Well I dug up my old tablet, and by old I mean 6-7 years old, and just went to town using a reference and not following any of the smart, safe, slow art procedures and steps and planning, but instead just using Paint SAI and going at it. Given that I'm sure there's a ton wrong with the image, I'm still quite happy with it.



So what's going on here? Well, on Space Station 13, research staff wear white jumpsuits with purple shoulders in order to distinguish themselves. This scientist has unfortunately fallen afoul of the Blob, a space monster that can appear and try to engulf the entire station in a big green blob. It will also beat you up if you let it, or even, perhaps like this, capture your body.



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“Oh god…” Buried, literally buried alive with her limbs such in the amorphous, powerful, alien blob thing that had appeared out of nowhere, Amber tried to struggle. Even exerting herself as much as she could manage, yelling with the effort, got her nowhere. Despite how it looked about as strong as jello, each bit held her completely in place, surrounding the researcher and almost mockingly providing a soft ‘bed’ as it kept her trapped.



“Blob in Science hallway, help! Security!” All she could do at this point was scream into the general radio band, and at least there was a quick response; some of the crew reacted with horror or shock, but the AI asked her to remain calm.



“Amber, please listen. I can see you are trying to escape its grasp, but you are not strong enough. You may only provoke the creature.”



“Provoke it?!” Her own arms gave out after one more push didn’t even budge this thing around her. She groaned, breathing heavily, tight jumpsuit rising and falling with each breath around her curves. “It’s eating me!”



“Actually, for the moment, it is trapping you in a way which keeps you alive.” Well, that was a point; it was pretty clear that a meter or so more blob, completely drowning her, would be fatal. She couldn’t even reach her bag on the floor with her breath mask set, despite how close it was… “Or its attention is elsewhere, its consciousness diverted.”



Af if in reaction to that speculation, the Blob began to pull all of her limbs back together, which made her struggle and thrash again, but once again it was impossible to resist. She was bent like a bow, slowly but surely, and now she couldn’t help her screams, echoing in the reinforced metal corridors of the space station. “AI! HELP ME!”



“I wish I could.”



At least it stopped after a while, once, having exhausted every other option, she tried to lay still, and taking this for a sign that she gave up, the blob didn’t keep bending her. This situation was still incredibly uncomfortable, though. Now she was being presented by this wall of fucking alien biomass like some kind of trophy. “This was not what I fucking signed up for…”



“Please remain calm. If nothing else, the blob’s sudden appearance has triggered my emergency quarantine procedures. I am now capable of stopping it, if all other means fail, using the station’s on-site self-destruct mechanism.”



“…. What?!” Oh, fuck today. Just fuck it.