I just needed to say something and I'm not trying to "justify a killer/bad guy" but I really do believe The Octoboss is not a bad person. I don't think he's a cold-blooded murder by choice, but rather he is required to do Dementus's dirty work. There is an obvious power imbalance between the two as shown with the "I only take orders from The Octoboss" scene when Dementus asks "permission" from Octo while nonchalantly pointing a gun at him until he caves.
The reaction from The Octoboss when Furiosa is first presented to Dementus is one of the most noticeable reactions to me. He is VERY disgusted and bewildered they would bring a child into this mess. I mean:
I wish I knew more about him. Did he know Mary Jabassa was Furiosa's mother? Did he know Dementus forced her to watch? Did he want to kill her? Did he try and argue with Dementus and did D threaten him? Or maybe he really is just a stone-cold killer... Literally just wish I could sit down with Goran D Kleut and ask him all my Octo questions. Sure, it might not be canon, but that interview with him explaining more about his character is what reallyyyy got me analyzing this dude with 5 mins of screen time...
tackling a villanelle once again. i felt it must be a villanelle, given the subject. the repeating chorus verses make me think of the subsequent attack waves during the sequence with the war rig siege, each one ending with death. and it must have 8 syllables per line. because octopus, you see.
anyway, props to the mortifliers for surviving a whopping 12 minutes against jack + furiosa combo. this is what the poem is about.
as for the visuals, well, it's the tentacle parachute. and the screaming skull with horns and the bommiknocker. it's not that deep and it was fun to draw.
thank you for tuning in, only take orders from the Octoboss, dementus is scum, etc etc, have a good day!
[poem transcript in alt and also here below]
sow torment onto those of skill
skies look over his signifier
when straight into hell they will reel
on future corpses filled with zeal
dark flock eclipses sun and casts fire
to sow torment on those of skill
unhinged vermin, they wish him ill
him, the deceitful, vile liar
and back into hell may he reel
with death angel along its keel
mangled beneath the chrome beast's tyre
sows torment onto those of skill
airborne demon in whirl of steel
low rumble of descending choir
when back into hell he will reel
the black-clad figure - the devil
meets his end in manner most dire
and back into hell she will reel
the ones who sow torment with skill
stormborns
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