Den Mother is the kind of woman who can turn a sanctuary into a snare with a smile and a hymn. A drop-dead gorgeous blonde with camera-perfect warmth, she plays the public like a lullaby: soft-spoken, affectionate, almost adorably ditzy: the loving “mother figure” who remembers your name, your fears, and the exact words you needed to hear. Some people (usually the smug ones) joke she’s “a bimbo,” because it’s easier to dismiss her than admit she’s frighteningly sharp. By day, she’s a head nurse and licensed psychologist with a spotless reputation; by Sunday, she’s a media-savvy televangelist whose “healing touch” looks like love, religion, and hope braided together. She sells books, runs a gleaming megachurch, and keeps her halo polished with a PR machine that can spin any accusation into persecution.
Behind the stage lights is her real ministry: a “youth wellness” program and residential treatment wing that behaves less like therapy and more like a coercive high-control group. She doesn’t need chains; she uses isolation, confession-as-control, sleep-debt, social pressure, and manufactured dependence to make troubled teens feel like they owe her their healing. The kids become her “Den”, a handpicked inner circle trained to recruit, surveil, intimidate, and protect the image at all costs, all in exchange for the one drug she dispenses better than anyone: belonging. Leave her, and she doesn’t just threaten your life; she threatens your identity, your community, your “progress,” and the fragile hope you came to her for.
And then there’s the part she never puts on camera. Once the doors close, Den Mother drops the “bimbo nurse” mask and becomes something cold, clinical, and obsessive—more “Hugo Strange” than guardian angel, dissecting people with compassion-free precision. Her telepathy is an intake interview you can’t refuse; her telekinesis is a quiet force with surgical intent; and her illusions hit with cruel accuracy, pain that feels real, salvation that tastes real, until you can’t tell the difference between what happened and what she wants you to believe happened. Worst of all, she doesn’t think she’s lying: her religious speeches aren’t just branding, they’re a doctrine she genuinely believes, using scripture and “love” to galvanize her children into a crusade.
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"Den Mother", created by. RBComics (me) & Leilani's Grotto
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Behind the stage lights is her real ministry: a “youth wellness” program and residential treatment wing that behaves less like therapy and more like a coercive high-control group. She doesn’t need chains; she uses isolation, confession-as-control, sleep-debt, social pressure, and manufactured dependence to make troubled teens feel like they owe her their healing. The kids become her “Den”, a handpicked inner circle trained to recruit, surveil, intimidate, and protect the image at all costs, all in exchange for the one drug she dispenses better than anyone: belonging. Leave her, and she doesn’t just threaten your life; she threatens your identity, your community, your “progress,” and the fragile hope you came to her for.
And then there’s the part she never puts on camera. Once the doors close, Den Mother drops the “bimbo nurse” mask and becomes something cold, clinical, and obsessive—more “Hugo Strange” than guardian angel, dissecting people with compassion-free precision. Her telepathy is an intake interview you can’t refuse; her telekinesis is a quiet force with surgical intent; and her illusions hit with cruel accuracy, pain that feels real, salvation that tastes real, until you can’t tell the difference between what happened and what she wants you to believe happened. Worst of all, she doesn’t think she’s lying: her religious speeches aren’t just branding, they’re a doctrine she genuinely believes, using scripture and “love” to galvanize her children into a crusade.
Original Design by. rogermt
https://www.deviantart.com/roger-mt
https://www.deviantart.com/rogelis
"Den Mother", created by. RBComics (me) & Leilani's Grotto
https://www.deviantart.com/leilani-s-grotto
Support RBComics Group!:
https://rbcomicsgroup.carrd.co
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