Stable Needed: No Evil 047

[@BetsywarlordofnoodlesLee]

Got Some help with the backdrops on this one^^ Thanks so much Phoeberia. (Link in description)

[@osedarkgarcia4220]

( BBP ) Monkey the King Kong 🦍🟤with axe leviathan 🪓 & lightsaber blue or battle axe glowing blue 🪓 : hey excuse me @BetsywarlordofnoodlesLee just tell us where is Kitty 🦊💖 I need to find my Babe 🦊💖

[@philtrubey7480]

Anyone else notice how calm corn is a bit … off. And manipulative? Whereas crying corn does the right thing? It was crying corn that fired the mercy bow in the asylum, allowing calm corn to leave the mirror world. And crying corn here looks after the animal with no fuss.

[@philtrubey7480]

Yeah now that I look more, new, not integrated personality corn, is drawn as more sinister that old, integrated-personality frightened corn. He’s a more cool detached empathy lacking corn, while the crying corn may be frightened and hating Calamity, he’s the emotional empathy Corn that is just emotionally immature.

[@wolkaiserdrake9946]

@@philtrubey7480the way Im seeing it is Corn/Quetzalcoatl is a combination of Sameal the serpent and xolotl (Quetzalcoatl's literal opposite in aztec myth)

[@omalahboo3163]

I'm not sure if Corn was usually this manipulative or no. Early on in the series, one of the others mentioned that Kitty is the only one who can get him to do things. So it's either this entire situation that's thrown things out of wack for him or we're seeing a side of him that we didn't get to before. Either way... I miss the Corn we're used to.

[@JohnRaines]

@@wolkaiserdrake9946 Or Quetzalcoatl and The Smoking Mirror, since the two of them Are brothers.

[@Yipper64]

I hope he finds a balance at some point. This calm corn is... interesting. He doesnt really fear anything except his reflection, which is the "crying corn". Is he the original corn? Im not entirely sure. Either way I dont think we are supposed to like calm corn, whatever he is.

[@wardenlupa9408]

It's interesting to see how Kitty and Amaroq have kind of swapped adoptive children, so to speak. Kitty was basically Corn's mother figure growing up, while Amaroq kinda saw himself semi-forced into raising Charles when they fled McCoy. Now Amaroq has handed the reins of taking care of Charles over to Kitty, since she clearly has the firm but motherly touch that Charles didn't have growing up, while he (Amaroq) perceives that Corn has always been a bit coddled and overdependent and needs to learn personal responsibility and how to take care of himself. Even before the Mercy Bow incident, we saw Amaroq teaching Corn some jackalope care skills, talking him through the process while still letting Corn be the one to do the actual work. Just now, we saw human Corn immediately go trim the jackalope hooves, which is something he probably learned from Amaroq.

[@philtrubey7480]

Anyone else want ship Kitty and Amaroq or just me?

[@140kittykat]

I also like to think that Calamity, but mostly Amaroq are taking responsibility of Corn because Kitty trusted her son to them. Then they broke "" "" him. I'd be afraid to tell her that.

[@lofwyr5063]

A bit funny how superflous Angel feels, with noone thinking about her when it was she who wanted the baby to begin with, lol. What would she have done without Amaroq...that is an interesting question to me.

[@140kittykat]

@@lofwyr5063 maybe she IS just kinda there? She wanted the unwanted baby that was left out to die. She collects bones and other things for all her various dolls. Angel also ignores the reason WHY Amaroq said the 2 village girls had to leave. "Strange" Charles is the only one who lasted more than a year. She was the first person to admit to Kitty that Charles needed a better mother than herself.

[@wardenlupa9408]

@140kittykat true. When she asks Kitty, she specifically says, "will you be OUR mother?" Like, she knows right off the bat that she's not cut out for that (no pun intended). After all, she was just chilling in Mictlan collecting dead stuff as per her job until Amaroq decided that a LITERAL LAND OF THE DEAD was a better place than McCoy to raise a child. And Angel's such a sweet airhead that she's fine with that.

[@crome212]

2:56 OMG 😱 I FIGURED IT OUT!!! THAT ITEM WASN’T SPECIAL OR MAGICAL!!! IT WAS JUST SHINY AND REFLECTIVE LIKE THE WATER OR A MIRROR WAS!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@hariman7727]

You can even see Corn's reflection when he turns back to his Snake form.

[@carlinkag2525]

Ohhh! That makes sense, thanks!

[@paradoxbees3280]

Alright, gonna take a stab in the dark with this one. So Corn's new snake form has a few things in common with his previous human form. Both are calm and well-spoken, and more vocal about their needs. But where the human form leaned towards being sociable and considerate (playing ball with humans, offering to trade jobs with the other asylum inmate), the snake form is more selfish and conniving (asking Calamity to trim the jackolope's hooves, tricking the child into taking care of the jackolope entirely). Meanwhile, his new human form is timid and willing to take care of the jackolope, while his old axolotl form was violent and willing to lash out at others, with the both of them clearly being under emotional distress. While the nature of his forms has changed wildly, Corn has consistently maintained that the form which is crying is always his 'less desirable half', the one he wishes to avoid. I think Corn's had some serious emotional pain all his life (and having to survive the black ick as a young child, who could blame him?), which he's repressed to the point that it's taken on it's own form, the axolotl. And now that all of that pain is starting to bubble to the surface, he's trying to repress it even harder to the point that his personality has splintered. Anything to keep that less desirable half from taking over. Taking this a step further, all this nonsense started with Corn touching the mercy bow, right? And the mercy bow is said to grant healing powers to the chosen wielder, while only causing harm in anyone else's hands. If the theories are right and Corn's the true wielder of the mercy bow, then maybe unleashing Corn's axolotl side was the mercy bow's way of 'healing' Corn, bringing out his hurt so he could come to terms with it and start to actually feel better. But healing those kinds of scars is never easy, nor is it painless. God help our silly snake boy

[@AngelDame17]

The way you describe it sounds like the 3 forms could be Corn's Ego, Id and Superego Snake Corn being Ego, Human Corn being the Id and Axlotol Corn being the SuperEgo?

[@kaykay8855]

In the How Spirits Are Born video, there were two spirits that collided together and made Corn.

[@suddenmuffin2571]

Ooor thr true weilder is Axolotl Corn, and the snake half is not a true weilder

[@lofwyr5063]

Betsy has been playing too high multidimensional chess for me for some time now, so I just called him xanax Corn when it was still more divided. It's too complicated for me now to follow, so I'm just going along for the ride. I do enjoy reading the theories of people more acute than I, and there seems to be a lot to unpack for them, which is fun. Like I read recently on Betsys tumblr someones theory about Charles and Ichabods little episode in that black ick mindspace and wondering how the blue color reprents something like Ichabods ego or will or something, or if its just magic like the blue tezcatlipoca which otherwise would trump the black so the blue had to be eroded first in order for charles to do something etc. And Betsy called that a significant observation or something So, yeah, keep up those hypotheseses

[@140kittykat]

@@lofwyr5063 @lofwyr5063 same, but also Icky was given the turquoise necklace Kitty wore. Its used for protection, but since he was that down on himself, the semi-magical item wasn't able to save him from the Black Ick. As the blue faded away, Charles was getting more desperate for Icky to figure out he wanted to wake up. Amaroq was equally difficult to wake up because he didn't feel like he was being a good dad to Charles

[@Indrijid]

He made another Jakalope out of the fur! xD That's adorable!

[@lofwyr5063]

Can earn some cash with that, just do it publicly.... it worked for "The girl with the dogs". Live jackalope grooming sessions, every Saturday in Hollow.

[@JinzoCrash]

My hair's so long, when I finally pull the hair off my brush, it makes a duplicate brush made of hair next to it. O___o

[@musicorumdraco2792]

Coming back from episode 49 it seems that spike our boy found is much more special than we realize.

[@evilshrimpy]

The way that Calamity says "Oh poor you" is everything.

[@girl1213]

If you're going to act like you deserve something of course you get a Calamity response.

[@lofwyr5063]

I gave it a completely sarcastic slang phrasing in the German subs...someting someone like Calamity, if she were German, might just say.

[@carlinkag2525]

It really is

[@ladysnow4074]

Axolotl Corn’s interactions w/ the jackalope is interesting

[@mckayleepugmire9947]

More similar to whole corn's relationship with the jackalope

[@hariman7727]

Human Corn... Or Axolotl's human form, instead of the older in between form.

[@Soroboruo]

Something else I noticed: in ep 44, both sides of Corn had limbs, but the post-firing Corn is split between entirely humanoid and entirely snakish. Which means only one of them can fire the bow anymore, unless Calm Corn gets creative. And Crying Corn is the one who willfully fired it to split them in this manner, without hesitation, while Calm Corn refused. Which is interesting also in terms of *healing*: Calm Corn called Crying Corn "the one who wants to hurt", but pre-split, Corn healed others by shedding his own blood (sometimes after biting someone - which, while certainly harmful, always seemed to be a defensive impulse rather than intent). Calm Corn has shown no inclination to really help anyone aside from _possibly_ swapping tasks with that one patient in Blackwell. Crying Corn immediately went to help the Jackalope, immediately tried to repair the situation at Blackwell, immediately fired the bow. I think Crying Corn is the one able or at least WILLING to do any healing, which we'll see in the future. I suspect Calm Corn either can't, or won't. The fact that helping others and being willing to cause harm are embodied in the same facet of his identity makes sense for what we know of him, but is also just really interesting bc they're traits one might assume to be opposites. A surgeon can't heal without making a cut, I suppose?

[@taddad2641]

think its more complicated than even that you you are onto it. i think what happened is that corn actually has two people inside of him and its referencing mythology a good bit. one half is queztacoatl, the other is 'axyollty. that one is normally depicted as a dog but i sometimes depicted as the new thingy, and they are referencing that. amphbiian and the serpent. the issue is that their two halves got all mixed up together and they actually need to sedperate back to normal. the human half is emotionless and overtly rational, as rationality makse us human but without our animal aspect we loose our emotiosn and empathy. the other half is the purely emotional, animal half. when it used the bow to try and heal itself again it mixed up again. now the animal is in the human, though one driven by intense emotions and corn's inherent empathy, and the overtly rational is now in the serpent form.

[@ladysnow4074]

Well, that’s an awkward situation Those transformations made some cool stills I miss combined Corn, I hope the 2 sides come to a better conclusion

[@taddad2641]

feel like its not as simple as 'combined corn'. there are actually two people inside of corn, two souls one body, and they got all mixed up.

[@RunaKeeps1]

"Mccoy miasma" i love Calamity's reaction to that it was priceless.

[@lofwyr5063]

After growing a feather, Corn took up a carreer as a burlesque dancer.

[@rocnix]

Snake corn has an axolotl gill at the end of this. I'm guessing the two Corns are getting closer to getting along? They're not there yet, but getting out of the asylum has definitely helped.

[@girl1213]

What we have to understand here this isn't really "two Corns." They're both Corn, just aspects of him. One we got to know through the series, and the one that was hiding underneath. Both want to help people, but at the same time, they hate people and themselves.

[@lofwyr5063]

Kitty: "Why is Corn standing there with his head in the waterbucket?" Clammymitts: "Taking a breather."

[@mykmac2599]

What's REALLY interesting about this episode is that.... after the bow incident, it seems like the two corns have... switched personalities? At LEAST *some* personality traits. The Axolotl Corn was crying while Human Corn 1 was calm and maybe a little sassy. HC1 swapped jobs with that other inmate, wanting to be helpful, maybe? And now snake corn is a little sassy, but also a bit lazy? But maybe just resourceful, passing off a job to others when he can't do it (trimming the hooves) but refusing to do the part he IS capable of doing (the brushing). While Human Corn 2 (seen here) is crying and wants to be helpful, doing the job himself. GOD there's so many little bits I keep remembering and I want to put it all together but I can't keep it all straight in my head, it's SO good

[@crome212]

And one talks while the other doesn’t.

[@mykmac2599]

@@crome212 YEAH exactly, I didn't even realize that bit but you're right, yet another sign that like. These two just switched personalities, at least partially

[@filipahlers6156]

@@mykmac2599 I don't think they switched personalities as much as they switched shapes. After all, before the Blackwell incident, Human Corn was all lanky with slick hair, much like you'd draw a humanized snake. And Snake Corn here acts like him in every way. Human Corn here is a little nonverbal gremlin with frazzled hair, much like Axolotl Corn was. Yup, I think they simply switched shapes, so now Feral Corn is human instead of animal, and Civilized Corn is animal instrad of human. What interests me more is that at the end, when we switched back to Snake Corn, he seems to have grown a hair or something on his head.

[@crome212]

@@mykmac2599 or SPLIT personalities

[@mykmac2599]

@@filipahlers6156 good point!! but one thing we both forgot, when Axolotl Corn shot Normal Human Corn in the mirror, Axolotl Corn is the one that turned into Snake Corn, not Normal Human Corn. I remember from the bonus episode where kitty explains how spirits are formed, she mentions that sometimes the falling stars that form them can sometime split from one to become multiple, OR *multiple can combine to become one.* It's obvious that the latter is how Corn was formed. I think what's happened, is that whatever happened when Corn FIRST picked up the light bow split him into two forms, Human and Animal, and two minds, Calm and Unhinged. Axolotl Corn is Unhinged Human Corn, just in the animal body vs the human body, and similarly, Snake Corn is Calm Human Corn. So when Axolotl Corn shot Calm Human Corn, it DID switch their personalities, BUT their bodies stayed in the same place, and the Animal and Human forms changed to the respective personalities we're both kinda right, I think! They did switch personalities from one body into the other, one in the real world and one in the reflection, but their forms changed to better reflect the minds that are in them. it's all so interesting! also, about the "hair"(?) that popped up on Snake Corn at the end, I think that may be an axolotl gill? if you look at how Axolotl Corn's gills look, they look kinda "fuzzy" like that. Maybe the switching back and forth is making them more like each other? 👀

[@hariman7727]

I... that... I DID NOT EXPECT THAT! Also, I'm pretty much 100% sure that Mictlan has a will of its own, and sends people where they need to be.

[@alexanderleonardi3625]

betsy lee has, on record, said it is "wherever it wants to be"

[@hariman7727]

@@alexanderleonardi3625 huh. Mictlan seems very curious, but also helpful too, in that case.

[@pelontrix]

interestingly, the snake variant of corn appears to have gained an axolotl frill at the end.

[@samanthaholness8151]

This current version of Corn while calm, is just off. Oh, ANY reflective thing can turn him back and forth! Nice little detail.

[@idied2]

Human corn is crying. There more to what's going on than it seems. The little details

[@crome212]

3:30 Paula: “Hehe… _POP_-corn. 😅”

[@Dustinlove102]

3:27 LOVE it when owners brush so much fur off their pet that they can arange it like they made a 2nd pet from the fur 💕😂💕

[@TaleshicMatera]

Doodlybob on Corn's head at the end!

[@kupokitty]

Does Jose even know there's a bee following him?

[@megaman161]

If you asked Icky, I'm sure it holds some cosmic significance 😅

[@caw1539]

"Hi my name is Jose spelled with a B and I've Ben afraid of insects my entire life" "Stop stop stop, where? Where's the b?" "There's a beE?

[@JFire1785]

Now they know how to flip him around. Also, sheesh! They made a whole another jackalope

[@Kankan_Mahadi]

Okay, that body switch really took me by surprise. & I absolutely love the jackalope-sized *dust bunny!*

[@girl1213]

Spirit with a two in one body situation? Yeah, Kitty explained this before she was talking about how Spirits are born. I guess "Axolotl" really has a lot resentment built up for not being treated equally as Corn being that he's only just now had the freedom to do what he wants...but thankfully for him Calamity don't give two rats.

[@Tanoro]

I was literally in the middle of watching something else when I got notified of this. I flipped immediately!

[@lofwyr5063]

Also, with his new manlet human form, it is no surprise that Corn can't stop crying. He's so smalllllllllllllllll. Snake form stole his inches!

[@Soroboruo]

I also like the entendre of the title, where the Jackalope needs a stable and Corn needs some stability.

[@BATTRYACID]

cannot emphasize enough how happy i am to see amaroq part of the good guy crew now !!!

[@philtrubey7480]

Calamity has even accepted him. Kitty and Amaroq are the two adults in the group. Each looking after each other’s problem childs. Will Kitty find some romance in her life?

[@colinbrown3170]

Corn is having a good influence on the puppy.

[@loszhor]

The other half was only crazy for work instead of blood!

[@gyroc1_]

HE'S GOT A KNIF- oh...

[@lofwyr5063]

It's been over a month and the closet literally doing a puckered up anticipation to violently spew out Jose like a loogie still amuses me. Perhaps he is hated by most wooden things, and the branch was the only arboreal friend he had...

[@leejesm]

Lol, I didn't notice the jackalope's eyes blinking out of sync when I was doing the sound.

[@spaceshippatio]

Your animation only gets better. Popping off with those reflections. That and every time you have anything slither or flow, it is the smoothest thing ever. Also, Corn doesn't have anything on his head anymore, but gets a feather after he turns back into a snake at the end of the episode... DEEPEST LORE!

[@jedi265]

This show is so good I’ve been watching it for like 4 years now and it just keeps getting better

[@vash3055]

Snake boy' change is very interesting.

[@Bast-hs5sz]

human-corn crying the entire time,,, the fake jacklope out of fur..... how HAPPY the jackalope looked to have him backkk,,,, Son Boy Come Home. betsy youre killing me im dying auagahh. i love this series so much

[@OldLadyMapleSeed]

I wonder why the mercy bow combines Corn's anxious side with his human form?

[@Yipper64]

im curious in general what's going on with that, the idea if im not mistaken is that Corn actually always had this other, less anxious version of corn inside, but the mercy bow let them switch places.

[@OldLadyMapleSeed]

@@Yipper64 for sure, less that they switched places but were torn apart, giving the rational side the ability to act autonomously and directly suppress Xolotl. It made sense originally for the more animal side to be the panicked one and the human to be rational, but I really have no idea what's going on with Snake-Corn vs Anxious-Human-Corn.

[@hariman7727]

It's trying to heal Corn, but it can't instantly cure his anxiety and traumas, so it's switching his two halves around to try to get him to heal himself.

[@fractalgem]

@@hariman7727 I like your take on it. That would make sense-all along the mercy bow has been trying to heal what corn's been doing to himself...but being an eldritch artifact, well, its gonna make things pretty weird for a while, and sometimes injuries have to get worse before they get better, like rebreaking a bone so it can be set correctly.

[@OldLadyMapleSeed]

@@hariman7727 ooooh

[@Tabieeee]

been following this story for literal years and I still gush any time I see a new episode get uploaded

[@raeh123]

Same here!!

[@lufteldvattenjordketzal8374]

Quetzalcoatl's motions are the best!!! Thank you so much for another episode!

[@FflawedMetalhead]

Colour me intrigued - Also glad to see more Calamity.

[@docopoper]

It's Wrip! :3

[@140kittykat]

I noticed it too! Well, I recognized Vinkle's stills, but eh, same difference

[@papayer]

My first reaction upon hearing Wrip: *b n u u y*

[@ryanbagley3293]

what is with the thing on Corn's head when he turns back at the end there? Signs that the two sides are merging slowly again perhaps? Old corn spirit form had stuff on his head...but that looks different...More like a feather, are we gonna get full feathered serpent corn like his namesake? SO MANY QUESTIONS

[@SCALIEDIFITY]

I missed Calamity’s old fit so much😭💗

[@danielmontoya1069]

jackalope eyes in the puddle looked like blush marks on human Corn

[@masonlaw3520]

Just realized it has been a year since we last saw the fuzz-butts

[@Magicka24]

BETSYS ART HAS IMPROVED SO MUCH OML

[@xnova2045]

Remembered watching this a few years ago and figured I would check it out again - I definitely remember why I loved it so much! And it's amazing to see the art style progressively improve as well :D

[@humblemarty]

Corn has seen some stuff . . . And has a lot of stuff to go through.

[@2sudonim]

Love it! I need more! I wish you had a full animation team!

[@lofwyr5063]

I wonder about that, I think animating is the most fun she has in the process, she did ask for animation help before (on twitter) but I don't think anyone made the cut. And she usually only has help with coloring and backgrounds, and I think she kind of loathes the idea of a big production. That said, I'd love to see an OVA supercut of the first arc. A 2000s one, with film grain and all that. Mmmm mm mm.

[@trickery2268]

Hey, the jackalope got taken care of in the end one way or the other!

[@IrishKatana]

After binge watching this series it’s made me interested to see your interpretations of other characters from American folklore, a couple of examples being Pecos Bill or Johnny Appleseed.

[@LittleJohn907]

Please dont stop with this series! Its so hard to find such an original take on old legends.

[@toontastic5]

Nobody is talking about how at the end, Corn has a feather on his head in his snake form

[@MPbmfm]

The double symbolism used by the Feathered Serpent is considered allegoric to the dual nature of the deity, where being feathered represents its divine nature or ability to fly to reach the skies and being a serpent represents its human nature or ability to creep on the ground among other animals of the Earth, a dualism very common in Mesoamerican deities

[@toontastic5]

@@MPbmfm you are right about that, but I'm more interested in the fact that he has one at all now. Corn used to have a ton of feathers before he split, but once he did split it went away as we saw. Now he has at least one feather and I'm curious as to what that means for his character.

[@nickyw1091]

Whoa, it's like Link from Twilight Princess. An object can make Corn switch forms.

[@hariman7727]

The theory right now is that the object might not be magical... it might just be reflective, so Corn saw his reflection and the other side emerged.

[@boreran1393]

spell of algorithm boost

[@Laury2Seas]

So as long as he touches any reflection, Corn comes back for a while but in human form huh? This is interesting indeed. Also I've missed seeing Calamity in her dress~

[@girl1213]

Weather finally warmed up for her to wear her dress And it seems, going on from the episode Kitty explained on how Spirits are made, I guess Corn's original personality is in the human form, but the "Axolotl" personality took the Spirit form. Makes sense, Corn is, in terms of personality, meek and physically weak, which is why he's stuck with the Human form. Spirit form is taken by the part of him that never got the chance to experience life.

[@fractalgem]

crying human still isnt' *quite* the corn we know. This new split appears to be less EXTREME than the previous split between the calm, collected, manipulative, seemingly uncaring about his friends, and EXTREMELY unnerving human and the extremely animalistic, violent, scared snake-but ther'es still a split. After all, new snake is quite manipulative, but he's almost...*endearing* in his manipulations, does still care about his friends (like seen by him putting the hat on calamit), and 'just' trying to get out of work and quite obvious about it, while new human corn is able to actually kinda function and be helpful but is still extremely afraid of basically everything. as calamity said, "not perfect, but better"

[@dragonvideos5667]

Jose: I don't want anything to do McCoy. Me and Clamity: Oh brother.🤦‍♂

[@someoneunknown7655]

I love how Corn is animated in this

[@someoneunknown7655]

Also I love how he’s filling the “manipulative snake” archetype

[@hooked_illusionyt3382]

It's good to see that you're continuing this series I really love how far it's gotten

[@annettemeyer7336]

Gosh, can I take a moment to appreciate all the background flavor in every episode? The bugs and bees, the sound of birds, the rainy sky, items in the cellar...it's all so delicious!!

[@heroknite898]

...Corn is three parts. The Calm, the negiotiable, the trickster. The Panicked, the tragedy stricken... yet Just and Caring. And the Animal Spirit life within them. When whole, the animal spirit, the calm and reasonable and the panicked and tricky all balance out. The Axolotl grants the snake his hair and arms, and the trickster keeps the panicked from acting uncontrollably while the just and care of the panicked prevents the trickster from bringing unjust harm to others. Every time he touches a mirror, the two personalities Swap. and the Animal spirit seems to stick with one or the other occasionally when they do.

[@CiphiorSnake89]

Spring look skirts look great!

[@melodyparra2960]

A little bit of Corn silk Is a nice detail. It looks like A feather landed on top of his head

[@kiruppert]

Corn's continuing evolution is fascinating.

[@crome212]

*_WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CORN SO FAR_* : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Before Mercy Bow* : Nagual Form: -Mind: Shy Corn -Body: Snake Rattle Hair Dreads + Arms + Tail Human Form: -Mind: Shy Corn -Body: Hair Dreads + Drawn well Reflection/Dreams: -Mind: N/A -Body: Clear Axolotl body, rattling white snake hands (Touched mercy bow and ran off and was found in human form)… “ _POP_-corn?” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *After Touching Mercy Bow* : Nagual Form: (Inside Mirror) -Mind: N/A -Body: N/A Human Form: (Outside) -Mind: Evil Snake Corn -Body: Pulled Back Hair Dreads + Drawn well Reflection: -Mind: shy corn?? -Body: Axolotl Hair + Arms + Legs (Nagual Form?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *After Touching Mirror* : Nagual Form: (Outside) -Mind: panicking shy silent corn -Body: Axolotl hair + arms + legs + fish tail + distorted drawing + silent Human Form: (Inside Mirror) -Mind: Evil Snake Corn + Lies -Body: Pulled Back Hair Dreads + Drawn well + talks Reflection: -Mind: Evil Snake Corn + Lies -Body: Human form Pulled Back Hair Dreads + Drawn well + able to still talk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *After Firing Mercy Bow* : Nagual Form: (Outside) -Mind (SWITCHED): Evil Snake Corn + Lies -Body: Snake Tail + No arms + No tail + Speaks (Tried resembling original Axolotl + Snake corn but was very distorted and weak looking before shedding and switched to Snake only) Human Form: (Inside mirror) -Mind (SWITCHED): panicking shy silent corn -Body: Messed up frilly Hair + Distored Reflection: -Mind: panicking shy silent corn -Body: looks like normal old human corn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *After Touching Glass* : Nagual Form (SWITCHED) (Inside Mirror): -Mind: evil corn -Body: snake + (Can Speak?) Human Form (SWITCHED) (Outside): -Mind: Shy damaged corn -Body: Original human form + can’t speak + Still able to switch forms

[@crome212]

Soooo what I’m getting is that the Mercy bow “Fixed/ -healed- ” corn’s shy scared personality by creating this evil form, but it WASN’T consented by corn who is now suffering because of being to shy and scared to shoot the bow in the first place.

[@philtrubey7480]

ooookay. But what does it all mean?

[@crome212]

@@philtrubey7480 it’s for corn

[@hariman7727]

@@crome212 "No evil", but the outwardly civil Corn seems to lack empathy, and be more manipulative. It's like both sides aren't just swapping bodies, but they're also swapping a few parts of the personalities along the way. Or perhaps Anxious/Angry Axolotl is more instinctive, but that same Anxious/Angry side is more calm in a human body.

[@crome212]

@@hariman7727almost like a conniving lying snake

[@lofwyr5063]

I whinged about Calamity not being in her dress for so many years...and now that she's wearing it again I didn't even notice it until someone pointed it out in the comments... Damn.

[@girl1213]

It's been winter for way too long, now it's spring.

[@lofwyr5063]

@@girl1213 Yeah! But perhaps I am losing it. I didn't recognize Wrip either.

[@NewBeginnings224]

I was rewatching the no evil series and saw a new video came out, super happy

[@AnonFerri_SGC]

DAWG I FORGOT THIS SHOW WAS A THINGGGGG

[@GuitarLover513]

I really like the design for Corn's new form 😍🐍

[@razorburn645]

I see corn has a little gill on his head after coming back. Maybe he's slowly merging back into one body?

[@heavyhorse01]

Beautiful and wonderful as always. Thank you to Betsy Lee and her crew.

[@GFHGGDJHJHJ]

Maybe we should fuse the Corns together.

[@ditzydoo4378]

Lovely to see the Tale Continuing. Bless you all. ^~^

[@BeigeEyesCroissantDragon]

Always a good time for a new No Evil. Just the kind of mental break I needed after fighting with non working airsoft guns all day.

[@thephantommaster3619]

God I love this

[@-Valley-]

OMG IM SO HAPPY ❤❤❤ I LOVE YOUR ANIMATIONS MAN 🥹 THIS EP WAS AMAZING I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT!!! Great job ❤

[@Cismynickname]

NOOOO MY BABY WHY ARE YOU CREEPY NOW!!! NOOO CORN COME BACK!

[@PsychedelicSpud]

Wow it’s been years since I’ve seen these, going to have to re watch

[@TYBomerang1]

No shiny objects. Got it.

[@Liketaknoww]

Heyyyy, Corn. You doin' alright there buddy?

[@girl1213]

Corn hasn't been alright for years. Not since the Black Tezcatlipoca traumatized him as a child. That wound has been festering for long enough. Mercy Bow is forcing a healing.

[@angelalycos2.076]

Huh...so he can be danger noodle mode or Hoomanish? Mode.

[@sisterdragonwithfeathers1654]

Poor Jose, having to deal with all this spirit nonsense. Also Snek Corn stop being a brat challenge. Calamity's a good match for him. She's not taking any nonsense. He's so manipulative! I notice it seems like his physical form changes a bit every time he switches, like his unbalanced double-soul is continuously fluid, trying to regain equilibrium, while at the same time at least one side is constantly vying for control. I love the way you story-tell. The little scenes like human(??) Corn in the water's reflection interacting with the jackalope, or even just Jose struggling his way out of a bush.

[@pockets5287]

i love this series, i just rewatched it completely, it's just so good :D

[@skyleralexon4102]

This is absolutely wonderful. Such a cosy world... I am so sorry I can't support you from where I am!

[@lofwyr5063]

Subscribing, commenting, liking, sharing...it all helps. YT is a pretty shiddy place, really...but it's algorithm does work.

[@Denebula549]

Man I freaking love this series!!!! So cool!

[@prettypjohnson4970]

Why does Corn's situation make me think of BMO and Football from Adventure Time? Both sides aren't evil, they just want be in control of their body. Also Anxious Corn being relaxed while brushing the Jackolope is adorable and relatable!

[@girl1213]

That's pretty much what it is, but it's all Corn. The part we got to know him as: the scaredy cat, and the other part that he secretly held underneath all that fear. We call it "Axolotl" but it's really just Corn if he wasn't so controlled by fear. So...we're seeing a hidden reality about Corn: he's not a kind person. Not evil, sure, but it's no wonder the Mercy Bow screwed him over. I mean Wrip wasn't kidding when she said Corn doesn't listen to anyone but Kitty. "Axolotl" is that taken to what is logically is if it wasn't fear: arrogance. Compassion and arrogance don't mix well.

[@someoddusername5677]

At 0:03 Its my doggo!

[@megaman161]

* Pet pet *

[@thebeast3143]

God I love this show. Episode came out with perfect timing

[@RunaKeeps1]

Interesting with the whole dual personality thing going on.

[@grimoireweiss6428]

2:20 I don’t recall an episode where his friend ended up in Mictlan, I thought they all got out.

[@testbacon7011]

They elation of getting a new episode! The misery of waiting another season before the next one.

[@TheFurriestOne]

Well, switching back and forth is a workable option! XD (if unpleasant for calm-Corn)

[@jeggarever4992]

as far as i remember, corn was a twin spirit. which is (possibly) only mentioned in the comic. so the act of violence led to internal discord, one is full of compassion, the other a rather eternal kind of view, with less regard for physical life.

[@tunnelfox2655]

i love the music

[@Fae-Blossom]

What a wonderful thing to wake up to! Always so happy to see when an episode gets uploaded.

[@monstaguru1442]

the thing with corns trauma is he wasnt fully consumed by the black ick, he saw almost everyone else and his closest be consumed before it was sealed. As the show clearly demonstrates there is a form of pain as it takes over and then lets you basically become eternal sleep. ( or rather peaceful nothingness in a sense). But no one else seems to remember (or mention) the pain before the nothingness. Poor corn never got to experience the nothingness. On top of which corn is explained to be two entities into one. Which explains a little of his sort of bi polar nature. The rattle snake side of corn started showing its face after he bit someone. So something about that moment started to seperate the two mindsets. Originally they worked in a sort of cohesion, but after the moment a child (charles?) got bitten did the snake show. And once the mercy bow was fired did the snake and axolotl split (it may require additional fires) as it seems to be a physival varient to explain corns path of healing. However, corns healing is also in how two mindsets must work together in one body. The mercy bow seemed to also give the two versions of corn a break from each other hence they swap when viewing each other in something mirror based. They need to see the others face and understand how they must continue. The full axolotl form i dont have as much of an explanation other than it being a full embodyment of corns anguish, as when it becomes human it seems to show a level of control and tolerance. The mind that is the "snake" is not just its physical apperence but also in how he uses his words. And the one people call Xototl (?) Seems to show the side that literally cuts through the bullshit. Someone else mentioned snake corn gaining a strand of hair after doing some tasks. Which would indicate even if he was in the mirror he STILL experienced the act of those tasks. Xolotls animal form is acting as the bare bones under everything corn is, it is running specifically as each extreme emotion ( severe pain, sadness, anger) and it lashed out because it may not know how to manage those emotions . But notice this corn showed ONLY when the human snake corn touched the mirror. And xolotl shows itself as human when it is in a manageable environment (an asylum in this time would have proved to be extreme stress). Xolotls spirit form is directly connected to still being a 4 year old reliving the trauma of black ick, meanwhile the snake of corn has grown up and moved on.