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Bad Seafood posted:He needs the queen to be evil, to be responsible for everything. The alternative means accepting he meant nothing to his own people. He's babbling nonsense, but this might be the last, most painful pill he'll have to swallow. Probably helped by the fact that I think no one in universe has any illusion said queen wouldn't wipe out the ssaelit if she had the chance. Even if it not her explicit goal she's not gonna lift a finger to stop the rest of her government from doing that if her plans tor alderode actually came to fruition.
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shirts and skins posted:Sette moonwalking away from Omelas, barb-covered middle fingers extended
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shirts and skins posted:Sette moonwalking away from Omelas, barb-covered middle fingers extended
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To be fair the Queen, regardless if she knew the whole plot and if she was/was not being played- helped kick off most of the awfulness going down here. I'm not terribly sympathetic to her because now she's seeing the sausage get made and regrets it- it's just that as always a bunch of innocent/good people are in the way. Duane has even less of an excuse to brush that off since he now knows how good some of these people are for a fact, and watched his own people (people both of Aldrode and his caste/order specifically) literally going to do the rape and pillage thing in a temple full of children he'd otherwise have wanted to save. I'd have thought Duane turned a corner but it looks more like he's just being honest now instead of blustering.
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drat Sette, sorry both your father figures are terrible. Maybe take a chance on Toma?
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I can approve of this narrative where the man belonging to a marginalized group within a persecuted group, who throughout most of his life had experienced dissociative episodes where his god spoke to him, in undeath chooses to stick to the fundamental pillars of his identity warts and all rather than flip the table just because of betrayals or a few sob stories. That moment of self-reflection at the shrine wasn't telling himself to abandon being the perfect son of Alderode, but simply to stop deluding himself in his heart of hearts that his quest would - or should - earn him salvation.
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As much as I agree he's loving it up, I don't think he is in control of that right now. Sette commanded him to be true, and it seems he's just spilling out nothing but the truth. It's not like she commanded him to be true about his feelings for her specifically, and so he's spilling out his personal truths about everything. We're gonna see exactly the sort of guy Duane is, because Sette just exposed his moral and emotional code. The real question is whether or not Sette could or would live with that truth.
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It’s a great page. People are not one thing, not one overriding principle or virtue or ideal, they are a swirl of contradictions. And by commanding him to be true she is exposing that. This is perfectly demonstrated by how he would simultaneously mourn Chea, sincerely wish her father success in destroying him, and not regret the blood shed. All three things are true even though, if people were consistent, they would be irreconcilable. The question is, this is what Duane is now but can he change and if so how and how much? S’good.
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This is... inadvisable, Sette.
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I am sorry, I get that this is a bad thing (Sette giving the control amulet to Duane, who has continuously proven to be…unreliable when left to his own devices) but I am unclear on how much of a bad thing it is.
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I'm not really concerned about the necklace thing, if only because I do NOT like those creepy eels, I assume, starting to crawl into the border. Those tentacle things that just cropped up this page. Gives the brain a big ol' NOPE. Eels under the water appeared last page, this one has the tentacles.
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That's certainly not the revelation I was expecting. lol we've all been had, what an amazing gag the plot relies on sette's lifestyle choice of illiteracy
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Oh my god _______ lmfao compulsion deez nuts duane _______
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Well just stop the comic here, it was all an incredible set up for this punchline
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Well that was a helluva reveal. I suppose the implication is either that Sette's never had *any* control over Duane, or (more likely) her influence over him is an innate ability of Sette's...
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Quinton posted:Well that was a helluva reveal. I'm guessing it's one of these. I guess there's the slight possibility that it really does work, as there's nothing stopping someone from filling a pre-fab trinket with spellery or making it a pymaric if the right materials were used. I don't think I really believe that though. I knew there had to be something going on in the new page for the thread to have like 10 whole new replies, lol, but I wasn't expecting the implications of an "oh poo poo" reveal like this! Oxxidation posted:"dick...butt...?" lol
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shirts and skins posted:/\/\/\ you *cannot* be serious lmao lmaoo
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If Cope ended the comic right here as the biggest "better nate than lever" of all time, I wouldn't even complain
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I havent heard the name of that story in years, good memories. Love this twist.Goatse James Bond posted:
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This just came up on the Ask tumblr:quote:Didn't Duane have possession of the amulet a few times? quote:Of course. Which is why you should have known this was coming, if you didn’t https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/748432308679360512/didnt-duane-have-possession-of-the-amulet-a-few Dammit, Cope.
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Why would he have ever given it back to her if it was anything but a big old nothingburger. Duane can be a ditz, but he’s not a moron. Especially when it comes to pymary and pymarics.
I even put him in his old first appearance outfit this chapter so close readers would realise that had been a glamour, he was naked in his first scene because he must have offset to get there, so the amulet must have come from somewhere local.
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Emzedoh posted:This just came up on the Ask tumblr: I don't even remember this thing getting passed around at all. Funny reveal tho Edit: Also not sure it makes sense that Duane always knew it was costume jewelry. Doesn't it seem (esp in the bottom panels) like he's just now looking closely at it and reading the inscription? I can believe he'd sense nothing magical about it but it really does look like the amulet's exact degree of worthlessness is a very annoying revelation to him as well. GunnerJ fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Yeah, he looks surprised and angry, which is a weird reaction to have if this is nothing new to him. Unless the idea is that he has had some other revelation he hasn't shared with us yet.
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Duane getting flustered at her claim to have used the amulet to control him ("Stop it! I don't know how you talked me into that, but...") seems to indicate that he's not entirely sure it can't control him, and is trying to deny it. Honestly a lot about this scene and Duane's responses don't add up if he always knew the amulet was junk.
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Ashley: Pretty surprising, huh? Fan: Yeah! . . . Wait He's held it before, wouldn't he know this already? Ashley: What?! Oh! Uh. . . He, er. . . H- He did know already! (Dammit!)
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