Chapter 8 pg.36
Nov15
Don't really have much to say about this page that the page doesn't say for itself.
Also, if you go back and look at the cover page for this chapter (you know, the Death card?) It's pretty much a summary of the entire backstory, down to the figure under the horse (hint: it's sorta symbolic)
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAST. AGAIN, THAT’S ALL I’M GONNA SAY. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAST. ;______________;
THE TEARS AND HIM LEANING ON THE BALCONY (AND ALL THE TENTACLES) AND HIS HAND IN HIS HAIR AND THE CLAWS AND AND AND BEEEEEEEAST.
THAT LAST PANEL. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. ;________;
(And Garreeeeeeeeth in the cover page, omg. It makes so much sense now! Okay, THE WHOLE cover page makes sense, from the priest and the positioning of his wife and the cat AND THE SUNSET AAAAAAAAAAh)
…There is no coherency here, no. XD;;;;
*offers blankets and hot chocolate* Yeah, Beast is… Honestly, this entire chapter doesn’t pull punches, but this sequence in particular had ~me~ tearing up more than once.
Beast was completely blindsided by how badly it would affect him, too, since he’d kind of kept himself from dwelling on it too much for a very long time. Then to go through it blow by blow… yyyeeah.
(YES. Garreth is the dead king under the horse, with Beast over him, and augh the symbolism, and the three figures in front of him and I kid you not the original Tarot card has Death holding a banner with a ‘Mystic Rose’ and I couldn’t NOT use this card for this chapter. XD )
DDDDDD:
Oh, Beast! I can’t believe that you’ve been carrying this around with you for so long (well, okay, I can, but I don’t know how it hasn’t crushed you). The self-loathing makes me ACHE and it makes so much, twisted, sense that it’s how he would react. All that time to think about how he should have been just a little bit faster, a little more aware is just, gah. Awful.
On the art side! The hand on his head with his hair falling between his fingers is wonderful and the tear tracks are just heartbreaking. Sebastian’s grim expression says so much.
Beast had a kind of mental balancing act going where he acknowledged the things that had happened, but didn’t really ~think~ about them, and even then he wasn’t really doing too well. But he’s alive, so, there’s that.
Thank you! That hand-in-the-hair took forever to figure out. XD
Beast, honey, you weren’t there because Shitty Uncle deliberately waited for you to be away. He knew there was no way you’d let him do it, but he figured he could do it, present you with a fait accompli wrapped up in sanctimonious justifications, and grief and shock would stop you from doing anything about it.
…Weeeeeeell, I guess somebody miscalculated THERE, huh?!
Part of Beast knows that, but oh man the emotional avalanche is not leaving much room for rational thought, certainly not right now.
And yes, indeed.