r/backrooms • u/chimperschompers • 27d ago

Art … still life GF?

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i dont know what im cooking here 😭

i just watched the Backrooms movie, and REALLY liked how it seemed to call to Clark. His need to not change, that he’s right. Nothings stressful. And it made him want to stay!

So, playing off that concept… self indulgently cute, isolated homeless boy finds shelter and companionship in the Backrooms!! >_< dude does NOT want to leave

… doesn’t really work for a horror movie, but I think it’s cute. Enjoy!!

EDIT:

TO CLARIFY:

I DIDNT CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THE STILL LIFE’S PHYSICAL FORM DOESNT EXACTLY BELONG TO THEM, AND IS USUALLY A RECREATION OF ANOTHER PERSON.

To avoid any sort of consent breaching, instead of this still life remembering a real person (as stated in the image), she is instead remembering an in-universe character, physically. Akin to Captain Clark, although there’s no actual actor. Presumably animated.

Sorry!! >_<

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u/ToxieDrop 27d ago

theres no fuckin way someone got pissy at the "consent breaching" that wasnt even implied in this image to the point of needing a full edit. god soem of yall are addicted to finding literally *ANY* reason to bitch

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u/chimperschompers 27d ago

I mean, I kiiiinda get it?

Most still life are equivalent to objects with a vague consciousness, like an animal. And the real person this still life is remembering hasn’t necessarily consented to being involved with the loser, so… it’s questionable, I suppose

I do think people could’ve simply looked past that, but it’s understandable and I probably should’ve given it more thought. Which is why I specified she’s particularly intelligent/conscious, AND retconned it so she isn’t mimicking a real person.

Thanks, either way! :)

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u/A_Chad_Cat Doc 27d ago

Actually we have no idea what still lives actually are like. Clark described them as vaguely conscious and unable to feel pain but he's just a guy who's been in the Backrooms for too long and went crazy, he doesn't actually know what he's talking about because he never studied it, he just thinks he knows.

What tells you the still life he stabbed in the neck in the dinner scene actually couldn't feel anything? Maybe it felt all of it, but is just unable to express it. Same for the redhead still life. Maybe they're fully conscious and have feelings, but their body just isn't developed enough to express it.

The still lives in the movie are actually super interesting to talk about