The exiles from an enclave don’t necessarily put much distance between themselves and their old homes; they are just marked as unwelcome, and undeserving of any protection or assistance from the rest of the population.
These ones tend to be those that cause problems for the human population, so the previous Matriarch let the human population know that there wouldn’t be any hurt feelings if they decided to do something about these troublemakers.
There are believed to be at least several dozen exiles in hiding throughout the city.
One of them likes feet
Thanks as usual to Raptie for handling the character coloring and shading on this page!
Kassen seriously needs a weapon, like a stiletto or a miniature rapier.
Agreed!
Damm right she does, she used to use a flail like weapon but thats to big and long for her now. Even a dagger could be like a short sword for her now.
He does know how to use that flail-like weapon. He should consider getting a smaller version of it since it doesn’t look like it’d be hard to use as a yinglet.
Flails, and most blunt weapons for that matter, need wide, sweeping swings, which yinglet anatomy isn’t really built for. Yinglets can only really use stabbing weapons effectively.
Yeah if you put any amount of lateral force on the end of those ridiculous stilt legs/arms, arm/leg… s… you’re not going to be having any fun as the owner of the arm. There is a concept introduced in things like rock climbing classes, called breaking point. It’s the point in which any of your impromptu, rope /like/ materials are so dangerous for you, because at /first/ there’s no indication whether or not it’ll break. So you continue climbing. Eventually though, the tension slides dooooown that rope-like thing and rises, as more and more becomes under tension, increasing all active force points on the rope so far taut, and eventually when the center of force meets an imperceptible weak point from a tie zone or the middle of a shirt sheet towel etc…. SNAP.
Same concept. Even yinglet sized, a flail isn’t a good idea. Though the leverage between forearm and upper arm, and apparently developed enough shoulder ball joint, is capable of making those /motions/, in fact any swing you try to hit something and mean it?
(“All we is, is boooooones.” = “The world must burn!” Mystery solved on why?)
Kass is surprisingly pretty yinglet about being kidnapped. Though he obviously acts like a male of either species, rough rowdy and crude.
Looking at the old comics that ‘flail like weapon’ looks like a meteor hammer which while functionally pretty different to a flail would still not work terribly well with a yinglet as they lake the bodymass to counterweight it.
Greave blades it’s a blade on your shin and or foot. Gives your kicks an extra “edge”
Oddly enough, spurs would be a good weapon for yinglets, they got the ability to bounce and hop around enough to make them usefull, and spurs can be quite deadly in grapple combat. Now, I am not talking spurs like in horse gear, rather, spurs like they use for cock fighting. Metal blades that are attached to the back of the legs, close to the feet. Very dangerious. Kass could gut one of thoes yings with a set of them.
Lest anyone wonder how dangerous they really are, people HAVE actually been killed by… well, by bladed cocks.
Does that yinglet have a foot fetish?
Why giving a definite yes or no answer when it can be left to everyone’s innterpretation, am I right?
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But, yeah, maybe.
I’m more convinced by the author’s comment at the end of the info, than by what he says. Feet are okay could mean that he’d rather deal with that than any potential biting that may start to happen, or that he’s okay with this situation. Honestly I’d be more focused on that thicc luscious tail, yo, than the stilt kicks to the face, buuuuut
considering the author comment that is definitely the case. there is the fridge logic. it’s a fetish.
Wow, man! What on this-world-that-may-or-may-not-be-God’s-green-Earth-in-post-apocaliptia is wrong with that brown yinglet’s right eye in panel 7?
To his left, there appears to be a yinglet with a tooth growing through his lower cheek. Quite the cast of characters.
I notice, he also has one of those fabled double shellteeth! …………….Well, kinda.
Double/mutated pupil(s) … pupli? inda looks like they use the heavily mutated/recognizable/”unique” as the the vanguard for their operations, to take the initial damage/casualties, and allow the main low/non- mutant force to carryout cleanup and precision operations.
Very smart tactics!
Side note : I luv how straight up hardcore and in-the-moment Kass is! Commanding officer material right there!
‘s a fun timez.
When dealing with rat birds, always go for the eyes.
Love that she almost convinced his guys to let her finish ckoking him. They didn’t do anymore to Elim so he might be okay.
Dudes eye in seventh frame looks like mutation.
And the dude thst has her tail definitely like feet.
Great update! Love the action!
Well, that went pear-shaped in a hurry.
The earth is pear shape with a soft supple nipple on top.
This is what Christopher Columbus believed.
I’m serios.
With how wild this fantasy is that could actually be considered real for this world. xD
I’m inclined to agree with you.
I hope that Kass gets to use the fabled female Yinglet scream for help! That should get all sorts of people running. Maybe even Isher! (Oh poor poor Isher, you don’t get to be with handsome male Kass.)
Imagine if Yannit heard him… Murder mode engaged.
So mystery Yinglet is named Brakk, nice to know. So their are Yinglet stupid or desperate enough to kidnap a female, I’m assuming they are exiles from the enclave. I’m guessing those exiles have some sort of leader to take her back to, if not their own rival enclave. And if they are willing to kidnap a female despite the consequences from Vizlet and her enclave, not to mention house Ivenmoth then Kassie is in deep shit.
Braka’s name got first revealed on page 61, and he is apparently working for that one patriarch who was looking for those glowing artifacts and keeping secrets away from everyone.
To be DEAD BITCHES….TO BE DED BEETCHES EVERYWEAR!!!!
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I like the fact that the feet loving ying has his priorities in order
I was so taken by his sincerity that I failed to noticed the others were mutated.
Yeah, I’m actually surprised that Elim and Kass don’t have weapons. I mean, Elim is the escort, you’d think he’d get one…and Kass totally needs a poker/sticker/stabby thing.
Equip yer people, Ivanmoth!
Everyone’s asking if that ying has a foot fetish.
But does Kass have a fetish for choking people?
Yeah, she seems a little bit too into it
I think her fetish is more of a control superiority complex.
Nah, this is cold anger. When you go so far back into Berserk you are back to calm, only it’s “I need to hurt something but I am focused and have goals”.
For all the strange things that have happened, we should remember Kass is a soldier who saw action. I don’t think this is even necessarily the first time that “My friend has been stabbed, this is a problem, oh I know murder is the solution” has come up in his life.
I love that Kass’s first instinct is to go ragemode and fucking strangle the guy who stabbed his buddy. Also, Elim better not die >_>
I’m surprised that Kass hasn’t yet perfected the choke-murder, after having had so much practice.
*last page
me: kass was a soldier, he’ll be fine
*this page
me: eh… more or less
Oooh. Perhaps the exiles and mutants want their own enclave? And need women? And that’s why Braka had ‘Zat zing!”
Some poor person minding their own business and ZORT, you’re a girl-rat-bird, Ying-napped, tied up and kept in a cave popping out eggs for the next 20 years…Yikes. It’s like some kinda web-comic or something 🙂
I’m pretty sure hey work for a “Traditional” enclave where females aren’t leveraging their breeding rights into status and political power. Redcloak makes those kinds of comments all the time, and Notice how the white one in the last panel uses female as a pejorative whereas just being a female with the local yinglets gets you the title of “lady” .
It certainly looks as though it’s being used as a pejorative here, but reading back through the comic it’s kind of used where ‘woman’ would be used fairly often. I know I can personally read my own meanings into how words in text may be used. Brakka may just be a jerk and not like women? In either case, I don’t think most exiles would hold females in contempt. Perhaps as a bit elitist and unobtainable?
val your art has come a really long way dude. great perspective on that first panel! how is the wrist holding up, bc i wouldn’t want it to get anymore injured
Oh hey, 4 soon-to-be dead yinglets. Pretty sure Elim could pop 2 of their heads even with his wound (tiny weak ratbirds plus enraged human running on adrenaline high = not good things happening outside of swarms). It’s not like they can run vey quickly with a struggling thing the size of them, even between 3.
It’s even harder to run quickly with a piece of jagged metal impaled through your torso.
Agreed. Elm would have a difficult time chasing after them with that particular injury. He’s be better off calling the guard and getitng help. After all, they kidnapped not just a female, but an Ivenmoth officer.
I’m sure those tailes have to be a little on the strong side. I’m guessing thats why one of them had to hold hers. Maybe their tails are the equivalent of a strong mans arm. Hhmmmmmm….
Kass is awesome until you remember that he has a child’s voice, and probably sounds like an 8 year old girl making death threats. Then Kass is hilarious.
Just don’t tell him that.
I am reminded of the saga of tanya the evil
It seems like all the exiles have some kind of physical deformity: the short eared brown and gray one has double pupils, the yellow eyed tan one has a tooth coming out of his jaw, and the green eyed white one looks like he would be able to touch his own shoulders; what a freak!
I think Kass is thinking too much like a human here. He/she gave a sort of punch that was not very effective, if not for the thumb claw that accidentally hurt Brakka. If he/she had used his/her claws in a more animalistic way, I am sure he/she can do much more damage.
She stuck her thumb in his eye, it’s not a bad opening sally. If it had been a little more accurate she might have permanently blinded him on that side. You can also see in panel five she’s pressing her thumb claws into his jugular. I’m not sure how an unarmed yinglet could strike in a really lethal way, their claws aren’t very long and they have no arm strength. Bite the throat, I guess? Not easy, though.
This might be a good time to discover some until-now unknown self preservation abilities yinglets have, though alternatively this is an opportunity to show the lifestyles of other kinds of yinglets. So far this isn’t the lowest he could go, in fact he received a lot more social standing after the transformation, so this is likely the moment in the story where they try to break his will. We are still missing information, and are very likely to return to the hug-bug arc in a little while so that some fresh info is brought in. It might not immediately connect to any sort of rescue/escape here, but chances are high we’re looking at a cliffhanger.
They have a known, but as yet unseen self preservation ability, from Feat02 – they can give a distress call that calls all yinglets in the area to go berserker nuts. Doubly so when a female gives the call. But there’s no indication whether it works against other yinglets.
Damnnnnnn. OnO *paws at Val* more updates please. Please please. I need to know what happens next.
I would like to point out that it apparently took five of them to get Kass off of the asshole. And I was right, Kass went batshit. 😛
Well, I’m sure Brakka was always told that was always… EYE-ing the things he wanted… Maybe Kass should give Brakka an EYE-full of that tooth
I feel I should point out, Brakka’s words and actions so far show that he is assuming that he is recueing Kass, not kidnapping her. Thus why he thinks shes acting crazy for fighting him.
Hmm too bad Brakka didn’t loose his eye there…. Would have been poetic justice for his threat to Lopin.
Ha!
I know he’s/she’s not going to go quietly and will likely attract a lot of atenchion one probably Yinglet attenchion. THeir making alot of noise and he actually shouted the word female along with the impliment that this is a kidnapping. Considering Yinglets are almost everywhere and what you showed happened to that guy who accidentally stepped on a female yinglet then an army descended on him…Since Kass’s shouting…how long until other Yinglets rush in to save the female.
I have a feeling that that guy never met any Yinglet’s that agressive or violent. All things considered he seems to mostly bully most into submission having one that doesn’t stop fighting and is out for your blood will be interesting.
(Concidering their are hundreds of Yinglets in the city and only a dozzen exiles it’s very likely their will be Yinglet witnesses and the word will quickly spread. )
I’m also surprised the Matriarch won’t use that Yinglet in charge os shadow stuff to watch out incase of something like this happens all things considered Kass’s a completely indispensable asset for the Yinglet Colony. Even if he was to turn human having a human who has been a Yinglet might be able to still help teach the Colony things especially since he would likely develop an empathy with the Yinglet’s.
While choking is Kass’s MO now, it’s probably not the best choice here… I would continue going for the eye! Yinglet eyes are huuuuge. Put some claw into it, Kass!
Well color me surprised. It seems the purpose of Brakka’s little operation may have been protecting Kass.
Hmmmmm. Anyone else thinking Brakka just wants to fool Kass, as if he was a typical female, before Kass goes for the eye?
Heeeey, another yinglet attempts to unsuccessfully bamboozle Kassen, and he hits them both.
Kass really needs to control his temper though. He’s treating the rant with more importance than winning, and he needs to get himself together and find his “stubborn will” that the notable example Vizlet “admire[s].” He’s going to need it, and every ounce of the human schemer in him still.
(Hope he is strong enough for the part that comes next.)
Kass still has human anger issues. Choking the life out of assailants who monologue is fairly standard. Extra points since it followed the optimal method of sitting on their chest while doing so.
Curious lizard is curious.
Huh. Whether Brakka was either legit trying to ‘rescue’ Kass or just fool Kass into *thinking* the kidnapping is a rescue, that he tried the tactic tlls us something important.
He doesn’t know that Kass used to be human.
And if he doesn’t know that, then he doesn’t know what Zhat Zhing does, or not all of it. Otherwise he’d almost certainly think ‘Lopin has Zhat Zhing and works for Ivvenmot now, and Ivvenmot suddenly has a new she-ying nobody’s ever seen before: HRMMM’. Which makes me think that Brakka is goal-oriented, and that his goal is probably ‘get access to a female and become Patriarch of the Exiles’. Maybe he stole Zhat Zhing because he was promised a female for it. Lopin’s hard to get to now, though. But hey, there’s this other female in play outside the Enclave. If he can’t find Lopin and get Zhat Zhing back then maybe he can just call that deal a loss and scarper with *this* female.
Also, long arms means anybody grappling you has tons of leverage if they can grab on and twist. Combined with what little muscle the long arms have being fast-twitch fibers not up to powerful and *sustained* force, any effort to get free is gonna suck.