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The brothers adelier dragged on a wee bit, but i'm starting to see why it had to be covered when it was.
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The way Duane is seeing the kids is both him hallucinating because it's getting close to dark and symbolic of the way he's seeing and treating them. Also, he's one of the main protagonists, he's not going to murder a bunch of children my dudes. Duane - who ostensibly tries to protect and care for all the kids he encounters, because he is A Dad - is treating these kids pretty terribly, and has been since he got here. Despite the fact that he supposedly believes they're victims of the state and religion they were born into, he's haranguing them about why their beliefs are wrong and what terrible thing is going to happen to them. He was even incredibly cold to Siya, despite the fact that she very obviously doesn't want to get eaten. Instead of trying to develop a rapport with her and rescue her, as she's basically a brainwashed victim, he treats her extremely coldly. How differently would she have taken his earlier offer of help if he hadn't treated her the way he had? There's an explicit comparison to be drawn between how he treated Siya and how he treated Ruffles. Despite what he's telling himself here, he's not actually doing anything to help these kids. The symbolism of only seeing them as empty shells is because he views them as active participants in a system that's going to murder half of them, despite the fact that they're all isolated, groomed victims of the adults and religion in their life. It's his personal prejudices talking here, not his - currently buried - sincere desire to protect kids. He's not seeing or treating them as people, and the hallucination is explicitly telling the reader that. What we've seen of Duane's hallucinations so far always indicate something about his personal viewpoint, like when we got that first glimpse of Mikaila transposed with Sette before we knew who Mikaila was.
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Ash posted:Shall we play another guessing game? Monday will be a two page update, and it will uh end uh, Duane’s time on the stage. And there will be blood. Anyone wanna call what happens?
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Oct 25, 2020 01:31
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rip duane
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Oct 25, 2020 02:39
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:The way Duane is seeing the kids is both him hallucinating because it's getting close to dark and symbolic of the way he's seeing and treating them. Also, he's one of the main protagonists, he's not going to murder a bunch of children my dudes.
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Super early update today, and I don't think anyone called it! Also fairly distressing. http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch15/ch15_114.html edit: did find Quigley's face morbidly hilarious.
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Oct 26, 2020 02:24
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Time for a radical owlectomy, I guess
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Oct 26, 2020 02:33
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Oct 26, 2020 03:54
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good birb
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Oct 26, 2020 05:11
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Duane was starting to see Sara as a real person there instead of just another object to preach at, before he attacked her. That might be part of why he attacked her, even; that and Siya revealing that he's the one who hit her, not anyone else there, likely shook him terribly and were forcing him to confront things he didn't want to. I don't think this is a fight Quigley is likely to win, especially hungover and so angry that he's blowing the element of surprise. He's gotten a lot of softer moments and humanization this chapter too, which feels like it might have been setting up for something bad to happen to him. Hopefully not; maybe this is where Elka, Emil, and Minnow barge in or something and things descend into even further chaos.
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Oct 26, 2020 08:55
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Duane just ate that bird on stage. He should have been a death metal band's frontman.
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Oct 26, 2020 09:34
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Cat Mattress posted:Duane just ate that bird on stage. Or an 80s metal frontman.
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Oct 26, 2020 15:37
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or the popular metal performer Ozzy Osbourne who famously killed a dove with his teeth during a meeting with CBS executives and later did the same with a bat during a concert performance
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Oct 26, 2020 20:57
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in ozzy's defense, he didn't know the bat was real that must have been an unpleasant surprise
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Oct 26, 2020 20:58
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Roland Jones posted:something bad to happen In Unsounded?!? lol
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Oct 27, 2020 01:00
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Honestly this is going better than I thought, he's taking out his rabid emotions on a poor innocent owl instead of a child. I mean aside from all the screaming at children.
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Flavahbeast posted:or the popular metal performer Ozzy Osbourne who famously killed a dove with his teeth during a meeting with CBS executives and later did the same with a bat during a concert performance 
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Oct 28, 2020 01:39
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And we're back. No one seems to be happy here. Although Jivi isn't immediately leaping on Sette or glaring at her angrily; maybe Matty's last talk actually got through to him somewhat. He also did that roundabout reading thing for her and all.
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Nov 5, 2020 05:58
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Why do I feel like the underground is very floodable right about now?
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Nov 9, 2020 19:56
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Ruffles learning the deep truths about being 'good' and what that entails for a house lizard
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Nov 10, 2020 19:55
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This is not the rematch between Quigley and Duane I had hoped for, but I'm still excited.
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I just noticed the comic header has an empty shelf of twin skulls. Knowing how much Ashley likes incorporating the website with the page (and brutal murder) they'll probably be filled up soon.
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DrSnakeLaser posted:I just noticed the comic header has an empty shelf of twin skulls. Knowing how much Ashley likes incorporating the website with the page (and brutal murder) they'll probably be filled up soon. That's actually due to them having fallen out after this page (click to advance the comic, and maybe turn your volume down); up to this point the entire thing is full.
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Talking about skulls, its probably about time that Duane peels of the rest of his rotting face flesh and embraces the skeletor look.
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JustaDamnFool posted:Talking about skulls, its probably about time that Duane peels of the rest of his rotting face flesh and embraces the skeletor look. Iirc he needs the muscles to talk, skeleton plods aren't a thing. It might also make glamours harder.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Iirc he needs the muscles to talk, skeleton plods aren't a thing. It might also make glamours harder. He's a tacit caster, it's not like he's using verbalization for spellcasting most of the time anyways. Holding himself together on pure magic is probably a bad idea when he loses control at night, but on the other hand it's harder to bite things without a jaw...
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Nov 23, 2020 04:25
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I think Duane enjoys being able to speak.
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Who is Sessine?
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GunnerJ posted:Who is Sessine? Isn't that what Titty-Bird called herself?
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Nov 23, 2020 19:38
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Yes, it's Lady Ilganyag's real(?) name. Meanwhile, update today. Poor Matty. "Papa. Say you Say you love... Say you love Uaid."
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Nov 24, 2020 01:14
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yall ever just rip a guys jaw off to get the last word?
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Lucky he didn't lose a finger. Quigley got some deft hands. No wonder his wife liked his sullen rear end.
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Skippy McPants posted:Lucky he didn't lose a finger. Quigley got some deft hands. No wonder his wife liked his sullen rear end. They feel more like two people who could have clicked together extremely well if circumstances were different (his PTSD, for one), but in the circumstances they were actually in the friction and emotional walls were too much to handle, even as they each saw traits in each other they admired and wished they could connect with more, but that just made the fighting more frustrating and the household more unbearable.
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I like that quigs is a dilf but also a bitter old man in one.
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Okay, the three most powerful protagonists are all in the same room so something horrible is going to happen now.
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Skippy McPants posted:Okay, the three most powerful protagonists are all in the same room so something horrible is going to happen now. Protagonists is somewhat questionable in this story. Most powerful maybe even more so especially if you aren't just looking at "who wins in a 1v1 fight".
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Protagonist isn't synonymous with good. They're all major PoV characters. And the only other big PoV character I'd bet against any of those three in a fight with is probably Bastion.
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Skippy McPants posted:Protagonist isn't synonymous with good. They're all major PoV characters. Friendly Coffee is the true hero of this story. 
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Skippy McPants posted:Protagonist isn't synonymous with good. They're all major PoV characters. Bastion got owned by Elka, Duane would flatten him. Duane's easily the scariest wright of the three in a fair-ish fight, it's just that most of the fights have been at least a little unfair (and Prakhuta, who caught his shot, specifically cheats by outsourcing most of his pymary processing to a million smoke eels). Elka probably deserves more battlewright recognition than she gets from Cresce, to be fair. Just thinking on her feet to nonlethally take down a wright who is teleporting, when everyone knows teleporting is impossible, is pretty good. then again, if she got more recognition she might be one of Keon's coworkers rather than Toma's right hand badass, so
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