Stay strong, Little one.

Yup, a totally justified response tbh. What absolutely awful parents.

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, HATE, leads to sufferrriiiing, couldn't resist, true though. Wrath/Spite/vengeance is a disease.

True wisdom from Yoda himself, these words and emotions are paths to the dark side.

The phrase is not bad but I think it would be better if it were like this: "Fear leads to hate, hate leads to anger, and ANGER leads to sufferrriiiing". Even so, the phrase is not bad and it is still something suitable for what is seen on this page.

Well thel ast part "HATE leads to suffering" isnt just about the person itself... it typically turns to violence eventually that destroys everyone around them friend and enemy alive, hence the moral is actually that "Wrath/Spite/Revenge" is a disease and is blatent destruction made manifest. Hatred eventually turns to the above mentioned. Heck most DISLIKE things...hatred is much much worse.

That is fine but fear generally leads to hate as it has to do with rejection; not anger per sey. To put it simply, love is attraction; hate is repulsion. Love is acceptance; hate is rejection. So from a philosophical point of view, no; Yoda's phrase, as much as I like the original Star Wars trilogy, is wrong from that point of view because fear has nothing to do with anger per sey. However, what happened with Nigel is still there and that is not going to change for the better, regardless of what I say but I admit that this was interesting talk.

Anger typically is a temporary emotion under normal circumstances, a direct result of being unable to do anything about the situation brought about by fear. This anger initially will have no direct target, but will quickly latch onto a person, object or group that can be blamed for preventing your fears from becoming reality. If neither the fear nor the anger can be addressed or alleviated, it can create into genuine hatred for that person/group. Hatred causes you to see those targeted as acceptable targets, not even really human, allowing you to justify violence against that group, and suffering follows, per Yoda's wisdom.

Tldr: anger and fear are short term emotions. Hatred is long term. Fear induces anger from the impotence, anger causes hate, that hate is typically what will let a person to actually cross that line to cause suffering. Yoda was correct.

I'm sorry, but it still doesn't make sense that anger is related to fear per sey, and from all the information I have learned over the years, I discovered that this is not always the case. Sorry but Yoda was wrong and that's because those who wrote the scripts for such movies were still human.

I'm not talking about all circumstances, and neither was Yoda. The cycle Yoda talked about is something that definitely happens, and from what I can tell, the specific fear that Yoda meant was the kind associated with impotence, basically not being able to do anything about that thing you fear.

In universe, Yoda was talking about Anakin's and Luke's parallels, having known the terrible things that occurred because Anakin couldn't do anything about his mother's or wife's impending deaths.

If that were to be the case, every person who was afraid about something would have anger problems every time something like this happens to that person and that doesn't happen in real life. I'm sorry but what you say still doesn't make sense.

yes Let the Blood rage flow through you kill your fucking shit parents boy do it let the dark side flow muhahahahahaha

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! LET THE GALAXY BUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRNN!!!!

BLOODY OTH LET THE CHOAS GODS RULE OVER ALL HAHAHAHHA

To think they didn't give a shit about Toby before... he is as much of a victim, none of their parents love them

Pretty much.

I hate liars.

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Seem the ends of time did come way sooner then expected... At least for Nigel...

His reaction is understandable.

And thus, a supervillian is born

It makes for a great redemption plot though

"Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you."

Wow, those parents are really crappy, lying to their kid just for some misguided prestige...

There we go.

And just as fast as they dropped their older son, they reduced the 'every family member becoming a Guardian' to 'at least one of a generation must become a Guardian'

I can't help but wonder what happens if Toby fails to become a Guardian for the very same reason?
I doubt they will find the fault with themselves, but I can't help wondering what their reaction would be and how it would reflect in their status and wealth.

I'd imagine they'd drop both kids at the orphanage and complain they wasted all these years for useless brats andaybe start blaming each other's genes

I know exactly how this little child feels/felt. My one saving grace was that Papa didn't turn a cold shoulder on his 'Problem daughter', nor did my friends/community (for the most part). I hadn't lost 'All' affections/support. I don't think I would've survived to see adolescence, if I were totally cut-off like that.
This comic page really hits me in the feelz, and I have to say 'Thank You!' for the emotional depth your work(s) often portray!

Please 🥺🥺🥺🥺 🥺 don't kill your little brother he was innocent he didn't know what happened to understand.. don't kill him. I rather hope he runs and runs far away but always being a disgrace to his family just so his brother can live and hopefully redeem him some how QwQ however that's a Dream.. a dream I'm so afraid to learn is not real QwQ

lovely comic, quite the emotion put into it ^^

Poor kid, doesn't deserve be treated like this

Parents living vicariously through their children. There is a line when taking joy in your children's lives and development. I'm not a doctor, I don't know what to call the parents' psychosis in their treatment of their children.

Oh dear.
I'm sensing alot of hate filled action is about to occur

I wonder how many other older siblings from previous generations suffered the same treatment as he did?

Or how many kids suffer like this in real life?

too many to count.

Far too many.

Parents treating their kids as nothing more than trophies that are supposed to reflect their personal glory is VERY common.

The kids always suffer for it, and they don't care.

-Badger-

This family sucks, so vent it out kid and rekt the whole place.

The most toxic of toxic parents, the ones that fill a child with fake adoration and importance and will toss them like trash when they do not reach their level of accomplishment.

The cycle continues.

Worse they come back when they need something.

Oh ALWAYS when they need something you don't exist til they do, even after they denounced you.

Living that reality myself.

I mean, at that point I'm just waiting for my little brother to be alone and let him in on how mom and dad really feel about their children. Then try to remember that he's a potential victim too.

Please don't tell me he will try to kill his parents!!!

If Rah'Jan doesn't kill his parents I will.

Now he needs a fiendish/outsider patreon to gain power and destroy his families legacy, just so his little brother can save the day as the chosen hero :o

Feel like he will leave them and become a bandit or a rouge

Yep. Thought so. Parental favoritism.
One of the worst things a parent can do, added with ignoring him.
They better apologize out the ass once this is done

I feel like this is all according to the spirit's plan. Two factor plan. First, she wants him to experience the negative emotions before she accepts him as a guardian. Second, she needed him to sever the connection to his parents so that they couldn't influence him once he became a guardian.

Or he will become a villain before having a redemption arc close to the end of the comic.

I dunno he probably be more of an Early antagonist, who redeems himself and then joins the group on their real quest.

All according to plan.

Maybe it be something like: He living on the streets and the guardian group coming through the town and he planning to mislead them and causes them to be in real danger, before he is like "what am I doing this is wrong"

All according to kinkaku

Anger… fear… aggression. The dark side are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

...So I decided to take the scroll by force... Oh wait, Wrong story xD

lol the edgy comments in the last few pages are kind of excessive. they are like, more hardcore than usual stereotypical Asian parents, not darth vader and maleficent XD. Also as far as "neglect" goes, anytime a parent can get tired of looking at their kid for whatever grudge they have, and just command their butler do all the parent stuff from their castle or whatever...I dunno lacks a little bite in spite of the hurt feelings, people need to chill :P

Declarative statements like "I will love you forever" are disgusting, because they're always lies.

The thing is that from parents, they should be indeed loving their child forever (that is unless they become a monster who hurts people for fun of course) because parental love is unconditional, the child counts on them to grow good. So when this kind of "parents" don't because the kid doesn't meet their expectations, they never deserved to be parents

I would do the same. They turned their backs on him, act like he no longer exists and give all their attention to his brother, who is so much younger than him. They aren’t parents, they’re drill sergeants.

No...he didn't deserve this. His parents are the worthless ones..not him.

Will he still remember the wise words og the Tree and then continue training for himself now ? There is still hope if he doesn't follow à path of anger and hate.

The question is if he wanted to be Guardian in the first place

It was inevitable, but that's what happens when you mistreat and take everything away from a child who had everything he could ever ask for.

>:'(

Woof. These are some terrible parents.

I can understand his anger at his parents hypocrisy, how they are neglecting him, and yes his anger is completely justified. (I also feel bad for the younger sibling for also having crap parents) but little dude should really think twice about lashing out on stuff since that is the fast track to getting whacked with a belt.

No he needs to wait, stay his path, grow larger and stronger. then when the time is right and he achieves his goal. that is when he parents would try to pull him back into his to say how proud they are. that is the time for him to strike and deliver it would full force for max affect.

lets your anger make your strong little one, but do not let it control you. all your anger but also accept happiness along the way.

For this scene https://youtu.be/muehxvezYmI

Well, this mother and father are in deep trouble.

It seemed he has now turned over to the dark side, I have a feeling he will serve the tree of death. The opposite of the goddess tree of life.

Maybe the artist can include some of the fan's characters as cameos into his comics.

Let's hope both him and Toby manage to get better in life, because their parents are grade A a-holes

A child who is rejected by their village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

its time
ITS TIME
fill ThE little one with dark raw hatred
Give him the power
Give him
The void

And reward for being the biggest jerks in galaxy Goes to....

At least not one is defending the parents this page and saying he totally loved their son but they suddenly stopped loving him the moment he wasn't accepted. Which is totally how love works - if you really love someone you definitely can stop loving them the moment they dissapoint you over something that isn't their fault /s

Okay parents, maybe this will get your attention towards them. You ego is fragile I bet. >8)

Aw poor kid. ;-;

If he has another encounter with the Tree of Life, he’ll undoubtedly blame everything on her as it was her rejection that inadvertently ruined his life. And with this rage now in his heart he’ll have lost all respect for her and likely say he hates her.

I am a depressed cynic but I would probably write Nigels story line to have him cross paths with his parents quickly and have him not let them know who he is however I would have him notice that the pair are more grizzled and distant from each other. Toby I would make into a Guardian but I would have him act like a humiliating playboy and bounty hunter in public as a way to punish his parents for driving Nigel away because younger siblings always look up to older ones and Toby should take the loss of his brother personally. Nigel of course will be severely embittered towards his parents and keep a distance from Toby while learning how his abandonment or banishment from his home and family caused things to collapse under its own bad structuring with his mother feeling regretful and his father living in denial. The page itself makes me wish for this entire family to find redemption from how bad they are all going to become from this regardless of how they get there.

i hafta sob at how relatable this is, and how much Viktria, goodness you can make an angry and sad and child face all in one, that so pulls me into sharing what he's feeling, so much. ;.;

…And this is where he gets the boot out of the house.

Yes. Let the hate flow through you. Embrace the full power of the dark side.
In all serious his feelings are justified. Like you don't ghost your own child.

Maybe the question Nigel should have asked was:

Who am I becoming a guardian for?

Maybe thats the question of the whole thing.

He wanted to become a guardian because his parents wanted it, and not because HE wanted it.

So is he going to be one of those: "I gave my best, but it was never good enough for you so you see me as a failure and ignore me. And because of that, instead of becoming a hero, i become a villain. Maybe you will notice me then."-type?

I mean, i can understand him. It was absolutely not his fault, and his parents switch to his little brother like he died in an accident or so.

What I feared would happen, is finally happening.

I fear a few things will grow up becoming evil, kill his parents and maybe ( I hope doesn't happen ) kill his little innocent brother. Then go on a rampage and kill people and attack the Mother of Life herself.

Aww, poor kid. But he already sensed that Nigel's parents were going to act this way after the tree of life rejected him; the feelings hit hard on this page.

knowing how raggedy his outfit is when he's grown up, i'm betting they're gonna kick him out sooner or later... :(

Even when he's mad, I still feel bad for him. I still think he deserves better.

I'm curious as to how Toby isn't already in the state their brother is in now. They basically ignored him and piled all their false love on his brother until he failed. How would *you* react if parents who ignored you until they felt it was conveient to notice you started treating you the way they had your brother, while then mistreating the brother? I'd expect Toby to be far less happy and far more suspicious than he is in these panels, especially considering they're saying the same now obvious lies to him that they did to his brother.

Also? The sheer number of 'yes let the hate flow through you!' comments here... not sure if it's more creepy or disturbing.

Depending on the child and the age they would not known any better. All they see is the affection that they lacked suddenly surging in, not knowing it's 100% conditional to the parents expectations and can be ripped away with any error.

What would REALLY be terrible is if they dive into it when approached about it with there bother. the "You're just jealous cause they love 'me' now." Mindset that can EASILY be solidified at this stage.

We all crave affection, so for the child to young to really understand, all it is is a good thing. This kind of poison can fester.

I'm not sure how old he is here, but I've had 13 nieces and nephews, and watched them all growing up from up close. Trust me that this game of 'parents favorite' was closely watched between them from as soon as the concept even starts out, and sometimes hotly contested over. At ages as young as three, they would compete for more attention and love, and would treat each other badly or sometimes mock each other depending on where they were on the scale.

In my own family of five brothers and sisters, I experienced this to an extent. my middle brother was the 'golden child'. My mother doted on him to no end, and nothing he ever did was wrong, even when it was. He was so high in her regard that he could get me punished by lying to her, and she would only realize he had lied *after* punishment was dealt out. And even then she would only be upset for a little while. Yet for some reason, he didn't like that she seemed to treat me more gently than everyone else (mainly because I was super quiet and out of the way, so caused no trouble for her to react to, or at least very rarely). Because of this, he was always trying to get me in trouble, or make it seem like I was doing wrong, just because he knew she would hardly ever think he was being malicious.

If I were Toby, I would be HIGHLY suspicious if my parent had suddenly stopped thinking my brother was the golden child and started looking at me in the same way she had him.

Depending on how starved for attention the child is they might make the mental connection but not care cause "it's my turn now".

But this get where you come from just speaking froma position very similar, heck they still treat my older brother better than I but want to lamp the responsibility onto me.

I wonder if the little brother would be accepted as well will only fuel him more or will they both be in the same boat if she did not accept him as well?

"...and that is how i became a ravenous warlord!"

Be angry at your parents, but don't take it out on any one else. PLEASE, I BEG YOU!!!

Don't give in

And is to so ......... the dark past opens its doors

SOMEONE NEEDS TO GIVE THE KID A HUG AND SOON

Most likely.....

Well, he didn't deserve it.

I sincerely hope that Toby can come through for him as a brother. Seems like of all people, he'd know what it's like to be ignored for so long, and probably would be curious where all this sudden praise is coming from.

I dont see this being turned around; hate and rage will always cover the lens of clarity...

What would the parents would do if the younger brother had either an accident NOT caused by his brother or caught some virus that killed him early!
What would they do then especially AFTER THIS incident!

This is how super-villains get started.
Serial killers often come from unhappy homes.

"We'll be proud of you until the end of time*!"

*That time ends when you fail at something.

I swear if the little brother is chosen by the goddess to become a guardian in his first try. I'm going to wish that she will be punched in the face by Nigel one day.

I still think its messed up the tree saw these parents as worthy of being guardians but not him '>~>

I really feeling his emotional pain ; ;.

Awful parents can cause the child to go on the wrong path, that's how some villains are made.

he's right he doesn't deserve this :<

no one deserves to be treated like a ghost.

So the parents are Fxcks someone should ...... No that is the Darkside but if they see Toby not get chosen then well they might try for a 3rd kid since they're THOSE people

Be funnier if the THIRD kid did not get picked and they try again. They will be in a cycle of hell. lol

As for the kids, they can move on to do better things.......hopefully.

All negative emotions are signifiers of unmet needs.
All positive emotions are signifiers of met needs.
If you're mad at someone for ghosting you, for example, the root of that anger is an unmet need for inclusion and social interaction.
If you're mad at your parents for abandoning you and ignoring you because some goddess didn't entertain their power fantasy, that unmet need is the need for unconditional love.
The best solution is to find a way to meet the root need of that anger. To satisfy it, so that there's no reason to feel that anger. If it won't come from parents, it should come from someone else. Someone better.

...Man, I'm sounding like the Tree of Life aren't I?

And that is the lesson I wager.
Tho I like this enough I want to save it to a text file.

Feel free to. I learned this from a book called The Surprising Purpose of Anger, by Marshall Rosenberg. It's a great read.

His face on the bottom left . . . . I can feel this image - so powerful. So well done!

*picks up Nigel and takes him away to a place where he will be loved, hugs him tight*

And now what, if the little brother fails in the future, he would be ignored too?

Called it.

The boy needs to learn that he can choose many things in life, but family is not one of them. He got the one that does not really tolerate failure, and yes he didn't deserve it but that what he got.

And a certain 'god' would/should have known this would happen. Cue the 'gods' work in retarded ways argument. And cue those who will interpret this as "teh parents dun dood nothing wrong!"

like clockwork

Poor lil guy :c Such absolute shit parents.

10/10 parenting. not at all abusive or grooming

I don't blame him for his response. What fucking awful parents!