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Dr. Badvibes

this scene feels very catholic. sonorie's mea culpas as she digs herself even deeper with a rapacious sex monster, ruck's patriarchal declarations of love as he unleashes horrific carnage, the st sebastian pose roger is rocking in panel 5, and the eroticism of pain and violence in general. unsounded has always had that latter element but it's really ratcheted up here. similarly, ruck is a great take on a catholic demon. obviously there's all the snake imagery but it runs much deeper than that. i love how he's got this lovely poetic voice- ruck might have made a great angel once upon a time- but always in service of the profane. what if the song of solomon was only about debasing other people? he's physically attractive in some ways, and it only serves to make him more disturbing. ruck is a perversion of love. no wonder he looks to be toma and elka's final boss.

Ashley

"Erm" is Nora's (the Chief Engineer from Litriya's Construct facility) fan name :)

Ava

Every Ruckmearkha interaction is like gold dust to me. Such a well written, alien mindset. Good work Ashley for being so consistent about that characterisation and making for a harder to predict yet still not... Random (e.g, working on his own rules, we just don't have his rules and if we do figure them out they seem abhorrent to a human mortality)

Ava

Yes, I'm also confused, thinking "Erm... Who is "Erm"?

Capsandnumbers

Who is Erm?

Capsandnumbers

Through the last two chapters he's been stressed out about humans changing, and he's just realised that they'll eventually outgrow him. Last update he said he needs to salt the field to make sure humans don't get too advanced. So I think he wants to use his knife or a Crescian dammakhert to remove ambition from humans, so he can be apex predator forever

Malik M.L. Williams

Also, Queen Sonorie’s resignation in that last panel is just perfectly palpable.

Malik M.L. Williams

“It is fine.” You know, I had just recently stopped hearing that in some deep, sibilant voice in my head from time to time. Thanks, Cope.

Spider

What indeed does Ruck want? His motivations, aside from relieving boredom, seem entirely alien and unreadable.

Ashley

Indeed.

Ashley

Sort of conscious. Like being trapped in a nightmare.

JarJar

Hmmm. Both these characters here and we the audience aren't operating with full knowledge on the state of things: these two do not know that the black tongues have been wiped out. Additionally, we don't know if Erm/ Nora and the Black Tongues were able to put the Dammakhert plan into effect during all this chaos or if it worked at all given that the map itself was incomplete. (that's my assumption as to what Erm/Nora's been up to this whole time, but I also could be wrong about that).

Mek

The question is did the Black tongues do what they needed to do before they died?

CD

Roger's CONSCIOUS in there? 8( Rough. There's a black humour in knowing Ruck isn't yet aware the bird's strangled a good population of his bluff, though.