#william manton

[worlds-best-sippycup]

Rachel's Interlude is so good one you know The Siberian/Manton's secret. And by good I mean that it's absolutely nauseating.

The Siberian is constantly sexualized and sexualising itself... and it's an old man possessing the image of his dead daughter, a daughter he killed, doing that to it, with it. Pressing her breasts to her chest, walking around tip-toe. Flirting with Rachel!

He's using the sexualized image of his dead daughter to flirt with a mentally ill teenage girl! He's trying to entice her into coming with him, to make a terrible mistake, to join him in isolation from the rest of humanity. He's a literal predator!

And Rachel after a whole chapter of how alone she feels, still seething from the betrayal of her only friend - that Rachel stands there and genuinely thinks they have a connection! That his words make sense to her and that they are similar. That she would find the community she needs so badly among his kind.

AWFUL.

[dailyparahumans]

Hope it's alright for me to make another suggestion so soon;

William Manton and the Siberian

day 53

[bonesawd]

"Siberian’s stick was Bonesaw, the possibility of losing the girl’s company in one way, shape, or form."

[dryococelas01]

Sigh

They don't even let me fuck the cauldron vials anymore

We used to be an organisation

I'm quitting

[estavionpira]

Gosh darn it, if only I had someone able to go toe-to-toe with the heaviest hitters, while providing protection for the squishier members of my group!

The invulnerable Siberian:

[clementinecoastline]

the siberian being a middle aged mans astral projection was a hate crime against the sapphic community by one (1) john wildbow. he should be exiled for it

[lemurlord]

A funny layer to Taylor's "she's not even using microbes or algae" is they probably wouldn't have stopped the Siberian anyway - the striped killer cannot be infected, choked, bitten or slowed down, and any sludge you could toss at her face would just slide off. The best you can do is some kind of smokescreen, but Amy probably wasn't able to secure enough biomass to pull that off anyway. Without, like, murder or something.

How good Manton is at tracking is unclear.

[artbyblastweave]

As someone who's more familiar with his work, do you think that Robert Kirkman's Worm would have had Manton/Siberian philosophize about cannibalism (if only to Rachel) or does the character not really fit that ideatic niche?

Almost certainly he would have done this; Manton's conversation with Rachel in her interlude is already basically this exact kind of "what-a-freak" showcase monologue, albeit without any direct mentions of cannibalism. Still, the sequence is nonetheless drawing arrows in blood towards the idea that she's doing cannibalism as a form of Nietzschean liberation, so the speech would write itself. The flip side of this, of course, is that I think that a pretty major part of Siberian's whole deal is that their ongoing murderous rampage was fundamentally opt-in, and every example I could find of Kirkman writing a self-justifying cannibal either concerns survival cannibalism or a supernatural compulsion, so it's possible that under Kirkman the monologue would instead end up in the mouth of. Uh. All the other characters in Wildbow's writing who that would describe. Echidna. Sveta. Green Eyes. Whatever that Ghoul was called in Pale, it's been a minute. Several in Pale like this, I think. Maybe Helen from Twig? Refer to @theaudientvoid's recurring bit about how Siberian represents the gentrification of the Wildbow Cannibal Girl Archetype or however they put it