Bloodline 159
At last, the next page is done!
You know, it’s pages like this that make me miss drawing a certain magic-deficient wolf girl…
New fanart! Thank you guys so much for putting your time into these, it means a lot ^^
And if that’s not enough, new incentive! [Link]
In other news (making this very brief because it’s so late that it’s early), Halloween request stream on the 16th, and i’ll be at Furpocalypse on the 28th! My god there’s so much going on in this post.
Yup, had a feeling this would happen. Looks like Sil’s ending up like Gale before he threw his axe.
Is the stream on the 15th or the 16th now?
16th. it’s on a Sunday, so the Deviantart announcement was a typo XD
I have decided not to like any of the characters, because the ones I do like always seem to die ;~;
Are we certain that any of the patrol group are dead? I mean, it looks really really bad for some of them, but if the cavalry has really good healing with them or Sil both survives and also manages to heal three people at once then… This would be so much easier if they just had convenient crosses over their eyes when they left the cast.
Well, a quick binge later and I have a list of potential fatalities.
Obviously extreme spoilers of the past strips follow…
Cute little bunny: ritual
“HUGE” deer: ritual
Cole and Ember: pink eye
5 ferals of the wood: killed to death, hacked to pieces, burned to exploding ash.
Bernin: Black heart
Callum: booboo on face
Gale: belly-button pircing, also some ice-shards around the face and neck…
You could be forgiven for liking the ritual animals, but their fate was never particularly optimistic.
Cole and Ember’s fates are still unclear, they both seemed to have some resistance…
Those 5 ferals were mooks. Mooks are like redshirts but more numerous, faceless, and villainous… If you cannot identify mooks then you will find many works of fiction to be profoundly tragic.
Bernin got hit with a “Bernin Special” that is ridiculously persistent and has unknown effects. It likely has something to do with demon blood though… Bernin’s body should survive it though…
Callum likely got a concussion, which is easily fatal but also easily disables without killing, good odds that they can survive.
Gale is… Well, that spike could have been double-pointed, could have gone through from behind, or maybe she stabbed him with the blunt end(likely a favourite demon tactic but Veera seems to have more class than that…). Gut-wounds are notorious for being slowly fatal, but near-instant death from a leaking organ is entirely possible, but magic can likely still heal that. The shards are, well, very nasty, but a bit on the small side, maybe (a note of “eww” for using the same shards in another attack) that damage is mostly cosmetic, but there could easily be massive blood-loss or even a perforated brain…
Really, it is very difficult to be certain if someone is alive or dead until they have been subject to a proper examination, and magic may be able to fix things that would not normally be fixable, so who knows… But given that the character that you really loved was the bunny, I am sorry, but it is shoelaces now…
Oh, and I guess Sil is another casualty, the precise nature of her condition is largely unknown, but painful seems to be a reliable bet. Probably a minor death spell, so suppressed life but didn’t end it…
Can I just mention that the expressions here are very good?
The first panel has Veera sort of having a moment, like “Huh, that was never actually dangerous, it’s sort of almost sad.”.
Panel two is Sil being ferociously determined, trying to make the magic work.
3: casually drop the magic, it is not important.
4: Get rid of the clutter, that old stuff is done with now. Things to do…
5: A lot of desperation, a bit of shock, a little panic, and just a hint of sadness. She really really wanted that spell to work. The spell not working is not a good thing.
6: Determination again, but this time it is much more calm and methodical. On a hero I would expect it to mean that they had given up on reforming the villain and are about to end the fight, on Veera… It is just scary…
8: I am not sure what that flow did, but extreme pain and loss of illumination are obvious side-effects… Still, the earring and tattoo seem intact, and the red highlights seem to be a bit suppressed as they pass through, so hopefully Sill still has a little bit of resistance left…
*sighs* and I kind of liked Veera’s hair-colour, and I suppose we shan’t be seeing it again.
But yes, a lot of emotion conveyed on quite inhuman faces.
Thanks! Over the years I’ve put a lot into trying to make my expressions carry their weight, I’m happy to hear you appreciate them. Oh, and as far as the next page goes, it’s not a long wait from now ^^