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I can see it now- Undead Duane, wrapping up the story- ...so your god is blinded, crippled, and without her armor, deep below a mine between two enemy countries that both have good reason to end her- but I'm MORE OR LESS SURE she's fine! Grandma Ruffles- Duane- Now tell me about the boob bird lady.
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 02:10 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 02:51 |
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Now I hope granny lizard has a tittybird story that makes Duane's story look tame in comparison.
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 02:43 |
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Thank goodness Duane didn't kill the lizards' god And thank goodness Duane didn't admit to doing so in front of a bunch of them
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 07:25 |
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She's not so crippled she can't walk away, since she's moving on and on, on and on and on. And she can regenerate the damage.
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 10:41 |
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pretty sure the story got away from Duane.
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 13:11 |
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Hey now, Duane showed more restraint and mercy than the salt lizard did.
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 17:18 |
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quote:tangled-zans asked: "Bikini wax but core leeching the hair off." I'm now wondering what other mundane things could be improved using the khert. Cooking?
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 17:58 |
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A giant interesting answer off the Tumblr, which I will spoil as it contains a lot of clues about Duane's condition: https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/188684559485/is-the-khert-really-timeless Lady Ilganyag explains it very well on 13_123>> “When I came to the khert I thought it would be like the First World: WITHOUT time. Instead ALL time is here.” She compares time in the khert to an ocean, and time in the exterior/second world to a river. The latter flows in a single direction; the former’s currents carry it in all directions. The khert is everything that has been, is, or will be. It’s the Library of Kasslyne. It’s the source code of Reality. But it’s not indexed. The books have all come apart. All the pages are unbound and mixed up. There are lots of examples of this, but it’s probably most evident when Duane sees himself and Sette running around from (his perspective) a few nights earlier. It’s evident in Lady Ilganyag’s nest of collected relics that we KNOW she cannot possibly have because they all exist at present in the possession of our cast, like Chitz. There is some trippy stuff at play for sure. But if we consider that some (living/undead) people are able to function inside the khert in a sane and rational manner, time must be relative to a whole soul. Logical, advancing time must cling like a bubble of air to these deep divers; it must form a a fragile but powerful surface tension between the khert’s irrational chaos and their own timebound identity. Duane, for instance, can enter the khert at sunset and experience a “night” in the khert that progresses logically from beginning to end, so his existence must be an anchor for that particular night’s worth of time. A random person dying and entering the khert isn’t able to exist as this kind of anchor. Their mind flies apart. Their rational self is obliterated by the crushing ocean of All Time. So! What does this tell us? Perhaps it hints that Duane’s real power is not that he’s able to puppet his stinking corpse around during the day and yell his opinions about other peoples’ gods; his real power is that he’s able to traipse around the khert at night as a sane, whole soul impervious to the destruction of that realm’s irrational, chaotic environment. Duane’s undead body is meaningless. It’s his undead soul that truly marks him. He’s not a plod; not a zombie. He’s galit. And there is a reason. There is a crucial mechanic that allows these people to walk the khert as they do. Maybe you could guess it! But I ain’t gonna tell it to you, and don’t ask me ‘cause I will ignore you It carries the strong implication that Duane's immortality design wasn't to bind him to his rotting body, but to keep his soul together while he's in the khert, with his inhabiting his body being a sort of unfortunate side effect. It also makes Bastion's snide line about "so he's a maggoty mess, so what" more clear, because Bastion's goal wasn't the immortality of Duane's body at all. Which I think carries the implication that souls might somehow count as First Materials? I can't imagine any pymaric theory that would support this entire situation besides a soul being a First Material in its own right. TheFuzzyLumpkin fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 30, 2019 |
# ? Oct 30, 2019 20:56 |
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Three pages today. Hello, Magnus. And others. They remembered the "Always aim for skin" lesson well, it seems. Good boys. Also terrifying boys. And apparently they put the Khert fire out and thus both saved Duane and others' lives and sent everything into chaos down there. TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:A giant interesting answer off the Tumblr, which I will spoil as it contains a lot of clues about Duane's condition: This and the recent posts about a different spoiler-y thing have me thinking that what I previously thought was a not-very likely theory I have is actually a lot more likely than I was giving it credit for, though I think I'll wait until it comes up in-comic to post details. Don't have the time for a longer post right now anyway. Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Nov 4, 2019 |
# ? Nov 4, 2019 06:37 |
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Cope you coward kill those children!
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 06:38 |
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Chair In A Basket posted:Cope you coward kill those children!
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 21:07 |
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Chair In A Basket posted:Cope you coward kill those children! they flayed a guy, the horror quotient is acceptable
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:56 |
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Given that this has been established as a really good memory of Duane's overall, before the clarity of death forced him to remember all the parts he suppressed, the non-Jon kids all surviving should have been pretty obvious, really; rationalizing Jon's death was one thing, but just glossing over, say, Magnus dying? I don't think Duane would have been able to do that.
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 02:43 |
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You're definitely right about that, because one of the things that helps Duane be a good main character even though he's riddled with objectively awful personality traits (sexist, bigoted against Crescians, nationalistic to a fault, more than a little selfish, absolutely terrible at understanding other people's feelings) is that he loves kids and wants to defend them, no matter what. If any of the children on the plat squad had died he'd never have made a heroic narrative out of it. He's too fundamentally A Dad.
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 18:54 |
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He's even protective of Crescian kids, from what we've seen; one of the reasons he hates Cresce so much is explicitly because they practice child cannibalism, and he was incensed at the thought the shrine might beat its charges. He also got super upset at an enemy commander in the civil war (and himself) for endangering his own plats. Duane's fatherly instinct knows no bounds, nor race, creed, or nation. On a related note, I was clicking around looking for a certain page when I clicked one of the crossed-out links during the cursed scene and got redirected to this page. Cope really knows how to use the medium.
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# ? Nov 6, 2019 10:59 |
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Claggart Claggowns
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 06:04 |
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Bad Seafood posted:He's even protective of Crescian kids, from what we've seen; one of the reasons he hates Cresce so much is explicitly because they practice child cannibalism, and he was incensed at the thought the shrine might beat its charges. He also got super upset at an enemy commander in the civil war (and himself) for endangering his own plats. We've mostly been shown the cannibalism as a Crescian practice, because the temple the story has taken us to is one in Cresce, but it's a practice that happens pretty much everywhere and in some places a twin going 'hey I don't want this' wouldn't result in their freedom but also harsh social stigma, it just wouldn't result in their freedom. The use of plods as labor is also another situation where it's definitely a reason Duane hates Cresce, but it also happens many many places. At least in that case it sounds like it was explicitly developed and used in Cresce first by the Black Tongues? EDIT: I really like the detail that Sette, while a practicing Gefendur who plays it up to annoy Duane, is uncomfortable in the temple. Much as she might deny it, she's got too much empathy to be able to brush off walking through a place where half of all the kids she sees are going to be sacrificed and eaten, even if she'll also steal all the utensils. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Nov 11, 2019 |
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I thought I'd read somewhere twin cannibalism was banned in Alderode (along with plod labor) as a courtesy to the Ssaelit, but I couldn't find mention of it in the wiki and don't have the time to dive into the formspring so maybe not. In either case, I could believe it still goes on (in secret or otherwise), and do recall reading about Ssaelit children being kidnapped and sold to (foreign?) temples. And yeah, they're allowed to reach adulthood, but I don't think raising someone specifically to slaughter and eat them garners much of distinction from Duane. If anything, it probably makes him feel worse: raising a child from infancy just to kill it. Another possibility that occurred to me while typing this: he's obviously not a fan of the Gefendur faith regardless of where or how its practiced, but social conditioning probably means he won't come down too harshly on his fellow Aldishmen. Cresce is an enemy, however, and fair game for condemnation since they're gonna hate each other anyway. It's not a mindset without historical precedent in the real world. It is often easier to judge others for the sins we share simply because they're not us.
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 12:52 |
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Duane, for all his many really good qualities, is real fuckin' prejudiced about everything Crescian. Which makes sense, he's only human. Well, mostly/formerly human.
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 14:49 |
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Another of Duane's good qualities is the face he's pulling in this update.
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 15:20 |
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DrSnakeLaser posted:Another of Duane's good qualities is the face he's pulling in this update.
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 16:17 |
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Bad Seafood posted:I thought I'd read somewhere twin cannibalism was banned in Alderode (along with plod labor) as a courtesy to the Ssaelit, but I couldn't find mention of it in the wiki and don't have the time to dive into the formspring so maybe not. In either case, I could believe it still goes on (in secret or otherwise), and do recall reading about Ssaelit children being kidnapped and sold to (foreign?) temples. Nope, Matty references the fact that the Aldish Gefendur still do it. http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch13/ch13_07.html But it sounds like they do it on a smaller scale than the Crescians. The Ssaelit don't allow their twins to be taken for sacrifice, which is another point of disagreement between the Aldish religions, because for the Gefendur it's blasphemous not to sacrifice twins.
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 21:54 |
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:Nope, Matty references the fact that the Aldish Gefendur still do it. http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch13/ch13_07.html
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 22:03 |
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:Nope, Matty references the fact that the Aldish Gefendur still do it. http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch13/ch13_07.html Carry on.
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# ? Nov 11, 2019 23:45 |
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cresce is a hegemonic power opposed to duanes homeland. sure, duane could spend his time and energy hating their client states, but thats kind of like a soviet sparing time out of the day to hate idk belgium
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# ? Nov 12, 2019 18:07 |
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Tollymain posted:cresce is a hegemonic power opposed to duanes homeland. sure, duane could spend his time and energy hating their client states, but thats kind of like a soviet sparing time out of the day to hate idk belgium Like it's not like he spent his entire life in an Aldish city and had no direct contact with anyone from Cresce, he saw some pretty lovely stuff in his time as a soldier and then, you know, Mikaela died. Random Crescian citizens have p much jack to do with that, but when he's forced to deal with random Crescian citizens he's not exactly homicidal, just rude and preachy. And he's as protective of Crescian kids as any other kids. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Nov 12, 2019 |
# ? Nov 12, 2019 23:23 |
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Tollymain posted:cresce is a hegemonic power opposed to duanes homeland. sure, duane could spend his time and energy hating their client states, but thats kind of like a soviet sparing time out of the day to hate idk belgium goddamn waffle-capitalists, muscling in on the potato market to addict us to their products
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 00:40 |
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FOI-HELLICK PTOO claggart's facial expressions are still super-great, I hope we get to meet him again in book two or maybe I don't, maybe I want him to stay offscreen and have better survival odds
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 07:02 |
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http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch14/ch14_125.html It's good to know that with some distance and time, the non-blond Alds (somewhat) came to their senses and aren't holding a huge grudge with Duane and Lem because they were immune to the curse against Roger and didn't have the insane rage everyone else did.
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# ? Nov 15, 2019 02:00 |
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How the bloody hell does one spell sh... shay... sigin?
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# ? Nov 15, 2019 10:15 |
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Poor Lem
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# ? Nov 15, 2019 14:22 |
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real talk though I like claggart just... visually. Hes clearly into his vices and its the little touches, like the fact he smokes tobacco cut with chilli flakes to get any effect out of it (cutting drugs with chilli so they cut up the membranes and get you higher is a thing iirc). Hes fat. He's fat because he probably needs the endorphins of a good fuckin' bite and if hes going to spend a hundred years in this prison of a body hes gonna wreck that poo poo, because he is non stop sorting through poo poo for his beloved country and has been at it for a hundred years. He's I'd hazard to say a very real and very good dude in a lovely lovely world.
Motherfucker fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Nov 17, 2019 |
# ? Nov 17, 2019 02:21 |
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I already miss him
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# ? Nov 17, 2019 02:43 |
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Good night sweet prince.
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# ? Nov 17, 2019 03:39 |
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Motherfucker posted:real talk though I like claggart just... visually. Hes clearly into his vices and its the little touches, like the fact he smokes tobacco cut with chilli flakes to get any effect out of it (cutting drugs with chilli so they cut up the membranes and get you higher is a thing iirc). Hes fat. He's fat because he probably needs the endorphins of a good fuckin' bite and if hes going to spend a hundred years in this prison of a body hes gonna wreck that poo poo, because he is non stop sorting through poo poo for his beloved country and has been at it for a hundred years. He's I'd hazard to say a very real and very good dude in a lovely lovely world. he also got his doggy one of the big bones from Lemuel's mutant piggy
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# ? Nov 17, 2019 05:17 |
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Couple new pages since last post, chapter's winding down.quote:Anonymous asked: How long did it take for Duane to make good on his promise and get his brother a Vliegeng after being appointed at the temple? Weeks, months, years,... and considering their father died somewhere between the rebellion and chapter 7, was he still alive to see both his sons at their dreamjobs?
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# ? Nov 22, 2019 17:39 |
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No more pants when I'm god!
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# ? Nov 22, 2019 17:46 |
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Straight White Shark posted:No more pants when I'm god!
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# ? Nov 22, 2019 18:05 |
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Snipping the fingers off newborns? Watttt
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# ? Nov 22, 2019 18:07 |
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theres v certainly a sanitized word for it, like docking or w/e
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