She’s really a collective consciousness of grubs, who, like Om, are afraid of growing old, so never pupate into adults, who like mayflies, live only for a day, but are very beautiful insects.
What is the number of Gog-Agog? And why bother counting? It is White Chain who is relevant here, for the match isn’t quite until Solomon admits it’s over.
There’s something to be said for the deposition of a tyrant.
There’s plenty more to be said for the chaos which follows as the ambitious, the prepared, and the lucky move to fill the vacuum, vacating their present seats for their lowers to squabble over, and so forth.
And for those less fortunate, anxious for like vacancies to appear before them, to take blades and cleave their own opportunities into being.
Gog-Agog did not fight. She did not earn any prize for facing a Demiurge. Yet, by aiming Allison-and-Co at the tournament, she rakes in the most satisfying victory in the Seven Infinity Lords’ cold war. The announcer’s booth has become a throne! Dare she brandish a crown in Solomon’s place of power…?
I mean, I’ve been waiting for us to start seeing the evil side of Gog Agog again. We always knew it was there, and you don’t conquer 1/7th of the multiverse by being the carefree clown that Gog Agog has presented.
Oh snap. Solomon has officially lost control of the situation. Will he swallow his pride and admit defeat, or will it crush him beneath its massive weight?
Multiple forms of pride exist. His pride might prevent him from admitting his defeat, true, but it also might FORCE him to admit the defeat. depends on how much he prides is appearance vs how much he prides his own word / honor.
It might not matter that much and Gog-Agog knows it: “they know who won even if they’re wrong”.
I mean, the crowds haven’t seen what was happening when Solomon was using Ki Rata but they know the show, they know the bracelets go up, then everybody who so much as looked at Solomon angrily explodes and the bracelets go down, they know that didn’t happen now, they know he reached to his face. This alone might be enough, or there may have been a few Gog Agog “agents” spread among the crowd who yelled “look! is that blood on his hand?” at the crucial moment.
If Solomon concedes even some degree of defeat he may save his image of the embodiment of law but his image of invincible god king will suffer. Maybe people will cheer him if he lifts WC up but more people will start thinking he is not as untouchable as it seemed. If he destroys White Chain he may preserve the image of his power but people all over his empire will start talking (again, especially with some prompting) about how when someone beat him by his rules he broke them. If he tries to squash the message any pretence to benevolence (even in his own eyes) is gone until he either breaks under the weight of his crumbling self image or he becomes a king among ruins.
There is no way Gog-Agog could have predicted what would happen exactly and I suspect she knew Allison was not ready to fight Solomon by any means. But It was enough for a single drop of blood, a single bruise, heck a single misstep and Gog-Agog would give that moment of imperfection to people in glorious detail and thus worms start chewing on the roots of what is Solomon’s real power over his people.
If you challenge someone to draw even one drop of blood, and you find yourself playing semantics games, you’ve either already lost or your name is Loki and your about to get your mouth sown shut.
“Of this decidedly fringe discipline, I know much, and not a thing about it is good. Let it be said that it encourages the accumulation of energy and mass within the body by methodical bodily control, recruiting both voluntary and involuntary muscles of the torso, the abdomen and the limbs to enhance one’s inner and outer force. It does require endless concentration, but what masters there are can be called unbeatable in contests of skill, precise blows and the brutal application of sheer strength.
However, this comes at the cost of forcing the body to be full, guts and beyond, of one’s own excrement. Were any breach of focus to occur, the consequences may be just as dangerous as the most powerful of its techniques, and far more inelegant.
I dabble in it. Suffice to say I want no more of it.”
Some call it a fatal flaw, I call it an UNBEATABLE DEFENCE MECHANISM! Should I falter in battle, my foes will be forced back, the terrain will be altered to my advantage, and my body will grow lighter!
Plus, who would dare touch a man covered in his own feces?
Dearest Preem Prost-Phet, you close to mastering the Astringent Art yet so far. Once you are full of shit, you must continue to squeeze and squeeze with such determination, pressure, and heat that your insides become the word of Soloman himself:
D I A M O N D
This is one way that Naked Squad may defeat The Worm.
Us’d be assumin she sproutit human autonomic nervous system along wi thae tits tha mentions. Autonomic control be hardwired an innate, nae be instinct. If’n Stoneyarse gots hersel a true human bod, it ready knows tae breathe, beat an peristalt, nae input nare instinct fae whitever flame be in it.
By which Gog Agog seems to intimate that it was she, in fact, who won rather than White Chain or Solomon. But even when she’s being bright, Gog seems to be missing the point. Weakening one of the six demiurges who are allied against Jagganoth, even to your benefit, merely speeds up your mutual defeat (or so the comic would have us believe).
For Gog-Agog it doesn’t matter. She’s stronger than the other demiurges by a GIANT margin. Even stronger than Jagganoth. She’s just insane and so doesn’t capitalize on it. Gog-Agog is probably stronger than Zoss himself, she just doesn’t care. She is a sentient mass of worms that takes up 1/7 of the multiverse.
If she truly doesn’t care, then she won’t care when she makes up 1/8 of the multiverse, and then 1/9, and then 1/10, and so on. And in the end someone else still wins, regardless of how potentially strong she was. Explaining the situation by saying she’s insane still doesn’t make her very bright in this moment of seeming lucidity.
The fractions are getting smaller because being completely indifferent by way of insanity implies that her domain diminishing owing to the actions of others would not trouble her.
The Worm appears to have invested too much mental power in calculating the most condescending pose possible, for she appears to forget the abnormal number of times her own face has been obliterated.
Or perhaps she simply doesn’t think of herself as divine.
Consider, a perfect god can not be punched in the face and thus Solomon has a weakness, but a clown is inured against any insult or injury and thus Gog Agog is unassailable. The Demiurges can only be bound by shackles of their own making.
It doesn’t matter. Gog-Agog once decapitated herself for a gag. She gets her head exploded on the regular because the other Demiurges hold her in contempt (and, oh, she KNOWS it).
You can’t tarnish the image of a seething mass of worms that take on the shape of a ridiculous circus clown. Blow up her head, she loses nothing. Strike the Emperor… and he’s lost everything.
“I want to rule the universe, to devour every Atum and absorb every face, to rule on everyone and on every self, and then I shall be known by my true name, THE CONQUERING WORM!
[quietly] Also, throwing the best parties a hive mind can throw.”
However Jagganoth is on YISUN’s side, rather than his own.
Trying to destroy the universe, this opinion of the dead-goddess YISUN, is foolish! His violence is the reminder that the universe is not hopeful, horrible or hateful; it is a foolish place!
Perhaps… perhaps it is too foolish to know how to die?
Well. This is an unwelcome development. Am I the only one who sees Solomon David enraged at having just been shown up by a woman, and ready to finish White Chain off as a display of dominance? With Alison and Cio unable to do anything, and Gog-Agog obviously not giving a damn?
IDK, maybe I am the only one. But this all feels pretty familiar.
You are not the only one. His enhancing the Purple Cloaks’ swarm of our rescuing trio seems petty. And cowardly. It would appear he doesn’t believe his Cloaks can manage the trio. Which is a wise assumption, but his attempt to hide his help is, underhanded?
True pride would revolt against so unkingly an act.
For all his power, he’s not as strong as he’d like us to think.
I seriously doubt he cares about his opponents gender. He’s more likely mad about having his hopes of being defeated dashed, and wants to just get things over with. He also dosnt seem to like party crashers.
Of his flaws, sexism may be one, but not in a “women are inferior” way. He doesn’t have daughters because he doesn’t want to replace his original children.
He was about to kill WC because she didn’t technically draw blood. The crowd wouldn’t like that. Now he either yields or goes ballistic, depending on where his pride leads him.
Just because he claims his motives aren’t sexist doesn’t mean he’s telling the truth. We’ve already been shown the dude is a master at self-deception, and his entire empire and mode of ruling seem like the epitome of both “paternalism” and “benevolent sexism”. And, well, most of us know how powerful men behave when the myth of their benevolence is shattered right in their faces.
Like IDK this doesn’t seem like a stretch to me at all. The universe of KSBD was portrayed as sexist from the get-go; yeah sure powerful women exist in it, but they mostly get there and stay there by perpetuating harm towards other women. You read the beginning, you noticed how Solomon’s army is almost all men, you know Abbadon has feminist sympathies.
Anyway yeah TL;DR I’m not convinced Solomon won’t throw a tantrum and wipe out WC; if he does, it’s not like the crowd could do a damn thing. I sure *hope* Abbadon doesn’t pull that, but my expectations are not very high.
His “benevolent paternalism” is obviously insincere whether he believes his own arguments or not, but yes it’s a stretch to say he’s expressly sexist. Incidentally sure, but this moment is is downfall. If sexism was intended as one of his major flaws it would have been well established before now. If he throws a tantrum it won’t be because of WC’s sex.
One was previously resigned to White Chain being sadly wiped out when ash-clad angel, and becoming a martyr. But an angel-human chimaera is a rare beast indeed and deserves to be explored rather than flame snuffed out so soon after her birth; the tale seems to focus as much on one’s sister as Allison after all, if not more so.
Dave’s lost the favor of the Smug Force, as proven by the increasing Smug in the surroundings acting as a Smugtex upon which the Salami will be forked.
…On one hand, Solomon has not bled, and as such my business is not in danger on THAT front. I do admit the angel’s feat impressive, though.
On the other hand, I have the distinct feeling I need to scram back to the King’s Road regardless–I’ve received some payment already, and money does the dead outside of Charon’s employ little good. The god did not bleed, but I cannot deny the words of the worm…and I cannot deny the possibility that things are likely to go pear-shaped rather quickly.
Money and drink contracts are only worthwhile while one is alive and not part of an assimilating mass of semi-sapient worms. My thanks to you all for your patronage, and with that stated I’m going to run like hell.
*the sound of footsteps, then ice rapidly forming via a peculiar usage of the white and red arts, then the sounds of ice skating can be heard as the icemonger flees the scene.*
I like to think that, due to years of split-second mutilations, the Gogs have implemented a split-second replay system; and with this, Dave’s infamous face punch is currently being plastered all over the arena, over and over again. Hence the crowd.
Oh, Worm?
Don’t drink the water.
Too little, too late.
Walk without a rhythm
You won’t
attract
the worm.
Imma be frank, i had no idea that line was from dune till recently. I just thought it was some cool fatboy slim quote.
Both are true, dearest. That makes it better.
You be frank, I’ll be herbert
Hi Herbert, I’m your pal Gog Agog!
Never doubt the Worm
Never doubt the Worm
She’s really a collective consciousness of grubs, who, like Om, are afraid of growing old, so never pupate into adults, who like mayflies, live only for a day, but are very beautiful insects.
“you needed worthy opponents”
Oh god you’re triggering my Worm PTSD.
“Take that, you worm!”
Eh, I can take her.
This is a few too many Gog-Agogs
Just wait until you see Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, and Gog-Agog
You forgot their pal, Gog-Agog.
Like my status if the Gog-Agog on the left is just as pretty as the Gog-Agog on the right.
I’ll take the Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, Gog-Agog, eggs, spam, and Gog-Agog.
I completely read that in 24s voice 🙂
As one should
What is the number of Gog-Agog? And why bother counting? It is White Chain who is relevant here, for the match isn’t quite until Solomon admits it’s over.
Oh gog. Here comes the real trouble.
There’s something to be said for the deposition of a tyrant.
There’s plenty more to be said for the chaos which follows as the ambitious, the prepared, and the lucky move to fill the vacuum, vacating their present seats for their lowers to squabble over, and so forth.
And for those less fortunate, anxious for like vacancies to appear before them, to take blades and cleave their own opportunities into being.
This will be a godawful mess.
This is exactly what the other Demiurges have been saying for years.
there are two more we havn’t even unlocked yet
Hey look, its Demiurge 6A! Your opinion on Salami’s Tournament?
She’s getting such a kick out of this she had to watch it through as many eyes as possible.
That’s too solid a font for Gog-Agog.
A lucid, focused Gog-Agog is a terrifying thing to see
Perhaps the stoic one that appears to be absent from the group underwent mitosis?
Instead of coup de grace help her off the ground!!!
And maybe give her a towel I don’t know
DO NOT take off your manskirt to give it to her
Why not? Pass on the mantle.
and show some skin why won’t you
I support this plan.
Asshole or not, Solomon’s some quality beefcake.
I KNOW RIGHT. It’s like a non-paranoid Stalin, or a religion that encourages pleasure, or a guy with a FREE HUGS sign, it’s an automatic red flag.
Doubly so with non-paranoid Stalin, cause, you see
… whoops, I dun goofed. Wrong comment chain, sorry.
Yeah seriously give the gal a hand. She’s still at the ‘How do I lungs?’ stage and it would be a cheap shot.
… Actually, isn’t he a master of breathing techniques? Seriously call a time out to show White Chain the ropes.
Being the figuratively bigger man and living up to your actual ideals is best base for royalty
Love main Gog’s smug pose. Never has sitting down been so smug!
Also in panel’s 1 and 2 you’re really demonstrating how well you can draw hands now. Show off!
Peak Smug has arrived, I do believe.
Gog-Agog did not fight. She did not earn any prize for facing a Demiurge. Yet, by aiming Allison-and-Co at the tournament, she rakes in the most satisfying victory in the Seven Infinity Lords’ cold war. The announcer’s booth has become a throne! Dare she brandish a crown in Solomon’s place of power…?
oh, yeah, that’s right, she’s a demiurge, one the most powerful and evil things in existence.
easy to forget.
I mean, I’ve been waiting for us to start seeing the evil side of Gog Agog again. We always knew it was there, and you don’t conquer 1/7th of the multiverse by being the carefree clown that Gog Agog has presented.
I wonder if she’s *conquered* 1/7th of the multiverse, or if she *is* 1/7th of the multiverse.
Yes
Reach Heaven Through Worms.
Yeeeeeeeeees?
Hello. It is good to see you, yes.
REACH THE HEAVEN THROUGH WOOOORMS
Absorb the Biomass of Six Billion Worlds
Willing to bet the Joker would give it a good shot. If he cared to.
Oh snap. Solomon has officially lost control of the situation. Will he swallow his pride and admit defeat, or will it crush him beneath its massive weight?
Pride only moves in one direction. And it usually leads right off of a cliff.
The Avatar of Pride admit he lost? Never
Step One: Pride yourself to be honest.
Step Two: Pride yourself to be unbeatable.
Step Three: Sit on your toilet-
… whoops.
Solomon is pride incarnate, he could no more swallow his pride than he could swallow himself.
The only question now his whether he will destroy his whole kingdom to save face, or just everyone in the arena.
One small problem, Gog Agog was clearly broadcasting that to the entire multiverse.
Multiple forms of pride exist. His pride might prevent him from admitting his defeat, true, but it also might FORCE him to admit the defeat. depends on how much he prides is appearance vs how much he prides his own word / honor.
Between his reaction, and agogs comment, I don’t think the bruse counts as a bleed.
It might not matter that much and Gog-Agog knows it: “they know who won even if they’re wrong”.
I mean, the crowds haven’t seen what was happening when Solomon was using Ki Rata but they know the show, they know the bracelets go up, then everybody who so much as looked at Solomon angrily explodes and the bracelets go down, they know that didn’t happen now, they know he reached to his face. This alone might be enough, or there may have been a few Gog Agog “agents” spread among the crowd who yelled “look! is that blood on his hand?” at the crucial moment.
If Solomon concedes even some degree of defeat he may save his image of the embodiment of law but his image of invincible god king will suffer. Maybe people will cheer him if he lifts WC up but more people will start thinking he is not as untouchable as it seemed. If he destroys White Chain he may preserve the image of his power but people all over his empire will start talking (again, especially with some prompting) about how when someone beat him by his rules he broke them. If he tries to squash the message any pretence to benevolence (even in his own eyes) is gone until he either breaks under the weight of his crumbling self image or he becomes a king among ruins.
There is no way Gog-Agog could have predicted what would happen exactly and I suspect she knew Allison was not ready to fight Solomon by any means. But It was enough for a single drop of blood, a single bruise, heck a single misstep and Gog-Agog would give that moment of imperfection to people in glorious detail and thus worms start chewing on the roots of what is Solomon’s real power over his people.
If you challenge someone to draw even one drop of blood, and you find yourself playing semantics games, you’ve either already lost or your name is Loki and your about to get your mouth sown shut.
solomon david,will you deny the public its hype?
Mr. Tyrant, will you say no?
UMMMMMM
I mean, it is possible.
One wonders whether his action will be chosen (or changed) when he sees her face. If perhaps it reminds him of anyone.
Be naked together! Naked Squad! Fight the worm!
Fight to keep it away from your orifices!
I must point out that the two things you demand should probably not be attempted at the same time.
Competitive Buggery
Just WILL your various holes closed!
It is rather difficult to clench and punch at the same time…
While not technically against the rules, it is against the spirit of Competitive Buggery.
ASTRINGENT ART
“Of this decidedly fringe discipline, I know much, and not a thing about it is good. Let it be said that it encourages the accumulation of energy and mass within the body by methodical bodily control, recruiting both voluntary and involuntary muscles of the torso, the abdomen and the limbs to enhance one’s inner and outer force. It does require endless concentration, but what masters there are can be called unbeatable in contests of skill, precise blows and the brutal application of sheer strength.
However, this comes at the cost of forcing the body to be full, guts and beyond, of one’s own excrement. Were any breach of focus to occur, the consequences may be just as dangerous as the most powerful of its techniques, and far more inelegant.
I dabble in it. Suffice to say I want no more of it.”
– Musko Reeve, Manual of Hands and Feet
Well, Shit: The Martial Art.
Some call it a fatal flaw, I call it an UNBEATABLE DEFENCE MECHANISM! Should I falter in battle, my foes will be forced back, the terrain will be altered to my advantage, and my body will grow lighter!
Plus, who would dare touch a man covered in his own feces?
Dearest Preem Prost-Phet, you close to mastering the Astringent Art yet so far. Once you are full of shit, you must continue to squeeze and squeeze with such determination, pressure, and heat that your insides become the word of Soloman himself:
D I A M O N D
This is one way that Naked Squad may defeat The Worm.
This comment line is going really well.
I love how White Chain is just now starting to become aware that she became flesh and bone
I also enjoy that she’s on the ground clutching her chest because she didn’t know how to use her new lungs… or for that matter that she had them.
Thankfully, she doesn’t need to. The flesh already knows how to breathe.
Glory to the New Flesh.
You are assuming she sprouted instincts along the tits. We really don’t know if that’s the case.
…actually, that could turn this into comedy gold…or nightmare fuel.
Us’d be assumin she sproutit human autonomic nervous system along wi thae tits tha mentions. Autonomic control be hardwired an innate, nae be instinct. If’n Stoneyarse gots hersel a true human bod, it ready knows tae breathe, beat an peristalt, nae input nare instinct fae whitever flame be in it.
Well I didn’t want to type that! hahahaha
My hopes are for both comedy AND nightmare fuel
Look at “Solomon”‘s face. Doesn’t something about it look different? I don’t think White Chain is the one on the ground.
No. Not at all
By which Gog Agog seems to intimate that it was she, in fact, who won rather than White Chain or Solomon. But even when she’s being bright, Gog seems to be missing the point. Weakening one of the six demiurges who are allied against Jagganoth, even to your benefit, merely speeds up your mutual defeat (or so the comic would have us believe).
Unless the true perilous end of the multiverse is subsumption into the entity known as Gog.
Indeed. If Jagganoth turns the Wheel into an ocean of corpses, the corpse worms win big.
Presumably, to Jagganoth, the worms are just an easy way to run the numbers up on his kill count.
The God Eater imagines it- infinite flesh, an opponent that can be bested again and again for all eternity.
Does the prospect entice him? Frighten him? No, like everything else, it just brings out his rage.
Jagganoth is invulnerable. But is he immune to infection?
Well, he’s certainly not vulnerable to it.
You have to convince him to allow the trojan worm inside.
The ultimate social engineering hack.
For Gog-Agog it doesn’t matter. She’s stronger than the other demiurges by a GIANT margin. Even stronger than Jagganoth. She’s just insane and so doesn’t capitalize on it. Gog-Agog is probably stronger than Zoss himself, she just doesn’t care. She is a sentient mass of worms that takes up 1/7 of the multiverse.
If she truly doesn’t care, then she won’t care when she makes up 1/8 of the multiverse, and then 1/9, and then 1/10, and so on. And in the end someone else still wins, regardless of how potentially strong she was. Explaining the situation by saying she’s insane still doesn’t make her very bright in this moment of seeming lucidity.
Only for a certain definition of brightness though.
Work on your fractions.
The fractions are getting smaller because being completely indifferent by way of insanity implies that her domain diminishing owing to the actions of others would not trouble her.
Bold words from a god who got punched in the face a few chapters ago
I think Gog Agog doesn’t view herself as a god, necessarily, just as a force of nature that a bunch of people happen to worship.
got agog views herself as gog agog
Punching Gog Agog is akin to slapping at the surface of the Ocean and hoping to get a reaction.
Behold, the depths.
You get wet and maybe some slime on you
That which is perfect has all the weaknesses of perfection, while the imperfect are armed with all the terrible might of their deformities.
Gog has faces and to spare, though – Solomon has just the one.
She never called herself God.
Just worm.
Gog-Agog has no face to punch. Gog-Agog just allows you to think there is a face to which fists may be applied.
The Worm appears to have invested too much mental power in calculating the most condescending pose possible, for she appears to forget the abnormal number of times her own face has been obliterated.
Or perhaps she simply doesn’t think of herself as divine.
Or that face as *her* face. Just because she was talking through it doesn’t mean she considered it a part of her own person.
Consider, a perfect god can not be punched in the face and thus Solomon has a weakness, but a clown is inured against any insult or injury and thus Gog Agog is unassailable. The Demiurges can only be bound by shackles of their own making.
This one hides gems amidst junk.
It doesn’t matter. Gog-Agog once decapitated herself for a gag. She gets her head exploded on the regular because the other Demiurges hold her in contempt (and, oh, she KNOWS it).
You can’t tarnish the image of a seething mass of worms that take on the shape of a ridiculous circus clown. Blow up her head, she loses nothing. Strike the Emperor… and he’s lost everything.
What? She’s not a god.
She’s your pal, Gog-Agog.
“Gog Agog, why do you run an event for another demiurge?”
“Running shows is fun!!
[quietly] ..and if solly ever takes a hit I’m gonna eat him”
“..what?”
“What?”
“Gog Agog, why do you want to eat Solomon?”
“I want to rule the universe, to devour every Atum and absorb every face, to rule on everyone and on every self, and then I shall be known by my true name, THE CONQUERING WORM!
[quietly] Also, throwing the best parties a hive mind can throw.”
“What.”
“What?”
Or perhaps she is in league with Jagganoth as well, just like Incubus.
Everyone is in league with Jagganoth, they all just think they’re the only one.
However Jagganoth is on YISUN’s side, rather than his own.
Trying to destroy the universe, this opinion of the dead-goddess YISUN, is foolish! His violence is the reminder that the universe is not hopeful, horrible or hateful; it is a foolish place!
Perhaps… perhaps it is too foolish to know how to die?
All experts agree that on the subject of the creation of the universe that it was a bad idea.
The universe was created by fools.
The universe is run by fools.
The universe will be destroyed by fools.
Such is the Fools’ Rule.
This is the best and hottest take.
Well. This is an unwelcome development. Am I the only one who sees Solomon David enraged at having just been shown up by a woman, and ready to finish White Chain off as a display of dominance? With Alison and Cio unable to do anything, and Gog-Agog obviously not giving a damn?
IDK, maybe I am the only one. But this all feels pretty familiar.
You are not the only one. His enhancing the Purple Cloaks’ swarm of our rescuing trio seems petty. And cowardly. It would appear he doesn’t believe his Cloaks can manage the trio. Which is a wise assumption, but his attempt to hide his help is, underhanded?
True pride would revolt against so unkingly an act.
For all his power, he’s not as strong as he’d like us to think.
I seriously doubt he cares about his opponents gender. He’s more likely mad about having his hopes of being defeated dashed, and wants to just get things over with. He also dosnt seem to like party crashers.
Of his flaws, sexism may be one, but not in a “women are inferior” way. He doesn’t have daughters because he doesn’t want to replace his original children.
He was about to kill WC because she didn’t technically draw blood. The crowd wouldn’t like that. Now he either yields or goes ballistic, depending on where his pride leads him.
Just because he claims his motives aren’t sexist doesn’t mean he’s telling the truth. We’ve already been shown the dude is a master at self-deception, and his entire empire and mode of ruling seem like the epitome of both “paternalism” and “benevolent sexism”. And, well, most of us know how powerful men behave when the myth of their benevolence is shattered right in their faces.
Like IDK this doesn’t seem like a stretch to me at all. The universe of KSBD was portrayed as sexist from the get-go; yeah sure powerful women exist in it, but they mostly get there and stay there by perpetuating harm towards other women. You read the beginning, you noticed how Solomon’s army is almost all men, you know Abbadon has feminist sympathies.
Anyway yeah TL;DR I’m not convinced Solomon won’t throw a tantrum and wipe out WC; if he does, it’s not like the crowd could do a damn thing. I sure *hope* Abbadon doesn’t pull that, but my expectations are not very high.
His “benevolent paternalism” is obviously insincere whether he believes his own arguments or not, but yes it’s a stretch to say he’s expressly sexist. Incidentally sure, but this moment is is downfall. If sexism was intended as one of his major flaws it would have been well established before now. If he throws a tantrum it won’t be because of WC’s sex.
No, I’m pretty sure any perceived sexism on salami is people just projecting. We have yet to see him actually treat anybody different based on gender.
*Taps forehead* It’s easy not to mistreat your daughters based on gender when you don’t have daughters.
One was previously resigned to White Chain being sadly wiped out when ash-clad angel, and becoming a martyr. But an angel-human chimaera is a rare beast indeed and deserves to be explored rather than flame snuffed out so soon after her birth; the tale seems to focus as much on one’s sister as Allison after all, if not more so.
Dave’s lost the favor of the Smug Force, as proven by the increasing Smug in the surroundings acting as a Smugtex upon which the Salami will be forked.
The Conquering Worm conquers forth images of a wake of vultures prepared to pick away a fresh corpse.
Hail ! Desire made Flesh !
Hail ! The Flame made Flesh !
Hail ! She Who Hast Stepped Beyond !
Will you choose a new name for this new Incarnation O’ Child of UN ?
“You’re going to write yourself a New Story.”
~ Immortel, Ad Vitam, Film by Enki Bilal. 2004
Though it was literal kalpas ago that she was given life, it is only today that she will be given a name!
She has found her way!
Don’t forget that Gog-Agog likes to infect people. She has likely enough influence to turn the whole crowd against Solomon without them even knowing.
You know, it is Solomon after all. One crowd more or less…
I see that Blaseball Servant in panel 6, you rascal Abbadon.
…On one hand, Solomon has not bled, and as such my business is not in danger on THAT front. I do admit the angel’s feat impressive, though.
On the other hand, I have the distinct feeling I need to scram back to the King’s Road regardless–I’ve received some payment already, and money does the dead outside of Charon’s employ little good. The god did not bleed, but I cannot deny the words of the worm…and I cannot deny the possibility that things are likely to go pear-shaped rather quickly.
Money and drink contracts are only worthwhile while one is alive and not part of an assimilating mass of semi-sapient worms. My thanks to you all for your patronage, and with that stated I’m going to run like hell.
*the sound of footsteps, then ice rapidly forming via a peculiar usage of the white and red arts, then the sounds of ice skating can be heard as the icemonger flees the scene.*
I like to think that, due to years of split-second mutilations, the Gogs have implemented a split-second replay system; and with this, Dave’s infamous face punch is currently being plastered all over the arena, over and over again. Hence the crowd.
Anime villain Gog-Agog. If only Allison could see her expression right now, or hear her laugh she’d certainly recognize the anime villain signs.
Here’s the thing about Knowing.
It sucks.
Mostly because it makes everything boring.
But once you Know… well then also know how to not Know. And that’s where the fun begins.
Alternatively, when you know, you fear. Or crave death.
Ask Jadis.