Here’s a transcript of all the pages for those who either can’t or don’t want to look:
TRANSCRIPT
-First Page-
Image desc: Two images of Sweet Tooth peering at the viewer from around a corner, first illustration shows them growing several bony clawed arms. Text is written in black while Sweet Tooth’s comments are scrawled in red, scratchy letters.
Text:
“SWEET TOOTH”
(Not their true name; true name is unpronounceable)
-Resides in the realm of nightmares, hunting humans while they sleep
-Chases people until they wake up
-Enjoys toying with their prey, hunts for both food and pleasure
-Can take many forms, depending on the setting of the dream they are hunting in
-Highly malleable, can squeeze thru thin gaps and cracks, or increase/decrease in size and number of limbs
-Full shape is never seen
-Can mimic voices - they especially enjoy mimicking voices of dead loved ones.
ST: THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES IS PRICELESS!
NEVER TRUST THEM.
ST: I JUST WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU
-Second Page-
Image desc: Upper image depicts Sweet Tooth messily eating a severed human leg. Lower image depicts Sweet Tooth holding a severed head and pulling their jaw apart to pluck out their teeth. One of their hands holds a single tooth as Sweet Tooth stares at it hungrily.
Text:
(next to first image) ST: SUCH PATHETIC LITTLE LEGS! IT’S A WONDER ANY OF YOUR KIND MANAGES TO ESCAPE
-Exclusively feeds on humans’ “dream selves”, including bones and organs
-They refer to this meat, and humans in general, as “sweetbread”
-Typically snags a piece off of someone just before they awaken. This does not harm the person in the waking world, (ST: IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK?) nor does it linger into the next dream that person has, though it does give Sweet Tooth a “taste” that allows thrm to find you easier next time
-Extremely messy eater, loves to feel warm blood on their face and hands as much as they love the taste. They seem to take sick pride in how much blood they spill.
ST: WHAT CAN I SAY? YOUR KIND ARE SO DELIGHTFULLY JUICY.
-Teeth are their favorite part. They collect them and save them for later
(next to second image) ST: SO SMALL YET SO SWEET
-Third Page-
Image Desc: First image depicts Sweet Tooth sitting at a table, feasting on a naked and helpless human, whose left arm is severed and their belly torn open. Sweet Tooth has five arms- two are holding the human down, a third is pulling their intestines out with a giant fork, a fourth is holding the severed arm up to their mouth, and a fifth arm is holding up a goblet. Second image depicts Sweet Tooth opening their jaws fully, showing off their back rows of teeth while stretching out three long, slimy tongues saturated in saliva.
Text:
-If someone stumbles, stalls, or stops while running from Sweet Tooth in a dream, they are vulnerable to being caught.
-When Sweet Tooth captured someone, whole and alive, they don’t wake up. Instead, they are dragged back to Sweet Tooth’s lair to be devoured completely, bones and all.
-This is a rare treat for Sweet Tooth, so they take their time savoring and disemboweling their catch, who remains awake, aware, and in agony during the entire meal.
-Always saves the teeth for last, and finishes with a goblet of blood aged in their larder
ST:THEY SCREAM AND CRY TO THE VERY END, ALL THE WAY DOWN. SOMETIMES, I CAN STILL HEAR THEM.
-When someone is caught and devoured, they are erased from all history in the physical world, along with any and all evidence that they existed, including children.
ST: PARENTS ARE ESPECIALLY FILLING FOR THAT REASON!
-Are those caught and consumed by Sweet Tooth truly gone, or does some part of them still exist somewhere?
ST: WHY DON’T YOU COME CLOSER AND FIND OUT, LITTLE MORSEL? I WON’T BITE!
Determined to keep giving myself time for personal painting/mess making. I’ve been reading the Southern Reach books and I think it jumped out a little on this one
Some of the last few favorite panels from All Broken Gods. Main character slowly losing his mind fighting off someone who greatly underestimated his power.
