The Rules of Retribution part 1

By Y. MIROIR
If it was ever disclosed, my complete profile would reveal all sorts of minority groups, starting with my gender and race.  I have been harassed on many levels throughout my life, but I lacked the stomach to carry out revenge.  This was a blessing in disguise because retribution eventually manifested itself.  Revenge wastes our lives, but all that the universe asks of us is to be patient while rebuilding our lives.  Let's not ever get manipulated into feeling guilty for not trusting someone who has not yet worked to earn our trust through their actions.
The title page with serpent reminiscing the days in Eden

A tall trees stands in the jungle hoarding all the sunshine. The lower trees perish in the shadow, but the third player enters to defy the laws of jungle.

The weak plant wraps around a sturdy tree and sucks the nutrients. The host tree dies and the third player stands in the place like a tree now.

Nemesis reveals herself warning us it is no use lying to her, and the scene changes to modern Paris.

A French couple looks down on the gold digger posing for a wedding photo in Paris. The wealthy groom starts to feel handsome seeing that she married him and regrets his choice.

>THE NEXT EPISODE

CHARACTERS in my Graphic Novel

SERPENT represents the frailty that sees us stray from the path and often into darkness.  Big predators make the headlines, but ordinary people are tempted to commit small-scale cheating when shielded under the mantle of anonymous.  On good days we can fight off the temptation, but on bad days when we have lost something, and the world seems unfair, our hands reach out for it while a sinking feeling spreads inside our heart, warning us that this is not the way to get even with life.  However, God or the universe may not mind if the gain is minimal?  So we tell ourselves.

Perhaps, horror stories draw us in because we may slip into darkness any time of our own will.  We may need religion or fantasy stories hoping that they will take us back into the light.  The best you can do…or instead I can do is accept that I am not as good as I would like to be.  I may not have wronged individuals, but my integrity did not always hold out strong against faceless organizations.  My story combines horror and fantasy, but you will find it oddly accurate because I will not sugarcoat the truth.  To myself, I will be brutal.

GODDESS IRIS/NEMESIS: Instead of picking one from the existing religions, all of which I respect, I opted to represent the universe's will via Goddess IRIS.  God gave us light, and Goddess followed it up with the sound, but as sound travels slower than light, no one knows her existence despite benefiting from her gift, music.  Something turned this once open-book IRIS into NEMESIS, Goddess of Retribution.