BREAKER OF INFINITIES 3-103 to 3-105
Chapter: 3
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Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
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…That’s not total concentration.
Ki Rata does not always require total concentration, only absolute surrender to purpose.
Solomon exists for one reason: to protect his family.
I dunno, it is that one single thought of his lost family judging him that has been driving him for the last 10,000 years. If that isn’t concentration I don’t know what is.
The man who can never forgive himself, can never forgive anyone else.
…wow, you perfectly defined Solomon’s character in a single sentence, directly before his demise! Well played!
That’s a pretty nice summation.
(SPOILER WARNING) I can’t help but wonder If he committed to what he Intended to do. J asked him to finish them both, almost as if he knew what move he was about to execute. Yet ultimately they will both walk away from this battle alive. I wonder If he gave Into the fear of death at the last second and In doing so used a different attack altogether. His family In that last moment of their battle could of been representation of his hesitation In committing the final blow that would have killed them both.
holy fuck that palm is gonna leave a mark
Jag is about to be Kung Fu Hustled.
I can’t tell if that’s a comment on Solomon’s actions, or encouragement to get him to do better.
all this impossible power, and hes using it to punch a guy
To be fair, the other guy punched him first.
Some guys just need a good punching.
“Behold! The awesome fires of God. The limitless power of pure creation itself. Look carefully! Observe how it is used for the same purpose a man might use an especially sharp rock.”
Meti’s words will always stay true.
The sanctioned action is to Cut. But the sword is just an ugly piece of metal, and its adherents idiots. The tongue, however…
I beg your ding-dang pardon
I think of this as a clue that Maya could have been a Black Emperor but there was more power to be had in being a student of the art of cutting.
Meti’s quote is the overriding statement of theme of this entire comic, and I am here for it.
I think it’s what really drives him at the very deepest level
He couldn’t protect what he cared about most, and it is forever standing in I’m his innermost heart, staring out at him with his wife’s eyes, shadowed by the specters or his dead children, whispering “pathetic”.
But it’s his demon, his word, his own self-torture.
He’s abandoned all balance, all focus, all control and embraced the primal motivation that is the true engine of his atum.
He has become one continuous cutting motion, divining himself, the multiverse, and the entente that threatens what he loves
Solomon, wake up, you fucked up big time
He’s finally awake, for the first time in millenia.
All this, and he’s still only using 5 fingers.
“Solomon David, you fool. You have AN ENTIRE OTHER HAND!”
And, suddenly, it all becomes incredibly clear why Solomon David never had daughters after the Universal War.
He feared their judgement.
The sad thing is, I suspect this means if he had been willing to have female children, it also would have meant he’d have broken out of his stagnation long before White Chain and then Jagganoth came to Rubaya, because making the decision to raise a daughter again would have meant he was willing to be questioned and found wanting.
This one gets the feeling that despite all of his might, Solomon David was simply not strong enough to face a child who might remind him too deeply of a loss from which he never truly healed.
White Chain’s rebirth could be seen as his first daughter, then.
Now that is an interesting idea.
Oh, I like the implications that opens up with that in mind
Wouldn’t White Chain be his third or fourth daughter?
Yeah, she’s his first daughter after the Universal War lol
*Rayuba
Preemptive Phoenixian is observant.
Damn you autocorrect!
Ah… The fear…
Fear is the mind killer
“You must not fear, hmm? For fear is the mind-killer. Fear, the little-death that brings total obliteration. And so. You must face me. I will permit it to pass over you and through you. And when it has gone past please, turn your inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
The Fearmonger
Does the Paternum only see his daughters now that his Kingship is at an end? Or will the visions of his failures finally end now that his own is upon him.
I will wager my right shinbone it is the latter
Choose Thy God, And Say A Prayer (For None May Soon Remain To Answer)
masterful. thank you sharing this. words fail.
i can’t imagine a more poignant way to show the extent to which solomon, even at the height of his mastery, is still motivated and haunted by his failure to protect his family all those millenia ago.
that still of his tear-rimmed eyes and that vision of his family as his body literally disintegrates… this is one of the most transcendent comic experiences i’ve ever had.
thank you, abbadon.
i love how this clarifies why he is the bearer of the word DIAMOND. that he was ‘resplendent’ was always obvious, but now we see the tremendous pressures that made him so.
And the fatal flaws deep in his heart, that when struck correctly will cause him to shatter.
This might be my favorite page of the entire series. Just incredible.
rule your little corner of the universe for as many aeons as you want, you will never be able to forget Seymour Skinner.
*after eons of ruling the Celestial Empire*
Solomon: “Am I out of touch?”
Solomon: “No. It’s my children who are wrong.”
This end to his arc made Solomon David my favorite character in KSBD. He’s such an interesting, compelling character, and it’s done in a way that doesn’t in any way detract from his status as a bloody, unforgiveable tyrant.
As you say, extremely compelling. In fact, all the Demiurges we know something about have turned out to be very different from the allmighty tyrants they appeared to be. Abbadon is proving himself to be extremely talented with every page he posts. My hat’s off to him!
Wow, it even busted his arm bands. I didn’t think that was possible. But EVERYTHING eventually happens in Throne if you wait long enough.
Bye-bye Solly-Bum-Bum!
Rayuba is nice for a visit, but Throne is still wondrous.
The beauty of circles is that they always come round again to where they started. Even as they are being broken.
Symbolicism at its finest. let the circles be broke.
ALL of them.
no one man should have all that power
The loss never stopped hurting. A wound one seventh of all creation could never salve. A hole his august slice of existence could never fill.
You were a deeply flawed man, Solomon David. But you did what you could.
I hope you may see them once more, in the moment your flame burns out
It seems unlikely. since there’s no afterlife in this multiverse. But yes, that would be great.
o ye man who thought thineself an emperor,
o ye king who thought thineself a God.
and now,
at the height of thine strength,
you revealeth thineself for what thou truly art:
a sad, pathetic, broken soul,
stricken by grief that smoldered into rage,
unable to protect that which thou cares’t most about.
and how many more innocents shall suffer for it?
A soldier finally becomes great when he accepts the inevitability of his death. One cannot reach Heaven through Violence while clinging to life on earth. Solomon has known this for most of his life, and I believe that now he has finally decided to give in to it. He has lit his soul on fire and sees no future beyond his blows.
Doesn’t ki rata go up to 100 points?
Absolutely brutal.
The last time I witnessed a technique of such power was in fighting a mighty demon which called upon a yellow wind to destroy me and thus dine upon the monk who I was bound to protect.
The wind toppled mountains, uprooted trees, knocked the Polar Palace out of the sky, sent the eight Great Vajripanis cowering and blew down the twelve courts of hell.
When the winds had calmed I was left with nothing but a terrible headache…
I fear the Red God will prove similiarly endurant.
Monke
Monkey?
So… not a 10-point strike then? Pity. But, his power and strength are right now 10,000 times what they normally are so… Wow!
“Salami Dave is a Murdering Fascist” gang worst affected
One was wondering the significance of the 77 point strike; just doubling the auspicious in many cultures number 7 did not seem quite enough.
One’s favourite possibility is that 77 is Gematrian (Hebrew cipher) for óz, or עז, which means strength or might. The Palm of the Almighty be strong indeed.
One is pleased at this section’s continued existence, thank you Abbadon. One believes and hopes it adds a little something to the whole, and is worth the forebearance.
Ah. Far too many more coincidences. Our old friend Mr Crowley used it when he wrote his Liber 77 / Liber Oz / Book of Strength. It contains 5 sections: moral, bodily, mental, sexual, and the safeguard tyrannicide.
One is forced to don one’s hat, just in order to do some doffing, as one is sure this must fall within the author’s knowledge, and was drawn on for a throwaway name for a Ki-Rata move.
Everyone! Put on your taking-off hats!
FINALLY, an attack powerful enough to shatter his gold bracelets.