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No, not Mustachio!

You and your awesome mustache will be missed...

I believe the most appropriate reaction is;

RUN!!!!

I almost missed the extra "snap snap snap snap snap" in the fifth panel. She just keeps breaking him. So that's what she did to Gorf too, just kill him with her mind. And now, rushing straight for the balcony.

This is maybe the most horrific villain Pete has created! They usually are well-meaning in some way, or just neutral when it comes to morality, just looking out for themselves. But Cupidine like the demons obviously takes pleasure in causing suffering. Look at that mean smile.

my sentiments exactly.

I suppose it's too much to hope that it's just the crack-snap of someone eating celery?

I don't suppose if anyone noticed the Stormbreaker finding a shotgun in the house? Because if not ... I'm with the 'RUN' crowd.

The closeup of Cupidine's anima cloud is interesting. You can see some whole animas and some with the stitching where they were joined. Some of the red ones have stitching as well ... and some of the red ones look joined to blue without stitches?

And while Cupidine is smiling in Panel 2 ... all her animas look horrified.

She kills, then harvests for power. I can't imagine they're absorbed and happy about it.

I tried to look at facial expressions from the poster who had multiple animas, but couldn't see facial expressions. I get the distinct idea that there are multiple ways to have multiple animas. I can't imagine cupidine always feels horrified and lifeless. Nor will I believe that a rockstar or family man would opt to have a 2nd (or more) horrified anima.

I don't know how strict the No Speculation rule is... but I figured, in some familys, a sick and dying grandpa would donate his anima. A sufficiently popular rock star is going to have some devoted yet terminally ill fans.

I'm wondering if Cupidine is a sadistic evil torturer, or if breaking her victims into pieces is a necessary part of harvesting the anima. Like cracking the shell on a crab.

I figured callous and thoughtless, not cruel. Like, she's not doing it for fun, just that it is a highly effective way of ensuring the target cannot resist the anima harvesting.

More like wolves hamstringing their prey so it can't escape, then starting to eat while it is still alive. Not cruel per se, they just don't care.

Interesting detail. You can see the stitches on modified anima in this strip. That's interesting enough on its own. Given what we know about the worlds more recent history one would think they would have given up the process of modifying animas. However what's more telling is that several of the red anima also have stitches.

Fortunately for last-era's COP fears, the stitched on portions also appear to be red, so maybe you can't hide a bedeviled anima by modifying it with normal ones. Not really too important though, I'm mostly interested in the fact that bedevils were getting away with modifying at all.

Rest in peace amazing mustache guy, we barely knew ye

We saw in the last era that either a bedeviled anima was hidden by splicing with a lot of normal, with only a tiny bit of red left, or a tiny bit of red was grafted onto a normal blue. The all-red spliced anima are new.

However, we still don't really have a functioning explanation for what bedevilment really is or how it works.

They also don't look much like the bedevil animas Zoë has seen before. Those all had a distinctive fuzzy appearance, black eyes and mouths, and evil expressions. Cupidine's red animas have smooth lines, turquoise eyes and mouths, and the same horrified expression as all the others. Apart from the colours they look just like normal animas. What that means I don't know.