King of Swords 7-62
Chapter: 7
“Energy in my heart is of chemical foam
A street of taxies, worn tires, blood and flesh
Behold all that is liberty is a parody of utopia
A shining boulevard of buyers and giga-movies
Minor Depression is a joke, La Vie en Rose is on sale
They say you should know you are happier than you realize”
how exactly were these words distributed, anyway
I believe it might have something to do with their personalities and situation.
uncle Mammon’s is Tower, because he used to be locked in one.
Salami Dave’s is diamond because he is shiny and polished, since he seems less insane.
Miss Nadia’s is Glory, because of her vanity.
Incubus’s is Flame, because he wants to watch the world burn.
and finally, Gog-Agog’s is Beast, because she/he/it is a collection of tiny beasts
Incubus is Flame because his flame burs away other peoples’ souls. The king of the pit’s flame is a curse that uses the tinder of others’ very essences.
Diamonds are also very hard.
One might say Unbreakable.
Is that motherfucking jojo reference?
Is it wrong that I want a spinoff about magical girl(?) Gog-Agog now?
Gods dammit! I thought I left Reddit open on another tab!
Also: Are you walking towards MOI?
I wouldn’t. It’s far easier to shatter than cut a diamond.
And yet, still quite brittle…
That’s more or less my understanding too. The power that makes them the demiurges is a harmonious vibration, a “voice of God”, and the seven are the strongest not only because they’ve consumed a larger part of this power than anyone else but because they’re good at expressing it. They’ve found the words they “bear” by leaning into their own various temperaments until they became nothing but that one noun and allow it to define their entire timeless existence; purposely reducing themselves to broad archetypes.
All just to consolidate their power, of course.
By comparison, Alison is cheating by having the master key to God’s whole vocabulary shoved in her head. It gives her a lot of options, but it’s also going to make her slower. She doesn’t have that one thing she expresses with every particle of her being through which the power can be projected with the clarity and shamelessness of a two year old’s tantrum. In short she’s a human.
Come to think of it that’s probably a good word for her to bear when she’s ready.
Consider also: Bob Woodward’s book “Fear”.
The master key holds the true name of god, and thus AL-YIS-UN is the bearer of the word “I”.
By the above logic, as bearer of the word “I”, Allison’s power grows the more strongly she embodies herself, as opposed to what others expect of her.
Glory is the pageantry, marvel in the luxury and power of Mottom, the resplendent queen in the gilded cage she made for herself.
Tower is the unassailable pinnacle from which Mammon placed himself. His wealth he collected and placed within, secure and safe for a seeming eternity. But to build a tower so impregnable to assault means that you will surely starve to death within it.
Behold, Incubus and his Flame of ambition. Watch as he bestows it, see the marvellous way it causes one to shine! Observe how it quickly burns away all of worth, yet leaves them hungry for more.
Like diamond is David’s will, the desire for vengeance that carried him through his training, that had him destroy his adopted order, his vengeful God, and all but 6 contenders. Like diamond he gleams, example and iron wall to rebellion. Diamond is hard, but brittle.
See how each barer takes the implicit and obvious lesson of their word. Recognize that they have failed to learn the secret lesson that fills the negative space of the first.
The beast, Gog-agog. Where does its meaning lie? We have yet to find out the depths of gog-agogs soul. Is it a jester, or is it’s simple capriciousness the only thing that has spared us from it?
Pretty sure it’s part of the 7-deadly sins motif.
Flame as representative of burning ambition (and lust for power)
Diamond both for pride AND as a good metaphor for Solomon’s rigid and static world.
Beast as in the green-eyed beast of envy.
Tower as the representation of greed. Both a monument to wealth and a means of securing it.
Glory is a bit more ephemeral, but it is a sharp observation to identify glory as something that must continually be fed. Gluttony might not seem glorious, but glory certainly tends to create a gluttony for more.
ah shit, yours is better than mine.
YS ATUN VRAMA PRESH
The secret name of God is I.
What one grasps of the Word grants one power. Not Royalty, perhaps. But close enough to see it, and covet it.
Consider the Tower; high, invincible, and indistinguishable from the tomb.
Consider Glory, beautiful and fleeting.
Consider Diamond; shining prisoner of its own perfection.
Consider Flame; bright, ravenous, and mindless.
Consider now the Prelate of BEAST, and meditate on the seven-part name of God.
YS ATUN VRAMA PRESH
The secret name of God is I.
What one grasps of the Word grants one knowledge. Not Royalty, perhaps.
But close enough to see it, and fear it
Consider the Tower, aloof, desolate,change and stagnation wrapped in one.
Consider Glory, bright, terrifying, and savage.
Consider Diamond, power and cruelty follow in its wake.
Consider Flame, inevitable, endless, and patient
Consider now the Prelate of BEAST, and leave the seven-part
name of God to fools and other desperate folk.
I am unsure, but I think we can all safely agree that strange beings distributing words of God is no basis for a system of government.
And it only took most of us humans only 6,000 years to figure out the separation of church and state. Well, those of us humans that are (more) civilized anyway.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses. Worms in Gog-a-gog’s case.
AL-YIS-UN dispenses the violence inherent in the system repressing the mass of the worms.
YS ATUN VRAMA PRESH, are the seven syllables of royalty. Each demiurge has mastered one of them, and they’re the source of the demiurge’s power.
aw yeah baby, it’s clown time
We’re reaching maximum levels of HONK
No, that is only attainable through the Honkmother.
And gods help us if Gog has it
What makes you think she ISN’T the honkmother?
well shit that would be disastrous
Glory to the Honkmother !
Honk-HHOoOnk-Hoooinkh-Hunkhhhe !
HOOONK !
HONK HHOoOONNNkkHH!!
*throws banana peel , runs away honking*
Awwwww Puddin’!!!!!!! ya make a girl laff!
Beware the Great Beast and her Court of Worms.
awww yiiissss ma guuurrrll
see try ta get rid of one beast clown goddess then tell me she does not deserve the fun
Stop bullying Scourge of Worlds, The Great Devourer.
It was her prettiest face so far, and it only took 1 panel before it got caved in…
But she fixed it just as fast! I think we’ll see it for a few panels more…
I think one should expect to be punched after appearing in explosion of worms, flesh and (if I see correctly) some fingernails. It’s not in good taste to leave such mess on someone’s balcony.
It was just a prank , bro.
*honks*
only valid demiurge
CLOWN’S A TRAITOR GET THOSE VALIDS BOYS
Clown’s always valid.
Clown abuse , clown abuse , clo-o-own abu-u-use !!
*franticly honking*
“You find us funny, Messire Marquis, do you not? A source of amusement. Is that not so? With our pretty clothes, and our convoluted circumlocutions—“
Mr. Vandemar murmured, “I haven’t got a circumlo . . . “
“—and our little sillinesses of manner and behavior. And perhaps we are funny.”
Mr. Croup raised one finger then, and waggled it at de Carabas. “But you must never imagine,” he continued, “that just because something is funny, Messire Marquis, it is not also dangerous.”
-Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
Yup, that’s it right there. We’ve SEEN Gog-Agog get blasted by Mommon at the Council of Demiurges, and it was fine, although understandably upset at the loss of its mask-face.
As others have thought, how much humanity and predictability can a mass of worms HAVE? Is Gog-Agog aping humanity, trying to understand it and, of course, failing?
WE don’t KNOW. And that, I think, it what makes this jester-Demiurge dangerous and compelling. It hides behind a mask, but what lies beneath?
Well, this face seems to be hollow!
not everyone who suddenly shows up and yells at you needs their face punched in
Maybe it’s revenge for sticking an eye in Allison’s back?
I wonder if that will happen this time?
Oh but that is where you are mistaken.
Punching in the faces of those who show up unexpctedly yelling is a great way of avoiding dying by the hand of incompetent assassins
Well, she also made a huge mess of their porch.
Corollary: Some people that unexpectedly show up and yell at you DO need to have their face punched in.
Or shoot them.
Gog Agog is wearing quite a bit of red today. It makes one wonder if she has been speaking with a certain Red God.
Only demiurge with a magical girl transformation
For now….
She just exploded that guys body as an intro… I’d hardly call that magical. Also, she didn’t say the name of her transformation beforehand.
Exploding a dude’s body is very magical.
There any chance we could get just Gog Agog in that wonderful pose with simple background and no speech bubble. I’d love that as my phone background.
Punched In The Face, OK… Lots Of Bloodshed On This Page
I see that training with Incubus has taught Allison to punch people who describe themselves as her “pal”.
Or maybe that’s just all her interactions with the people around her.
Simply marvoluse! What an entrance! Sound and fury signifying everything. A Mask under a mask. Maybe she is masks all the way down. One pretending to be Many a la divine suicide.
The Beast of royalty is always looked down upon until it is too late. This is both by nature and intentional: “She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb In the shape of an “L” on her forehead” The lyrics don’t lie, only YISUN does.
Gog Agog promises to be a veritable font of amusement for my mask shaded eyes. Let the craziness continue!
Heh. I was thinking the same thing. Maybe she got the “loser” key? Hrmm… probably not. But still funny.
Maybe don’t antagonize the monster god clown until the situation warrants it?
Yeah…never give an insane God a _small_ injury.
Especially since this was one of the few demiurges who *likes* Al-YS-UN!
I am beginning to wonder how many of the Demiurges are secretly rooting for Allison at this point… About half know exactly where she is and now it seems two of them are directly helping her.
All of them know they will be obliterated, either by Allison or Zaid.
Currying favor might mean obliteration isn’t as harsh as it could be, or is possibly delayed.
Poor Gog Agog,
She wants to greet the new kid on the block, and previously was thinking Allison is cool – until Allison busts her in the chops.
Maybe it was the exploding body, rain of blood and shower of viscera that made Ali think it was a prelude to an attack.
Then again, just because you can do SUPER-PUNCH, AND KAMEHAMEHA attacks doesn’t mean you NEED to bust them out every time.
“DING” “OMG ! Someone’s at THE DOOR ! SURELY it MUST be a SUPREMELY ULTIMATE EVIL OVERLORD COME TO TAKE OUR GUTS, SOULS, AND designer shoes ! KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAAAA !” <<<>>>
( MASSIVE EXPLOSION )
Nyave says, “Um, yeah. You just obliterated the pizza delivery person… AND the pizza, the door, the NEIGHBORS, AND THE NEXT BLOCK OF THE CITY !” ALLISON: “Whoops !”
Yeah, it’s a bad idea until you learn to at least spare the pizza.
Why does everyone hate on Gog-agog so much.
She’s just trying to be nice is all
Have you ever seen worms ‘just trying to be nice’?
Fear the disco rice whatever skin it wears.
I’m lobbying with the painters guild to legally have a group of worm’s defined as “disco rice”
come kill my competitors at 45887 & 5/7 burbury street, north district of throne. or just come to support the cause, with your meatshieldbody
lets make this happen folks.
stop being mean to her!!
Once your head gets blown up an punched enough times you might begin to wonder if it is not everyone else that has the problem.
Am i out of touch ? No. Its other people who are wrong.
the glue that holds the concordance of demiurges together
DODGE!!!
If you should meet God on the road, fuckin sucker punch the bitch.
Allison casts FIST
It’s not very effective.
Her arm is a wand and she only knows one spell (Punch)
A punch is always a good response against a clown.
This could only end in tears.
Oh, yes, delicious choice for accompanying music. Susumu Hirasawa is great in general, but this one in particular is delectably appropriate.
Absolutely.
Paprika is my favorite movie of all time.
If it turns out that this is what makes the Queen of Worms a permanent party member I’ll eat my smartphone.
What glorious music. What a glorious jester. Oh, oh, what fun they will have!
SEVEN SCOUTS: VERDANT WORM
Frankly, that seems a rather tame response to an exploding clown.
Surprised there aren’t any terrified bystanders screaming and running about.
Given that Gog Agog and her crew supposedly dominate the entertainment sector of Throne and Gog Agog herself is a mega rockstar or something (or so says Abbadon), most Throne residents are likely familiar with her shapeshifting abilities.
Still, look at Allison’s face, she looks surprised and confused there, if anything, it being a tame reaction shows restraint, she was probably expecting a minion rather than Gog Agog herself.
“her shapeshifting abilities.”
Maybe that wasn’t shapeshifting…? The piles of meat on the ground imply that there was a body other than hers. For example, she was delivered to the door by one of her drooling followers, who had been inhabited / infected by her. Her follower introduced her, and then she took form — detonating him into red gravy in the process.
Like a cross between a magical girl and a really bad tapeworm.
Hopefully he thought it was a great honor to be her palanquin.
I mean, she is made of worms/maggots? Things that are famous for eating rotting flesh? I think maybe this vehicle was dead before hand, but he’s definitely dead now.
Oh , that would be such fun way to die ! And definitely great honor to serve Honkmother , yes.
So we’re going with Paprika’s Parade, then? Good.
Good.
She bears the word Beast! I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!
So did I :3 Though I must admit, I haven’t expected the revelation that soon and figured it would take at least a week (a month?) or two. Glad I’ve been mistaken on this accord.
Paprika’s Parade is perfect for this, and I love Allison’s a-line dress in these past couple pages.
That has got to be extremely gross to witness.
Also, Gog Agogs face/head getting blasted is a running gag at this point, though I can’t blame Allison for freaking out on this one.
Common knowledge is “Aim for the head” , as in zombie movies and such. Jokes on them , it does not work with Gog-Agog ! Ha !
Oh, goodness. If she’s not getting her head P e r i s h e d away, she’s getting her face potholed… poor Goggy. :’o
Good choice on song. I’ve never seen paprika but now I’m going to have to. It does really fit the comic.
It’d be so hype if Allison scored her first kill and key claim on Gog-Agog right now due to her training having made her more skillful and dangerous than the Seven thought. And it would be a nice change from the lack of any progress on that front.
Ha! To kill Gog-Agog she would need to burn 111,111 universes, and even then I think It could probably recover.
I don’t think this is going to lead to a fight between Allison and Agog. After all, the bearer of Beast has had her head smushed regularly and never reacted with violence. I’m guessing she’s going to end up on Allison’s side, at least for a while.
Her hat looks like a sideways slug
She’s a damage sponge? that’s far more concerning than her being dangerous
I believe it’s why the others tolerate her. She simply cannot be killed by and practical(even for a God) means.
Why is this terrifying parasite so adorable?
It is the mask of course!
WITH THE SHAPE OF AN L ON HER FOREHEAD!
She did get smashed in the mouth!
…
Well, this makes sense!
Hahaha! Blat!
So, the author of my favorite webcomic posts my favorite song? I won’t deny it: i am delighted
Oh and for those who do not get it, the reason Gog-Agog is the most powerful of all the demiurges is that “it” has infested literally a seventh of the entire cosmos. Every single servant is part of “it”, and “it” is part of all of them.
When you put salt into the water, the salt does not go away, it becomes part of the water. What happens when you add water to infinate salt? Gog-Agog doesn’t know but that won’t stop “it” from trying.
YES! Punch that unthinkable awfulness in her faceless face! For Mammon! Up the Moneybags, Down with the Usurper!
Your god is a butcher.
It is the nature of Gods to be butchers, or to have butchers amongst their followers. Belief comes from the knife, the pyre and the noose; terror, misery and ecstasy are its coin.
That may be true. But mine alone is the Butcher who carves the flesh of the universe so that all may have sustenance. The might of inter-universal capitalism is embodied in Lord Mammon – those who resist Him and the tide of history that rises at His back, are merely the fat of the universe to be trimmed away by His knife, or otherwise left for flavor.
The situation surely looks clowny…
But a punchline? Too soon?
This is good. *honks approvingly*
Duncan biscuits on the moon
Son of dreams is no buffoon
But he crafts war and silence too
They just killed a guy to make an entrance! How have they not run out of people to kill?
The great devourer has arrived, carried in a festively decorated pal-anquin.
I get it, I think.
So they can locate her. Now why not just kill Allison then and get the key? She’s not even close to a god.
What keeps her alive at this point? Generic plot armor?
They’ve been pretty explicit as to why they’ve been hands off as far back as Mother Om’s palace; with her refusal to kill Allison and take the key, in spite of having every chance to do so.
Any one of The Seven daring to claim it for themselves would be an explicit breach of their accord, reigniting a multiversal war all over again. It’s a seven-way Mexican Standoff on a cosmic scale.
Isn’t anyone become way stronger, since it’s kind of master key?
Kill Allison -> get lots of power -> kill others
Jagganoth has been way stronger than the other six for a long time, but they haven’t killed him because it’s uncertain even all of them together could manage it and any mistake is going to cost them hundreds of thousands of universes. It’s even more uncertain taking Alison’s power would be enough to decisively defeat the other six, especially the other five plus Jagganath.
Well Jagganath could try, but he’s on the track to defeat the others anyway in due time so why risk it.
I will give it to Gog Agog, he knows how to make an entrance. Shame some people don’t have time for her antics
You know this one used to work for the demiurge for a while but it never really clicked. She had the power, the viciousness, and the armies but I she could never replace my empress…. still funny though.
Angels are one of the few inhabitants of the multiverse that may work for the Queen of Worms without being in great terror of devourment; the worst that may happen to them is therefore a custard pie in the face and some truly terrible jokes.
I suspect that very few angels work for Gog-Agog.
Usually these door-to-door religious types are just preachers, not the Gods themselves.
I had the…experience of meeting what was either the Worm Queen herself or one of her servants (depending on whether you consider them to be the same or different) when I was an apprentices to the Vatra Elmak Kolm many years ago, and it is not one I will soon forget. They don’t move like a normal being, but more like the pile of worms they are. The smell accompanying them as well was quite disagreeable.
For this, and later experiences with the divine entertainer’s lordship, I give their holdings as wide a berth as possible. Even the Red God’s lands are less unsettling.
This friendly clown wants to be your guide!
=> No
=> Fuck No
…she probly deserved it
Allison, you’re not One Punch Man. You can’t make all your problems go away by hitting them.
(Not yet, anyway…)
Come to think of it, Gog could be the perfect immovable object to Saitama’s unstoppable force. One punch doesn’t work against INFINITE WORMS
Serious Series, Consecutive Normal Punches.
Let’s be honest, He’d win with a single punch anyway.
BECAUSE THAT’S LITERALLY THE GIMMICK.
If you read the Manga, there _is_ one story so far where his opponent required more than one punch.
(Of course, that may have been because he wasn’t trying very hard).
YOU CANT KEEP DOWN THE CLOWN
Gog looks like they would be fun to cosplay. Also, pretty stellar magical entrance… but are the servants controlled or just that damn loyal?
This is Throne, they see weirder stuff than that over breakfast.
This confirms it. Gog-Agog gets her head blown off *on purpose*, for comic effect.
I know ol’ Gog is probably a huge mass murdering monster like the rest of them, but I am starting to feel pretty sorry for the shabby way she seems to be treated by the rest of the mass murdering psycho god giggle club.
Now there’s spectacle worthy of our Lord and Master!
They have two right hands….
SOMEONE SAW IT TOO, I AM SO GLAD.
so yeah, there is a reason why it’d be called “the Beast”, THIS HECKER HAS TWO RIGHT HANDS
She flips it around to unpunch her face. Guess her fingers can bend both directions.
She is a bunch of worms, soooooooo
I wonder how Allison’s roommates are doing.
Probably roommate things.
that ost is fire tho, seriously, im grooving it super hard.
also super serious, but she hit her full force, and only dented her worm mass.
didnt even leave a hole like how the other key bearers did so.
alison needs more stat training, her slow daily grind is cute but even the old wise and ancient “fighters” who trained endlessly cant stand on that field of gods.
As Dog is my Witness, I once crashed a bicycle such that I smashed my face into a pan-flat rock and verily did have to pull the tip of my nose out of my face until a pop was heard, lest all my blood rush out of the cavity.
I’m not kidding.
AS a side note, my patella was also split thrice so that was actually the most pressing issue at that moment, but the question of why my bodily fluids seemed so pointedly exiting the place where I could no longer feel my nose was certainly a vexing one.
The Metaconstant Script of [KoK-AKoK] is odd.
Instead of the usual [O]-character, we get a completely new one: [o]. How are these different vowels to be pronounced, anyway? Is this one more like “oi”?
Being covered in meat, that explodes off you.
An odd way to make an entrance, to be sure.
Is it against the rules to post the alt text links? Because last Friday I extracted the hidden YouTube link for the benefit of cellphone users who can’t reach it, and it’s clear it did not get through moderation 🙁
Hasn’t been an issue in the past; might be the relatively new spam filter?
Yeah, actually this last comment didn’t have any issues. But anytime I try to post a link it says “pending moderation”
QUEEN OF WORMS QUEEN OF WORMS QUEEN OF WORMS
so far the only demiurge allison has met and not hit is Mammon
kill six billion demons more like throw six billion hands
a central rule of throne:
KNUCK IF YOU BUCK
Great legs for a pile of worms.
Ya, the guy she just exploded out of thought the same thing, right up until she replaced his brain, among other vital organs, with herself, & started riding him around like a squishy battlemech.
Our local hive mind seems to enjoy freaking people out. Must be crazy living on one of her planets, dear god… How many prisoners? Think reverse ant-farm crazy, where the world is ruled by an evil hive mind of carnivorous worms.
On the other hand, one could argue that anyone who travels by Exploding Minion requires face-punching by principle.
Miss Agog seems to have two right hands. But getting her face punched in seems to have fixed it.
Funny clowns and jesters ! Yaaaaaay !!!
Such fun.
Wait , why Alison puncher her ? Gog-Agog just said hello ! She/He/It did nothing harmful or threatening . I call clown abuse ! !
Also , is this Gog-Agog wand with circle on top soap bubbles maker ? I think it should be soap bubble maker. It must be The Magical Soap Bubble Maker. MUST.
In absence of bicycle horn , this clown/jester/god must have other tool to annoy, ahem, i mean entertain audience with.
Magical Soap Bubbles Maker , filling view with miriads of bubbles ! Because everyone will _love_ that. Sure.
Does this mean Agog can just disguise as anyone of her servants, or that they share a consciousness so that she may materialize herself out of any of her court members?
To be entirely fair, Gog has given me the fewest on-camera reasons to dislike her of any demiurge. That’s not say I don’t doubt they exist, just that I haven’t been shown them. And as the most underestimated demiurge, even lower than incubus, despite being present for and attempting to participate in every meeting while constantly being trodden on, I now expect her to be the least pathetic most interesting most morally gray and most impressive deity we end up learning the story of. A perfect antithesis to Solomon David, who *appears* to be the ‘least evil’
The demiurge who is also comic relief. But that might just be a way to get underestimated – the whole crowd is dangerous with a capital D.
Yeah, you don’t get to be untouchable god-emperor of a 7th of creation without being dangerous enough to make a *lot* of dangerous people decide to do things other than fight you.
It is hard to feel threatened by somebody who says “owie zowie” though, even if they just exploded out of a demented clown.
Getting HARD DMC3 Jester vibes here.
Not that’s a bad thing.
But now I hope for a scene like that one after Vergil2. You know, the “Daddy gonna spank your butt, spank you on the buuuut!” one
How many Demiurges has Alison interacted with now?
She’s made Mottom Jealous, chatted with the Great Dragon, is being taught by Incubus, is a focus of interest by Solomon, and now Gog-Agolg wants to play.
She has only interacted directly with Mottom, Mammon, Incubus (well, via dreams), and just now, Gog Agog. She may be a focus for Solomon, but they have yet to directly interact with each other.
Bearer of the word THICC
Here we see the most mysterious, most unpredictable and most unknowable of all Demiurges. For even when it shows itself openly like this, how could an unwise being begin to imagine its thoughts, or the world it sees? How much of its own masks does it understand? From the wearer of the word Beast i can only imagine the most primal, undiluted horror. Under all that fluff, there is hunger, consumption and the sound of grinding meat.
Where did Gog-Asog’s green staff come from?
Gog Agog: merely a wormier, beastlier Harley Quinn, but with a much punchier face.
Does this make Alison a God-headed Batman?
WORMS!
NYA!H!