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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
This artist's depiction of human encounters with fantasy 'creatures' produces some memorable imagery (see Part 2) but this struggle between humans - Niamh and The Alpha - is the most substantial work at his web site (link at the foot of the post) and arguably his best story-telling.
Niamh is the ginger-haired, former hero and leader of a combat-based culture. He is recalled from retirement and marriage by the goading of his successor Buck, The Alpha, who has risen to power by ruthlessly eliminating his rivals and now wants Niamh to be his final and most valuable scalp.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
Forced into hand-to-hand combat, Niamh's courage and experience is no match for the overwhelming size and strength of his opponent. In this image you get the measure of the daunting imbalance as he seems to be enveloped by hairy fleshiness in an intimate, vice-like embrace which he cannot escape and prevents him fighting back.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
At one point, The Alpha upends him and pins him to the floor, gripping his throat in a suffocating grip. It's a position which seems to foreshadow the fate he has planned for the hero once he has been defeated.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
Niamh's resistance is ultimately broken when The Alpha reveals that he holds his family as hostages. Niamh is forced to kneel in an imaginative restraint apparatus (which looks like it might double up as a wallpaper pasting table when not required for sex). Thus immobilised The Alpha allows his cronies to use the hero to satiate their brutal lusts, one after another. Niamh's family look on witnessing his degradation which climaxes (so to speak) when he is seen to be responding sexually to the assault.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
This marvellous domination image is one of the highlights of the series.
It shows Niamh voluntarily entering into The Alpha's service as his slave in order to save his family.
He kneels at the foot of Buck's bed awaiting his new master's first instruction.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
The defeated hero is forced to service the victor. This image seems to capture his stoic resignation and passive acceptance of the humiliating role he must now perform.
It is the start of a long and varied ordeal.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
He deceives himself into thinking it is a relationship based on mutual love.
In reality, The Alpha simply enjoys exploiting and controlling a strong and handsome man.
Inevitably, he eventually tires of the game.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
Niamh is cast into a dungeon and forgotten by his 'lover'.
He becomes easy prey for all the low lives and criminals who follow The Alpha.
But his spirit has been broken .
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
He cherishes the hope that one day his lover will return
and that his sacrifice means his family are safe and unharmed.
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| Theurges - Niamh v The Alpha |
Then one day the Guards come and chain him into an X-frame
Finally Buck does reappear but only to tell him that he has no use for him any more.
The poignant scene is telling depicted here.
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You can see the final outcome at Theurges on pixiv