BREAKER OF INFINITIES 4-147
Chapter: 4
Resignation
**Thanks for everyone that came to see me at Dragoncon, it was an amazing show!**
EDIT: Next KSBD update will be 7 pages at once in the next couple weeks, for pacing.
Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
Waiting for someone to make a video of preparing this breakfast
Start by cracking open the bones of God and sucking all the pulp
That’s much too heavy for breakfast. Have some fruit instead.
Heavy? Not for Jagganoth, no.
No, it’s true. God’s Marrow is well-known for making you feel lethargic. Jagganoth prefers a bowl of God’s blood. With Wheaties. It IS the Breakfast of Champions, after all.
I eat Wheaties dry. Soggy cereal is worthless to me.
Jagger does invest heavily in worthless things.
I skip breakfast because I like to sleep in. Lunch, OTOH … a bevy of giant otters looking at a school of piranhas and a caiman sorta like me: “I’ll have all of it and what’s that? An anaconda? Yeah! Dessert! And a jaguar? Naw, we’re too full to eat that too, but thanks for offering.”
Did she just do a 4th wall break staring at us?
Destroy the grand enemy called ‘I’, Allison.
” I ” ?
That’s a Black Sabbath song from “Dehumanizer”.
Dehumanizer? I barely know ‘er!
“I think, therefore I am.”
So just stop thinking. EZPZ
“The Supreme Way has no difficulties; it is simply a matter of not choosing”
oooOOOOOH BROOOO I JUST GOT IT!
I’d say you just got up, but inertia is a hard hurdle to jump over
#mondaymoods
Big same.
Big sleepy time
I guess omniscience lets you break the fourth wall
Glad wanting to back to bed is a universal experience that every denizen of the wheel might face
You have eternity to sleep, the food looks delicious.
Take my advice: eat first, then go back to bed.
She is choosing a kind of suffering.
Is Jadis going to pop back in, teleport her to bed, call it a day?
This is the most relatable panel in the whole story thus far.
To return to the first page of the story, in which she is in bed? To eat breakfast is to commit to living in a state of knowledge, to go out into the day, to abandon a state where you can live in dreams.
‘What is the great art known to your royal mind?’ sang the bird.
YISUN smiled in the third way for this question was anticipated for a long time.
“Lying (down).” ‘
-The Tale of Imvttr (Abridged)
Glad I got to make a pilgrimage to Artist Alley! Highlight of my Con, actually meeting the legendary Abbadon.
I can relate to wanting to sleep through the apocalypse.
That breakfast actually looks delicious.
Eggs. Bread. Ajash. Two butter rolls. Small soup. Bean cakes. Pickles. Honey. Curry and rice (vegetarian, mild). Coffee. Green plums.
I can’t figure out what “ajash” actually is?
Abaddon made it up, lol. He said it himself on twitter.3
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind’s way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.”
(Safe to assume next page will be Allison in bed, probably staring at the ceiling, yes? Hmm…)
So that’s why Jadis guaranteed that breakfast would make her feel better despite it being pretty obvious that Allison isn’t in a type of melancholy that can be cheered up by food.
Allison, willingly or not, always chooses the path that leads to her own suffering. Thus, she couldn’t possibly feel like eating a delicious and nutritious meal when it’s offered to her. So, if she DID eat the meal, she’d have broken free from the shackles of deterministic fate, essentially proving free will and defying prophecy itself! It’s ingenious!
Or Jadis just likes hyping up a good meal. Who’s to say.
It’s also true that even at the lowest of lows, tending to bodily needs *tends* to make humans feel better, if only just a little.
There’s a good analogy about how getting your brain to a healthy state is like turning a crank, and stuff like eating and exercising is the easiest crank to turn when you’re low on mental strength (as opposed to stuff like practicing mindfulness, seeking medical help, working/creating, etc)
Big mood, Allison, big mood indeed.
I wouldn’t do that, dreams are not a good place to be in times like this! Especially when you’re all existential. Never look between universes before bed, learned that the hard way! (Don’t touch it, either…)
I predict that The Worm is in the food.
It all lines up– the Ice witch, in her determinist hopelessness, does not understand why one would choose suffering– hence, she would be a perfect target for one who could afford her pleasures, or numbness– which The Worm has been shown to offer. Why wouldn’t she take that offer, if nothing matters? There’s been time for the idle (so She says) Worm to weedle into all sorts of places. Thus, the Worm controls the Witch.
Then, the Worm-Witch gestalt attempts to feed Allison food she’s made. Likely planted with Worms– as She attempted to plant in Allison before. “I want you to choose breakfast”, She says. Convenient Allison’s not feeling hungry just yet.
You are a cruel one indeed, yet ingeniously so.
Feels very much like the whole “sloth” angle.
“Why bother trying, it all ends up the same anyway.”
“Every efforts is a wasted effort”
Unfortunately Allison appears to have fallen into that mindset for the moment. Time to see how she breaks out of it.
It would totally fit the theme for the series to end here with Allison saying she wants to go back to bed.
I hope it doesn’t; Allison has more terrible decisions and future regrets to make.