Bloodchild

Our in class reading this week is Blood child by Octavia. This story was very intriguing to say the least. It depicted a future world in which humanity has become nothing more that glorified livestock for an alien race that was akin to a wasp. This fictionally constructed world had many elements that where questionable to say the least. The creatures/ruling party of this world reminded me of actual wasps that would inject their eggs into a living victim only to have its young devour it from the inside out. This surprised me in that sense that this far future.

During the entirety of the reading I was hit with the over-arcing question of freedom vs security. In this world at least, the freedom of humanity has all been given up in name of a pseudo utopia. And the cost of freedom is to become glorified cattle to birth this race of arguable parasites. If giving up personal freedoms for peace leads to a pseudo utopia then is it worth it. This literary piece had me think of the age old arguments of freedom vs security. Is freedom worth the peace and security it supposedly fights for? If it meant longer lives with no hunger or conflict is it worth the trade off of free will?

Being an aspiring game developer this world is strife with possibilities of a good game. The game could be set during the beginnings of this story where the young of this species were killed off during the beginnings of their birth (when they were worms). Or perhaps make a story of a resistance to the the aliens life of herding an breeding humans in the name of the future of their race. The main change i would make is too give the audience/player choice of whether to continue the relationship. Or choose freedom and violence in the name of free will.


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  1. mroyal Lit & MediaNovember 20, 2018 at 6:40 AM

    I agree that this could be a really cool game. I thought your comparison to a wasp was really interesting and I did not know anything about wasps. The idea of freedom vs. security is also interesting because I think there are people today willing to give up their freedom to have someone take care of them.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 26, 2018 at 7:40 AM

    it's really interesting and actually makes sense when it comes to the reading being connected to freedom vs security. It's interesting you connected them to a wasp. I didn't realize the wasps and the aliens depicted in this story. And that actually wouldn't be a bad start to a video game

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