Sounds like what poor Zag could use most is someone who defies the laws of the reality they're in.

If ever comes a time that you release a mass compilation of all of these (like the story is fully finished), let me know. I'll buy the hard copy.

I have plans for something like that.

At least they appear to be making an attempt to help him.

Honestly, if it were me, the idea of people forcing something on me like that would make me more uncomfortable, even if they were trying to "fix" things. Maybe I missed it but I haven't seen him express a great deal of desire to WANT to be "fixed." The trauma can certainly impact the quality of ones life but forcing such things on someone can just make a bad thing worse.

I've never had REM therapy but I've heard that it can be useful for dealing with PTSD. I put no personal stock ~at all~ in CBT, though.

Interested to know more, but, it really makes me feel concerned that they're over here making plans and discussing doing things to him. Isn't that how all this got started in the first place?

I think he just accepted it and avoind to raise any fragile hope about it.
plus he saw someone try to "magically" fix him and he didn't seems surprised or happy to have his nose back for few seconds, like he already knew how is going to end, but a demostration was needed

I imagine that is the case, a sort of depressed apathy. Hopelessness? But sometimes the certainty of being “consistently broken” can become a comfort, when compared to more painful tests and false hopes.

I’ve sorta been there.

Either way I love that I can even have this conversation. A story that spawns such a thing is wonderful.

Hoever still a backside of his regeneration: he is potentially immortal, so will suffer multiple times the death of loved ones and probably isolate himself
sure at a certain point he will be the one begging to be "fixed" even at the cost of die in the process

We're still not sure what caused this apocalypse, either. I've kinda had it in the back of my head that we might be dealing with patient zero in all of this. Might've been a grey goo type of scenario. Tho I would think this team of people would know about that. (I hope.)

Mmmh... I wonder if they could manage to track down that doc that injected the nanomachines, she should know more.

I also hope they quickly edited his documents and deleted "rapist" off from it too.

Given what happened to the world outside of Esperanza, she's likely dead or worse.

True that.
But also given what job she has, she might had some luck wearing a hazmat suit in time and findind a safe place somewhere.
But until it's told, we'll never know.

Read my mind on that. At most find the records, lab notes and such...

Actually if it was proven what those nanobots can do. She might be alive similar to him by injecting her self. If shite hit the fan. Might even prevent aging with how they function, right?

Too right, too right...

Am I the only one who has that detachable penis song in their head now?

Lot a big words here but I got the basics down

But what I'm wondering is how far south this will go for Zag considering how life seem's to bump all over him left and right

To be fair, I have no idea what the anteater girl said, she's voiced by a friend of mine who knows about psychology.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a sort of mental shaping to help someone adjust their outlook and adapt in positive ways to trauma. Eye movement desensitization is something one of my therapists worked in. It’s supposedly to deal with ptsd and keeping the person “in the now” to avoid that whole “oh gods it’s happening again!!” Panic moment.

I’m not well versed in psychology but I’ve spent a lot of time working with them and studying proposed treatments.

I’m very glad you’re including this angle. It is the bigger part of his picture, IMO.

The best of intentions, but...we know which path has that sort of paving.

Right. The road to Hell is paved with fudge brownies.

Quate.

I bet when he finds out the sheer number of people looking to help him, he will flip.

Jeez, Miss Walpurgis, keep your mind on the job!

I have a presentiment...

WAIT WHATS THATS SCIENTIST GOONA DO WITH THE LIL CUTIE XD !?!

For now yeah, it'd be best to prioritize his psychological health before trying to tamper his nanomachine makeup...which is also very likely the precursor template to the nanomachine plague which wiped out this worlds western continent.

It just occurred to me. Dr Encina's nanomachine trials on Mr. Zag the prior pages were most certainly to test it on a prisoner before applying the refined iteration to the privileged rich or the military. And since Zag was able to travels outdoors a-okay through the plague on a prototype nano injection, would that mean there could be another enclave of nano-enhanced survivors in his home country?

Not exactly, not in his home country, but there is at least one other nano-enhanced survivor using Dr Nge's technology.

If his privates were cut off, how does he…. You know

It's nice to see he has such a wide range of focused individuals willing to help him get himself back together.

Guess we'll see how it plays out.

And it certainly would help him w/ his... untested nano problem.

Uhh I don't mean to bug you but is the story still going😗?

Yes it is. The next two pages are almost done.