BREAKER OF INFINITIES 2-78 to 2-81 – BLOOD SATED SWORD SOUL
Chapter: 2
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Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
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She should wear an eye-patch. Eye-patches are cool. Like Fezes, and bow-ties.
She’s going to retire to a small town in the pacific northwest, open a curio shop, and become Great-Aunt Allison.
Was thinking Dr. Who, but the tie problem boiled the whole thing town to Stan in Gravity Falls. No cool there at all.
Yeah, but Stan is inherently uncool by virtue of being a fat old con-man wearing a patch as a gimmick. Allison is a young female badass with a need to cover a jack-o-lantern pit in her face, so she makes it inherently cool.
And now it’s happened and we don’t have to be constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. What a relief.
Ah, but Allison is still alive and still has the key in her head. Abaddon has quite a few shoes, still.
Now I have an image of Jagganoth having an infinite corridor of legs with cool shoes that always seem to recede into the distance behind him from the viewer’s vantage point.
Drippanoth.
Bling Sated Drip Soul.
The other shoe may not drop anymore, but ALISON sure will
‘Tis but a flesh wound.
Death is nothing to a King
Oh nooooo what the fuuuuuck
Fuuuuuuckkkkkk!!!!
…………ouch.
If I am not mistaken, she chose to strike instead of a futile attempt at evasion.
And so, did her blow land?
(Since War for Rayuba is a thing instead of Jaggie just outright winning, I’m going to guess yes. But it may be a long, long time – a time skip even – before she can face Metatron.)
The arm she lost was the one that was holding the spear so maybe it did? Could also be that her fusion was the only thing that kept her alive.
I always have respect for a creator that can humble their main character. THIS is how you subvert expectations while maintaining an engaging, powerful narrative. The protagonist tried everything, and still failed. The demiurges could not overcome their fractious natures and doomed themselves.
Will Allison die and leave the cycle to turn again? Will she rise as the true heir and overcome? Or will she fall to her base nature, kill six billion demons, and dare the whole 7-part world not to “wear it out?”
We don’t know. And our ignorance is sublime and Royal.
Eh. She has the Key of Kings. She might be laid up for a week or two, but she’ll be fiiiine.
Well, guess the arm looks a little more *ripped* off than *sliced* off, so … good sign?
You’ll notice the hair on that side of her head is noticeably shorter, and in a rather clean fashion.
When a cut is the width of a mountain, is there really much of a difference between being ripped in two or sliced in two?
I find it both remarkable and baffling that people are *still* thinking Allison is gonna pull a win outta this one. This is Allison, the closest she’s allowed to get to winning is “barely escaped alive”.
To be fair, for once everything going to shit wasn’t actually Allison’s fault. She’d done pretty much everything right only for Mottom and Gog to fuck everything up out of mutual spite.
And if Jag outright wins, then that’s the end of the story.
Still, the universe of K6BD is maliciously unfair, and so I expect the only two demiurges who are going to be in good shape after this are going to be Mottom (somehow) and Gog (obviously).
Sure, Allison has been really flawed as a protagonist throughout the story, but a flawed hero is better than a perfect hero. Perfect heroes are boring and stupid, eg. Superman. Allison has grown throughout the comic. There are still all kinds of ways she could pull off a win. She could also die in the attempt and still win.
Abaddon has shown that he writes a great story, is not generally predictable, and stays consistent with characters and in-universe rules. I don’t think the ending will disappoint. Anything can happen, but it won’t be stupid.
i would say emerging from Ultra Mega Hyper Destructo Attack of 80,000 Cuts sans an arm and eye could be counted as a relative win, given the current state of things.
Uh. Where are White Chain and Cio?
I’m going to be sad if Cio is gone.
She just wanted to stay home and water her plants.
Ironically she might’ve already been obliterated (along with everything else) if she hadn’t helped delay Jaggy.
Unless the results of the tournament itself were what caused Jaggo to go HAM at that moment instead of waiting.
Since Allison was cut from Aspected Chaos more or less complete (lost her arm while falling), we have to hope that there’s a devil-sized piece and an angel-sized piece falling nearby. And that they can survive a 100-mile fall into water.
Alternately, we sort-of know that White chain survives to fight on Rayuba, because of the OCT. We know nothing of Cio’s future history, except that she’s implied to write Allison’s story, finally, and then get Cassandra’d by future historians. So maybe she needs to survive to write it. Please!!!!!!
One was wondering whether she suffered two cuts: the severing of her arm on the way down seems a tad unlucky, but the (somewhat glancing) blow that lost her eye (instead of her life), and hair, half an ear, and possibly some skull and grey matter, would have been the one to dissociate the Fool – possibly as they dodged whilst launching the spear. We may expect to see one-eyed Cio and White Chain too, unless maybe as devil and angel they can regenerate.
Water rather than land at least, but it’s still going to feel rather hard.
From the first panel in which we see the hands they are pink, whereas AC’s hands were grey. The fusion has been broken before that panel.
FALL, MAGGOTS OF THE DIVINE CORPSE
It would appear that the maggots, in their wisdom, fled prior to this moment, and in doing so avoided this very fate.
There is still a reckoning to come though, which shall make a harrumphy little harlequin, from a jolly jester.
(Erroneously posted as a reply above)
I always have respect for a creator that can humble their main character. THIS is how you subvert expectations while maintaining an engaging, powerful narrative. The protagonist tried everything, and still failed. The demiurges could not overcome their fractious natures and doomed themselves.
Will Allison die and leave the cycle to turn again? Will she rise as the true heir and overcome? Or will she fall to her base nature, kill six billion demons, and dare the whole 7-part world not to “wear it out?”
We don’t know. And our ignorance is sublime and Royal.
I don’t think this is one of those “You should see the other guy” type of situations.
Uhh… unfortunately I think Mammon might be a slightly bigger target.
But did the big-ass multi-cubit spear land on J-dog?
well, i guess we cant be SURE summoning 80,000 arms is a painless process, but he didn’t exactly have to LOSE any, or eyes, or anything else…
And when the planet itself falls apart like a 3D jigsaw-sphere, where will they land?
This one is positive that planets are held together by the gravitational interaction of their constituent parts. Said interaction being what causes planets in the first place.
This one is convinced that making a planet fall apart is not an easy-such task as is implied in your statement.
If the cuts go through the entire planet, I think the centrifugal force of the planet’s rotation, coupled with a planet’s inner pressure would cause it to fall apart rather dramatically. If it doesn’t, then probably just lots of magma flowing from the mantle. But if the planet were to stop being one piece, the movement of the separate bodies aren’t traveling together in the same spinning direction and would drift apart.
Speaking as someone with a master’s degree in physics (though admittedly not a professional scientist)… no; 27 Missing Rosary Beads Cause Enlightenment is quite right. If you slice the planet in pieces, their mutual gravitational attraction will be more than enough to hold those pieces together—likely enough to fuse them back into one piece, in fact. Planets are round and in one piece precisely because anything with that much mass (whether it’s initially in one piece or not) will inevitably collapse into itself into a sphere; splitting a planet into pieces will certainly not cause it to fly apart. The “centrifugal force” wouldn’t be nearly enough to overcome the gravitational attraction—if it were, stars and planets would never form in the first place (the protoplanetary disks are already rotating at the time they collapse from dust into planets and stars). As for the “inner pressure”, the whole reason the pressure inside a planet is so high is because of all the gravitational force pulling the planet’s mass toward the center, so it doesn’t make sense to say that pressure will make the planet fall apart!
(Well, the interior pressure sort of can blow celestial bodies apart, if it becomes big enough to push the atoms together so forcefully as to cause runaway nuclear fusion—that’s how supernovas happen—but that’s a separate matter, and has nothing to do with cutting them into pieces.)
All that being said… I’m not sure why we’re talking about planets in the first place. Are we sure that Rayuba is really a planet, in the same sense as the Earth and Mars? Are we sure it’s subject to the same physical laws?
This one humbly agrees that speaking about physics-laws and about planets in context of a possibly magical plane, in a decidedly magical universe was out of place.
At the same time, this one expresses gratitude at your taking the time to explain so eloquently what I was thinking about.
hm that’s not ideal
Just rub some dirt in that and you’ll be fine.
‘Walk it off, kid. And stop crying.’
she need some milk
Damn I thought we were floating over Rayuba, not 218 Market St, Philadelphia, PA
Jagganoth’s a pretty nice guy, they say. I hear he’s got a manner that’ll put you at ease. One might even go so far as to say that he’s got a disarming personality.
Honestly, if there is No Space Left That Is Not A Sword and you only lose an arm? You got pretty lucky. Relatively speaking.
One gets the impression that we may just have lost a great deal of the supporting cast.
this is the point in the DnD campaign where you start making sure you have that secondary character ready to go…
Come on people, we knew this was coming.
Oh. Well that doesn’t seem all that bad.
amateur hour, you just gotta simultaneously block 80,000 times
parry infinite blows, gain infinite skill, become immortal until a bridge smashes you into nothingness
See, that’s the trick. Jagganoth was bulking up not to become stronger, but to surpass the size limit for bridges.
Their first strat of exploiting his lack of [WEBIMMUNE] could’ve worked, but half the demiurges do blunt damage and that’s generally ineffective against big creatures.
Shoulda used minecarts.
Nah, you just gotta block the one blow that’s coming your way (or the 10 or 100, whatever, I’d say 40,000 at worst), but at leats half were aimed elsewhere.
couldnt even summon 80 thousand simultaneous large rocks to beat his 80 thousand large scissors
The BLADE is swung, Ruin spread wide once more. The price of hubris and discord has ever been blood, paid a trillion times over as the cycles repeat. Yet the knife has only ever craved the life of the one who bids it kill.
Our host has scattered, but our hero remains.
I USED TO RULE THE WORLD
The end. No moral!