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Tollymain posted:making a sharper rock is inevitable Making the inevitable requires a sharp rock
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Walk softly and carry a sharper rock.
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Apr 24, 2019 06:19
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The sanctioned action is to use things like especially sharp rocks.
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Apr 24, 2019 11:25
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or thumbs!
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Apr 24, 2019 14:33
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https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1121116358417289216
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Apr 24, 2019 19:33
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So Incubus wasn't even Meti's pupil in Meti's eyes. No wonder he has a complex, nobody in his life has ever seen him as legitimate except for his sycophants.
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Apr 24, 2019 19:44
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Who What Now posted:So Incubus wasn't even Meti's pupil in Meti's eyes. No wonder he has a complex, nobody in his life has ever seen him as legitimate except for his sycophants. That's only what Maya thinks Meti intended.
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Apr 24, 2019 19:46
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Incubus being the multiverse's bastard child is now my head of john canon.
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Apr 24, 2019 19:47
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VanSandman posted:That's only what Maya thinks Meti intended.
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Apr 24, 2019 19:49
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"Master, what if I had a time machine..." "Shut up. Time travel is bullshit. This is a central pillar of Sword Law."
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Apr 24, 2019 19:50
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It's not Meti's fault that Maya is in the remedial class.
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Apr 24, 2019 19:50
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"Sword Saint Meti" Abbadon's been playing Sekiro I see
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Apr 24, 2019 19:52
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I could have sworn "Sword Saint" was a thing mentioned earlier in the comic. But Abbadon probably got it from somewhere else.
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Apr 24, 2019 19:55
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Brought To You By posted:Meti's sword manual only mentions a single student, so Incubus may very well have always been seen as a teaching aid for Maya. it must suck to have your master get someone else to kill her just to teach you a lesson about Cutting
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Apr 24, 2019 19:56
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensei_(honorary_title)
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Apr 24, 2019 19:59
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Sword Saints have always been kind of a thing in japanese myth/media and western adaptation of such. IIRC it's also named Kensai. Ed: Ninja'd.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:00
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YaketySass posted:I could have sworn "Sword Saint" was a thing mentioned earlier in the comic. But Abbadon probably got it from somewhere else. It is, as with many ideas that lionize the art of slicing up men, from Japan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensei_(honorary_title) E: double ninjaed!
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Apr 24, 2019 20:03
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Who What Now posted:So Incubus wasn't even Meti's pupil in Meti's eyes. No wonder he has a complex, nobody in his life has ever seen him as legitimate except for his sycophants. It's in both Incubus's and Maya's nature to assume that Meti only gave a poo poo about Maya, for some arbitrary reason. It's in Meti's nature to not give much of a poo poo about either of them.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:07
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Tetracube posted:"Sword Saint Meti" First time it shows up in stuff at the bottom of the comic is the Siege of Yre. Probably shows up in the comic itself sooner.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:07
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Who What Now posted:So Incubus wasn't even Meti's pupil in Meti's eyes. No wonder he has a complex, nobody in his life has ever seen him as legitimate except for his sycophants. Clearly Incubus took another meaning from this lesson:  It seems like Maya is working on her own version of winning, though, that involves protecting and aiding Allison from a distance. Theory: is Maya actually working directly with Zoss? Maybe they conspired from the start to enable Allison to survive and evade the demiurges while she gains power.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:12
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Incubus is an imperfect version of what Meti was. He probably really is a peerless swordsman, and focused on winning every sword fight with a terrible will, but if you take away his sword, he's just a man. If you took away Meti's sword, she'd rip your throat out with her teeth. Meti also hated what she was, and pretty explicitly wanted to stop Maya from repeating her mistake. Maya still became an unstoppable warlord before realizing the lesson. I think her version of winning is keeping Allison from becoming what Meti was or Incubus or Maya are. This is why Meti was probably a match for any of the Seven. They all suffer from grasping, from fearing failure or loss. Meti has little, wants nothing, and could focus her entire being and will on the pure act of killing, without hesitation or other considerations. They might perforate her with vines or hit her with exploding touch, but best believe she will strike her death blow, because she believes it harder than anyone else believes anything. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Apr 24, 2019 20:12
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Theory: is Maya actually working directly with Zoss? Maybe they conspired from the start to enable Allison to survive and evade the demiurges while she gains power. I don't think Zoss needs anybody to enact his plans. The Demiurges are fundamentally a pack of broken idiots waiting for something to crumble them to dust. Maya is probably just aware of this and waiting for the proper fireworks to start (and maybe do her part/enact her own plans).
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Apr 24, 2019 20:16
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Dead Reckoning posted:Incubus is an imperfect version of what Meti was. He probably really is a peerless swordsman, and focused on winning every sword fight with a terrible will, but if you take away his sword, he's just a man. If you took away Meti's sword, she'd rip your throat out with her teeth. Which raises the question -- one I am legitimately curious to see answered -- of how Incubus, the object lesson, killed the woman who was not his master.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:22
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Poltergrift posted:Which raises the question -- one I am legitimately curious to see answered -- of how Incubus, the object lesson, killed the woman who was not his master. Maybe she let him win the ultimate blow to self esteem
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Apr 24, 2019 20:26
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Poltergrift posted:Which raises the question -- one I am legitimately curious to see answered -- of how Incubus, the object lesson, killed the woman who was not his master. Judging by how he's squaring off against the other demiurges: not by playing fair. rannum posted:Maybe she let him win Or that. It's the same theory we have with how he got his key, but it does seem like a Meti thing to do. Dr Subterfuge fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Apr 24, 2019 20:26
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Intra was the guy called a sword-saint you guys were thinking of. He's the guy who defeated the gladiator by fighting like an idiot.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:29
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So incubus is the idiot trained wrong on purpose.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:32
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I just loving love this setting, where power is expressed in superlatives. There are countless creatures good with a sword, but the difference between them and Meti is the difference between the candle and the star. Poltergrift posted:Which raises the question -- one I am legitimately curious to see answered -- of how Incubus, the object lesson, killed the woman who was not his master. I have no doubt that the answer is some combination of a) she chose to die, like Obi-Wan in A New Hope b) her death was a lesson c) her last cut is the reason Incubus is such a broken man today
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Apr 24, 2019 20:32
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Tetracube posted:"Sword Saint Meti" This has been super clear for the last three pages, I think this is just acknowledging it lmao
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Apr 24, 2019 20:34
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Dr Subterfuge posted:First time it shows up in stuff at the bottom of the comic is the Siege of Yre. Probably shows up in the comic itself sooner. Sekiro's translators have been reading K6BD, I see.
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Apr 24, 2019 20:35
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Poltergrift posted:Which raises the question -- one I am legitimately curious to see answered -- of how Incubus, the object lesson, killed the woman who was not his master. She didn't want to win or to survive. She wanted to die laughing, struck down by her enemies and fed to the dogs outside the city. She got what she wanted - did Incubus?
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Apr 24, 2019 20:37
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Dead Reckoning posted:Incubus is an imperfect version of what Meti was. He probably really is a peerless swordsman, and focused on winning every sword fight with a terrible will, but if you take away his sword, he's just a man. If you took away Meti's sword, she'd rip your throat out with her teeth. Incubus went on to at least learn Head of John, so I doubt that swordsmanship is his only martial art.
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Apr 24, 2019 21:02
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this comic is good as hell
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Apr 24, 2019 21:29
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Paramemetic posted:Sekiro's translators have been reading K6BD, I see. Fromsoft would absolutely be my first and best pick as the developers of a video game set in this world. Mr. Lobe posted:this comic is good as hell 
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Apr 24, 2019 21:32
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Dead Reckoning posted:Incubus is an imperfect version of what Meti was. He probably really is a peerless swordsman, and focused on winning every sword fight with a terrible will, but if you take away his sword, he's just a man. If you took away Meti's sword, she'd rip your throat out with her teeth. Meti was a peerless swordswoman and a self-loathing personal wreck who utterly failed to leverage that talent to improve her life in any way. Incubus is in every way her heir, he just hasn't admitted defeat. They doubtless hated each other. Maya wasn't such an absolute disaster of a person going in, which has both kept her from fully committing to Cutting and allowed her to focus on anything besides that. We've seen her fight, it's impressive but it's no 'effortlessly destroying a thousand enemies at once, while naked'
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Apr 24, 2019 21:34
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Mr. Lobe posted:this comic is good as hell
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frodnonnag posted:So incubus is the idiot trained wrong on purpose. as a joke. but on a cosmic scale, of course. man, the demiurges really are tragic people
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like, he was a ragged filthy war orphan who had doubtless experienced great trauma and deprivation, who through luck and sheer gumption managed to gain the attention of the greatest sword user ever to live. he was used by her as an instrument and an object lesson for another pupil. and for all that he was able to seize hold of with the skill he gained in the process, he is hounded by a sense of illegitimacy that is reinforced externally by the sociopaths with whom he contends for power. it has driven him to become a planet-level conquerer and to despoil countless worlds directly and by proxy/ but none of it will ever really satisfy him, or fix what is broken about him. what a great tragic character!
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Apr 24, 2019 21:47
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eke out posted:it must suck to have your master get someone else to kill her just to teach you a lesson about Cutting Was just thinking of how she failed this test twice
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Who What Now posted:Incubus went on to at least learn Head of John, so I doubt that swordsmanship is his only martial art.
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