White Chain misses precisely one piece of the puzzle that is Diamond.
Yes, the empire is a prison, and yes, its warden-prisoner has built it for himself. But it was not for that purpose it was constructed.
Behold, my lovelies, a temple built by a god, for the adoration of the thing that created him. Vast and merciless, shining and pitiful, hollow and magnificent is this cathedral, the work of billions of human lives. Its keepers keep it free of rats, its priests keep it free of the unfaithful. It is a boulder dropped onto the ruber-sheet of the universe, a great gravitational well that consumes those who trespass near it, that they, too, might know and marvel at its terrible weight.
All to venerate the pain of a man who died when his wife and children were taken from him.
When in the height heaven was not named,
And the Earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,
And Chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into Being,
And none bore a Name, and no Destinies were ordained;
Then were Created the gods in the midst of heaven,
Lahmu and Lahamu were called into Being…
Ages increased,…
Then Ansar and Kisar were Created, and over them….
Long were the days, then there came forth…..
Anu, their son,…
Ansar and Anu…
And the god Anu…
Nudimmud, whom his fathers, his begetters…..
Abounding in all wisdom,…’
He was exceeding strong…
He had no rival –
Thus were established and were… the great gods.
– Excerpt from the Enuma Elish,
~ The Babylonian Epic of Creation
As much as I love WC doing this, because of how important it is to her character development, I highly doubt this SD’s first time being called out like that. This won’t be the thing that breaks him.
Agreed. It’s not the first time he’s hearing platitudes from someone whose face he’s stepping on, and it won’t be the last. Only a sore loser tries to get philosophical when they’re beaten.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
Yeah but … how many angels has he fought? Bet she’s the first. She’s not the usual, frothy-mouthed maniac thrown up by the Ring of Power.
The start of the revolution is being televised. The thing that breaks Solomon will be a video tape. He will watch this scene again and again; he won’t be able to stop himself. WC’s truths will etch him like acid.
Solomon wants to hand his empire off to some one else so he can “pursue the path of true royalty” but refuses to relinquish his throne till some one can accomplish a near impossible task of combat prowess. It doesn’t matter how fit they’d actually be, they just have to “beat” him. Solomon has set up a situation where he can only get what he wants if he loses. He could of course at anytime just relinquish his throne, but then either his empire would collapse meaning he failed his people again or it wouldn’t meaning he wasn’t as important as he thought and his cruelties where meaningless. Neither of those things are acceptable to him.
Thing is, Solomon never intended to give away his crown. All of this is just a giant play to serve his vanity. He’s not there to find a successor, he’s there to show off that he can’t be beaten.
really, if solomon wanted a true heir, he would raise and train one. he’s so paradigm locked into his successor doing almost exactly what he did that he can’t see such a simple solution… or he chooses not to.
Hey, I’m not YISUN, but I do’t think the built-his-own-prison is what is burning him. Yes, he’s built it, but don’t forget that White Chain points out no one has come close to beating him during his rule. What REALLY CHAFES at Solomon is that by failing to produce an equal (or a better) from his nation or sons, he has failed as a leader. The wheel turns… the rim doesn’t just end up at the beginning, but a wheel drives its own hub to drive progress. Like the Olympics, each generation strives to be better than the last. Solomon has failed at this, in his monumental prison, garbed in his beautiful bureaucracy of sons unfit to be heirs, and he thinks he’s the only one wise enough to notice.
Solomon and White Chain are so very similar at times, and yet only one has made the choice to be free of the system they are in. No piece, no matter how highly placed, is free from the machine.
“Consider one of life’s original situations: that of a hide and seek game. What a thrill to be hidden while someone’s looking for you, what a delightful fright to be found, but what a panic when, because you are too well hidden, the others give up looking for you after a while and leave. If you hide too well, the others forget you. You are forced to come out on your own when they don’t want you anymore. That is hard to take. It’s like turning too fine a phrase, so subtle that you are reduced to explaining it. Nothing is sadder than having to beg for existence and returning naked among the others. Therefore, it’s better not to know how to play too well; it’s better to know how to let others unmask you and to endure the rule of the game. Not too fast, not too late.” -jean baudrillard
Solo man dave ur a tryhard and nobody wants to play with u anymore
Solomon David is well aware of the prison of “duty” that he has put himself in, because he cannot free himself of it. White Chain thinks that she is wise for realizing it, but her wisdom is not something new. All of the demiurges have prisons of their own design, all of them have trapped themselves into visions of what royalty is.
They realize this, and this is why each is seeking escape in their own way. Solomon wants to be defeated, but his pride cannot let him give up. Mottom wants to be replaced, but her greed for continued life keeps her trapped.
The Buddhist philosophy is strong here. None are at Nirvana – they are stuck in the cycle. Break the wheel.
As I have said a few pages ago – if you cannot hurt his body then hurt his pride as it is more fragile. And it is not the fragility of a thin, little glass container but of a balloon that was pumped up as much as it could stand over the ages of his rule.
Even an emperor should stop and worry when his supposedly beaten opponent starts to smile.
Strange that Solomon seeks strength in a place he has ensured will only produce weakness and mediocrity.
White Chain misses precisely one piece of the puzzle that is Diamond.
Yes, the empire is a prison, and yes, its warden-prisoner has built it for himself. But it was not for that purpose it was constructed.
Behold, my lovelies, a temple built by a god, for the adoration of the thing that created him. Vast and merciless, shining and pitiful, hollow and magnificent is this cathedral, the work of billions of human lives. Its keepers keep it free of rats, its priests keep it free of the unfaithful. It is a boulder dropped onto the ruber-sheet of the universe, a great gravitational well that consumes those who trespass near it, that they, too, might know and marvel at its terrible weight.
All to venerate the pain of a man who died when his wife and children were taken from him.
THE FIRST TABLET
When in the height heaven was not named,
And the Earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,
And Chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into Being,
And none bore a Name, and no Destinies were ordained;
Then were Created the gods in the midst of heaven,
Lahmu and Lahamu were called into Being…
Ages increased,…
Then Ansar and Kisar were Created, and over them….
Long were the days, then there came forth…..
Anu, their son,…
Ansar and Anu…
And the god Anu…
Nudimmud, whom his fathers, his begetters…..
Abounding in all wisdom,…’
He was exceeding strong…
He had no rival –
Thus were established and were… the great gods.
– Excerpt from the Enuma Elish,
~ The Babylonian Epic of Creation
Can someone explain to me why White Chain is coughing, grunting and wheezing?
Perhaps dust from crumbling repair-plaster? Vigilant Gaze blamed accumulated dust for his hacking cough some pages ago.
420 Blaze it now with angel scented faaaieeree
That’s a lot of reincarnations.
Keeps getting smoked.
You try getting high when your entire family is made out of no-nonsense cops.
As much as I love WC doing this, because of how important it is to her character development, I highly doubt this SD’s first time being called out like that. This won’t be the thing that breaks him.
Agreed. It’s not the first time he’s hearing platitudes from someone whose face he’s stepping on, and it won’t be the last. Only a sore loser tries to get philosophical when they’re beaten.
Yeah but … how many angels has he fought? Bet she’s the first. She’s not the usual, frothy-mouthed maniac thrown up by the Ring of Power.
The start of the revolution is being televised. The thing that breaks Solomon will be a video tape. He will watch this scene again and again; he won’t be able to stop himself. WC’s truths will etch him like acid.
I see white chain is attempting a variant of Talk No Jutsu. A risky style but quite strong, mayhaps Solomon should rip out his own ears to counter it.
White Chain: “Maybe winners are the real losers?”
Salami Dave: “Nah I’m pretty sure that winners are the real winners.” STOMP
Solomon wants to hand his empire off to some one else so he can “pursue the path of true royalty” but refuses to relinquish his throne till some one can accomplish a near impossible task of combat prowess. It doesn’t matter how fit they’d actually be, they just have to “beat” him. Solomon has set up a situation where he can only get what he wants if he loses. He could of course at anytime just relinquish his throne, but then either his empire would collapse meaning he failed his people again or it wouldn’t meaning he wasn’t as important as he thought and his cruelties where meaningless. Neither of those things are acceptable to him.
Thing is, Solomon never intended to give away his crown. All of this is just a giant play to serve his vanity. He’s not there to find a successor, he’s there to show off that he can’t be beaten.
really, if solomon wanted a true heir, he would raise and train one. he’s so paradigm locked into his successor doing almost exactly what he did that he can’t see such a simple solution… or he chooses not to.
Solomon was not raised to be royalty. A true heir, by what is surely his logic, would be able to make the same claim.
That said, if the people have forgotten fealty and tradition, perhaps mortality is the culprit.
It’s hard for the people to remember anything when they are being kept in a prison by a man who refuses to cut it – a king who refuses to be royalty.
“I not wish to destroy”
Solomon’s losing it :p
And White Chain wins with just a word. For a word can be more mighty than the fist or the greatest sword.
she has such a delightful smile!
Savage, too.
Get his ass.
T H E _ T O W E R
Every single frame is so intense. And that smile is incomparable :3
White Chain sees clearly. Because of this, ultimately she holds the greater power.
This really is ‘Large Black Man Publicly Pounds Blue Clay Girl’ => that white plaster oozing out her mouth tells the whole deal.
Oh ho! Goading and manipulation. Somebody’s been talking to devils.
Hey, I’m not YISUN, but I do’t think the built-his-own-prison is what is burning him. Yes, he’s built it, but don’t forget that White Chain points out no one has come close to beating him during his rule. What REALLY CHAFES at Solomon is that by failing to produce an equal (or a better) from his nation or sons, he has failed as a leader. The wheel turns… the rim doesn’t just end up at the beginning, but a wheel drives its own hub to drive progress. Like the Olympics, each generation strives to be better than the last. Solomon has failed at this, in his monumental prison, garbed in his beautiful bureaucracy of sons unfit to be heirs, and he thinks he’s the only one wise enough to notice.
That counts as a cut.
Solomon and White Chain are so very similar at times, and yet only one has made the choice to be free of the system they are in. No piece, no matter how highly placed, is free from the machine.
YES WHITE CHAIN BE LIKE IT WAS MY PLAN ALL ALONG TO GET KICKED IN THE DICK
“Consider one of life’s original situations: that of a hide and seek game. What a thrill to be hidden while someone’s looking for you, what a delightful fright to be found, but what a panic when, because you are too well hidden, the others give up looking for you after a while and leave. If you hide too well, the others forget you. You are forced to come out on your own when they don’t want you anymore. That is hard to take. It’s like turning too fine a phrase, so subtle that you are reduced to explaining it. Nothing is sadder than having to beg for existence and returning naked among the others. Therefore, it’s better not to know how to play too well; it’s better to know how to let others unmask you and to endure the rule of the game. Not too fast, not too late.” -jean baudrillard
Solo man dave ur a tryhard and nobody wants to play with u anymore
This fits the entire comic. All the gods killed everyone else and now are stuck together in the same game of chicken that no one can break
I really didn’t know angels can spit.
Behold, Meti, the words that can smash skulls.
Solomon David is well aware of the prison of “duty” that he has put himself in, because he cannot free himself of it. White Chain thinks that she is wise for realizing it, but her wisdom is not something new. All of the demiurges have prisons of their own design, all of them have trapped themselves into visions of what royalty is.
They realize this, and this is why each is seeking escape in their own way. Solomon wants to be defeated, but his pride cannot let him give up. Mottom wants to be replaced, but her greed for continued life keeps her trapped.
The Buddhist philosophy is strong here. None are at Nirvana – they are stuck in the cycle. Break the wheel.
Honestly I’m just here for the Hotdogs. Apparently the ones sold in his arena are the best in the Multiverse.
Be careful with the Devil Mustard. It has been the death of many a hero.
I thank my creation that I am no hero then!
As I have said a few pages ago – if you cannot hurt his body then hurt his pride as it is more fragile. And it is not the fragility of a thin, little glass container but of a balloon that was pumped up as much as it could stand over the ages of his rule.
It will not crack but it may explode.