not late at all dw about it, and i followed you're trail of thought perfectly, at least i think so.

you really took the concept we've bounced back and forth, and just made this whole storyline a lot more interesting and beautiful, thank you ash. ♡ i really feel like wei would find a reason to stay with cheng, and maybe send back findings to earth if there is anything useful in his findings that could helo humans back at home... but what if he makes a finding that proves that cheng or cheng's offspring could be used in medicine... lots of intruiging moral dilemmas here wow. such a cool concept indeed!! maybe cheng's ability to take on new shapes somehow bleeds into wei also through his offspring, what if cheng can help wei change so he can survive in harsher conditions that cheng can, what if wei will say goodbye to parts of himself that makes him human in the end?

have a nice day ash! 🩷

yeahhh ash u get me! love your analysis and comments on things! and i love these uncanny valley /body horror concepts too!
and oh WOW YES, wei's hunger for understanding cheng makes him go along with the whole thing, like maybe - after cheng fucks him and fills him with his offspring - wei has understood that he has been contaminated with something foreign... and according to his space scientists "code of conduct" he really should get rid of cheng and off himself - so he doesn't bring anything along with the ship back, BUT HE DOESN'T. He's tooo fucking curious. and cheng takes so well care of him too. so he's just like, swimming around in this happy soft haze of getting pampered, and learning to communicate with cheng, while also getting to keep inspecting cheng. and maybe cheng is in his "normal" form, OR maybe cheng shifts, and takes on different forms. and that's what even makes wei even more interested like "what the fuck ARE YOU?"... because once he thinks he has figured out cheng, cheng takes on a new shape - and that throws wei off once again. this is starting to make me think of "little mushroom" HAHA

anyway, there are a few ways this could go... it could take a dark turn, because ALIENS, or it could take a soft turn,,,, the dark turn is that once the "alien babies" are fully grown, it's time for them to come out. and it might not be a pretty exit, maybe they actually eat up their host??? and maybe the ship is set to return to earth and brings this species to earth and well, byebye earth......
OR the babies have somehow built a space inside him, and maybe his reproductive organs are reshaped somehow to provide an exit without hurting the host. and then they have to take care of these offspring together??? ok no idea HAHAHA i'm starting to lose the thread now i think maybe

i do write a little.......

hello again ash its the scifi anon here again, i fell asleep... 🫣

ohh thats interesting! yes, and cheng doesn't actually speak so that quotation was more a feeling wei got, like, oh? "it" wants me to study it, but why? no idea. maybe cc undresses, and wei inspects his body and then wei does some xray, and sees that chengs intestines are similar but slightly off, too big, or some parts missing, its almost like he shouldn't be functional at all, almost like a kid had tried to draw the intestines,,,,, placements and shapes are a bit off, and THEN one thing leads to another and cheng somehow seduces wei. almost like wei falls into a fluffy soft comfortable trance... and cheng fxxxs him... but chengs sperm is not like a humans, it is bigger... and it somehow works differently, maybe wei's body becomes a host/vessel and whatever is inserted inti him attaches itself inside him, like a bunch of small packages of sperms and eggs, and placenta all in one.
maybe chengs agenda is to reproduce, but he needs a willing vessel to do that???

MAYBE cheng had only tried to MIMIC the look of a human body after OBSERVING WEI SLEEPING IN HIS POD! and after hes done with his ritual he changes back to is original form and starts taking cake of wei, making sure he eats and sleeps enough to make chengs babies grow inside of him. Okay i still dont know where im going with this im jus word vomitting at this point hahaha

oh yaaay! wei gets woken up from cryo sleep because an unidentifiable "space debree" has attached itself to the ship wei is on. When Wei walk through the ship to reach the part there the debree is stuck hes met with this interesting alien who has ome inside the ship. it looks similar to a human, but doesn't speak the same language. cheng walks around wei whos about to piss his pants but then just walks on.

wei follows, and watches it walk straight into his lab, curiously checking out weis equipment maybe cheng even lies down on the observation table willingly. " go on little scientist, inspect me".... i don't know where i'm going with this. 🫣