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The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht
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Broke Horror Fan is excited to share an exclusive preview of Koshchei in Hell’s the final issue, which will be published on April 5 via Dark Horse Comics.
Set in the Hellboy universe, the four-part miniseries is written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, illustrated by frequent collaborator Ben Stenbeck, and colored by Dave Stewart.
Koshchei was first introduced in 2007's Hellboy: Darkness Calls and was later the subject of 2018's Koshchei the Deathless. Koshchei in Hell picks up after the events of the 2021 one-off, Sir Edward Grey: Acheron.
Koshchei's sojourn through Hell intensifies! After being betrayed by Hell's last demon, an exhausted Koshchei is ready to give up . . . But someone from his distant past appears to help him answer for his crimes and, in doing so, prepare him for his next phase of existence.
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Unrelated but I was thinking about Koschei for reasons (I was reading about proto indo European pantheon and it turns out 'Fire God formed in water' is a myth researchers think they mightve had and it remonded me of Vassa) and am I allowed to say how funny it is that like, Koschei is so directly named after a myth. Like Bone Carvers his own thing and Stryga is technically got like The Three Fates/The Witch in Hansel and Gretel vibes, and then there's Koschei who is basically just the guy from the myth including the title. ALSO protoindoeuropean pantheon speculation is dope BTW you should research it its fascinating
Bold of you to assume I haven’t already researched it. I fucking loved anything protoindoeuropean as a kid, the folklore FUCKS
Anyways, personally I would’ve loved it if SJM combined Lanthys and Koschei together into one character. I think (no shade to ACOSF and it’s enthusiasts) instead of the rehab/whatever plot we got, we could’ve gotten to see a little brief corruption arc w Nesta and Koschei
Cuz like imagine a story where this deathless death god found out about cauldrongate and was like psychologically manipulating Nesta into gathering all of the troves (his soul bits) so that she could 1) become his queen/weapon, 2) make him all powerful, and 3) become a literal shield for him because the gang would have to kill her to kill him
(gonna unprofessionally ramble in the tags because I need to brainstorm about this lol)
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i'm sorry you all have to endure my conspiracies, but comrade zmey gorinich is koschei the tricky cynical bitch in disguise, and i will die on that hill. going off the symmetry and parallels in their dialogue alone:
• "i am comrade gorinch, and i have one head."
• "i am comrade koschei bessmertny, and i have come for the girl in the window."
• "you will kill dogs, and hound old women in the forest, and betray any soul if means having what you desire, and that makes you a sinner, and that makes you my wife."
• "what did you say your name was, criminal girl? [...] comrade marya morevna! convicted of gross dessertion at leningrad in 1942! bones! bones! and that makes you my bones, and that makes you my tribute."
• "stay with me forever, forever, until you die, and then, still, i will keep your bones and clutch them to my breast."
but also when he describes himself as the son of a khan and a dragon mother who he took from the lakes of serbia... when he complains about humans taking too much from the chyerti.... it fits too well. the man is disguised, but it's the most honest he's been about his true history.
when this trial is really just the original marya vs koschei fairytale playing out again to see who is to rule, if he should just kill her now before she kills him later, but the victor still isn't clear.
he knows what will happen in leningrad, but when she kisses him, he let's her go anyway. but he still leaves a permanent mark, and it pulls her to find him again when she dies, so in a way her bones were still his tribute a ha
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This is part of the Winchesters Codex playset which should help start to shake out Dean's end of the story.
I'll eventually update it with new content, since Reflection itself was a S15 remaster during covid break of S14 Lateralus Project Reflection.
(the old lateralus playlist is mostly broken from youtube shenanigans, I can do a rebuild for those who want a deep dive; but it's not necessary really, you just need the S15 pieces. Hence Winchesters Codex, and then whatever I make new)
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I've played as Horned King twice in Villainous now and have lost both times because my luck is bad but the fact that Creeper is an ally that doesn't get discarded after being used to vanquish makes me lose it
THIS GOBLIN IS UNKILLABLE
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