Awww
That's kinda sweet.

I'm glad she got a chance to come to terms with it.

my God I hate her xD u sure know how to make a good hated charater in a realistic way

yea i agree with you on that ^^/
if i had to compare this to current comic industries i think this far surpassing current comic's level of story writing

OMFG YES

There's no return from being neutered. Zaggy's life is forever changed. so should yours be.

Unless Zaggys nanobots can reconstruct missing manhood organs and structure, Eileen should have no peace.

Good on her.

Considering what Zaggy had to endure because of her, this isn't too fitting, but still a step to the right direction.

I am sure there's a chance she doesn't know what happened to Ziggy, other than "he went to jail".
But she doomed him to a life of pain, scars, castration, fear of women and being hated by the whole city. Until he reached the new city after the pandemic, at least.

A story like this is good if based on genuine facts, and yet hers is built on lies.
As much as she means good in the end, she ended up threatening an entire family's life just to get what she wants. You can't put that in good light.
She would have ordered to kill innocents just to send another innocent person in prison and prove her point and make profit on a story that could have happened fo real to someone better than her, she doesn't deserve compassion. :|

I wonder if her mentality about not regretting what she did will change in she finds herself in a negatively life changing situation she can't escape from.

in her defence, that was the group, not her

Good to get some closure, she seems to regret her actions which is a good first step

This reads less like "I want to atone" and more like "I'm tired of feeling guilty and want to pin the blame on others". While it's true that she is not solely responsible for Zag's fate, it's far too easy for everyone to say "I wouldn'tve let it get that far if X hadn't done Y." She needs to apologize. Everyone from the crowd, the blackmailer, Aileen, the judge, everyone is responsible; and all of them can pin their reactions on the other. They are each responsible for their own actions. But I kind of doubt any of them would. Far easier to say that someone else made them do it.

Huh.
You took a person framed as a straight-up villain and gave them depth. She's still got an evil trend in her, but she's come to regret it a bit, calling herself from her teenage years negatively. Plus this implies she's still got flak and hatred for it despite framing herself as a heroic survivor. So she DID get some Karma in the end. But she's still doing that thing where she says everyone who's blaming her has "Delusions of moral superiority" so maybe still being selfish?
But...she's calling out Misandry. Which implies she's disgusted by the people using her to attack men rather than her previous stance of superiority.
Javi, I gotta applaud you for making her a layered character and not just a "Mwahahaha me villain" cutout. Well done. I think you might be a good writer as well as artist ;)

Arrogant little slitch, aren't you, Aileen?

Zeke may forgive you. The rest of the world won't.

Hopefully it will come back with her kids doing something that will hurt her deeply...but that is one probable path karma can take...

a lot of people are mad she didn't get the karmic justice she deserved, I'm just astonished she admitted she did anything wrong lol.

she has a point, she didn't tell the group to threaten the judge's family

"Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find something in them for which to hang him."
- Cardinal Richelieu
THAT'S ONE FOR MY QUOTEBOOK!

I really want her to face justice for her actions. She did not Geld Zaggy, but caused him to go to prison and there he suffered. would love to see her suffer too, but perhaps the is the point of the story. some people get away with monstrous stuff and you can't do anything about it.

The point of the story is how much the thirst for revenge can harm innocents when people follow their rage without understanding that reality is often complex and ambiguous.

you know, I never did ask if the person in the prison who mutilated Zaggy ever faced more time because he did so. I will admit Zaggy should have a great thirst for revenge. I would at least see his mutilation be cured, his maleness restored, perhaps even for the dragon lady with him. pretty sure they are in love...

The last page of the comic shows Zag's genitals being fixed - especifically by Rora donating him hers and getting new ones for herself. Which, if you look closely, you can also figure out who the were cloned from.

that was 3x29 or 3x30?

3x30, at the farms.

I have to admit, I looked at that and thought he was still injured. just a black lump where his manhood should be, and he is not wearing pants. Only the welcoming Dragon is wearing pants. THis must be a bottomless day for some reason... Show your butt...

I'm told wearing only a shirt is common in Esperanza. It's a place where people are taught from childhood that there's no shame in nudity because it's not inherently sexual. Nudity is only titillating when one learns from square one that it's taboo and, thus, titillating.

Oh I thought those were just metal plates, and not gnashers.

... do the people reading your stuff know these are fictional characters? They're not real. None of this happened. What is up with people demanding "justice" for people who don't exist. O.o

....because things like this do happen in real life?

Then they should save their vitriol for the real stuff.

I know, right? I did not expect this to happen at all.

I have a theory. Because reality can be so horrifically unfair, fiction is often a source of catharsis because it (usually) shows good being rewarded and evil being punished. When you follow a fictional character and come to identify with them, especially when they suffer unjustly like Zaggy, you want to see them happy -- and you want anyone who has hurt them to pay for it. And when someone like Aileen hurts an innocent person in such a deeply personal way, a lot of people will want her suffering to be commensurate with his. But as Dr. Javi points out, the problem is that while revenge feels good for a while, it doesn't really solve anything.

Could also just be people feel for the characters, care about them and want them, to be happy or face karma if they were evil.
It's totally not an uncommon thing, fiction is all about investment right?

That's also a big part of it.

My first reaction was to wish something equally evil on Aileen, but that would only lower me to her level. She refuses to accept that what she did was wrong and repugnant, and reviles the public for shaming her.

"I have terminated the publishing contract for my first book."
Translation: her publisher dropped her like a hot rock.

You can't hide far enough away, Aileen. Karma has everyone's home address -- and lots of patience. I'm willing to bet that the husband she mentioned is abusive, either mentally or physically. Women like her seem attracted to the abusive type. It happened to two girls I went to high school with, and three more I worked with. And I will sit, with folded hands, and do nothing.

She terminated the contract herself out of regret for her actions and cut all ties with the angry mob who wished to destroy the life a person over made-up stuff they chose to believe.

I guess she must have had an epiphany and realised what a cruel thing she did

Alternatively, burn in hell.

knowing how society works, people will get enraged, doxx her and hunt her down in the name of justice, forcing her to change her name and appearance in order to stay safe just in case someone might be radicalized enough to want her head

a bittersweet ending

Kinda sweet but I'm pretty sure she still deserves jail time.

If someone truly strives to fix their wrongs, they deserve a second chance... It feels like society today feels people can't change... We all grow if we take time to learn from mistakes, either made by others, or our own. So, before anyone takes out the pointing finger of accusing, reflect on how people may view your own transgressions of your past, and instead, maybe offer a hand of guidance to help steer the person in the right direction before things get out of hand. *though sadly, some folks are not fit to listen in their current state of mania, and will have to learn the hard way. Alas, they may need that second chance if they seek it after their mind is clear and see what they have done.
tl;dr: Folks in the world need to chill the urge to vilify. Most folks make mistakes, allow them to mend the situation.

Exactly!

Hmmm going over the weighing I guess it is good she atlest knows what she did was wrong and atlest wants to clean up her mess but I would have thought she would have gotten some sort of punishment jail time house arrest heck even cammunity service ...

Hmm now I'm wondering if you didn't expect her to get this much negative reaction for her😗

so the implication is she actually DID try to set the record straight about the false accusation but nobody listened to her, which is why the guy continued to get harassed even after he got out of prison?

Exactly. It looks like people nowadays refuse to accept that the truth is often complex and ambiguous, they just want to stat angry and fantasize about revenge.

Bruh se siente tan real el personaje. Nada mal la verdad, pero lo siento Javi, no se que esperabas pero acabas de crear al personaje mas odiado y en cierto punto mas malevolo que existe xD

Cierto, cómo se atreve esa puta a confesar sus malas acciones, compensar a la gente a la que hizo daño, alejarse de las influencias negativas y tratar de llevar una vida tranquila con sus seres queridos. Deberían hacerla azotar por ello.

De hecho si, si deberian azotarla. Por que por como lo veo, ella no pago realmente lo que hizo, se sintio mal es verdad pero igual vivio feliz de lo que hizo y si bien recibio el rechazo de la gente el otro man sufrio 15 veces mas. Que haya tenido un final bonito es otra cosa y que ella haya mejorado como persona hace que en cierta forma el personaje haya madurado y no se vea TAN mal. Pero aun asi lo siento Javi todos la odiamos por ser una perra por lo que hizo si te hace sentir bien no te hare mas dramas por que es ficcion (descuida no es para tomarselo tan enserio xD) Pero como te dije este tipo de temas me son muy sensibles para mi, pero eso lo discutiremos en privado

The irony of some of the comments here is astounding.

I know, right?

So is this canon or a parallel universe?

It is canon. Aileen did try to make amends and got flak for it.

I have no context for any of this as I haven't read the new chapter. Suppose I better get on that.

An open question to anyone who manages to read this:

If there is no hope of salvation or redemption for the worst of us, is there any hope for any of us?

Think carefully before you answer.

I have hope that even the worst of us might eventually see the error of our ways, but nowadays a lot of us are so close-minded that considering that we might be wrong becomes nigh impossible.

It can be hard to tell. Ultimately, repentance is a choice, like many things, and cannot be forced. All we can do is argue with them and offer guidance and understanding. It's up to them to turn away from their path of destruction - for the wages of sin is indeed death, of many sorts - and choose life and atonement.

If we are to change, it is up to us to choose it. Every day until our path corrects itself, and we find a better life ahead of us.

Okay, I can appreciate that she's supposedly trying to make amends for what she did. And I can also buy that she doesn't know the full details of what happened to Zaggy after he got sent away; after all, so much time has passed and a lot of things have happened in the meantime. But even so, it's still not enough.

For one thing, she's blaming the public for what happened to Zaggy and those that tried to help him, while forgetting she's the one that got them going in the first place. She WANTED them to be an angry mob. She can't just wash her hands of it and say it wasn't her fault people went psychotic. Also, the moment you send someone to jail on false charges, it becomes more than just a "dumb attention-starved teenager's screw-up".

Which brings me to another point. This girl falsely accused a minor of a VERY serious crime AND lied in open court. Assuming the judicial system in this world is similar to our own, she's liable to be brought up on charges of perjury AND false imprisonment at the very least. And then there's her book contract and all her speaking tours. Since all of that was based on her story supposedly being true, she's also liable for fraud charges AND lawsuits from the people who published her book and funded her tours.

Admitting what she did and donating her money to Zaggy is a good start, but it's not enough; it's like she gets off scot-free because she threw some money around. I'm all about forgiveness and making amends, and I don't think she should be tortured or harassed or anything, but there should be SOME kind of punishment for what she did, and if she was truly repentant she'd accept it without argument.

Kinda wish she'd get punched in the face at least once.

Interesting.

While this doesn't immediately free her of her guilt for her past actions, if her words and follow-up actions are true in intention it is a step towards forgiveness.

Either way its good to know she understood the errors of her ways.

The Devil will have a lot of fun with her when she dies, hehe.

Unfortunately I belong to the crowed that says there are some lines you may never cross. And she crossed a lot of them. I don't make a distinction between the instigator and the continual perpetrator, you don't get a just society allowing this level of injustice to fester. The only kind thing to do is to keep her out of Esperanza until she expires of natural causes. The wonderful thing about fictional characters? You can punish or reward them as much as you wish, I'd rather see suffering for the wicked than sensible outcomes on occasion, too many lines have been crossed. I tend to treat this level of line-crossing like a zombie apocalypse. Gatling guns tend to be effective solutions for zealot crowds and their cult leaders.

ok did i Miss something? Did she publish another book confessesing what she did?

That's what the text implies, yes.

There are so many coughs to make at this, but to summarize them: You can't undo what you done with hollow words and moeny now matter how much. When you ruin someone's life and future over something trivial you could say sorry and even make him a billionare but the scars will forever remain on their psyche, body, and soul. :(

I will say it once and only once: Redemption is NEVER real. All it ever does is sustain the status quo and keep powerful people in power.

The only thing she's likely to be sorry for is getting caught out.

You know Eileen, why don’t you go to his parents first and explain why you did this. Unless she already has

She did, she tried to tell everyone, but most wouldn't listen because it didn't fit what they wanted to believe.