Issue 19, Page 11
Transcript
1: Security footage shows Julia pacing around her damaged room, parts of the walls and bedding torn and melted.
Sedjet (off-panel): She’s so much more active now. It’s like she’s finally waking up.
Xijo (off-panel): She has outbursts.
Sedjet (off-panel): She’s had nightmares before, fits of rage. Now, she’s… thinking.
2: Sedjet, eyebrows furrowed, has his hand steepled by his face. Vidali, behind him, looks angry.
Vidali: You horrified her. You traumatized that girl and tortured Julia with a life she’ll never return to.
Sedjet: It had to be done.
Vidali: Your ego sometimes… You’ll do anything to solve your problems, won’t you?
3: Sedjet lets his face fall and be cradled by his hands.
Sedjet: Vidali…
This isn’t some personal agenda. People’s lives are at stake.
4: The three scientists sit in discussion.
Sedjet: You think I want to torture them like this? Melissa is my best friend’s daughter.
But if we can get Julia talking, we can figure out how this happened. We can figure out what she sees, how she thinks… No one’s ever been this integrated with the Idol and it just stopped consuming them. We can’t waste the opportunity.
“a life she’ll never return to”? Not with that attitude. It’s to early to take anything off the table just yet. And as Ahmes said, Julia is the only one (to their knowledge) to ever not be completely consumed. So there’s, in my view, more hope for her than anyone (of its other victims). But I wouldn’t count on this window of potential opportunity/hope to stay open forever. It would be a shame for it to close without anyone gaining or learning anything.
Well, “A life she’ll never return to” because their science lacks any way at all to save her. She’s still a terrifyingly dangerous vector for a lifeform that normally completely assimilates anything it encounters, and said lifeform is riddled all through her body partway through that process. Imagine trying to remove a cancer when the cancer has replaced…what? 25% of your body mass? More?
There IS a fix, that we’ve seen. But only one person’s looking for it right now, and given the way these thing tend to go, she may not like what she finds.
It’s really interesting here, because you can *absolutely* agree with that logic on both sides of it.
This has been so damn fascinating…
I’m guessing she’ll go full symbiotic on their ass and become a god or something.
I suppose, in theory: These doctors could…if they find a way, find a method to remove the alien parts
from Julia, and then replace them with robot parts.
But as we saw with DC comics’ Cyborg, [living] with- robot arms, + maybe robot legs, and with your face being half-robotic, can be a giant…emotional…struggle, all by itself. Good luck, Julia. ^^;
So, the next step: Get Melissa -in- the cage. And watch as Juliasite molests her with those tentacle hands.
Huh. That….huh.
Just realized something, rereading this page. If the God That Crawls really did *stop* consuming Julia, then implicitly the trace amounts of it she seems to have ingested on that planet couldn’t overtake her completely.
That could mean all sorts of things. Assuming the Idol isn’t just biding its time, the mind leaps to the idea that in *tiny* enough quantities, a living person’s immune system can retard the Idol’s assimilation enough to halt it at a certain point. That….that would be tremendously important, if true.
I think I got the answer ot her not being consumed julia is the first being consumed by that part of the god who crawls… it has become part of Julia not the other way round….
Dang. That’s a good idea, or theaory, or whatever you’d like to call it. 😀
Yeah, check issue-19-page-5/#comment-6175 for a thread on that line of thinking
Is the comment system working? I’ve tried to post a reply, but that doesn’t seem to be working.
(No need to reply to this)
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Well that’s odd, I can reply to myself, but not to (the commenter going by) TRA.
@TCDD
Well, if you like: for now, you could put in a comment, starting with- “Hi, TRA”…and and stuff to that. 😀
Testing again. Maybe I am exceeding some word limit?
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I give up, for now
Hi, it’s because comments full of links get auto-blocked by wordpress, because it’s a common thing that spambots do. Try not to do that in the future!