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We should also consider the small possibility that Dave kills White Chain and it doesn't even slow her down. She's running at pretty advanced levels of Royalty at the moment.
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I know this has been said over and over but I Iiterally muttered "what the gently caress" to myself while I was reading this update. What the gently caress.
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Dead Reckoning posted:A satisfying narrative twist is one that you don't see coming, but nevertheless makes sense in hindsight. I think it would be worth noting that Petal Knights don’t generally seem to be quite as, uh, stupidly self-destructive as White Chain was being, and found ways to be themselves that didn’t involve smashing themselves against the world so hard and so repeatedly that their new body has kintsugi scars. Furious dumbassery sometimes seizes miracles; Royalty is a rare phenomenon. Also what does seem to be unique about White Chain is trying to square the paradox of both wanting to be An Angel and pursue her duty, and wanting to express her true self. That’s what led her to this point; Petal Knights definitionally hosed off the terrible cop job, and White Chain has been slapping herself against it for millennia. Nobody else built up that kind of sheer friction; maybe if Juggernaut Star trades in from the Thorns something similar could happen but it’s a pretty wild set of extremes that got us here. Joe Slowboat fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Aug 3, 2020 |
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Aug 3, 2020 02:39
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Darth Walrus posted:We should also consider the small possibility that Dave kills White Chain and it doesn't even slow her down. She's running at pretty advanced levels of Royalty at the moment. That's basically what just happened. After the punch started shattering White Chain's armor there should have been a kaboom. Instead there was Transcendence.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:That's basically what just happened. After the punch started shattering White Chain's armor there should have been a kaboom. Instead there was Transcendence. It'd be funny if Sol keeps banging his head against that brick wall, though. "Dear god, man, stop! Your attacks are only making her more fabulous!"
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Aug 3, 2020 02:44
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1) I hope she survives more than a few minutes 2) I hope Cio keeps calling her Stone Face
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Aug 3, 2020 02:58
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Bilirubin posted:1) I hope she survives more than a few minutes nah she's gonna formally retire "stoneyarse" while wearing a really lewd expression
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Aug 3, 2020 03:01
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Aug 3, 2020 03:09
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Kinda looks like Allison tbh.
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Aug 3, 2020 03:10
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If Solomon is too stunned/awed to harm White Chain now, you can be sure that 2 Michael and his host of immortal defeatists are incoming fueled with nihilistic fury.
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Aug 3, 2020 03:11
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Demiurge4 posted:Kinda looks like Allison tbh. A bit maybe?
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Aug 3, 2020 03:12
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Also you think Robot would be a good choice to help guide her in her new mortality?
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Aug 3, 2020 03:13
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Bilirubin posted:wait, look at WC's forehead glow the lightning effect just makes me think "frankenstein"
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Aug 3, 2020 03:14
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Joe Slowboat posted:I think the point is that White Chain didn’t cut Solomon, she just did something completely unconcerned with him that he never imagined. This isn’t for him, he’s just a perfect representative of everything she’s trying to change in herself. If you look at the third page the sequence of events is pretty clear; She soul-punched the poo poo out of him, Cut his cheek, and was reborn with that terrible fire of Will to get her deepest wish fulfilled. The next page is probably gonna have him turn to reveal the wound, either immediately or let him be smug for a panel before that perfect Cut starts dripping. He also can't so much as lay a hand on her now, because he's trapped by his own rules and she just won. Tekne posted:If Solomon is too stunned/awed to harm White Chain now, you can be sure that 2 Michael and his host of immortal defeatists are incoming fueled with nihilistic fury. While the smart money's still on Gog-A-Gog revealing they're almost everyone's Pal, I think there's an outside chance of "Angels swarming in to destroy the thing they deem an abomination" at least. Or both.
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Aug 3, 2020 03:45
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Is Dead Reckoning still obsessed with Fantasy Race Realism lmfao
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Aug 3, 2020 03:46
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Joe Slowboat posted:Furious dumbassery sometimes seizes miracles; Royalty is a rare phenomenon. Vigilant Gaze basically gave her a hall pass/pep talk on giving up her identity as a Concordant Knight to more authentically pursue her desire to protect the weak, but there's no good reason that bit of character development should also reward her with the secrets of Ki Rata and also actualize her innermost desires for her body. Giving up a role you were never fully comfortable with in exchange for Ultimate Kung Fu Tao and living your absolute best and most authentic life doesn't seem Royal so much as a choice any reasonable person might make with a little therapy: Royalty is very much not about making reasonable choices.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Giving up a role you were never fully comfortable with in exchange for Ultimate Kung Fu Tao and living your absolute best and most authentic life doesn't seem Royal so much as a choice any reasonable person might make with a little therapy: Royalty is very much not about making reasonable choices. She single-mindedly fought knowing she would almost certainly be destroyed, and managed to punch a fully Ki-Rata'ed Solomon David at his most powerful while achieving a Cut upon his perfect defenses in the process. One that billions will literally weep over at its significance and perfection. She is the definition of Royalty.
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Aug 3, 2020 03:54
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dave's attack did so much damage that white chain's hp underflowed
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Aug 3, 2020 03:55
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So when's the next update
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Neddy Seagoon posted:She single-mindedly fought knowing she would almost certainly be destroyed, and managed to punch a fully Ki-Rata'ed Solomon David at his most powerful while achieving a Cut upon his perfect defenses in the process. One that billions will literally weep over at its significance and perfection. She is the definition of Royalty. Two, Zoss could not possibly have been more clear that out-punching the demiurges was not the path to royalty. E: Abbadon wrote a whole story where the chief antagonists are seven people who cannot achieve their goals despite godlike power because they keep letting some sort of ego, desire, or fear knock them off track. I feel like he kind of blew that up by letting White Chain both achieve her goals and simultaneously fulfil her ego based desires because he wanted to give her this story beat. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Aug 3, 2020 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:If you look at the third page the sequence of events is pretty clear; She soul-punched the poo poo out of him, Cut his cheek, and was reborn with that terrible fire of Will to get her deepest wish fulfilled. The next page is probably gonna have him turn to reveal the wound, either immediately or let him be smug for a panel before that perfect Cut starts dripping. It's going to end up being literally every faction at once showing up
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Bilirubin posted:wait, look at WC's forehead glow Yeah, I'm realizing now that's what this post meant Demiurge4 posted:White Chain is manifesting an honest to god soul flame on her brow. but what this post actually got me to notice is on the last page White Chain has a flame above her head, too, which I totally missed on the fist half-dozen times I looked at this set of pages.
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Aug 3, 2020 04:11
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Upon further introspection, it looks like White Chain won that Twitter poll too after all.
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Aug 3, 2020 04:12
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Wonder when Allison's gonna have to remember the favor she owes Him
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Aug 3, 2020 04:15
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Those freckles are loving adorable. 
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Aug 3, 2020 04:16
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It'd be too fuckin crazy if himself sent someone or a barge of random lunatics busted in or whatever, whatever happens is gonna be on par with the current normal
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Sindai posted:The true miracle is Abbadon beating his predicted time by five days. We don't deserve him. It actually took all five days, but this moment was so rad that Abbadon was able to do all the work during Solomon Dave's hypertime, so he burned his fingers to nubs in what was, for us, much less subjective time!
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Dead Reckoning posted:Two, Zoss could not possibly have been more clear that out-punching the demiurges was not the path to royalty. Out-punching in acts of destruction. The point made at-large is they're a bunch of idiot children using the fires of creation as one would a sharp stick or heavy rock. White Chain just wielded them to forge herself a whole new body and defeat Solomon David at the same time.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:So when's the next update Friday
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Shoehead posted:Friday I was joking, this dude is a machine
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Aug 3, 2020 04:39
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Aug 3, 2020 04:41
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Allright, allright. Okay. This is some loving stellar poo poo right here. Put this poo poo in a pot and slap an old lady face on the label because this is thoroughly my jam. Holy goddamn.
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Dead Reckoning posted:One, it's difficult to describe destruction of your physical body as a sacrifice when you aren't really a fan of it and also have blown it up eighty one times before. I dunno where you got the idea that Royalty is about being egoless. It is, if anything, the opposite. The other demiurges have let their fears and preoccupations hold them back from grasping that which they truly desire. It's most obviously with Solomon, where his pride in his perfect empire has prevented him from pursuing Royalty directly. White Chain's desire to forge her own identity was stronger than Solomon's desire to crush her like an insect. His motivation is pure hesitation, just putting off the inevitable and maintaining the status quo. White Chain's will was to cut herself into a new shape, unconstrained by the fears, expectations, and social mores that have held her back for her entire life.
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Aug 3, 2020 04:42
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I hope she's happy as hell and has a not particularly difficult adjustment to the whole being alive thing.
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Aug 3, 2020 04:58
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Oh crap what if gog is gonna congratulate her with a delicious burrito
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Aug 3, 2020 04:59
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The ending that's going to piss us all off is Gog doing nothing is consequence despite this thread spending dozens of pages trying to figure out what she'll do
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Aug 3, 2020 05:05
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White Chain’s motion lines very clearly go around him, she didn’t punch him at all. If she did I’ll be pretty disappointed because the whole drat triumph is completely ignoring Solomon’s ideas of power or victory or pragmatism and simply seizing the nonshape and dissolving it. It’s not Cutting because Cutting is for fools who sow only death; it’s still Royal. Solomon David has to come to terms with a miracle that doesn’t care about his power at all, not to overthrow it or to validate it.
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Aug 3, 2020 05:07
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Ho-ho-holy poo poo this comic
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Yeah, she straight up said two pages before this that she doesn't have to win (under his terms) to win (achieve her goal). For her, this fight stopped being about him and his goals awhile ago. I expect that she has not actually physically cut him and drawn blood. And I also expect that anything he'll attempt to do to her following this will fail, because she's achieved Royalty, while he can only hesitate in chasing it.
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Straight White Shark posted:dave's attack did so much damage that white chain's hp underflowed SolDave: HAX!
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