I’d say it’s actually an allegory of their inhumanity – even those with a humanoid shape don’t have a human-like head, while our dear White Chain has evolved into not just any androginous figure, but a distinctly feminine one. The other Angels revile her closeness to humans, her refusal to forgo the spirit of the Old Law in order to protect them – this makes her stand apart from both the inhumanly static and neutral Angels and the inhumanly warped and destructive Thorns
And this dichotomy also informs Juggernaut Star’s tendency to reveal a beautifully human face when she’s feeling vulnerable and at her lowest. Juggernaut Star acts as White Chain’s foil, hiding her closeness to humanity behind a monstrous veil. White Chain meanwhile has only flourished by embracing her human features. And now look at her, a supremely heroic idiot fighting a brutal tyrant while Juggernaut Star not too long ago preached submission to a crushing fate.
I think that White Chain is discovering something.
Not that they are the rules, the laws, the art, the training, the skills. All are mechanical, all can be strung together and work in deadly conjunction by a decent AI and neural network.
No, White Chain has discovered that she must do something that she didn’t think was possible. Didn’t know was possible.
Live.
Become truly sapient and exist in this world as something other than a routine of process. Discover, in all of it’s bladed glory, free will.
ok so it might just be misplaced optimism cuz solomon seems to be fucking around which gives White Chain a non-zero chance of landing a proper blow but i am curious to see if she will manage to draw solomon’s blood… i think the only way anyone could manage it, given his key and their lack of such, would be a blow to his nose. on the human body (and i assume he is anatomically similar enough to humans that i can make this statement) the nose is one of the few places where one cannot promote defense through muscle and has some very thinly covered blood vessels in there that are prone to bursting.
that said, the only way White Chain is going to manage to land such a blow is to genuinely surprise solomon in his fucking around phase, most likely on his baseline assumptions of what angels are capable of and willing to do.
the reason i posit this is because if she *does* draw his blood, i only see two possible reactions from solomon regardless of whether or not he slays White Chain. the first, he is true to his word and bequeaths his empire to White Chain (probably also ki rata). the second and, imo, more likely, he rages the fuck out. there’d be any number of reasons why this would be the case, but chief among them would be his pride. he clearly puts a truly ridiculous amount of emphasis on appearances and the emperor being suckerpunched in the face to draw blood would look very bad. so much so, he might even forget himself for a moment and simply obliterate White Chain. whether or not he then bequeaths the empire and such to white chain afterwards is anybody’s guess but at the very least, it would change drastically, most likely for the worse.
of course, this is even assuming an angel’s potential strength is anywhere near enough to damage his body at its weakest points… it’s also assuming solomon doesn’t stop fucking around for a while which is probable because, again, appearances. the reality is that white chain is most likely going to die to him, probably slowly since solomon has been throwing damaging, but not lethal, blows at her so far. there’s also the possibility of a curveball mid-fight from gog agog cuz they seemed like they were planning something against solomon and this fight would be the absolute best moment of opportunity for whatever that is.
Well, Allison got stabbed in the eye and the knife broke. Key users have all the cheat codes xD
Nevertheless, good call on Gog Agog. They’ve played the bumbling idiot for so long I had discarded them as a threat, but they may still play a role in this…
Also where the hell are Princess, Nyave and Zaid? This has to be the longest hanging thread in the narrative by far. The fact that they have vanished again is making me wonder whether they truly are the wildcard in Team Alison’s hand, or whether something really nasty (probably invovling Gog Agog) has happened to them.
I’m not quite sure why people are predicting Krayu Mat will win the day – this book is titled King of Swords, and we’ve already seen how Intra, who also held that name, defeated an unbeatable fighter by throwing a strike of such incredibly poor form that it slew his opponent instantly. I think it fairly evident that White Chain will learn from her foolish apprentice and use a supreme lack of technique to defeat Solomon. If she defeated him through superior technique that’d just validate his sin – he could no doubt make like a shonen protagonist and master the technique that defeated him in about 5 minutes, but something so abjectly inferior to himself? That’s what he can’t do.
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In my head, 10 Vigilant Gaze also sounds a lot like Brian Blessed.
*cries in trans*
How’s come so many angels (panel 2) don’t got no headses?
its a metaphor for them being stupid idiots
I’d say it’s actually an allegory of their inhumanity – even those with a humanoid shape don’t have a human-like head, while our dear White Chain has evolved into not just any androginous figure, but a distinctly feminine one. The other Angels revile her closeness to humans, her refusal to forgo the spirit of the Old Law in order to protect them – this makes her stand apart from both the inhumanly static and neutral Angels and the inhumanly warped and destructive Thorns
And this dichotomy also informs Juggernaut Star’s tendency to reveal a beautifully human face when she’s feeling vulnerable and at her lowest. Juggernaut Star acts as White Chain’s foil, hiding her closeness to humanity behind a monstrous veil. White Chain meanwhile has only flourished by embracing her human features. And now look at her, a supremely heroic idiot fighting a brutal tyrant while Juggernaut Star not too long ago preached submission to a crushing fate.
I think that White Chain is discovering something.
Not that they are the rules, the laws, the art, the training, the skills. All are mechanical, all can be strung together and work in deadly conjunction by a decent AI and neural network.
No, White Chain has discovered that she must do something that she didn’t think was possible. Didn’t know was possible.
Live.
Become truly sapient and exist in this world as something other than a routine of process. Discover, in all of it’s bladed glory, free will.
Welcome to your first true life, White Chain.
So our boy Salami david is a true fight nerd, a beefy bulky chunky powerful NERD
ok so it might just be misplaced optimism cuz solomon seems to be fucking around which gives White Chain a non-zero chance of landing a proper blow but i am curious to see if she will manage to draw solomon’s blood… i think the only way anyone could manage it, given his key and their lack of such, would be a blow to his nose. on the human body (and i assume he is anatomically similar enough to humans that i can make this statement) the nose is one of the few places where one cannot promote defense through muscle and has some very thinly covered blood vessels in there that are prone to bursting.
that said, the only way White Chain is going to manage to land such a blow is to genuinely surprise solomon in his fucking around phase, most likely on his baseline assumptions of what angels are capable of and willing to do.
the reason i posit this is because if she *does* draw his blood, i only see two possible reactions from solomon regardless of whether or not he slays White Chain. the first, he is true to his word and bequeaths his empire to White Chain (probably also ki rata). the second and, imo, more likely, he rages the fuck out. there’d be any number of reasons why this would be the case, but chief among them would be his pride. he clearly puts a truly ridiculous amount of emphasis on appearances and the emperor being suckerpunched in the face to draw blood would look very bad. so much so, he might even forget himself for a moment and simply obliterate White Chain. whether or not he then bequeaths the empire and such to white chain afterwards is anybody’s guess but at the very least, it would change drastically, most likely for the worse.
of course, this is even assuming an angel’s potential strength is anywhere near enough to damage his body at its weakest points… it’s also assuming solomon doesn’t stop fucking around for a while which is probable because, again, appearances. the reality is that white chain is most likely going to die to him, probably slowly since solomon has been throwing damaging, but not lethal, blows at her so far. there’s also the possibility of a curveball mid-fight from gog agog cuz they seemed like they were planning something against solomon and this fight would be the absolute best moment of opportunity for whatever that is.
Well, Allison got stabbed in the eye and the knife broke. Key users have all the cheat codes xD
Nevertheless, good call on Gog Agog. They’ve played the bumbling idiot for so long I had discarded them as a threat, but they may still play a role in this…
Also where the hell are Princess, Nyave and Zaid? This has to be the longest hanging thread in the narrative by far. The fact that they have vanished again is making me wonder whether they truly are the wildcard in Team Alison’s hand, or whether something really nasty (probably invovling Gog Agog) has happened to them.
Last we saw they were surrounded by miffed halberdiers, so my first assumption is that they are still in jail like Al and Cio were
If White Chain draws blood, could she ask Solomon to make her human?
Not in the sense of altering her flame colour, I think. But to make a shell that is flesh rather than forged ash? Maybe.
In the bottom left panel Solomon looks like a surfer. A really smug, beefy, surfer dude.
I effin love White Chain’s story. So epic.
I’m not quite sure why people are predicting Krayu Mat will win the day – this book is titled King of Swords, and we’ve already seen how Intra, who also held that name, defeated an unbeatable fighter by throwing a strike of such incredibly poor form that it slew his opponent instantly. I think it fairly evident that White Chain will learn from her foolish apprentice and use a supreme lack of technique to defeat Solomon. If she defeated him through superior technique that’d just validate his sin – he could no doubt make like a shonen protagonist and master the technique that defeated him in about 5 minutes, but something so abjectly inferior to himself? That’s what he can’t do.
I think you mean BRIAN BLESSED, not Brian Blessed. it’s a subtle difference in the pronunciation, all the more important for it.
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