To make you feel better B.L., I think it was the snake that knocked him out in the first place, not you.

Max asking the real questions, and B.L. surprisingly gives a human answer.

So inception then

I think that would be me

Yeah, because you’re about to be hit by a train.

What you don’t want to look like business Jeffie from Family Circus? You know Merle would jump at the chance to wear that.

The more people try, the more likely you are successful.

I like this phrase. I’m adding this to my quote book.

The other spirit that is possessing you. Nothing to worry about

You know, you have to love Max sticking to his principles here, even with BL looking away from him with her eyeball flashlight

Paranatural 18

Previously on

Max found himself face to face with his snake spirit, who he accidently enraged. When he fell off the train, he sees a memory of his mother and meets the Paranatural Activity Consortium leader B.L. She offers to remove the parasitic snake grunge-spirit, and for Max to assist the incoming internal investigation officer, both of which Max declines, due to a lack of trust for her.

Now the finish up their meeting inside Max’s mind.

ok…this is weird. Because I went back and checked, and you’re right. He had his eyes closed when he was on the train and then whacked the snake.

I was like, nah…this isn’t a thing right? So I went back to the first time where he saw the snake, ALL the way in chapter 2, and he ALSO had his eyes closed then. And that was when he didn’t have an idea of the Spirit-state at all.

So Max is able to immediately and unintentionally go into the second layer on his own without any assistance.

But with his eyes closed, we still don’t know if he is using the regular powers the other spectrals used to get into this form, or if there is something else going on.

I forgot that the bat was considered one. I think for the bat, because it was able to terrorize the other ghosts it was able to generate the fear it needed to gather and feed on to be stronger. I mean, if a bat could eat you I would be scared too.

But yeah, I believe that negative emotions can come from animals, but not like a normal “survival” type of death, like that of flies. To me, the negative emotions have to result from a curse. From something like all of the pain and suffering and torment that a creature went through before it died. A good example of what could be an animal “grunge” is something like massive animal experimentation, to the point where the spirit decides to get revenge.

A great example would come from an anime called “The Ancient Magus’s Bride” where the focus is on cats. Won’t give too much away there, but it is beautiful animation and would recommend for people to check out.

BUM BUM BUM BA

(I couldn’t think of anything else to go with this)

That is the most horrendous description of popcorn I have ever seen. That is perfect for nightmare popcorn

I know she is a Medium, but now I would like to believe that she solely lives in the Dream World and is basically a humanoid version of Bill Cipher. She has the power and is terrifying and I stand by my comparison.

Thank you for liking it. It was something that I thought of for a long time. I don’t know if there was one specific source where I first heard of something like that (like fables, historical, fictional, or otherwise), it was more like bits and pieces that seem to fit together.

Right, that would be something to point out here. I am so used to details being photoshoped because Hussie, that I forgot that people can actually draw out the details like this. Not to say photoshop isn’t impressive, but to draw out ALL of this for each panel, must be a lot.

Eightfold is a pure and adorable spider and she absolutely deserved the best and did not deserved to go out like that.

Chapter 4 Page 120 (pg 270)

So going to stop here for the day.

The snake thing is pretty cool. I really so like it, though it doesn’t have a conscious yet. Maybe Max is possessed by 2 spirits, which would explain the thing that was talking to Doorman. Or one spirit possessed the snake, and the snake possessing him. It could work that way.

And then there is BL and Max. I…I don’t think I like her anymore. I mean, she is still fun and zany from before, but now I do see a dark edge to her. Like she only shows what she wants to show. Be crazy to get people off guard over how she really is. She reminded me a lot of Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls and I don’t think I can get rid of that mental image just yet. She may do what she can for her organization, but she is still dangerous.

Which makes me proud of Max when he stands up to her. Protect the spirit, ask about Isaac, refuses to trust her. Because she has done nothing to earn that trust so why should he? He is right to be wary, it will keep him alive.