## [RT] Demon: by Jason Shiga (Author of Fleep)

* Author: u/gabbalis *
* URL: http://www.shigabooks.com/index.php?page=001
* Score: 15

* Created: 2014-09-25T17:35:15

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/Prezombie** [+5]  (21 hours later)
> 
> To those who are sensitive about such things, the first chapter consists of the protagonist repeatedly and graphically committing suicide.
> 
> If you skip forward to chapter two, the actual story starts.
> 
> Edit: later chapters also have a few cases of graphic suicide and nudity.
> 
> Not Safe for kids.

> **u/alexanderwales** [+4]  *Time flies like an arrow* (45 minutes later)
> 
> I caught up to the current comic and added this to my RSS reader. There are a number of things that I'm quite curious about, but will likely be answered later. It's showing the same consideration as Fleep, which is a very good sign.
> 
> Edit: [](#s "The power has unlimited range and works close to instantly, so the plan then is to subdue him and then ... do what? So far as I can see, there isn't a good way to control him. Maybe they'll try to figure out what he wants and then give it to him, but it's not really clear what he wants to me, which means it's certainly not clear to the OSS either. Also, it probably goes without saying, but the main character is a horrific and unrepentant murderer, but that doesn't really stop me from liking him.")

>> **u/AmeteurOpinions** [+2]  *Finally, everyone was working together.* (a day later)
>> 
>> > doesn't stop me from liking him
>> 
>> It's because of the science, isn't it.
>> 
>> I find it interesting that the author has presented, essentially, the ultimate form of a cluster suicide. Probably won't ever throw any thoughts that direction, but one can hope.

>> **u/Chronophilia** [+1]  *sci-fi ≠ futurology* (2 hours later)
>> 
>> Spoilers to the start of chapter 6:
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>> [](#s "When they've caught him? Then they'll do science!")
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>> [](#s "What do his powers consider death, and is it possible to kill and revive him? Is Jimmy Yee really his first identity, or is he older than that? What point on the body is minimum distance measured from? Does his disembodied soul interact with anything other than human brains, for example would it rather jump across 5m of air instead of 4.9m of lead? And, perhaps most importantly to the OSS, can other people be made into demons too?")
>> 
>> [](#s "Plus all the more general ramifications of a universe where superpowers are real. The 'look at the sun and know about fusion power' stuff. If souls are real, is there an afterlife?")

>>> **u/alexanderwales** [+1]  *Time flies like an arrow* (2 hours later)
>>> 
>>> Interestingly enough, the author considers this to be science fiction, which I think might say something about the ultimate direction it ends up taking.

>>> **u/Escapement** [+1]  *Ankh-Morpork City Watch* (2 hours later)
>>> 
>>> [Demon](#s "       I think it would be sort of hilarious if the protagonist could be forked via temporary death (e.g. having heart restarted or something similar), culminating in a desperate attempt to ambush and kill themselves near each other in an attempt to permanently overwrite the other.")

>>>> **u/Chronophilia** [+2]  *sci-fi ≠ futurology* (5 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> [](#s "It would also be interesting if killing and reviving Jimmy restored the previous personality of that body. But I suspect that's not the case - the art represents a possessed person by giving him Jimmy's face, and a formerly possessed corpse as headless. Combined with normal people having normal faces, the pattern suggests that dead people have no souls.")

>>>>> **u/Prezombie** [+2]  (23 hours later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> [](#s "I'm thinking that the 'headless' aspect is important, and that it's a visual shorthand of the system that's transferring him. Specifically, that the transferring is a destructive process to both victims, which would prevent forking.")

> **u/None** [+1]  (2 hours later)
> 
> What kind of an evil person links to a story like that while it still isn't finished?

>> **u/alexanderwales** [+7]  *Time flies like an arrow* (2 hours later)
>> 
>> While it's nice to be able to tear through an epic, artfully created work, it's better for the author to have an ongoing audience and [financial support](http://www.patreon.com/shiga).

> **u/Zephyr1011** [+1]  *Potentially Unfriendly Aspiring Divinity* (14 days later)
> 
> I don't quite get how he arrived at the conclusion that he is a demon. Has supernatural powers, sure, but demon seems extremely specific. Why not spirit? Or fey? Or ghost?

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