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What is YISUN?
Mother
A lie we tell ourselves to have a purpose
Bliss
A paradox with no solution
Father
A strong female protagonist
The weakest thing there is and the smallest crawling thing
Creator
Everything in this miserable and hellish existence
A solution with no paradoxes
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Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

paradoxGentleman posted:

Just reread the entirety of King of Swords, to get my bearings properly.

I have a question: why do angels carry around bulky, heavy bodies if they can interact with the world without them, as we've seen White Chain do?
Also, uh. When you see all the face and heel turns that White Chain does in a short period of time, she seems very... not exactly indecisive, but perhaps too easily swayed.

Pretty sure an angel outside of its armour is significantly more vulnerable - if the armour is destroyed the angel is just forced into the void but if their flame form is killed they have to reincarnate.

White Chain has been questioning her loyalties and motivation every which way. It's an extension of how she's acted for the entire story, to my eyes - where among other angels she asserts her individuality and identity, but among mortals she tries to put up a united front with her brothers. Now the head of her order has teamed up with a rival order, pushing her to control and even betray the one person who actually cares about her and trying to quash that same identity.
That's pretty much what Vigilant Gaze's role in this chapter has been - to help her decide for herself who she really is and what she wants to fight for. With Juggernaut Star serving as the model for what she might become if she stayed on the course she was on.

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Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy
The fight will be WC using the Old Law to exhaustively describe every law, rule and city ordinance SD's battle royale is violating. A host of angel cops will bust in from all sides and shut the party down...cops man smdh

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

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paradoxGentleman posted:


I have a question: why do angels carry around bulky, heavy bodies if they can interact with the world without them, as we've seen White Chain do?

The thing is they can't interact with the world without a body. What White Chain did was a very unusual and reckless thing. She was able to keep herself intact because she was still connected to her body and extending herself out of it but this is apparently supposed to be a very risky thing to do. Angels can't normally exist outside the void without a physical body, as I understand it. The bodies were actually built by humans if I remember it right to bring the angels back to throne after Zoss threw/killed them all out.

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

paradoxGentleman posted:

Just reread the entirety of King of Swords, to get my bearings properly.

I have a question: why do angels carry around bulky, heavy bodies if they can interact with the world without them, as we've seen White Chain do?
Also, uh. When you see all the face and heel turns that White Chain does in a short period of time, she seems very... not exactly indecisive, but perhaps too easily swayed.

White Chain is basically going through an identity crisis, and has been for who knows how long. Because her identity as an angel is tied so deeply to her loyalty to someone who turned out to be an omnicidal maniac, and tied into her gender identity issues, it only makes sense that she's changing her mind so much. She's figuring things out, but they don't always stick because she still has millennia-old bad habits ingrained in her mind.

Also I think it's because angels need the shell to stay grounded to physical reality. Like, when White Chain leaves her body entirely, she's just a ghost in the void again, like when she was punished by those root knights before. When she was doing cool angel stuff, she was still connected to the body by a little wispy umbilical. So the risk is that someone either severs that or attacks the body directly, in which case she'd just be stuck in another plane until someone made her a new one.

Duodecimal
Dec 28, 2012

Still stupid
Pages since last time someone is squinting just one eye: 0

nimby
Nov 4, 2009

The pinnacle of cloud computing.



Yesh posted:

The fight will be WC using the Old Law to exhaustively describe every law, rule and city ordinance SD's battle royale is violating. A host of angel cops will bust in from all sides and shut the party down...cops man smdh

WC will summon the jeeps.

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

nimby posted:

WC will summon the jeeps.

why does Solomon David get to say how Solomon David gets cut? Become royalty, dude!

wiegieman
Apr 22, 2010

Royalty is a continuous cutting motion


Pattonesque posted:

why does Solomon David get to say how Solomon David gets cut? Become royalty, dude!

I'm forced to admit that Ray is extremely royal which is not necessarily a point in favor of royalty

DrakePegasus
Jan 30, 2009

It was Plundersaurus Rex's dream to be the greatest pirate dragon ever.

I have it on good Authority that he is like American royalty.

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.

Duodecimal posted:

Pages since last time someone is squinting just one eye: 0

Its said to be a invocation of the spirit of the Eternal Audience for Their Eye to zoom in real close to yours. It is said after this happens you cannot fail to do something badass. Unfortunately often it makes you look like you're squinting really hard at nothing because the camera is invisible.

Lights
Dec 9, 2007

Lights, the Peacock King, First of His Name.

We've been re-watching Avatar now that it's on Netflix, and I've come to the conclusion that Uncle Iroh is the most Royal character in the show, by far.

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




TBF, he’s the best at literally everything except correctly identifying poisonous plants.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

paradoxGentleman posted:

Just reread the entirety of King of Swords, to get my bearings properly.

I have a question: why do angels carry around bulky, heavy bodies if they can interact with the world without them, as we've seen White Chain do?
Also, uh. When you see all the face and heel turns that White Chain does in a short period of time, she seems very... not exactly indecisive, but perhaps too easily swayed.

angel rules make no sense and are subordinate to the laws of anime fight drama

Red Bones
Aug 9, 2012

"I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

The bit earlier on in the chapter where Vigilant Gaze commented on White Chain's fighting style from the sidelines was also very DBZ, it was great.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Algid posted:

Getting every one of her holes filled by half naked men.

(Why are all those holes getting filled anyways, pretty sure some of them are vents and not wounds right?)

My guess is they may have truly been wounds. Perhaps gunshots from extremely high caliber weapons. Or from where needles punctured her to send her back to the void.

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
yeah how many people got punctured by those vaccus needles.

Demiurge4
Aug 10, 2011

It seems to me the most basic vulnerability of Ki-Rata is preventing your opponent from breathing. Whether by punching them real hard in the lungs or using magic to create a vacuum around them or just envelop them in a bunch of smoke.

shirts and skins
Jun 25, 2007

Good morning!

Demiurge4 posted:

It seems to me the most basic vulnerability of Ki-Rata is preventing your opponent from breathing. Whether by punching them real hard in the lungs or using magic to create a vacuum around them or just envelop them in a bunch of smoke.

You fool, you have fallen for the oldest trick in the book: assuming Solomon needs air to breathe

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

wiegieman posted:

I'm forced to admit that Ray is extremely royal which is not necessarily a point in favor of royalty

Ray pays attention

Precambrian
Apr 30, 2008

The scene where everyone's walking home, miserable, while Ray's just yammering on about whatever's happening in his life, and then he finds fifty dollars on the ground, is definitely a Royalty moment.

Lemony
Jul 27, 2010

Now With Fresh Citrus Scent!

Lights posted:

We've been re-watching Avatar now that it's on Netflix, and I've come to the conclusion that Uncle Iroh is the most Royal character in the show, by far.

Seems legit. Of course, he got his son killed in a pointless bloody war before he got to that point. Which I suppose also fits with backstories in this universe.

Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

Now I'm actually wonderin' if I even LIKE royalty, man. I'll see you later, I got to take stock.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
His every move is the new tradition.

ConfusedUs
Feb 24, 2004

Bees?
You want fucking bees?
Here you go!
ROLL INITIATIVE!!





Lights posted:

We've been re-watching Avatar now that it's on Netflix, and I've come to the conclusion that Uncle Iroh is the most Royal character in the show, by far.

Iroh starts being The Absolute Best just a couple of episodes in. I adore that character so much.

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

How Wonderful! posted:

His every move is the new tradition.

you found it. the definition of royalty

Cornelius is also extremely royal.

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


Pattonesque posted:

Cornelius is also extremely royal.

Royalty is when you can win something in your sleep, but don't.

e: Royalty is also when you break the rules with a lesson you learned from your long dead wife.

e2: Royalty is also when you coordinate non-work plans using work resources i.e. communicating via the closed captioning to porn.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Phillipe:Lie Bot::the entire k6bd universe:YISUN

Hostile V
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

They're old-school royalty though. New royalty is that plus being inclusive and respecting queer folx and marginalized people.

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

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Bongo Bill posted:

Now I'm actually wonderin' if I even LIKE royalty, man. I'll see you later, I got to take stock.
I would pick on royalty, because royalty sucks.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Begemot posted:

White Chain is basically going through an identity crisis, and has been for who knows how long. Because her identity as an angel is tied so deeply to her loyalty to someone who turned out to be an omnicidal maniac, and tied into her gender identity issues, it only makes sense that she's changing her mind so much. She's figuring things out, but they don't always stick because she still has millennia-old bad habits ingrained in her mind.
It's way worse for her than that, because angels don't appear to experience socialization beyond being created by a God hammering the old law into their bodies and hey welcome to life you're a space cop now. Telling a small lie with the best of intentions cracked her face. She isn't just rejecting a way she's been taught to think about herself: she's deciding that an irreducible part of what she is is wrong.

Hostile V posted:

They're old-school royalty though. New royalty is that plus being inclusive and respecting queer folx and marginalized people.
IMO, if you're thinking about another person's identity enough to reject them, you're clearly not Royal.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Hostile V posted:

They're old-school royalty though. New royalty is that plus being inclusive and respecting queer folx and marginalized people.

Old Monarch Royalty vs New Team-Effort Royalty


(The proletariat is a team :ussr: )

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010


I've made a huge mistake.

https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1264662745279983616?s=20

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...
So I don't interract with the fandom often so I don't know if this question is taboo or not, but is there any word on what's been going on with the updates recently?

From an original schedule of "Every Tuesday, Thursday and sometimes at the weekends" it's become once per week over the past few months, and this week looks to have been missed entirely. Is Abbadon busy with something or other?

3
Aug 26, 2006

The Magic Number


College Slice

Nilbop posted:

So I don't interract with the fandom often so I don't know if this question is taboo or not, but is there any word on what's been going on with the updates recently?

From an original schedule of "Every Tuesday, Thursday and sometimes at the weekends" it's become once per week over the past few months, and this week looks to have been missed entirely. Is Abbadon busy with something or other?

He's been moving.

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...
Ah, that would explain it.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"
I assumed it just takes time to get Solomon David's smug return stare back at White Chain just right.

frodnonnag
Aug 13, 2007
Part that and part abbadon loving to make intricate scenes.

Dr Subterfuge
Aug 31, 2005

TIME TO ROC N' ROLL

Nilbop posted:

So I don't interract with the fandom often so I don't know if this question is taboo or not, but is there any word on what's been going on with the updates recently?

From an original schedule of "Every Tuesday, Thursday and sometimes at the weekends" it's become once per week over the past few months, and this week looks to have been missed entirely. Is Abbadon busy with something or other?

The next page has a lot of detail. Also yes, asking "what's going on, why aren't there more updates in this free comic" is generally frowned upon.

Angry Lobster
May 16, 2011

Served with honor
and some clarified butter.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I assumed it just takes time to get Solomon David's smug return stare back at White Chain just right.

Nah, Solomon is just getting his muscles massaged with coconut oil before his fight with Whitechain, and when you are as swole as he is that takes a lot of time.

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Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

Bite my furry metal ass
Fractal muscles: finite mass, but infinite surface area!

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