#thresher

pixie dust thresher shark

Decided to do some more art in this style, which is a good excuse to draw some of my favorite comic cats :3

I don’t consider him a cartoon villain, but I don’t think that means he has redemptive qualities either.

He loves his family and he wants to protect The Family from starvation, these are his best traits, these things do not redeem him.

He is cruel, but his cruelty is not his motivation. He is using the Daisys as his scapegoat for the famine he helped contribute to. He’s not drowning kittens for the fun of it, he is trying to balance his contributions to the problem.

Thresher is full of self loathing for his actions, we see his thoughts about it multiple times. But he is selfish, and he will do evil things without blinking if it means the famine won’t wipe out The Family.

I dont think he started at 100% at hating the Daisys. I think once he realized he could scapegoat them he leaned progressively harder and harder into calling them heretics and taking out his frustrations on them. He needs everyone else to see them as the problem to justify himself, and I think he’s been doing this so dutifully that he has convinced himself of their wickedness.

His actions have been ramping up from his first chapter. His home is dying. He knows he largely contributed. And he can’t fix it. So he does the easiest thing; he blames a group of cats who don’t really have the means to defend themselves from his vitriol. He takes his frustrations out on cats he can win against. He tries to manipulate other cats into seeing them as the problem.

thresher is out! and as expected we were all wrong and, far from being untrustworthy, Hercules is probably the most honest person on the Thresher team so far, save maybe Val.

which also means at high risk of death in a candela obscura system. i'm nervous for next week, y'all, not gonna lie. this is what i love about short runs and the candela system in particular -- the stakes are always high and any character can croak pretty much any time.