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on September 4, 2023
at 3:00 am
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Alt-text: he’s been……… disarmed?
Image source: fwoom
GO DAINIX GO FALST GO GO
Dainix is super cool
Anonymous Aurora Question #10:
What is your favorite secondary power of the elements? Like, fire has transmutation and I think wind has communication or something.
I clearly haven’t been paying enough attention to the magic system.
Honestly, Waters mirroring seems like the coolest one, it also has erosion as a higher property but mirroring is the big one
Definitely Life’s secondary of Adaptation. Life was able to remove VD’s [ower from Alinua, and that had to be very different from anything she’s tried before. Alinua herself is constantly developing new powers and refining what she has. Life adapts, and that’s why the VD is so scared of her. She gets better at fighting him every time they face each other.
It seems that for Dainix to lose an arm
Only causes some minor harm
Also Erin can you please hurry up, our boys should get out now!
Don’t you just hate it when the hob flame goes out at the worst time and you have to relight?
Does it still count as a no dialogue page if the SFX is this prolific? I particularly like the different flavours of fire shown by it: solid, intentional, strong in panel 1; static-like and paler in 2 to show his power failing; and the sudden, big, revitalising burst of flame in 4. Actions speak louder than words, so does that mean SFX speak louder than dialouge?
The glort is screaming; I’ll take that as good news that Dainix is hurting it. However that trauma vision, or the composition of the slime, is disrupting Dainix’s ability keep his fire form solid. Looks like he can regen it like he did his whole body in the Erin/V.D. fight, but if that happens at the wrong time he could be in trouble.
We’ll have to see later how Falst’s spellcarving is going; he’s probably breaking several Erin safe magic laws with the rushed carving on a broken lacrima, but needs must. At least the glort is leaving him alone and other underground horrors avoid this room.
SFX is not dialogue its ‘audible’ action for the silent medium of comic book art. This page was ‘loud’ with violent action. I like that Red uses creative sound affects. All this action of Dainix and Falst is thickening the tension makes me feel the squeeze of agonized waiting for release!
Meanwhile Falst is still stuck on his abc’s
Yikes! I hope that amputation doesn’t take
I’m a little confused. Did his arm just get ripped off? How?
Looks like the piece of goo he ripped out of Goh made it fall of in some way. Not sure how, I don’t think just cooling him down would work…
I think he’s struggling to control his flame. He’s struggling for balance. too much and he’s consumed as we’ve seen. too little, and he goes out.
Back a few pages ago I think he lost it to his poorly controlled fire. We see them grasp at their arm and wince with an SFX Crack which would suggest the fire has done harm to him. It has consumed his arm, like his eye previously. It’s just this page that it’s revealed there’s nothing beneath because he lost focus.
Did his arm just kind of… go out? Or did glort rip it off? Because it looks like the former to me.
the half-transformed state is really cool for dynamics like this, it scritches my brain good
Okay holy shit I did not see this coming, I thought he’d just lose control or something but this is actually worse, I can’t tell how that happened but that is. Not good.
And with a fwoom, he is RE-armed <3
Dainix, Dainix, go, go!
Falst, Falst, go, go!
O-oh! Maybe the voidhammer isn’t a weapon against Void. Maybe it’s supposed to be a weapon MADE of Void, which means that it can leach the power out of other elements.
Man, I hope that ain’t permanent.
Umm, shouldn’t there be an arm made of flesh under the flames? Or did our boy Dainix just lost that meaty part? D:
When Dainix uses his crucible form he isn’t covering his arm with soulfire, he’s turning his entire arm into soulfire. It seems he can regenerate/remake/reassemble his soulfire body, much like he did in the fight against V.D.; we’ve just never seen it before in his partly transformed state. It certainly doesn’t seem to be concerning him that much.
It was waaay easier to accept that when he was made of flames rather than just partially fuming. I’m really glad it’s not a sudden happenstance of GoT-level character mutilation, I wasn’t ready for that ^^’
Looks like he’s coming apart at the seams.
More seriously, Red you did such a good job with this! The way Danix moves, how the soul fire works (or is being demonstrated to work) being trans-mutative. Something within and intrinsic. Crucibles “are” the fire right?
Red you did amazing work here! the way the soul fire transmutes has been a big question and seeing Dannix fighting in this semi transformed state is special.
DAINIX AMPUTEE CANON?!
“He’s been… disarmed?”
Dang, that’s some deep OSP lore right there.
THE PONYTAIL IS OUT I REPEAT THE PONYTAIL IS OUT. ‼️‼️‼️‼️
TL;DR: Can you help me out? Any moment now… I’m losing my spark…
The pages since dialogue counter ticks up…
does anyone keep reading the ‘shripp’ onomatopoeia as shrimp orrrr /j
Dainix is such a beast.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU LOST AN ARM!?
Ak I just caught up and now I’m sad that I have to wait.
“Scale of 1 to 10, how bad is it?”
“Oh, I’d say it’s about a… seven… point… arm ripped off?”
“MY ARM IS WHAT—” – – – – – – – – or, the art of second–hand quotes…
Okay but seriously though, when Dainix lost his eye it was a combination of magi–mental and physical factors, and in this case, his arm has not been seriously physically injured in any way (not THAT one, at least, and even that’s been healed).
Then again… the similarity in magma–ish appearance of his missing eye and currently absent arm in panel three is… concerning. But honestly this could very well just a sign of him struggling to keep the flames up. Which is… ALSO very concerning, considering he IS, actually genuinely IS the fire.
…I estimate the chances that his eyepatch is still in one piece, though, to be rapidly approaching zer0.
the shere variety of sound effects of this page