**Violence/Gore Warning** Page Preview - Pg 523
Added 2024-06-14 17:59:04 +0000 UTCViolence and a few panels of gore on this page, and since the gallery just displays all images in a set without a click-thru, I put it in a link below so you aren't just casually scrolling the app and get hit with it all of a sudden.
Malthus threatens to assault Ethan with Faux Al at first, but loses interest in following through when he won't play along with his bullshit. Resorting to ripping out guts in a fit of rage feels like a classic demon tactic, but we aren't gonna stay here long, thankfully! ╰[ ⁰﹏⁰ ]╯ This is the only gorey page in this scene, after this Ethan is punted into another illusion where Malthus tries a much different approach to try and break him...
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Comments
i'm dreaming about Malthus...IN PAIN!
LadyKya
2024-06-15 14:16:14 +0000 UTCthis is brutal - but .... the collar.... the collar/halo/binding that holds the real al, here on malthus starts at a distance from his skin just like al's. and then as he grows these ...thorns/horns/spikes, the collar closes in to be on his skin. ... i got a feeling..... -squint- Asmo, your work is so well thought out, every page has some little something in the details. something's here and i'm LIVING for the visual narrative <3
Mx. Benign
2024-06-15 00:25:11 +0000 UTC...wow...
Lia Graf
2024-06-14 23:35:42 +0000 UTCYep! Malthus needs to experience a very sssllllooooooooowwwww and painful demise! Ike falling into the plague after Al and Ethan hand him his dick on a platter!! I still think that daddy is going to show up! Maybe to give his blessings to the both of them! 😅🙏🏼
Theo
2024-06-14 20:48:41 +0000 UTCI wouldn't worry too much! Malthus makes a pretty unconvincing Al, and Ethan isn't gonna put up with this forever :)
Asmodeus
2024-06-14 20:14:13 +0000 UTCMalthus inserting 'nightmare Al' as a trauma wedge between Ethan and Real Al TmT I just hope Ethan and Al can stay together and work through it properly because my heart is gonna get ripped out and shredded if they can't >m<
PantherLion
2024-06-14 19:48:30 +0000 UTCAl is taking on the physical damage, but the mental part in an illusion is all on Ethan ( ´△｀)
Asmodeus
2024-06-14 19:44:06 +0000 UTCI'm definitely not a fan of the "villain gets increasingly over-the-top-depraved so we'll remember how evil he is!" device. I do appreciate that we aren't going to meander here, though.
camelotcrusade
2024-06-14 19:29:31 +0000 UTC(Deflecting the ugliness with a logistics question) Presumably Ethan feels pain even though it "isn't real." Does the transference have Al feeling this pain or just "real" pain?
brashion
2024-06-14 19:06:37 +0000 UTC☹️ this is hard to read ;poor ethan. Malthus made himself a monster Ethan is so small in the last panel
alex
2024-06-14 18:35:32 +0000 UTCWell that’s entirely unnecessary. Rearranging internal organs isn’t meant to be this messy.
Amber Newton
2024-06-14 18:10:05 +0000 UTCYuuuuuuuup I was expecting things to take a turn for the "this", and surprised it took this long
Brendan OSullivan
2024-06-14 18:08:59 +0000 UTC
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