Fun fact about the new survivor's name
Soma (last name of the new survivor) means "body" in Greek. To be more specific, it is the part of a person that is 100% separate from the mind. That's also why Dungeons & Dragon spells that require you to physically move in some way is referred to as having a somatic spell component.
The killer this chapter is also eerily similar to the types of monsters found in the video game "Soma" (which btw is a fantastic game).
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More fun facts.
If you Google "Gabriel Soma" there's a Mexican DJ with the same name.
Soma was also name of drug in the book Brave New World.
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That's also why some stories, maybe Brave New World?, referred to drug trips as going on a "soma holiday" - as you were essentially leaving your body.
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I didn’t realize that somatic was related. Been playing dnd since adnd and I never thought of the correlation.
Soma is a modern day medication as well. Take too much and you get the soma jerks. It’s a muscle relaxant.
brave new world was good. The dreaming earth was a great one too
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I'm not interested in the upcoming Chapter at all, but these facts are actually quite fascinating. I wonder if they kept some of these in mind intentionally, while designing the new character...
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The first time I read Gabriel Soma, I immediately thought about that horror game, Soma. Ironically, it is also a sci-fi horror game with similar vibes with robot mixed with organic matter monsters.
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Yeah first time I saw the chapter's trailer I was like "This looks like it could be out of SOMA" (I love that game dearly)
And next thing I see the character's surname is Soma hahahha
Neat detail !
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Gonna beat you with another one, SOMA is also a term used to refer to the region of the nucleus in brain cells, where info is arrives and is processed, wich is funny because correct me if Im wrong but aren't the new survivors memories fake and imprinted onto him, making literally a human SOMA in a sense.
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Soma is also the name from a drug in George Orwell's 1984.
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