We have not yet seen Meti masturbate in contempt of society. I’m not putting it past her, I’m just saying; She’s filthy, but not quite as filthy as the OG cynic.
So the hovertext this time is LITERALLY one of the things diogenes was known for saying. With the exception he wasnt a master and wasnt telling it to students, just people.
Poor Incuboy. Looks like he’s had a really hard childhood. I wonder how this kid ends up as one of the Seven?
Also, when exactly did this happen? We saw Maya as one of the Demiurges during the Golden Age, before they all went to war and everything went to pieces, but that Au Vam sounds like one of the Demiurges already at war. So when did this happen? Inquiring minds want to know!
Maya is a fool indeed. Meti gave her a sword because it was useless. It doesn’t matter how often she comes back with a sword, she’ll never become her pupil.
Perhaps she should instead return with something more useful for a woman who lives in a barrel; a lid. Then she can learn to use the lid as a shield.
I don’t think so, that is Maya narrating. She says “I thought myself strong” while standing there flexing. Meanwhile, starving Incuboy is in the background barely able to stand.
You can see him standing by the other pillar in panel 5, and thought he was just trying to be sneaky. Still, you may be right that it’s Maya narrating and not Incubus. Got confused by the zoom in on young Incubus with it ending with ‘I knew NOTHING of strength’.
Gotta wonder who Maya is telling the story to though….
That’s the initial catch 22 she used to reject maya in the flashback at the beginning of book 3 : “only a spectacular idiot would want to be my student, and I don’t train simpletons”. Hence the conclusion that Meti could never take a student, which I imagine suited her well since she was convinced her art was useless anyway, and those who’d learn it fools, at best.
But then kid Mathangi made it clear that she wouldn’t be deterred by this argument and kept bugging her anyway, at which point Meti gave her the sword and the instruction to cut her hair with it.
I’m mostly surprised that Maya hasn’t just shaved her head since then, if she’s indeed come back to beg for Meti’s training an approximate 360 times already.
Pride, like Ambition and Doubt, is a terrible thing if given too much hold in your soul.
A little Pride makes you stand straight, assuring, and confident.
Too much warps perception, both in the eye and in the mind.
You become a colossus in your own mind, infallible and impervious to criticism. Others are tiny insects that hope to one day be recognized by you, and until then stand in your shadow of greatness.
Your Pride will make it easy for those “insects” to manipulate, sabotage and destroy you. And if they don’t, your Pride will only grow, will overshadow your real self with a statue of golden Pride, until you notice that you cannot carry its weight any more, and it will fall upon you.
Pride, in the End, will see you CRUSHED.
Young Meti will have learned the errors of her ways, and the cost of Pride.
It is difficult to even comprehend the desire contained in the tiny black flame of humanity. Like a shell echos the ocean, so does a human echo the power it imagines for its tiny fragile form.
Strength is putting the right amount of power in the most right place and time.While you are still human, muscles and brain training are the way to go.(English is not my first language please go easy on me).
Why pay her in food, when you can pay her in money? If I were alive at the time of this flashback, I would allow this young lady to open an account at the Bank of the Degraded Thief (whose stock market value is now higher than ever!)
Or to put it another way, it’s not so much that Meti has refused to train Maya as it is that Maya has refused to be trained. How can the master train if there is no student?
I always fear frail old ladies. Back when I worked for the Bank of the Grand Dragon, a phrase that curdled my molten gold blood was “I want to speak with your manager!” There is nary an incantation in any of the darkest of Devil-arts nor a prayer in the litanies of the Aeons that shakes the worlds quite like that does. And I feared it most of all, because at the time I was the manager they wanted to speak with.
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Child-Incubus is very creepy… but I’m stoked for this backstoooorrryyyyy!!
NO BACK STORY!!!! THE COMMITTIE FOR THE THOUSAND SETTING SUNS FORBIDS ANY BACK STORIES AFTER THE HORROR OF THE STAR WARS PREQUALS!!!
NO GENESIS. Unless you wish to amuse yourself with fiction.
So Meti is basically Diogenes but even more vulgar :P.
Haha that’s what I’ve been thinking the whole time. But this cynic has a sword
We have not yet seen Meti masturbate in contempt of society. I’m not putting it past her, I’m just saying; She’s filthy, but not quite as filthy as the OG cynic.
So the hovertext this time is LITERALLY one of the things diogenes was known for saying. With the exception he wasnt a master and wasnt telling it to students, just people.
Meti is one of Diogenes’ 777,776 alternate universe selves.
yes.
Here we see a furtive pygmy, so easily forgotten, seek power in his soul by bearing the FLAME.
Truly, the Monomyth spirals ever onward.
Poor Incuboy. Looks like he’s had a really hard childhood. I wonder how this kid ends up as one of the Seven?
Also, when exactly did this happen? We saw Maya as one of the Demiurges during the Golden Age, before they all went to war and everything went to pieces, but that Au Vam sounds like one of the Demiurges already at war. So when did this happen? Inquiring minds want to know!
Maya is a fool indeed. Meti gave her a sword because it was useless. It doesn’t matter how often she comes back with a sword, she’ll never become her pupil.
Perhaps she should instead return with something more useful for a woman who lives in a barrel; a lid. Then she can learn to use the lid as a shield.
But Maya refers to Meti as “my master” and she would not say that if she didn’t end up studying with her at some point, yesno?
That’s Incubus narrating, not Maya.
I don’t think so, that is Maya narrating. She says “I thought myself strong” while standing there flexing. Meanwhile, starving Incuboy is in the background barely able to stand.
You can see him standing by the other pillar in panel 5, and thought he was just trying to be sneaky. Still, you may be right that it’s Maya narrating and not Incubus. Got confused by the zoom in on young Incubus with it ending with ‘I knew NOTHING of strength’.
Gotta wonder who Maya is telling the story to though….
Meti said she does not train idiots, but still disparages those who learn the sword.
Thus, surely all those she teaches must be fools, no?
That’s the initial catch 22 she used to reject maya in the flashback at the beginning of book 3 : “only a spectacular idiot would want to be my student, and I don’t train simpletons”. Hence the conclusion that Meti could never take a student, which I imagine suited her well since she was convinced her art was useless anyway, and those who’d learn it fools, at best.
But then kid Mathangi made it clear that she wouldn’t be deterred by this argument and kept bugging her anyway, at which point Meti gave her the sword and the instruction to cut her hair with it.
I’m mostly surprised that Maya hasn’t just shaved her head since then, if she’s indeed come back to beg for Meti’s training an approximate 360 times already.
I really hope that Incubus is not Albino. The “Evil Albino” is an ugly stereotype.
‘evil’ is a subjective thing, he’s no more evil than any of the other demiurges.
Besides being no more evil than the other demiurges, Incubus is more helpful than most, and perhaps more clueful.
He has his own reasons to be helpful though, and his interactions with Allison definetly gives him clues that the others don’t have access to.
Strength? Not cutting off ones hair sounds more like pride to me.
Just cut your hair with a rusty sword, that is all she wants. It can’t be more difficult than cutting your hair with a cod.
Pride, like Ambition and Doubt, is a terrible thing if given too much hold in your soul.
A little Pride makes you stand straight, assuring, and confident.
Too much warps perception, both in the eye and in the mind.
You become a colossus in your own mind, infallible and impervious to criticism. Others are tiny insects that hope to one day be recognized by you, and until then stand in your shadow of greatness.
Your Pride will make it easy for those “insects” to manipulate, sabotage and destroy you. And if they don’t, your Pride will only grow, will overshadow your real self with a statue of golden Pride, until you notice that you cannot carry its weight any more, and it will fall upon you.
Pride, in the End, will see you CRUSHED.
Young Meti will have learned the errors of her ways, and the cost of Pride.
“I deserved her training…
I wanted to surpass her”
And thereby did young Inky find an opening for his prying, manipulative little fingers…
Also, the two panels where she’s taking a drag from her cigarette look so good. So fluid!
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Okay, Meti DEFINITELY confirmed Diogenes.
So very many kings of kings. Where is the King of kings of kings?
ShahnaShahnaShahnaShahnaShahnaShahnaShahnaShahna…
ZamZamZamZamZamZam
I don’t see Mammon anywhere in this page.
nice hovertext
It is difficult to even comprehend the desire contained in the tiny black flame of humanity. Like a shell echos the ocean, so does a human echo the power it imagines for its tiny fragile form.
It appears that fair Incubus has been a great disciple of YISUN’s most prized and powerful student, the Master of Want.
How bold!
How scandalous!
How grand!
How maddening!
Aiat! Truly he was already a student of the Sword Law!
Strength is putting the right amount of power in the most right place and time.While you are still human, muscles and brain training are the way to go.(English is not my first language please go easy on me).
The sanction action is to Cut (your hair)
Why pay her in food, when you can pay her in money? If I were alive at the time of this flashback, I would allow this young lady to open an account at the Bank of the Degraded Thief (whose stock market value is now higher than ever!)
It’s young Alison
OMG 4chan logo in her head can’t unsee it.
Diogenes was the original shitposter.
Just curious: is that a rude bicep-smacking gesture in panel 6? Was there a thumb bitten a half second earlier?
It would certainly be pointless to attempt to train someone who refuses to listen to or follow directions.
Or to put it another way, it’s not so much that Meti has refused to train Maya as it is that Maya has refused to be trained. How can the master train if there is no student?
Always fear a frail old lady who bears the sign of 4chan on her forehead.
I always fear frail old ladies. Back when I worked for the Bank of the Grand Dragon, a phrase that curdled my molten gold blood was “I want to speak with your manager!” There is nary an incantation in any of the darkest of Devil-arts nor a prayer in the litanies of the Aeons that shakes the worlds quite like that does. And I feared it most of all, because at the time I was the manager they wanted to speak with.
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