Saint James Infirmary 176: On the Edge

[Daphne]

Coming Friday, April 5th!

[jmundt29]

This title is generic enough it could apply to anything.  It could apply to a Dani flashback, or Erin and Mallory trying to deal with a Dani flashback.  It could apply to Vik if he smells a rat with his sister's relationship.  It could be the Splash Page, or right before the splash page for Hayley and Amy.  It could be the full bloom of the Lust Fever in Hitomi (who we haven't seen in quite awhile).  Or it could be Zenon on the edge of discovery or Claudia facing danger from the Kupplers.

[Chettbaker]

I'll go with orgasm.  But whose orgasm?? Hmmm.

After having seen the comic.

And on the edge means... On the edge.  *sigh*

[Haight]

Unfortunately, not as sexy as we'd hoped.  Is this a repressed memory coming forward or an entire hallucination?

Fucked up in any case to tell your slaves to walk off buildings.  What happened to just getting sex out of the deal?

[Werdna]

A few random thoughts:

Beautiful art.  I love the contrast between the lushness of the inside of the apartment and the greys and straight lines of the urban exterior, contrasted again by the friendly colours of the Infirmary.  Very pretty to look at, and evocative.

Deeply, deeply disturbing subject matter.  No wonder Danielle has the recurring nightmares - mind controlled to such a great extent that you're prepared to obey to the point of meaningless death?

Now I wonder to what extent she's dreaming of reality/her own memory and how much is made up in her dream.  (I'll assume that she didn't actually walk off the edge of a high-rise, and equally that an entire suite wouldn't be open to the air in the way it's depicted here.)

I like how this ties together the first Danielle flashback (from August, waking up from a nightmare of falling) and the visions she was having of the apartment while she was at work.

[laguna85]

He is see How deep Mind control that Danielle is!
To see he can burn into her mind How to use the watch.
Back Guest page 3 the persistence of memory, She is falling and there is in side of the watch and a there is a Sea shell in red.

[jmundt29]

Okay, so the outfit is black and form fitting, so I begin to wonder if the Maitresse en Titre has to wear something black and form-fitting, but Dani's is clearly a maid's outfit.

I don't think this actually happened, but my initial impression was that El Magnifi...er, Jakob had her sitting in the interrogation chair and had spun the scenario with the watch and was trying to push her to make the leap with her mind, and he was unable to totally eradicate her drive for self-preservation.  Hence, his expletive.  However, there are no drawings to back me up aside from him touching her hand and her screaming.

[Haight]

I'm really, really hoping that Claudia's stuck wearing that tight black thing due to the watch.  Hot. 

Though it looks like we're finding out the new york harem wasn't all fun and games.  Definitely makes Claudia a bit more sympathetic - she knows what the watch can do if someone gets hold of it.

[jmundt29]

Look, it makes her more sympathetic, but I can't tell if she wants it so she can get out and/or destroy it, or if she wants it because she wants to control it or if she wants it because she was programmed to recover it if it was ever lost.  Any of those is possible.  Nonetheless, I believe that her expression concerning Jakob is genuine and, I must say, I concur.  However, I suspect that the story is more interesting for the author with him alive, so we should prepare for that.

[GodWilling]

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[jmundt29]

The plant flashback and view doesn't really look much like Claudia's base of operations or what we've seen of Derek digging through 37 Wall.  Could the plant flashback be the place where she was orginally recruited?

[GodWilling]

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[laguna85]

When Derek step into the room It smell bad
so May be Dead bird, dead plants or dead body?

[Chettbaker]

One funny I can think of right now is Derek  or Adrian somehow manages to help Claudia break her confinement and clothing curse, then she suddenly turns bright evil on him (who ever frees her), he thinks better of it and has her dress up in something even more outrageous or silly.

[GodWilling]

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