Collar6 #1103

I appreciate the love for the strip, buuuuuuuut I'm not a man :P

Fiona

Well now, sure seems like Nora has certainly gone into 100% Mama Bear mode on Blackstone here, because of their attack on Michelle! Especially given the way she's after pulling the "Glowing Green Eyes of Doom" routine... Would this move be a trick that any Dominant could learn how to do, or are only Phantoms given this sort of training? It does seem like a good way to intimate potential targets. But Blackstone's surprisingly calm for having a powerful looking gun pointed at her head, especially with how Nora seems like she's looking for any excuse to pull that trigger! Either she's feeling pretty confident about getting out of this tricky situation with her skills, or she's still got a few more tricks hidden up her sleeve... Maybe it's in the form of some backup (it coming from either the Blackstone Kingdom, or a direction which Nora might not be expecting this attack to come from); or some kind of emotional leverage to get her foes to back off, like claiming that if she's not allowed to leave with her prize, Michelle will be left stuck as she currently is? And, given just how rare her abilities to twist a person's mental energies are, with this being able to turn an normally 100% dominant woman into a completely helpless submissive; poor Nora may now end up having to back down for the moment. Not only that, Blackstone's wasted no time in starting her mind games with Michelle, by planting the idea of being owned by somebody else (namely Blackstone herself) inside the red-head's mind and no-one else seems to have realized that they'd needed to counteract this claim ASAP! Michelle's in an extreme state of Suggestibility ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestibility ) right now, all due to her mental and emotional balance having been thrown totally out of whack here (the sudden switch to being submissive and all of the weird feelings this has caused her to experience being to blame), so Blackstone's daring declaration of ownership over her might cause Michelle to start believing this claim is actually true... And if she decides she needs to protect her 'Mistress'? That won't be good. Finally, a good call by Michael, with him ordering Gunther to get both Evita and the others out of this mansion! Things are already tricky enough as they are, they don't need to give Blackstone any extra hostages to use to force a surrender, or making an already tricky fight even harder for them... Will it go smoothly though? Hard to say, but I certainly can't wait to see what exactly will happen next here.

DarkJade

Oh wow, Nora’s after going 100% Mama Bear here! Which is totally understandable, given that her only child has been attacked in front of her and they are currently in an extremely vulnerable frame of mind right now: with Blackstone not wasting any time before attempting to mentally indoctrinate Michelle, while the red-head’s mind is still reeling from all her mental energies being swapped from dominant to submissive (with this effect being even worse for Michelle than it would have been for a normal person, due to Michelle not having any submissive energy whatsoever, so the drastic change ended up being even more of a shock to Michelle’s system), Blackstone taking full advantage of this to insert the concept of her being Michelle’s owner into the red-head’s train of thought and then let it slowly sink in (without Nora or any of the others realizing they needed to nip this idea in the bud)… Have people ever heard of suggestibility (in which someone ends up more becoming willing to both accept and act on other people’s suggestions, or think an account of certain events is fully accurate [even if the person affected by suggestibility was present for this event and the person who’s given their own version of events wasn’t], if the information which they’re given seems like it makes some degree of logical sense and it has been repeated enough times to linger in the person’s memories): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestibility ? It certainly seems like this is applying to Michelle here; given her current emotional imbalance and sudden loss of confidence, given all these conditions do make people become far more receptive to the various ideas that others might have come up with. Also, that ‘glowing eyes of rage’ technique Nora’s currently using (if that is not just artistic styling to show us readers just how ticked off she is right now) would certainly be a pretty useful trick for any dominant person to learn how to do; especially for Phantoms! Imagine just how scary it could be, to see someone give you such an intense look of anger, you think they’ve got some kind of vision attack powering up to help strike their target down and if that person is wearing something which conceals all of their facial features from view; except for the eyes, this effect might be even more enhanced… But Blackstone certainly seems to be surprisingly calm about having a gun pointed directly at her head, with this deadly weapon being wielded by an extremely ticked off Association Phantom, one who seems quite willing to do anything to protect her child (even to the point where she may disobey any orders given to back down right now); doesn’t she? Either she’s feeling really confident in her ability to get out of this stand-off with her prize in tow, or there’s still a few hidden tricks up her sleeves… Maybe she has some additional backup coming along (with that person arriving in the next couple of pages), or Blackstone makes the daring statement that if she gets taken out here and now, Nora will end up losing the only sure way for Michelle to be ever changed back to her normal dominant state. I personally wouldn’t be sure if Blackstone would be bluffing or not about this item, but Nora might not be willing to call her out on this claim, especially given that it does seem like a pretty rare ability! Also, it’s interesting to note that Nora’s co-worker seems to have vanished from sight in the last two comics… Has he just been out of focus for these events, or is Nora about to get a very nasty surprise? Good call by Michael though, with regards his order to Gunther: getting Evita and the others out of the way will certainly help reduce the risks of them being used as potential hostages by Blackstone.

DarkJade

I think the poll is just going to be what series we all want to see next (more of this, another page of Ced 6, etc). I could be wrong, though.

LlamaMaster

You have the right idea going for a poll. Whether the girls get involved if the difference between this ark being a rescue mission from Blackstone or Michelle recovery from what has been done to her, with some vivid dreams of the Red Knight.

Mindwave

I think they both know they might not be abole to hold her off for long so getting the others out is a good idea

Jason Wyatt

But in doing so Pissed Off the secret agent with a big gun and the master Hypnomancer. Now let's see how she tries to talk her way out of this one.

Ciern Selar

My my, Blackstone wastes no time in not only appealing to Sixx's new feelings of submission, but also seeding ideas of ownership while she's still off-balance and unsure as to why the idea of being owned is suddenly so thrilling. A great 'open' expression on Sixx there too, makes her seem very vulnerable and impressionable. Now lets see how she handles the rest!

TDL

Holy hell the strip is sexy and intense as hell from the first frame and it keeps up the energy until the very end. Kudos! You have truly evolved as an artist and as a storyteller and it has been a delight to accompany you on this journey and for the start of what I am sure will be another exciting and thrilling story arch to come! <3 Much love man.

Excellent work girl!!

KF5TQN