Grrl Power #792 – Vitamin-T
Happy thanksgiving to those of you who do that sort of thing.
So this is the other big difference between a human girl and a preadolescent succubus. Their tantric needs are marginal, and if you’re a young succubus living with her mom, there’s going to be some to spare. Just little blobs of tantric energy tucked in some Tupperware containers in the fridge. Actually I’d think you’d want your tantric energy hot, but demons probably have a microwave equivalent. Micro Hellfire.
If there really was a Target or something in little Succubus Town, they could charge admission. Actually, little Succubus Town could charge admission for people wanting to do some quality sightseeing, and the thing is, the succubi probably wouldn’t mind at all. Especially if the admission fees counted against their property taxes or HOA fees or something.
I don’t know why I find the idea of… well, not hell, literally – in the Grrl-verse, demons really are aliens that live on other planets, but imagining their worlds as hell-like… but also weirdly modern in a lot of ways – is something that I find really amusing. Like, yeah, there’s rivers of brimstone and ancient fortresses and vast dungeon complexes, but there’s also chain restaurants and broadband and sports teams and colleges and star ports. I guess in a lot of ways it’d be like Japan or parts of Europe, where there’s the old world and the new world across the street from each other. Yes, there’s a crypt of unfathomable evil, but right next to it is a quickie mart that sells dungeoneering supplies. And across the street is “Sal’s Trustworthy Appraisals” that identifies and appraises dungeon loot, for a reasonable fee of course. And right next to that is a Malefactor Pylon, but it won’t corrupt your soul if you stay out of the cordoned off area.
I thought there might be some speculation about the identity of Tamatha’s mentor, but there’s only so many possibilities from the pool of characters I’ve already introduced… plus I forgot about her choker till the last minute, and that pretty much gives it away.
It’s Decollete.
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Well my Hell as an inverse it seems; is usually a very normal looking place, except surreal and a lot of things do “stupid” things. Like, the cliché oh the movie theater’s monsters come out and attack you for the run time, hospital zombie traps, too things like invisible mazes in the Wal-Mart (walk to end of aisle, teleported to another random aisle in store; just because you can see the exit doesn’t mean you can get to it anytime soon) and the usual food stuff is random stuff. Like free vending machine..oh the pepsi takes like sprite…and the mountain dew…is acid sort of thing.
and the monsters…I could go on forever, written lengthy stories of traveling in Hell. Demons however act like its all normal daily business though.
A human who was too proud of their soul crushing job may find themselves tied down via an ethereal chain in the floor (move about freely, but stops you from exiting the building), and forced to work at that fast good joint, mall store, super store, office building, and work for the demons that are mostly pretending its a real job. Heh, even have a succubus that runs a night club, Amber Lovethief, don’t use her as often as I’d like, but a nightclub with a few chained human employees, mostly living mannequins (anima spirits), and mainly a trap for her to grab a snack from unsuspecting *free range human soul bodies*.
Personally, my Hell is a lot like Midwestern suburbia. Lots of desperate people full of hope who know that the hope is false but cling to it anyway, just going through the motions trying to pretend they aren’t royally screwed. Oh, and a lot of churches, all of which feel hollow and no one has any faith in, but which everyone attends daily anyway because That’s What Your Supposed To Do.
But then, this ties into a Discordian concept called the Hell Rule, which states that the only people who go to Hell are those who believe that there is a Hell to go to, and the worse part of Hell is reserved for those who believe in it because they think they’ll go they don’t.
You’re*
Oops, typos:
“You’re”
“they think they’ll go there if they don’t.”
Sorry.
They think they’ll go there if they don’t what?
Believe in Hell
Schol-R-LEA was fixing their post by adding a couple words they forgot
So your hell is my general everyday life minus going to church. Great.
So you’ve got that going for you.
I have always liked the idea that Hell is one part physical three parts psychological. What is hopelessness without hope. Like some areas give the idea you can escape, you can arm yourself, but the escapes just lead to different Hells, like a doorway in a subway opening into a desert wasteland, a locked “safe room” is like a dinner bell to something bigger; and weapons available in expected locations end up attracting worse things like a program for escalation. Same thing happens if too many people decide to group together.
Or people who have come to believe they can find a way out, find an escape, windows into the living world, but they can never get to them, get out, or they are just more tricks. The physical things are there to accent the surreal elements and keep the person on the move, on edge, no stopping, no permanent death, maybe if you keep moving you can escape, find a safe place, some things look safe, no…keep going, there must be somewhere to rest, someplace safe, what about that room…oh now you are being torn apart by paper cut lizards or haunted dolls and houseplants, keep running, keep going. Maybe if we team up, arm our selves, we can make a home in Hell; but now have to be on constant watch for fallen angels, slug women, shark headed zombie WTFs, ect…and you can’t trust each other either, after all…its Hell.
If noone made a movie with this plot yet, they should. Well as long as the Christiano brothers dont get their grubby hands on the idea. Ironicly my hell would be living their movies knowing full well it’s their shitty movies and never getting out. Ugh, after something like that slug women and sharkheaded zombies would be a walk in the park.
Longest (self contained) series using this setting.
Emily’s Awesome Adventure
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3281809/1/Emily-s-Awesome-Adventure
warning rated-M, for gruesome imagery and some adult situations.
There is a longer set on the same site (The Hell Series) but its a collection of short stories and smaller series using the same setting; Emily’s Awesome Adventure is the longest and most self contained of the series.
Sounds like the ‘real’ world
My idea of what would make Hell an awful place to live isn’t the place itself but the company that you’re forced to stay with…. Everyone sent there is some kind of self centered asshole, it would be like Earth but without any good people around to keep it from descending fully into a polluted corrupt crime riddled cesspool…
I’ve always moved away from sorts like that as it comes across as rewarding corrupt individuals, like the River World series where tyrants ended up in charge of others in death; or those settings that turn individuals like Adolph Hitler and Stalin into princes of Hell, as opposed to them screaming agony eternally ripping at their own skin as it continuously grows back while being turned anew by hot tar.
Although not against them thinking they have some sense of temporary control over like a militia group only to be struck down in an act of humiliation by the true powers of Hell.
That’s kinda the thing: in the same way some people view Heaven as a reward for doing good (the more ‘pious’ you are, the bigger the wings and sweeter the harp), some view Hell as a reward for doing bad (the more evil you commit the greater the power, obviously you still will have to defend yourself from the others), and considering both are made up fantasy lands, who is to say either group is wrong?
Hell as a reward for bad deeds is fully a modern invention.
the intent of the religions that created a negative after life system, has always been as a punishment, a deterrent for the living. It is a threat, if you do bad things in life, even if you get away with it, you will be punished in death.
In other words the intended purpose is the same as telling kids the Krampus will beat them or a lump of coal and so on. That the person regards this as an inescapable threat they can’t lie their way out of as a way of preventing them from engaging in activities counter to that society.
It would be like having a story where someone gets put in jail but was such an awful criminal they are given the job of Warden.
That said my version is more like a penile colony, so some may assume that role for a short time till a regular patrol comes by and dismantles it and chides the magistrate for being lazy.
You mean a penal colony (like Australia), a place so bad the criminals ended up running the place (and still do)
And no, Hell as a reward is not just a modern invention, well, no more modern than the idea of Hell itself (go read the Bible, and tell me the chapter and verse where Hell is mentioned)
Spell check is dumb,
Revelations, but that’s pseudo-apocrapha
-to be clear I am not a Christian.
But Sheol was mentioned in Judaism, however only vaguely as an eternal separation from God, and the closest thing to a physical description was an endless desert in darkness.
But that said, I am grouping ALL religions here that have after lifes, if there is a place to store evil individuals, they tend to be punished there, not rewarded. Its not universal, but it is the general versions, and its never pleasant. It would defeat the purpose to tell people in your community they will be rewarded for being murderous thieven ass holes.
The closest thing to a “reward” are limbo/ghostly underworlds, if you consider becoming a supernatural monster that torments the living as a reward with the downsides being strict limitations on when, how long, and how much you can do; while usually feeling eternally hungry, mad, with little to no self control.
Just like in a real life prison, what is meant as a punishment can oftimes end up being a reward for the inmate who is strong enough
As for the last part, kinda sounds like being a vampire, don’t it, wonder how punished Crimson and Clover feel about that
referring mainly to things like “Hungry Ghosts”, but the vampire and vampire like stories were more a punishment on the people for improperly burying the dead.
My favorite version of Hell (and Heaven)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_long_spoons
in its many interpretations.
“But then, this ties into a Discordian concept called the Hell Rule, which states that the only people who go to Hell are those who believe that there is a Hell to go to, and the worse part of Hell is reserved for those who believe in it because they think they’ll go they don’t.”
This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.
:smirk: ↑Seconded!↑
You monster!
It is amazing how much someone can be tormented mentally by a long series of minor inconveniences, small but unpleasant surprises, and simply not meeting their expectations.
I’d imagine someone expecting Hell to be a heavy metal nightmare fest, and when they get there they are dropped in an area resembling an endless empty parking lot would be tormented by just that alone.
Sydney would say: “My name is Agnes Tuttle! “
“YOU SEE THE WIG?!?! I, am AGNES!! TUTTLE!!”
*Starts crazy-laughing till Decollete slaps her*
“I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me. Thankyou Woody…”
“Who?”
“Are you the one who wrote the book of Nice and Accurate Prophecies?”
“No, that’s Agnet Nutter, totally different person”
“Darn”
So, then you won’t have known that I was going to slap you. *slaps*
And now we wait…
until monday!
Cliffhanger
Aaaaaaaargh!
Hey, Dave. Just wanted to let you know at least /someone/ spotted the Shorty & EZ look you have going in panel 2. :D
Yay Bust-A-Groove!
:)
I kinda want that cereal.
Some other taglines: “Several Orphans were harmed in the making of this cereal.” “Try our new ‘They All Screamed For Ice Cream’ flavor!” “Guaranteed Free Trade free!” “1$ from each purposes goes to the Nuke the Whales project!”
Nukes for Whales, you say? Sounds like a noble porpoise. [Those ‘research ships’ won’t know what hit them…[/spoiler]
What is the point of having wings on your head? This is not the first time I’ve seen this, so not blaming Dave, but I’ve always wondered what is the point?
Does her head detach and fly around on its own? While I guess that would give a succubus certain options, I doubt it would be strictly necessary, and I doubt most people (except a few freaks) would find that particularly appealing “Oh hey… your neck… how do you prevent getting blood and other goo all over the place?”
Somebody’s artistic license, and it caught on. I mean, succubi are fictional, it’s not like you can draw them *wrong*.
Kind of like Sparkly Vampires.
I would argue that the Devil May cry reboot game did them wrong.
for all the versions of the Succubus out there, including things not technically succubi but called them due to laziness like the Lillim, Lamashtu, and other seducer entities (kind of like how everyone keeps wanting to group every blood drinker as a vampire); I have never seen one depicted as a giant hideous tumor with a hag head who just makes hypnotic butt juice.
I would point out that no real fan of the horror and supernatural genres has ever used even the very best computer or video games as an example of how to do a supernatural creature right.
Detaching the head (and some other bits) is more of a penanggalan (sp?) thing, I think…
The whole wings on the head thing may be a reference to Morrigan Ainsland.
What’s the point of having wings on airplane’s tail? Does the tail detach and fly around on it’s own?
… I actually think it’s Morrigan Aensland and result of general Japan’s attempts to fit multiple pair of wings on single humanoid, but it is possible the wings on head are useful for maneuvering …
So, they’re canards? That would make sense aerodynamically, but only if the main wings were hip mounted, the lift and weight are already out of balance in the opposite direction.
[Eric]:
While they’re certainly wing-like, I think they’re not really aerodynamic as much as modified ears, whose mobility allows them to adjust for maximum reception of the faintest sounds in the thinnest of atmospheres. This, in turn, implies a lengthy evolution within an EXTREMELY harsh desert biome.
in paintings it was just a random feature to make some demons look freaky. Like a snake for a penis, weird long hose nose, face in the belly, ect…
in pop culture it caught on as a succubus feature mainly due to Morrigan Aensland, who had them to help differentiate herself as a demon rather than a vampire in Darkstalkers.
Huh. Didn’t even notice them.
Wonder what distracted me.
Or like, Dabbler’s ‘ears’? Where do they attach, and HOW?? It usually looks like they’re extensions of her eyebrows…
Considering for most hyu-mons, the top of the ears (where they connect to the skin) line up with the corner of the eyes
Hmm. I rather like Tamatha so far.
I hope Decollette won’t try to make her too different from how she is right now.
Before you ask: No, I do not particularly trust Decollette. She gives me a bad vibe. It may well be unjustified, but there it is. :-/
If she gave you a bad vibe, you should go back to her and make a formal complaint. While she may not be trustworthy, she does seem the type to fairly honor all business dealings and is likely to replace it with a better model.
I have to wonder: Just how did Tamatha wind up on Earth and separated from her birth mother?
I’unno. Never considered it important enough to specify.
If you ever decide to do more with the character, it looks like she’s picked up a few fans here, you should post a link.
Or, maybe you already have, and I missed it? *goes archive diving*
I’d love to do more with the character, but I am absolutely terrible at making anything that would do her justice.
Many people seem to just read the comic, then plunge into the comments. That’s why they don’t realise who owns the particular piece of décolleté on display.
I used to do that until I realised that this author actually made interesting/funny comments. Some are really boring.
Some other commenters don’t seem to know what décolleté means. Look up décolleté or décolletage on Duckduckgo. (What? You do? Wow… No one above puberty gives the G-search people more data about themselves.)
I meant some other authors are boring, not some comments by DaveB. It was not clear what I meant.
Phfft. Younger people are more likely to use DuckDuckGo or some other non-tracking search engine (there are a few… though so far DDG is the only one to get any real traction) rather than Google, though sadly, more often than not it is because they think Google is too mainstream rather than because Google tracks your search data.
Regardless of age, most people use Google because they don’t know about data tracking – and more to the point, they don’t know that there are alternatives. Most people see their smartphone or tablet (desktop computer? laptop computer? what are those?) as a magic black box, and assume that ‘Google’ is just what that search thingie part is called.
Mind you, most people don’t have any reason to know more (or think they don’t), despite all of the media coverage of the various malfeasances of companies such as Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook, because they don’t see how it relates to them asking Siri to order a pizza from Domino’s, or to tweeting about said pizza (with pictures) to their friends when it arrives. They just want to get on with their lives; to most people, a smartphone, computer, or tablet is (or should be) just another appliance to make that easier, and having to learn and think about it does the opposite.
This is the sort of thing which both UX designers, and people concerned with online rights, have to worry about, but in the former case a lot of the goal is to make it so that the users don’t have to worry about it. The latter, however, have good reason to try raise awareness of the issues, but again, most people will see that less ans important information they need, and more as a burden they don’t want to deal with.
Personally refuse to use Google as a search engine, never have (can remember getting extreme flack for saying that a few years back: didn’t say wouldn’t search, just wouldn’t use Google, the idiot thought ‘Google’ was just another name for ‘Search online’)
This comic seems to be rubbing off on me that I recognized Decollete by her boobs. I mean, I did just re-read the comic the other day, but… Yup, recognized that chest pretty fast.
I don’t know if I’m proud of myself for that or not.
I suspect that’s pretty normal way of identifying a succubus. Most people who try to learn a succubus’ face tend to get… drawn away?
(You know, kinda like Sydney’s right eye in the last panel: ohmygawdimbeingpulledinHELPMEEEEEEE)
I suppose Decollette is a natural choice to mentor a young succubus- she’s used to having a couple of dependents.
Actually Dave, demon is short for dimensional traveler in Robert Asprin’s MYTH universe.
Those are kind of Skeevy…
And a female troll is a Trollope (and proud of the name :P )
in some folklore female trolls are beautiful and have god like magical powers. But are usually seducers who have led men back to her flesh hungry sons and husbands.
Maybe, butt in the MYTH series, female trolls are called Trollope’s
putting an e at the end makes it a proper surname.
the reason I made the comment I did was trollop (a woman who has many sexual encounters including for money) -Webster’s definition paraphrased, is possibly derived as a slang in the early 1600’s in reference to how female trolls would seduce men.
-although in re-looking it is apparently slang for the word “Trull” which was an old term for a prostitute which came from the German word Trulle, which just means a young girl. Which given how slang evolves doesn’t have to make sense…after all bimbo originally referred to an immature childish man derived from the Italian word a little boy.
So, my bad, thought maybe it derived from female trolls given their own promiscuous nature. eh.
It’s ben a long time since read the series (in the 80’s actually), and forgot how the female troll spelt it (and maybe getting mixed up with the author, Joanna Trollope)
Anyone else wondering if this’ll end with Sydney waking up in bed with Tamatha, thinking the worst (or best depending on your point of view) only for Tamatha to remember things very differently and innocently?
Follow on with heaps of innuendo comments that Tamatha is left ignorant as she makes and Sydney becoming more and more mortified
Nope, for one thing Tammy is fucking fourteen years old!!!!
14 in Human years but what about Succubus years?
14, she’s 14
period.
No one has ever mentioned this or that relative age, years stuff. It was never a thing mentioned in this comic by any character ever.
Its also a horribly flawed concept, even when trying to apply it to dogs or something as its not a solid relative ration, maturation speeds up and slows back down. But that’s not important because no one has stated any of these supernatural beings age faster or slower, this is not Baby Yoda.
People are probably asking because Dabbler is like 187 years old. So that means one of three things most likely.
1) Succubi age slower than humans.
2) Succubi age normally until a certain age, then slow down in aging.
3) Succubi age normally but their lifespans are just much longer than humans and they never actually age to a point where they ‘look’ old.
So people keep assuming the first thing and discount the other possibilities.
as much as I prefer the age normally to a point and then stop.
if we give them a proper biological system, the age slower is what we see in natural organisms, even if isn’t the exact relative age thing so many people think it is.
But still, a dog is sexually mature at 2 years of age (on average)
a human 16-20 (legal or otherwise, and many girls can still get pregnant younger, depends on the individual. But this is also dangerous, human hormones and sexual maturation are all kinds of screwed up when one compares to other mammals).
But that said, the point is even if she aged slowed, her being 50, but having the body and mind of a 14 year old still should not make it okay to think (I can screw her), because she isn’t an adult in her species. That would be like a species that ages as fast as a dog being confused as to why they can’t screw a 10 year old human which is already at half the dog lifespan alien’s life span.
In other words, sexually mature and number of years are not equal. So…the thousand year old loli trope does not make it okay, its still a kid.
and to bite the supposed counter argument that always crops up, no the inverse isn’t right either. A one year old clone with a full set of memories and body of an adult is an ADULT, period. Its about the body and mind here, not number of rotations around the sun, so no its not pedo to screw a fully mature clone anymore than to screw the more rapidly ageing alien would be.
Again, sexual maturity in body and mind is the key.
You wouldn’t get it on with an 18 year old Elf. Probably not even a 40 year old Elf ♀️
The reverse could apply for some intelligent beings where they’re considered mature of body and mind much earlier than humans. Quite probably not the case in Tamatha’s situation if her general appearance and bust are anything to go by (unless it’s some kind of malnutrition issue from her years of tantric deficiency). Not certain what Succubus cultural standards are like around their young in puberty but I imagine the need for tantric energy might grow.
Especially not those trailer park elves, right? Bad news.
so you read the Monster Hunter International books too? it’s too bad how the Orc”s get shafted all the time in media though.
As a fellow Tammy, I love how the name is becoming popular again, in the most unusual ways.
You make great country music
Talk about innuendo, second panel (and I’m surprised nobody’s commented before now” has “food” that includes several phallic shaped objects in it, cucumber, banana, weiner, etc.
was just going to comment on this…
Talk about innuendo, second panel (and I’m surprised nobody’s commented before now” has “food” that includes several pha-llic shaped objects in it, cucumber, banana, weiner, etc.
This whole explanation panel makes me think Tamantha is an abandoned succui-baby…. just how she takes about getting energy & how she had to get energy, and having a mentor “now” & Tamantha having no explanations given for how to act…..
I wouldn’t have known who that was without reading the commentary – I tend to recognise people by their hair (in RL too).
Most of us assumed that the mentor had to be a Succubus and we have only been introduced to two.
Since we have been told that pre-FTL worlds are somewhat off limits but that earth does have a sex tourism trade that is just winked at if not legal under galactic law a lot of us assumed that Earth probably had just the council representative and Dabbler on a permanent basis with other Succubi passing through as sex tourists.
My guess was that the mentor was going to be Decolette because I didn’t see Dabbler taking a protege on until after the Thothogoth situation was resolved.
It was an expected revelation and I think a lot of other people had drawn the same conclusions.
It’s like a mystery novel where the author drops breadcrumbs to lead the reader to conclusions.
Next up: DaveB will write Beefcake Hardy Boys and Cheesecake Nancy Drew novels for adults.
“… Beefcake Hardy Boys and Cheesecake Nancy Drew novels for adults.”
Hard to to imagine Beefcake/Cheesecake ^without^ pictures.
“Beefcake Hardy Boys and Cheesecake Nancy Drew novels for adults”
Now is that two separate series, or just the one…
Based on comments thus far, apparently I’m the only one curious how Decollete recognized TMH in disguise? The comments discussed the idea of the owner & bouncers being given a heads-up on celebs, but Dave never said anything about that in comic or author’s note, and we learned that her fake ID is basically legit for all intents and purposes.
My suspicion is that succubi can recognize people by their distinctive tantric aura, sort of like spectral analysis.
Sounds like a solid hypothesis.
Mind you she is bound to be observant, as a supernatural diplomat, not to mention a night-club owner. So she may simply have spotted Sydney showing off her orbs. Finally night club owner/managers would keep an eye out for incognito celebrities and this one clearly is close enough to the Archon HQ that she would expect heroes to turn up sooner or later.
Harem may have changed Sydney’s hair and given her freckles, but Decollette (at probably between one and two centuries old) will have many decades of experience interacting with succubi and humans who often change their hair. Likewise any of the supernaturals will be used to seeing any of their peers in natural form and Veil disguised human versions.* Sydney’s face has not changed, so any observant individual, with those advantages, would have a good chance of picking her out.
* Whilst they all have immunity to being fooled by it, doubtless they are able to see the disguised version if they choose to, otherwise the Veil would have long ago been unmasked by supernaturals incorrectly describing or referencing one another to mundane humans.
“Excuse me little girl, could you describe what your mum looks like, so we can find her for you?”
She did show up in the company of Elspeth Broette, Scarlett, Pixel, Kat, Krona, Specs, Harem and Varia.
Olivia is the only regular human in the large party that came in together and six of them were at the battle with Sciona’s blood golems at the council meeting.
You tend to recognize people you have been in battle with, so no surprise and Decolette would probably recognize any of those six from a distance even from behind.
I just assumed she recognized Sydney’s basic Sydneyness. It’s going to take a lot more than a pink wig to hide that.
Decollette may also have been keeping an eye on Tamatha in general, especially when a customer strikes up a conversation, and overheard or seen enough of Sydney’s name-dropping to join the dots.
Happy gobble gobble day!
Loving the bright colours and lights throughout the page. It sets an interesting tone, distinct from the other light and shadow and shade themes in various settings earlier in the comic.
*hugs a Yorpie!* ahhh I needed that.
Hello to you too, Miss Breasts. I mean, boobies, titties, yabbos, Jugs Galore, God’s gift, jubbly-wubblies, bodacious bouncy bazongas, WM-double-D’s, sweater puppies, stonking great tits, hooters, knockers, milky mamma jammas…
…I mean, Decolette.
StarBound.
Go to a Lava Ocean World with fire immunity and build a city resembling that of the Hyotl, but with a thick containing wall made of obsidian or similar. Put in a teleporter, a few shops, a half dozen colony deeds…
So Succubi are just Asari from Mass Effect then.
This seems like a better good situation to add an extra element to the mix, like most demons finding normal worlds inhospitable and thus they have a reason to “corrupt” them as a sort of terraforming. Demons could have an extradimentional origin from a VERY long time ago with a small number of demonic species adapting to our reality quite well, succubi for example, while “native” demons are horrifying and seek to consume and corrupt what they encounter. If they feed on souls then they would have a reason to attack inhabited worlds, corrupting and conquering them as they go.
You could play up not only the otherworldly strangeness of native demon species but also their cultural differences. So in your example of having chain stores in hellscapes those would be for worlds settled by adapted demons and native demons not only don’t have them but they don’t understand the concept of a store.
Adapted demons like succubi would probably dislike native demons as a result of the natives making everyone hate and distrust the succubi believing them to be spies and saboteurs, as well as just from pure racist reasons. Native demons would hate succubi as well because from their perspective the succubi are hoarding prey. Producing a purely predatory ecology for the demons’ home reality would be interesting, and no doubt absolutely horrifying to witness. Imagine what their version of agriculture would be like.
Most succubi probably would never have traveled to a proper hellscape and while a partial one would be comfortable for them they likely would have lost the capacity to survive unassisted in the demons home reality after a few millennia of adaptation to ours.
Anyways cool concept, and Decolette has improved massively.
Is it wrong to find Lil Tammy to be adorable?
I suspect that’s the whole point, her body is adapted to make itself appealing to its prey so that it can survive. Succubi really are just predators that use the aggressive mimicry hunting strategy.
I am trying to not read your comment as implying a sexual attraction, but body making its self appealing makes that hard.
just to point this out, adorable, and I want to stick my dick in it, are not the same thing.
hence why some us thought maybe a young succubus could feed on less lustful emotions like friendship, platonic attraction, and so forth..
Stuff like this is why sex god/goddesses are born fully formed adults like Aphrodite and were never children.
Or its something that kicks in as adults.
It wasn’t, I was describing brood parasitism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite). By making itself more appealing I was implying brood mimicry, where the young of one species is deliberately inserted among the young of another but look so similar to the target species’ young that they are cared for by surrogates. It’s a reproductive strategy which makes sense for a species which uses aggressive mimicry of the sort that Succubi do.
Lure the prey species with mimicked displays of mating behaviors. Mate with prey species and reach a bonded state with target mate. Spawn offspring with bonded prey and then leave. All of the energy required for raising said offspring is offloaded onto the prey species while the Succubus can be off producing another offspring with another target.
The kid is cute because she is exhibiting super normal stimuli (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus) declaring her cuteness and vulnerability. Her body has been designed by nature to make you want to care for and protect her, again saving the energy required to do this for the Succubus and sparing them the risk of doing so as well. Once she matures the supernomal stimuli she exudes will shift towards those that mimic the secondary sexual traits of the female of her prey species.
I get how you would misinterpret my earlier comment, but my intent was to describe her as a horrifying predator which needs to be destroyed, not as a sexually appealing female.
its easier for general knowledge to just use the cuckoo as an example. Although I don’t know many predators that imitate their prey that also have their young raised by their prey in the same species example.
but yeah, I see what you mean now.
TL:DR FEAR THE CUTE!!!
I don’t think that’s what Fred Gallagher had in mind with his “Fear the cute ones” products.
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Talking about Lil Tammy in panel two, if you are playing to ‘mate’ with her, Chris Hansen would like a word with you…
No, it is not wrong, because I think she’s adorable too. <3
To be fair I also find fourteen-year-old Tamatha adorable.
And to add an additional twist you could have it that succubi WERE sent as spies and saboteurs for a later demonic invasion, but some of them eventually “went native” in our reality. A fully demonic succubus showing up would likely be a huge event as it signifies a potential coming invasion. Fully demonic succubi likely would be more powerful than the hybrids people are used to seeing in our reality, though because they haven’t adapted to our reality they would need to feed more often to survive here. Their feeding would also be more aggressive as if you’re from a purely predatory ecology not killing prey doesn’t make sense to you.
If you went that route then hybrid succubi like Dabbler and Decolette would probably be seen not only as traitors but as unnatural abominations. Hybrids would likely see full demonic succubi as a terrible source of danger and would either flee a world one shows up on to escape the invasion or try to kill it to halt the invasion. Having a full demon succubus being a vital link in the chain to open the way for a fully fledged demonic invasion would provide a way to stop one by stopping the succubus as well.
All of the demons in our reality who have adapted to it would effectively be descended from prisoners of war left over from past demonic incursions. Some of them would likely seek to take up the cause of their ancestors for cultural reasons in the same way that oppressed ethnicities often will appeal to the myth of an imagined glorious past. So bad guy demons in our reality essentially would be demonic space neo-nazis. Those worlds they inhabit are the closest they could make to their home reality as well, hence the Hellmart idea working fine.
A fully fledged demonic incursion could even be something that hasn’t happened in a very long time. If that was the case a pure breed succubus showing up would set off alarm bells like crazy. It actually would also make sense for a pure breed succubus to reproduce hybrid offspring very rapidly, as if it is extremely difficult to demons to send someone to our reality then sending one that can breed it’s own army would make all the sense in the world. If the invasion us stopped and the pure breed is killed then some of her offspring could survive and given the proper upbringing may become semi-functional members of society. Done that way a “Lilith” ancestor could be the single hybrid offspring from an ancient succubus who survived the attempted invasion and was raised without her mother’s influence. If this occurred on earth millennia ago and the invasion was stopped by the magical counsel folks then that would also explain why succubi tend to have human physical characteristics despite seemingly being able to breed with anything that moves. In that case they actually would be “native” to earth and would have spread out from here to the rest of the galaxy with a few convenient abductions.
That would actually add another layer to this idea, as most species in the galaxy would only know demons from succubi they encountered or adapted descendants of past invasions, while other species would have holocaust like legends of when demons invaded their worlds.
I hope this helps give you some inspiration man.
So we know that is Decollete in the last panel, what I wanna know is how did SHE know that was Sydney? Talked to the others there? Picked up something familiar from her(“Ah, a man-abs fan with more than a dash of Furry? Must be Sydney…”)? Recognized the voice despite the noise of the club around them? Someone rang ahead?
empathic signature even better than scent works fine.
Hmm. The sammich looks interesting. I see tomato, cheese, a pickle, what looks like one end of a hot dog, I’m not sure what that yellow-ish thing between the pickle and the hot dog is, an Eggo waffle on top, a strip of bacon, peanut butter and mayo.
And now I’m hungry again, drat it! :)
Pretty sure the yellow thing is a banana, which would go well with the waffle and the peanut butter (Elvis would approve) but then you have Swiss cheese, tomato, hot dog and a pickle which go well together but don’t fit with the sweeter stuff.
You could easily make two very decent sandwiches out of this, with the bacon going in either depending on your preference, oh and that’s not mayo it’s miracle whip… never confuse the two… it’s a mistake you will only make once.
There’s no mistaking th reek of sulphur which is so commonplace with ^real^ mayo (from the eggs that it’s made with) ~ which is why ^I^ prefer Miracle Whip!
Missing the point…
All of those items are phallic in shape and since it’s been fed to a succubus it becomes obvious why the artist chose those particular food items… at least it’s obvious to me…
“Make do”, as in fixing something via improvisation. NOT “Make Due”, which suggests creating some kind of deadline.
read the comments, this has been covered.
Make Due WAS correct until enough people over a long enough time kept writing it incorrectly as “Make Do” that “Make Do” became the correct one and “Make Due” incorrect.
in other words, both are correct really.
Originally, ‘due’ was in reference to when your rent was scheduled to be paid, ‘due’ ws not the deadline, it was the fee, and it still is, if you belong to a club or organisation, your fee is usually referred to as your ‘dues’ (as in, you paid your dues)
Decollete debuted all the way back here (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-449-a-surplus-of-succubi/), three years ago. WOW.
I’ve worked retail for 19 years and worked the USPS for 10, including all Christmases and Black Friday foolishnesses. I no longer fear hell as I’ve been paid to work there.
Suddenly….BOOBS!
I love this comic
After re-reading the few other pages in the link were we met Decollette, I’ve not got questions about how Succubi work in this setting- mainly can they feed or each other? It would seem weird if they could because they why would succubi ever need to go anywhere else?
Or maybe one can feed and get stronger but the other gets weaker, sort of like a vampiric-succubus?
I’m pretty sure two succubi making out would create a sort of tantric feedback loop, producing enough energy for themselves (and probably others) to live on. Why don’t they just do that all the time? Dunno. Maybe it’s like eating Pork’n’Beans every day – sustaining, but not interesting? Variety is the spice of life, after all.
Yups, was thinking the same thing: just like with Kevin who could ‘feed’ off living next door to a volcano or an oil drill, succubae ‘feed’ on other species for the variety
Fairly sure there would be some (like maybe less than 10 percent of the total population) who find one race they like above all others and never goes anywhere else (like how some people have one type of food they like above all others and won’t even try something different), same as there would be some they will never touch, no matter how starved they are
I don’t think that would work.
It sounds like Perpetual Motion.
If it did work humans would not be necessary as an energy source.
It’s possible it only works as an emergency, not a long term sustainable source
I suspect the problem with two succubi getting it on is that they’d be dividing the resulting tantric energy between them, rather than getting their’s AND their partner’s. Half the bang for the bang, so to speak.
So, might work to avoid deficiencies as long as they were getting enough “regular” food, but couldn’t work as a food substitute, they’d still be operating at an energy deficit.
We have seen that those upon whom Succubi feed are drained. Thats why Dabbler isn’t allowed to screw Arc Swat members even if they are the same rank. Remember the hairdresser guy?
So two Succubi would probably be an energy loss. –
But an orgasm high gain. ++
Is it just me or is Decollete’s bust in HD now? Like, 4K HD. :D
Well, at the Twilight Council, Decolette was there in a business capacity, she was probably dressed conservatively (for a succubus). This, however, is a nightclub – for a succubus, it’s SHOWTIME!!
(Which leads me to wonder, does Decolette seem a bit flushed? Was SHE the one dancing in the background, earlier?)
Plus, the lighting in here is probably a LOT more flattering. Dim Gothic ambiance doesn’t lend itself towards showing off the goodies.
The problem with Dave’s mentioning of a modern Hell is that dungeoneering supplies are rather similar to burglary supplies and people who will go into a crypt of unfathomable evil are the type of people who don’t care much about laws. Sell them goods and they now have the option of raiding the eternally lethal deathtrap that may or may not have ancient goods one could fence for some cash or busting into a retail store after hours for some cash and more supplies. Path of least resistance says that the Quickie Mart doesn’t stay in business for very long.
There’s also the issue of (Dantean) Hell usually being defined as a place full of untrustworthy people, so the employees have probably already taken a fair chunk of the till’s float and have are using all the broadband for their torrents.
One of the most common traps in my own surreal real world Hell is that cash is laced with scents that once touched by a soul body attract all manner of demonic beasts to them.
Also setting things people might want to steal openly (house in the suburbs has curtains open showing all their tvs, appliances, and other goodies), but of course the grass is needles, flowers are buzzsaws, glass shard can grow under your skin, inside of houses can twist spaces, creepy dolls, Gameboys that inject wires in your flesh, and numerous other hazards.
But then again, once you realize you are in Hell…why would you steal things like that or want the cash? What do you think you will back to Earth and fence that stuff…spend that cash. But then again…people be dumb.
Never trust a customer who knows too much about exactly what your merchandise is good for.
Links starts at most relevant point, but watching the whole clip for more context is well worth it for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie.
^ doh, was supposed to be a reply to Malecus’s comment
Head canon for panel two: Lil Tammy has come across her adopted mother’s ‘pregnant craving’ food, and realises she is now going to be going on a forced diet for the next 9 months :P
Also, can’t not hear Deco saying that line in either a classic Hitchcock or Blofeld tone (leaning more towards Hitchcock though: “Gooood Even-ning”) :D
I don’t see why incest would be taboo on succubus society.
Besides social stigma, birth defects are the only real problem with that, and since reproduction is not the purpose there is no reason to be.
Specially because sex is a crucial aspect of their survival.
Sydney:-“I startle easily, I have an attack that can cut through a battleship and is LITTERALY a reflex thought away, and I have an proven history of over-reacting to sudden shocks……remind me again EXACTLY why you thought sneaking up behind me was a good idea, Decollete?”
Sydney has reset her reflex trigger
Also, you seem to have forgotten that the PPO has a safety lock on it
Didn’t someone swipe her purse about two pages back?
Reread the page, nevermind.
Anything is fine with me, if I’m with my EZ Mouse!
Now I want to make that sandwich.
Different people might see different things, so what on that sandwich?
Banana, still wrapped corn on the cob, sausage, bacon, a tomato slice and cheese is my opinion.
You animal, you.
Missing the point…
All of those items are phallic in shape and since it’s been fed to a succubus it becomes obvious why the artist chose those particular food items… at least it’s obvious to me…
Ya know this is completely stupid, but this only just occurred to me because I was watching a random video when checking for an update…. but of all the examples / definitions of “side-boob” i have ever seen, how sydney must be seeing things in the corner of her eye in that last panel must be another example…. (what with the hypnotic succubus clevage effect & all)
From that angle, Sydney would be seeing the left bewb, and not the right