Skillya: Love me and Dispair

[AlexFili]

This is the first story I have written which concerns a canonical character. In which case I would like to make it clear that this story is not official in any way. I'm just making Skillya similar to the ones I have read in fanfics.

What do you think of Skillya? Is she really as bad as the official canon describes her? Firstly, I doubt she's a cannibal. Secondly, celebrities have rumors made up about them all the time. What's to say that the 'slig soup' thing is true? We have no proof of it yet

I wanted a break from the heroic fanfics and wanted to make one which was more psychological and about feelings. I hope you like it.

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Skillya: Love me and Dispair
A.K.A. Skillya: Dreams of Dispair

= Chapter 1: New Queen =

"Birthin's never easy". The person wiped their head, while his friend said, "Egg births are easy, it's live births that are more tricky".

They looked at the little cracks in the egg forming and they saw the unmistakable form of a female queen Slig. "Well, would you look at that? Have you seen a queen before?". The other person shook their head, "Never, come on, let's get her cleaned".

The two Mudokons walked towards the egg and fetched the little queen out. They gave her a quick anti-bacterial rinse before giving her a check-up. She was taken to the chambers and placed in a high-security room. She spent the first years of her life there, barely clinging to life, being put through some unspeakable tests of endurance and mental capabilities...

Skillya was kept in the facility, learned about the basics of life on Oddworld, got to know her Slig kin. She fell asleep, weary from so much knowledge being forced into her mind.

[Oddey]

Kind of makes me wonder what kind of things Skillya will endure.

[MA]

very interesting, i rarely become hooked on such short notice.

[AlexFili]

= Chapter 2: Containment =

A few years later. Another operation. She hated when people messed with her body, this time they had to try something more risky that required multiple incisions and a large amount of painkillers and blood transfusions.

As some of the painkillers were finally wearing off, she was brought back to the harsh reality of life. Her thirst built up until her throat was very dry. "Bring me my darned Scrab juice... NOW!", she banged her fist on the side of the seat, the cold metal making an echoed noise. Her anger as building up again, just as it had a month before. Another egg popped out. "How many of these freakin' things am I gonna have to lay before you have enough?". She gave a howl of fury and spat at the floor.

A few minutes later, she was startled by a Slig. "What is it?", she snapped at the Slig, wiping her eyes. The Slig was nervously shaking his legs, "Your Scrab juice, miss". Skillya grabbed the glass, looking at the contents. "Oh... thank you", Skillya drank from the glass and handed it back to the worker Slig. As the worker Slig walked away, Skillya felt remorse for the poor little creature. She hated when she yelled at poor worker Sligs, who were only trying to make her comfortable and happy. The futility of her actions made her sad. She let out a single tear and went to sleep.

[MA]

that was a brilliant scene, very realistic, and good detail (i like detail). i almost felt like i was popping the eggs out with her!

i think this story is going to stand out from the rest.

[mr.odd]

Very interesting story, i always wondered what Skillya was like.

[Oddey]

Skillya reminds me a bit of myself when I get angry. Ten seconds later, I wish I hadn't.

[AlexFili]

= Chapter 3: Jury and Judge =

A year passed. A nervous Slig was standing in front of her, his mechanical pants legs whirring madly as he tried to keep himself standing straight. He was barely 1 year old and Skillya could tell that he hadn't done anything serious. She looked at him with a stern grin.

The Slig went down on his knees, "Please don't kill me! Don't put me in your soup!". Skillya chuckled, "My what?!". The Slig looked up, "Well... they say you make Slig soup out of our bones". Skillya laughed, "Firstly, that's absolutely revolting, I'm not a cannibal. Secondly, most of the rumours you hear about my are greatly exaggerated". The Slig nervously looked towards the eggs, "An egg a minute?". Skillya's smile faded slightly, "Yes... that's one rumour that is true. One egg per minute, I believe that's a record for any queen".

The nervous Slig looked at Skillya again, "Don't... you want to know what I did?". Skillya looked at the Slig, "I don't care about trivial things like that. I'll just get you relocated somewhere else". The nervous Slig bowed and headed to the door. Skillya spoke once more, "One more thing". The nervous Slig turned around as Skillya had an evil glint in her eye, "Thanks for making me laugh". The nervous Slig smiled and said, "No problem miss".

Skillya smiled and went into a comfortable sleep. She preferred being nice to her little babies whenever she could help it.

[MA]

nice chapter. Skillya is portrayed well.

[Oddey]

Multiple personalities is an interesting thing... An interesting episode, it makes me wonder if Skillya really does eat the nasty sligs... The same way how when you're really drunk, you can't remember a single thing you did.

[STM]

These little shorts are very nice to read, it gives an insight into the beliefs of someone has to draw up on what little he already knows and create the rest from almost scratch, I like your work and MA nice new pic!

[Fartuess]

i don't know that sligs can create so complicated sentences ;P. I thought that language of sligs is based on very simple sentences bzzt like sounds .

Ok, ok. I understand. You translated it

[AlexFili]

Sounds like you've only played AO. Sligs actually have quite a wide vocabulary. Check out AE and MO cutscenes for more information!

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= Chapter 4: Company Calls =

A month later, finally it was the time she was looking forward to most. Skillya disconnected herself from her egg-sack for the first time in six months. She nervously stretched her arms and headed towards the newly opened door.

She walked into the room to see a burly Slig male waiting, "Hiya". Skillya would have blushed, but she was keeping her feelings to herself for now. "Well, we meed again Sogem. Did you miss me?". Sogem walked towards Skillya, "Of course... my queen". Sogem approached Skillya and kissed her hand. Skillya really did blush this time. "It's good to see you too".

Skillya and Sogem talked together, mentioned the old times and what was happening recently. Skillya was still weary from today's egg laying. Skillya lay on the bed. Sogem joined her. After a friendly class of McArt with Sogem, Skillya smiled to herself. She nudged her mate with her snout and slept for the first time in days, she had a blissful sleep.

[Fartuess]

I played AO and AE but i prefer insect like and primitive sligs from AO than more intelingent from AE (they were only intelligent only on cinematics. In game they were still stupid )

[AlexFili]

I disagree. They are actually quite smart, especially in some of the secret stages.

[Fartuess]

For AE standards maybe they're quite smart, but you hadn't seen really smart AI's from other games.

Sligs have some sort of animal intelligence (in game). They can't work in team or using facility device to kill abe. They aren't so intelligent like humans

Sorry for offtopic.

[AlexFili]

In MO Sligs can gang up to kill an enemy if he's within range. Slig's can't jump or swim though so that proves a problem for them. Flying Sligs in AE are pretty clever really, but obviously every AI has its downfalls. I think they do pretty well for an average IQ of 20.

[Fartuess]

I didn't play MO, because i didn't had Xbox. I saw some videos on youtube and in my opinion MO is worse than AO and AE was. MO don't have nice dark climate from Abe series.

when i was 10-12 year old i had 90points in IQ test in group for 18 year old :P.

20 isn't much . But i like sligs because of their stupidity, strange voices and because their are really dangerous .


Argh! i offtopic again... sorry. Write your novel

[Oddey]

I played AO and AE but i prefer insect like and primitive sligs from AO than more intelingent from AE (they were only intelligent only on cinematics. In game they were still stupid )

I swear I've seen this arguement before. I have no link though.

A mate? Odd... I've never heard it told that way before... That'll be interesting. Where does he come from? A queen before Skillya, or are there possibly Slig kings? All sorts of questions arise from this.

[Fartuess]

dont provoke me to offtopic!

You wrong undersand my post.They're from the same queen. They aren't different species. In Oddworld games many creatures was changing from game to game, because Oddworld Inhabitians studio was changing. I prefer idea of sligs which was used in AO. In next Oddworld games sligs was changing, and in my opinion they're changing in wrong direction.

In MO for example sligs was to similiar to humans and game lost climate. Ok the main cause of loss climate is making game less dark and creating less climatic locations.

Ofcourse it is only my opinion

[Oddey]

dont provoke me to offtopic!

You wrong undersand my post.They're from the same queen. They aren't different species. In Oddworld games many creatures was changing from game to game, because Oddworld Inhabitians studio was changing. I prefer idea of sligs which was used in AO. In next Oddworld games sligs was changing, and in my opinion they're changing in wrong direction.

In MO for example sligs was to similiar to humans and game lost climate. Ok the main cause of loss climate is making game less dark and creating less climatic locations.

Ofcourse it is only my opinion

I was only talking to you on the first line. Everything else was directed at this story or to be more presice, AlexFili. I do agree with you mostly on that however.

[AlexFili]

Well, the idea is that the queen needs to 'find a mate' in order to produce babies. At least, that's what I was thinking anyway. I just thought it would be interesting to write a scene like that.

I honestly don't know what you're getting at with the Slig IQ. In the game they just talk and shoot, in the FMVs they show a bit more intelligence.

Ehat are you trying to say. Either Sligs are stupid or they aren't? They are capable of speech and understanding, which makes them partially intelligent in my opinion. Think about the difference between GameSpeak and FMVs. Would you want 1000 buttons with different phrases in a videogame? No.

[MA]

i've seen proof of sligs smoking cigarettes, talking to each other in an understandable language, they know how to load a gun, use it, maintain it, they can teach and command slogs, they can tell the difference between Abe and a random mudokon. i think thats enough proof that sligs aren't as stupid as you would think; they are actually quite smart.

Fartuess, i think you are taking the phrase in the AO manual "Gunned-up slugs in mechanical pants, with itchy trigger-fingers and room temperature IQ's." for gospel. i think it was intended as an exaggeration to show that sligs sometimes become overexcited and/or narrow minded before running into mines or falling into holes during pursuit.

@AlexFili: that was a good chapter, i'd forgotten about a mate for Skillya. it reminds me a bit of the victorians where they used to kiss the queen's hand. good show!

[AlexFili]

I agree. We haven't seen enough of Slig society to really know what they are like. But they can play card games, that means they're pretty clever.

@MA: I do like to bring references from anywhere I can find them. I watch a lot of english films, american films, japanese anime... So I have a wide pool of knowledge.

I was even thinking of an Alien VS Oddworld fanfic, based on the Alien films. That might be interesting enough to try...

[Oddey]

I agree. We haven't seen enough of Slig society to really know what they are like. But they can play card games, that means they're pretty clever.

@MA: I do like to bring references from anywhere I can find them. I watch a lot of english films, american films, japanese anime... So I have a wide pool of knowledge.

I was even thinking of an Alien VS Oddworld fanfic, based on the Alien films. That might be interesting enough to try...

We never really will know the whole thing, will we? We'll just have to make up our own.

That's what I thought till I read some of BM's posts.

It might be interesting... I however doubt it's overall sucess... But do as you wish.

[AlexFili]

= Chapter 5: Drawn Out =

Skillya was wide awake, contemplating her long life. "I spend all my life making eggs, I never see any of my young. Why do they torture me so with these chemicals... I eat and drink what they tell me to, I sleep when it fits in with their rotas..."

Skillya looked at her hands, "These hands which do not know hardship or mistrust, they do not know the feel of grass or a newborn Slig, yet they feel the ravages of time". Skillya feels a tear near her eye once more, "My eyes go dim, my hearing gets worse, I barely smell the terrible food they give me... I know, I do not have long left for this world".

Skillya waits until all of the Sligs leave for their supper, when she is alone, she begins her plan. "Fifty years is long enough. Oh how I've suffered, my brothers. But no more. No more pain, no more suffering". She seperates herself from the synthetic egg sack and waits for the last egg to be released. "Live long, my final son". Skillya moves to the life support machine and turns it off. Skillya falls into a deep, dark sleep.

A Slig Queen dies, a young Slig lives. Fair trade.

[STM]

It sounds like the beesI keep, when a queen bee dies it tends to be the last egg is her succesor, she is put into a special chamber (life suport in this case) where she grows from an egg when she hatches she is kept under surveilance of around 50 bees, you'd thin kshe is the most ipmortant in the hive and she is, but no way is she treated like it, she is merely a egg laying machine that runs on a minimal amount of honey!

Maybe that could help define your next story?

[MA]

nice AlexFili, really nice. i like the way she talks, very 'queen-like' if you like. is this the end?

"These hands which do not know hardship or mistrust, they do not know the feel of grass or a newborn Slig, yet they feel the ravages of time"

i love this line. its actually quite good sig material.

[AlexFili]

I threw in a couple of references in that last chapter. One from Clockwork Orange and one from Sin City. The "ravages of time" one I heard somewhere, but I'm not sure where.

Glad you like it. I think It got hard writing for Skillya when I ran out of different emotions to display. Maybe there will be a sequel with the last egg, but I'm not sure. I do know what the final egg's name will be. But that's a secret

[STM]

gooooood