Grrl Power #1321 – Afterglow vitae
That particular spell just so happens to require the blood of a dude you recently banged six times in a row. Hey, I don’t make the rules. Okay, fine, it really only requires a drop of blood from a “dual cultivation” partner. However you manage that result is your business.
There briefly existed a version of this page where excess blood from the ring left bloody streaks all over Sciona’s shoulders, boobs and hips, but the dialog felt a little too casual for stacking gory afterglow on top of Sciona’s concerning reveal. The dude is already simultaneously trying to not break out in a flop sweat or pop an inappropriate level of boner. See, in this case, he doesn’t want to go to 100%, because that would indicate he’s not taking her seriously even after seeing her do magic right in front of him, or he’s into whatever danger she’s implying, or he’s signaling his submission via fear boner. But also, he doesn’t want no movement, cause a sexy sex partner is straddling him, and she might be offended if he pulls back inside himself. This isn’t really conscious thought out, there’s just a subprocess in his brain that says, “Okay, ideally we throw out 25%. 33 tops.” That subprocess pops a note to the chemistry demon running the whole thing, and at the same time shouts at the hippocampus to stop remembering all the noises she made last night, cause it’d throw off the mix.
So that’s why I decided that Sciona, being an expert blood mage, added a bit to the spell that makes the excess blood go all powdery and waft away into nothingness.
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His friend told him. They’ll never find the body
Althought its possible she’s targeted him for possession by another Alari ghost in this case
That, or she actually wants him as a bedslave.
Honestly, for all her claims about him only being “acceptable”, she does seem surprisingly forthcoming with and fond of this guy, so it would not surprise me.
This, if you ask my opinion. If she meant to make him a body donor, there would have been no point in giving him instructions about how to improve his performance. It seems to me Sciorpia is on a minion recruitment drive of late. First the Senator, then his daughter, then this guy. In the latter case, he got earmarked for sex slave first and foremost.
Should have listened to your friend last night, fella.
Because now you know stuff Sciona will kill to keep secret, so you’ll be looking over your shoulder and checking your every word, all the time.
That, or you join team evil at an entry-level position (puns duly intended).
IMO, we are seeing another case of minion recruitment on Sciona’s part. Just like with the Senator’s daughter, she is forthright with who she is and what she doies, because she has earmarked this guy as favored boytoy. Had his performance been unsatisfactory, chances are she would have found much less pleasant means of using him.
The only thing she hasn’t killed is his boner. Comic book evil is hot so the only thing you have to ask yourself is if she is going to kill you before you finish and if death by snu snu is an acceptable exit. Some men live for danger. They just don’t live very long.
If she magically enhances you in a way you can actually keep up with her crazy shenanigans.
death by snu snu is obviously the right choice in this scenario.
though I would prefer Dabllers way of eternal live through snu snu.
The sad part is this might still be a net improvement over some of his past “dates”.
damn… I was diggin the shortish haircut
Unfortunately for you, it seems another thing Sciona very much likes to have besides great boobs is long hair (when it it does not get entangled with body armor) with her original color. Can’t say I disapprove her preferences.
OK this is just TOO weird. Call me when it’s over.
YMMV. I find this glimpse in the sex life of a hot, ruthless, and competent supervillainess much more interesting (and original) than even more slice of life comedy from the Archon crew. Neither advances the plot much so far, but the ‘Peggy gets her leg back’ subplot had exhausted its narrative usefulness. Now if this somehow would also give us more info about Sciona’s master plan, or advance the plot about her, it would be excellent.
…. Sephiroth, that you?
LOL! She is certainly rocking his hair style – and it looks really good.
How does blood manipulation lead to hair growth?
Blood MAGIC, there’s a difference. The blood is just fuel, it doesn’t have much bearing on the desired effect
Transmutation?
I belive that they can control their physiologhy completly.
Basicly express their bodies to the best.
Sort of like one of like one those old army comercials, “Be all that you can be”.
It’s going to feel really good throwing her into a magnetar, a black hole is too good for her kind. A magnetar in non-Euclidian space.
His friend did warn him that they would never find his body if he went with this woman. I bet he is thinking along the lines of “How did she know?”
Rodney Alcala “The dating game killer” seems to have a copycat 30 years after ( Rodney Alcala had won ” The dating game” in 1978 and the timeline of Grrl power is in 2008 )…
It’s probably female intuition, the episode’s bachelorette, Sheryl Bradshaw, who subsequently refused to go out with him because she found him “creepy”.
I bet his stream of consciousness is is along the lines of “how can I stay alive and get a chance to be with this dangerous but sexy and interesting goddess”.
so what is the countdown to the reveal that he is also some kind of super? 3 comics? 2? 1?
She pretty much already said it last page. No body hair.
He is now to be taken over by another Alari.
Possible, but less and less likely IMO. She seems too fond of him for that and there would be no point in explaining her background and giving him instructions on how to improve his bedroom performance. We already know she has minions (the Senator and his daughter) that she does not deem convenient to turn into meat puppets for Alari ghosts. He might well be a third case.
I’m sure it’s been discussed before but it seems likely that if there are 99%ile supers like Maxima there are bound to be 1st% supers as well. He gets the hot bod but his power is minor or so fringe that there is no circumstance where it is ever expressed.
It’s nice to see honesty in a relationship.
She’s trying to make herself like she used to. Can’t say I disapprove! :)
‘I’m an alien… … Prominent U.S. Senator’
‘That old trope?’
Just to point out, she just mentioned she is possessing the body of a DEAD woman.
I feel this guys is focusing on the wrong parts of her sentence there. Or he did hear and has the presence of mind not to piss off the space ghost any further….. which is rather impressive, I might add
In the Grrlverse, it is widely known that supers, aliens, and in all likelihood demons as well walk among humans. Meeting someone that is two out of three is exceptional, but not an outside-context event. The leap from that to believing in possession and reincarnation magic is not that great. Esp. when the self-styled alien sorceress possessing a dead super just used blood magic to change her body. He apparently likes the challenge of dangerous women and seems able to think on his feet. He may well fancy the opportunity of being the boytoy minion of a hot and powerful supervillainess, esp. if it guarantees him the best sex of his life.
So if you have a super with high resilience, say Achilles, is there a limit to how much coke they could do?
I imagine that there’s a physical limit to how many drugs Achilles could do at one time, even just because it’d fill up his stomach/lungs, saturate his bloodstream to the point that he couldn’t absorb any more, or he’d pass out from their effects. He just would’t die of an overdose.
So, she’s still trying to keep a low profile, and is chief of staff of a senator… and yet, is going to go to work the next day with white hair that is 2.5 ft longer. That’s asking a lot of ‘change blindness’.
I guess she can claim dye job and hair extensions… or whip up an illusion?
As you say, it is something that can be easily justified as a dye job and hair extensions combo. No need to spend blood for an ongoing illusion spell to hide it.
Test post
Wait, I’m so lost. When did this possession happen? Was it before or after the character was introduced that she died and was then possessed? I feel like I completely missed a vital change here.
Re-read from when Archon went through the portal and you’ll be all caught up.
Do you have a page #?
#646-649 (Sciona sacrifices her recently-recovered Alari body to allow a crowd of Alari ghosts to cross the portal to Earth with her)
#743-746 (Sciona possesses the body of a dead Mexican supervillainess that was killed by the cartels for stealing from them)
At that point, if you click on the link of her name in #746, you can see all the subsequent entries concerning her new life.
So, her superpower does not just work as super-cocaine, but super-viagra as well? If so, chances are it works like a versatile and inherent drug factory (and quite possibly an alchemy lab as well, esp. for a blood sorceress), with the output to be injected with a touch. Apparent synergy with blood magic for all kinds of biomanipulation effects is huge. Sciorpia won the lottery with her new body and is much more powerful than before.
I’m expecting that this could be something akin to what the protagonist of a novel called “The Rook” had going on (if you haven’t read it, think of it like a conspiracy thriller in an SCP-style world as written by Sir Terry Pratchett – don’t bother with the TV adaptation, as much as a fan of Adrian Lester as I am, the show missed the whole point of the novel and had none of the comedic angle). That book starts with the protagonist getting her memories erased and, as the book goes on, we learn that her “original self” had a lot of psychological hang-ups over her biomanipulation powers and never got all that good with them, but the “new self” has no such problems and become far more powerful than anyone could’ve predicted.
I get the feeling that the original owner of Sciona’s new body didn’t have the chemical or biological knowledge necessary to make full use of her ability. But Sciona’s a blood mage – biochemistry is something I expect many blood mages learn as a secondary aid to their magic. Or at least to assess how much use a particular blood sample is as fuel.
Even More honesty and straight forwardness! I am liking this crazy broad more and more!
Even if she remains true to her Alari supervillainess mindset, the experience of her current lifestyle seems to have smoothed out a lot of her roughest edges considerably, in comparison to her previous version. I like this more nuanced version a lot.
Is it just me, or the thrill of getting her preferred hairstyle back and their sexy talk are making her seriously consider round seven (or at least some parting making out)? It seemed she was preparing to leave in the previous page, but her body language in the last two panels suggests another course.
I bet his inner monologue reaction to the disclosure of her background included the line “well, this explains a lot”.
Presumably Sciona will eventually barge back in on the main story and wreak her vengence upon Archon!
…Wait, does she want revenge on Archon? Like, they tried to stop her making a portal… but they failed. And it turned out the portal was to an exterminatusified world, but again, not really Archon’s fault. And… uh…
What else was there?
Maybe Sciona ISN’T going to try and get terrible vengence on Archon, in a suprise twist that has villains everywhere decrying her for scorning tradition. Maybe she goes and causes trouble for Deus instead (which from his perspective, would be a deus ex machina moment, and that’s delightfully ironic), tries to usurp leadership of his Alari…
Apparently, she has the ability to enjoy sex even if not adequately lubed. So she might give the guy a firestarter and see if she can make him explode by sex only. (That would be a terrible trend if it caught on.)
Did we ever find out what an Alari blood sorcerer was doing on a backwater like Earth in the first place?
A backwater that holds the key to a huge pool of power unavailable anywhere else in the known universe. Like anyone else in the know and able to make a move, she was here to try and take control of all that supers goodness.
anyone else thinking of “Mirage” from “the Incredibles”?