She already stated once, that she “beheaded him quite cleanly”, but he regenerated using blood magic and beat her after that. So yes, I think he will walk it off, strike her with an eviscerating blow and only after that, she MAYBE will hit him.
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Not just blood alchemy, but also Head of John. My own headcanon for their encounter on Rayuba has Maya chopping Inky’s head off in one cut, but as his head is tumbling away, he catches it by the hair and then uses it as a “head-flail” to pummel her nearly to death.
I feel like he will, because of how suddenly the fight seemed to end.
Sure, a character can be killed off suddenly — just look at Mammon and Mottom.
…But the panel where Mammon was killed felt a lot more impactful than Incubus being cut open, and then it was pretty much a given that Mottom was going to die too.
Because this doesn’t feel as final, I reckon Incubus isn’t out of the story yet.
You misunderstand the nature of Cutting. Who are you to decide where one cut ends and another begins? It is in the burning soul of the swordsman. Incubus is weak of heart and makes many weak cuts. Maya is resolved to the total annihilation of her enemy and herself. Every step she takes is a continuous cutting motion. This is the way.
Maya, if you need one Cut, you need to go vertically, not horizontally!
I’m sure Inky can smush himself back together regardless but that seems like a much stronger Cut for someone who’s head can regen being lopped off
Incubus is the personification of Maya’s past crimes. She fled without atonement and her past slaughtered everything she had built. Here she fights as an earnest student, a sworn-sister, but explicitly not as god-king. She strikes to kill her past, not for vengeance or redemption, but out of necessity. A sword-king cannot be allowed to rule, be it Jantris, Mathangi Mantra, or Incubus.
Whether or not Incubus dies, Maya will carry him, the same way she caries Meti. For all the divinity of the cut, neither atonement nor vengeance find any closure.
From nothing we came, and to nothing we will return
Except for me. I came from something!
I’ll probably turn to nothing but eh
He better not enter a second phase with his blood magic.
FOOL! YOU ABSOLUTE MORON AND IMBECILE by 72 names! What have done?! Now that is JINXED.
Or maybe not? Who knows
Haha, just kidding.
Unless…?
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Taking bets on whether he walks it off or not.
20 ‘ket says he pulls some blood magic bullshit.
She already stated once, that she “beheaded him quite cleanly”, but he regenerated using blood magic and beat her after that. So yes, I think he will walk it off, strike her with an eviscerating blow and only after that, she MAYBE will hit him.
Not just blood alchemy, but also Head of John. My own headcanon for their encounter on Rayuba has Maya chopping Inky’s head off in one cut, but as his head is tumbling away, he catches it by the hair and then uses it as a “head-flail” to pummel her nearly to death.
I feel like he will, because of how suddenly the fight seemed to end.
Sure, a character can be killed off suddenly — just look at Mammon and Mottom.
…But the panel where Mammon was killed felt a lot more impactful than Incubus being cut open, and then it was pretty much a given that Mottom was going to die too.
Because this doesn’t feel as final, I reckon Incubus isn’t out of the story yet.
Phase 2 coming up. Where’s the boss music?
That’s a lot more than one cut, Maya.
Right? She did what Incubus did to Cio
You misunderstand the nature of Cutting. Who are you to decide where one cut ends and another begins? It is in the burning soul of the swordsman. Incubus is weak of heart and makes many weak cuts. Maya is resolved to the total annihilation of her enemy and herself. Every step she takes is a continuous cutting motion. This is the way.
She gets off on a technicality…
A single cut, approaching infinity, may wrap around creation to cut multiple times.
If Incubus draws power from his blood, and Maya loves to drink, there is but one solution
..that should suffice.
Oh, this is gonna leave a bruise
Maya, if you need one Cut, you need to go vertically, not horizontally!
I’m sure Inky can smush himself back together regardless but that seems like a much stronger Cut for someone who’s head can regen being lopped off
Unfortunately, Incubus is a practitioner of the Head of John, and his head is quite invincible.
Sequences cut in fractions of both time and space, with past fragments mixing with very blood body fragments of the present slice
I don’t think that’s enough to kill him, but I hope it hurts like hell.
helpppp incubus is so chopped 😭😭😭
Should of aimed for the head- a certain mad tyrant
His head is invulnerable, that’s the entire point of Head of John.
I fucking hope he won’t be fine.
By Aesma, what a holy composition!
Pull yourself together, pretty man!
“It’s just a flesh wound.”
He’s seems happy about this, so hopefully she’s playing straight into his hands.
Incubus is the personification of Maya’s past crimes. She fled without atonement and her past slaughtered everything she had built. Here she fights as an earnest student, a sworn-sister, but explicitly not as god-king. She strikes to kill her past, not for vengeance or redemption, but out of necessity. A sword-king cannot be allowed to rule, be it Jantris, Mathangi Mantra, or Incubus.
Whether or not Incubus dies, Maya will carry him, the same way she caries Meti. For all the divinity of the cut, neither atonement nor vengeance find any closure.
March ever forward.
well well WELL now the shoe’s on the other foot AIN’T IT
So much for that one cut, eh? We’re not done here.
Tis but a scratch!
Huh.
He honestly was not wrong.
He was an asshole, but still. He wasn’t wrong.
What a lousy swordsman Maya has become.