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AriadneThread posted:i'm not sure this is a story where 'who is the strongest' has a straightforward answer What are you talking about? The comic has made very clear that Jaganoth is the strongest. Absolutely nobody questions this. But being strong doesn't mean you can win. Young Meti was supremely strong, too, right up until she was laid low and had to gouge a man's eyes out with her thumbs, after all. The question isn't "who is the strongest", the question is "who wants it's the most"
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Jagganoth also wants it the most
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Apr 26, 2019 21:19
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I think the actual answer is 'merit does not determine victory, which is wholly contingent.' Wanting it the most and having vast power help; they're contingencies. But nothing will save you from the world, not strength or moral worth or force of will.
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Apr 26, 2019 21:45
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Except having one of the keys saves you from 111,111 worlds, at minimum
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Apr 26, 2019 21:47
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Who What Now posted:Except having one of the keys saves you from 111,111 worlds, at minimum It sure didn't help Mottom's husband
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Super Waffle posted:It sure didn't help Mottom's husband Mottom took part in the universal war where the keys were actually consolidated into the 7, so it's likely her husband never had THAT powerful of a key, as she's very old and killed him long before the war. Having any key is great power, of course, but his power was probably more in line with what someone like an ambassador that one of the 7 loans a piece of their power to.
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Apr 26, 2019 22:35
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In the first panel, where Meti takes the rat out of her bra, Incubus is watching Maya while Maya watches Meti.
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Who What Now posted:Except having one of the keys saves you from 111,111 worlds, at minimum Not really, the thing keys do is open worlds. If anything having more worlds open means you're more likely to be brought low in that particular world. It's not like having a world's key gives you special power over the world beyond having access and the inherent power amplification of a key, or Allison would be immune to everything. E: after all, Allison has the ruling key, the 777,777 strong cosmic tuning fork for the voice of god. She's mostly spent the comic being extremely vulnerable.
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Edit: nm, misread your post
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Who What Now posted:What are you talking about? The comic has made very clear that Jaganoth is the strongest. Absolutely nobody questions this. But being strong doesn't mean you can win. Young Meti was supremely strong, too, right up until she was laid low and had to gouge a man's eyes out with her thumbs, after all. what does it mean to be strong
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AriadneThread posted:what does it mean to be strong Flesh grows weak. Steel becomes brittle. But the will is indomitable.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:49
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AriadneThread posted:what does it mean to be strong You can lift real big things. I mean, have you seen Jag? He's jacked as gently caress.
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Who What Now posted:You can lift real big things. I mean, have you seen Jag? He's jacked as gently caress. Imagine I posted that screed here about a man who lives a great, fulfilling life while you spend all your time lifting, and at the end of your days he is dying surrounded by family and loved ones, and you, you can lift that man
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Phy posted:Imagine I posted that screed here about a man who lives a great, fulfilling life while you spend all your time lifting, and at the end of your days he is dying surrounded by family and loved ones, and you, you can lift that man While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I studied SWORD LAW
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Tetracube posted:While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I studied SWORD LAW Make sure your lawyer is a sword lawyer for the most cutting arguments.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:29
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jagganoth is my large unstoppable furry son and I am very proud of him
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Apr 27, 2019 00:40
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In this setting being the biggest weeb is the greatest superpower of them all.
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YaketySass posted:In this setting being the biggest weeb is the greatest superpower of them all. Well Sailor Moon was royalty after all.
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YaketySass posted:In this setting being the biggest weeb is the greatest superpower of them all. Aha, so that is the reason that Allison is the most powerful 
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Tulip posted:Aha, so that is the reason that Allison is the most powerful it clearly says korean you baka loving gaijin
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Tetracube posted:it clearly says korean you baka loving gaijin Anime aren't Korean, though.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:57
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Zoss didn't use any divine foresight to find the Successor, he just lurked on forums until he found the right flavor of loser.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:57
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sword law is a fancy way of saying that if you have enough sword you are the law
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Tollymain posted:sword law is a fancy way of saying that if you have enough sword you are the law Mind you, this is K6BD, so I think we can assume that if you have enough law you are the sword.
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Apr 27, 2019 01:11
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to master sword law is to simply concentrate as much sword within yourself as can be done by mortal will (preferably figuratively)
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theres one idiot out there whos like 99.9% sword and hes admittedly deadly as gently caress but also he cant move
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Apr 27, 2019 01:13
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A skilled Sword Swallower has no need for something as brutish as a sword
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who needs to move when you can Cut anything that touches you
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Apr 27, 2019 01:15
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i mean, theres a lot of reasons i like being able to move my body
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Tollymain posted:i mean, theres a lot of reasons i like being able to move my body I feel like most of those reasons could be addressed through appropriately strategic Cutting.
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Tollymain posted:theres one idiot out there whos like 99.9% sword and hes admittedly deadly as gently caress but also he cant move What if you are the bone of your sword
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You can't say you've become your weapon until you make the ladies swoon over the fact.  Manga is called Ragna Crimson
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You, a plebian: "But what IS strength, when one considers the subject on a metacontextual level?" Me, an intellectual: "Jag even lifts"
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Meti's Sword Manual is pretty clear in that Sword Masters don't carry swords. We know that Maya isn't a true Sword Master because she carries the sword called Maybe, which, while not actually a sword, is still a crutch holding her back from Sword Mastery.
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To me the weirdest thing about the Maybe sword is not that Maya can cut with it, but that she seems to need to hold that tuning fork thing she uses as a hair piece in order to cut with it.
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pseudorandom name posted:Meti's Sword Manual is pretty clear in that Sword Masters don't carry swords. I mean it says you don't need a sword, but it's better if you have one, but if not, just rip dudes apart with your hands because you are fukken Royalty. Incidentally on re-reading the Sword Manual I caught this guy which is apropos to the current discussion: 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.
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Darth Walrus posted:Mind you, this is K6BD, so I think we can assume that if you have enough law you are the sword.
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pseudorandom name posted:Meti's Sword Manual is pretty clear in that Sword Masters don't carry swords. meti's only possession is a sword, and she is in fact quite finicky about the ideal type and construction of the sword one should use her "there is no such thing as a sword" koan ties into her belief that a true master of Sword Law views every part of their body as an executor of the Cut, that the sword one holds in one's hands is merely an extension of the true instrument of death that is the swordsman
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Oxxidation posted:the sword one holds in one's hands is merely an extension of the true instrument of death that is the swordsman
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