the sad fact is jimmy killed himself before he saw if the pod closed and froze curly over. jim didnt care if the pod actually worked and froze curly, he wanted to play the hero at the end of his story so he died before knowing if he really 'saved the day'.
@@ObsidianGloria Wow, thank you so much! I made this drawing based on the ship map in the game itself. And I was actually quite surprised when I realized that the cargo bay is somewhere to the right of the cockpit and is larger than the main ship. It was an interesting experience, even though I'm not very good at drawing ships or machinery
@@helius4057 LOL You say you’re not very good at drawing ships or machinery, but you made an absolutely awesome animation full of both, and it looks fucking great. You’re much better than you think.
A small corridor surrounding the massive cargo is such a good analogy for the company’s priorities, my only gripe is that you didn’t add Wake Rock crashed into the ship
@ im not saying that’s the overall theme of the game, just that it was _a_ theme. a minor one because it was said once, but it’s still present enough to mention since curly was the last one alive.
@@minimalgrammar1276 The theme of the game is the antithesis of what was being said by the characters. "Your worst moment doesnt make you a monster" But every single character dies and if found will be remembered for there worst moments. Now what worst moments means is different for every person.
It’s very sad to imagine that in the probable future, Curly just wakes up, still in the Tulpar, and starves to death or something like that, while looking at Jimmy or just the cold wall in front of him
It's silly to think that his capsule would survive that long. The other 3 capsules were destroyed by the foam alone, do you think the 4th would have survived even if it continued to be "protected" by the rest of the ship?
@@monoposting4017 no the other 3 capsules we're destroyed as a result of the crash. we also know the emergency foam is designed to fill in holes in the ship. the crash breaking a pod window or loosening a bolt would have been enough for the foam to leak in, expand and destroy its internals. the foam itself wouldn't do too much damage. the surviving pod was functional but considering the severe damage the ship is in I'm doubtful it would keep working for its 20 year lifespan, especially since Pony Express is "known for cutting corners". so yeah, chances are kinda slim for Curly surviving just for different reasons you suggested.
@@LizNaNoruega the lifepod failing early would actually be an excruciating death. he'd wake up just to see the desiccated corpse of Jimmy in front of him while slowly suffocating from zero oxygen. alternatively if there was any oxygen left (no surviving crew members means no oxygen was consumed during cryo and there were no oxygen leaks) he'd just slowly die of starvation as not only can he not move and definitely can't feed himself, there's no food left. what's worse is there's no one there to feed him painkillers. he'd be writhing in pain the entire time.
Knowing how shitty Pony Express treats their employees it’s probably unlikely Curly ever got rescued, but it’s still nice that they left it at a cliffhanger to leave it up for ourselves.
Yeah but do you think other companies will just let a spaceship that hasn't reported in 20 years float in space? They are atleast gonna go get it and salvage the wrecks
@@purpleblah2 "jonas check it out" "unless you found something good i don't wanna hear it. everything here is either rotting, too risky to take out, or damaged." "no-- there's a guy in the cryopod--! still breathing!" "motherfucker. do we have to report this? you-- just go on and forget you saw him. not our responsibility." "it's not right!"
@@helius4057 absolutely adored all the detail in his room, the painkillers, the prosthetic legs (both matching stub lengths) wheelchair, mask to hide his deformed face, everything about it is amazing.
The ability to share what happened, to make sure its known, how good of a nurse Anya was, how kind Diasuke was despite not wanting to be there, how hard Swansea tried to save the one who should've never been there
And of course, that, while our worst moments don't make us monsters, the one who should've taken responsibility for their deaths is where he belongs: the deepest pit of hell.
The mask, the wheelchair, the legs. Something so beautiful yet haunting about him carrying on. Like real trauma survivors, he has to live forever with the consequences of decisions that someone else made for him. It doesn’t make it not worth it, but god is it rough.
He still has a major part to play in his demise. He let Jimmy on the ship and overlooked the fact his friend was obviouslly mentally unstable. He could of taken action but decided to ignore it and had to pay serious consequences. He wasn't evil but he made those decisions, him and his crew suffered for it.
Curly ain't innocent tho for not protecting Anya for being biased in choosing jimmy as co pilot instead of being more thorough the irony of him saying how he always looks back to view the bigger picture only to miss the biggest one of all despite all the glaring hints that were dropped in front of him because of his rose tinted glass relationship with Jimmy it's ironic, tragic hauntingly beautiful imo
yeah he then has to live knowing he couldve done something, he couldve helped anya, he couldve stopped jimmy, but he didnt because he wanted to be on everyones good side, and then not to mention all the shit that he had to witness, like anya killing herself, jimmy beating him and shoving his meds down his throat, watching daisuke bleed out on the ground in the medical room, having to hear everyone else die, hearing jimmy kill himself, and having the severe physical trauma aswell from the crash
It's hard to say whether this could be considered a "good ending" for Curly or not. However, I like to believe that him living for a few more years with the opportunity to heal is better than dying in that hell, with his last memories being... well, Jimmy
Jimmy choosing to prolong Curly's suffering is the most fucked up thing he could've done. Jimmy didn't understand why Swansea chose to detach Daisuke's head, even after it was explained to him. And Jimmy failed to take that into account at the very end. All of his actions only created or prolonged suffering.
To be fair Jimmy's main character trait is that whenever another person is talking to him, he just lets his mind play the DvD logo bumping around and then fills in the blanks with whatever he wanted them to say.
Pony Express: "We are happy to have you back. Now that you are awake as a sole survivor the responsibility of our damages falls on you. We are suing you for all the damages for 460 bilion dolars."
I love the image of him waking up in bed and actually being able to sit up on his own at the end. I like to imagine that, despite Jimmy’s best efforts, he actually does get to find love, get a house, and get a promotion (as in get a job he actually enjoys and loves), like what Jimmy imagined him saying during his hallucination.
@@mightypurplelicious3209 Im unsure how it would actually work, but it looks like, in the end, he has prosthetics. I've seen people with prosthetic hands th at are functional. Also, im pretty sure there's ways you can communicate without speaking, yk? Sign language, writing words down, texting, text to speech, etc etc. :3
I know most of y'all won't agree, but maybe this really is a good ending for Curly. Some people (example: me) would prefer to pass away in this situation. But as far as we know, Curly might still have a will to live, to set the story straight, to see the sun, to smell the flowers, to touch the grass. One must imagine Curly as happy
Realistically... Being stuck to one spot for months, no meaningful sociolization, constantly in agony... Would probably break his brain first month or so lmao
Представь ты, без кожи без ножек и ручек, тебе больно даже дышать, ты срешь под себя и это огромное окилчесвто времени, о каком желании жить может идти речь?
I just know Curly had the worst survivor’s guilt in his last moment before being frozen, knowing that he failed to protect the people he swore he would.
GOD DAMN??? Im sorry you had to draw Jimmy but also Gosh I do get the feeling that with all the guilt he likely feels, he might have wished those few more days had passed. 'Its over,' like he wont have to live with what happened now
This really does make Curly surviving a happy ending... I wasn’t so sure, I suppose since there was such a high chance he would have woken alone 20yrs later. But it gives me hope. That ship will stay with him for the rest of his life, but it won’t BE his life anymore. Your worst moments don’t define you. I also like how he’s recovered! No prosthetic nose or hair, and he doesn’t sleep with his prosthetic limbs! I feel that perfect prosthetics miss the point of the themes and setting. Jimmy couldn’t imagine a perfect future so he gave up and tortured everyone to share the pain. But perfections never the point. Your best days might have passed but you can still eat a pie, make a new friend, breathe the smell of a poorly brewed coffee. There is so much joy to find in the life you didn’t envision.
The point of “worst moments don’t define you” isn’t that you’re a good person despite the bad things you do, it’s supposed to be ironic. Jimmy never changed despite knowing he was in the wrong for ages, Swansea’s worst moments is what he really longs for, Anya and Dasuke it’s hard to say but Curly’s worst moments are what made him in the condition he’s in. It’s what killed all his crewmates and what got Anya raped
luckily this is a future where food can be printed, starships exist and have medical technology that can let you survive 20 years without food or water, so maybe they can fix him physically.
I mean, we can almost do cyborg hands now, and we can absolutely do prosthetic feet. You probably can't do cryosleep or 20 year batteries without enough tech for a decent cyberhand
@@danmakes2497 I think they could probably just erase this experience from his head. All he would know is they safely made their journey and parted ways. Anya is probably a nurse somewhere, Jimmy is back on Earth trying to survive, Swansea is rightfully retired and Daisuke probably went to college or something
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola Knowing the company and how they are from what we hear, they either don't send out any one to find them due to saving up any money they have left and declaring everyone "dead", or if they do and they do erase Curly's mind, they'll erase everything to hide what happened and throw it under the rug to protect face rather then in interest for Curly.
i love the attention to detail in the ending. they managed to patch him up with skin grafts, yes, but he hasn't made a magical full recovery. he has prosthetics n a wheelchair. he wears a face mask bc he probably couldn't afford facial reconstruction surgery. he's got two pill bottles on his bedside table, i assume one for painkillers and one for immunosuppressants? it looks like both his eyes are gone cause having one constantly forced open probably damaged it a fair bit. a lot of thought went into this and i'm for it!! (also of course all the wonders of future medicine are still not quite enough to fix all the trauma...but as long as we're alive there's still time to get better)
Unrelated, but the Mouthwashing world is capable of space transportation to other planets(?) as ports is possible. HOW DOES CURLY NOT HAVE A NEW FIXED UP BODY? (unless he rejected it to keep SOME part of himself, cause he would look like Vader if they did so. But still.) Fixing him up should be easy enough 2 decades into an already advanced Earth. How??? Also i doubt medical bills would still be that high for some prosthetics for arms and legs, infact, that's probably the simplest prejudice they can grant Curly. To prove my point, look at the Tulpar, ain't the greatest but, as seen from the pre-crash conditions, it was actually very clean. Worked like a charm too. Has a built-in super-computer(?) and auto-pilot. THAT IS SOME ADVANCED SHIT. (we have it for cars but have you seen some for an actual SPACE SHIP?) HOW? PS - Sorry for being this aggressive, i just want to know.
He is moving against all odds which says wonders about there medicen as based off subtext Curleys skelton was irrevocably melted based on that clean Curley cake cut wich includes the spine wich makes you move
Pony Express most likely go bankrupt, I think it was Swansea who said that they are the last company to operate a human manned cargo ship that only got hired by a mouthwash company, and they can barely afford to pay 4 people and a maniac. It's most likely that Jimmy doomed their last hope altogether, either it's a fancy passenger cruiseline or a government's spaceship that found the Tulpar.
@henrycooper3431 That's actually very true! Yeah, I could imagine there being a case about it back on earth... It would be believable if the government sent someone to at least investigate the scene.
@@Thatgeeky_Artist since it's said that they are still 8 months away from the destination, and the fact that it's like 5 or 6 months afterwards by the time the game ends, people probably assume Tulpar is still on her voyage. After 2 or 3 months, someone will notice something is wrong, and the government probably try to investigate. They most likely want to atleast know what happened, and possibly praying the cryopods saved some (or most) of the crew until they... found whatever was left of it and our poor boy Curly.
The biggest surprise for me was seeing that an artist actually imagined what the Tulpar's exterior might be. I can only find the game level maps of it when I search it up. I think the reason they don't show it in the game is because they wanted a walled in claustrophobic feeling, but I like starships and the Tulpar is definitely up there for me as one of the most memorable despite us not seeing the outside. Love how here it has the storage unit on it's side like the game maps imply.
I can't fathom the trauma and physically, mentally and emotionally that Curley feels after everything he's been through, that quite serene heart to heart with Anya during her favourite nighttime screen to then seeing her take her lifeless body, overdosed, there was nothing he could do but lay helplessly as he was abused, as everyone suffered horrible fates around him.. all because of the one named 'Jimmy'
yeah. Another thing that I’ve been speculating about is that he was probably manipulated by j*mmy when they were friends. He always tried to see the good in people i think
Jimmy made him canblize himself and yoused steam to fource it down meaning his resoildfyed liquid insides where burn again his skeltone was melted as we know thank to the clean cut
Curly was consumed by the bigger picture. This is made evident during the nighttime screen scene with him and Anya. Anya points out a dead pixel on the display but Curly can't see it because he only sees the bigger picture and not smaller but bad details. Which is a nice transfer over to his relationship with Jimmy. He even told Anya, upon finding out Jimmy had assaulted her, that he'd known him for years and that he'd talk to him. He'd known Jimmy for a long time and couldn't make sense of the years of friendship they'd had to him doing something so disgusting like violating and impregnating a woman. I think his idealism also prevented him from understand Jimmy's much more selfish and self-aggrandizing pattern of thought. But this led to him leaving Anya defenseless. Anya who couldn't even have a lock on her living quarters and also couldn't get access to the gun in the case in order to defend herself against Jimmy. Hell, without the captain's scanner she couldn't even take the axe. She was left defenseless and at the mercy of Jimmy while Curly knew full well what was happening and to be honest I fault Curly. He's kind of a piece of shit for not immediately sequestering Jimmy. But there is some complexity in this situation because Curly still had months left on their voyage. Having Jimmy isolated, potentially being in one of the few locked rooms like med bay where Anya worked wouldn't have been ideal, trying to reassure Jimmy in a non-confrontational way also failed. So I guess I can empathize with the difficult situation Curly was left in. But at the same time, the self-righteous indignant part of me says he should have hogtied the piece shit and left him the storage room or shot him. But obviously that'd be hard if they were friends for years and he couldn't imagine him doing something so heinous to another person. In any case. FUCK. Jimmy.
Worst part? The medicine she took, to overdose, made her run out of breath and choke on her own blood, and she took that one specific medicine knowing that. So Curly had to endure seeing her slowly die in pain (hence why she was holding her stomach when we see her dead). He would have to live with that in his head, prob 24/7
Okay this hurt. It might be unrealistic, but it does make me feel better than at least his last moments won’t be stuck in that hellhole of a ship. It’s not a happy ending, but it’s a better ending.
I actually think it's pretty likely that he gets picked up. It's essentially said that they're being replaced by autonomous cargo ships without a crew. They probably still use the same traffic routes, and space regulations should be quite strict to avoid debris. The company might've disappeared, but a cleanup should definitely be in order. Regarding his recovery, well, the main structure of his body seemed somewhat intact. If they have cryo chambers, then they might have advanced prosthetics, skin grafts, and artificial muscles, though it would take a while to recover mentally. It might be serious post-game coping, but I like to believe in this animation 😌
@justsimplyfaith no his bones where melted and his nerv2s are likleynalso melted we know this as his leg cut like butter side note they would only recover it for the ship's price
It's probably a more interesting ending than simply dying in a cryopod after 20 or less years. I do wonder what he would regret the most for these extra years he has been given. Perhaps not sticking Jimmy in a cryopod or otherwise stop him from crashing the ship while he still could have?
You know, besides curly never letting jimmy on the ship in the first place, shoving him in the cryo pod to deal with once the ship has landed somewhere safe sounds like the second best ending.
@@timothy6583 I see Jimmy's final act as completely selfish and cowardly. I feel like the only reason why he cared so much about keeping Curly alive is because, in his twisted narssisistic mind, as long as Curly lives, then he doesn't have to take responsability for any of his crimes and mistakes, cause "the captain is responsible for the crew". As long as Curly is alive, he is still the captain, even if he can't perform his duties. Jimmy died as he lived. Like a coward, refusing to take responsability.
Man, I dunno if getting rescued and surviving is any better. Curly's twisted sense of compassion is what caused him to be an enabler to Jimmy, and that same compassion is gonna torment him for the rest of his life knowing that he is partially responsible for everyones death.
I love every part of this! But the final frame of Curly in bed is so touching with all the details present in it. The prosthetic mask on the desk, the wheelchair, the two prosthetic legs, made the scene feel truly thought through
auggh thats blood curdling. 'no more responsibility' while the camera pans over the corpses. deranged. the post credits gives us a sense of curly alive and with hope, but at the same time he will clearly never be free from everything that happened and his responsibility - nor should he be. its chilling and bittersweet and i really enjoyed how this came together. i also appreciate his post-canon appearance. i like when artists don't hold back on allowing him to look like someone in his condition almost certainly would look.
Многие кстати пишут мол на Тулпар просто забьют и Кëрли просто умрёт через 20 лет скорее всего, но хочу подметить что инцидент скорее всего обязаны будут расследовать. Не из-за груза, ценностей и так далее, а, ну.. Просто потому что это случилось. И связь хоть какая-то у них была с Землёй, так что авария скорее всего была зафиксирована, в том числе и тот факт что корабль был уничтожен членом экипажа. В общем, несмотря на общее настроение игры и прочее, у Кëрли на самом деле довольно высокий шанс на исход, показанный в анимации.
На базе могли бы получить сигнал о том, что корабль столкнулся с астеройдами и не выходит на связь (что по сути так и есть) следовательно все члены экипажа погибли. А если бы его нашли, то это был бы глубоко ментально и физически травмированный человек. Но если бы да кабы на носу росли грибы. Поэтому: концовка открытая->я могу создать что-то что объясняет концовку->эта концовка открытая, следовательно это что-то может быть каноном->делаю гуд эндинг потому что шиза мне сказала что "убивает 99,99%" на упаковки средства для ополаскивателя рта это 99,99 - экипаж Тульпара, а 0.01 - израненый и переколеченый Кёрли + я бы всё таки хотел в своей жизни больше хороших вещей (например Кёрли жив и ему выплачивают пособия по инвалидности)
@@helius4057 Скорее всего после крушения началась длинная бюрократическая машина с целью "спасения", из за чего она затянулась на месяца, но в конечном итоге чтобы корабль, и не заметили? Большой объект, грузоперевозками занимается, на них вполне могли выйти какие нибудь пираты до крушения, а после крушения начать мародёрить, но поскольку этого вроде как не случилось, то возможно Кёрли найдут какие-нибудь мусорщики, а вообще странно что криокапсула отключилась, подготовить её к экстренным ситуациям дело пары аккумуляторов, и сомневаюсь что Кёрли бы вообще выжил, если следовать той же логики, криокапсула не разморозила его, а просто перестала работать, то есть внутри должен быть обмёрзший труп. Ну это всё только догадки и точного ответа мы дать не можем.
@@ivangochin9646 по сути, даже полностью рабочая криокапсула не спасла бы его). В игре показали тупо морозилку, которая ни с кровью ничего не сделала чтобы та не сделала БУМ при разморозке, ни с мозгом (там при разморозке кристализуются мелчайшие частички воды вроде как. Уже не слишком хорошо помню, давненько изучал эту тему) Короче, просто условности. Всё вышесказанное можно почти ко всем проектам отнести, где принимает участие криосон.
Imagine he never got rescued. Despite the suffering, The pain, The blood, the dead bodies in the ship, lost in space, maybe forever, Stuck, depressed, sad knowing he had sworn to protect the crew but failed. Despite all that. He is still unable to end it all as he has no limbs
See alot of people saying how this is a happy ending but, yea no i dont see it that way, especially with the mention of he was days away from death, its all id want after all of this.
Exactly!!! After all that happened to curly I wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted to die. As I continued watching curly throughout the game I kept on wondering why nobody even considered to put him to rest and let him die.
He's going to have a lot of problems I think. First of all he could go blind since his only healthy eye was just missing the eyelids that would protect the retina. Secondly he'd definitely have a lot of mental problems after what he's been through. And not having arms and legs doesn't make things any better for him either. Even if he recovers it would take a long time and his life would be an eternal struggle. I was actually wondering if it was humane to leave him alive after the crash back when all the crew members were still alive according to the game's storyline. So you are absolutely right, this ending is only a good ending depending on who is looking at it. But I prefer to think of it as lying for the greater good. If it makes anyone feel better that Curly survived, so be it. Believing in the best is the only thing left.
@@helius4057 what book does mouthwashing remind you of? wasn't that much text btw, i think you have a very intelligent understanding of the story it's nice to see that illustrated as well with his grief portrayed so well
it's pretty bleak, yeah. p appropriate given the responsibility themes tho. Curly has to try and carry on despite knowing that his unwillingness to be responsible and address his friend's cruelty caused the crash. so even worse of an ending from that perspective, but pretty well earned.
It doesn't matter what happens curly is the most tragic victim among all the crew Whether he never get rescued and wake up when the cryo pod start failing and have to go through agonizing slow death alone in deep space with his crumbling ship and decomposing crew Or even if he get rescued like here, he get to live but his body get disabled and deformed (as spinal injury patient i know how it feels) and he have to lived with the sense of guilt that he as a captain failed to prevent of what happened to the other crew, that he failed to see how a monster is jimmy despite all the redflag he shows While jimmy get to end his life with no guilt whatsoever, he get to die genuinly thinking that he did good, that he "fix" all the problem
He shouldn't be able to move or feel anything at least as his nerves were likely melted meaning at least he has minimal pain in his condition and we know this thanks to the clean leg cut
This is a terrible take imo. I actually think curly got what he deserved. Jimmy raped Anya, and Anya was so clearly traumatized and terrified of Jimmy. She said she was pregnant but Jimmy didn't care about her or what he did to her, he only cared about the consequences of his actions if they were to return to earth. So what does curly do after learning all of this? Nothing. He could've locked jimmy in a room for example, since he seemed super anxious about the consequences AND anya was super scared of him. But no, all he does is say "Everything will be alright." While keeping Jimmy free to do whatever he wants because what.. they're friends??? It's like finding out your friend is a murderer, doing nothing about it, then when he kills you suddenly it's "tragic". Total bs. Shame he didn't suffer more honestly.
Honestly I prefer this ending to him dying in the pod. It would be easier, albeit still a good choice, to just let him die slowly in space, but having him be saved and returned to Earth means having to face what happened. Taking responsibility. Having to come to terms with his trauma, guilt, and life-altering wounds, just gives a kind of depth that a quiet death in space can't give, I reckon. And its a beautiful tone shift, as well. Because many people, who end up with severe disabilities or trauma like Curly, they still continue with life- there is no grand finale. No quiet death. Life just goes on, and I count this as an opportunity for Curly to heal and leave the tragedy in the past, best he can.
Curly would have been promoted, start a family, enjoy his life. Swansea would have returned home, apply to some new mundane job but hopeful for the future, at least in Daisuke. Daisuke would have moved on, still uncertain for what to make of his life. perhaps study for engineering. Hang out with Swansea every now and then. Anya would have delivered her child, traumatized, terrified. It's uncertain whether she keeps the child, but we have to believe our worst moments don't make us monsters. Curly would be there to support her 100% of the way. She would seek therapy and maybe continue trying to get into medical school. Jimmy would have been ostracized, tried and sent to jail for his actions. SA (20 years), Attempted murder x4 with malice aforethought (4 life sentences), Attempted murder of a starship captain with malice aforethought (2 life sentences "Varies") Total: 20 years and 6 life sentences. But that isn't what happened. Afterall, we have our own responsibilities. Our own version of it in any case.
@ exactly, I’m not saying that it would make her a monster. Even in the darkest moments of our lives, where everything goes wrong, it doesn’t mean we are monsters, but the victims of monsters. I was saying it for dramatic flair because that’s what Anya tells Curly during the night screen scene.
I watched so many Mouthwashing vids but I never considered that the party hallucination was Jimmy literally propping up the crew's corpses at the table.
I think it was the case since in the final scene where he carries Curly to the cryo pod, they're still sitting at the table but they all are slumped over. Think the implication is that he propped them up and in his delusion thought they were cheering him on, meanwhile they were just sitting there in silence
gosh i can't decide if the very very ending makes it more or less horrifying. amazing artwork and sound design, really stunning! edit: as in, it's wonderful that he *did* survive it all, but god i can't imagine dreaming that repeatedly.....
you mention in other comments that Curly surviving and being rescued might not actually be a happy ending for him. after all, being alive would mean carrying all the pain and deaths that occurred on the Tulpar. i feel like this animation carries that idea perfectly! for example, Curly starting to cry after the doctor tells him how he was lucky to be found, when he was almost dead. is he crying because he got to go home after all the trauma, or because the release he was waiting for got taken away from him yet again? especially the way it cuts to Curly crying while in the cryopod after it shuts down. that juxtaposition is made even better with the text we can read (also note how there isn't a "voice bleep" like when the doctor was talking, implying it's not them.) a doctor saying "it's over" after rescuing a dying man that clearly did not receive adequate medical care after his accident makes sense. but the following texts, "no more pain," "no more responsibility," read more like Curly being glad he's about to die. the ending where he wakes up in bed just ties it all together: showing how he continued to live, but the nightmares of what happened still follow him.
On the other hand, this way the world gets the chance to hear what actually happend to the Tulpar crew. Even though the damage can't be undone, maybe sharing the truth would prevent a story like this from happening again
No matter how awful, how disgusting, how utterly hopeless the entire world feel right now…. So long as you’re still alive, the next second CAN be better then all the ones before it. I have to believe that. I’ll never let anyone take that away from me.
"Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right."
oh this made me misty eyed.... curly is my favorite character and this squeezed my heart so much. someone who's able to tell the tale of what happened on the tulpar that day, and he's able to form memories that aren't of what jimmy did to them all, and can properly move forward instead of the twisted sense of responsibility jimmy tried to take for him... i love the detail that, at the end, he has a proper house, prosthetics at his side, and can sit up for himself. growth, despite jimmy viewing him as nothing more than a blank slate to be projected on and a body to drag around however he liked. this is beautiful. the artstyle is lovely too, i adore lineless stuff, and the texture of the shading is all wonderful 💕
yeah. And j*mmy is a master manipulator, so he was probably manipulating curly for all the years they were friends for, so that’s likely why Curly couldn’t just shoot j*mmy or put him in a cryostasis chamber
Please reevaluate how you view the actions of a man who enabled a r-pist, if he had shoved Jimmy in a pod after Anya told him what he did, none of this would have happened
@@oscaruncomfortable Please evaluate that we are observing a man at the end of the story in a fucked up situation in which Curly got his just punishment (his body got destroyed, he continued to live, he was shown in harsh detail just what he was enabling, he got to see who he literally killed through his actions, he had to eat his own body and throw up, he got to watch everybody die, and though this is a happy ending, realistically he either continued to live in space for a long time, or if found, got punished for the actions of others.) At some point, we might say that he got the punishment he deserved, don't you think. And all that he has left are the regrets. Living is a bigger punishment than dying here. Media literacy in horror stories is important, and being willing to understand why people may like morally gray fictional characters is equally so important.
@@oscaruncomfortable me when someone likes a character who did a bad thing (i hate that character because they did a bad thing and nobody should be allowed to like them and if they like them then they need to rethink things and hate them actually)
@@SugarCubCurly didn't deserve that. Yes, he made a mistake, when tried to protect Jimmy, but don't forget about human factor. Jimmy was his friend and they went through a lot together. I believe, that he wanted to help Anya, he just too soft and non-conflict person, who always trying to find a compromise and not bring discord to the crew. Yes, it's bad and awful, that he was ready to protect Jimmy even after what he did. But still it's not enough for such a cruel punishment like this. Lol, you may hate for that words, but I think even Jimmy didn't deserve that (despite what biggest piece of dog shit he is). Edit: omg, one hundred likes, guys, I love you so much😍😍😍
@@SugarCub id like 2 bring to the table that. why would he antagonize jimmy😭 in hindsight we know jimmy could and would fucking kill them i dont think things like that just. pop up out of the blue there probably wouldve been SOME warning signs he was a little kooky (derogatory) (editing because i forgot a point) even if that mf didnt like. go full on fucking crazy it wouldnt be nice to live in with that guy for. a year. on a trapped ship. in the middle of SPACE
Beautiful animation, I'm glad Curly gets some closure even if it's fanmade. While it's certainly not a happy ending, it's definitely the happiest possible outcome given the circumstances. Certainly depressing to think he could have very likely succumbed to his wounds while in the cryochamber, or woke up only to starve when nobody found him. The crew of the Tulpar (minus Jimmy) deserved better...
I was SO READY to come down here and flame on you for doing my man Curly that way, then the final few seconds happened. Thank you for that. That's the ending I imagined for Curly. He may not have been a perfect person, but he wasn't evil and tried to fix his mistakes, and that's what led to his condition. I'm just sorry he's gonna have to live with those memories...
He wasn't evil, but he definitely wasn't a good man allowing Jimmy to do anything he wanted without consequence (and especially doing everything but flat out ignoring Anya). Brother he just floated the idea of crashing the ship because he didn't want to go to jail, *you. need. to. jettison him.* At this point Curly has been given a second chance to take responsibility post-mortem for Jimmy's crimes; Swansea had a wife and children, Daisuke had parents. He could go to them and give them the closure and apologies they deserve, if they're still alive, because Curly was the one who let this happen.
Most likely they did think that. Assuming everyone on the ship believed Curly had been responsible, that thought may have been held by the doctors as well.
@@basedintellectual9704Right, right. Then again, capitalism's number one trait is Watching It's Workers To Make Sure They're Not Resting. So up to personal headcanon. Edir right after writing : Frankly, I just want them to finally get Curly a way to communicate somehow, he tells the what happened, they don't believe him, and after a while they finally find the old camera footage they were searching for. Cue lots of comforting a quadruple amputee burn victim that was traumatised from watching all his friends die. I just want a happy or even bittersweet ending for him.
Gives me goosebumps. Well done. And excellent music choice. For those who don't have Russian keyboards - the name of the song is "Берегите берёзы" by "Почему коммутатор молчит".
Curly deserved better to be honest. He was literally the definition of "Too good for your own good". He saw hope in everyone, so much so that it blinded him from reality, which led to everyone's downfall.
I hope he can honor his lost crew mates by telling their story and living on for them. Save for a certain co-pilot, they were all good people who deserved better.
This is so cool! Got chills running down my arms, neck and back with the impactful sound design and visuals. I really hope this gets featured somewhere bc holy crap, this is incredible!!!
God I’m just so obsessed with this, pacing around mentally rn. I have so many thoughts about post canon rescue curly and you captured so much of the fear and guilt and uncertainty and trauma and how hard it would be to have to live and move forward after all this, how the rescue is seen as the end but there’s so much more to go. The shot of him waking up at the end after such horrible visions, after maybe thinking he shouldn’t have been rescued n should’ve died with the others, it really shows what a hopeless horrible place he was pulled from. The atmosphere is just so hauntingly on point. But also the spark of hope. The life there to live and find, the body to reclaim away from the shadows in his mind. Just ayFFGG obseSSEDDD so deeply you captured so much so s so perfectly ayGGGHHH
This feels almost like a bittersweet ending. Curly survived, but at what cost? Would it even be worth it by then? It's heartbreaking and you pulled it off so well, i love this so much agh q-q
Sorta off topic, but I can’t even begin to fathom who miserable it must be to live in such a helpless existence where the sweet embrace of death WOULD LITERALLY BE a sweet embrace and yet powerless to even communicate it
That's great, I've been curious about what would happen after those 20 years in canon but I guess we're never getting that😂 At least people can come up with their own stuff
oh god this is so well made ... i felt really bad for curly .. waking up after 20 years and yet he as to overcome his traumas and try to live "normally" again after everyting..
Я ПРОСТО НА КОЛЕНЯХ ПЕРЕД АВТОРОМ, это настолько атмосферно и красиво! А так, я думаю что это не такой уж и выдуманный исход, за 20 лет найти судно, которое летит по определенному маршруту возможно(хотя правильнее сказать, что после крушения они просто плыли по космическому пространству в том направлении, котором они были на момент столкновения с этим астероидом), так что если на пути этого судна опять не встретится пара десятков астероидов, то я думаю компания бы забила тревогу, так как заказчик, для которого как раз таки и шел груз( они же не просто так везли эти ротомойки) начал бы возмущаться, где их товар, а там уже и расследование, и поиски. Короче нашли бы, но могу сказать точно, это были бы супер сложные и наверни-ка долгие поиски. Но вот выжил ли керли? Хз. Все таки я не думаю что полученные травмы совместимы с жизнью, плюс заморозка тоже бы сказалась на его здоровье. Остается только гадать сколько ему осталось, хотя это же бушующие, возможно там уже медицина вышла на совершенно иной уровень. Так чтооо. Все может быть(да и он как-то существовал 4 или сколько там месяцев, после крушения)
In the distant future that this game takes place, I like to imagine they have tools to help Curly live well. The last scene seems to indicate some independence, as he was finally able to get up on his own
I will never mentally recover from this game, nor this video. Expect my bill for therapy in the mail. Curse you and your talent for making gut wrenching works of art.
I think that's him in his last days after the ship's backup energy depletes, he is finally rejoicing on the thought of not having to bare the pain and guilt of it all, but then they probably found him a couple of days before he starved to death.
"Oh, you were thinking the company would take everything from you if you were to survive what you went through? Well alot can happen in 20 years, even accounting for relativity, businesses like the Poney Express and their inhumane business practices have been put on the chopping block with their CEOs facing lifetime imprisonments. And with the New Humanitarian Convention: they can't buy their way out of it, well, not without the hair trigger explosives in their neck detonating. Things are still hard, times are always hard. But the ways of human exploitation are coming to an end. For now."
мне страшно думать о том, сколько он должен будет выплатить корпорации за ущерб кораблю, товару, который там перевозили, потерю команды, и собственное лечение.
@@CEBAHTNYСудя по передачам из телика и всему настроению игры, Поняхи не единственные жадные ушлепки, для которых работники это вещи, и весь их мир это какая-то гиперкапиталистическая антиутопия. Если это и на их систему здравоохранения и социального страхования распространяется (а обычно распространяется), то подобный вариант развития событий выглядит наиболее вероятным😢 П. С. Сомневаюсь, что капитан будет признан невиновным, учитывая сколько на нём висело обязанностей.
Hope he was able to sue Pony Express to help pay his medical bills on this last trip. It a terrible way to live but he at least gets to see the actual sun, feel the wind on his skin, to actually live not in pain but outside it. This is a lot better end, it doesn't make everything better but it better then him dying alone on a ship with last image being of freakin jimmy. As in a way it saying, despite every HORRIFIC thing you experience... Life moves on. Poor Curly.
With how often I've seen pessimistic outlooks about Curly 20 years after that mess, I'm reminded that we all have attitudes like Jimmy's deep inside us, and that we find them easier to allow as long as we believe that we have someone worse we can more conveniently bother to work our egos on. Jimmy is so despised because he was shown knowing that he was doing heinous things but hid and drowned himself away in his flaws, perverting the idea of not letting one's worst moments define them. So yeah, with this animatic of yours, HElius, I'm glad that you're working your faith and bravery here to remind us that if our worst moments must define us, then at least we can let them define us in the best ways. Better to take a graceful loss than to take a hollow win. And besides, we're all fools meant to grow into wisdom, and the worst foolishness we can do is to keep ourselves from growing as we should. And Jimmy did the worst foolishness to everyone he could reach, himself included. As for Curly, even with low chances, I hope that he would live and not just survive.
The fact that above all- Curly almost certinaly was praying for death every second after the crash and Jimmy kept him alive through the selfishness of needing to be the hero, and to 'fix' the things he did, and Curly was the sole survivor- also not to mention the fact that Curly had to witness everything due to the fact that he could not close his eye
I liked both endings i thought this video gave me. THe first, of course is rthat he actually gets to heal. THe one i thought that happened was that he halucinated him being saved, or imagined it, while the air supply ran out or the cryo pod ran out of power. That ending wouldve been so on theme with the game in how gutwrenching that wouldve been. very nice animation
i LOVE the details in the end. The prosthetic legs, the wheelchair, the mask, the pills, the scars omg I love this you’re really good at art Edit; and the ship as well!! It’s exactly how I imagined it!! I keep noticing new things about this i am genuinely amazed this is AWESOME
Poor Curly, he has to live with the trauma and guilt after being saved :( I just hope he learns to cope despite everything, the only good thing about this is that he doesn't have to have Jimmy as his last memory before he dies, ive seen alot of fanart with surviving Curly and i love the fact that they all give him a service dog lol
20 years later and all that's left is regret. There is no one left to take responsibility for what happened. He lost everything he had but his life, and now he has to live with it. That is his burden to bear.
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the sad fact is jimmy killed himself before he saw if the pod closed and froze curly over. jim didnt care if the pod actually worked and froze curly, he wanted to play the hero at the end of his story so he died before knowing if he really 'saved the day'.
He just wanted to be done
to leave and pretend that he cares
@@Carrots_and_kiwi_equal_dinos I guess in the end he was the one who tried "leaving the dirt behind"
while i was playing i fully expected jimmy not activating the pod and curly just slowly bleeding out, trapped
Holy shit he sucks
canonically he did freeze curly i believe, when you go out of bounds during the cutscene you do see the pod freeze
You drew the Tulpar exactly how I imagined it, like a rusty tank-like/boxy ship
@@ObsidianGloria Wow, thank you so much! I made this drawing based on the ship map in the game itself. And I was actually quite surprised when I realized that the cargo bay is somewhere to the right of the cockpit and is larger than the main ship. It was an interesting experience, even though I'm not very good at drawing ships or machinery
@@helius4057 LOL You say you’re not very good at drawing ships or machinery, but you made an absolutely awesome animation full of both, and it looks fucking great. You’re much better than you think.
A large coffin.
lowkey thought it looked like the futurama ship
A small corridor surrounding the massive cargo is such a good analogy for the company’s priorities, my only gripe is that you didn’t add Wake Rock crashed into the ship
With “a captain always goes down with his ship” being a theme in the game, him being the sole survivor despite it all fits so extremely well.
Fr something so ironic and tragic at the same time
I really do not think that's the theme of the game dude. More like "don't rape people."
@ im not saying that’s the overall theme of the game, just that it was _a_ theme. a minor one because it was said once, but it’s still present enough to mention since curly was the last one alive.
@@MYLAR. Eh good point.
@@minimalgrammar1276 The theme of the game is the antithesis of what was being said by the characters. "Your worst moment doesnt make you a monster" But every single character dies and if found will be remembered for there worst moments. Now what worst moments means is different for every person.
It’s very sad to imagine that in the probable future, Curly just wakes up, still in the Tulpar, and starves to death or something like that, while looking at Jimmy or just the cold wall in front of him
It's silly to think that his capsule would survive that long. The other 3 capsules were destroyed by the foam alone, do you think the 4th would have survived even if it continued to be "protected" by the rest of the ship?
@@monoposting4017 good point, and I hope you’re right. That’s a lot less painful
@@monoposting4017 From what Jimmy said, those capsules can last for more than 20 years.
@@monoposting4017 no the other 3 capsules we're destroyed as a result of the crash. we also know the emergency foam is designed to fill in holes in the ship. the crash breaking a pod window or loosening a bolt would have been enough for the foam to leak in, expand and destroy its internals. the foam itself wouldn't do too much damage.
the surviving pod was functional but considering the severe damage the ship is in I'm doubtful it would keep working for its 20 year lifespan, especially since Pony Express is "known for cutting corners". so yeah, chances are kinda slim for Curly surviving just for different reasons you suggested.
@@LizNaNoruega the lifepod failing early would actually be an excruciating death.
he'd wake up just to see the desiccated corpse of Jimmy in front of him while slowly suffocating from zero oxygen. alternatively if there was any oxygen left (no surviving crew members means no oxygen was consumed during cryo and there were no oxygen leaks) he'd just slowly die of starvation as not only can he not move and definitely can't feed himself, there's no food left.
what's worse is there's no one there to feed him painkillers. he'd be writhing in pain the entire time.
Knowing how shitty Pony Express treats their employees it’s probably unlikely Curly ever got rescued, but it’s still nice that they left it at a cliffhanger to leave it up for ourselves.
Yeah but do you think other companies will just let a spaceship that hasn't reported in 20 years float in space? They are atleast gonna go get it and salvage the wrecks
Given there are probably other ships flying through this one route, I would expect someone beside a bankrupted company to find them
I’d assume it would be scavengers and not a rescue team
@@purpleblah2 "jonas check it out"
"unless you found something good i don't wanna hear it. everything here is either rotting, too risky to take out, or damaged."
"no-- there's a guy in the cryopod--! still breathing!"
"motherfucker. do we have to report this? you-- just go on and forget you saw him. not our responsibility."
"it's not right!"
@@mustaadtheguy at minimum go back, not for the crew, but for the thousands of dollars of mouthwash gone to waste
I thought there was going to be a twist where twenty years pass and no one ever found him, glad to see you made curly a better ending.
As pessimistic as I am, I wouldn't want to see anyone suffer, even if it's a fictional character.
@@helius4057 Thanks for confirming this, I misinterpetted his rescue as a hallucination.
I'm glad it doesn't hurt anymore.
@@helius4057 both fates are horrible, fitting for this game
@@helius4057 absolutely adored all the detail in his room, the painkillers, the prosthetic legs (both matching stub lengths) wheelchair, mask to hide his deformed face, everything about it is amazing.
The ability to share what happened, to make sure its known, how good of a nurse Anya was, how kind Diasuke was despite not wanting to be there, how hard Swansea tried to save the one who should've never been there
And of course, that, while our worst moments don't make us monsters, the one who should've taken responsibility for their deaths is where he belongs: the deepest pit of hell.
this shit making me tear up bro 😭😭😭😭😭
And also the chicanery of SLIPPERY FUCKING JIMMY
But what about Jimmy? You forgot him 🥺
@@DostoFyoHe doomed the crew and made them die 😊
The mask, the wheelchair, the legs. Something so beautiful yet haunting about him carrying on. Like real trauma survivors, he has to live forever with the consequences of decisions that someone else made for him. It doesn’t make it not worth it, but god is it rough.
He still has a major part to play in his demise. He let Jimmy on the ship and overlooked the fact his friend was obviouslly mentally unstable. He could of taken action but decided to ignore it and had to pay serious consequences. He wasn't evil but he made those decisions, him and his crew suffered for it.
@@beem9765
I agree. For him, the worst part is that he does have a role in what happened. There is no escaping that survivor guilt with logic.
Curly ain't innocent tho for not protecting Anya for being biased in choosing jimmy as co pilot instead of being more thorough the irony of him saying how he always looks back to view the bigger picture only to miss the biggest one of all despite all the glaring hints that were dropped in front of him because of his rose tinted glass relationship with Jimmy it's ironic, tragic hauntingly beautiful imo
yeah he then has to live knowing he couldve done something, he couldve helped anya, he couldve stopped jimmy, but he didnt because he wanted to be on everyones good side, and then not to mention all the shit that he had to witness, like anya killing herself, jimmy beating him and shoving his meds down his throat, watching daisuke bleed out on the ground in the medical room, having to hear everyone else die, hearing jimmy kill himself, and having the severe physical trauma aswell from the crash
@ you’re right, he isn’t. He did a lot of harm. But I also don’t think he should’ve faced the fate he did.
For someone like Curly, I feel like one of the first things he would do is talk to the families of his crewmembers
Не думаю что он физически сможет
Thats the worse thing.. he'll never bw able to tell anyone what really happened@@LeramFlor
Their parents would probably all be like 70 or 80 -- and no one mentions siblings. I don't think there's much talking for him to do.
Can he even talk, let alone write with the condition he’s in?
@@Dr.Lilacwillseeyounow это больно осознавать....
It's truly never over. A piece of him is always going to stay in the Tulpar.
Like his arms and legs
@@basedintellectual9704 You're right, but that was foul
Yeah his hands
Probably whatever was spattered during the crash too
Leg
It's hard to say whether this could be considered a "good ending" for Curly or not. However, I like to believe that him living for a few more years with the opportunity to heal is better than dying in that hell, with his last memories being... well, Jimmy
It's an ending, that's enough
Nobody's last memory should be jimmy.
@@angrybrony thats such a legendary comment
There is no way Carly could’ve not hated Jimmy’s guts at the end of that game
@@magicalgrim3471 he would have rong his neck he still had hand.
Jimmy choosing to prolong Curly's suffering is the most fucked up thing he could've done. Jimmy didn't understand why Swansea chose to detach Daisuke's head, even after it was explained to him. And Jimmy failed to take that into account at the very end. All of his actions only created or prolonged suffering.
To be fair Jimmy's main character trait is that whenever another person is talking to him, he just lets his mind play the DvD logo bumping around and then fills in the blanks with whatever he wanted them to say.
Pony Express: "We are happy to have you back. Now that you are awake as a sole survivor the responsibility of our damages falls on you. We are suing you for all the damages for 460 bilion dolars."
subnautica ending ass vibes
Nah this fr how it would go
@name_isme3245except pony express went defunct/bankrupt 20 years before??? Like its not even real at that point
luckily, there is no more pony express!
@@Xenosilver_ mhm, they probabaly got discontinued and no longer in business and kown as a lost business if you think about 20 years
I love the image of him waking up in bed and actually being able to sit up on his own at the end. I like to imagine that, despite Jimmy’s best efforts, he actually does get to find love, get a house, and get a promotion (as in get a job he actually enjoys and loves), like what Jimmy imagined him saying during his hallucination.
This is a nice scenario to think about. Thank you for commenting this. :)
how will he work or do anything without hands or feet or a voice?
@@mightypurplelicious3209
Im unsure how it would actually work, but it looks like, in the end, he has prosthetics. I've seen people with prosthetic hands th at are functional. Also, im pretty sure there's ways you can communicate without speaking, yk? Sign language, writing words down, texting, text to speech, etc etc. :3
@@mightypurplelicious3209 Isn't this the future? Are there no advanced capabilities for transplanting artificial hands or faces?
@@shi_shitaneither he doesn't have any money and can only afford prosthetic
I know most of y'all won't agree, but maybe this really is a good ending for Curly. Some people (example: me) would prefer to pass away in this situation. But as far as we know, Curly might still have a will to live, to set the story straight, to see the sun, to smell the flowers, to touch the grass. One must imagine Curly as happy
Indomitable Curly spirit
Realistically... Being stuck to one spot for months, no meaningful sociolization, constantly in agony... Would probably break his brain first month or so lmao
@@stoorooskhe's asleep from the start of stasis until whenever it wears off (at max, 20 years later)
Представь ты, без кожи без ножек и ручек, тебе больно даже дышать, ты срешь под себя и это огромное окилчесвто времени, о каком желании жить может идти речь?
@XakyYokku-kv4jx no offence, I have no idea what you just said
im shocked this isnt more popular, this deserves so much more attention
it's barely been 2 Hours
It's been 3 hours bro
it's been 13 hours chill 😭
@@vittahere ik but the channel only has like 450 subs
It’s been 2 weeks bro chill
I just know Curly had the worst survivor’s guilt in his last moment before being frozen, knowing that he failed to protect the people he swore he would.
GOD DAMN??? Im sorry you had to draw Jimmy but also Gosh I do get the feeling that with all the guilt he likely feels, he might have wished those few more days had passed. 'Its over,' like he wont have to live with what happened now
i'm sorry you had to draw jimmy LMAO you're so right for that
Its so fucking funny seeing everyone dunking on Jimmy lmao
Alteast they drew him dead 🥰🌺
"Im sorry You had to draw/animate/voice over Jimmy" is my favorite piece of the fandom
@@CptnMango9108 Its such a good running bit
This really does make Curly surviving a happy ending... I wasn’t so sure, I suppose since there was such a high chance he would have woken alone 20yrs later. But it gives me hope. That ship will stay with him for the rest of his life, but it won’t BE his life anymore.
Your worst moments don’t define you.
I also like how he’s recovered! No prosthetic nose or hair, and he doesn’t sleep with his prosthetic limbs!
I feel that perfect prosthetics miss the point of the themes and setting. Jimmy couldn’t imagine a perfect future so he gave up and tortured everyone to share the pain. But perfections never the point. Your best days might have passed but you can still eat a pie, make a new friend, breathe the smell of a poorly brewed coffee.
There is so much joy to find in the life you didn’t envision.
I just want you to know that your interpretation slaps. Bravo.
This interpretation is what happens now and no one can tell me otherwise
yeah, the detail of Curly not sleeping with his prosthetics is very nice- its real realistic! im glad someone else noted this as well
Is it just me or it looks like he lost his remaining eye? I mean, he didn't had eyelids and was frozen for 20 years so it would make sense
The point of “worst moments don’t define you” isn’t that you’re a good person despite the bad things you do, it’s supposed to be ironic. Jimmy never changed despite knowing he was in the wrong for ages, Swansea’s worst moments is what he really longs for, Anya and Dasuke it’s hard to say but Curly’s worst moments are what made him in the condition he’s in. It’s what killed all his crewmates and what got Anya raped
luckily this is a future where food can be printed, starships exist and have medical technology that can let you survive 20 years without food or water, so maybe they can fix him physically.
I mean, we can almost do cyborg hands now, and we can absolutely do prosthetic feet. You probably can't do cryosleep or 20 year batteries without enough tech for a decent cyberhand
Mentally though? He would take a long while, maybe not even revocer. A shell of his former self
@@danmakes2497 I think they could probably just erase this experience from his head. All he would know is they safely made their journey and parted ways. Anya is probably a nurse somewhere, Jimmy is back on Earth trying to survive, Swansea is rightfully retired and Daisuke probably went to college or something
Stick him in a Dreadnought
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola Knowing the company and how they are from what we hear, they either don't send out any one to find them due to saving up any money they have left and declaring everyone "dead", or if they do and they do erase Curly's mind, they'll erase everything to hide what happened and throw it under the rug to protect face rather then in interest for Curly.
i love the attention to detail in the ending. they managed to patch him up with skin grafts, yes, but he hasn't made a magical full recovery. he has prosthetics n a wheelchair. he wears a face mask bc he probably couldn't afford facial reconstruction surgery. he's got two pill bottles on his bedside table, i assume one for painkillers and one for immunosuppressants? it looks like both his eyes are gone cause having one constantly forced open probably damaged it a fair bit. a lot of thought went into this and i'm for it!! (also of course all the wonders of future medicine are still not quite enough to fix all the trauma...but as long as we're alive there's still time to get better)
Unrelated, but the Mouthwashing world is capable of space transportation to other planets(?) as ports is possible. HOW DOES CURLY NOT HAVE A NEW FIXED UP BODY? (unless he rejected it to keep SOME part of himself, cause he would look like Vader if they did so. But still.)
Fixing him up should be easy enough 2 decades into an already advanced Earth. How??? Also i doubt medical bills would still be that high for some prosthetics for arms and legs, infact, that's probably the simplest prejudice they can grant Curly.
To prove my point, look at the Tulpar, ain't the greatest but, as seen from the pre-crash conditions, it was actually very clean. Worked like a charm too. Has a built-in super-computer(?) and auto-pilot. THAT IS SOME ADVANCED SHIT. (we have it for cars but have you seen some for an actual SPACE SHIP?) HOW?
PS - Sorry for being this aggressive, i just want to know.
I think his eyes were replaced with smth like cameras, so they are dark, like our ones on smartphones.
I zoomed on his eye, looks like it's still here, bu it was drawn discretly because why no after all.
He is moving against all odds which says wonders about there medicen as based off subtext Curleys skelton was irrevocably melted based on that clean Curley cake cut wich includes the spine wich makes you move
I like to believe that Pony payed his full recovery and a compensation so he could have a decent life.
But knowing Pony...
Who knows, maybe Pony went bankrupt during those 20 years. and he was saved by the government or other organization.
Well, to avoid a lawsuit, they'd probably pay him anyways.
Pony Express most likely go bankrupt, I think it was Swansea who said that they are the last company to operate a human manned cargo ship that only got hired by a mouthwash company, and they can barely afford to pay 4 people and a maniac. It's most likely that Jimmy doomed their last hope altogether, either it's a fancy passenger cruiseline or a government's spaceship that found the Tulpar.
@henrycooper3431 That's actually very true! Yeah, I could imagine there being a case about it back on earth... It would be believable if the government sent someone to at least investigate the scene.
@@Thatgeeky_Artist since it's said that they are still 8 months away from the destination, and the fact that it's like 5 or 6 months afterwards by the time the game ends, people probably assume Tulpar is still on her voyage. After 2 or 3 months, someone will notice something is wrong, and the government probably try to investigate. They most likely want to atleast know what happened, and possibly praying the cryopods saved some (or most) of the crew until they... found whatever was left of it and our poor boy Curly.
The biggest surprise for me was seeing that an artist actually imagined what the Tulpar's exterior might be. I can only find the game level maps of it when I search it up. I think the reason they don't show it in the game is because they wanted a walled in claustrophobic feeling, but I like starships and the Tulpar is definitely up there for me as one of the most memorable despite us not seeing the outside. Love how here it has the storage unit on it's side like the game maps imply.
I can't fathom the trauma and physically, mentally and emotionally that Curley feels after everything he's been through, that quite serene heart to heart with Anya during her favourite nighttime screen to then seeing her take her lifeless body, overdosed, there was nothing he could do but lay helplessly as he was abused, as everyone suffered horrible fates around him.. all because of the one named 'Jimmy'
yeah. Another thing that I’ve been speculating about is that he was probably manipulated by j*mmy when they were friends. He always tried to see the good in people i think
Jimmy made him canblize himself and yoused steam to fource it down meaning his resoildfyed liquid insides where burn again his skeltone was melted as we know thank to the clean cut
Curly was consumed by the bigger picture. This is made evident during the nighttime screen scene with him and Anya. Anya points out a dead pixel on the display but Curly can't see it because he only sees the bigger picture and not smaller but bad details. Which is a nice transfer over to his relationship with Jimmy. He even told Anya, upon finding out Jimmy had assaulted her, that he'd known him for years and that he'd talk to him. He'd known Jimmy for a long time and couldn't make sense of the years of friendship they'd had to him doing something so disgusting like violating and impregnating a woman. I think his idealism also prevented him from understand Jimmy's much more selfish and self-aggrandizing pattern of thought.
But this led to him leaving Anya defenseless. Anya who couldn't even have a lock on her living quarters and also couldn't get access to the gun in the case in order to defend herself against Jimmy. Hell, without the captain's scanner she couldn't even take the axe. She was left defenseless and at the mercy of Jimmy while Curly knew full well what was happening and to be honest I fault Curly. He's kind of a piece of shit for not immediately sequestering Jimmy. But there is some complexity in this situation because Curly still had months left on their voyage. Having Jimmy isolated, potentially being in one of the few locked rooms like med bay where Anya worked wouldn't have been ideal, trying to reassure Jimmy in a non-confrontational way also failed.
So I guess I can empathize with the difficult situation Curly was left in. But at the same time, the self-righteous indignant part of me says he should have hogtied the piece shit and left him the storage room or shot him. But obviously that'd be hard if they were friends for years and he couldn't imagine him doing something so heinous to another person.
In any case. FUCK. Jimmy.
And jimbo have the audacity to say "i can fix this" only to make it worse. i hate him sm
Worst part? The medicine she took, to overdose, made her run out of breath and choke on her own blood, and she took that one specific medicine knowing that. So Curly had to endure seeing her slowly die in pain (hence why she was holding her stomach when we see her dead).
He would have to live with that in his head, prob 24/7
Okay this hurt. It might be unrealistic, but it does make me feel better than at least his last moments won’t be stuck in that hellhole of a ship. It’s not a happy ending, but it’s a better ending.
I actually think it's pretty likely that he gets picked up. It's essentially said that they're being replaced by autonomous cargo ships without a crew. They probably still use the same traffic routes, and space regulations should be quite strict to avoid debris. The company might've disappeared, but a cleanup should definitely be in order. Regarding his recovery, well, the main structure of his body seemed somewhat intact. If they have cryo chambers, then they might have advanced prosthetics, skin grafts, and artificial muscles, though it would take a while to recover mentally. It might be serious post-game coping, but I like to believe in this animation 😌
@justsimplyfaith no his bones where melted and his nerv2s are likleynalso melted we know this as his leg cut like butter side note they would only recover it for the ship's price
It's probably a more interesting ending than simply dying in a cryopod after 20 or less years. I do wonder what he would regret the most for these extra years he has been given. Perhaps not sticking Jimmy in a cryopod or otherwise stop him from crashing the ship while he still could have?
Yes, it's more interesting, but him dying there would be more relalistic and true to the theme of the game
You know, besides curly never letting jimmy on the ship in the first place, shoving him in the cryo pod to deal with once the ship has landed somewhere safe sounds like the second best ending.
Probably feels regret by being saved by Jimmy in the end
He didn't deserve to play hero
He probably regrets not taking Anya truly seriously about Jumbo being completely vile and not kicking him off the ship.
@@timothy6583 I see Jimmy's final act as completely selfish and cowardly.
I feel like the only reason why he cared so much about keeping Curly alive is because, in his twisted narssisistic mind, as long as Curly lives, then he doesn't have to take responsability for any of his crimes and mistakes, cause "the captain is responsible for the crew". As long as Curly is alive, he is still the captain, even if he can't perform his duties.
Jimmy died as he lived. Like a coward, refusing to take responsability.
Man, I dunno if getting rescued and surviving is any better. Curly's twisted sense of compassion is what caused him to be an enabler to Jimmy, and that same compassion is gonna torment him for the rest of his life knowing that he is partially responsible for everyones death.
I love every part of this! But the final frame of Curly in bed is so touching with all the details present in it. The prosthetic mask on the desk, the wheelchair, the two prosthetic legs, made the scene feel truly thought through
auggh thats blood curdling. 'no more responsibility' while the camera pans over the corpses. deranged. the post credits gives us a sense of curly alive and with hope, but at the same time he will clearly never be free from everything that happened and his responsibility - nor should he be. its chilling and bittersweet and i really enjoyed how this came together.
i also appreciate his post-canon appearance. i like when artists don't hold back on allowing him to look like someone in his condition almost certainly would look.
Многие кстати пишут мол на Тулпар просто забьют и Кëрли просто умрёт через 20 лет скорее всего, но хочу подметить что инцидент скорее всего обязаны будут расследовать. Не из-за груза, ценностей и так далее, а, ну.. Просто потому что это случилось. И связь хоть какая-то у них была с Землёй, так что авария скорее всего была зафиксирована, в том числе и тот факт что корабль был уничтожен членом экипажа. В общем, несмотря на общее настроение игры и прочее, у Кëрли на самом деле довольно высокий шанс на исход, показанный в анимации.
На базе могли бы получить сигнал о том, что корабль столкнулся с астеройдами и не выходит на связь (что по сути так и есть) следовательно все члены экипажа погибли. А если бы его нашли, то это был бы глубоко ментально и физически травмированный человек.
Но если бы да кабы на носу росли грибы.
Поэтому: концовка открытая->я могу создать что-то что объясняет концовку->эта концовка открытая, следовательно это что-то может быть каноном->делаю гуд эндинг потому что шиза мне сказала что "убивает 99,99%" на упаковки средства для ополаскивателя рта это 99,99 - экипаж Тульпара, а 0.01 - израненый и переколеченый Кёрли
+ я бы всё таки хотел в своей жизни больше хороших вещей (например Кёрли жив и ему выплачивают пособия по инвалидности)
@@helius4057 Скорее всего после крушения началась длинная бюрократическая машина с целью "спасения", из за чего она затянулась на месяца, но в конечном итоге чтобы корабль, и не заметили? Большой объект, грузоперевозками занимается, на них вполне могли выйти какие нибудь пираты до крушения, а после крушения начать мародёрить, но поскольку этого вроде как не случилось, то возможно Кёрли найдут какие-нибудь мусорщики, а вообще странно что криокапсула отключилась, подготовить её к экстренным ситуациям дело пары аккумуляторов, и сомневаюсь что Кёрли бы вообще выжил, если следовать той же логики, криокапсула не разморозила его, а просто перестала работать, то есть внутри должен быть обмёрзший труп. Ну это всё только догадки и точного ответа мы дать не можем.
А ой, только сейчас заметил сцену после титров
Я думал в этом ролике Кёрли помер
@@ivangochin9646 по сути, даже полностью рабочая криокапсула не спасла бы его). В игре показали тупо морозилку, которая ни с кровью ничего не сделала чтобы та не сделала БУМ при разморозке, ни с мозгом (там при разморозке кристализуются мелчайшие частички воды вроде как. Уже не слишком хорошо помню, давненько изучал эту тему)
Короче, просто условности. Всё вышесказанное можно почти ко всем проектам отнести, где принимает участие криосон.
Почему-то все ещё забывают, что у членов экипажа есть семьи, и эти семьи тоже побегут писать куда только можно, чтоб их родственников нашли
Imagine he never got rescued. Despite the suffering, The pain, The blood, the dead bodies in the ship, lost in space, maybe forever, Stuck, depressed, sad knowing he had sworn to protect the crew but failed. Despite all that. He is still unable to end it all as he has no limbs
See alot of people saying how this is a happy ending but, yea no i dont see it that way, especially with the mention of he was days away from death, its all id want after all of this.
Exactly!!! After all that happened to curly I wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted to die. As I continued watching curly throughout the game I kept on wondering why nobody even considered to put him to rest and let him die.
He's going to have a lot of problems I think. First of all he could go blind since his only healthy eye was just missing the eyelids that would protect the retina. Secondly he'd definitely have a lot of mental problems after what he's been through. And not having arms and legs doesn't make things any better for him either. Even if he recovers it would take a long time and his life would be an eternal struggle.
I was actually wondering if it was humane to leave him alive after the crash back when all the crew members were still alive according to the game's storyline.
So you are absolutely right, this ending is only a good ending depending on who is looking at it. But I prefer to think of it as lying for the greater good. If it makes anyone feel better that Curly survived, so be it. Believing in the best is the only thing left.
I apologize for so much text... It's just that the plot of this game reminds me of some books I've read and stuff....
@@helius4057 what book does mouthwashing remind you of? wasn't that much text btw, i think you have a very intelligent understanding of the story it's nice to see that illustrated as well with his grief portrayed so well
it's pretty bleak, yeah.
p appropriate given the responsibility themes tho. Curly has to try and carry on despite knowing that his unwillingness to be responsible and address his friend's cruelty caused the crash. so even worse of an ending from that perspective, but pretty well earned.
Last time I checked this early Tulpar was still financially stable
It doesn't matter what happens curly is the most tragic victim among all the crew
Whether he never get rescued and wake up when the cryo pod start failing and have to go through agonizing slow death alone in deep space with his crumbling ship and decomposing crew
Or even if he get rescued like here, he get to live but his body get disabled and deformed (as spinal injury patient i know how it feels) and he have to lived with the sense of guilt that he as a captain failed to prevent of what happened to the other crew, that he failed to see how a monster is jimmy despite all the redflag he shows
While jimmy get to end his life with no guilt whatsoever, he get to die genuinly thinking that he did good, that he "fix" all the problem
He shouldn't be able to move or feel anything at least as his nerves were likely melted meaning at least he has minimal pain in his condition and we know this thanks to the clean leg cut
@BraydenHammer Phantom pain exists my guy.
@@azazelblackfire816 fair point
This is a terrible take imo. I actually think curly got what he deserved. Jimmy raped Anya, and Anya was so clearly traumatized and terrified of Jimmy. She said she was pregnant but Jimmy didn't care about her or what he did to her, he only cared about the consequences of his actions if they were to return to earth. So what does curly do after learning all of this? Nothing. He could've locked jimmy in a room for example, since he seemed super anxious about the consequences AND anya was super scared of him. But no, all he does is say "Everything will be alright." While keeping Jimmy free to do whatever he wants because what.. they're friends???
It's like finding out your friend is a murderer, doing nothing about it, then when he kills you suddenly it's "tragic". Total bs. Shame he didn't suffer more honestly.
Kind of thinking that the bodies might never rot, the foam breaks down, the void seeps in.
Everyones frozen in place, cutting some bad fucking cake.
I think that oxygen refresher broke and CO2 made everyone "stored" untouched for 20 years.
I feel like he’s just been waiting for death to happen the moment the crew put him on that bed
The Tulpar bed ofc
I honestly think him being in that state Alive but that isn't living. He can't reclaim his lost body.
Honestly I prefer this ending to him dying in the pod. It would be easier, albeit still a good choice, to just let him die slowly in space, but having him be saved and returned to Earth means having to face what happened. Taking responsibility. Having to come to terms with his trauma, guilt, and life-altering wounds, just gives a kind of depth that a quiet death in space can't give, I reckon.
And its a beautiful tone shift, as well. Because many people, who end up with severe disabilities or trauma like Curly, they still continue with life- there is no grand finale. No quiet death. Life just goes on, and I count this as an opportunity for Curly to heal and leave the tragedy in the past, best he can.
Curly would have been promoted, start a family, enjoy his life.
Swansea would have returned home, apply to some new mundane job but hopeful for the future, at least in Daisuke.
Daisuke would have moved on, still uncertain for what to make of his life. perhaps study for engineering. Hang out with Swansea every now and then.
Anya would have delivered her child, traumatized, terrified. It's uncertain whether she keeps the child, but we have to believe our worst moments don't make us monsters. Curly would be there to support her 100% of the way. She would seek therapy and maybe continue trying to get into medical school.
Jimmy would have been ostracized, tried and sent to jail for his actions. SA (20 years), Attempted murder x4 with malice aforethought (4 life sentences), Attempted murder of a starship captain with malice aforethought (2 life sentences "Varies") Total: 20 years and 6 life sentences.
But that isn't what happened. Afterall, we have our own responsibilities. Our own version of it in any case.
This is so sad 😢😢
Curse you, Jimmy
“Our worst moments don’t make us monsters.” ?? Not keeping a kid that was forced onto her wouldn’t make her a monster.
@ exactly, I’m not saying that it would make her a monster. Even in the darkest moments of our lives, where everything goes wrong, it doesn’t mean we are monsters, but the victims of monsters. I was saying it for dramatic flair because that’s what Anya tells Curly during the night screen scene.
@gracehero849 way to welcome another Jimmy into society. Ah well, you are a bot, why even bother
@@YoussefBarj-g3e if you're female, I hope you never experience what Anya did. If you're a male, you have no right to judge her.
Can't believe it's been 20 years since this game came out. It feels like it released only a month ago
Time flies 😔
Yeeaaah.old times...
It released only a month ago what are you blabbering about?
@@StarMiniWalkerOfficialare you gullible?
@ what does it even mean
I watched so many Mouthwashing vids but I never considered that the party hallucination was Jimmy literally propping up the crew's corpses at the table.
I think it was the case since in the final scene where he carries Curly to the cryo pod, they're still sitting at the table but they all are slumped over. Think the implication is that he propped them up and in his delusion thought they were cheering him on, meanwhile they were just sitting there in silence
@@DrinzenDrawzthat thought honestly terrorizes me for some reasons
@@P1NK_CHA0S yea the implications that he carried them over and propped them up just to sit there in silence is extremely unnerving
He was so far gone bro this is so fucking depressing i got chills and now my stomach hurts
gosh i can't decide if the very very ending makes it more or less horrifying. amazing artwork and sound design, really stunning!
edit: as in, it's wonderful that he *did* survive it all, but god i can't imagine dreaming that repeatedly.....
you mention in other comments that Curly surviving and being rescued might not actually be a happy ending for him. after all, being alive would mean carrying all the pain and deaths that occurred on the Tulpar. i feel like this animation carries that idea perfectly!
for example, Curly starting to cry after the doctor tells him how he was lucky to be found, when he was almost dead. is he crying because he got to go home after all the trauma, or because the release he was waiting for got taken away from him yet again? especially the way it cuts to Curly crying while in the cryopod after it shuts down. that juxtaposition is made even better with the text we can read (also note how there isn't a "voice bleep" like when the doctor was talking, implying it's not them.) a doctor saying "it's over" after rescuing a dying man that clearly did not receive adequate medical care after his accident makes sense. but the following texts, "no more pain," "no more responsibility," read more like Curly being glad he's about to die. the ending where he wakes up in bed just ties it all together: showing how he continued to live, but the nightmares of what happened still follow him.
On the other hand, this way the world gets the chance to hear what actually happend to the Tulpar crew. Even though the damage can't be undone, maybe sharing the truth would prevent a story like this from happening again
Это... Просто невероятно. Настоящий непередаваемый восторг. Мне даже нечего сказать, я правда восхищаюсь этим ужасом
АХАХХАХ
Интересное описание, спасибо 🙃
@@helius4057 Не в смысле ваше видео ужас, а атмосфера, которое оно вызывает!! Видео-то по-ужасному прекрасно🤌
@@helius4057а не можете подсказать что за трек играет в конце ролика ?
No matter how awful, how disgusting, how utterly hopeless the entire world feel right now….
So long as you’re still alive, the next second CAN be better then all the ones before it.
I have to believe that. I’ll never let anyone take that away from me.
That is a beautiful sentiment.
"Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right."
something something a life's worst moment doesn't define it
@@jayhoso2267 Typical Evangelion W
We can only hope throughout the odds Curly makes it and *tells the truth*
What you just said will stick with me for years, mostly because I'm making it my computer background
oh this made me misty eyed.... curly is my favorite character and this squeezed my heart so much. someone who's able to tell the tale of what happened on the tulpar that day, and he's able to form memories that aren't of what jimmy did to them all, and can properly move forward instead of the twisted sense of responsibility jimmy tried to take for him... i love the detail that, at the end, he has a proper house, prosthetics at his side, and can sit up for himself. growth, despite jimmy viewing him as nothing more than a blank slate to be projected on and a body to drag around however he liked. this is beautiful.
the artstyle is lovely too, i adore lineless stuff, and the texture of the shading is all wonderful 💕
yeah. And j*mmy is a master manipulator, so he was probably manipulating curly for all the years they were friends for, so that’s likely why Curly couldn’t just shoot j*mmy or put him in a cryostasis chamber
oh. ow. thats my heart you just stabbed. curly mouthwashing they could never make me hate you
Please reevaluate how you view the actions of a man who enabled a r-pist, if he had shoved Jimmy in a pod after Anya told him what he did, none of this would have happened
@@oscaruncomfortable Please evaluate that we are observing a man at the end of the story in a fucked up situation in which Curly got his just punishment (his body got destroyed, he continued to live, he was shown in harsh detail just what he was enabling, he got to see who he literally killed through his actions, he had to eat his own body and throw up, he got to watch everybody die, and though this is a happy ending, realistically he either continued to live in space for a long time, or if found, got punished for the actions of others.) At some point, we might say that he got the punishment he deserved, don't you think. And all that he has left are the regrets. Living is a bigger punishment than dying here.
Media literacy in horror stories is important, and being willing to understand why people may like morally gray fictional characters is equally so important.
@@oscaruncomfortable me when someone likes a character who did a bad thing (i hate that character because they did a bad thing and nobody should be allowed to like them and if they like them then they need to rethink things and hate them actually)
@@SugarCubCurly didn't deserve that. Yes, he made a mistake, when tried to protect Jimmy, but don't forget about human factor. Jimmy was his friend and they went through a lot together. I believe, that he wanted to help Anya, he just too soft and non-conflict person, who always trying to find a compromise and not bring discord to the crew. Yes, it's bad and awful, that he was ready to protect Jimmy even after what he did. But still it's not enough for such a cruel punishment like this. Lol, you may hate for that words, but I think even Jimmy didn't deserve that (despite what biggest piece of dog shit he is).
Edit: omg, one hundred likes, guys, I love you so much😍😍😍
@@SugarCub id like 2 bring to the table that. why would he antagonize jimmy😭 in hindsight we know jimmy could and would fucking kill them i dont think things like that just. pop up out of the blue there probably wouldve been SOME warning signs he was a little kooky (derogatory) (editing because i forgot a point) even if that mf didnt like. go full on fucking crazy it wouldnt be nice to live in with that guy for. a year. on a trapped ship. in the middle of SPACE
This is so kind for Curly, he is mentally damaged but at least he is in a better place.
he is also very physically damaged too
@@DrGingerale maybe they can fix him somewhat.
Beautiful animation, I'm glad Curly gets some closure even if it's fanmade. While it's certainly not a happy ending, it's definitely the happiest possible outcome given the circumstances. Certainly depressing to think he could have very likely succumbed to his wounds while in the cryochamber, or woke up only to starve when nobody found him. The crew of the Tulpar (minus Jimmy) deserved better...
I was SO READY to come down here and flame on you for doing my man Curly that way, then the final few seconds happened. Thank you for that. That's the ending I imagined for Curly. He may not have been a perfect person, but he wasn't evil and tried to fix his mistakes, and that's what led to his condition. I'm just sorry he's gonna have to live with those memories...
He wasn't evil, but he definitely wasn't a good man allowing Jimmy to do anything he wanted without consequence (and especially doing everything but flat out ignoring Anya). Brother he just floated the idea of crashing the ship because he didn't want to go to jail, *you. need. to. jettison him.*
At this point Curly has been given a second chance to take responsibility post-mortem for Jimmy's crimes; Swansea had a wife and children, Daisuke had parents. He could go to them and give them the closure and apologies they deserve, if they're still alive, because Curly was the one who let this happen.
0:36 why dd the woman look at Curly like that? Do they think hes responsible for crashing the ship? :(
Most likely they did think that. Assuming everyone on the ship believed Curly had been responsible, that thought may have been held by the doctors as well.
@@pitu2209 If he has hand prosthetics he can write out everything that had happened and easily disprove that
@@basedintellectual9704 Does the Tulpar have cameras?
@@ΡΙΖΟΣΚΡΑΒΒΑΡΙΤΗΣ probably not because they like to "cut corners"
@@basedintellectual9704Right, right. Then again, capitalism's number one trait is Watching It's Workers To Make Sure They're Not Resting. So up to personal headcanon.
Edir right after writing : Frankly, I just want them to finally get Curly a way to communicate somehow, he tells the what happened, they don't believe him, and after a while they finally find the old camera footage they were searching for. Cue lots of comforting a quadruple amputee burn victim that was traumatised from watching all his friends die. I just want a happy or even bittersweet ending for him.
THIS IS SO GOOD… oh my god why is this so underrated ??? I’m so glad Curly got a good ending…
Who is the "they" mentioned at 1:28? The whole crew is dead.
I guess its implying the crew waiting for him in the afterlife when it is his time to die or i might be wrong.
@@akiraru8026 I see. Thanks.
Jimmy will NOT be seeing the crew in the afterlife @@akiraru8026
He to dead he stayed on ship there is no happy and this is not twenty years this is two days and he happy to die and no more filling pain
Waiting on the other side, I guess
Gives me goosebumps. Well done. And excellent music choice. For those who don't have Russian keyboards -
the name of the song is "Берегите берёзы" by "Почему коммутатор молчит".
Curly deserved better to be honest. He was literally the definition of "Too good for your own good". He saw hope in everyone, so much so that it blinded him from reality, which led to everyone's downfall.
CURLY GETTING A BETTER ENDING OMG? I LOVE THIS SM. IM SO GLAD THERE WASNT A "and then i woke up" AT THE END
Same here. Also nice pfp! Till…
@@rebelturtle7494 till blinked gone but at least curly didnt...
I hope he can honor his lost crew mates by telling their story and living on for them. Save for a certain co-pilot, they were all good people who deserved better.
This is so cool! Got chills running down my arms, neck and back with the impactful sound design and visuals. I really hope this gets featured somewhere bc holy crap, this is incredible!!!
The one prosthetic leg being longer than the other is a nice touch
God I’m just so obsessed with this, pacing around mentally rn. I have so many thoughts about post canon rescue curly and you captured so much of the fear and guilt and uncertainty and trauma and how hard it would be to have to live and move forward after all this, how the rescue is seen as the end but there’s so much more to go. The shot of him waking up at the end after such horrible visions, after maybe thinking he shouldn’t have been rescued n should’ve died with the others, it really shows what a hopeless horrible place he was pulled from. The atmosphere is just so hauntingly on point. But also the spark of hope. The life there to live and find, the body to reclaim away from the shadows in his mind.
Just ayFFGG obseSSEDDD so deeply you captured so much so s so perfectly ayGGGHHH
Я после вставки с кораблём, подумал, что это иллюзия, после 20 летнего сна, а оказывается вы решили сделать гуд эндинг. Интересное
I like the way it jumps from one possibility to the next. Just like the game.
This feels almost like a bittersweet ending. Curly survived, but at what cost? Would it even be worth it by then?
It's heartbreaking and you pulled it off so well, i love this so much agh q-q
Sorta off topic, but I can’t even begin to fathom who miserable it must be to live in such a helpless existence where the sweet embrace of death WOULD LITERALLY BE a sweet embrace and yet powerless to even communicate it
OK I WAS ABOUT TO START SOBBING AND THEN YOU PULLED THE TWIST-TWIST ENDING
ty tho he deserved that ending
i just LOVE the detail of the bandage getting wet with curly's tear
sobbing, trowing down, the media coverage must be INSANE the therapist lining up to talk to him
That's great, I've been curious about what would happen after those 20 years in canon but I guess we're never getting that😂 At least people can come up with their own stuff
I love this animation, please dont get carried away by 7 bald eagles
oh god this is so well made ... i felt really bad for curly .. waking up after 20 years and yet he as to overcome his traumas and try to live "normally" again after everyting..
I love how you took into account that “its the future ✨WE CAN FIX HIM”
At the end, fking LOVE IT❤
The artists in this fandom are so incredibly skilled. Just wow.
Я ПРОСТО НА КОЛЕНЯХ ПЕРЕД АВТОРОМ, это настолько атмосферно и красиво! А так, я думаю что это не такой уж и выдуманный исход, за 20 лет найти судно, которое летит по определенному маршруту возможно(хотя правильнее сказать, что после крушения они просто плыли по космическому пространству в том направлении, котором они были на момент столкновения с этим астероидом), так что если на пути этого судна опять не встретится пара десятков астероидов, то я думаю компания бы забила тревогу, так как заказчик, для которого как раз таки и шел груз( они же не просто так везли эти ротомойки) начал бы возмущаться, где их товар, а там уже и расследование, и поиски. Короче нашли бы, но могу сказать точно, это были бы супер сложные и наверни-ка долгие поиски.
Но вот выжил ли керли? Хз. Все таки я не думаю что полученные травмы совместимы с жизнью, плюс заморозка тоже бы сказалась на его здоровье. Остается только гадать сколько ему осталось, хотя это же бушующие, возможно там уже медицина вышла на совершенно иной уровень. Так чтооо. Все может быть(да и он как-то существовал 4 или сколько там месяцев, после крушения)
really off topic but your art style really makes curly's bandages look so much more clean and soft
Maybe the doctors changed them
@ekaterinaobraztsova4631 that was obvious
That was really fucking good. I love the first shot of curly shedding a tear while in the hospital bed
I hope he gets to live happily. I like the attention to detail with the very last scene.
In the distant future that this game takes place, I like to imagine they have tools to help Curly live well. The last scene seems to indicate some independence, as he was finally able to get up on his own
I will never mentally recover from this game, nor this video.
Expect my bill for therapy in the mail.
Curse you and your talent for making gut wrenching works of art.
Brb putting Curly’s survival & happiness on my christmas wish list
I like to think Curly gets found, has his mind uploaded into a robot body, and maybe goes back in time to set things right
time-traveling fix-it save me
Metal Gear Curly: Revengeance
What would happen if he gets cyberpsychosis?
This is so sad, but I’m happy you gave Curly a more peaceful ending. Love the animatic🤍😔
0:57 wait sorry but I don't quite get it? Is Curly hallucinating or something?
Yes, it's a hallucination. But maybe a dream
It could be a night terror or something
I think he was just thinking back on all that happened, since barely any time would've passed for him
I think that's him in his last days after the ship's backup energy depletes, he is finally rejoicing on the thought of not having to bare the pain and guilt of it all, but then they probably found him a couple of days before he starved to death.
Losing my mind over how INSANELY GOOD THIS IS, THIS IS INCREDIBLE
"Oh, you were thinking the company would take everything from you if you were to survive what you went through? Well alot can happen in 20 years, even accounting for relativity, businesses like the Poney Express and their inhumane business practices have been put on the chopping block with their CEOs facing lifetime imprisonments. And with the New Humanitarian Convention: they can't buy their way out of it, well, not without the hair trigger explosives in their neck detonating.
Things are still hard, times are always hard. But the ways of human exploitation are coming to an end. For now."
мне страшно думать о том, сколько он должен будет выплатить корпорации за ущерб кораблю, товару, который там перевозили, потерю команды, и собственное лечение.
Ну не знаю. Нетрудоспособный инвалид, невиновный во всем что там случилось как-будто бы не является тем, кого заставят платить за весь ущерб.
@@CEBAHTNYСудя по передачам из телика и всему настроению игры, Поняхи не единственные жадные ушлепки, для которых работники это вещи, и весь их мир это какая-то гиперкапиталистическая антиутопия. Если это и на их систему здравоохранения и социального страхования распространяется (а обычно распространяется), то подобный вариант развития событий выглядит наиболее вероятным😢
П. С. Сомневаюсь, что капитан будет признан невиновным, учитывая сколько на нём висело обязанностей.
Hope he was able to sue Pony Express to help pay his medical bills on this last trip. It a terrible way to live but he at least gets to see the actual sun, feel the wind on his skin, to actually live not in pain but outside it. This is a lot better end, it doesn't make everything better but it better then him dying alone on a ship with last image being of freakin jimmy.
As in a way it saying, despite every HORRIFIC thing you experience... Life moves on. Poor Curly.
Assuming this incident wasn’t the last straw that led to Pony Express being shut down
With how often I've seen pessimistic outlooks about Curly 20 years after that mess, I'm reminded that we all have attitudes like Jimmy's deep inside us, and that we find them easier to allow as long as we believe that we have someone worse we can more conveniently bother to work our egos on. Jimmy is so despised because he was shown knowing that he was doing heinous things but hid and drowned himself away in his flaws, perverting the idea of not letting one's worst moments define them. So yeah, with this animatic of yours, HElius, I'm glad that you're working your faith and bravery here to remind us that if our worst moments must define us, then at least we can let them define us in the best ways. Better to take a graceful loss than to take a hollow win. And besides, we're all fools meant to grow into wisdom, and the worst foolishness we can do is to keep ourselves from growing as we should. And Jimmy did the worst foolishness to everyone he could reach, himself included. As for Curly, even with low chances, I hope that he would live and not just survive.
I WANTED SO BADLY TO SEE AN ANIMATION LIKE THIS HELL YEAH
The way u portrayed this outcome was amazing, and your art looks incredible!!
Как же это сильно.
Автор большой молодец. Очень локаничная работа, особенно, для фанатской
now i need that art of curly with his prosthetics
I think he’s have a motor wheelchair too! It would be much easier to use and travel with and way less painful!!
I’m so glad to see Curly getting a happy ending!❤
Curly finally gets to see the sun,flowers and grass I’m so happy he got found :D
The fact that above all- Curly almost certinaly was praying for death every second after the crash and Jimmy kept him alive through the selfishness of needing to be the hero, and to 'fix' the things he did, and Curly was the sole survivor- also not to mention the fact that Curly had to witness everything due to the fact that he could not close his eye
damn i just realized that yeah his eye lids must have got burned off wow that is really fucked up
ОФИГЕТЬ ЭТО КРУТО, АЖ МУРАШКИ ПО КОЖЕ ОТ АТМОСФЕРЫ
I liked both endings i thought this video gave me. THe first, of course is rthat he actually gets to heal.
THe one i thought that happened was that he halucinated him being saved, or imagined it, while the air supply ran out or the cryo pod ran out of power. That ending wouldve been so on theme with the game in how gutwrenching that wouldve been. very nice animation
i LOVE the details in the end.
The prosthetic legs, the wheelchair, the mask, the pills, the scars omg I love this you’re really good at art
Edit; and the ship as well!! It’s exactly how I imagined it!! I keep noticing new things about this i am genuinely amazed this is AWESOME
Poor Curly, he has to live with the trauma and guilt after being saved :(
I just hope he learns to cope despite everything, the only good thing about this is that he doesn't have to have Jimmy as his last memory before he dies, ive seen alot of fanart with surviving Curly and i love the fact that they all give him a service dog lol
I cannot imagine having to go back to normalcy after going through all of that. It feels almost inhumane
Great stuff! What's the song that starts playing at 1:11?
почему коммутатор молчит бегите березы
just copy and paste it and you'll find the song
How do you copy RUclips comments on mobile? 😭
@@nevernorest8315 I hope the link works.
open.spotify.com/track/0y92TvpT6qxal2F9QzaPZu?si=Ok4YjBrGSO6O3feDZflVFA
I love this, finally Curly will be with no more "responsibilities" I love it ❤
Lowkey wish the game had multiple endings where like everyone survived just so we could get more background lore on them
20 years later and all that's left is regret. There is no one left to take responsibility for what happened. He lost everything he had but his life, and now he has to live with it. That is his burden to bear.
jimmy mouthwashing you WILL be dealt with