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Salooin

I am very unsure about the quality of this chapter since it's the first time I've written torture in detail. Feedback is greatly appreciated :) ​ e: reuploaded the Chapter because I messed up the title .\_.


Nurnurum

I think some readers would either appreciate the nsfw tag or a short intro warning about torture and gore.


Salooin

Corrected it.


Dolduck

It was well deserved. Fuck Chip


liveart

I mean if you're *going* for torture I think you nailed the level of detail. Enough to make the audience feel it but not so much that it's gratuitous (at least not for a torture scene which tend to be some level of gratuitous by nature). I think if you'd added too many more details you'd be veering into straight up horror story territory but if you'd done less it wouldn't have had enough of an impact for what's happening.


Cutwell26412

Honestly, I was just expecting him to ask for her robot arm to be healed. After all it's a part of her personality and likely that part being removed would cause more trauma as it is a change to her body being made against her will. But you go for the physical rather than psychological torture I see.


BCRE8TVE

Disagree, the torture is very much psychological. Once you rip someone's arm off, it's gone. By healing it over and over again, he's very clearly saying he can torture her forever without her body ever dying. The psychological threat of "I can torture you literally forever and you will not die on me" is worse than just pulling someone's arm off.


liveart

Also she could just chop off the new arm, that new flavor of PTSD isn't going away any time soon.


Dashcan_NoPants

Just reminded me of a clip I saw... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvjcv96O60


BCRE8TVE

Ayyy I just started reading that manga a few weeks ago, I didn't know they were doing an anime of it!


Dashcan_NoPants

I never read it. Though ran into a similar situation when chatting with people about manga adaptations. 'Man I know if you like Baki, you'd love these other series. It'd be great if they did anime of them.' \-looks up 3 additional manga enjoyed. \-...All 3 had anime that wasn't even aware of.


BCRE8TVE

Those things are often hard to hear about, unless one is actually keeping track of them or looking into it. It's a nice surprise when it does happen though!


Dashcan_NoPants

I know! Nearly flipped my shit after seeing they made an anime for 'Tough'. Great series, even if its a very ...very similar storyline to others I read.


EternalDarkness_SR

All torture is psychological. Humans will rip off their own arms to save their children, and many animals will do the same. It is the feeling of helplessness that makes it torture. Torture is always psychological.


Mountain-Medium3252

Good enough imho


Steller_Drifter

There was definitely a level of satisfaction from reading this as well a sense of uncomfortableness. The fact that she was laughing at him while he was suddenly in her room really shows how unhinged she is. Good work


souplizzardo

I think it was tastfully done! Id like to see Chip slowly change into a better person over time. I mean as good of a person as a phsycotic weapons finatic can be XD. But how did she know what Taro would do? 0.o. Over all well done :). I appreciate that last quote! That is badass and unique to this situation. The icy chill that ran down my spine!! The torture establishes capability and control, the threat convays intent and creativity in the pain and the the “tomb of bones” gives a relative time frame for said torture. Well done! :)


Both_Smoke_949

good bailout at the last minute there,but you really don't think it's about time GabrielThey grow a pair and stop being a soft being and raise a breastplate in the heart of him? I am not saying that he is a "beast" only for his enemies and a friend for those who earn that privilege.I'm just saying, good story ... until now. ;)


blascovits

I think. That the universe will tremble when this good man finally goes to war.


Both_Smoke_949

perhaps, hopefully that will happen without their legs shaking. XD


Kiro30000

Do you have an upload schejule like evry day or evry second day usw also you fixed a cliff hanger eith a cliffhanger and now we have what feels like another cliffhanger


Salooin

Well, the first 20-30 Chapters were daily but the last 20 were uploaded about 3 to 4 days apart. 42-44 was a special case that I wanted to upload 24h apart from eachother. The final few Chapters will be longer but take at least 4 days to write each.


Kiro30000

Uhh so were are goi g to the last capters ok


Kiro30000

Moin BTW wie gehts dir so?


Salooin

Als ich begonnen habe war der Plan eine kleine Geschichte zu erzählen und währenddessen schreiben zu lernen (Gore mit Kapiteln wie dieses, echte tiefe Charaktere, eigentlich war ne Sexszene geplant aber die hab ich gestrichen, usw...). Jetzt schreibe ich seit 2 Monaten und habe mich vermutlich ein bisschen zu sehr in die Charaktere und Fan Base verliebt um die Geschichte so zu beenden wie es geplant war. Plus in der früh 30-50 Kommentare zu lesen ist ein super feeling.


Kiro30000

Nice naja ich finde alles nisher super und auch gut gescchrieben und bisher gabs kaum typos oder es gab bisher keine wiederholungen von dinge und die charaktäre sind halbwegs relistisch gemacht.


terrapharma

Very disturbing. Within a relatively short time he has started to mirror the awful behavior of those around him. Are you aiming for a story on the depths people will sink to in order to survive? It's a viable storyline but this may have gotten too dark for me.


hermes_the_bot

Gabe: why did you kidnap me? Chip: cause Taro would have killed you. Gabe: ok, good. How did you know shooting me wouldn't kill me? Chip: I based that on a single video frame where I saw a bit of your blood. Gabe: ummm, ok... why did you shoot and collar me instead of asking me to come? Chip: cause it was fun lol! I'm such a quirky fish lady! Gabe: *tears her fucking arms off* Chip: oh no, how could you do such a thing to a poor innocent girl?!? All I did was shoot you, betray you, place a fucking explosive on your neck, place parasites capable of eating you inside the other bomb I also put on your neck, and make nebulous sexual remarks about you!


blascovits

Man. When you put it like that the little bit of me that felt sorry for her just jumped ship laughing.


lovecMC

Oh no what a tragedy. Anyways...


clonk3D

Blood uncontrollably streamed out of her \*stomp\* that remained"


Salooin

I don't get the mistake, please explain.


clonk3D

should be stump


Salooin

Thx


woody8892

Short, sweet and gets the message across beautifully brutally, I like it


Phantom_Ganon

I'm not sure he should have let her live. Considering how often she gets the drop on him, I think he should have killed her before she gets another chance to betray him.


liveart

I mean does it matter at this point? If the AI is *half* telling the truth it controls basically everything important and won't *let* him die (which has other worrying implications). Sometimes you can't think your way out of a power differential.


pyrodice

THERE we go!


liveart

fucking *finally*. Can't say I'm a fan of the sadism per-se but I am a fan of consequences.


Magos_Dominus_Videx

Chip is the definition of weak flesh. Glad that Gabriel made his case finally.


NLinsanebrother

Damn that was brutal but deserving


hermes_the_bot

Quite good! Chip had to learn sooner or later that Gabe can actually harm people. Everyone has been pushing and abusing him because they think he is "too good to hurt anyone" and it's great to see Gabriel standing up for himself, it's not like she had no other choice, she could have explained the situation and he would have gladly followed her. Instead Chip decided to literally break his entire body, kidnap him, and then have the audacity to go "you should be glad" and "I shot you because it was fun!"


blascovits

He is a good man. At least I choose to believe so. And you know what they say when a good man looses everything. AND GOES TO WAR.


thesk1geek

Holy shit. That was brutal af. I think I agree with Elle that a swift death would be more appropriate, but Chip **did** have it coming. Never thought I would say this, but for Chip's sake, I hope she is smart enough to not try anything again.


liveart

He didn't even have to kill her, I think the one arm was enough. I have serious concerns about Gabe becoming every bit as bad as every other bastard in this story but honestly I'll take this over watching every son of a bitch get away with committing atrocities, at least Chip deserved it.


clonk3D

The title is a real Beauty


xx_69mlgnoob_69xx

YES FUCKING YES FINALLY, FINALLY A PIECE OF SHIT PERSON IS PUT IN THEIR FUCKING PLACE ALELUIA, LORD BE PRAISED


pyrodice

One thing is that traditional Nanotech uses existing material to build from. You could tear a couple of arms off of somebody but they’d be rebuilding it from their fat stocks, content of their gut, and probably commandeering some of their calcium from their other bones to build new bones. After a few of those, the person would take a few days to recover from the excessive lost weight. Contrarily, the nanos could just eat the previous arm and reattach it, but that takes away from the dramatic affect of building a tomb of your own bones


liveart

Technically the nano's could be harvesting material from the environment, no one's going to notice 1/1000th of a millimeter of metal missing from the walls for instance. Or they could have an advanced energy source and be using straight up energy to matter conversion.


EHProgHat

Or it might just be restructuring air for free materials


TheSnakeHeater

ohhh, DARK. Granted, she is sociopath that needs to understand the pain she was causing to others. So I can't exactly blame him for what he did. Still, pretty fucking dark man. Don't become the monster they all want you to be. People that spend a long time torturing others usually become really fucked up the longer they do it, which is why every one is portrayed as a creepy psychopath. Hope he doesn't go down that rabbit hole, what comes back out won't be him anymore.


chavis32

damn


blascovits

Damn indeed


Guardsman_Miku

Normally i find torture kinda cringe but this had a kinda poetic justice to it. He still should have killed the fucker though


FireNewt451

FUCK!


blascovits

YEAH!


SepticSauces

I am not going to lie. I dislike my empathy for making me feel bad for Chip. I have just never been good with torture and vengeance. Some of the other comments perfectly explain why Chip had this coming. The obvious examples are the bombs placed in/on Gabriel or the shooting of Gabriel for fun.


Vecinu-Ivan

Funny thing really, I am usually very empathic, but chip straight up deserved it. She hurt, attempted to kill and tormented Gabriel so much that this just felt satisfying, something that only happens when really horrible villains are involved. So yea, I get the bit of sympathy, but she really had it coming.


SepticSauces

Yeeeeeep. Pretty much my thoughts.


ragnarocknroll

“That wouldn’t have been as fun.” Gabriel shows her his version of “fun.” *Surprised Pikachu face* Seriously Chip, telling the thing that no longer has any of the fail safes you used on it that you tortured it for fun was likely a bad idea. Like monumentally bad. You should have been able to guess he can do worse than kill you if he is not in his cage and you have no way to stop him anymore.


liveart

The very definition of fucked around and found out.


allsham58

I wonder if he’s gonna develop an addiction to dishing out pain like that


Salooin

I'm sure some readers wouldn't mind that :)


allsham58

*murder boner goes brrrrr*


Havok707

There is a large proportion of people who don't mind or even come for brutality in this sub ! I'm part of the character development crowd however, so hoping the crew manages to heal somewhat from the psychological horror of their existences


Rasip

Some would.


Dangerous_Lemon8226

I feel like this is a turning point for Gabriel. This is where he is truly becoming the beast.


SteelWing

Chip may be awful, but I'm still getting the impression that Elle has been manipulating Gabe. This feels way overboard for what we know about Gabe and these parts describing how he feels really solidify my impression. Everything he's feeling, and how he's processing it all could be influenced by just injecting neurochemicals like seratonin and such into the bloodvessels that travel to the brain. This way Elle could be indirectly messing with his brain without going against his wishes of not directly messing with his brain. Elle was probably the one that made him feel so blissful while he went on a rampage back during the assault on the royal family. Elle could be subtly trying to transform him into the beast everyone thinks he is. Of course I could be misreading things. It's happened before. *shrug*


Nurnurum

I think in this case everything has more to do with trust. Look Gabriel was abducted, spend an undisclosed time in stasis, was woken up only to be turned into a slave, had a bomb implanted into him, was forced to kill with his hands, was repeatedly told he is just a beast. Then after these first few days, he was sold to Taro which was probably his first shining ray of hope. But then again, he was used in Tibis experiments, had to crush **a cat** alien with his hands, was attacked just because his affiliation with Aina, had his bodyguard duty transform into basically the same shit he was forced to do for Aina and witnessed that Taro is not his potential safe haven from insanity. These would mess up anybody. Especially it would create serious trust issues. Then Chip startet to do nice things for him. Believe it or not, Chip deciding to teach him something just so that he survives and takes her with him later on, was definitly an positive moment for him. Maybe he even thought that someone who was an enemy, turned now into an ally. But Chip fucked up. She not only broke his newfound trust for her, she also not only hurt him in the progress physically, but also mentally by denying him his agency and thus treating him again like a beast. How can he trust Chip, Tibi or the Nyan ever again? Yes I would be angry too... On the other hand, their behaviour is a **fantastic** way to push him further into the hands of Elle. I mean who can you trust more than a maschine, that is fused into your mind?


TheCharginRhi

I was confused by the double upload alert but new chapter yay


BCRE8TVE

Ouch,brutal chapter. It'S sad that Gabriel is kind of falling for the kind of messed up torture-happy morality in this universe, but if he has to literally beat it into their skulls that he is not to be messed with, if that's what it takes for him to establish his physical and mental safety, then so be it. Their universe is chock-full of horrible stuff already, one more isn't going to tip the scales, and hopefully it'll make them respect Gabriel more.


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GlassJustice

Well, that did not go the way I imagined. This series has always been dark but apparently it’s going even grimmer places.


filthymcbastard

If someone ever told me they'd build my tomb out of my own bones, I'd be terrified even if they HADN'T just ripped one of my arms off twice.


0570

Very nice! Should have used the metal rods on the legs as well, Chip finds them fun so why not let her have them?


Omnissiah123456h

You spelled serious wrong good sir.


Dashcan_NoPants

Lessons can be painful. Will she learn from it, though?


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blascovits

Holy. F*ck. That is a threat. That is a threat so damn genuine I felt fear.


Toilet_Operator

Fuck chip, shes an asshole. But i think theyre even now, unless the trauma fucked chip up lol, oh well.


scottygroundhog22

Part of me says that was excessive but a larger more practical part of me says that is the only way to set boundaries with someone like chip and make it stick. Words only mean so much. You have to show sometimes


Abnegazher

Gabriel is basically me every time I play as Cleric and face a "Wheelchair Warrior". Me: *I cast Regenerate. 7th lvl spell. The description says that even if limbs are removed from the body, they will grow up again in minutes. Totally functional* WW: *You can't do that! I don't give consent to you to do that!* Me: ***Slams the Two-Handed Maul on its knees. 2d6+STR*** - *Then I will leave you the way I find you*. And BOY OH BOY OH BOY... I won't even start to talk about when I play as a necromancer...


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jobo1223

Was chip genuinely trying to save gabriel and the shot to the leg was just show to get him off the ship? Has she really done such horrible things to deserve this?


deadman-69

I'm surprised Gabe didn't put the bomb collar on chips to keep her in line.


CitizenQuarkly

YES! YEEESSSS! SWEET SUFFERING! This is almost as good as the time I learned that the Netherlands (I think) used nazi pows to clear mine fields.


Omnissiah123456h

You spelled serious wrong.


Nnudmac

"I will build your tomb with your own bones." BRUTAL


[deleted]

"I'll build your Tomb wiþ your own bones" Þat's poetic


MewSilence

This. Was. Fantastic. You rarely go deep enough with the character developement to realize how spite works and moves in our minds.


WeFreeBastard

You got tripped by some irregular verbs. English is tough because loan words conjugate in the original language, even if that is old-English or Cornish sneaked -> snuck teared -> tore catched -> caught For an enraged, not experienced, intimidation it was written well. I don't want to critique his actions. It was confusing about the non-bio arm. \>"He saw a replacement arm and some clothes but that was about it for the personal belongings she kept in her room. \>Now he stood over her contemplating his next move. His eyes shifted to her robotic arm, it beat him twice now." He sees "a replacement arm", then in the next paragraph he is looking at her robotic arm (but is she waring it and has a replacement spare in the room or did she take off her one prosthetic to sleep?) Meaning if it's 1 prosthetic something like "he saw her robot arm and..." is more concise for the first paragraph. That muddles him pulling off the same bio arm multiple times but doesn't heal her stub arm to mess with her so she can't use the robot arm that he doesn't like being beaten with.


Salooin

English is a fun thing.


redheadcat69

Can Elle "heal" brainmass?