Welcome back to Skin Deep! Thank you all for your patience as I worked on getting this chapter ready! I think y’all are gonna like it! We pick up immediately from where we left off with Michelle! Let’s go!!!!
Welcome back to Skin Deep! Thank you all for your patience as I worked on getting this chapter ready! I think y’all are gonna like it! We pick up immediately from where we left off with Michelle! Let’s go!!!!
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As much as I hope otherwise, I dunno if the Father can be reasoned with
Agreed. We might end up with something between him and Bloodcarver?
This arc is going to be interesting.
For those wanting to jump straight back to where this picks off from, this is the page:
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/obverse-reverse-ch3-page-20/
Maythink that the Father has gone slightly mad during those centuries.
Perhaps father just wanted to see a poofy sphinx again, perhaps he wants to keep her there to keep the other hidden sphinxes from attacking him, or maybe he doesn’t have enough subway fare to get two people to the living world.
Love how Michelle’s fur AND hair go poof in anger
and feathers.
WOOHOO!
And we’re back baby! Good to see you again Michelle! (Even if she is angry atm)
Can’t wait to read what happens next! ;-)
Is this supposed to be discontinuous? “Here” as opposed to “this place”.
Well spotted, didn’t notice that before.
~Angry sphinx noises~
Yowl
The face of someone who is just fed up with the mystical whimsey bullcrap and wants to go home for a shower and some good old fashioned therapy.
She has a goat boyfriend a human mom to get back too!
I really hope it’s one of those “you’re full of magic so the magic hungry dimension won’t let you leave” cases not another “dragons are jerks” case
Those aren’t mutually exclusive; if Dis won’t let Michelle leave then he dragged her there knowing that. I think as least one Dragon is going to come off as a jerk no matter what we do.
It’s definitely not the former. The Father’s “that is why” flows from a statement he was making about Michelle’s symbolic and reputational power, not her magic.
“I HAVE SPOKEN. And don’t call me Shirley.”
OH SHE ANGY
OH SHE ANGY!!!!
Bloodcarver ain’t too pleased, either. There he is, hoping to prove dragons aren’t the monsters they’re portrayed as, and then *this*?!
But-but, isn’t the whole point of this to make you medallions so you can live in the human world?
ooooohhh, Father done stepped in it now. He’s all-but sealed his own fate. The only Out for him will be if Bloodcarver can talk both him AND Michelle down at once
I love her reaction here.
No fear, no panic, just an immediate “YOU WOT?!”
Yeah, I’m with Michelle here. “Nope. No attempt to negotiate means there’s no reason for me to be here. Fuck you and everyone else involved in this, I’m out.”
I love Bloodcarver’s reaction, too. He genuinely wants a better life for his people and he knows the Father is… probably ruining that >.>
I mean, the way he has been about this… It’s kinda telling that even he thinks you’re goofing up.
But father knows best, listen to your Father. It’s a scary world out there…
Don’t call me shirley :|
The archive links for parts 2 and 4 are broken and linking to parts 1 and 3.
Oh thank you! It should be fixed now.
It just occurred to me that the father couldn’t have been the one to give Bloodcarver those scars, because he’s only got one claw on each wing.
It’s likely the Father used his feet for that
Check out the placement of the scars on the Father’s face. Maybe Bloodcarver was helping him grind down his horns so they didn’t grow into his skull, like what can happen with the tusks of a suprisingly real animal called the babirusa. But then BC’s claws slipped and before you know it everyone involved is overreacting
It’s possible that the Father is just pulling Michelle’s leg for a laugh. Although if so, he’s not very funny.
Oh. It’s this abusive jerk again. XD
“M-my Lord Shirley…” now we know the Father’s truename!
awww yissss were back
I don’t know if it was intentional… but the fact that Bloodcarver has faded and muted colors when Father is talking to him, that then brighten up when Michelle is in the scene… that’s some good symbolism right there.