She’s fighting a spellsinger. Choke them and they’re helpless, which is what she did. She’s probably also imagining Teresa’s face as she does it.

Tiff was berserking when she tried to gut Teresa. Of course, she could be berserk right now, but there’s no impetus for it. It’s more like she just filled her Focus Meter and is unleashing special moves while shouting, “This… is the Quickening!”

Like I said, she has more and far stronger motivations to kill Neils, whom she knows to be a royal bodyguard who has apparently turned traitor and assaulted Peonie. The witch is a joke by comparison. Tiff could give her a double purple nurple and the fight would be equally over.

I had considered a crushed windpipe as a possibility, but it isn’t very befitting of the genre.

There’s nothing friendly about a sleeper hold. They hurt. A LOT.

If Tiff was trying to kill the witch by doing something to her neck or throat so as to prevent retaliation, she used several more moves than were necessary in her current state. She seems very focused; if she was going to a kill, I’m inclined to think she would have been faster about it, given the way she ended the other fights. This was (very relatively) gentle disabling.

The Fractured are “obviously” not alive in the same way a human is. Chopping them up doesn’t require a killer mentality. They were also armed and swinging when she brought them down. As I said, the witch was already rendered helpless, and in such a focused manner that Tiff was clearly aware that she had the situation under control.

If you think about the incidents to date, Tiffany is actually many times more likely to consider killing someone over a social situation than a physical attack. To her, fights ARE social situations, and she is very comfortable in that role. She tends to go from merely physical to actually bloodthirsty when she’s made to feel awkward.

Tiff has already been subjected to more Magik in the saga than anyone else….

With the Title being “Air is Important” I’m surprised no one thought about a Simpler move than a Neck Break.

A Crushed Larynx negates the need to exert ~18 pounds of pressure to twist and snap the necks vertebrae so that they severs the spinal cord.

You spend much less time with the now choking to death Witch.

And in all fairness….you’re casting majik to do ‘something harmful” to me? I’m going to make sure you never get up again.

First Rule of Combat Survival….

Make sure you are alive and they are not after the fight is over.

I don’t think Tiff has any hesitation to snapping the necks of witches, so unless she wanted the witch alive to ask question, I don’t think the witch’s CNS is fully connected any more.

If the image doesnt look quite right for a neck breaking, chalk that up to the artist simply not being very knowledgable on the subject. I will be a bit dissapointed if she does prove to be alive in later pages. It just doesn’t fit.

What can I say. Subtlety is not my forte, or whatever. Wish the dress would rip already.

Frankly, not knowing the situation, she has far more reason to kill Neils than the witch.

so “Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is Dead?”

Anyway, Tiff is not really in a mood that would lead itself to mercy.

For example, there are no sound effects when Tiffany dented Niel’s armor. I find those sort of sound effects unnecessary and clutters the panel.

Also, I can’t imagine the artist failing to take the opportunity to draw the word crack if there was a neck-shattering crack sound involved.