Grrl Power #992 - Infernal relationships be like...
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Sure, "Fiend" is not a direct equivalent because "Baby Eater" is far too specific. Fiend is more of an umbrella catch-all for half and quarter demon/devil mixes, plus assorted other miscellaneous Infernals.
Demons, even during their wardeathdoom phase, are sociologically hierarchical, and have a need to fight their way as high as they can. It's a critical survival skill for them to assess their chances of taking on the next higher guy though. Now that demons are coming out of this live and die by tooth claw and giant-metal-vaguely-sword-shaped-thing era into a more civilized society, there's still an urge to establish your place in whatever hierarchy is prevalent. Of course, this is being twisted into trendy consumer... uh, trends. Like instead of a girl wearing her boyfriend's letterman jacket or his class ring, a lot of demon girls like being collared. Or the other way around. An Erinyes isn't going to let herself be seen in a Draegloth's collar, after all. (Unless the Draegloth is like some nerd who is really good at Cthonic Lore and she needs a tutor and he's like "Okay, but you have to go on a date with me in my collar... yes, to a different layer of the Abyss where no one will know us. I don't know, I was thinking the Layer of the Flayed? Yeah, it's all skin. Like, the ground, the clouds, street lights, rivers. I don't know how it works. I thought it would be interesting... really? Willikers, that's great! Hmm? Oh, I don't know if I can afford a collar that nice... No no! I'll figure something out!" And Devil Roger Ebert gave the movie a thumbs up.)
Dabbler's face looks just a little too excited in that last panel. I wasn't quite sure what I was going for when I started drawing it, maybe like she was trying to bite back a smile, but then just went with the full sadistic grin. She obviously knew what Maxima's reaction was likely to be.
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Comments
It may well be an agreed thing during their private playtime. But when not in private, and out of that context; when in a context of you attempting to conquer / subjugate a population? Tom will be lucky for just a few broken bones, instead of parts being removed :}
Donald Randolph
2021-10-31 18:12:35 +0000 UTCIs she talking about a BDSM thing? It seems like Dabbler would be into that.
Stefan J Neylon
2021-10-29 17:06:54 +0000 UTCEven though her blood just hit the boiling point.
eddi_TBH
2021-10-29 03:42:17 +0000 UTCThat's routine for her.
eddi_TBH
2021-10-29 03:40:05 +0000 UTCtom has a surprisingly squeaky voice in my head when he is screaming. The threat of having your face amputated probably does things like that.
eddi_TBH
2021-10-29 03:39:21 +0000 UTCFYI, there actually is a science fiction short story with humans meeting a race called The Baby-Eaters, called Three Worlds Collide. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HawFh7RvDM4RyoJ2d/three-worlds-collide-0-8
Jabber
2021-10-28 23:29:43 +0000 UTCI'm assuming this is just a dom and sub thing sans the context. Quite possibly intentionally by Dabbler cuz she likes pushing Max's buttons.
BJ
2021-10-28 21:30:37 +0000 UTCHmm, considering his face seems to be constructed of nothing but bony protrusions, I wonder how much all those cracks hurt. Judging by his reaction, I'm gonna guess the answer is "A Lot"
Sogen
2021-10-28 20:45:23 +0000 UTCI suppose it's a dramatic flashlight for her camera. arcPhone, I suppose.
Evgeny Sandu
2021-10-28 20:39:31 +0000 UTCAccepting other cultures has a limit, and that may be Maximas.
Nicholas A Wagner
2021-10-28 20:30:32 +0000 UTC"FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!" I laughed. :D Considering how much Xuriel enjoyed Maxima's treatment of Tom earlier, I imagine she is taking significant sadistic glee in the situation now. Instead of 'baby eater', the equivalent would be 'evil'. Per the Cambridge English Dictionary: "an evil and cruel person:" "What race am I? Oh, we're Evil." As Sydney said, that would be a bad start to the relationship.
Eric Loken
2021-10-28 19:17:11 +0000 UTCThat is of course what Tom and Dabbler mean by it (I hope), but that is *not* where Maxima went. She immediately went with the more general and much older definition - the same one that probably would get more than a few black folks in North America a wee bit worked up if someone said it to them without context.
Eric Loken
2021-10-28 19:10:51 +0000 UTCOh yeah, Syd heard that sentence and just backed up to watch the entertainment. "And here we have Maxima about to throw a serious beat down on some punk..."
Eric Loken
2021-10-28 19:07:19 +0000 UTCYou know, I had just learned the other day that back when slavery was common all over, most slaves weren't against the idea of it; they just didn't want to be the slaves.
Stephen Gilberg
2021-10-28 18:59:54 +0000 UTCUsually it's Sydney doing the swearing.
Stephen Gilberg
2021-10-28 18:58:50 +0000 UTCAaaah, nothing like the sound of the bones in your skull creaking to tell you that you must have done something *seriously* wrong to wind up in this situation.
Tim
2021-10-28 17:50:22 +0000 UTCOoohhhh, maxima better hope that part doesnβt wind up on the internet. She gonna get canceled by the Kink community for bigotry.
Aaron Mauthe
2021-10-28 17:36:04 +0000 UTCDoes Sydney have a dramatic lighting orb?
BJ
2021-10-28 15:56:15 +0000 UTCMeanwhile, I imagine V is in the background eating popcorn and watching Max threaten to remove a Tier 1 badass's face like "Yeah, been there before, bro."
Dane Filemyr
2021-10-28 14:47:26 +0000 UTCShadowed Max in panel #5 looks extremely cool.
Spike
2021-10-28 14:24:47 +0000 UTCOkay but holy crap? How many times have we seen the f bomb actually dropped in the comic? and to that extent no less?
Immortal_Knight
2021-10-28 14:11:45 +0000 UTCBut what is The Mighty Scoville doing there in the background? Did she bust out her cameraphone to catch Max's impending crushing of the soulcrusher? "WORLDSTAR!!! WORLDSTAR!!!"
Ian Brown
2021-10-28 13:46:46 +0000 UTCdamn i cant wait for the next few pages...i really wanna see how dabbler gets outta this!
Fekk Yoo
2021-10-28 13:20:13 +0000 UTCBreaking your face, just got a bit literal
Daniel Schinhofen
2021-10-28 12:56:00 +0000 UTCI think Dabbler would love a situation like this where she could easily spin it as Maxima getting jealous of someone claiming they own Dabbler. Would be interesting to see how Max might react to that line of reasoning.
2021-10-28 12:39:54 +0000 UTCI mean, it was going quite well for him not long ago...
Richard Riley
2021-10-28 12:32:44 +0000 UTCRelease her or become an hunting trophy, Your choice.
Wyrmhand
2021-10-28 12:13:49 +0000 UTCFirst panel - should it be 'AND someone asks' ?
A Patreon of the Ahts
2021-10-28 11:55:57 +0000 UTCThis is just NOT poor Toms day.
AeonsShadow
2021-10-28 11:40:25 +0000 UTCMax the only one that can answer yes to the question "did you just punch out Cthulhu?"
James Cooper
2021-10-28 11:15:26 +0000 UTC*Gods dammit* Zuriel!
Talespinner Lore
2021-10-28 10:34:08 +0000 UTCWord choice, Tom. *Word choice, Zuriel*.
Rens
2021-10-28 10:11:50 +0000 UTCYou done it now, Tom!
Michael Obert
2021-10-28 10:05:03 +0000 UTC
