lot to ponder here

imagine you've been alive since the dawn of the universe and you get locked in a book and tormented by an ex-jester

likely how he's able to hold it for as long as he does! the stress might be driving him mad but without laios and co there i think he probably could've held on for much longer

when we see this process with marcille and mithrun the lion doesn't need to bring in outsiders to dethrone them. they self destruct on their own as their desires become increasingly contradictory and bloated. thistle maintains a surprising clarity of focus

something interesting in that the winged lion actually seems to find thistle pretty difficult to manipulate, very possibly because thistle doesn't actually want anything for himself. relief isn't a tempting prospect to him. comfort isn't either. only the safety of the people

YOUVE GOOOOOT TO GET IN HERE

thisoh.....: (

MY FUNNY BUNNY...

sorry im mostly just pointing at parallels but these are back to back which makes me craaaazy

i actually have more questions about what the hell you guys are doing right here

putting these panels in a big triangle to consider

one of those panels that feels like it needs to be reimagined as a baroque painting honestly

necromancy for when you are just too weird about him in general

pulling her by her staff when you are too weird about her to just take her hand

AND MISOGYNIST DOGS. tboy experience though i cant explain this one it jsut is

#ffxiv

diversity win this massive creep is also a bit of a silly billy :p

fittingly the "egg" the lion hatches out of looks closer to a spider egg than a bird. btw dont google spider egg sacs if you'r an arachnophobe #protip

OK WELL NO ONE SAID YOU HAD TO SIT IN THEIR LAPS DID THEY!!!

chilchuck i think that's just most people

yeah ok thistle

in their own understanding of parent and child they've basically just set the dangerous item on a nice high shelf where the kid can always see it and is always reminded that its there out of reach! with no explanation given for why they can't interact with other than "its dangerous"

part of that is just how the nature of the demon infested the place, but even to those on the outside, its intuitive. if there's a giant maze it must have something good or interesting at the center. this is another case where the elves do the other races no favors keeping their secrets

this is slightly different from the version the winged lion tells later, but close enough in the broadstrokes. what i will say is even without letting it be known that a wish granting demon lives at the center of the dungeon: dungeons already entice adventurers!

like this line is already haunting and then you remember he had a solid few years being nursed in his brother's house where this desire just had to sit inside him, becoming his entire focal point. no wonder he doesn't bother to learn the tells of his own failing body

these panels especially like jesus fucking christ

genuinely such a fucking turning point. deeply erotic and stomach turning moment all at once

now mith what change necessitated turning your girlfriend into a lamia

despite being less interested in his person status (so much so that he actually finds it a little weird how much he doesn't care) kabru cares about finding something that WORKS for mithrun. how else to best keep him alive!!