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PANEL 1

ANAADO

IT’S NOT FAIR FOR ME TO ASK YOU TO SACRIFICE YOUR FRIEND.

(cont)

IT’S NOT FAIR FOR ME TO ASK YOU TO SACRIFICE ANYONE, IS IT? EVEN TO SAVE MY OWN LIFE.

(cont)

THAT’S NOT WHO YOU ARE.

PANEL 2

SPOOKY JONES

IT’S NOT WHO YOU ARE, EITHER.

PANEL 3

ANAADO

HEH. I GUESS YOU’RE RIGHT.

(cont)

BUT…

SPOOKY JONES

BUT WHAT?

PANEL 4

ANAADO

WHAT IF THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY? A WAY TO SAVE YOUR NEW FRIEND AND ME?

SPOOKY JONES

LIKE WHAT?

PANEL 5

ANAADO

WELL, I DON’T HAVE A BODY OF MY OWN ANYMORE. THAT’S BEEN DESTROYED.

(cont)

BUT WHAT IF I LEFT HIS BODY —

(cont)

— AND ENTERED YOURS?

PANEL 6

SPOOKY JONES

YOU MEAN… POSSESS ME?

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The Young Protectors—Spooky Jones: Past Sins—Page 32

September 7, 2018 Alex Woolfson 122 Comments

A modest proposal.

So! Anaado has a suggestion for a way to save both Kyle and himself. And all Spooky needs to do is roll out the welcome mat to his soul! How is Spooky going to respond to that idea? Would it even work?

Tune in this Wednesday to find out! Hope to see you there! 😀

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Hm, that situation would be a much better reason for the chapter’s title than the alternative. It would also give a whole new meaning to having a polyamorous relationship with Kyle, that’s for sure. I would not be entirely mad at this, but I would much prefer if they found another, evil, demon–perhaps Anaado’s captor?–and commandeered his body instead.

Two minds in one body. How would that work? Is it possible? Will Spooky be the same or vastly different or subtlely and “oh so slightly” different?

More importantly, will he be Spooky Anaado, or Anaado Jones?

that’s a good question

Spookaado Jones?

That would be an odd name to have on a business card

Compared to names other kids have these days? Please. That name is just fine.

He/them having a business card would be odd enough in the first place!

Look to the entity that is Firestorm for your answer.

I’m not entirely sure it’s a good idea to poke those hell-ankylosaurus things soaking in the lava, not least because they seem to be standing on one really big one right now…!

maybe he’s poking it to see if it is a rock or something else

✅ Something else!

Lizardo the demon reptile?
or gneiss-osaurus the demon rock with teeth?

The confirmation that dragons exist and are indeed spawns of hell!

Is Spooky poking the dead hellworm with a stick?

I don’t think that’s a hellworm…!

The script calls it a turtle but I’ve never seen a turtle look like that.

The appearance is completely wrong, but my first response was to think of Mystery Science Theater song: It’s Gamera. He is neat. he is made of turtle meat.

But there are very weird turtles in our real world, too!

The script might say “turtle” but after the script, I imagine that there is a dialog between Alex and Adam that becomes the thumbnails. In the thumbnails the “turtle” is more like the final image in panel 6 than a mere Galapagos Island turned or any Giant Turtle (which are fairly benign creatures. In my mind, I heat another dialog after the thumbnails and before the final line work (ink or pencil or computer generated) that becomes a larger creature with a head bending around to see who is poking it with a stick.

I’m not sure that poking the rear end of a creature in hell is the best thing to do but I’ve never been to hell ever, under any circumstance.

I think he’s poking a second, smaller one there, which is also more greyish than brownish in colour – could actually be the bigger one’s offspring in a regular ecosystem…!

And while all the bumpy scales and protrusions remind me more of one of those similar dinosaurs (which are not ancestors of our turtles today) it could still very well be a turtle-like beast even so, at the very least one with a rather wide and relatively flat back.

Its head is in panel 6.

Yeah, but I think that’s the smaller one’s!

The “ground” they are standing on looks much like the back of the turtle. So maybe they are standing on a very large turtle.

And Spooky is poking a smaller one, which is then looking back at him!

That could be. I lack a map of this place.

I don’t think it is dead.

I’ve been staring at this for minutes. I’m trying to decide if I should focus more on:

A) Anaado’s shocking (yet not) proposal. That he’s the one to make it is the surprise.
B) That totally awesome lava rock monster that Spooky poke, to make it rise more for a getaway. Will it attack them first?
C) Keep staring in awe on the pretty page which distracted me for over a minute, before I came around to read the text. Another outstanding page.

One thing is for sure. The proposal surprised Spooky enough that it has most of his attention on Anaado. Standing so close to the edge, and that lava-living beast, may not be the best place to be doing that.
A willing body sharing, would that possibly making it possible for them to switch being in the ‘drivers seat’? Not sure I like the idea in any way, but if this is possible, I could go for that as temporary solution.
I still think they should find them another, evil, demon body to posses. One they would otherwise kill in a fight. Someome looking like Anaado maybe.

All good foci, Wolf. I think I’m going to spend a couple of days just going over everything, and being continually amazed at the artistic rendering.
Daaaaang! 🙂

Gila monster!

This is where my not knowing the limits of magic frustrate me. They seem to be taking it for granted that they need a person’s body to inhabit. But why can’t they use an animal’s body, like one of those worms they had no problem killing? I don’t even know why they can’t use Kyle’s sofa for this. Take something, transform it into the body you want, and in you go.

Hmph. But of course, it can’t be that easy, otherwise the Platinum Priestess could stay forever young with transforming spells. So there’s gotta be costs and limitations and other problems I’m unaware of.

Well, PP doesn’t have the power of a demon prince, but Kyle does – and that was why she and Duncan had used him, too!

Anaado used Kyle’s powers to tranform the body. An animal has no such power. We have no reason to think that Kyle can transform another’s body, and even if the power is there, he does not know how to use it.

As I said: take the body of the healthiest of death row inmates and give to Anaado. Problem solved, no need to transform much.

I nominate Duncan

Um, Spooky? Those aren’t exactly ‘rocks’ you’re poking there… oh, dear…

Why does he do that? Not a very sensible thing to do.
Edit: unless he plans to use it for something.

I immediately thought of Ludo calling the Rocks in the movie The Labyrinth. And Mary Poppins stepping on the back of a turtle. I’m guessing its transportation or a bridge of some sort.

This one with spooky is pretty interesting.

The Death of Spooky Jones may mean that their two souls merge, forming a new person different from both Spooky Jones and Anaado.

Hmm, but what if, They used those worm carcasses and transformed them into a body for Aandy through Alchemy, magic, and good ol fashioned sewing, then jumped him from Kyle’s body to that new form? then a light lunch, and casual dancing?

That should be a big old NOPE! Takes possessive boyfriend to a whole new level of NOPE!

And this is where I have a problem. The arc may be entitled “The Death of Spooky Jones”, but I think I’d be heavily turned off if said “death” was anything but metaphorical.

Y’see, I _like_ Spooky. He’s sarcastic, but affectionate. Powerful, but still vulnerable. And any outcome that takes him away… would bother me. 🙁

uh-oh…. I mean… I dunno… but I think noone should be possesed.
The overall bad vibes the word “possess” has in this context should be warning enough >___<'
Also what would it do to Spooky? It's basically either what is currently happening to Kyle, which means Spooky would be kind of imrisoned in his own body with his mind asleep (or whatever Kyle's mind is doing atm) OR it might be the kind of "interim soul visit" like Spooky did with all the hostages in the glass cage, which also nearly ended really bad for Spooky… Admittedly those were a LOT of souls at the same time but hosting a second soul longterm is probably not a good idea ;___;

(I admit I'm a little prejudiced from Dragon Age and other media where possession plays a big role, also to MCs *hides*)

This proposal sounds more like a melange a trois than a menage a trois.

Have an Internet. 🙂

I am not a fan of being possessed, so never.

Well there, Anaadear, now that you’re buddy-buddy again, wouldn’t it be about time you give Spooky his true age and power back?

—

…
Or could it be you’d rather keep him vulnerable ’til you situation is guaranteed??

…Did Spooky just snap off a hellbranch to poke at the spiky lava monster like “hey dude, scooch a bit to the left” just to walk on it? Dem 14yo balls, man.

Hmmmmmm…… I suppose Spooky COULD handle it. If he’s returned to his true age, then does a spell to allow Anaado in while containing him so he’s still a separate being……

I may be overthinking this……but if they (Spooky and Kyle) could get him back to their dimension……assuming he doesn’t destroy Spooky from within……could this be how Spooky dies? Maybe…..but send him to “room with ” someone else……say Annihilator’s de-aged body?

I can’t decide if this is the most noble thing Anaando has done, or if he’s mastered new levels of deviousness. I MIGHT BE ABLE TO HATE HIM AGAIN!

Nicely played. Golf clap.

Nice how the monster’s glaring at Spooky with this “Hey, do I stab YOU in the ass with sharp pointy things do I? THERE ARE WEBSITES FOR THAT! Asshole.”

……..why am i thinking of Undertale right now? anyway. oh myyy lookit all those red flags showing themselves again i’m not okay with this *is smacked in the face by chapter title*

Funny, I recently published a novel about two people sharing a brain. It was a rewrite/update of the 1970 Robert A Heinlein novel “I Will Fear No Evil.”

Something just sounds “wrong” about inviting a demon to posses you…..Spooky should just let Anaado go!

And leave Kyle without a body.

What I am saying is Anaado leaves Kyle’s body and vanishes .

Look, Anaado, you don’t get to just be buddy buddy again after that spectacular tantrum. You did some serious damage. Not to mention you made Spooky 13. That’s just down right freaking creepy and a terrible creepy power move.

Not to mention I don’t know how anyone can consider anyone there their beloved in this relationship. SPOOKY WAS 13!! Dude, just no.

AND!!! If Spooky’s going to be 13 I want him to remember exactly who he was.

Possession huh? I wonder why that makes me suspicious? Also notice that Anaado hasn’t bothered to undo the changes he made to Spooky.

Yeah, I’m gonna toss my hat in with the people who are suspicious of this proposal. I mean, what better way for Hell to get its hands on Spooky (the one who got away) than to have him just…invite it in? Want to trust Anaado but like someone said…possession…never a good thing. And it’s also been proven that Anaado can usurp his host. Granted, Kyle was probably very unguarded at that moment and doesn’t have Spooky’s magical chops but still…

Can’t decide what to post. Either a.) Three-way! Awesome!!!
or b.) “And so, unknown to even his closest friends, he became a dual person…”
or c.) Don’t Trust Him!!!!!!! What if that isn’t really Anaado?!

Possession is nine points of the law.

I don’t really trust this. But, even if I did, I don’t think I’d like it for a permanent solution. I suppose it’s better than letting him remain in Kyle’s body, with or without Kyle’s permission…I think that would be pretty terrible and unfair, but it’s far from a good solution. I do hope that I’m wrong to mistrust Anaado, but either way I think this is a bad idea. Still, at the moment, there are few options and none of them are ideal solutions at the moment so I could see the need for a temporary solution until a better one can be found (even if I don’t like it).

I guess I’m OK with the solution Anaado is suggesting. At least we will get Kyle back. / Spooknaado masturbating will be interesting. Lol!

Is it really masturbation is there’s a demon controlling your hand?

The devil made me do it!

Good one!

If Anaado doesn’t have a body anymore, and is inhabiting Kyle’s body….then WHY are we seeing Anaado’s body, and not Kyle’s body???? Possession usually means you see the original body and the being doing the possession is in the “mind” of the body. It would have been a challenge to draw what looks like Kyle but who is actually Anaado, but that’s a challenge of the story.

Spooky has some speculation about that starting on page 3 of this chapter and going to about page 7 or 8 … But that might not be the entire explanation.

http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch3-page-3/

Thanks, Dave…I checked out those pages and it does explain it well enough. I go so long between pages, sometimes, that I forget what I read, or maybe I was looking at naked Spooky and wasn’t focused on the text. Wink.

If Anaado doesn’t have a body anymore, and is inhabiting Kyle’s body….then WHY are we seeing Anaado’s body, and not Kyle’s body????

We actually do see Kyle’s body – Anaado has just used Kyle’s power of transformation (which Kyle didn’t know he had) to make it look like his own!

Thanks, Noise….you and Dave clarified this for me.

Have you ever watched Ghost Whisperer? When Jim’s soul entered the dead man’s body Melinda saw Jim (her husband) not the other man while Anaado is in Kyle’s body we see Anaado….when Anaado leaves Kyle reenters his body and it will be him again.

Methinks this is some sort of setup. I find it all too convenient that Spooky, as powerful as he is, couldn’t find a spell to bring Anaado back, even after trying for YEARS with great intent, and yet, while–I guess, in this case, almost literally–fucking the hell out of someone, Spooky manages to create a spell with brings pleasure to both parties involved, but conveniently destroys the body and restores the presence of someone he wasn’t even thinking of at the moment, someone trapped in the same hell from whence Kyle originates and is prince of? I’d have a better chance of randomly winning the lottery twenty seconds before I was struck in the head by Martian pebble while on a rooftop, losing consciousness before falling through the sunroof of a moving Winnebago of a small circus family who was in the middle of a seance contacting Princess Diana. Methinks Anaado is in league with someone, someone who is using Spooky as incentive or bait…not to mention, why in the name of the gods make Spooky’s magic weaker in the manner he did? As powerful as he is, a simple binding spell would have worked. Spooky is the key to something, and I wonder if he was in hell originally to be exploited as such, and hell finally found a way to finish the job.

Interesting, but I’m not convinced it really goes that far.

When is Artifice 2 coming out?

1) I knew this would be the likely result long before Anaado made me not care about him by being an utter dick, and 2) I don’t think the whole “this was a trap all along” is right. It’s far, FAR too Xanatos Gambit for even hell. I think that Spooky getting away was an accident. I think that if this is a trap, it was only a trap because they intended all along that Anaado would get into Spooky somehow, but Spooky escaped before it could happen. And 3) I don’t see why Anaado’s body is no longer in the picture … unless it’s in the prison and died as a result of his being Out Of It Too Long.

His body was destroyed. http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch3-page-28/

He says that, but honestly, I don’t necessarily believe him.

He says that, yes. However, in http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch3-page-4/ there is no visual evidence to show that his body was destroyed, only that he had jumped into Kyle.

I have to say I do not trust Anaando at all. This feels very much like a trap. Specifically it feels like a Kyle/Duncan situation. I can’t help but remember how young Spooky was when he left hell and that Anaando, a demonic being of unknown age, had a sexual relationship with him. He is abusing his power and influence over someone he manipulated and abused and this cannot end well.

According to his first time card, the first experience that Spooky considers real sex was initiated by himself, with the adolescent Anaado. It consisted mostly of kissing and rolling around.

Was Anaado really adolescent though? Like I said, I feel this is very similar to Kyle/Duncan and that Kyle would have said similar about his early encounters before the betrayal.

Where is the “first time card” info by the way? I remember seeing something about his first time with Anaado but forget where and can’t find it.

Alex calls him adolescent.
The cards are here:

http://store.yaoi911.com/trading-card-4-pack-powers-romance-first-time-origin/

Too bad the Anaado one isn’t previewed :(. Sounds like the cards have useful information. I still question what that means for a Demon who may potentially live for ages, and whether it would refer to physical or actual age.

Even if they were closer in age (as in time existing), I still think the relationship seems fishy from a power dynamic perspective.

Ah, here’s what I was going off of:
webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch2-page-29/

The one panel there seems to indicate they did progress to more than kissing and rolling around at some point.

But,Matt , the panel shows Kyle/ Spooky…..not Anaado / Spooky.

And the text talks about the last time Spooky used the spell, which as we discover later was with Anaado.

Looking at panel one, it would seem that some of these toadstools could have reached our heroes if they really wanted to.

Yes. So clearly those sneaky mushrooms had a Machiavellian reason for not grabbing them at that particular moment in time. What fiendish scheme with long-term plans could they be up to?

The New Page is Up:
http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/typ2/legendary-ch3-page-33/

Hello Campers,
What new possible combination and twist will we read tonight?
Any speculations or guesses?

I have no idea. I guess we’ll find out soon eh! Maybe they will share the same body or maybe they’ll try to do some complex ritual to generate a new one.

It’s possible that possessing Spooky was always Anaando’s end goal he just needed to engineer a situation where Spooky might agree to it.

Where has Anaado been hiding?

He SAYS he was imprisoned by one of the other demon lords (Not Kyle’s Dad) and that he was tortured constantly etc. He also SAYS that his body was destroyed when he jumped the portal.

Both of these claims are credible, but I’m not convinced that they’re truthful.
On the other hand, Spooks is not being surprised by his wild mood swings and weird semi-aggressive behavior. Perhaps this is because Anaado has always been like this? In which case, really, Spooky, falling in love with a drama queen that high maintenance?

Not sure I “like” the idea of Anaado possessing Spooky…..I mean look at the way he rearranged Kyle’s apartment……imagine what he could do to Spooky’s psyche…..given half a chance!

Spooky’s life wouldn’t be the same …
Spooky’s friends might notice.

Can’t think of anything at the moment – not even my usual range of batcrap crazy suggestions.
It does occur to me that how Spooky reacts to Anaado’s suggestion – possibly even just how long he pauses to process the idea – might be an indication how how much he actually trusts Anaado as opposed to just playing along to give Anaado time to calm down.

I’m not sure I would trust him very much at all at this point. I mean they did mention he didn’t need to turn Spooky a kid, what was the point? Except to make him feel like he needed Nando.

Hi everyone…..

Hi Wayne, not able to stay around, I am about to go to bed.

Hi Doki, have a good night.
Stay dry

Doki is to tired to ask which dry. 😉 Night Dave!

Pittsburgh just had a rain for four or five days straight. Like 6 to 7 inches.

My internet has gone glitchy. You might be on your own to get to the new page.

See you later, Dave. I woke up briefly, but will try to get some more sleep now.

Have a good night

Well, about 15 minutes and whatever my computer’s trouble was has gone away.

Congrats!

The problem is erratic and irregular. It PO’s me because I pay lots for premium service.

That’s terrible. I hope that the problem fixes itself before you have to contact someone.

I recently upgraded my internet……came with a price drop…..so I couldn’t turn it down.

Page should be up soon. 🙂

Long time reader, first time poster. I absolutely need to know what happens..

welcome to the camp

Thanks! I’ve often camped but I figured I should join you guys so I can start speculating too 😀

Speculating is half the fun
🙂

Welcome! Answers very soon! 😀

Welcome 🙂

Does panel 1 mean that the “demon” Anaado does have a heart…..or is this a trick to get Spooky into a vulnerable position?

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