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Neither Alison nor New Coke are who they once were, but they both long for what they had. I don't want this to end badly, but I fear that it shall.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 08:50 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 13:48 |
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The more it becomes clear that the time in that house is really important in Allison's and Cio's memories, the more significant it feels that they got there via a time skip, and we never really saw how that life became. I don't mean that as a criticism, it just... seems notable.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 09:10 |
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She's a single named devil. She's at least as powerful as an Ebon. Hm. Oh that means HIM is still above that because he's nameless.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 09:21 |
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Ditocoaf posted:The more it becomes clear that the time in that house is really important in Allison's and Cio's memories, the more significant it feels that they got there via a time skip, and we never really saw how that life became. I don't mean that as a criticism, it just... seems notable. It doesn't have to be perfect or even good, it just has to have had enough that nostalgia can lie to them to make it seem worth wanting.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 11:13 |
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It’s an idyll, the house they remember can’t be rendered on screen because it can’t exist in the universe of inevitable violence.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 11:20 |
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also its a SICKASS HOUSE BUILD IN THE SKULL OF A DEAD GOD they're fighting and crying because they will never have a house that is that kind of cool ever again. (except I guess that was Cio's second home built in the skull of a dead god oh well)
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 11:28 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:(except I guess that was Cio's second home built in the skull of a dead god oh well) Well, she didn't live in the first one, she had her own little balloon next to it where she could be separate.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 11:36 |
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wasnt that just her office
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 11:55 |
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Man that is some reverse-Pinhead cenobite level design going on there. It's almost impressive enough to distract me from the Gogs in fruit outfits in the back.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 13:55 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:She's a single named devil. She's at least as powerful as an Ebon. Hm. I suspect Nukoku is on the same level as HIM because she seemingly broke out of the (imitation of a) mask to become whatever she is now. Maybe she's repeated White Chain's miracle from the devil side and turned herself more human. At the very least it's the will of a powerful unbound devil made manifest.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 14:43 |
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Presumably Cio's death destroyed the masks and the names that bound her. If that's true then Nukoku's name and mask are things they created and bound themself with. An unbound devil asserting their own identity and will. Add this to the big list of things that are absolutely unheard of in the established setting and thus more evidence of the world trembling under Allison's furious dumbassery.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 14:56 |
Synthbuttrange posted:She's a single named devil. She's at least as powerful as an Ebon. Hm. Ebony, and Ivorrrrrreeeeeyyyyy, Also I love the idea that she and Cio were living rent free in the head of a dead god
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 17:09 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:wasnt that just her office Maybe? I kinda got the impression looking back that it was her refuge as well, that she'd used it to sequester herself away from Hell 71 and Praman Nand. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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Bilirubin posted:Ebony, and Ivorrrrrreeeeeyyyyy, Rent free? They owned the place
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 17:49 |
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Squatters rights are very advanced when each squatter can destroy the block with a single strike
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 17:53 |
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I'm not sure how much strength we can infer here given that Allison just no-sold her attacks
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 18:24 |
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shirts and skins posted:I'm not sure how much strength we can infer here given that Allison just no-sold her attacks Nukoku would have been an end boss in the earlier books but at this point Allison is operating on a level of physical threat and psychological determination that makes Gog go 'I think she could maybe actually punch me to death, and that's literally incoherent as a concept.'
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 18:36 |
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I wonder what Nukoku thinks about death, whether she can affirm that she's alive, and what she believes is next.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 18:38 |
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Joe Slowboat posted:Nukoku would have been an end boss in the earlier books but at this point Allison is operating on a level of physical threat and psychological determination that makes Gog go 'I think she could maybe actually punch me to death, and that's literally incoherent as a concept.' fair enough, we're not close to aesma levels here but there are shades of aesma
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 19:11 |
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shirts and skins posted:fair enough, we're not close to aesma levels here but there are shades of aesma Idk, I think Allison could pick up the entire wheel and smack Jagg with it
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 19:30 |
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Donkringel posted:I'm not sure if I am reading into this too much, but with this I am thinking that the white and black flames flanking Allison have switched. You're right, they are reversed. Allison dumbassed an angel into chaos and a devil into order
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 19:41 |
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shirts and skins posted:I'm not sure how much strength we can infer here given that Allison just no-sold her attacks Not even sure if those attacks even landed so much as they both knew New Coke wasn't actually gonna hurt her (again) so she didn't bother doing anything but look annoyed at the pretense.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 20:03 |
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Allison simply chose not to be injured
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 21:38 |
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Can't be injured if you don't have limbs. One neat trick opponents hate!
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:00 |
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EL Skirvo posted:Man that is some reverse-Pinhead cenobite level design going on there. It's almost impressive enough to distract me from the Gogs in fruit outfits in the back. Fruit of the Worm makes quality undergarments.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:01 |
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Bussamove posted:Fruit of the Worm makes quality undergarments. Silk drawers!
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:08 |
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I do like the detail of Allison's torn sleeve showing the wooden arm underneath. Just a tiny little gap in her defenses when she was punching Nukoku away
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:22 |
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Bussamove posted:Fruit of the Worm makes quality undergarments. In this cycle of the wheel there's no cornucopia on the tag, but Gog knows it hasn't always been so...
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:37 |
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I feel like Operant really likes things ripping apart to reveal something and then viscera going plp plp plp
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:45 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Wait. I like it.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 23:12 |
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Sorry, what are you referring to? An Abaddon quote I missed or forgot, I assume
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 23:18 |
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Abaddon once tweeted that he had something upcoming in the story that we were all going to hate and that we basically just had to bear with him, and I assumed he was referring to killing Cio due to the much-hated "bury your gays" trope.
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 23:36 |
Synthbuttrange posted:She's a single named devil. She's at least as powerful as an Ebon. Hm. You're still operating within "the rules," which are fake crap for dorks
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 23:39 |
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MikeJF posted:I feel like Operant really likes things ripping apart to reveal something and then viscera going plp plp plp Yeah, but do they like it more than things going DOOM or DOM?
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 00:02 |
Rigged Death Trap posted:Rent free?
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 00:32 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:You're still operating within "the rules," which are fake crap for dorks Rules are just something a dummy wrote down ages ago and everyone just figured that’s how it was. For things like “reality” and “physics” that dummy just happened to be YISUN. The trick is to be so stupid you can’t read ‘em.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 00:48 |
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Someone pointed out that Nukoku's spikes are the opposite of Yabalchoath's - they point inwards and hurt her instead of hurting others The poor soda lady
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 06:50 |
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I don't understand what's going on in this comic any more. I suspect that's half intentional, half me being old.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 06:56 |
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Polaron posted:I don't understand what's going on in this comic any more. I suspect that's half intentional, half me being old. Really? It's not THAT hard to follow, what aren't you getting?
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 07:14 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 13:48 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Really? It's not THAT hard to follow, what aren't you getting? The only part I have a little bit of trouble with is the whole hierarchy of demons (like, I thought Cio was just gone forever after Incubus wrecked the mask) but that's only because they explained that poo poo so long ago and I'm too lazy to reread it. All I remember is black ones are strong, there's some King Demon Satan around just called HIM, and more names turn you weaker until you become Princess.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 07:41 |