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14 . by: Botany November 25, 2017, 5:08 pm

...Not sure if you said what I did, or you're half right, or I just didn't fully convey what I was thinking when I pieced that thought back together enough to type it out. I'll have to think on it, but I don't think there's a real disagreement here. Things just get lost in translation.


...at the end of the day, I just want to confront the transgression and restore the person buried behind it in the process. Divorce one from the other. It's like that Hayao Miyazaki quote. "This idea that whenever something evil happens, someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, is hopeless."
13 . by: natoon November 25, 2017, 9:21 am

I think you may be on to something, Botany. Streaks says he's been at this "his whole life," and his motivations likely stem from that, not XX's wounding of his gonads. That just added fuel to a fire to control that was already there. However, I think he's shown an utter lack of genuine caring for anyone, that love is far beyond him. Actually, it's hard to find a genuine display of love from any characters in this story outside the courtesians - for Apple when she died, Cherry and Plum's bond, Cherry and Acai.
I don't think he conflates power with love, I think he believes power is all there is. Love doesn't exist in his reckoning or experience. Love needs trust, and Streaks trusts no one.
12 . by: November 23, 2017, 4:01 am

Ehhhhhh I think he was just an asshole grasping onto the one thing he could still have power over (his gf) after everything went wrong for him.
11 . by: Botany November 22, 2017, 8:14 pm

...Streaks had his own experiment.

As a sex worker, he endured weakness in sexual submission.

Just like Smooth, he wanted to challenge the same thing he experienced, that smooth only had a clinical understanding of. That corruptive probability of sexual encounter.


And with no way to have sex, only understanding intimacy in the way his clients had abjected him to...

He conflated love with power. And attempted to prove he could "Love" as best he understood it, without being capable of giving sexual gratification.

He was trying, in his own way, to achieve the exact same thing Smooth was. Challenging all he went through, all that Smooth couldn't imagine, to try to make the most whole and pure thing he was equipped to.

Only to find out in the worst way that he could not. In the way that only proved again what he was taught about the violence of sexual dominance and submission.

Everything before now, was him trying to go against it like Smooth.

Everything after now, is the aftermath of him succumbing to that notion that was fucked into him. Before Fig mauled him.

What he tried to make, as best as he understood it, without sex, falling down to perfectly prove him wrong.

The tragedy of the best intentions by the ill-equipped.
10 . by: Mischief May 9, 2016, 3:43 am

That longer scroll down had me flash back to Secretary for a second there...

"MY FRIEND HAD IT WHEN HE BANGED MY GIRL..."


"THE BARTENDER HAD IT WHEN HE DENIED ME A DRINK..."


"XX HAD IT WHEN SHE BIT MY JIBBLETS..."



"AND NOW... I HAVE IT... No wait... it's still gone..."
9 . by: Witticaster May 6, 2016, 6:49 pm

That much time has passed?? I'd been wondering what their living schedule was like, what with presumably jobless boyfriend not ever questioning his girlfriend's presumably changed comings and goings; do they ever even see each other??

Also: maybe the scratching is boyfriend deciding to be supportive of his partner's hobbies by taking up drawing!

Ah, who am I kidding, it's him doing something absolutely heinous I'm sure.

(Does she sleep on mushrooms? I guess that'd be soft)
8 . by: Fizz May 6, 2016, 6:26 pm

Ooh, no... that's not a good sound at all.
7 . by: May 6, 2016, 4:41 pm

Oops, sorry about the double post.
6 . by: May 6, 2016, 4:41 pm

Well the friend should be OK, unless bf can identify him through XX's ledger.
5 . by: May 6, 2016, 4:41 pm

Well the friend should be OK, unless bf can identify him through XX's ledger.
4 . by: Sleepy May 6, 2016, 4:14 pm

"There's no telling what'll happen. Because of his personality." I guess now we're going to find out what his friend meant by that.
3 . by: May 6, 2016, 3:05 pm

BF better not be screwing with her paintings or her ledger.
2 . by: May 6, 2016, 1:56 pm

Dang, the colors in this page are stunning.
1 . by: May 6, 2016, 1:26 pm

oh god, anxiety... i'm so scared he's going to destroy her earnings or something, more than anything...