KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS: hell yeah, punch that fuckin fish

What is YISUN?
	Mother
	A lie we tell ourselves to have a purpose
	Bliss
	A paradox with no solution
	Father
	A strong female protagonist
	The weakest thing there is and the smallest crawling thing
	Creator
	Everything in this miserable and hellish existence
	A solution with no paradoxes

Donkringel: Apr 22, 2008

Archenteron posted:

Kinda reminds me of Mr Kobold from some manga about a pro wrestler in a fantasy world beating up/recruiting different demihumans and monsters into his battle stable

But like, Mr Kobold's old pappy

Ah hell yes Kemono Michii! LETS SUPLEX THE PRINCESS.

Edit: One of my best page snipes.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Well i didnt say it had to be in a sexual attraction way

https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1710347215892287717

They are season appropriate halloween decorations, simpleton.

# ? Oct 6, 2023 22:59

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YaketySass: Jan 15, 2019; Blind Idiot Dog

drat Solomon hasn't learned a thing

# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:23

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Of course not! He's an umpteen thousand year old human, the groove of "people can only be protected by incredible violence administered by a Hard Man Making Hard Decisions like me" is worn so deep in his brain the Park Service offers burro tours down into it

# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:32

habeasdorkus: Nov 3, 2013; Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.

Phy posted:

Of course not! He's an umpteen thousand year old human, the groove of "people can only be protected by incredible violence administered by a Hard Man Making Hard Decisions like me" is worn so deep in his brain the Park Service offers burro tours down into it

Goddamn, it is a true shame that this is too long to be a thread title because it is a fantastic post.

# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:58

Twenty Four: Dec 21, 2008

Staltran posted:

That carving is really phallic from behind. Rather unfortunate haircrut.

I do wonder if this guy is going to show up later. Seems like he's getting a lot of focus in these pages for a one-off.

ngl it takes the other pages as context to not think he was jacking it in pannel 3 lol. :o "phooo"

thinking "hmm, this is not something I would expect from KSBD"

# ? Oct 6, 2023 23:58

Wyld Karde: Mar 18, 2013; She's so ~dreamy~

YaketySass posted:

drat Solomon hasn't learned a thing

So he managed to walk the path of enlightenment for maybe a couple of days before reverting back to enforcing order by way of deliberately applied violence.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:07

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

habeasdorkus posted:

Goddamn, it is a true shame that this is too long to be a thread title because it is a fantastic post.

Very kind of you, thank you

# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:21

Thundarr: Dec 24, 2002

Wyld Karde posted:

So he managed to walk the path of enlightenment for maybe a couple of days before reverting back to enforcing order by way of deliberately applied violence.

I don't think he ever quite hit enlightenment. Just "maybe I should dig up a little."

# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:42

Otherkinsey Scale: Jul 17, 2012; Just a little bit of sunshine!

Staltran posted:

I do wonder if this guy is going to show up later. Seems like he's getting a lot of focus in these pages for a one-off.

At the start of the page I was sure he was actually Solomon in disguise. Still can't totally rule it out.

Maybe Solomon's path to enlightenment includes becoming a catboy, who's to say.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 00:45

Schwarzwald: Jul 27, 2004; Don't Blink

I'm half expecting it to be someone other than Solomon. Maybe son #216.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 01:37

Donkringel: Apr 22, 2008

So Solomon is kind of doing things different here.

Yes, he is murdering people in spooky ways. BUT. He isn't enforcing his will on the wider populace. The cat guy seems like things were really bad before Solomon showed up and did his own version of Hyperion. So at this point he seems to just mete out incredible violence when needed, but nothing more than that.

Unless all those corpses are jaywalkers or something dumb like that.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 01:41

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

We're finally going to meet Solomon David's much cooler and better older brother, Salami Dave

# ? Oct 7, 2023 01:41

dead gay comedy forums: Oct 21, 2011

Wyld Karde posted:

So he managed to walk the path of enlightenment for maybe a couple of days before reverting back to enforcing order by way of deliberately applied violence.

Thundarr posted:

I don't think he ever quite hit enlightenment. Just "maybe I should dig up a little."

Tbf, there's a big difference in laying down fury to stop warlordism or whatever then letting people do however they see fit to obnoxious god-king nanomanagement

Like, it reminds of that Intra person from the stories. It definitely fits the theme of the monks back then, and of power and circumstances. Intervening to cut short a period of chaotic violence but letting people do whatever seems an advancement to me idk

# ? Oct 7, 2023 01:43

TwoPair: Mar 28, 2010; Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta; Grimey Drawer

Donkringel posted:

So Solomon is kind of doing things different here.

Yes, he is murdering people in spooky ways. BUT. He isn't enforcing his will on the wider populace. The cat guy seems like things were really bad before Solomon showed up and did his own version of Hyperion. So at this point he seems to just mete out incredible violence when needed, but nothing more than that.

Unless all those corpses are jaywalkers or something dumb like that.

Yeah, seems like nowadays the only people getting turbomurdered are the ones that gently caress around and find out.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:03

FlocksOfMice: Feb 3, 2009

Yeah he's doing violence against people who are doing violence, but then he's walking back up a mountain and only coming down if people start brutalizing one another again, which, I mean, basically isn't that how Allison is approaching all this too to a degree

# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:24

PathAsc: Nov 15, 2011; Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Furious violence and furious idiocy are one and the same

# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:39

Scallop Eyes: Oct 16, 2021

He's just acting like Kenshiro now, only on a mountain instead of a giant desert wasteland

# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:46

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Scallop Eyes posted:

He's just acting like Kenshiro now, only on a mountain instead of a giant desert wasteland

They're not exploded enough for him to be copying Kenshiro.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:53

Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

Also kenshiro never made grisly art pieces out of his vanquished foes

# ? Oct 7, 2023 03:59

Elissimpark: May 20, 2010; Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

Kenshiro never had to vanquish anyone. They were already vanquished.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 05:16

A Sometimes Food: Dec 8, 2010

Yeah, it's maybe a bit early to tell, but Solomon seems to be trying at least to change. Responding to a request for salvation without then sticking around to rule is an improvement imo.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 05:50

Gravitas Shortfall: Jul 17, 2007; Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.

as a wise man once said; "Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction"

Solomon's not trying to rule, but he's also not willing to stand around doing nothing. He's just being Ultraviolent Batman.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 08:04

Scallop Eyes: Oct 16, 2021

Mr. Lobe posted:

Also kenshiro never made grisly art pieces out of his vanquished foes

You're thinking he put their corpses there after they died, but it's possible he simply punched them into the branches, where they then died.

For what Solomon is actually gonna do for White Chain, it's a mystery ,since I don't think he will be going back to fight Jags or try to help them rule.If he really is serious about letting go of his past hangups tho, he might finally be ready to teach someone else Ki-Rata (even if it's just the basics).

# ? Oct 7, 2023 19:08

thechosenone: Mar 21, 2009

Yeah I think teaching someone who is metaphorically his daughter the power to defend herself against those who wish to destroy her and everything she cares for when all he could do before was stand idly by sounds poetic in a sense.

And tragic, since he didn't have a choice then.

# ? Oct 7, 2023 19:29

Lasting Damage: Feb 26, 2006; Fallen Rib

Pretty sure learning whether Solomon has grown as a person is going to be far less interesting than seeing how White Chine will grow as a person here. She wields nearly unlimited power, but runs away from it. He once wielded the power, but walked away from it. That's the main reason she's agreed to help with this task.

# ? Oct 8, 2023 20:52

Potato Salad: Oct 23, 2014; nobody cares

Solomon is still one of two practitioners of Ki Rata, so there's that.

# ? Oct 9, 2023 03:20

Elissimpark: May 20, 2010; Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

"I couldn't get Solomon David, but I DID swing by the ki rata temple in the ring of Ashton..."

# ? Oct 9, 2023 04:02

Boxman: Sep 27, 2004; Big fan of

I love this guy - we have very rarely (ever?) gotten perspective from random people just sorta living their lives. Back before the Ring of Power, we got a few glimpses of life on Throne, but you have to think life there is always a little abnormal, what with living in the corpses of long-dead gods and all.

# ? Oct 9, 2023 17:41

Rigged Death Trap: Feb 13, 2012; BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Boxman posted:

I love this guy - we have very rarely (ever?) gotten perspective from random people just sorta living their lives. Back before the Ring of Power, we got a few glimpses of life on Throne, but you have to think life there is always a little abnormal, what with living in the corpses of long-dead gods and all.

The closer you live to an active seat of demiurge power or are in throne the weirder and more succeptible to external forces your life seems to be.

Also the only reason governors probably left is that the bureaucratic burdens of the empire are impossible to fulfill on winterworld.
Hard to provide an accurate census of all citizens and collect taxes when just walking twenty paces outside a settlement gets you dead from exposure.

# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:30

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

there's trees growing and a whole civilization and stuff, I'm pretty sure it's just a place experiencing normal winter at the moment, not... winter forever

# ? Oct 9, 2023 20:33