Issue 19, Page 25
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1: Julia, leans against the glass, mutated hands placed upon it as her head bleeds down her face.
Julia: Look at this… How can you fix this…
You can’t, no one can…
2: Sedjet is still on the ground, watching in horror and sadness.
Julia (off-panel): We… sp-Hrk… spent so long alone… thinking…
Just thinking.
3: Julia’s messy face presses to the glass, tearful eyes shut. She clutches her head, shoulders bunched up as she seems to struggle.
Julia: And I… we… figured it out…
Feels… like I knew it… all along…
4: Sedjet gets to his feet.
Sedjet: What? What is it, how did this happen?
You have to tell us… tell us, anything!
5: Julia has a hand to the glass, the other to her head, as she breaks into a half laugh, half sob.
Julia: Heh… Hah, hah… huff… Hrk- Krf-
6: Julia slides to the ground, leaving a bloody trail, crying and shuddering as Sedjet watches.
Sadly I know what this kind of depression feels like, poor doggy…
Oooooohh SHIT. The idol and Julia really are melded, and it’s downright symbiotic.
… or probably closer to parasitic. Holy hell.
How did you come to that conclusion? May be something very different. Might e.g. be a remnant of a superancient organic trauma kit, doing its best to keep hosts healthy, failing (species produced by evolution are effed up beyond any help), and settling for whatever it thinks the hosts want, picking up weird expectations instead…
Or none of the above. I’ve seen no evidence that there’s any mind in Specimen 5 that isn’t Julia’s.
geez even if the doc succeeds in getting it out of her how much of Julia will be left will she die right after the Alien is killed??
I wonder about the mystery, smiling guy, who pulled…a living idol(?)…or a ghost(?) out of Mel.
Maybe he can pull the [evil, supernatural creature] out of Julia, while leaving the physical parts of the blackish monster, inside Julia.
Hm.
that is what Mel and Rody are up to now trying to save her… the Doc is using brute force…. He will probably kill her if he dose not kill himself first…
The terrible truth…
It’s not symbiotic…
It’s not parasitic…
It was only suppressed.
its using her body to grow I would say it is Parasitic…
I’d tell her that, even if it can’t be fixed, there’s still hope, and that love is adaptive; that if Melissa truly loves her, then she will love her no matter what.
She does, what hurts her most is knowing Julia is suffering.
But Mel also has one HELL of a flinch to overcome, too.