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Good ol’ red eyes yinglet. Keeping his priorities straight.
Ok question, how did a yinglet generate enough force to completely pierce through the abdomen of an in-shape human who also wore a thick cloak?
spears are remarkably effective weapons. and that doesnt look like a particularly thick cloak.
“The Ivenmoth Redcloak is purposely designed to be stiff…”
Authors words not mine.
Still, while a spear is an effective weapon, yinglets arent good craftsmen, nor do they have a lot of muscle mass. I mean maybe if he got a good running start and literally put his entire body weight behind it, id buy it.
i think it’s the latter, since it looked like he literally rammed Elim on the page when stab
Well the way Elim reacted kinda suggests to me that he didbt get rammed onto
It’s got to be toxins, venoms or sone form of biological warfare with the bad kind of numbing effect. Usually when you get stabbed right through with what looks like chipped stone, you have a much more dramatic reaction. It’s never good when there’s an exception. Yinglets are extremely light, bird bones remember? So a flying leap reminded him of a kid bumping into him. It’s not hard to grasp, a bit confusing sure maybe.
It also means a mace is an effective weapon against them, capable of sending them flying and crushing them outright. Can be familiarized to a degree where sedative, shock or dazing chemical effects can be pushed through. Elim’s not a true soldier but he has been using soldiering skills for the Ivenmoth, as seen by the first few pages. He was taught and he practices. I suspect he’s good enough to protect more than himself.
Still he’s going to be down sick longer (or nearer death) the longer he keeps this crap up, so he can’t afford a passive approach. Or at least, he’d better hope they’re impatient with him, and sloppy. Clearly either highly effective shock, a biological element, or somehow he’s used to having gut wounds. With his history with Kass that last is actually somewhat plausible. So maybe he’s faking it a bit. He did get the alley guard while he was being watched, so. Who knows?
adrenalin and shock’s a hell of a drug
If the injury is bad enough you go into shock before you feel anything. When I was a kid I snapped my arm bad enough to almost see bone and just ran to the neighbor asking to borrow some duct tape.
Stiff, not armored. As in like, starched so they don’t blow around and reveal who has armor, not that they’re anything more than a good cloth. After all they can’t be too expensive if a percentage of new recruits steal them and flee into the night.
Brakka also lunged at him at full speed with a very long piece of iron, and knows what he’s doing.
We’ve also seen that while Yinglets are very fragile, they can be very dangerous with the proper tools.
All fair points
There’s also the possibility that they are more avian than they look. Dinosaurs and modern birds have hollow bones, which made them much more oxygen efficient. Most predators also have a different kind of muscle than humans. Apes muscles contract slowly, relying on leverage and tendons to provide torque when hitting hard. Birds, reptiles, and MANY small predators have muscles that contract extremely fast (requiring more O2). A good example is how strong a buzzard’s feet are or how fast a cheetah can run.
Yinglets might be EXCELLENT at quick, stabbing motions with those weird arms.
Thank goodness he’s an idiot. Just toss a sack of weapons onto the ground and leave your martially trained prisoner unattended with it. You certainly won’t get shanked through the gut from behind.
Ooooh, now I definitely hope Kass starts a-stabbin’ them himself.
TBF, I don’t think he expects her to be martially trained. Most Yinglet females are incredibly sheltered and are stated to settle their differences with slap fights.
Ok this just occured to me. If they are so sheltered, how dod the matriarch (forgot her name) get allowed to work for humans?
Because Vizlet is remarkably manipulative, and not just ‘for a Yinglet.’
Vizlet? She doesn’t work *for* humans. She works *with* humans. Her relationship is with Viracroix himself, and while he is vastly more powerful than Vizlet, they operate, at least in theory, as equals. Back in her youth, before she was a matriarch, she managed to get permission to travel and learn from humans, but even then very likely with a large group of guards.
But anyway that’s kinda the point, Vizlet has a wider perspective than even a lot of the patriarchs because she’s traveled and learned. She’s an oddball in her own way, in a way that puts her at odds with the traditionalist faction in her own home.
AnOnimos100 is referring to her apprenticing under humans in the past. No guards were visible on that page.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if she just ran off while nobody was looking. I’d imagine a female would have to do a lot worse to be exiled from the tribe, and her new knowledge and experience would be invaluable.
They are heavily guarded. I doubt she could slip away. Though there’s the chance her guards were stupid and she convinced then to let her go.
It’d be poetic if Brakka ended up with a shank sticking out of HIS gut.
Yeah but, c’mon. Flying yinglet.
Well, now it’s time for Kass to save Elim with the power of distraction!
The one with red eyes has the right idea, why kill people you don’t even hate?
>The one with red eyes has the right idea, why kill people you don’t even hate?
You’re on to something here. What first appears to be just another Wacky Yinglet Moment reflects on what was earlier implied about Braaka’s motivations.
>you will never be a friend to dem
>you are every’ting dat’s wrong wit da species!
Think Brakka could be Kass’s first pick for a patriarch. Smart, by Yinglet standards. He’s a refugee who lost his community, like Kass did after the war, and lastly they both had their lives ruined by “Zat Zing” and want a chance to make a normal life and maybe a chance to ruin the guy who set all this in motion.
I like big whitey with the green eyes. I shall call him Sir Emerald Flufferbotham the third.
Six shanks on the ground, four yinglets, five counting the guy who just got yeeted. I hope that extra shank is a Chekhov’s Gun for Kass to swoop up.
They look more like shyvs
Shyvlets
It’d be interesting, but if the yeeted guy doesn’t get up (I doubt he will) then the shiv that would have gone to him could just serve the same purpose.
Red eyes is perfect, I love them.
Whitey is far too smug about the whole situation, I’m immediately suspicious.
I think is less smug and more off a “well this is going to shit fast…”moment kinda expression
It looked at him crosseyed.
What is that green thing he’s stabbing.
Probably whatever ivanmoths change into before they become, well, moths
damn, he hated that thing so much it made the knife evaporate in to the thing’s bloodstream.
Newp, it switched from left hand to right
Negative, the shiv has totally vanished! Maybe he accidentally threw it?
Trying to get around Elim in a somewhat narrow alleyway is not as simple as Brakka might think. That mace swings both ways and is effective in tight quarters especially considering he can essentially use the horseback forms to attack around his waist.
Want to see Brakka eat mace! Fuck’im!
Well I think their not going to expect they are now going to get attacked behind them and in front now.
I don’t know, dude, I feel like these guys are in over their heads with Elim somehow. Nothing to base that off of, except maybe years of military trading.
Naw, he’s just a farm boy who got drafted and went AWOL as soon as things went to shit. They’re still in over their heads though: you got two guys with a brotherly bond such that they’ll fight to the death for each other, up against. . . a yinglet who has no idea what he’s up against, backed by the yinglet equivalent of the three stooges.
And what’s to stop Kass from shanking Braka in the back?
And look! Convenient shivs on the ground.
So looking at this the best way to take down the Yinglet Circle would be to either single them out one at a time constantly attacking (they’re fragile enough that one good hit can down them, and while good at reactions a bull rush will break the circle or guarantee the yinglet gets hit), or pick a wall and keep them at range. Elim’s weapon lacks the range, and stabbing/slashing power so the latter is out.
Given that the goal is rescue Kass though his best bet would actually be to just give Kass an opening, and fall back into the open street. Passerby might lend assistance, and Kass has much better odds of escape if Elim can’t fend them off.
Elim should be grateful that Jass does not have a Geass power otherwise he would have been ordered to live or something to that effect
Elim’s weapon lacks range for a human, but theirs lack range for Yinglets, and he’s twice their size.
Well, Elim can probably bash in at lest one skull as Brakka is bitching about the idiot attacking the bug, and Elim might not be too steady on his feet, that does not mean hes not clear headed and able to act.
Never mind that Brakka just told Elim exactly what his plan of attack was, and stood there long enough for his patsys to snag little shanks.
Never mind that I am expecting backup to show up at any momant, Elim did have the time to send thoes kids after more guards, and from previous comics I think there are at lest a number of guards spread around the city just keeping order, so should not take long for some to show up. Your not dealing with getto brats who are just as likely to wanna sit and watch a guard die, the ivanmoth guards are from what I have seen pretty well reguarded.
lol
The right emphasys with the wrong focus guy
Initially I wasn’t really paying attention to the other four, but looking back through their scenes they all have pretty great designs and personalities. I think the one I’m most looking forward to seeing in the coming pages is the big mellow one, but the one that looks like Brak has my favorite design.
I think we all know who the best overall is though.
With ol red eye having a mutated eye, means he has a unique view of the world. 😉
I get the feeling Green Eyes is going to do something super awesome to save their own hide.
GTFO?
Or stick a shiv where the sun don’t shine. Ever heard of spies? ‘Cause thunderthighs there is giving me all __kinds__ of spy vibe.
its STABBING time
Where is Yannit when you need her? We were promised a “crushed head, very” if big bad villain comes to hurt Kass.
I agree we were promised crushed heads. However she should hold off on the caterpillar killer, he’s too awesome to crush his head.
Wow, Brakka’s thugs are so dumb and/or untrustworthy he has to hold onto their weapons for them?
They are outcasts for a reason.
Probably would harm themselves in an instant. Just look at Redeyed one!
I hope Elim leaves there alive, and I hope Brakka gets shanked by Kassie. She needs a new her sized weapon, and a shiv can work until they get her something better.
All the stabby thing that Brak thew on the ground look weird. Not all of the things are blades. One looked like a long sea shell or something. Green eyes seems to lack alot ofbthe emotions the others have. He doesn’t say a hole lot. Maybe he is just indifferent to the whole thing. Just there because he owed Brakka one. Story is getting way exciting. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
Bye the way, Brak is really cute in the firt panel.
I doubt your average Yinglet could afford a proper knife, and they don’t exactly have the fine motor skills or the patience to make their own, I mean even Kass struggled to make his Yinglet hands use a quill, and barely had the patience for it despite possessing far more than your average yinglet, and that’s just handwriting. Even if Brakka could afford one, he’d probably have a hard time finding a merchant willing to sell him one, as yinglets don’t exactly have the best reputation in the city, either.
OKAY, you do you I guess… Freaking crazy eyes is great…
at what point i wonder does a sentient creature become so stupid it becomes clinically insane
“DAmmit where did that spear dagger i had go” *looks over at the human* “oooooh right”
Can we have the panel with three yinglet dramatic faces without the bubble please?
I wonder what would happen if you grabbed a yinglet’s “antenna” eyelashes/eyebrow whisker things and yanked really hard…
There eyes go,”sproing oing oing oing”.
Mister Stabbers Hates It looks like he is killing a tomato worm.
I hate thoae things to. They always eat the best and redest tomatoes.
Thing is… Red Eye strikes me as being a little more than they seem. Note: They grabbed the best knife of the set. The only one with a handle. Two, they have managed to exclude themselves from having to engage with the tall and most likely very deadly human (injured or not) and did so in a way that none of the others are giving a second thought about.