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One more trick up her sleeve.
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APOC
A Supernatural Webcomic
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why do bad things happen to good people.
Well, at least it advances the plot, but. as I said, I LIKED Max….
Apologies! I’m afraid not everyone is coming out of this story alive. Also I have a terrible habit of writing my side characters better than my main ones sometimes, and then *this* happens. xD
Heh, I wouldn’t say “better”, but I would say “to the same degree” of development as the main characters. 🙂
Drama demands uncertainty. If you know that a character is safe from harm, it takes a lot of the punch out of the narrative. Don’t worry about me–I know good writing when I see it, and I see it here. 🙂
+1
I like it. It’s dramatic and suspenseful and it takes away that certainty that our hero’s are all ‘ok’ and protected by fate’s mantle. Now the danger has a bit more bite and we’re a bit more emotionally involved in our vulnerable hero’s.
Also, this is a nice bittersweet moment – character development is happening, this is a formative moment for both our APOC’s, and Max is being such a force for good in his final moments that it hurts even more to say goodbye to him.
Excellent writing and art <3
Most of us seem to deserve a loving final stroke at the end to avoid a more painful end. This page has touched me deeply, in areas involving such decisions.
I would be more okay with this if it were clear it was their only option, their last resort after all else had failed. But this seems like it’s their *first* resort. They didn’t even try putting pressure on the wound! Hell, maybe Rob’s fire could cauterize it!
Writing this one out, it was the combination of a lack of time to deal with the situation (an unstable building structure) and that neither Clara or Rob have demonstrated any skills in first aid or basic care throughout the story, despite their hearts being in the right place. Cauterizing the wound could have been an option, but I’d bet money on Robert being too heavy-handed (or heavy-headed, if we would stick his fire head into it xD).
Coming back to read this after Clara got the room.
Euthenasia at his request would only make sense if they were not able to carry him out and it was either this or getting crushed/burned/choked alive. There’s no real compromise to the airway, breathing, or cardiovascular system (that is, blood loss is hardly bad enough) if you can stay awake, alert, oriented, and talk in complete logical sentences.
He wasn’t trapped under an unmovable concrete debris. Just taped to a chair with a knife for cutting said tape handy and available. Heck, they could have easily two-man carried him, with the chair, out.