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Just when I thought this comic couldn't get any better he sprinkles on a little "bitch killed my sifu"
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Apr 13, 2019 07:09
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Grand Prize Winner posted:alt-text here: Huh. Incubus really was the good student. He fed her body to the doggos as requested.
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Apr 13, 2019 07:29
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Drunk Theory posted:Huh. Incubus really was the good student. He fed her body to the doggos as requested. wrong, idiot. better to feed her to the birds.
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Apr 13, 2019 07:53
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Sparrow Pecks an Ox, and Sparrow Shares a Drink Dog? Dog is thrown skyward
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Apr 13, 2019 07:54
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Maya is the Goofus to Incubus' Gallant.
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Apr 13, 2019 08:48
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On one hand, dick move. On the other, nice to dogs.
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Apr 13, 2019 08:55
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Synthbuttrange posted:Hey she didnt say he killed her in battle. Maybe he just kept getting her cigarettes. i cant say why exactly but i dont think this shrine has anything to do with meti actually
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Apr 13, 2019 09:12
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I’m going to laugh if Incubus was Metis good student, and this fact actually contributes to why the other demiurges don’t respect him. “drat, you were Metis faithful student...yah we’ll take her second student if we have a choice.” Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Apr 13, 2019 |
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Apr 13, 2019 09:15
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Drunk Theory posted:The whole "fed her body to the dogs" thing might make your statement harder to justify. It was her express wish. Alt text here: Meti-Ten-Ryo posted:My student once asked me what should be done about my body when I was inevitably torn apart by my enemies. My answer was simple: feed it to the dogs outside the walls of the city. She was horrified, of course, and protested loudly. 'Alright then,' I said, 'Give me a stick to beat the dogs so they won't bother me'. 'But master,' said my idiot student, 'You will be insensate.''Well if I'm insensate then why do you give a flying gently caress what happens to my corpse?' I said, settling the matter."
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Apr 13, 2019 10:29
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The more we learn about Maya the more I begin to realize that she is, if anything, further away from Royalty than the demiurges. (And not because of the key.)
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Apr 13, 2019 10:39
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Remember, also, that Meti considers the sword 'a hideous tool for separating men from their vital fluids', and that a swordmaster must become the action of 'Cutting Down Your Opponent'. The only thing she teaches her pupils is how to kill, so it would make perfect sense that killing her is the graduation exam.
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Apr 13, 2019 10:44
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Drunk Theory posted:I’m going to laugh if Incubus was Metis good student, and this fact actually contributes to why the other demiurges don’t respect him. Incubus is an anagram for "Nerd boy" in the secret language of kings
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Apr 13, 2019 11:25
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I'm not sure if she feels burning hatred for Inky because she's genuinely that attached to her master, because she's mad about the ways he upstaged her, because he's just that much of a douche, or all of the above.
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Apr 13, 2019 11:25
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Aumanor posted:It was her express wish. Alt text here: Also this is more or less a direct quote of Diogenes (historical sources do not mention him saying "flying gently caress", though it would certainly be in character)
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Apr 13, 2019 12:01
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The concept of Sword Diogenes is still unimaginably cool to me.
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Apr 13, 2019 12:18
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Drunk Theory posted:I’m going to laugh if Incubus was Metis good student, and this fact actually contributes to why the other demiurges don’t respect him. If Inky got his key by doing everything that was expected of him but with great skill, it would make sense that the rest of the demiurges hate him. The ones we have learned about so far have gotten their key through rejecting their expectations and place. Mottom killed her husband and took his key. Mammom betrayed his nature and as well as his entire race in order to get his. Solomon slaughtered his entire order of pacifist monks. Maya is probably more Royal than the demiurges by deciding to go day drinking instead of ruling.
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Apr 13, 2019 13:36
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Wrestlepig posted:The concept of Sword Diogenes is still unimaginably cool to me. Well he did tend to wave his "sword" around quite a bit...
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Apr 13, 2019 13:39
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Incubus plays off the Pink Jareth Satan angle because he's secretly the biggest square of them all.
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Apr 13, 2019 13:59
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Drunk Theory posted:I’m going to laugh if Incubus was Metis good student, and this fact actually contributes to why the other demiurges don’t respect him. Incubus was the better student, but that does not mean he was the better swordsman.
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Apr 13, 2019 17:16
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Those that can't Cut, learn.
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Apr 13, 2019 17:47
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Those who can't learn become kings and conquerors.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:07
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Joe Slowboat posted:New page. Is my girl Monkey still alive? Good for her.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:22
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Who What Now posted:Incubus was the better student, but that does not mean he was the better swordsman. I'm pretty sure Incubus was certainly the better student and swordsman, especially since his "It's only about winning" attitude is in line with Meti's whole ideology of if you are going to be such a loving idiot as to dedicate your life to the art of Cutting you might as well be competent at it. A pretty central conceit in this comic is that excelling at something is wholly devoid of innate virtue. Hell, I'm pretty sure Yisun themself finds it hilarious that everyone is blindly assuming that Being Royal is actually worth caring about.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:26
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Sounds like Meti should've updated her sword manual.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:27
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Achieving Royalty requires you to not care about achieving Royalty.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:48
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Bilirubin posted:sky burial takes too long Feeding the corpse to the packs of dogs that roamed just outside every city was how it was done by the Zoroastrian community in China or other flatland areas. Proper towers of silence were hard to come by.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:51
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A big flaming stink posted:I'm pretty sure Incubus was certainly the better student and swordsman, especially since his "It's only about winning" attitude is in line with Meti's whole ideology of if you are going to be such a loving idiot as to dedicate your life to the art of Cutting you might as well be competent at it. Except that he didn't lead the middle army and earn one of the places as one of the seven rulers of creation; she did.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:53
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Who What Now posted:Except that he didn't lead the middle army and earn one of the places as one of the seven rulers of creation; she did. We don't actually know anything about this. Also hahahaha 'earn.' Nobody can 'earn' being a multiversal tyrant. You just have enough power to force the others to table wth you, and Incubus clearly has that.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:56
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Who What Now posted:Except that he didn't lead the middle army and earn one of the places as one of the seven rulers of creation; she did. I'd hazard a guess that this, too, is because he cared too much about winning.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:56
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Joe Slowboat posted:We don't actually know anything about this. The chances of Maya not being the Demiurge that Incubus received his key from is all but zero.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:57
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She tarnished his Big Important Achievement by casually doing it first. It was simply payback.
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Apr 13, 2019 18:58
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A big flaming stink posted:I'm pretty sure Incubus was certainly the better student and swordsman, especially since his "It's only about winning" attitude is in line with Meti's whole ideology of if you are going to be such a loving idiot as to dedicate your life to the art of Cutting you might as well be competent at it. Caring about winning is actually directly opposed to Meti's instructions: Meti's Sword Manual posted:The weak swordsman clings to victory. He thinks of his life, his obligations, the outcome of the battle, his hatred for his opponent, his training, his pride in his mastery. By doing so, he is an imperfect vessel for the terrible fires of Will. He will surely crack. He will not laugh uproariously if he is cleft in two by his opponent’s blade. When his sword is shattered, his hands will be too reserved to tear his enemies’ flesh. I think that applies very well to Incubus, who is too consumed by his pride, his resentment, and fears, and his desire for victory to be a true master. Meti's instructions are that you must annihilate your entire self, and exist only as part of the single, perfect cut you are making - not why you are cutting, not what happens from you cutting, not even the previous or next cuts - just that single cut. quote:To cut properly, you must continually self-annihilate when cutting. Your hand must become a hand that is cutting, your body a body that is cutting, your mind, a mind that is cutting. You must instantaneously destroy your fake pre-present self. It is a useless hanger on. I think the real question is whether or not Incubus actually has a sword in that scabbard he's toting around.
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Apr 13, 2019 20:07
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Yeah let's not pretend that Mathangi Ten Meti hasn't been clearly alluded to being the original holder of Incubus's throne. She's shown as a demiurge in a flashback, and he refers to the previous owner as "fat, washed-up drunk" who abdicated. It's definitely Maya. It just makes me wonder what their training was like that she surpassed him.
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Apr 13, 2019 20:47
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Is Maya's student here someone we've seen before? One of the less adorned pursuers, perhaps?
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Apr 13, 2019 21:21
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Malpais Legate posted:It's definitely Maya. It just makes me wonder what their training was like that she surpassed him. Meti's Sword Manual posted:The weak swordsman clings to victory. He thinks of his life, his obligations, the outcome of the battle, his hatred for his opponent, his training, his pride in his mastery. By doing so, he is an imperfect vessel for the terrible fires of Will. He will surely crack. He will not laugh uproariously if he is cleft in two by his opponent’s blade. When his sword is shattered, his hands will be too reserved to tear his enemies’ flesh. vs 
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Apr 13, 2019 21:25
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Malpais Legate posted:Yeah let's not pretend that Mathangi Ten Meti hasn't been clearly alluded to being the original holder of Incubus's throne. She's shown as a demiurge in a flashback, and he refers to the previous owner as "fat, washed-up drunk" who abdicated. consider: she surpassed him because she was the poorer student
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Apr 13, 2019 22:50
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Let's just say everyone failed this class, student and teacher alike.
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Apr 13, 2019 23:09
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RateMySensei.com posted:Last archived reviews for METI, educator at MARKETPLACE #19820, URN #7203
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A big flaming stink posted:
this is incidentally the whole Thing of the villain of the Ramayana, who fasted and prayed and meditated until he was a functionally invulnerable sorceror and then used that power to become a god-king and crush human polities and kidnap princesses
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