Sad Documentary About A Baby Whale In A Deadly Alien Sea - South Scrimshaw

South Scrimshaw Part One is a sad documentary about the life of a newborn whale on a vast alien ocean and how weird things get.

"Hello littlefoot"

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[ManlyBadassHero]

Welcome to the Whale of a Tale Club how Whale of a Tale are ya?

[norresnotlost]

started uncontrollably laughing at 50:47
- “You, the viewing audience, have countless residents inside your own body.”
- “Yeah, like that *damn* skeleton.”
the way he sounds so viscerally livid at his own skeleton SENDS ME.

[felixmalcherek]

"The Seabun is not a real animal"
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is now ruined.

[BananaGalaxy]

It's so funny how even the research team is like "Yeah we have no idea wtf is going on here. Pretty cool though"

[Korlash]

Based on the size of that jawbone, the shark that the loner whale killed must have been practically as big as he is. In other words, he's effectively a *Megalodon hunter.* The young whale couldn't have picked a deadlier role model.

[Awkward-]

“This male has tunnel vision on the single purpose of mating. Babysitting is not on the agenda.”
“We watch an attempt to woo a female fail pitifully”
“She is clearly put off by his little sidekick-“

IM DEADDDD

[n_o_marsh]

Hey thank you for sharing my visual novel! Also thank you to all the kind comments here too 🙏 means more to me right now than you can know.

[pinkbuninja]

I love the seabun tangent. Not only did they come up with strange creatures that are “real” in the world of the documentary, but they came up with a myth started by normal human nature. That is some top notch world building.

[aniraslove]

I really like how it’s not “just” a documentary, but a glimpse into an alternate reality where you get to see the politics of space-faring humans

[theonlyshinyumbreon]

Not enough people are talking about how adorable the squid near the end was. Mans been around for 4 centuries and has likely became partners with various whales to the point where it just _knows_ when it's meeting a future partner.

[AmazingMezmer]

Fun fact: A Scrimshaw is a piece of art carved into bone or ivory, typically made by whalers from discarded parts.

[Cylypso]

PUNCHING THE AIR WHEN THE LITTLE WHALE STARTED PLAYING WITH THE CAST OUT OLD WHALE, AND WHEN THE OLD WHALE STARTED TO SING BACK JUST MADE ME CRY IN JOY. like hell yeah little dude go and be a massive shark killing machine

[TezTine]

Honestly it isn’t a documentary without a soothing British voice explaining the horrors presented to us.

[Person-lhfp]

I absolutely LOVE the characters in this world, like the dude asking "can I keep one, dad?" Only to get the response "only if you feed and walk it yourself."

And the scientists questioning the ethics of saving the calf.

Its great.

[droopsmoop]

Love the bit where they reference the Mother Brillo surviving an ingrown branch injury before, cause when you look at the cross-section of the mother you can actually see a scar near her forehead for where it was! Cool that they've included all these little details

[ghoullovinbutch]

The realistic writing of childhood trauma in a similarly intelligent species really got to me. I love this one (´；ω；`)

[johansunildaniel]

Imagine if there was a variant of this game like Spore where you get to pick your symbiotes as a Brillo whale.

This game has a lot of detailed lore and it really makes the experience more immersive.

[gerickollarena]

I like the hypothesis by Manly about why our calf chose the killer whale's way

"A shark slaughtered somebody right beside me and caused the death of my mother... Holy shit, is that a shark's skull you're wearing as decoration!?
Dude, you're my idol, teach me your ways!"

[nexdemise]

Honestly, I just love the journey the young whale takes while looking for a template. He originally looks for a plant like his mother, has little luck due to few being present until he runs into one that has a gaggle of sharks following it around, then it remembers how much it hates sharks and starts looking for something different, taking all the time he can to the point that the scientists are getting antsy, until he finds it - the armored son of a bitch of a whale with an octopus sidekick.

[DelRae]

I thought it was interesting that the octopus is experienced in what should occur and how the whale works. So either there’s been OTHER whales that took on the role of hunter that he’s had to stab to ‘train’ under his, or how own whale was the one he had such experience doing this with.