KING OF SWORDS 10-156
Chapter: 10
“When the rage of the princes of the world could no longer be contained within their golden bodies, it spilled out into the land.
Thus also with their sorrow.”
– Glass Scroll, SC 45
Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
What a time for me to run out of pages to read.
Welcome to the commentariat, or as it is also occasionally know, the wait.
What does a man like Solomon fear?
We all have fears. Some more than others. Fear, cowardice… survival instincts. We fight or we fly. Does he fear the day when he is no longer needed? Does he fear himself? Or does he truly fear nothing, and perhaps that is what drives him to find someone strong enough to beat him, so he can feel that again?
He’s probably just a righteous asshole and it doesn’t matter if he fears anything at all, probably shouldn’t try to get all philosophical when I’m cowering in abject terror.
well… if solomon was less self absorbed he would realize that people like him are *never* necessary. he also seems to have misunderstood what he actually is or otherwise has a warped view of himself.
in other news, he’s still fucking around which, despite current appearances, does give White Chain the possibility of an opening… that said he’s almost certainly going to stop fucking around soon and most likely White Chain is going to die horribly. i think if an opening does appear, it will be in solomon’s transition from fucking around to serious business… but hahah, who am i kidding, DAMNIT WHITE CHAIN YOU BETTER COME BACK SOON!
Solomon’s concentration has wavered. His fall is nigh.
Solomon is literally insane, then. By setting the requirement for inheriting his empire as supreme violence, he ensures supreme violence is always necessary, and yet here he is saying that he’s doing something that makes it eternal because he hopes that it will go way.
Fuck the waht, Salami.
Hate to be the one to tell you, bub, but you were BORN superfluous.
Is it just me, or is Solomon a good guy who runs a clean shop, just wants to keep the peace and desperately wants to retire soon?
Seems to me, his main problem is this: he can’t conceive of any way to handle things that doesn’t involve violence and a powerful figurehead.
He’s convinced that he did what he had to do to bring peace for his realm – and who knows, maybe that’s true. But because of that, he’s also convinced that there could never be another way to run things.
I feel like he’s the most well-meaning of the demiurges. But he refuses to even acknowledge that there could be flaws in his methods, reasoning, or ideals.
Perhaps that’s why so many people here have such a strong hatred for him, despite the fact that, by all evidence, he’s the least-terrible demiurge we’ve come across. Unlike Mammon and Mottom, Solomon is completely incapable of self-reflection or self-doubt.
While I think I’d much rather live in one of Solomon’s worlds than Mottom or Mammon’s, his unwavering conviction in his self-righteousness is what rubs so many people the wrong way.
The thing is, if White Chain won, if ANYONE won, they would essentially take his place as one of the demiurges. So strength is 100% necessary or else the others would devour what was once Solomon’s domain.
Sure, but also has spent so long in the role that he knows not how to do anything else. He has also had to hang around with monsters that whole time and has made certain compromises I imagine.
I’m wondering how hard it would be for an Angel to compress their entire soul into a tiny part of their body that Solomon is unlikely to punch.
I mean, we are talking about the angel who was able to control her armor with just the tiniest strand of soul still inside.
Aren’t they technically outside the ring now?
Yeah, but the adjudicators are probably like:
“You tell him!”
“Are you crazy? You tell him!”
Breaking the glass ceiling there..
I suppose it’s rather humorous that the good king Solomon has created a sphere of influence wherein nobody can challenge his power despite him having experienced first hand the creeping filth that such Force brings. A hundred thousand ants beneath his thumb yet he has become far too bloated with his own pride to give up control, becoming but another cog (albeit an especially shiny and well muscled one) in a machine of his own design.
(In other news he’s still kind’ve hot and that skirt must be very well secured indeed)
I suppose it’s rather humorous that the good king Solomon has created a sphere of influence wherein nobody can challenge his power despite him having experienced first hand the creeping filth that such Force brings. A hundred thousand ants beneath his thumb yet he has become far too bloated with his own pride to give up control, becoming but another cog (albeit an especially shiny and well muscled one) in a machine of his own design.
“In a perfect world, men like me would not exist. But this is not a perfect world.”
Looking back at this page I LOVE the symbolism of this image. The arena, shaped like the key upon his brow, represents everything Solomon stands for: pride, strength, brutal power, the result of thousands of man hours and the blood, sweat, and tears it took to build this grand edifice to his might. And yet, in this moment, he (literally) breaks it, stepping outside of it to speak to White Chain. But he’s not just speaking to her as an equal here. To speak to her, he had to rise above his power and above everything he stands for just to be able to reach the point where he could speak openly to her and to confess his true feelings to himself. This book is next level.
We shall see pure fractal fire, white chain unchained.
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In a perfect world
Men like me would not exist
But this is not a perfect world…
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ah so he’s the “in a perfect world, men like me would not exist” type of guy
I think Jagganoth is just hiding something shady
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