SCORN is enthralling. Just... LOOK at it.

Imagine a world, if you will, where just about everything is organic, nothing like this world of non-living objects we've constructed around ourselves. A world where things are not built, but grown.

Towers made of solid bone. Hallways like bodily tracts. Chambers like organs, machinery like complex muscles, control terminals like sensitive nerves.

A world where people are grown and designed, "birthed" from the earth like weird, placental adult babies.

This is the world presented in Scorn. And I am all up in this.



Seriously, this is some of the freakiest stuff I've ever seen, but there is something entrancing about it. It makes you wonder, "Is this earth, thousands of years after being taken over and colonized by aliens who've made us like this?" Like, clearly this stuff hasn't occurred in nature, someone MADE it this way, they designed and cultivated the new world to look like this. Is it another dimension? Is there anyone else to meet, or call "friend?" Even the firearms are tiny living animals, with teeth and pores and veins, and all they want is to be attached to something warm that gives them a purpose and a function. They probably spew globs of ignitable/explosive acid or something.

As ugly as it is, this world is remarkably clean. With all this exposed tissue everywhere, you'd think there'd be flies eating, burrowing into, and generally harassing just about everything in it, but nope. It's completely sterile and everything apparently works fine.

There's something about the character himself that's especially fascinating to me. Does he have the ability to speak orally, or does he use telepathy? How old is he? Like, a day? Who made him? Is he rebelling against the world that birthed him, or was he created to save it from impending stagnation and death? How long is his lifespan? Like, was he programmed to only live a few days, just long enough to "reboot the system" or whatever happens at the end of the game, then dissolve in a pool of shapeless biomass? Is he the last even vaguely human thing alive, the first to come along in however many centuries?

"Placental" is the right word for this, like... just look at that helmet, that membrane covering his face. Does he even HAVE a fully formed face under that? Is he comfortable, or is he in constant pain and itching? If something tore a hole in that membrane, would he survive, or would his exposure to outside elements kill him almost instantly?

Like, he looks SO FRAGILE. Making the player feel vulnerable in games like Amnesia is easy because you don't have guns and the like to defend yourself with. This guy does have guns, but his very nature makes me feel like I have to protect him from a world out to consume and absorb him back into itself. Again, he looks very fragile and exposed.

I have been waiting for someone to come along and create a world like this for a long time. Something where they go all the way with this "The world itself is alive!" concept. And here it is, and it is both ugly and beautiful.

The only problem? That I didn't do it first. XD

Yeah, this is what my THIRD Metroid fancomic was going to be about, where Samus finds herself trapped in a world just like this, with a new, "living" suit an' everything. And I still might do it someday, but if I do go ahead with it now, if I do find the time to do it, it's going to be hard not to be accused of ripping off Scorn. Just like if James Cameron ever does make a Battle Angel movie, people will think it's an Elysium ripoff, because that was released first.

Oh well. First come, first serve.

Commissions are always open. I could really use the work, guys.

Bust- $10
Full body shot- $20
+$15 for each additional character
+$15 for a background
Comic book cover/page- $30