Gabriel doesn't want to answer Gideon's question about someone potentially lurking in the house. I wonder why that could be.
The flashback music:
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The night I found you... in a box on my doorstep... with "please take care of my baby" written on it U_U
Gideon I think someone IS sneaking around your house and he is CURRENTLY IN THE SAME ROOM AS YOU ! ! !
Gaahhh! I'm so conflicted by this guy! Every single bit of meta understanding I have of this situation tells me this guy is a threat, but he hasn't actually done anything wrong (onscreen). Even the casual way he speaks is urging me to let it go, saying, "You're just being paranoid, relax, you can trust this guy. Come on, he's just looking out for his clearly disturbed friend. Get off his back."
This is intentional on your part, I assume.
YEPPPP you hit the nail on the head, and this is precisely why he’s so dangerous. It’s my own experience that the real monsters are the ones who make you want to let your guard down.
Finally managed to catch up with this gem. I love, love, LOVE the characters and your artwork! Your coloring is absolutely gorgeous, omg. And now I can't wait to see how things are gonna evolve. Gabriel definitely sounds creepy D: "I won't let anyone creep on you even if they somehow made it all the way out here", like... dude... that's EXACTLY what you just did? D: I also love how evertything Gabriel says sounds just like what a good friend would say... yet the way he expresses it somehow makes it sound incredibly creepy ._. I hadn't looked at the cast page when I started reading the comic, so I had no idea that he was supposed to be a negative character, BUT you managed to make his personality shine through amazingly through just a few pages. I love it :D
Wow, thank you! I had to play a delicate balancing act while writing Gabriel's character. Something had to be "off" about him without him being overtly cruel, since it also needed to be plausible that he and Gideon are close. Thank you for reading! Hope you stick around.
How can I protect you, boy, unless you always staaaaaaaaaaay in here, away, in heeeeeeere?
“I’ve been protecting you since the night I found you.”
Really sounds like something traumatic happened in Gideon’s past and it allowed…whatever the hell Gabriel is to latch onto him. And now Gabriel has helped convince him to self-isolate in some house deep in the woods with no one else around to feed off his negative emotions (as you’ve said).
What I’m wondering is if it’s some sort of fine balancing act for Gabriel. Like, he wants Gideon to be unstable, but maybe he needs him to be stable enough so as not to “break him” either. Which is why he half-heartedly tries to make Gideon feel sort of okay so he doesn’t absolutely lose it. Basically a parasite. You don’t kill the host because then the parasite dies as well.
I don’t know, just some thoughts and conjecture from me.
ooooh ooooh you're definitely on to something. It's definitely a fine balancing act for him, in that he can't kill Gideon but he also can't let anything make him happy, either. Just sorta eating his negative energy until he withers away.
“You know I’m looking out for you, right?”
Youch! That’s a line I’ve heard one too many times myself.
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