The Prometheus' creatures' life cycle + creatures' drawings!

the proto description SPOILERSSSSS his skin seems smoother, opaque, wet yet not dripping and a lot more organic, like black flesh (I'm going to see it again tonight to be sure), not some kind of platic/metal. His mouth has gums coming out like a white shark, and not like usual xenos. And his gums are red, as if there's blood in him. His head is also smoother, with a pointy end.

Hello ! I did a (really) long text explaining how I did understand alien life cycle etc and why the drawing is wrong, but I lostd it trying to post, and I am too lazy to rewrite it. So I make a new drawing : [img]http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1338398915.jpg[/img] Let me know if you have questions, also I used the same drawing style as Blood to not confuse readers.

Here's the non thumbnailed version of the drawing : http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1338398915.jpg

Ah yes, you used the same style as mine, it's not that you don't know how to draw either ahahah :) NEW SPOILERS I'm not sure about the Fifield version. I think that him and halloway had the same thing. He just fell in the goo. We saw what the cobras did to Millburn and he was just dead. I agree with the rest of course. But all that doesn't explain what creature was attacking the engineers in their ship. The corpses had holes in them. Was it xenos? Or cobraliens? What were they running from? What that decapitated head had inside?

Regularly appear in the goo? So, like, the goo itself is the Shoggoth? Or Cuddles? And then... if... wow, my brain is going to explode. Just the concept of xenomorphs being directly related to a Shoggoth is like... those are two of my favorite monsters. Like, if you found out King Ghidorah is the direct ancestor of Vermithrax Pejorative. You know, from Dragonslayer. (it's okay if you don't) Just a quick thing: have you read At the Mountains of Madness? Because you're using almost the exact same descriptive tropes. Rudimentary organs that form and subsume and such. I might also be thinking of Seven Geases by Clark Ashton Smith where Abhoth shows up (which is awesome, I can't recommend CAS enough). Abhoth has the added bonus of eating itse-tangent. Thank you so much for all your info. It is greatly appreciated. :)

@Blood @iapetus Hey guys, just 4 questions (I think we would be all thankful if you could answer them): 1. Is the wiki synopsis correct on the whole? 2. If yes, are there any details there that are fake (like the Engineer beating Weyland to death with David's severted head)? 3. Again, if the synopsis is correct on the whole, are there still any details which were left out? 4. If yes, are these details substantial to the plot / basic understanding of what's happening?

This thread now has my full attention. I'm really enjoying these drawings. I read the wiki-plot but am confused about the Engineer and Shaw-squiddy. It impregnates him and a proto-alien is birthed. Do they reveal what happens to the Squiddy afterwards? Does it die like a facehugger? It's safe to assume the Engineer dies I guess.

Well, your shoggg..thing and proto are related. And no I didn't read any of those...sorry :/ 1 yes 2 you shouldn't have read that, it's symbolically very funny if you think about it 3 In the current plot on wikipedia there's nothing about 2 so I don't know which one you read 4 there is one thing that nobody has talked about which in my opinion is important, and it has to do with the storm.

The squid is nowhere to be seen afterwards so... anything could be. I'm pretty sure he dies. Where the proto goes after that is a mystery.

@Blood Thank you for answering! @Blood @iapetus One more request, could you please confirm that: 1. We don't know why the sacrificial Engineer disintegrated and what was the point of that (was it a punishment, or a real sacrifice, etc?). 2. We don't know why the Jockeys were bent on eradicating life on earth. 3. We don't know why they visited us in the past. 4. We don't know why they left us a star map showing the way to a military installation that would later be used for creating the bioshit to destroy us. 5. We don't know exactly what happened to them (just that something went wrong with their bioweapons akin to the original movie). 6. We don't know why the last Engineer killed David.

1 I think it's clear why he disintegrated, and what was the point of that. 2 no, nobody knows, that may be for the sequel 3 we know why they came here the first time, they probably came back because civilizations left murals, but why? 4 I hadn't thought about this but no we don't 5 yes, but we know how they died, even if it's not clear what creature killed them 6 David should have said what Weyland told him to say. Since he's very loyal I think he did, but maybe he said something else. The engineer looked happy to see him at first.

blurg, i think this board is just buggy. :/ I drew my own. [img]http://i.imgur.com/OyoEi.png[/img] Am I close? I extrapolated how to get to a Dog Alien assuming 1. that the proto-xeno is coterminous with a jockey alien and 2. that there were no other hosts available on the derelict, so if that particular individual (that killed the jockey in Alien) were to lay an egg, it would have to go praetorian, then queen. Obviously I'm just guessing, but I like drawing dog aliens, so there. blah blah blah does my chart look ok? Because that's how I'm currently understanding it.

@Blood And thank you again for answering! :) "I think it's clear why he disintegrated, and what was the point of that" I get the fact that he seeded the planet with life, my question was whether we learn of his / his masters' motivation. I mean, is it something they do on a regular basis? Is seeding planets with life part of their culture? The "because they can" argument from the last promo-clip doesn't quite apply here since creating David didn't involve sacrifice of his creators.

I'm sorry I don't see the image. I personnaly don't like the queen/praethorians thing, even if I enjoyed Aliens. But this movie is clearly closer to Alien than it is to Aliens.

Ok. It exists, though. It's hosted on imgur. Here's just the address: http://i.imgur.com/OyoEi.png *crosses fingers* Of course it's closer to alien than aliens. It's the same director. Which breaks the 26 year tradition, but I guess when you gamble with directors like alien movies do and end up with avp:r, I suppose it's time to make a change. And I don't think this technically counts as an alien movie anyways, so no big deal.

Wyland is the 1st Engineer. Or the last human. The Engineers are the combination of Human DNA & Alien goo. Now is it that the engineers are trying to ensure their existence or future by ensuring our end. Which came first the chicken & the egg or the or the farmer who built the farm...?

@Ripley Good drawing, it's just like this apparently I don't want you that didn't see the movie yet hate me even more, but I just saw it again. @strashiLOL spoiler on Weyland Well actually creating David did involve the sacrifice of his creator. For him to be truly independent, Weyland had to die. And it's ironic that the brain that created him was smashed by the artificial head that he created.

I've been particularly careful at the design of the proto. It's digitigrade, stands on its back fingers. It's got red gums full of nerves, a lot of mollars like humans and big canines. It has a double gum like a white shark. It came out of the chest using the pointy back of its head. It's face is featureless?

@betagamma9 No, it's humans that are the combination of goo and engineer DNA. They are just building worlds. @strashiLOL I think too that the sacrifice thing is part of their culture, but that's only an interpretation. He drinks goo from a pot with inscriptions, as part of a ritual. But there is no indication other than that in the movie.