Bloody Loon
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- Posted: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:12:01 +0000
It's old, from a few years ago, because I don't have a lot of energy for big projects due to illness, it never got finished.
It never got a whole lot of eyes, and I've always been pretty proud of it, so I would love this community's opinion on it.
Kahra
Info on story
It never got a whole lot of eyes, and I've always been pretty proud of it, so I would love this community's opinion on it.
Kahra
Info on story
The idea behind Kahra was to try to explore an intellectual girl's response to a high school life which she has become utterly disillusioned with. Kahra wants to be able to be free, and is instead trapped within a spiral of negativity. She wishes power to come into herself at the end of page 4, and that page extends to another sequence of her getting out of bed, strangely more alive. She realizes that she now has the ability to emotionally manipulate those around her, and the ability to read what those emotions are.
Kahra is encountered by her friend, Margeret after this discovery. Margeret was playing Hooky yesterday with her new boyfriend. Margeret had grown distant from Kahra in the years past, and so Kahra uses her newfound power to shift Margeret away from talking about her boyfriend, and manipulate her emotions so that she would pay attention to Kahra. This works, and Margeret latches hold of Kahra, just like she wanted. As she goes to school, she begins to make everyone around her think she is wonderful. She is in bliss, this was exactly what she wanted. She begins to revel in this newfound power, slowly but surely turning her high school into worshipping her religiously.
In the process of doing this, and through the empathetic bonds Kahra must share with her manipulated puppets, she realizes the feelings of being pushed and pulled by emotional forces. It's very familiar, but she can't place it. The monsters from her heart begin spilling out into the emotional cores of the ones she's manipulated, their own ever-increasing pain entering hers, and she begins becoming overwhelmed with all of the darkness surrounding her.
Kahra begins going mad in the solitude she has created where all is revealed to her, while she has no respect for anyone around her, due to them essentially being her puppets. In this madness she begins playing with the emotions of those around her, causing them to descend into a brutal, chaotic society, which Kahra begins reveling in, because she cannot face the thought that she caused all of this pain.
In the depths of Kahra's depraved, yet tortured insanity, she becomes so completely and utterly alone, she uses her powers on herself to just make it go away, and she is washed with an overwhelming sense of sadness and hope, because the dark mental barriers she created in her mind stopped her from feeling the true nature of her power, which was to love every single living being. She recognizes the desperate efforts of the scared little girl inside of her, who just wanted to be loved, accepts it, and moves on. Kahra begins to see the emotions of the world around her, in the trees, in the work to make the houses, in the effort of people just trying to feed themselves and struggle on in a hard world. She understands that every single thing in the world is connected, her to them, them to her, and her powers were just an extension of that basic human quality: Empathy.
Kahra walks over to her best friend, who she turned into her servant throughout this all, who had been the brunt of all her physical hostility, turns to her sobbing, and hugs her, using her power to create genuine personal trust and forgiveness back into the heart of her only friend. She then goes about restoring everyone's humanity and love to them, accepting and enduring the punishments they give to her. After Kahra fixes the problems of the people she hurt, she leaves, to heal hearts as hurt as hers, as that sadness is not mandatory. [end]
Kahra is encountered by her friend, Margeret after this discovery. Margeret was playing Hooky yesterday with her new boyfriend. Margeret had grown distant from Kahra in the years past, and so Kahra uses her newfound power to shift Margeret away from talking about her boyfriend, and manipulate her emotions so that she would pay attention to Kahra. This works, and Margeret latches hold of Kahra, just like she wanted. As she goes to school, she begins to make everyone around her think she is wonderful. She is in bliss, this was exactly what she wanted. She begins to revel in this newfound power, slowly but surely turning her high school into worshipping her religiously.
In the process of doing this, and through the empathetic bonds Kahra must share with her manipulated puppets, she realizes the feelings of being pushed and pulled by emotional forces. It's very familiar, but she can't place it. The monsters from her heart begin spilling out into the emotional cores of the ones she's manipulated, their own ever-increasing pain entering hers, and she begins becoming overwhelmed with all of the darkness surrounding her.
Kahra begins going mad in the solitude she has created where all is revealed to her, while she has no respect for anyone around her, due to them essentially being her puppets. In this madness she begins playing with the emotions of those around her, causing them to descend into a brutal, chaotic society, which Kahra begins reveling in, because she cannot face the thought that she caused all of this pain.
In the depths of Kahra's depraved, yet tortured insanity, she becomes so completely and utterly alone, she uses her powers on herself to just make it go away, and she is washed with an overwhelming sense of sadness and hope, because the dark mental barriers she created in her mind stopped her from feeling the true nature of her power, which was to love every single living being. She recognizes the desperate efforts of the scared little girl inside of her, who just wanted to be loved, accepts it, and moves on. Kahra begins to see the emotions of the world around her, in the trees, in the work to make the houses, in the effort of people just trying to feed themselves and struggle on in a hard world. She understands that every single thing in the world is connected, her to them, them to her, and her powers were just an extension of that basic human quality: Empathy.
Kahra walks over to her best friend, who she turned into her servant throughout this all, who had been the brunt of all her physical hostility, turns to her sobbing, and hugs her, using her power to create genuine personal trust and forgiveness back into the heart of her only friend. She then goes about restoring everyone's humanity and love to them, accepting and enduring the punishments they give to her. After Kahra fixes the problems of the people she hurt, she leaves, to heal hearts as hurt as hers, as that sadness is not mandatory. [end]