Transcript
1: Tazim speaks with arms held out. The two are seen from the side, facing each other; Zalef stands with hands in his coat pockets.
Tazim: Everyone sees it but you… This is exactly what Iv-Ki-Osha and I warned you about so long ago.
2: The poses remain but the background changes to the regal and domestic interior of Zalef’s realm. Tazim, as Melissa, is dressed in a fancy dress stained with blood.
Tazim: We foretold that the fruit of this black tree, this… outsider…
would corrupt the gods… twist them. And now…?
3: The scene now shows a realm of ivory columns, gold catwalks, and other grand and “Heavenly” architecture. Tazim now looks like his ‘normal’ serpentine form; Zalef has taken the form of a two-headed, four-armed bird. Zalef has leaned forward, claws clutching threateningly in the air towards Tazim.
Tazim: Now look at you. Confused, senile… weak.
Zalef: Bite your tongue you wretched-
4: They now stand in the “flesh world” realm. The Tazim serpent looks up at the swirling torrent of energy that is Zalef. It is corrupted, visually glitching, and has Black Mass tendrils tangled up in it like roots.
Tazim: Defenseless… without your pet, at least.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Tazim, turn into your arboreal multitudinous mass, that’ll show him!
Wait, ‘outsider’? That’s been used to refer to Martians.. But ‘this black tree’ would seem to imply the Black Mass. But then, does that mean that these gods used to ‘feast’ (or whatever) from the ‘fruit’ of non-black-mass people?
They seem to be referring to the memory orbs as the ‘fruit’, but then… Why would Tazim try to save the black-mass people instead of trying to move the gods back to eating what they did before? Unless ‘this black tree’ doesn’t refer to the Black Mass, but instead to something else..? But the description of the last panel directly states that Zalef has ‘Black Mass tendrils tangled up in it’.
Aand I had another thought while typing this that I felt really strongly was probably it, but then my cat demanded attention and I lost track of what it was. That’s frustrating =XnX=
Things that I thought of that weren’t that:
– The dinosaur people being the original ‘fruit’ (wouldn’t explain Tazim saving people who were based on the Black Mass).
– Martians being the original ‘fruit’ (same as above, but also wouldn’t explain these gods’ hyperfocus on Earth).
Anyway, given panel one, it seems even these gods have Osha violations ;P
Is the alt text lyrics from a song?