9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Because I asked myself what the one thing could me that’d make this situation so much worse, “the closest equivalent to the Adversary that this setting has going completely off the rails” ranked pretty high on the list…
I think that as the most powerful fragment of The Thinker, Dehane has learned to create his own subservient fragments to carry out his plans but they are becoming less subservient to their creator as time passes.
Karma, or irony, in action.
I’m probably wrong but that’s what I think the voices are. A Tulpa with multiple personality disorder seems too simple of an explanation for this world’s equivalent of Lucifer. Not that it’s an exact parallel, because if Dehane succeeds, he’ll have no kingdom to rule. Besides, we know he won’t succeed so perhaps the next series will deal with hunting him down and killing him while an acceptable level of civilization is maintained at the hideouts.
I just had a crazy thought, how much energy is released when a Tulpa “dies”? Are we talking “It’s like popping a balloon” or “Damn! I liked that island/continent!” levels of release? He’s been gaining power for thousands of years, more than 7 thousand since he was behind what happened to the Khursid civilization.
I don’t think we’re looking at mpd or a rebellious personality fragment. I think we’re looking at memory fragmentation + a dissociative episode. Kind of like PTSD crossed with a psychotic break. Either that, or some remnant of the Original Thinker’s personality trying to rein Dehane in. My money’s on the fragmentation/psychotic break.
For what it’s worth, I think Dehane takes the original occupant with him when he leaves a body. Don’t know why, and I’m sure he wishes he could leave them behind. They can’t do anything but talk back to him, but perhaps that’s enough.
Because I asked myself what the one thing could me that’d make this situation so much worse, “the closest equivalent to the Adversary that this setting has going completely off the rails” ranked pretty high on the list…
Dehane fails (or refuses) to realize, the only mind left for the Thinker to inhabit, then, would be …
Karma, or irony, in action.
I’m probably wrong but that’s what I think the voices are. A Tulpa with multiple personality disorder seems too simple of an explanation for this world’s equivalent of Lucifer. Not that it’s an exact parallel, because if Dehane succeeds, he’ll have no kingdom to rule. Besides, we know he won’t succeed so perhaps the next series will deal with hunting him down and killing him while an acceptable level of civilization is maintained at the hideouts.
I just had a crazy thought, how much energy is released when a Tulpa “dies”? Are we talking “It’s like popping a balloon” or “Damn! I liked that island/continent!” levels of release? He’s been gaining power for thousands of years, more than 7 thousand since he was behind what happened to the Khursid civilization.