Hello, good and bad people. Last time, there was this oddest Interlude so far in this story. The first part of the Interlude was told from the PV of Brian's bitch of a mother, Celia, her boyfriend, Sam
wise Gamgee, and her friend, Jennifer. These people were terrorized by poltergeist phenomenon in their own house. Celia couldn't even find her drugs because of the damn annoying poltergeist. "Poor" Celia. The second part was told from Bonesaw's POV. She had some work to do, "saving" Jonathan's life with new and very "ethical" medical procedures, while her dog was sleeping and her two friends were reading books . But the evil poltergeist decided to mess with her life as well, by stabbing her several times. Luckily, she was injured but survived thanks to her brilliant mind
"slaps herself" -I should not be so happy
. Then the poltergeist started to bother Cherish who was doing what she usually likes to do in her spare time: carry around heavy bodies. The poltergeist stopped bothering her only when Cherish had to make a deal with it. Damn this poltergeist, screwing people's lives left and right without any care. And nobody was thinking to call Winchester Brothers in their help. Ok, but seriously speaking now, I've noticed 3 important things during the Interlude: Aisha's power is similar with Lisas in terms of being always turned on. With the difference that Aisha can still turn it off if she concentrates enough but is impossible for Lisa to do the same, to block all the information she receives all the time. Anyway, it would have been worse for Aisha if she couldn't turn off her power than for Lisa. Imagine Aisha having to live for her entire life completely isolated from society and alone, like a personal hell created by her power. Only people with emotion/mental powers to be able to notice her but without seeing or hearing her, only feeling her emotions or reading her mind. That would have been a really sucky life, the suckiest one. Another thing I noticed: Aisha's power seems to be...alive. Its like her power is another living being and its trying to control her not other way around. Yep, Aisha is the first parahuman I saw so far whose power acts like its alive and independent of her. Very odd and I have a bad feeling that one day her own power might "betray" her by getting completely from under the little control she have over it and turning against her. That would be such a HELLA WTF development of this story, beating everything else in its wackiness. And the third thing I noticed: Bonesaw won't be surprised if Jack will attack her. She said that if Jack would have attacked her he would have killed her. So she won't exclude an attack coming from Jack. Weird, because I believed that she trusted Jack, right after Siberian. Maybe they don't have such a nice relationship like they appear to have in front of their enemies. Maybe Bonesaw, deep down, is afraid of Jack and she's doing what she's doing for his team because he have means to force her. Or maybe I'm finding her too many excuses and she doesn't deserve not even half of them because even if she's a child, she's even more crazy than some of her teammates "sighs". Alright, let's continue with
Snare 13.3
Ice-cream ready? Ready. Lights on? Lights on. Funny videos I'm watching at every 5 minutes to relax my mind? Ready. Gosh, I feel like I'm still not ready yet. I mean, I'm making a huge effort reading every Mannequin Chapter and maybe some people will see this as an easy feat because I review them apparent fast, but its not. Its not easy at all. I'm wasting HOURS to review a single Mannequin Chapter because of the so many breaks I'm taking everytime when I can't bear anymore either the constantly description of this asshole, his crimes or his simple presence. I can read an entire Chapter about Bonesaw making absolute horrible and disgusting experiments on people without moving a muscle on my face, or about Cauldron torturing their subjects or about Siberian eating people at breakfast, lunch and dinner without taking 5 seconds of break from reading BUT I can't tolerate Mannequin for more than 5 minutes without feeling the uncontrollable impulse to tell myself: enough, I need some break from this torture. Because this is torture, this is horror, this is one of the few things I hate reading about in this story. Mannequin. This story would have been so much better without this mental torture represented by this fucked up character, from MY point of view. I know that Mannequin is very interesting and even fascinating for other people, but for me, his simple presence is my own literature hell. I'm gonna like Worm more when he'll disappear. And throw a real party. Alright, Mannequin EVOLVED. He turned into something better than his last version, the one who got his ass kicked by the Hive Queen (that would have been a better codename than Skitter, I think
). Soon, this bastard will become a FUCKING TRANSFORMER. Its like he's in an open competition with S9's pokemon, Crawler: the one who'll evolve the most will get a special and honorable prize -half of USA killed in his name.
Yes, Genesis, give Hive's people a helping hand. You're a good girl and I like your power quite a lot. To fight from the distance using various powered projections is one of the coolest and strongest powers someone is blessed to have. I'd like to have this power. I'd use projections to give children in the hospitals a a great time, to hold shows for children in amusement parks, to save people and animals from accidents, fire, to catch lawbreakers for the police, or just to amuse people on streets. So many possibilities.
I noticed that Skitter made a strategical mistake. By not allowing herself to appear weak in front of her people, she made a mistake. She didn't evacuated her territory for as long as S9 were staying in the City. She could have told her people to leave her territory and go to shelters, or their friends/relatives' homes and remain there for a month. I'm sure that if she'd have told them that not even heroes can defeat S9 and they should stay away from her territory for almost a month, they'd have understand her and accept her proposal. In this time she'd have continued to supply them with food and medication, sending the stuff to their shelters/homes/anywhere they're hiding. Cherish have no idea how many people Skitter have and she doesn't know anything about their identities so she couldn't find them anyway. Then, after the whole S9 nightmare ended, the people could have returned back to their homes in Hive, all of them being alive and unharmed. By not wanting to be weak, Skitter stopped thinking strategically for the sake of her people and became a bit selfish. I'd rather prefer to be weak and admit my weakness in front of everyone than to put my people's lives in danger. Of course, this doesn't mean that I'll condemn her if Mannequin will kill some of the people. Its not her fault especially since she's doing the impossible to save as many people as possible. But.... she was still pretty selfish or had a bad strategy for choosing to keep people in Hive during this Survivor game with S9.
....................................FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK................................HE HAVE A MOUTH AND HE'S LAUGHING NOW. Gooooooooooooooosh. I need to take a break....I need to take a break before LOSING MY FUCKING MINDS. Alright, back. He either drugged or gassed his victims, judging by the fact that Skitter's bugs are dying. But knowing this monster, he gassed them, he have no reason to use drugs. He's there for killing, for getting revenge on Skitter, for successfully finishing his second day of testing and for teaching Skitter a lesson about saving people. He's not there for making people addicted to drugs. So, they're dead. 6 people dead. No, Skitter, isn't your fault. Its HIS fault. Only HIS fault.
I was right about gas. He can eliminate gas from his entire body, killing everyone who enter in the contact with it. I don't like reading about people being gassed for some reasons....Anyway, Grue is injured, Bitch is injured, but was saved by Skitter and Bastard, the wolf puppy who, so far, is by Bitch's side, Lucy is dead, Genesis's projection was destroyed (Genesis should call Travelers in Undersiders' help because they're allies and they have to help each others. Both teams have interests in working together, I wonder what Mannequin would do if Sundancer will burn him to crisp. I don't think that Sundancer will hesitate to kill this fuckass. I mean, Noelle is her friend and these fuckers want to kidnap her, she should know that only brutal force mixed with a good strategy will stop them from taking her friend away from her. No negotiations neither inaction.)
So, he killed 10 of her people, not 6. Told you that my math skills STINK. When I tell you something, believe me.
Its easy, Skitter, he wants to test you and Bitch in the same time. He made Amy to see Undersiders as people who can't protect her, at least temporary, he killed Bitch's dog to make her break and become a S9 member, he killed Skitter's people to punish Skitter for taking care of her people and break her even if she's not a candidate. He's playing psychologically games with everyone, he have a great fun wrecking everyone shit. He's the biggest asshole in S9. All others are crazy criminals, but Mannequin is a jerkass crazy criminal. He's doing evil for the sake of doing evil. He have a great fun doing as much evil as possible. He's more like a generic doomsday villain than anything else.
Oh, so he might be vulnerable to his own gas. Skitter can create a huge explosion by setting Mannequin is fire. He'll go fucking BOOM and maybe be torn in so many pieces than not even the best Tinkers of Cauldron would be able to put them together against if they'd want to restore him. Call your bugs with matches and lighters in their mandibles and FINISH THIS MONSTROSITY already.
STOP being so damn naive, Skitter, He didn't destroyed your reputation, you're not responsible for the dead of those 10 people, Coil will NEVER respect you not even if you'll help him control the entire american continent, not just a city, he'll NEVER give up at Dinah, and anyone who trust this snake of a man is painful naive or just plain stupid. You're not stupid, but you're naive and almost childish, Skitter. I know you're 15 years old, but you're very mature in so many other things, so I have some expectations from you. You trust people so much and have almost zero trust in yourself (kind of opposite to me). I bet that not even Vista would ever trust someone like Coil. Now stop thinking bullshit and BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER UNTIL NOTHING WILL REMAIN WHOLE FROM HIM!
Skitter took a bulled and felt the effects of the explosion to save Grue's black ass.
As usual, Skitter going through hell for her teammates. That's the reason why Grue isn't so injured like Skitter or Tattletale. Because one of these two girls always have to suffer for him so he'll be fine. Grue, you're such a damsel in distress, everyone fighting their hardest to protect you. I said that I usually like when boys protect girls but in this story things are completely different. Girls are the ones protecting/saving the boys. FUCK YEAH, GIRL POWER, guys.
Alright, so princess Grue and his knight in dark and grey armor, Skitter, are running from Mannequin while Mannequin is getting mauled by Bastard. If only he knows that Bastard is Siberian's gift for Bitch....
THEY KICKED MANNEQUIN'S SHELL ASS AGAIN. THEY FUCKING KICKED HIS ASS AGAIN. Wow, Mannequin, aren't you tired having your ass kicked all the fucking time? I mean, come on, so far you seem like the weakest S9 member even if we both know that you're not so weak. But you suck at battle strategies. Suck so fucking bad. Which is EXCELLENT. For me and everyone who hate you with ALL THE HATE IN THE WORLD
. As for you Grue, fucking kill him, why are you hesitating? He DESERVES to die, you can't hesitate to kill a monster as evil as an Endbringer. He's not even human anymore, he's a monster, a thing who should stop existing. Gosh, Mannequin, Coil, Heartbreaker, Siberian, Crawler, Jack (well, you're handsome and overall a cool villain, but you still deserve to be killed, Jack
) are the villains that I won't have any hesitation and regret afterwards if I have to kill them. Because they're evil and dangerous villains and can't be stopped otherwise. They're not even redeemable.....And what about these random flames appearing across water? This is not Mannequin's play....fuck, don't tell me. Don't tell me that INSANE FIRE BITCH is going to help Mannequin. This is CHEATING. If Burnscar will make her appearance to help Mannequin, she's a fucking CHEATER because Jack's contract said that S9 should not help each others during each one's test.
Exactly what I was afraid of. The INSANE FIRE BITCH SHOWING HER FACE (now I feel bad because I felt pity for her during her Interlude. She's just an insane, heartless and CHEATING bitch who played perfectly the victim card in front of Labyrinth, lying that she feels any regret for her victims. She doesn't feel regrets otherwise she's have stopped helping S9 and changed the sides, helping UT against S9. In this way, she wouldn't be in danger to be killed by her teammates if she decided to suddenly stop killing. But she doesn't want to change. She LIKES her lifestyle, she likes to make people's lives miserable and especially to cheat. Labyrinth was right: there's no hope for this girl). SHE JUST SAVED MANNEQUIN, EXTENDING MY NIGHTMARE. FUCK HER, NOW SHE BECAME MY SECOND MOST HATED S9 MEMBERS. And when you think that I used to pity her.
Ok, time for Skitter & com to kick the second ass during that day. And even if they'll lose to her, Mannequin already lost both his testes because this bullshit between Burnscar and Mannequin will not count in Jack's eyes. HIS rules, after all. And two of his people already broke his rules.
Good night and sleep well, my friends.