December 6th, 2016
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Cast: Harriet Barber, Jack O'Malley
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While quick to anger, Harry is also quick to find out when she's playing into an opponent's hands. Though honestly Wrath was being very subtle to begin with.
Yeah, but he (it?) overplayed his (I'll settle for the male pronoun) hand and gave her a chance to realize what was happening. One down...
Yeah, he was heading for a full "Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete" there...
No, she fought him all right - just twigged at the last moment that she was using the wrong weapon.
I had Wrath down as a definite 'she'. Reminds me of my ex...
Personally I think of them as "it", since she/he/they and othersuch are for humans, which the spirits are not. They're not gonna complain if you use anything else though, none of them have a preference.
I've been interpreting Wrath as male this whole time simply due to the design you gave it - buff, square shoulders and huge chest, muscled arms, and a large, dragon's head. Practically, that doesn't indicate gender at all, but you could say I've been socially conditioned to associate big, buff, muscular and monstrous shapes with males.
.... I would almost feel offended if it weren't stereotyped so hard.
meanwhile I am big, blobby, and not buff in the least. .... does that make gluttony male too?
dammit.
Reality wins over personal preferences.
"It," it is.
Well I mean, they are fictional, so reality doesn't really figure into it
So they really are fictional?
This guy seems pretty solid to me!
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With the complete lack of sexual characteristics, I assumed my own. Then I saw people calling it "she" and sorta jumped to that, for the novelty.
But I even more readily accept what the author just said. These are feelings that transcend gender.
I mostly go by the genders of the first host or form they took; for instance Greed, Lust, and Envy I generally regard as male because in the case of Greed and Envy their first host introduced were male while lust mostly took male forms. Pride, Sloth, and Wrath first came from female hosts, and Gluttony was first shown taking a female form so I tend to regard them as more feminine (though Gluttony and Wrath I tend to simply regard as it simply because of how animalistic they look/behave compared to the others.)
Envy was a female, as I can recall. And a very feminine too.
But Voss was the first host introduced for Envy.
Envy seems female, Wrath seems male, Pride is hard to say because while the peacock thingy is sort of feminine it has the pretty tail of a male peacock. Greed looks male in the genie form, Gluttony is too nebulous to look like much of anything, Lust is a shapeshifter but it seems that the only form he straight-up invented instead of copying is male. As for Sloth... man, some things are too nasty to even consider. I mean, that seal... walrus, toad... ughghhghh. Suffice it to say that Sloth makes a really good villain.
Honestly if he'd just kept teasing her or degrading her grandfather, instead of outright challenging her, her resistance would have been much more commendable. Seriously, Wrath, you could have played harder. Make us cringe.
Yay, Harry!
Sorry Wrath, when it comes to willpower you cannot beat Harry!
Mal was holdin' the Wrath somehow during that crisis, wasn't him?
He knew what to do... And how.
I think that comes from their first battle with Wrath:
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At the moment there is no Wolfe nearby :)
Except that in the astral, perhaps? :)
True, but as we've seen with the door knocking and the drawing without chalk Mal and anchor!space affect each other differently than what happens when Mal is outside the anchor so maybe here he doesn't need an outside source.
Jes' wavin' his 'ands, an' all.
I see some straining in this movement. Look at the position of his legs.
As if he's resisting, keeping some invisible wall from falling down.
Remember, he sees more than we do.
Well, he already did it once, using nothing more than Wolfe's calmness for chains...
...Gah, if this is the initiation ordeal for new Witches no wonder nobody seems to want the job.
Phew, that was close. Cheers Harry.
Now time for a pipe, while Mal draws another egg.
I don't think she should use the pipe she brought with her, though...
Probably not since that's the second to last focus they need to use to get rid of a deadly. Of course she said that she stopped using that pipe after Greed zapped it, so she probably have another pipe with her that isn't linked to Greed.
Next focus up: one small green jewel.
Someone needed to read he Evil Overlord list. I'm sure there's something on there about the folly of gloating before you have actually won. The best time to gloat is after you have completely won and all of your enemies are dead. And even then you should probably consider refraining from gloating that might cause you to miss an unexpected threat.
So one down, six to go.
That assumes Luxuria doesn't have something up his sleeve even after his associates have been desummoned. Maybe he's even counting on it.
Too early to gloat, and all that :P
Considering his face as he watched the team walk out of the anchor earlier ( [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-21st-2016/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-21st-2016/") ), I'd say that's a good assumption.
I was thinking Wrath should have read the Evil Overlord list.
I'm not sure Luxuria made any of the mistakes the list warns against. It seems to have been fairly smart about all of this since Izzy's ancestor released it.
I've never understood why villains feel the need to encourage the hero when the hero begins to step down the path of wickness. "Strike me down, and become more powerful than you can imagine!" is so obviously the same as, "Now you're doing what I want, ho ho ho!"
Generally speaking, I'll agree with villains overplaying their hand, but there are certain special cases where I think it makes sense.
In the specific Dark Side case, I don't know that it would even work if you got tricked into it--you're going to the Dark Side explicitly because you've decided to give in willingly and completely to hatred. You can get goaded into sliding down the path, but without the full "Yes! Give in to your hatred!" (assuming there is no convenient Light Side influence nearby to provide a convenient positive option to reject), it's not good enough to become truly evil. You need to want it and know exactly what you're doing.
This case isn't quite as cut and dried, but since Wrath's thing is feeding Wrath around itself, blatantly goading somebody once they get going is probably going to make it harder for them, not easier. Given already demonstrated circumstances, it's less "Yes! I'm evil, do what I want you to!" and more hypnotic "Listen to the sound of my voice. Doesn't that make you angry? Be angry! Good job!"
Or I could be wrong and Wrath is just an idiot, but as Deadlies, they are kind of inherently flawed. Pride and Envy already demonstrated their ability to be screw-ups because of what they are, why should Wrath be any different?
I just feel like there are more effective ways of egging on hatred than reminding people that hatred is what they're operating under.
That's the way to fight your feelings of rage and subdue them. Way to go, Harry.
Well, now we know magic circles don't need to be perfectly circular and meticulously drawn.
They can be kinda egg shaped and slapdash and still work.
Eggzactly!
At least, they can when they're drawn by a desperate witch.
I love the expression on Wrath in the 4th frame, going bug-eyed as the chains tighten and snap his mouth shut.
Also when he does get his mouth open, only for another chain to loop in between his jaws and 'gag' him. :D
Pipe down, Wrath. Darth Vader did it already - and much better. ;p
You undid your hopes by telling her to get her revenge as sealing you would be far better revenge than trying to shoot you, Wrath.
Pose harder O'Malley, you're doing great!
It seems that the Witch's power is directed by his WILL.... and not so much through technical manipulation of drawings and words and spells.
The circle and words and a focus have to be, as the matter of the thing, but the power is in Mal's will. So if Mal feels a need to mime the power flow with his body, then it's real and effective.
Let's hope that it is not exhausting!
She had only one word to go (septum) when she almost blew the whole spell. Good thing she got her own wrath under control.
Sacrifice your vengeance to bind the wrath. =D
Does anyone remember the old game Overlord (not the new anime/manga). I believe the plot was written by Rhianna Pratchett (yes, that Pratchett. She's Terry's daughter). The game has subtly (that grows less subtle as you progress) tie in to the seven deadly sins, each 'hero' becoming corrupted by one and the 'Overlord' seeing to usurp them to rule the land with an iron fist. Raising Hell was a nice addition to the original that kept the feel. It was intriguing, funny, morbid, and captivating.
Quick google translate, fixing the obvious errors (its google translate after all):
"Spirit permitted to leave this place where you have no freedom. He never paid. Spirit anger I bind you, you have no freedom there. He never paid. Spirit anger, I will bind you and seven years."
Yandex-translator, a bit more intelligible:
"Phasmia let out of this place. You have there no freedom. Here you never must be paid. Phasmia Anger, I constringo (tie) you seven."
Just a little remark, when they say "[...] I constrict you seven", they mean "I constrict all seven of you.". In French (I understood most of the Latin by extrapolating from French), it would translate to "[L'esprit de la]* hire, je contrains vous sept."
* I don't remember if Phasmia is an invented term in the comic, or if it meant "Spirit", since "Phantom" in Latin would be "Phantasmia"
I think Kate mentioned somewhere in the comments (maybe here in the future) that it's not meant to be pure Latin; she's intentionally making it untranslatable exactly as-is.
I'm glad I read that, because otherwise I would also have cudgeled my brain trying to translate.
And the lines of the circle have become reddish now, not blue. Wrath's color?
Goodness... that's a high stress anger management lesson there. o.O
That's one angry pistol.
I love the fact that all of this latin is grammatically crrect and well-researched <3
Ah, it really isn't, I'm afraid! It's mostly google translate and then I futz with it a little to make it fake Latin. I'd have loved to have made it proper Latin, but it's been a long time since I did that at school..
Whoo!
harry's hair kicking up and dropping again when she calms down is a gorgeous touch <3