She has a tattoo on her face and on her shoulder. I assure you they are supposed to be stationary. Drawing is hard.
In retrospect, it's a terrible character design because I have to draw the tattoo all the time and I don't even have a firm design for it, I just scribble some vaguely tribal and nautical looking lines. It pretty much rules out any animation.
This is mainly for aesthetic and production reasons. When someone is under magical influence it will be much more obvious. You could call the current color palette foreshadowing if you want.
>Why would Allen/Allison be entirely ignorant of magic?
Alison's original name is not revealed. Melody just starts picking names, perhaps not even aware of his/her situation, and Mistress offers a correction. It's not even clear if Mistress bothered finding out his name, she didn't seem that interested in his file.
Dialog in the first chapter indicates that Alison is aware of transformation magic. As for his reaction to the transformation, well, I'm aware of crocodiles but I'd still be pretty surprised if one bit me in the leg.
>you've got obvious magic-wielding women
The 4th wall reason why they have tattoos is to look cool/tough (thus making it more interesting to 'defeat' them), and it's not a bad in-universe reason either. I wouldn't necessarily prescribe it to magical ability, seems more of a warrior/barbarian thing to do to me.
>are the two women in a storyline that doesn't intersect with Allison's?
They're definitely in the same world with the same captors. I don't know if they'll have a reason to meet.
There's two groups of readers: people alarmed about Stockholm syndrome, and people ready to volunteer to get Stockholm syndrome. I'm not entirely sure the groups are mutually exclusive.
Yes, Lighter Chains will resume at some point. From my patreon post:
I'm in a bit of a rut on Lighter Chains - I know where I want it to go but the scenes aren't coming to me easily. Rather than bash my head against it, I decided to make a different comic and come back to it later.
There is no dialog or narration in this comic, there is no back story (use your imagination for now ;), it's just action.
Yes. My life is a series of different projects and I'm not good at balancing them. I have posted a patreon update.
>Have you always drawn the teeth.
Teeth made their first appearance all the way back in volume 1 page 1. And you're totally right that her teeth are messed up here. Someday I'll post a page where I'm happy with every panel, but today is not that day.
I plan to post the next page on Friday. How would you like to get updates? There is an rss feed, would you prefer an email list? Twitter bot? Something else?
The 404s shouldn't effect anything, the solution on my end is just to have blank placeholder images or just not attempt to preload those images since they aren't used. The animation changes speed and pattern randomly so will sometimes do things that look laggy - it's a tossup between variety and weirdness. I'm only getting ~1% cpu usage from this tab, and it runs fine on my phone.
There is also a rare bug where the primary animation frame will become transparent, but I haven't figured that one out yet.
If you can see anybody's cochlea, you must have *very* good eyesight. If you mean cornea, by which you mean sclera, Alison has very pale skin and the contrast tends to be overwhelmed by dramatic lighting. I suppose I could compensate for this but then you can get a glow-in-the-dark effect. Drawing is hard.
It's a fine line between fostering a healthy sex drive and general obedience. Mistress's goal here is Alison's complete submission, and she's chosen her words to get that.
Sex is a constant - it's happening no matter what Alison does. The punishment is the lack of intimacy.
