#touchy subject

Yes, they're both important, but it feels like they're being treated as interchangeable (and it doesn't help that, again, the story from the comics was direct, and not just a metaphor).

Future Updates

Comic update: every 21 days

Art: every 5 days

Fanart: when i get a recommendation or when i get a reply from the other creator (2-4 days)

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Hi, there everyone im hoping to continue the comic and I will be posting regularly every 21 days the comic will be posted with three pages at a time. I really am happy for the likes I’ve gotten on the other comic post i did and im hoping to do more fanart to other creators. Im as an animator, im right now working in a big project for a tiktoker that i asked to use their music. Ohhh, before i forget i did get the comments to work and i can finally be able to communicate with everyone. Please don’t steal my art, the reason why I say that if because I’ve had get fear of that happens to me. If you do repost it somewhere else please give created.

Here’s an early post for y’all

I will answer this from an speculatory biology viewpoint, but still, if anybody feels like talking about mating/reproduction (even if it for fictional monsters) it's not their cup of tea, then ignore this post, I will tag it as "kaiju mating" and "touchy subject" so, blacklist the tag if you want to avoid this post or similar one in the future.

Besides that, I'm gonna try and dance around the sensors, so the language may sound funny. I for one believe it's ridiculous you can't mention things by their name even when you're speaking about biology, but the algorithm makes no distinction, so there's nothing than can be done :B

🚨🚨WARNING: mentions of reproductive systems/organs 🚨🚨

I kinda enjoy whatever headcanon authors come with for their stories, since it usually serves a purpose: for example, I have seen headcanons where Ghido does not have any reproductive system whatsoever and it works to make them feel more "alien" like (and it would make more sense if you go with the "artificial creature" origin story).

My personal one? Ghido is an intersexual individual (aka, they have both set of organs), and theoretically could reproduce on their own (asexual reproduction), they just haven't had a reason yet to try and make lil' copies of themselves haha

I like this one since it goes nicely with my fav origin story for them as being a frankenstein like creature made out of regular individuals from a normal species. Now, in real life such creature wouldn't be able to produce viable offspring, or they simply would be infertile (even with both sets of organs, the mutated mess inside would render them useless). In fact, there's a good chance they wouldn't even be able to mate 😕

BUT this is fandom territory and like any deranged stan, I love to ignore reality and daydream of them forming a cute family with Rodan... somehow, so buckle up:

How Ghido's genitalia looks like: the sky is the limit (?), again it would depend on what works best for each story. I subscribe to the "they're very snake coded" and thus, Ghido would have your regular snake set (expect is the two versions): two male appendages + hemiclitores (don't think the censor can track this one lol), and one single opening/egg sack. Also, like many reptiles, there's a chance that both sets have spikes, but it's not supposed to be painful: they act like a "lock and key" mechanism to kept a potential mate from moving away before they can finish. I know some people in monsterf*cker fandoms like to use this concept in a "if you move it will wreck your insides, blood everywhere!!", but it's more like... you physically cannot get it out until it relaxes again, lol that's it~

I personally find it amusing to imagine them having a very alien-looking set, still snake-like but well... alien/eldritch (something not even Lovecraft himself could come up with), so... our brave birb would be like: "yeah, I'm not sure I can put that on my body". I don't know if you had seen one little comic of Superman and Lois lane finding out that Clark is not that human below the waist, so yeah, pretty much that but in kaiju version. 😂😂

As for Rodan, there's like two factions at war: A) he's more bird than lizard and thus, he does not have a male appendage (about 97% of male birds don't have one) and he would reproduce only through a "cloacal kiss" (believe it or not, that's how it's called). I personally don't like this one... but that's because I still have a bad aftertaste from a fic that used this headcanon :/

The other one, B) is that he's more lizard than bird (at least on this aspect) and then he does have one or two, and it's probably spiky (Rodan's body is spiky anyways? so it tracks...). Again, it would depend of the story and obvs if you're trying to write/draw regular risqué yaoi with them, then this path is the easiest one/more familiar.

Fun fact about most bird and reptiles, and even fish or amphibians: in males, their family jewels are inside their bodies. Actually, mammals are the weird ones since we're the only group who need to have them outside the main body to avoid trouble with internal heat damaging the male reproductive cells 🤓 so, I suppose this also applies to Ghido... Rodan however could be an exception to this rule since his body is already insanely hot... but who knows how the biology of a giant magma pterosaur would work?

As for how these two could mate, I dunno... with lots of practice and being veeery careful? (Ghido would squeeze their poor boyfriend the first 10 times as they tried to maneuver around, I'm sure of that).

🚨WARNING: talk about eggs/reproduction. It's minimal, and only my silly headcanons on how they can have kids, but I will leave that division just in case.

I like to headcanon Ghido as the "mama"; aka, the one who lays the eggs or does the live birth. I like the concept of a viviparous Ghidorah tho, purely for the amusement of seeing a very confused/horrified Rodan and because a space fearing kaiju would benefit more from that system than a regular nest with eggs). Ghido as the mama would also make more "sense" if you go with the "intersexual" alien headcanon...

BUT Rodan laying a giant egg Kiwi style is so funny I can't get myself to pass it up hahaha 🤣🤣🤣 specially if he pulls a Morticia and looks somewhat normal (just more round?) and pretty calm, and a literal second later the poor guy is sitting atop an EGG™ nearly as big as him lol is so silly, I'm sorry haha

As for how this second scenario would work?... magic!, Idk haha

It could be that Rodan's species is asexual too, or that kaijus in general can pull that up if their population is very low (kinda like the Clownfish!) or... there's also the body horror/eldritch route: Ghido can alter the biology of creatures he mates with (since there's only of them, their organism came up with a way to engage in reproductive parasitism to make more Ghidos), akin to a virus... (we don't think of the implications 💀 and just enjoy the Rodorah babies and hope the birb is ok). I f*cking hate with a passion Aliens/chestbursters so, I'm more inclined of see it as Ghidorah making Rodan more... Ghido-like, so he becomes compatible enough to reproduce with them, without risk.

I want do a whole separated thing to talk about my headcanons for how they will deal with the pregnancy, and the later incubation of the eggs or live young~ I know, however, that some people feel icky about those topics due to trauma, etc... so I don't know :/

one of my ideas is for demon!rengoku to watch akaza choose koyuki over him and willingly losing even though it was rengoku who got him to process his emotions rather than just channeling them into fighting. the vibe is less celebratory like brick by brick by say now and more grief like touchy subject by peach prc.

was this idea motivated by me watching 2 out of my 3 exes move on and get into new relationships which resulted in a very long bpd episode i'm still in? absolutely

Firstly, this episode will not feature a score for humor. While they're are jokes here and there, they are so few and far between it'd completely tank the overall ranking if I added it. This was not meant to be rated based on humor.

Also, reviewing this episode is going to be dicey so please take this on especially with a grain of salt. I know near nothing about what people irl go through with the trauma of Sexual assault/abuse, so I would normally absolutely steer clear of this kind of topic. However with an episode like I will inevitably have to bring it up, and I know this is probably going to sound extremely tone deaf. I'm so sorry. Please don't take this too personally.

Plot: This is the first episode so far with a plot that isn't central to the hotel. The place is shown in a couple scenes and Charlie still brings it up, but it is only a secondary element here. 

After Angel Dust is called up by Val for a sudden shoot midway through the hotel activities for the umpteenth time, Charlie decides to follow him to his work to see if she can negotiate him getting pulled away from her business less. However it backfires painfully, as Val assumes Angel D hired her as a means to get out of his contract with him. After she overhears the two in a dressing room an nearly assaults Val, Angel is forced to personally kick her out of the place and is punished with long "work" hours so excessive he's a wreck by the time he returns to the hotel. Husk is forced by her and Vaggie to go after him when he storms out from a particularly bad argument, and ends up intervening with him letting himself get drugged by a gang. The two end up talking it out in the streets before slaughtering the gang and returning to the titular building together. 

I was dreading watching this days in advance. I was well aware of what I was getting into before I started. Overall this gets a 10/10. I'm never watching this again.

Characters: This is the first episode to have the focus entirely on Angel Dust. He was already shown to have issues in episode 2, and this just shows that what you saw back there was just the tip of the iceberg. 

In the beginning of the episode he acts the way you'd expect. He'd brought one of his "better" recent porn flicks to a show and tell, and tries to flirt with Husk who was not putting up with him. However, his entire demeanor changes the second he gets the phone call. He stammers frequently to the other person and his confidence seems to drop significantly, which is an immediate giveaway to who had called him. He pulls himself together as he's leaving and is actively dismissive of Charlie trying to convince him not to go, because he knows when he's called up it's non-negotiable for him. He already wasn't on his boss's good graces as is with him moving into the hotel, so he was already on thing ice by that point and he didn't want to make things worse for himself. This would most definitely not be the first time a situation like that had happened. 

What was supposed to be an average shooting day was quick derailed when Charlie abruptly showed up. When Angel D notices she's there, he panics and is holding it together less while trying to take part in the filming as normal with her around. Albeit still scummy with him trying to rope her into his business, Valentino puts on a less aggressive front with her around knowing that if he tried to attack the daughter of Lucifer she'd completely decimate him. When the shoot continues to go wrong to the point of the set getting set ablaze, he finds himself unable to keep the facade much long and pulls Angel Dust aside in the latter's dressing room.

What comes next is what I consider to be the most uncomfortable stretch of the episode. When the two are alone, Val physically manhandles and assaults Angel D while reprimanding him for Charlie's interferences, the former having assumed she was the latter's way of trying to get out of their deal. Angel tries over and over to explain that it wasn't the case, but his words fall on deaf ears. He is left chained and in his grasp, his voice barely higher than a mumble. He probably knew this might happen the second he saw her, and yet every time it hurt to feel himself get emotionally beaten down. His work is extended to an exhausting degree, leaving him barely keeping up his facade in front of the camera and he's pushed to his physical limits for at least hours. It doesn't help that it's implied he was raped off camera at least once during this period of time. He ends up physically collapsing twice afterwards- first on a balcony and again at the hotel's bar. 

The worst part is simply that this isn't the first time any of this has happened. This isn't the first time. It's never explicitly stated how long Angel had been under contract of Val, but from the looks of it it'd have to be at least years or so. He had been broken down over and over that his facade is less of the mask of an actor and more of a legitimate self defense mechanism. The second someone like Husk initially tries to call him out on the fact that the personality he puts on in public is fake he snaps at him. When Charlie realizes what is happening from overhearing a conversation and tries to assault Val in order to intervene, he is forced to step in her way and shut down her attempts. He had been in a mental low point for however long and no amount of reprieve like drinking himself half to death with a gang he was well aware would try to drug him or the hotel's attempts at being a support system to him would be enough for a quick emotional fix. The only thing that came close to helping was to be able to truly open up and vent to someone who'd just listen and understand the position he was in.

This is also the first episode to put any amount of extended attention on Husk. Up until that point he was relegated as a side character who made blunt remarks. He mentions early on that he's got a general idea of his peers' emotional troubles from working with them, which is why he calls bullshit on Angel's facade multiple times When the second argument between the two causes the latter to storm off into a bar, he is initially reluctant to go after him. However he ends up going anyways after being pressured by Charlie and Vaggie, and stops him from getting roofied by a gang of sharks. Angel D snaps at him yet again because knew very well they were trying to drug him but just didn't care, and Husk calls him out yet again. And yet things are different- the former's retort becomes too personal and the latter catches on to why he acts the way he does. He discloses that he used to be among the ranks of an overlord as was heavily involved in gambling, until one bad bet too many caused him to end up under a binding contract with Alastor. The two come to an understanding with each other's struggles before returning to the titular location much less tense. The fact that Husk was a gambler at least partially contributed his affinity with reading others- games like that involve being able to read what your opponents are thinking so you know what kind of move they may have and how to counteract it.

By the way I don't really see Husk and Angel Dust as a couple. They're more like siblings or a found family duo.

The general character writing gets a 9.5/10. It loses points for small hiccups like Charlie feeling slightly more naive than usual and Valentino getting away with his acts completely scott-free, but otherwise this is the driving aspect behind the episode. 

Songs: 

Poison is an 8/10. This is viscerally uncomfortable, but that's the point of the song.

Loser Baby is a 9/10. A nice jazz duet between Husk and Angel D that's a reprieve from everything that happened before. 

Both songs have an average of 8.5/10. Despite everything this is a solid soundtrack. 

Overall:

10+9.5+8.5= 28/30

28/30= 93.33%, making the episode an A tier.