Survivors of Alterna

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Series Begun:
2023-03-06
Series Updated:
2024-04-05
Description:

One of the few remaining mammalians left in a world ruled by sea life, and the sole survivor of a long-dead species that once dominated the surface of Earth. Join Akikta, the last living human, as he embarks on an adventure to navigate through an entirely new world. All while dealing with the trauma of being the sole surviving member of his species and trying to figure out what it means for him in the long term.

Notes:

This series takes place in the world of Splatoon (more specifically, a month after the events of Splatoon 3's campaign mode). Splatoon is a game franchise created by Nintendo that revolves around a bunch of colorful cephalopods shooting ink at each other in a sport called Turf Wars. For those of you who know the lore of Splatoon (or at least know the lore revolving around Alterna), you can skip this part. For those of you clueless about the world, here's a brief explanation.

12,000 years ago, planet Earth became devastated by increasingly chaotic natural disasters. It didn't help that Humans made the situation worse by waging massive world wars on one another. Eventually, it got so bad that the surface of the planet became nearly inhospitable to all forms of life. Humanity just barely survived the catastrophes, with one portion of Humanity escaping into space and the other escaping underground. The latter created a brand new society, dubbing the last human city "Alterna". The later generations ended up wiping the last remnants of Humanity by igniting the boosters of a rocket which caused a chain reaction, resulting in the whole place to explode. Those not killed by the explosions or falling debris did not survive long after. The sea life within the underground city's ocean would eventually evolve and spread out all across the world, taking the place of Humanity.

This series follows the survival of a single human boy, whose grandfather saw the tragedy to befall Alterna coming and had his grandson cryogenically frozen pre-emptively in a sealed-off location. Now, after reawakening thousands of years later, the boy must cope with what happened to his people while navigating himself through a brand new world. What is to become of the last human on Earth? Who can say...

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