The Indwellers, Pg 58A
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The look works for him, don’t you think?
What with the sideburns I was hoping for a wolf–not a werewolf, mind–there are other kinds of wolves–but that wouldn’t have been consistent. Anyway, any chance of his gently knocking Jen out for a bit? With minimal scratching?
Unclear whether this is his “native” shape either. He did say he approached the body via the rats; this may just be a matter of “well, that’s what I was using most recently and I remember it pretty well, so let’s see what we can do with it.”
Rat with leather jacket… somehow seems like appropriate inner-city badass attitude.
Though as usual, this ignores the question of how his pants got retailored to allow for the tail.
The blur in the first frame is interesting. I’m not quite sure how to interpret it, since it’s covering them both.
I’ll be a bit surprised if he puts Jen out deliberately. Accidentally, perhaps. Or maybe the Lady can find a way to make appropriate things happen without fully manifesting herself. We’ll find out soon enough.
Try reread the Fang Chew Lee story arc. Beast forms can be either partial or full. 😉
And it makes sense that only a rodent spirit would jump from one living rodent to another, wouldn’t you say ? 🙂
As for the pants, the tail grew through them. You can’t see the butt hole from this view, that’s all. 😉
Finally, the blur comes with each beast transformation. We don’t know exactly what they’re supposed to be, but we do know this : it’s not the speed, and it’s not the howl either (since Lee’s sabertoth tiger form could at times blur without making a single noise). My guess is that’s it’s a spiritual disturbance caused by the beast form.
DK: That doesn’t explain why Kilo/Nobelay is also blurred in this frame. Could be an editing glitch, so I’m not hung up on it, just slightly puzzled.
Re “only a rodent spirit would jump from one living rodent to another” — Given what we’ve seen so far of the Lady’s universe, I doubt that the constraints are anywhere near that simple. Feels too pat and obvious. But maybe that’s just me.
So far I like the body jacking rat spirit far better than the original Kiko…….feels a bit odd to think that I’d prefer that a kid die.
It does actually technogeek : if the beast transformation crates a spiritual disturbance, the entire subrealm space surrounding the beast is affected. That includes Nobelay, since it’s a spiritual entity. 😉
Whenever Lee was blured by his sabertooth transformation, only he was, his hunters being live humans of senserealm. But when the Lady and Rona (astral) went inside Lee’s body to find out the truth, as soon as things became violent everyone became blur. Everyone there were spiritual, that’s subrealm.
As for the rodent thing, I’m not sure about Franscesc since he’s now tasted human reason, but animal spirits don’t have reason, just like when they were alive. That means they can’t have the logic needed to try and change spiritual shape like Perse can. So, if a beast spirit in human body can temporarily manifest its origins through beast transformation, then it will keep its species.
Like I said though, if Franscesc’s rodent spirit were to leave that body and possess a new one later, since he’s now tasted to human reason things could be different. 😉
Chaos: Well, even the Lady does.
You can say they’re both innocent, after a fashion. But rat spirit is just trying to make its way through life the best it can, and has no wish to do ill. Kiko, on the other hand, has descended into a maelstrom of insatiable hatred — the sort of thing that, even if one was genuinely wronged, tends to lead one to commit terrible evils of one’s own. Kiko isn’t so innocent any more. He is, in fact, the kind of ghost your pastor warned you about.
I’m sure he was a good enough kid at the time he died, though…