toy

놓치고 십지 않아, 부디 내게 상처를 내줘.

i don't want to let you go, please, leave me scars.

watching the ivantill kiss scene over and over and actually going insane...

the way the first two kisses were rough and passionate, ivan begging till "notice me!! look at me!!! notice me!!!!" but till has his eyes closed and he's not kissing ivan back...

and then the last kiss, soft & short, ivan telling till "i love you. i'm sorry. please be okay."

he got too silly

Cure

After see round 6 .I'm so pain 🥹

watching you (please look at me once)

and not just a palette swap but a funeral's black in his grief for the presumed dead mizi and a wedding's white for the short moment he could finally embrace his beloved. btw