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2020-04-03

by shaenon on April 3, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Robert Nowall
    April 3, 2020, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Someone needs a less frightening hobby…

    • K. Iceclaw
      April 3, 2020, 10:06 am | # | Reply

      Anyone else, I’d be frightened. But this is Unity, so I’m just amused.

      • D. Walker
        April 3, 2020, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, nothing frightening about the military nanobot superweapon who has literally killed and eaten the brains of innocent minor characters who lacked Plot Armor on a whim, and who also becomes a psychopathically detached and emotionless supergenius when she eats enough brains.

        I mean, she can only infest you and hijack your body on a whim and has the moral compass of a hyperactive five year old! What’s to be afraid of? As long as her mentally unstable talking dog mother / lover is around to tell her not to eat her own friends / the people she works with, everything is fine!

        And even when she’s not under direct supervision, it’s not like she’d infest and effectively mind-rape someone, even if she didn’t like them, right? Someone, like, say… the very mad scientist who created her, Dr. Lee? I mean, sure… it did happen that ONE time, but they’re totally cool now! What’s a little body invasion and hostile mind probing between friends?

        • awgiedawgie
          April 3, 2020, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

          You say that as if she took over Virginia’s body against her will.

          Sure, the thought of it was terrifying, but Virginia knew it had to be done, and willingly went through it. After all, once Unity’s “essence” was drained and ready to be injected, Virginia had to actually inject it herself.

          • D. Walker
            April 4, 2020, 12:29 am | #

            If you go back to the actual strips in question, it’s clear Virginia is NOT okay with things, and that she’s being coerced.

            http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-842/
            http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-843/

            Remember that Unity -literally tried to kill her- earlier in that chapter. Multiple times! She only failed because of the failsafe conditioning Virginia put in her.

            Virginia only “knew it had to be done” because she was on a botched mission for Anasigma, who also were coercing her with threat of death! If she refused to cooperate, she was going to have both A-Sig and Unity trying to kill her.

            If Virginia was being coerced to have sex under threat of death, you’d clearly label that rape. But you’re trying to tell me that coerced possession under threat of death isn’t comparable?

            I call bullshit.

            Oh, let’s not forget that a little later in the chapter, Unity tricks Tigerlily into signing a contract that secretly obligates her to engage in a dual over the castle, but that also obligates the loser to kiss the winner on the lips.

            http://skin-horse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2011-12-26which_point_she.jpg

            …meaning whether she wins or loses, Tigerlily still has to perform an intimate act with Unity regardless of consent.

            Oh, and Unity does this while possessing Virginia’s body. She’d held captive in her own mind, unable to control her own body, unable to protest what is done to her body.

            And in the aftermath Virginia makes it perfectly clear that she resents what was forced upon her.

            http://skin-horse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2012-01-25turned_out_to.jpg

            So yeah… not, I really have no clue what else to call that besides body invasion and mind-rape.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 4, 2020, 8:07 pm | #

            You know what? I’m not having this discussion with you. You see things the way you see them, and nothing I could possibly say would change your opinion. So I’m not going to bother.

        • Pygar
          April 4, 2020, 12:35 am | # | Reply

          Perhaps Unity, like the Joker, is fully aware of being fictional. I forget which Batman issue it was. IIRC he tried to turn the next page- didn’t work though.

  2. David B Huber
    April 3, 2020, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Someone is disturbed. I hope it’s me.

    • D. Walker
      April 3, 2020, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

      “I won’t disturb you with the details, because they would-”
      “What?”
      “Disturb you.”

  3. palenoue
    April 3, 2020, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Someone is going to win at Twister.

    • David B Huber
      April 3, 2020, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      Bravo!

  4. BMunro
    April 3, 2020, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Speaking of Herbert West…

    Now, does Unity now have her own remote control body, or do we have _two_ Unities, one a headless many-limbed abomination?

    • Shadowmehr
      April 3, 2020, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      One mind, two bodies, just like when she defeated Tigerlily at the Abbey of Notaries.

  5. awgiedawgie
    April 3, 2020, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Of course the big question is whether Unity completed a body for her head to sit on before she went and made Junior there.

    • nebulousrikulau
      April 3, 2020, 5:30 am | # | Reply

      I’m trying to assume that we’re just being protected from the maddening sight of UNITY’s newly formed, totally naked body.
      There weren’t any clothes there, just parts.

      • Shadowmehr
        April 3, 2020, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

        Ouch. I think I just hurt something trying not to imagine that.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 3, 2020, 8:37 pm | # | Reply

        I’m sure the Queen would gladly offer Unity some clothing, even it that just means ordering one of her subjects to offer Unity some clothing.

  6. Dave
    April 3, 2020, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    So is Unity now Optimus Prime? She controls a “cab” and a “trailer” simultaneously?

    • Robert Nowall
      April 3, 2020, 1:05 am | # | Reply

      Nick can control a “meat sack” and a “helicopter.” Unity could have the knack, too.

      • BMunro
        April 3, 2020, 2:35 am | # | Reply

        Well, it’s better than the alternative (See my earlier comment)

        • awgiedawgie
          April 3, 2020, 2:39 am | # | Reply

          The two possibilities are not mutually exclusive.

          Just because it’s a “headless many-limbed abomination” doesn’t mean she’s not controlling it.

          And just because she is controlling it doesn’t mean it’s not a “headless many-limbed abomination”

          • Robert Nowall
            April 3, 2020, 8:34 am | #

            “Abomination” pretty much describes most of the Skin-Horse client list. What’s one more nightmare-inducing creature?

    • casimir
      April 3, 2020, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      Better make that Octopus Prime.

  7. David B Huber
    April 3, 2020, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    I’m curious how OneUniverse knew about the 4 legs and 6 arms??

    • awgiedawgie
      April 3, 2020, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      My first thought is “they didn’t,” since I only see 6 limbs altogether (7 if you count the foot on top where a head should be).

      • jdreyfuss
        April 3, 2020, 7:49 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, I’m seeing 3 legs and 3 arms (and only 2 hands), plus the foot-head.

      • casimir
        April 3, 2020, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, a wild-ass guess since we never saw the complete contents of Remy’s sack. Plus we’ve only had a head shot of Unity in panels 3 & 4.
        Who knows what manner of creature she has devised for herself?

  8. thejoemoose
    April 3, 2020, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    I’m certain this is a Chekhov’s Gun loaded and waiting…

    • awgiedawgie
      April 3, 2020, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

      Sort of like the Idaho trip.

  9. jdreyfuss
    April 3, 2020, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    I dub thee Unity Spider

    • awgiedawgie
      April 3, 2020, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

      But with only 6 limbs, wouldn’t it be an insect of some kind, rather than a spider?

      • Robert Nowall
        April 3, 2020, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

        Seven, if you count the foot stuck on the top.

        • s854
          April 4, 2020, 11:02 pm | # | Reply

          Seven? In that case, it’s a spider. Give or take a few hundred million years of evolution, anyway.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 4, 2020, 11:51 am | # | Reply

        I’d have to look up what insects have their legs in a roughly radial pattern like that.

  10. Robert Nowall
    April 3, 2020, 8:33 am | # | Reply

    If the four of them double date, who pairs up with who?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 3, 2020, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

      I would think it’s a given that Unity and Sweetheart are together, so Remy gets to entertain the abomination.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 3, 2020, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

        Perhaps someone else in their social circle could date Mme. A-Bom-Ination. Queen Elena? Leo?

        • awgiedawgie
          April 4, 2020, 11:28 am | # | Reply

          Considering that the conversation was basically between Sweetheart and Remy, with the occasional interjections from Unity, I thought it was also a given that Remy was the other party.

          • Robert Nowall
            April 4, 2020, 5:44 pm | #

            Okay, then. Remy dates Sweetheart and Unity dates The Abomination.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 4, 2020, 6:59 pm | #

            For heaven’s sake, Sweetheart prefers girls!

            (And besides, if Unity dated The Abomination, she would basically be dating herself.)

    • BMunro
      April 3, 2020, 11:07 pm | # | Reply

      If they’re both the same Unity, isn’t it more two-timing than a double date?

  11. DarknessShallFall
    April 5, 2020, 2:55 am | # | Reply

    Unity just discovered the man spider. It might not be poisonous, but its hungry for destruction and is pretty hideous.

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