November 2nd, 2018
2 Nov 2018 · page 847 of 1306
Let's get into it, then.
Cast: Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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He's going to be suggesting a way to sever a person's connection to their spirit isn't he? No wonder they wanted to prevent the idea spreading!
Either that or his work would allow for somebody to take away a spirit from a "patient" and put a different one in its place. Which would also have horrendous implications.
Did he summon his own humility and stab it?
As proof of concept? Which would make horrific sense, and also explain why he's being hanged for crimes against magic. There probably isn't an actual law that would let them hang him for murdering a spirit.
Spirits are people too!
Mr. Luxuria would like to register his indignant outrage at this libel, sir.
Great, I made myself imagine Luxuria in court with the spirit of Umbrage acting as its attorney.
"How DARE you? My client couldn't POSSIBLY be GUILTY! I am SHOCKED and HORRIFIED at your accusations of uh... WHATEVER he's accused of! HOW DARE YOU SIR."
Lux: head in hands "I'm getting my head chopped off again.
This needs fan art!
I imagine Umbrage as the ultimate stuffed shirt. Huge puffed up chest, grouchy face, and a casper-the-ghost tail because there's nothing to him but hot air.
If his friends wish to call on me, they can find me in the Jägerhall in Mechanicsburg.
Where they can take my hat if they are sneaky.
I do wonder what the law's opinion is of that, in this universe.
Heh. Maybe that's what all the people who were suffragettes in our world will be doing in the Widdershins universe: advocating rights for spirits.
Mal said [you can't destroy a spirit](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-8th-2018/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-8th-2018/"), though.
Strangled it in the cradle, rather. It couldn't have been that developed.
I've wondered about this, how much of a persons spirit emotion is individual to them? We've seen there's one epitome of certain spirits, like, would a person trying to talk to their own greed as a conduit get THE Greed, or just their own version?
Phasmia-psychiatry it'll be, then
If not phasmia-surgery.
I suspect that it might be phasmia-vivisection, in his case.
phasmia-NLP? Phasmia-CBT?
Well, we have seen a grey "person's spirit" on the cover of ch2: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/no-rest-for-the-wicked/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/no-rest-for-the-wicked/")
I have thought it's depression, and it seems it is.
This is unrelated, but I like your new icon!
I love the style of this ad!
That's the Kickstarter add-on sorted then.
Dude, stop being so happy
Ohh, good point. Has he (in line with SpitefulFox's suggestion) done something Forbidden to himself that's caused his demeanour here? Replaced his own fear or self-doubt with something more buoyant?
Will we see his previous state in a flashback?
Ooh! Maybe he's transplanted his own drama demon into Doctor Flack!
Well, this idea seems even more appropriate as that comment of Kate about this chapter replied at someone's comment about a therapy Ben can use. :)
Nah. This guy's just an arrogant wassock and has been all his life.
Vould it help?
He might well have sliced and diced his Sadness. Not to mention poor Conscience. :/
Is that an artist's impression of Doctor Flack? If so, the artist caught (or imagined) her in a much more professional and less dramatic mode than we've seen.
The patient or the therapist? Given that this looks like a poster or a newspaper ad or something, I'd wager they are just people the artist made up for the purposes of the drawing.
The therapist. She has about the same hairstyle and the bows on her skirt look similar (though there were a lot more of them when we saw her). No fan though!
At first I was wondering how the artist who drew this ad knew what a person's spirit looks like, since Mal's the only one who can see them normally, but then I remembered that a properly-summoned spirit (as opposed to a buggerup) is visible to everyone. I guess that goes for the spirits attached to people too.
Especially if you're just summoning them forth to talk about the individual in question. As opposed to doing some distinct-from-the-conduit task (eg, "go fight the giant blob monster upstairs"). "We don't just need Grief, we need Grief as it pertains to this woman specifically."
Wee, no wonder he's up for execution. He tried to market his fast method to the rich. No quicker way to the noose that upsetting wealthy people.
Sooo . . . we start to summon the conflicting feelings plaguing Vincent, eh? I wonder how many there are . . .
So, is this basically what Sydney Malik did to his personal magpie spirit? He might be a better teacher than Dr. Flack...except for the fact that he is completely absent-minded.
Now I wonder if severing a person's connection to a spirit causes exactly that result, the spirit transforming into a malform that always follows his former "host".
Of course it's slow, Will. Why do you think they're called patients?
Boo. Hiss.
Is an inpatient more impatient than an outpatient? And if so, would an outpatient out-patient an impatient inpatient?
I just now noted that the spirit of the patient "mirrors" her gestures.
That's before treatment. Suppose that after treatment the spirit mirrors the therapist? uh oh
Yup, Mal would jump on this bozo with both feet and a left hook. I think any self-respecting witch would.
Spirit "surgery" = brainwashing/ worse. <_<
Now I'm imagining Mal being on the receiving end of this explanation:
"Fazmy-what? What're ye on about?... Wait, y'want t' do WHAT?!"
That ad looks a little too done-up for the practice to seem legitimate or effective. Maybe it's just me but the fancier the marketing, the faker the product. Or it could be that fiction tends to lean that way when portraying ads in stories.
Did he start summoning super-powerful emotions to speed the process up? You know, like, say, Lust?
That would certainly qualify as a crime against magic.
Isn’t this what Sidney Malik did with his magpie malform? Maybe he should teach the class instead of Dr. Flack. Or not...he might not be the best teacher.