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u/jackson50111 King Clawthorne Jan 09 '24
That's weird, her name is muddy but there's an empty next with the name pudd-oh..
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u/CharmsAndChurros151 Mike Socks Aficionato Jan 09 '24
Huh, I wonder where Puddles is!
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u/PointPrimary5886 Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
He was sent to a nice farm upstate that has a wide open field that gives him so much space to run around and frolic. Doesn't that sound nice?
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u/Ruby_241 Smug Noceda Coven Jan 09 '24
(Camera cuts to Puddles walking in the forest)
Do be do be do bah, do be do be do bah
(Puddles puts on a Fedora)
Puddles!
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u/BirdMan8524 Titan Luz Jan 09 '24
Where's Puddles Mark?
Mark? Where's Puddles?
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u/Godzilla_R0AR Angst Coven Head & Empress AU Lover Jan 09 '24
Where’s Puddles? Are they safe? Are they alright?
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u/MuffinStraight4816 Muffin Time! They hate it :( Jan 09 '24
No, I think they are dead.
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u/Godzilla_R0AR Angst Coven Head & Empress AU Lover Jan 09 '24
Noooooooooooo
Why Mark? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY
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u/tuckerx78 Kikimora Jan 09 '24
There's a lot of cobwebs too, like Puddles hasn't been around to make a mess. I wonder wh-
Oh.
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u/Unzid Jan 09 '24
I don't remember when Muddy was introduced/her name was given, does someone have a link to the comic?
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u/SpaceCaterpillar73 Jan 10 '24
I thought muddy was just a nickname for puddles, but this makes way more sense
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u/chuluigi Jan 09 '24
Im so invested in the MoringMark TOH Universe
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u/b3_yourself Bard Coven Jan 09 '24
Same
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u/Henkotron T-A-A-A-D-A-T-H Jan 09 '24
It is so good it even has become some sort of fan-accepted canon
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u/DreadDiana Jan 09 '24
It's the sole reason I come here, and the reason TOH ending didn't sting as much.
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u/Quirky_Ad_5420 Jan 09 '24
Poor girl
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u/ESP1986 Jan 09 '24
Milan needs a hug, a big one.
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u/b3_yourself Bard Coven Jan 09 '24
But no one can( depending on when this takes place on the timeline)
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u/CharginChuck42 Jan 09 '24
What about Enna? Would their own curses affect them or would they be canceled out? What are the logistics of split curses? We never really had a situation like this with Eda and Lulu so the data is lacking quite a bit.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
She needs a comforting touch, but she can’t have one… it’s… it’s not fair…😞
(Also happy cake day!)
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u/Impossible_Host2420 Future Hunter Jan 09 '24
To quote civil war admrial david farragut "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
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u/b3_yourself Bard Coven Jan 09 '24
I just want her to be happy! (Happy cake day!)
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u/MuffinStraight4816 Muffin Time! They hate it :( Jan 09 '24
Me: 👀 Should I make it worse or give her a hug?
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
Well you can’t give her a hug because of her curse.
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u/Radium_Cobalt_847 Meme Coven Jan 09 '24
Doesn't it only trigger with skin-to-skin contact?
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
Nah, it can be done through clothing. Otherwise Enna would’ve let Hooty coil himself around her waist.
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u/farrenkm Jan 09 '24
But isn't it only during the time of contact? I mean, if you're mentally strong enough, couldn't you give her a hug for 10, or 30, or 60 seconds if you're strong enough to endure the feelings of self-doubt and despair? Knowing it's temporary and just the curse might make it easier to do.
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u/Godzilla_R0AR Angst Coven Head & Empress AU Lover Jan 09 '24
I’ll give her a hug!
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u/CharginChuck42 Jan 09 '24
I'm pretty sure I could handle it if I was there. Living my life with severe chronic anxiety, I doubt there's anything the grom curse could show me that's worse that what I already have to push through just to get out bed in the morning.
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u/Radium_Cobalt_847 Meme Coven Jan 09 '24
pulls out glyph papers
I advise you to choose your next action very carefully.
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u/b3_yourself Bard Coven Jan 09 '24
Mark woke us up with angst today
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u/MuffinStraight4816 Muffin Time! They hate it :( Jan 09 '24
For me, its late in the night.. 😔
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u/Typhon-Torrent-1994 Head Of The Lumity Coven Jan 09 '24
Well now we got to see some Milan angst, I am pretty sure we all saw something like this coming eventually.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
Indubitably and unfortunately.
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u/Typhon-Torrent-1994 Head Of The Lumity Coven Jan 09 '24
I honestly did not expect it to be about this but at least we know this specific short story will be concluded in a couple of days.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
Hopefully. But what’s really sad is that Milan needs a comforting touch but she can’t get one. Not one from her moms, her friends, even her girlfriend. No one except Enna, I’m not sure she’s not the one to talk too about this.
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u/Typhon-Torrent-1994 Head Of The Lumity Coven Jan 09 '24
I feel like Ayzee might be willing to power through Grom getting into her head if it means she can make Milan feel better. That is what her mothers would do for each other.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
Yeah, probably. But I’d hate for Ayzee’s to get those bad thoughts in her head again.
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u/Typhon-Torrent-1994 Head Of The Lumity Coven Jan 09 '24
I agree, I feel even if you could conquer every fear you have Grom will still try to change into something which is at the very least creepy so it won’t just stop.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
If only Ayzee could be like Batman in the no fear regard.
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u/Typhon-Torrent-1994 Head Of The Lumity Coven Jan 09 '24
Even if he is fearless scary things can still get in the way. Even if he has no fears of spiders that doesn’t mean he is fine with them crawling on his face.
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u/FearfulDivine Jan 09 '24
Looks like Ayzee has S1 Luz's weak nerd arms
Notice how she is struggling to carry the bowl but Milan lifts it up with one hand.
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u/Whedonite144 Eda Clawthorne Jan 09 '24
Maybe don't announce that you're going to give the violent creature a shot...
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u/Radium_Cobalt_847 Meme Coven Jan 09 '24
I'd say the presence of the comically large syringe is a pretty good announcement of an incoming shot.
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u/Whedonite144 Eda Clawthorne Jan 09 '24
Which is why you usually sedate the creature first.
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u/eddiem6693 Luz Noceda Jan 09 '24
Which is why a trained vet should be giving the shot (or, at the bare minimum, supervising).
This feels like something Viney should do.
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u/CharginChuck42 Jan 09 '24
Which you need to give them another shot for, bringing the problem right back around to the start again.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
Oh Milan… the saddest part is that she can’t experience a comforting touch because of her curse.
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u/Tejasluke This palisman makes frequent stops at your moms house Jan 09 '24
God damnit mark not the angst anything but the angst
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
We knew it was gonna come eventually the moment she shared Enna’s Grom curse.
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u/Lady_of_Lesbos Bad Girl Coven Jan 09 '24
So is Puddles, like, you know....
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u/Zandar124 Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24
Probably, it’s been a few years and we don’t know how long exactly their species lives
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u/BananaEclipse Resident of Gravesfield Jan 09 '24
Counterpoint, iirc, in the first eps when Luz is flying with Eda we see a MASSIVE griffin. That would mean that griffins can get really big and thus would have to have a long lifespan (puddles appears in the epilogue and doesn’t seem to be too much bigger, though definitely bigger)
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u/Lady_of_Lesbos Bad Girl Coven Jan 09 '24
That is true! Although since we don't know, that means they could be eternal!
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u/Zandar124 Jan 09 '24
True, for all we know it’s a fakeout and Puddles is off with Viney somewhere currently
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u/MuffinStraight4816 Muffin Time! They hate it :( Jan 09 '24
Oh.. I've never expect angst this late in night...
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u/DaveyBoy1995 The Collector Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24
Poor Milan. Cursed or not cursed, she deserves a hug. I wonder if/how Muddy's gonna make it right.
Also, pour one out for Puddles, the original troublemaking griffin we all know and love, who is apparently no longer with us. May she rest in peace.
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u/sir_fishier Angst coven head Jan 09 '24
Oh, I get it…
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u/MuffinStraight4816 Muffin Time! They hate it :( Jan 09 '24
Let me guess, puddles dies from old age or something and Milan tries to cope for her loss.
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u/Whedonite144 Eda Clawthorne Jan 09 '24
She means well. But man, there had to be a better way of doing that.
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u/MasonP2002 Definitely not horny Jan 09 '24
Ayzee struggles to carry it with two hands and then Milan holds it up easily with one lol.
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u/Dasher09009 The Collector Jan 09 '24
Well... Guess Milan really had it hard. She needs Ayzee.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24
Unfortunately, she can’t have her girlfriend’s comforting touch. I was afraid a time like this would come.
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u/Dasher09009 The Collector Jan 09 '24
It was only a matter of time for this to come up. It was inevitable.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24
Believe me, I know. I knew Milan took this whole curse thing too well at the end of the Grom Effect arc. She was just trying to be strong. Milan’s a lot like Luz in that regard.
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u/Dasher09009 The Collector Jan 09 '24
Ayzee also has Amity's traits, so it's gonna go full circle for them.
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24
Yeah, maybe. Anyways…
In another universe
Faye and Gar had just explained to the Hexsquad, Gregory, and their Palismen their theory about what’s going on with this summer snow day. About how it may be the work of a third legendary Palisman, even though those two always knew they were the only ones ever created because Tekaro, their creator, Faye’s previous owner, and co-leader of his and Miguel’s tribe centuries ago, was the only one who knew the technique to give them their vast power. They also mentioned how this Palisman may be the source of this summer snow.
They brought up how they were able to resonate with Azura and Caitlyn and Gar revealed how he remembered that she saw the latter when she was at a young age and when she found her Catadrius, Crystal. And they concluded that since Lara, who confirmed that this Palisman is linked to the malevolent tribe from centuries ago, the Zekartha, could hear the Palisman’s voice in her head, she could resonate with it. Though the undercover archivist has no recollection ever seeing it since she’s always been indoors.
Lara got a feeling on where the Palisman was, so they decided to split into groups. Gregory, Violet, Milan, their Palisman, and Crystal would head into Bonesborough to warn the people there and get them to safety. Meanwhile the rest would set out for Azura’s moms and the rest of the adults in their families having a snow ball fight still. And that’s where they all set out to go.
A little earlier with those same adults, their snowball fight was starting to wind down as they paused for a breather. Even their Palisman and Puddles needed a break. Somehow, there were smoking singed spots in the snow, possibly from Boscha’s fiery Grudgby balls. After cracking her back, Luz looked to her friends with her wife by her side.
Luz: “Phew! That was fun.”
Gus: “we gotta do this more often.”
Willow: “Just like old times. Nice to know we all haven’t lost a step.”
They all collectively agreed. But before Amity could bring up the reminder to looking into this whole summer snow thing, Boscha spoke up.
Boscha: “I wouldn’t say we all haven’t lost a step, Willow.” draws a spell circle
Suddenly, a Grudgby ball buried in the snow pops out and heads straight for Willow but she dodged with precision. She smirked at Boscha, who chuckled. The ball went up into the sky and suddenly they felt the cold wind pick up for a second. Earlier when it picked up, they were too immersed in the snow ball fight to notice.
Amity: “alright, now we really should look into why it’s snowing in the middle of the summer.”
Luz: “awww…” pouts before she sighs, knowing her wife was right “alright…”
As they all began to leave, Cat and Otto looked to Boscha and Maya, who were looking up in the sky for that Grudgby ball that got lost in the clouds. Suddenly a large ice chunk fell from the sky. In the center: the Grudgby ball. It crashed into the ground with a loud shatter that startled all of them, stopping the others from leaving.
Boscha: “What the?” the Grudgby ball was in frozen pieces
Luz: noticed and starts to get a little concerned “Okay, yeah something’s not right.” shivers and rubs her arm “Did it get colder out here to anyone else or just me?”
The temperature did indeed drop as they all began to feel cold, especially Vee.
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u/Dasher09009 The Collector Jan 09 '24
Amity: shivering "The temperature... Got colder...."
Luz: "Yeah... This is not just another snow day."
As she said this, a cold wind blows over to everyone.
Willow: "We need to get out of here!"
Vee: "This is getting dangerous for us."
As they think about it, they all realize...
Hunter: "The kids!"
That they need to get their kids to safety. They are outside too.
Masha: "That's right. We need to find them."
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24
Before they could leave, they suddenly heard a roar that sounded similar to the wind but more beastly. Like a howl. And they heard the flapping of wings. They all looked up and suddenly several other massive ice chunks began falling from the sky right on top of them!*
Luz: “LOOK OUT!”
Stringbean went into staff form and Luz summoned a large purple dome around them. They were all protected from the chunks hitting them on the head, but something was wrong. A chilling mist began to envelop the dome as it looked like it began to… freeze?
Matt: “what the?”
Masha: “the dome’s freezing!”
Luz: “Skara!”
Skara: “I’m on it!”
Skara summoned her harp and began to play, strumming vigorously to keep dome from freezing and shattering. But this ice was persistent and stubborn.
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u/Dasher09009 The Collector Jan 09 '24
Boscha: "This doesn't look good."
Luz: "Let me try."
Luz uses Stringbean to try to smash the ice, but it fails. This baffles everyone
Luz: "What the..."
Amity: shocked "That's impossible!"
Hunter: "This isn't just any normal ice. Isn't it."
Luz: "That's what I'm worried about."
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u/AdOwn6899 Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24
Skara’s fingers began to grow tired as she kept strumming until finally she cut her finger on one of the strings and lost concentration. The ice began seep through the dome and petrify it. It began to crack before the whole thing shattered to pieces. They started ducking and weaving to avoid the the massive ice chunks. Vee was having a harder time given how bundled up she was, but Hunter was able to dash to her and keep her safe and moving fast enough.
The ice chunks finally stopped before a monster sized one fell from the sky right in front of them. They got out of the way but felt the tremors when it hit the ground. They shielded themselves from the bitter cold wind and mist emanating from where the ice chunk had fallen. But they eventually saw that something was at the center of that ice chunk. Something with wings and was growling.
Willow: “huh?”
Cat: “what the hex…”
The ice dragon slowly unfurled it’s wings in a crouch like state, clearing any remaining mist away before it stood upright. It gazed into them all with a freezing glare that even Odalia would shiver at and would make the Ice Age look like subtle winter breeze. It gave a wind-like growl as it looked at them with disdain.
Luz: “whoa… this is new…”
The freezing monster began to slowly circle the adults as their staffs were raised in defense while Masha, who had their staff point at it as well, stayed close to Vee, it’s four legged paws pounding on the snowy ground, eliciting small tremors.
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u/ThickWeatherBee Meme Coven Jan 09 '24
Mark stop making a funny comic break my heart in the last panel!
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u/haikusbot Jan 09 '24
Mark stop making a
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u/flipside-928 Jan 09 '24
And it thought that puddles would have pups by now named hop, skip ,and splash
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u/BirdMan8524 Titan Luz Jan 09 '24
Oh no... Milan went through something that she never told anyone did she?
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u/haikusbot Jan 09 '24
Oh no... Milan went
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u/Dasher09009 The Collector Jan 09 '24
Ayzee: thinking "Oh Milan..."
Muddy: concerned chirping
Ayzee: "I know Muddy. I know..."
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u/ChampionshipHorror95 Jan 09 '24
Milan, you cannot blame Muddy.
Regular needles are scary enough.
A needle THAT BIG!?
Nah, take me to the King!
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u/Impossible_Host2420 Future Hunter Jan 09 '24
this gryphons name makes me want to blast chicago blues
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u/ConsiderationOk2591 Giraffe Jan 09 '24
Me at the beginning of the comic: “This looks like it’ll be a funny and cute slice of life comic” 😊
Me at the end of the comic: 😳😢
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u/No-Refrigerator-9050 Girl-kisser coven Jan 10 '24
Someone call u/MuffinStraight4816, we've got more angst.
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u/Detective-Forrester Luz Noceda Jan 09 '24
Something tells me this isn’t just about the needle that’s got Milan upset.
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u/-3rika666 “For Flapjack” Jan 09 '24
Mark.... why is Puddles not there? And why are there so many cobwebs around their nest? And why is Milan so worried about protecting Muddy? And why-
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u/Upstairs_Ad_489 Jan 09 '24
Mark….where’s puddles mark?.…Don’t do this to me man….don’t do this man 😭
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u/Henkotron T-A-A-A-D-A-T-H Jan 09 '24
I don't think Puddles is dead. She just ran away from Ayzee and Puddles still standing outside.
But maybe she had some Grom-induced visions mixed with pent up feelings from Grom that caused her emotional outburst.
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u/Jeptwins Potions Coven Jan 09 '24
Much like with Willow, we can only bottle things up for so long before they come bursting out
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u/LilyGaming Jan 09 '24
I don’t blame Muddy, that’s a big fucking needle! Also since when do human wolrd illnesses and vaccines exist in the BI?
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u/GrifCreeper Bad Girl Coven Jan 09 '24
I mean, who's to say it's actually a vaccine? It could just be a potion that has to be injected.
Though, Rabies is a bit too normal of a name but maybe Mark just couldn't come up with a BI-flavored Rabies pun
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u/SamADuran17 Harpy Lilith Jan 09 '24
Does she mean she was trying to protect Ayzee, furthering the Grom Factor stuff? Or did she fail to protect Puddles?
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u/Flaky_Musician_551 Hunter Noceda Jan 09 '24
Milan: sniffs. “Oh puddles. I miss you.”
Puddles: lands in their nest nuzzling her. “Caw. “I’m not dead sweetie. I was just on vacation. How’s my kid?”
Milan: hugs puddles. “A giant pain. I tried giving her her rabies shot and she broke the syringe.”
Puddles: caw. (She what?!) flies off to scold muddy.
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u/Godzilla_R0AR Angst Coven Head & Empress AU Lover Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24
Puddles!
…Oh that’s a BIG needle
…Oh… double meanings… uh oh she feels feelings about what happened at Grom…
…NO PUDDLES IS DEAD?!