Issue 19, Page 3
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1: Separated by the wall and glass, Melissa, leans back in shock. Julia’s distorted hand presses to the glass. She’s hunched forward some, head down, face obscured by her long hair.
2: Julia’s face is revealed, a multitude of eyes watching Melissa from a cluster on one side of her face. She’s panting slightly and drooling, half of her face still normal.
3: Melissa squeezes her eyes shut as she speaks.
Melissa: I… I don’t know if you can even understand me now…
I don’t know if you’re in there, but… Julia…
You have to come back.
4: From Melissa’s booth, Julia retracts her hand from the glass, her other arm wrapped around herself as she looks away with an expression of confusion and shame.
Melissa (off-panel): You have to fight this. You have to come back home, to me.
5: Julia’s still-canine eye is shut, tears running down her face.
Melissa (off-panel): You have to…
Oh Fucking hell
looks like julia might be too far gone to help….**SOB!***
Nooo… 🙁
Ooof… and I think that’s proof Julia IS still in there… there’s just something akin to a ‘language barrier’ due to the madness effect.
… this is both heartbreaking AND absolutely fascinating.
Hrm… Given the way that the Black Idol, aka The One Who Crawls, has acted every other time we have ever seen it, it CAN communicate, and every single time it has shown an effort to coerce interaction, and -every- time it has done so by emphasizing how ‘great’ it is to be absorbed.
Julia’s currently demonstrated behavior is either genuinely herself, or the BI is learning better how to manipulate emotional responses from it’s prey that goes beyond sexual enticement or self appointed divinity.
That could be something if we didn’t know that TOWC is AN ANCIENT GOD! It slauthered unnumbered difference of species and you think it only now started to learn “emotions”? And what, for The God Of Flesh, could possibly be more of interest than immortality and sex? Gods are too arrogant to even mimic emotions anyway.
You claim to know a lot.
Julia needs to make it, she has to. :*(
I’m emotionally conflicted. On one hand, I’m worried about Julia and want her to pull through. BUUUUTT on the other hand I’m having a nostalgic and serious Concessions hard-on.
I think that the nightmare in Issue 18, Page 26 implies that Julia is definitely still in there, unless page 26 was a lie.
*I think that the nightmare in Issue 18, Page 26 implies that Julia is definitely still in there, unless page 26 was a lie.