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You know, I look back at how Pinocchio takes care of the Terrible Dogfish and I keep... liking it less and less.
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I mean sure it's fun, there's an obscene one-liner before the kill, but I feel like in terms of tone and execution it deviates too much from the other kills of this story. I'd like something that is more quiet, suspenseful and atmospheric. I mean it goes from Pinocchio killing his targets in 'grounded' ways, and then it becomes something over the top and bombastic like that new Jason Statham movie with the megalodon.

I think I came up with a much better way that is more original and also sticks closer to the stuff from the book.
For doing so I created an OC, enter the Despotic Octopus.

STORY:
After killing the Coachman, Pinocchio steals a small boat carrying explosives and heads for the Terrible Dogfish, which sleeps with its mouth wide open due to its asthma (this is taken straight from the book) Pinocchio's plan is to enter through the mouth, put the explosives in the Dogfish's belly, get out and detonate from the boat to kill the Dogfish by opening a gash in its body with the explosion.
However, just as he's done placing the dynamite, Pinocchio is confronted by the Despotic Octopus.
This guy explains that the Philosopher Tunny (a supporting character from the book that escaped along with Geppetto and Pinocchio) told him about his experience inside the Dogfish's belly and the Octopus was fascinated by what he heard and rushed to let himself get swallowed, and now he has made the belly of Dogfish his realm in which he's a merciless ruler that feeds on the other helpless sea animals the Dogfish swallows and avoids being digested by slithering up on the ship wrecks.

Of course the Octopus is anything but enthusiastic about Pinocchio's intentions of blowing up his home and attempts to eat the puppet. However, when the Octopus bites Pinocchio's body with his beak, he realizes it's inedible wood while Pinocchio... goes absolutely apeshit, yelling out "I have NOT... been carved TO BE A SEA MONSTER'S SNAAAAAACK!!!!!" (or something in those lines anyway) and furiously rips off the Octopus' beak with his bare hands before freeing himself by biting off the tentacles and then using a rusty axe to chop the remaining tentacles, and instead of finishing off the Octopus, Pinocchio leaves him alive to "experience" the explosion.
Like in the original death, Pinocchio is unaware that there's gunpowder cargo lying in the Dogfish's belly and his detonation sets those off resulting in a gigantic blast that blows the Dogfish to pieces and causes a huge wave that washes up Pinocchio to shore.

I like this much more than the original "fight" to kill the Terrible Dogfish because its behavior is more faithful to the book (instead of being a Monstro wannabe that gets killed in a similar way the shark from Jaws dies... it was WAY too similar to Jaws, with the blood chum bait and everything), it references the Tunny and overall I think it has more potential for atmosphere: Pinocchio quietly arrives in the night, the sea is calm as the giant leviathan sleeps, he climbs down into the insides, the belly is a dark ship graveyard resting on a soggy wasteland of dying sea animals... then this Octopus shows up, and a more brutal, messy, up-close fight ensues, and then the initial peace of the sea at night is disrupted by the gigantic explosion. If this is made into a movie imagine what kind of sound design the belly of the Dogfish could have.
Personally I think it's WAY better than the first way Pinocchio disposes of the Terrible Dogfish I drew and leaves room for creative set designs and the Octopus itself. Thought it'd be interesting to have Pinocchio fight a being that is almost entirely made of flesh.

If the majority of you agrees that this is a better "version" of Pinocchio killing the Dogfish, it'll replace the old for when I'll pitch it around in the future.

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You know, I look back at how Pinocchio takes care of the Terrible Dogfish and I keep... liking it less and less.
fav.me/dchmf9m fav.me/dchxy7w

I mean sure it's fun, there's an obscene one-liner before the kill, but I feel like in terms of tone and execution it deviates too much from the other kills of this story. I'd like something that is more quiet, suspenseful and atmospheric. I mean it goes from Pinocchio killing his targets in 'grounded' ways, and then it becomes something over the top and bombastic like that new Jason Statham movie with the megalodon.

I think I came up with a much better way that is more original and also sticks closer to the stuff from the book.
For doing so I created an OC, enter the Despotic Octopus.

STORY:
After killing the Coachman, Pinocchio steals a small boat carrying explosives and heads for the Terrible Dogfish, which sleeps with its mouth wide open due to its asthma (this is taken straight from the book) Pinocchio's plan is to enter through the mouth, put the explosives in the Dogfish's belly, get out and detonate from the boat to kill the Dogfish by opening a gash in its body with the explosion.
However, just as he's done placing the dynamite, Pinocchio is confronted by the Despotic Octopus.
This guy explains that the Philosopher Tunny (a supporting character from the book that escaped along with Geppetto and Pinocchio) told him about his experience inside the Dogfish's belly and the Octopus was fascinated by what he heard and rushed to let himself get swallowed, and now he has made the belly of Dogfish his realm in which he's a merciless ruler that feeds on the other helpless sea animals the Dogfish swallows and avoids being digested by slithering up on the ship wrecks.

Of course the Octopus is anything but enthusiastic about Pinocchio's intentions of blowing up his home and attempts to eat the puppet. However, when the Octopus bites Pinocchio's body with his beak, he realizes it's inedible wood while Pinocchio... goes absolutely apeshit, yelling out "I have NOT... been carved TO BE A SEA MONSTER'S SNAAAAAACK!!!!!" (or something in those lines anyway) and furiously rips off the Octopus' beak with his bare hands before freeing himself by biting off the tentacles and then using a rusty axe to chop the remaining tentacles, and instead of finishing off the Octopus, Pinocchio leaves him alive to "experience" the explosion.
Like in the original death, Pinocchio is unaware that there's gunpowder cargo lying in the Dogfish's belly and his detonation sets those off resulting in a gigantic blast that blows the Dogfish to pieces and causes a huge wave that washes up Pinocchio to shore.

I like this much more than the original "fight" to kill the Terrible Dogfish because its behavior is more faithful to the book (instead of being a Monstro wannabe that gets killed in a similar way the shark from Jaws dies... it was WAY too similar to Jaws, with the blood chum bait and everything), it references the Tunny and overall I think it has more potential for atmosphere: Pinocchio quietly arrives in the night, the sea is calm as the giant leviathan sleeps, he climbs down into the insides, the belly is a dark ship graveyard resting on a soggy wasteland of dying sea animals... then this Octopus shows up, and a more brutal, messy, up-close fight ensues, and then the initial peace of the sea at night is disrupted by the gigantic explosion. If this is made into a movie imagine what kind of sound design the belly of the Dogfish could have.
Personally I think it's WAY better than the first way Pinocchio disposes of the Terrible Dogfish I drew and leaves room for creative set designs and the Octopus itself. Thought it'd be interesting to have Pinocchio fight a being that is almost entirely made of flesh.

If the majority of you agrees that this is a better "version" of Pinocchio killing the Dogfish, it'll replace the old for when I'll pitch it around in the future.