Issue 16, Page 29
Always a shame to write characters with sealed fates. I really liked Rati!
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1: Black, thorned tentacles whip out.
2: Rati recoils, stiffening in pain. Sharp shards of black mass pierce her back like meat hooks.
3: She turns to face the camera. In one hand is a small hand axe, and in the other, a lit flare.
4: She is vaults off the console towards one of the glass tubes of fluid. She has the axe raised, her face starts to darken with black veins streaking below her scales.
5: The humanoid form of Rati burns and disintegrates in a fiery explosion.
She died as we all should: wielding a melee weapon aloft, covered in our own blood, as we send an alien menace to a fiery death.
I actually really like how the explosions kind of have a “comic book” style to them. Like…they look fake somehow…but that actually kind of works since the only 2 times we’ve seen explosions in this story arc have involved horrifying monster things (the monster who opened the portal and the monster right here). It’s like…even the way they die is “wrong” and unnatural, somehow. It’s actually pretty darn cool.