Oh man. Sebastian expected a great big pool of angst and instead got an ocean; I’d say that his brain’ll be offline for a little while now, so I’m taking anything he says next with a grain of salt. I predict it’ll not be pretty. It IS very much in-character for him that his mind went immediately to the slaughter of the innocents as well as the guilty (and there’s nobody more guilty than ‘Uncle’, and I hope Sebastian remembers just who tried to kill him a bit ago.)
Yyyup, Sebastian is flat-footed and floundering right now. Sebastian is one of the ~good~ Captains too, the kind that are effective, efficient, get the job done.. and still looks out for ways to negate or minimalize civilian casualties if that comes up.
The tension in this scene is really palpable and I love how clearly their three different reactions come across even before Sebastian says anything (also, hi Sebastian! Long time!).
Your textures are amazing and I love the return of the border curlicue to indicate the end of the story.
Thank you. <3 (It has been a long time since we've seen Bastian, hasn't it.)
I wasn't intending to put in the border, but it was just lacking something in that first panel until I hit on the border – since I opened with a stylized curlicue, it made sense to end with one too – bookend the backstory, I guess. 🙂
I’m just thinking back, and I seem to remember this whole conversation (and Bastian’s previous entry to the chapel in an attempt to flush Beast out of wherever he was sulking at the time) was prompted by Beast killing those two peasants for the crime of stealing the silverware – Bastian wanted to understand the sort of mind which could immediately go from a minor crime to a major punishment. Well, now he’s found it – the mind of someone who basically had his beloved ripped from him and burned at the stake solely for the “crime” of being born, who could go on a berserk rampage and murder both the guilty and the innocent in the castle (and use his king’s right to find the stragglers in order to properly perpetrate the rampage) and yet still survive. Garreth would have been much happier had the curse which hit him been a killing curse – I suspect he wanted to die, and at least part of what he was hoping for throughout his rampage was for someone to have the guts to stand up to him, fight back, and hopefully kill him, so he could be with Beatrice. Instead, he’s condemned to live in an inhuman shape, surrounded by the shades of the innocent he killed, and haunted by the vindictive shade of the uncle who ordered the murder of his love. You got your explanation, Bastian. Not Garreth’s fault if it isn’t one you’re happy with.
Honestly? You’re probably not wrong about Garreth being happier if someone had managed to fight back and kill him. He took his break and turned it outward. If he’d turned it inward, he wouldn’t still be here. That doesn’t mean that what he did is good, definitely not, but, well, it is what it is.
Sebastiaaaaaaaan, it’s been a while!
Heee, Queen Cat!
sdfkljdf All the lines and linework in the stone waaaaalls, omg.
But yesss I’m loving the shading on Beast and his claws and the tentaclllles.
Oh, Sebastian, now you/we know, and the difference between you at the start and the end of this chapter….
(Hee! I like that you can tell there’s a wooden door behind Sebastian as well as the wall! :3)
Yeah, Sebastian hasn’t gotten page-time for a few months now. XD;
Nnngh, I am so happy to be back to tentacle!Beast, he’s so much fun to draw <3
Sebastian is absolutely flat-footed right now, and not knowing which way to jump, yeah.
Awwww is Lord Beast crying? 🙁 🙁
Well spotted. Yeah, he is 🙁
Wonderful job conveying Beast’s tension with the nails digging into the wall.
Poor Queen Cat looks so miserable *hugs*
Thank you.
Yeah, ain’t nobody happy at this stage.
Oh man. Sebastian expected a great big pool of angst and instead got an ocean; I’d say that his brain’ll be offline for a little while now, so I’m taking anything he says next with a grain of salt. I predict it’ll not be pretty. It IS very much in-character for him that his mind went immediately to the slaughter of the innocents as well as the guilty (and there’s nobody more guilty than ‘Uncle’, and I hope Sebastian remembers just who tried to kill him a bit ago.)
Yyyup, Sebastian is flat-footed and floundering right now. Sebastian is one of the ~good~ Captains too, the kind that are effective, efficient, get the job done.. and still looks out for ways to negate or minimalize civilian casualties if that comes up.
The tension in this scene is really palpable and I love how clearly their three different reactions come across even before Sebastian says anything (also, hi Sebastian! Long time!).
Your textures are amazing and I love the return of the border curlicue to indicate the end of the story.
Thank you. <3 (It has been a long time since we've seen Bastian, hasn't it.)
I wasn't intending to put in the border, but it was just lacking something in that first panel until I hit on the border – since I opened with a stylized curlicue, it made sense to end with one too – bookend the backstory, I guess. 🙂
I’m just thinking back, and I seem to remember this whole conversation (and Bastian’s previous entry to the chapel in an attempt to flush Beast out of wherever he was sulking at the time) was prompted by Beast killing those two peasants for the crime of stealing the silverware – Bastian wanted to understand the sort of mind which could immediately go from a minor crime to a major punishment. Well, now he’s found it – the mind of someone who basically had his beloved ripped from him and burned at the stake solely for the “crime” of being born, who could go on a berserk rampage and murder both the guilty and the innocent in the castle (and use his king’s right to find the stragglers in order to properly perpetrate the rampage) and yet still survive. Garreth would have been much happier had the curse which hit him been a killing curse – I suspect he wanted to die, and at least part of what he was hoping for throughout his rampage was for someone to have the guts to stand up to him, fight back, and hopefully kill him, so he could be with Beatrice. Instead, he’s condemned to live in an inhuman shape, surrounded by the shades of the innocent he killed, and haunted by the vindictive shade of the uncle who ordered the murder of his love. You got your explanation, Bastian. Not Garreth’s fault if it isn’t one you’re happy with.
Honestly? You’re probably not wrong about Garreth being happier if someone had managed to fight back and kill him. He took his break and turned it outward. If he’d turned it inward, he wouldn’t still be here. That doesn’t mean that what he did is good, definitely not, but, well, it is what it is.