June 2nd, 2020
2 Jun 2020 · page 992 of 1306
i am excited for this scene and i hope you enjoy it!
Cast: Harriet Barber, Nyree
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ooh yay monster therapy time! :D
Oh right, courage is vaguely lion-shaped. That is not a line I was expecting to write today, but here it is.
Now what could the rest of it symbolize...?
I put my bets on a bit of pride and fear in there as well
Skull = craving for tobacco
Ruff = pride
All the rest = Feelings about Sidney Malik
Hrm = Hrm
The skull is hiding her feelings, especially about her feelings for him. Or maybe the extra thick pelt on "Bravery" is that.
From the first time we saw Harry's spirit through Mal's eyes, I somewhat supposed Harry's armour is her hiding her feelings.
Oooh. Good point.
Guarded spirit, indeed: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-23rd-2012 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-23rd-2012")
Looking for that page, I found Mal's tag doesn't work: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/search/Jack%20O'Malley "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/search/Jack%20O'Malley") Could be the software trips on the apostrophe?
Thankfully, Mal and Wolfe were inseparable at the time, so I found it by way of [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/search/Heinrich%20Wolfe "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/search/Heinrich%20Wolfe") ;)
Mal's tag works from the cast page, strangely.
Indeed it does!
Inspecting, I find that the apostrophe is url-encoded (%27) on the cast page, but not on the tagged pages. And that's the explanation:
Typing the url manually, I find it works when the apostrophe is url-encoded, but fails when it's not. So there's another workaround: Just edit the link.
True enough. But these were Harry's feelings from when she passed through the door. From a single moment in time. Not her everyday hiding.
When I first saw her spirit through Mal's eyes, I thought the armor was showing her uprightness, her passion to make things right. Now I see it could be her feelings--whether for Sid or anything else.
Oh, of course the lion part is bravery. I love this.
I mean, we saw the Lion motive back on Courage in the Gula hotel too. The two siblings. Both Barbers and spirits.
Not trying to be a jerk, but I think you meant "motif."
So it WAS based on a combination of emotions!
A twisted chimera symbolizing someones emotional state is just perfect
I like the concept of parts of the creature going insubstantial one by one as they're identified.
Which part of this creature is your love for Sid I can't wait to find out.
I don't think we've ever gotten a look at the creature's hind legs and tail before. I wonder what feelings those are from?
The hind legs look avian here, which is interesting.
They read as more lizardy to me, but either way I kind of hope we get a breakdown of what means what.
I think they're Kiwi? Compare
Oh, dear. She's going to have to admit to a lot of things that Harry would REALLY rather keep bound up inside, isn't she?
Also, is it just me, or without the paws, and if you ignore the ruff and dragon tail, does it look a bit like a kiwi bird?
...Also, is it being hurt? Because it's kind of adorable, and I don't want it to be hurt.
If anything, I hazzard finally being underatood and acknowledged will be a good feel for the emotion-chimera
Insofar as Harry's shadow has a will, I imagine it would will to go "home", by which I mean back safely entirely within Harry, instead of corporeally manifested in the world.
Heh.
Harry brings it back with her through the Widdershins door ... and it goes through first ... and the Purple Hippo and the O'Malley are standing there, all unsuspecting...
I imagine Harry embracing her shadow, quite literally. :)
I hope so. It's adorable. Maybe that's just me.
I'd guess its disappearing is like a (very) slow desummoning, which doesn't seem to hurt the spirits or whatever that are being sent back to wherever they came from. If anything, the ones that struggle against being desummoned seem to struggle more out of the idea of being sent back than any unpleasant feelings. :)
She accepted that she was going to die. She was afraid she would not die immediately. Buzzard skull.
It's a Braviary (￣▽￣)
if part of that is not sad she has to leave sid i will be so mad
My theory is that the bird-skull head is there to represent Sid and his Magpie.
I suspect the skull might be as much its head as it is a mask.
The real question is which constitutes more of the creature: sadness at leaving Sid behind or sadness at leaving Gren behind.
"My two favorite legs, nooooooo!"
Bravery, love, a sense of duty, all jumbled up. All things Harry doesn't want to admit to feeling.
This is giving a whole extended meaning to "therapy pet".
Also, to "deconstructive analysis."
I dig it.
My word! Nyree is trying to untangle the tightly-wound knot that is Harry's psyche! ... I wonder what effects that will have.
"What about the neck feathers?"
"Did you walk though wishing you were wearing a fabulous feather boa?"
"...maybe"
feathers start glowing
"I may have been thinking about strangling someone at the time, too."
feathers glow even more
:P
and now it's about to faceplant
I loved this so much I joined your patreon... literally, it made me cry immediately. I felt like she was speaking to me.. I have been dealing with a lot of things and I needed to hear I was being brave just then. Thank you.
ah, i'm glad you were given a little comfort, then. hope your bad times pass swiftly into good ones!
Thank you!
Hmm. Well, that wasn't so bad. Bravery. That's not hard to understand or admit to. Of course, Nyree probably started with the easy one . . .
Still Harry goes with "No choice" (and clenches his fist like she feels awkward in process of their talking, it seems to me).
In general, I'd say for some kinds of people it's easier to admit they felt fear as they were doing a right and dangerous thing (bc "it's natural and only fools wouldn't fear") than to admit they were brave in doing it (bc they "had no choice").
I mean, imagine Ben's reaction at Mal's "the bravest bloke". :)
And some other people'd rather die than admit they were afraid... and some other people'd strongly prefer admitting no feelings - but it seems they have no choice. :)
Ooh it's like Psychonauts, but if her mind was expressed as a pokemon instead of a platformer level
Sorry, I just played it recently. This is neat :>
Oh, I am liking this!
Poor Harry, having to talk about Feelings two adventures in a row now :')
I am very excited for this scene too, I've been waiting for it \\o/
Noooo! Fluffy! Don't go. ;_;
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I love that Harry is playing a cliched guy talking about his feelings.