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The latest chapter has been wild, in fact every chapter feels like it's ending on a knife-edge. It seems to relax for pages at a time but then reminds you that no, remember, Aechma is not your cool moon friend and is actually very, very desperate. that arrival parade tho
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Counterpoint to those saying Lunarians must forgive themselves as sinners before they can move on: Cicada is an extremely good person who has never done anything wrong in their life.
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Dec 29, 2017 12:46
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I kind of buy it. A lot of the series is about individualism, freedom, the will/lack of will to change etc, and "humans put a mind-control device in me because they were terrified of abandonment" fits right in with the other themes of the series. Also maybe a more meta reason; this feels like we're nearing the end and introducing a whole new antagonistic complex arc like that would be a huge extension.
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Mar 25, 2018 13:14
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Like they made it pretty clear the entire moon is just crushed by endless existence and one of the prince's big scenes was him drinking and his underlings trying to cheer him up, I can excuse them some shifty eyes.
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Mar 25, 2018 15:33
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That was fuckin' wiiiiiild. edit: Oh poo poo isn't Lapis a 6? Pierson fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Apr 26, 2018 12:17
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Lapis is a 5.5. Phos is a 3.5. That's a really unfortunate number you've given us there prince.
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Apr 26, 2018 13:04
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Comin out of their shell and they been doin just fine.
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May 26, 2018 18:59
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Also regardless of how Sensei told the truth, Rutile is still probably very Not Okay with Phos taking Padparadscha. Like, Phos is absolutely going to be thinking "hey if I just come back down with Pad in one piece and awake, surely Rutile will be okay with it!" and that isn't gonna be the case at all.
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Jun 23, 2018 20:47
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Yeah it's confusing and probably could have used an extra page or two: Padparadscha goes fuckin' wild and takes out Rutile and the three other gems who had cornered Yellow Diamond. Phos and Bortz are fighting when Cinnabar leaps in and throws up a massive wall of their poison mercury: Page 10: Cinnabar jumps in with mercury already thrown at Phos, but Padparadscha flings out a massive sword-shockwave aimed at Cinnabar to damage them and presumably changes the trajectory of the mercury. Page 11: Cinnabar is smashed to poo poo. Phos gets stabbed in the back by Padparadscha who flings them away to safety but in return gets mercury in their hair. Bortz also gets covered in mercury but offscreen. Page 12: Phos goes towards Padparadscha to check on them and gets blindsided by Bortz' hair-blades. We see the bisected area get coated in mercury poison. Page 13: The result. Phos in two pieces, Bortz down, and Cinnabar limbless and smashed. Pad offscreen. Everyone just coated in splashes of the poison mercury Then the rest of the chapter happens. This fuckin' sucks for everyone but the important thing is that Caimgorn looks great.
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Jul 25, 2018 11:39
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Pad isn't offscreen. Pad is buried under all the poison she saved Phos from. That's what the giant lump on the single page panel beside Cinnabar is, what remains of Pad. 
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Jul 25, 2018 13:22
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I think this is the end for Padparadscha: The last thing that Phos needs to have replaced to be a true Ship of Theseus is his torso, and with some kind of red gem if they want to complete the Buddhist seven treasures. Using whatever is left of Pad after the mercury is scraped away to heal Phos completes both of them at once.
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Jul 26, 2018 00:20
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It sure felt like ten thousand years.
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May 21, 2022 01:19
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It's been so long since I read it but yeah originally Phos was just going to become human enough to tell Kongo to do it but he was too broken even for that, so now it's Phos' job while Literally Every Other Existence In The World parties it up on the moon. There's definitely going to be some kind of reckoning after the 10k is up.
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Jun 25, 2022 19:34
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Speculation based on the mythology yeah.
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