I'd like to take a moment to address some questions and comments that I see come up a lot in posts surrounding my work. First, the most troubling:

Q: Does the artist support this stuff in real life? Is this advocating real life slavery, forced consent, rape, abduction, etc?
A: Let me be extremely clear: This is a work of fiction.
These characters do not exist in the world we live in. It is not my intent through writing this story to say that any of these actions are acceptable, in any way.
This story is not at all representative of my personal beliefs.

I spend a lot of my time, privately, advocating that people practice Safe, Sane, and Consensual kink. It is honestly horrifying that anyone might think that by writing a comic I am advocating for any of the things these characters do. My actual values do not at all align with the contents of it. My only goal here is to tell an interesting piece of fiction, that caters to viewers who have a specific fantasy of living in a world where slavery exists. These actions are legal within the setting. I want to emphasize that they are not just or good actions, within the setting either. They are simply legal.

I honestly didn't think it needed to be said, but since it does:
Consent is the most important thing in kink, followed closely by safety.
Please don't read my story and think that I am saying anything else with the content. This is just porn, with world building attached to help the fantasy. That's all.

Chibi Arh: No
No
No
No
No
No

Q: This comic is hurting my mental health to read.
A: Please, if you are susceptible to blows to your mental health because of this kind of content, don't read it. I can't stop you, obviously, from reading it. But I don't want anyone who would be hurt by reading this comic to read it. There is plenty of other content that will not cause that kind of damage. Please go enjoy that instead.

Chibi Arh: take care of yourself pls

Q: The beginning of this comic sets up some dangerously contradictory ideas in comparison to the rest.
A: This is a very valid criticism. This comic was not intended to go the way it is going from the outset. It was not meant to really take place in this setting at all. It was my intention when starting to write it, to create something light and fluffy just to get practice drawing comics at all before starting something more serious.

However, I only have funding for one page a month, in addition to my other work. So, at one page a month this comic has gone on for two years now. At a certain point, I made the decision to incorporate it into the setting I really wanted to write, and use it as a lead in. I became attached to Addi, and wanted him to continue existing within this setting, even as a background character once I was done with the comic.

However, there are some issues with how the comic began if it exists in the setting. The initial light and fluffy introduction is admittedly, disturbingly out of place. I fear I may have written myself into a corner with that. As Addi was never intended to be a main character of this setting, or in this setting at all. At this point, there is not much to do about that. When Addi's story ends, I will be writing from a different perspective. I may retcon the very beginning, as that will simplify things considerably moving forward.

In short: I was new to making comics and I made some mistakes. It was always intended to be the practice comic that I made my mistakes on, but it's ended up leading into the setting while still having some significant dissonance in tone.
My bad.

Chibi Arh (huggin Chibi Addi): aaw
I wanna keep 'em