#humanoid abomination

"I'm human." The Boss said precisely once and seemed proud of it.

But the older boy can use magic so maybe he's mixed like Ton thinks and maybe he just favors the human half of his heritage more than the sorcerer half. Which makes sense, Saji does not think that the Boss likes sorcerers much at all. well, doesn't like them as much other than food that is. Saji watches the way that the Boss is distant from them only really interacting when he wants something. Looking through them like they aren't people at all but some kind of weird bugs. It gives Saji the willies.

Unfortunately, Saji can't bring himself to try and get the group to leave. With the Boss around their lives are better than they have been… ever. Certainly the best few months they've had in years. They have enough money to eat every day, sometimes multiple times a day. They can pay for a room at motels and take showers and have a bed to sleep on. It's so much better than having to sleep on the streets. With the Boss around they don't have to constantly look over their shoulder worried about getting snatched and sold or experimented on. It wasn't even this safe or this good at the orphanage before Saji'd been kicked out for being too old and useless.

The others have all sorts of theories about why the Boss hunts elite sorcerers and given that the Boss never explains anything about himself or his intentions… none of the theories have been contradicted. But the rest of the guys are young, [years younger than Saji and he winces at that, he's surrounded by babies with no one he can go to for help…] and they might be a bit naive. Or at least a bit too optimistic.

Saji thinks that the Boss might actually be a monster of some kind.

He doesn't know much about humans but he's pretty sure that that normal humans don't crack open at the base of their neck or on their chest in their sleep where black goo leaks out. Sometimes with weird tubes peaking out as well. Whatever the 'Gwon' thing is that the Boss does… it's not magic either. At least not any kind of magic he's ever heard of or seen before. There's no smoke at all, just a deep sound that seems to come from deep in the Boss's gut whenever he's too close to the older boy when he does it. [If Ton calls it a fart one more time, Saji's gonna make Ton join his and Ushishimada's daily jogs.]

Also the Boss eats people.

The face was familiar, though the size of it was not, nor was the number of eyes, the chelicerae protruding from his jawline, the sharpness of his canines or the number of arms. Speaking of his arms and indeed his limbs in general not only were they larger but proportionately they had elongated to the border of grotesque but merely the border as if Bastion were fighting to maintain some semblance of the illusion of humanity in her presence. That illusion was already well and truly lost, because the being before her was not merely huge and grotesquely proportioned but it’s movements were more like a spider than a man.

“Do not run Ida.” The creature cautioned, in that all too familiar, ever gentle voice, albeit this time with the disturbing addition of distorted reverberations, as though the same voice were overlapping with itself, just slightly out of sync and speaking at both higher and lower frequencies at intervals.

“If you run, I will most definitely chase you and I fear even with our agreement, I will not be able to control myself”

“Are you going to eat me Bastion?” She asked carefully, after all, when dealing with inhumanity, it never hurt to clarify, for all she knew he was simply warning her away from a more painful death, not warning her away from the prospect of death in its entirety, in which case, she was in fact going to have to run.

He laughed and despite the distortion there was something quite deprecating about it. “As much as I would love to, in this particular instance I am in fact trying to behave myself, come here Ida.”

Naturally she stayed where she was. He huffed at her. “Yes I realise it seems counterproductive, but please come to me” There was a note of desperation in his voice and after taking the correct amount of time to assess if this was a ploy, Ida took pity on him, moving towards the hulking thing before her, though even she wasn’t quite sure how she managed to cross the distance.

Multiple arms wrapped around her, the embrace was warm and oddly gentle but there was an undercurrent of strength to it and Ida held no illusions about her chances of breaking free should he not want her to. He buried his face in the crook of her neck and sighed. Honestly at this size he was a little heavy but the way he seemed to sag with relief as he held her, made her feel obliged to weather through it with dignity.

“Apologies Ida, I did not think they would be so brazen as to attack you while you were under my protection. It was terribly rude and I am quite upset with them.”

Oz Yellow

I completely forgot I haven’t finished him until I remember this afternoon. Guys I really need some cash to buy new PC, I have been struggling for past few days, my laptop is running really slow and imagines every brush stroke you need to wait for around 10 seconds literally.  so if you want to support me by Commission me, please feel free to email me. Thank You.

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Like, he’s this unsettlingly uncanny-valley “perfectly normal” human in a land of monsters who wants us to bring our son to him, so it was expected that he would be the most terrifying evil of all...

Only for us to find out he has a shockingly sympathetic motive and genuinely wants to do best by his patients and the Hospital.

So, even the one thing we were expecting to be truly evil by its sheer aberrance even amongst aberrances still was ultimately sympathetic.