Y’know what? I’m not even mad that I was wrong. I really thought White Chain was trying to throw the match to get the other angels off their chest, but this character development is also welcome.
Sorry you feel that way, but I must say it’s not a very constructive sentiment. Try to be more concise with your feelings if you want others to comment on them properly. For example; Personally, I feel as the comic’s emotional depth and establishment of risks have improved tremendously, and even with the universe’s fate in the balance it is still relevant on a human level, and therefore possible relate to. Why would you disagree with such a sentiment, or in what ways does the comic’s progression upset you?
That’s a personal question we must all ask. For instance me telling you this is worth it, same for the guy you’re replying to. Sure it may not change anything, but it’s still nice to voice one’s opinion.
I mean, most of the comments are equally non constructive – they’re just positive, and therefore unremarked upon by fans. Personally, I think it can be valuable. Negative responses serve a purpose to the author and can encourage re-evaluation of the choices being made. I’d say in that sense that unexplained positive accolades are in fact more meaningless and damaging, and fans shouting down dissenters (as some are doing below) contributes only to a warm bedding of ego and insulation from critique.
Either way, I as a fan am kinda bummed too. As much as White Chain thinks Allison is full of herself, I’d say she’s way more aware of her flaws than WC is. Between the two of ’em, I think WC is definitely more in need of some humbling.
All opinions are welcome here in the glyphosphere. After all, we pursue the truth of the divine lie, though sometimes it may grate against our better sentiments.
These last two pages really let me down to honest. The story looked like it was going in a great direction,,, now this.
What did this even accomplish? They came here to to win the tournament.
WC stood in the way of that…and for what?
What. Did. This. Accomplish.
Character Development?
WC needs to resolve her blackrom flirtation with Thorns : it is pitting her loyalty to her kind against her loyalty to a friend.
Allicio needs to realize that grasping for power is a piss-poor replacement for finding one’s place in the universe.
As for winning the tournament… do you really think Allicio could face The Salami and survive?
Did you lose track of how this is all a big honey-pot trap in all the excitement?
Looks to me like WC feels ashamed of the Thorny outburst.
That’s quite a lot for a stone-arse.
And Allison has been trying to acquire power, catch as catch can, for the purpose of not getting pushed around. And that path is pretty much the same as every other power-hungry asshole’s. Because there’s always one more bully, and the ends justify the means, and before you notice, the bully is you.
As it stands we have the shattering of trust between two allies, a major plot setback that invalidates essentially the entire current chapter, and a major character _regression_ on WC’s part. The only character development so far is Alice learning to think before leaping in… and that could have been had without this betrayal by WC.
And I’d consider it a rather strange reaction on either of their part if they came away from this with any sense of self recrimination at all. The natural response would be double down on blaming the other person and let it turn into bitter hatred.
42 Forgotten Justice Returns with Humility and Determination
The arc is not yet over, dear Dragoon. Forget not the other angel present, and what insights they might hold. For though there are Thorns, this one seems to be of a different order, one that has kept to itself.
True.
It never fails to baffle this one when persons complain of failed arcs while the arc is still rising. This one suspects that we are only now reaching the apex – or nadir – of this arc. Only the unobservant or impatient measure a line before it is complete.
Invalidates the chapter?
They knew it was a trap.
And they adapted their entry into the trap to be a distraction to allow them to steal the honeypot.
Then they essentially fucked up by getting drunk on power, beginning to believe their own bluff.
Right now I think we can consider everyone EXTREMELY distracted.
And this here : WC friggin bluffed! And Allison reminded WC that she is not in fact a killer, even for “duty”.
Their fight actually gives them a way to walk away from the tournament without Salami immediately going “Something is WRONG, check on the hostage!”
Even steel breaks like glass if it is not tempered. The hardest sword, the sharpest sword, is far from the best, for it is the most fragile. Therefore one must never lose their temper, for even though they cut best without it they won’t last long or serve their wielder well.
It seems that white chain has burned too hot, and ill-quenched their anger. They would do well to control their temper too.
Speaking of that–I distinctly remember Cio having clothes before she de-masked herself. Where did those go? And why haven’t they reappeared now that she’s removed from Allison?
Boring answer: Cio’s clothes are where she left them, in the spot where her previous body dissolved. They are real clothes, not generated by her mask and soul.
Meta answer: White Chain may be shown naked because she’s gendered but sexless. Cio may be shown naked because she’s humanoid but not human. But Alison may not be shown fully naked (not draped inventively by her own hair) without offending readers.
Mischievous answer: if the party now has to split up and flee, Cio escaping Rayuba naked and penniless might make an interesting story.
Yeah Alison’s clothes looked wrecked during the transformation, and not only that on this page the clothes that were generated by their de-transformation are shown actually being cast off and falling away, only putting more weight behind the view that these physical objects are affected by this transformation. (and somehow generated by them, that would be neat, are those now all artifacts of Alicio’s birth?)
From a storytelling and imagery view, the naked human standing (or submitting and crawling) before the enraged angel would also further the feeling of the power disparity between them (Though I feel like Alison’s gonna strike back in a second, mostly because her face is hidden) and create a more powerful image. I hope the nudity wasn’t avoided because it might cause offense, the violence/sexuality disparity (where it’s okay to see our protag impaled and bloodied, but not naked) always bums me out. I can get not being sexually explicit, that’s a personal taste and creative choice, but there shouldn’t be anything offensive or provocative about a naked body in the proper context, particularly not in a work like this, which is clearly not for children.
Devils are tough; she will be OK physically. Her mask is undamaged, so her soul can rebuild her body.
How her mind will come out of this remains to be seen. Last time she was struck unconscious she came back … not quite herself for a while. I do hope she’s not going to do something she regrets.
Actually, I didn’t notice Cio lying on the ground in the background of the last two panels until this morning.
That said, yeah, there is concern whether she’ll go full Yabalchoath. Though I guess it depends on her mental state right before she goes unconscous or she’d go full Yabalchoath every time she sleeps, trances, or whatever devils do in a resting state, if they have one.
Us thinks 10 Likes to Watch / 25 Rusty Bucket (still not sure of that’n, but may lean towards it being the Observant Dogger) might berate Stonyarse for bein a proxy Thorn, and for attacking Allicio (as a human Allison could be consider’d a work of God (Aesma’s working of the Warm Black flame) to be ‘preserved and glorified’). He did, albeit feeblewise, try to stop White Chain from attacking Allicio after all. Before sittin down and watchin.
Just how he, or other happenins, come to change White Chain’s current stance’ll be most enthrallsome.
Indeed. He also made quite the accusation, that White Chain “blasphemes against it/them.” Whether it really is Rusty Vengeful, or Daddy Zoss borrowing his armor(not unlikely, Dad has been shown in what looks like another suit of angel armor), I hope that after this, they bestow upon White Chain a savage and painful beating. I just can’t be okay with how this has unfolded and she shouldn’t get away with basically sucker-punching God 2.0 and betraying someone who thought White Chain was a friend.
I will say this, Abaddon has done a great job in writing WC in such a way that now I completely despise her.
dang, i figured i was being super optimistic on the last page but i didn’t think it’d be this bad.
…is that shame on white chain’s countenance? if so, there’s probably hope for her yet… course if there was no hope for her at all she’d likely have simply killed allison and absconded with the key somewhere between panels 3 and 6.
Gotta say, I was hoping Allison and Cio would have surpassed Whitechain. Then went to win against the last angel to show that united as human and demon they were stronger then angels. But still nothing compaired to a Demiurge who likely has killed dozens of human/ demon combo’s. But hey, cant get everything, just hope Whitechain learns something from this.
“It looked like you were going to kill me,” says she who undoubtedly just got done killing others who didn’t have to die and could’ve functionally killed her own master. She’s lucky she knows her master will listen to her plea.
Did you not see those large groups of people sitting on the lower floor who she ringed out? Her knocking all those people out of running so rapidly by taking out the pillars they were on probably significantly reduced the number of deaths given the murder fest that was going on.
But seriously “You threw a burning spear through my chest and tried to kill me, and my response is to De-power you temporarily, and ask you the surrender” is… actually pretty damned reasonable?
Like… “Burning finger” sounds like a deliberately low powered attack, and that seems like an important lesson here; even when the Stakes were high WC had the restraint to use minimal force (Given her present goals).
We might not AGREE with those goals, but WC has been pretty good about being careful while chasing them.
We have seen White Chain use this technique before, in the fight with the Petal Knight 33 Judicious Rains, and it was a technique strong enough to spur the rogue Aeon to surrender. I suggest you review this fight to remind yourself of our dear Aeon’s fatal flaw.
Next You also must take into account that our beloved Heir has a few unearned perks, namely being able to take blows that by all accounts should have killed or seriously injured her in stride. See how she took a blade to the eye, and had her throat slit and still continues to draw breath.
To call what White Chain has done ‘Restraint’ is a gross mischaracterization. She struck as hard as she could, on an opponent that by all means lowered her guard, with a technique strong enough to cripple an Aeon. It is only by Allison’s Inheritance, and her Devil-Armor that she remains alive.
Allicio has already tried to de-escalate the situation, twice, if you consider the lowering of her guard to be a de-escalation, and both times White Chain had spat in her face, and doubled down. Allison is the one dealing with a threat to her mortality in this conflict, not White Chain, and there is only one being curled up and pleading for their life. White-Chain once proclaimed to Juggernaut Star that she would never become like them, never become a murderer, and yet in losing herself in her Wrath, she has become so like Juggernaut Star that even her Voice and Form reflect the Thorn Knight.
On the other hand, that might be the level of force necessary to actually disarm a devilskin warrior with a key of kings. You don’t try capturing a kaiju alive using a mancatcher.
And yet, if 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil actually had lethal intent in her blow, would she suddenly be offering submission now?
No, if White Chain’s goal was to deal lethal damage to Allicio, she would continue doing so, for angels are singular in purpose. (Note, as well, the strategic placement of the blow: we know from White Chain’s fighting in Hell 71 that devilskin women can have their masks knocked off if struck quickly from behind. This was a strategic blow, intended to defuse but not harm Allicio). In this entire altercation between them, White Chain’s goal has been to de-escalate the whole situation. After all, what happens when you throw Allicio, inflamed with power, up against Solomon David?
Death, universal war, or worse. White Chain has finally deescalated the situation.
One feels one should point out it was my brother who angrily attacked Allicio – in their opinion as “one more of the ruiners of heaven” – and landed an angelic mawashigeri to the face while Allicio was dealing with the last of other contestants (in continued non-lethal fashion of stamping the plinths). And then followed up with Ovis’Palm while Allicio was trying to talk with her.
Instead of the persuasive, reasoned, verbal, argument that Allison’s not ready to face Salami, and just a bit ‘drunk’ on the new power that had been realised by Cio’s knowledge of how to use the key better, White Chain caused and conflagrated this entire altercation between them. Even Cio tried to talk to White Chain and get them to de-escalate what they’d started.
Nand’s ‘daughter’ devils in Hell 71 were unceremoniously sent back to the Void with all necessary prejudice. And WC’s final technique Burning Finger is harsh enough to completely surprise another angel that it would even be used, and cause them to beg for clemency. We witnessed that day as well a wroth White Chain, full of wrath, and out of control anger, heavily influenced by her own still unresolved issues.
As outlined in Broken Worlds, Burning Finger has a tendency to cripple those it’s used on, and can outright banish angels and devils alike to the void.
Additionally, Preem Nand’s ‘dolls’ are not Devilskinned warriors, they were devils, plain and simple. They were merely placed directly upon a human soul flame, as it bared a striking resemblance to the poor souls being feasted on in the White-Eyed Woman.
Not to mention, a blow can be struck with lethal intent, and clemency offered. They’re not mutually exclusive (So long as the blow is struck without the intent for instantaneous death). However, I could argue that White Chain offered clemency, not because she intended to to so from the start, but because pummeling a defenseless human into a bloody stain on the floor is distasteful for the Aeon. Yet, as we’ve seen in the same bout in Hell 71. She’s not above doing so in anger and if there is anyone capable of telling if White Chain’s blows and intent is to kill, it would be Allison, her student. and lo, what words are leaving her mouth? A demand to be taken seriously as an opponent? A lamentation that she was too weak to overcome her teacher?
Her ‘goal’ in this fight, as with all fights, is to win, by any and all means necessary. She only offered clemency now because she knew she could kill Allison with ease, or continue to break her body and will until she did. You’re ascribing too much restraint to an Aeon who is currently using an ancient Devil-Slaying art that is implied to be a danger to herself, who is acting in anger and fear.
I merely want to put forward the idea that White Chain didn’t KNOW what would happen to Allison, and in those moments, didn’t care in the slightest. She was fighting one more ruiner of heaven. One more vile creature. And now that she has indeed won, she is burdened with the regret and pain her actions, fueled by anger and fear have caused.
Ah, forgive this one. The bout in Hell 71 did not show too much of White Chain’s Wrath, but rather White Chain’s role in the War of the Teacups in the palace of the usurper Mottom.
An angel messanger of proper God order destroys an union between two women casue they are too pwoerful in her opinion.
Figures.
But seriously it’s anticlimatic as hell for me seeing this resolution to Allicio getting defeated like that. And by who.
Even WC seems to be ashamed of this story development.
Interesting that in many ways this is a reprise of the fight white chain had back in 7-28 with the thorn knight, including the use of the burning finger to defeat her foe and her righteous anger that Nyave interceded against. That thorn angel was trying to surrender also and white chain was going to murder her. Interesting call back to that aspect of white chain and her evolution moving forward.
Pivotal moments for both characters, a broken Alyson and a broken angel.
Also Nyave is going to be pissed, that’s frankly a terrible way to run a distraction…
It would seem the rose’s thorns sprout when the drive to impose their Will on the world is kindled
I wonder what emotion must be kindled to make the vines petals to bloom, or roots to take hold
Can a flower feel shame for drawing the blood of those who would seek its scent?
When the dust settles, the yells have quieted and the defeated lay on the ground the real moment of strength and fear arrives when the victor is confronted with the consequences and horrors of their own power.
And why is she surprised that White Chain looked like she was going to kill her? In the previous page she literally took a killshot at White Chain and internally rejoiced about it before she realised she had been duped. All of this while still in the middle of a literal deathmatch. Get your head out of your ass you stubborn bitch you’ve still got shit to learn, how hard is that to aknowledge?
Nah that’s my bad, didn’t read for a day or two and accidentaly skipped the last page where she was mournful. Either way she’s had a shitty attitude to being told that she hasn’t mastered her powers for ages now so the point of knowing your own limits still stands.
wait where did you make a point about her not knowing her own limits? also she did learn her limits but WC decided to keep going instead thus negating that lesson.
Heh. If Zoss&Co. had stayed out of Throne, none of this mess would have ever happened. Royalty. Never can keep their bloated egos out of things that are none of their business.
i like the parallel between this fight and the fight between allison and cio earlier in the story. i can only hope it ends as well! allison has to be accompanied by a white and a black flame, remember, and she’s already accompanied by cio.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
For those who like their plots bitter as well as twisted, here’s an idea.
While Alison and White Chain argue and try to rein their emotions, Cio wakes up, goes full Yabby and attacks White Chain. The angel, not yet fully in control of herself, slaps Cio clean into the void, breaking her mask. Allison flees, carrying the mask fragments.
Book 5 then opens with Allison truly alone, separated from her friends and hunted by White Chain (and many others). She has to rely entirely on her own strength and wits while taking desperate risks to get her girlfriend restored.
White Chain may have gone a step too far. I wouldn’t be surprised if this time Allison broke ties with her, especially after faking her own death to get in a sucker punch. Great work teacher, you’ve scarred your student using the worst dirty trick possible.
So it seems Angel bodies even without the ash suits are… quite solid for something made of fire. So is the suit just like, an anchor that keeps them in this plane?
I still don’t understand why White Chin decided to do all of this. Cause she was what? too powerful? didn’t have enough discipline? if that’s the cause it looked like she learned her lesson 2 pages ago. but now with this it seems like the reverse has happened. seems like the real lesson that was learned is that you should be as ruthless as possible and never take your guard down.
gj white chin. you really did it this time.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
One assumes that White Chain never believed that Allison could win the tournament and face Solomon; it wasn’t part of the plan. Then much excrement occurred and Alicio looked set to win. This was horrifyingly bad: we now see that Alicio was only just strong enough to defeat an angel, and Abaddon has said (Tumblr, somewhere) that all the Seven are stronger than any angel. If Alicio fought Solomon, she would lose and the key would be captured. White Chain knows this, even though Alicio was over-optimistic.
For White Chain to protect the key, Allison needs to lose, or give up, or just run away, before Solomon removes her head. The grudge match and the philosophical needle and the fury have obscured this, but White Chain’s strategy is actually right. And yes, sadly enough, killing Allison to get the key to safety is still an option.
I would like to point at that if Solomon mostly stuck to his own rules all Allicio would have to do to win is draw a single drop of his blood. Then she could just ask for Zaid’s freedom and then they could just run away really fast before Solomon changed his mind. Not that that’s necessarily the best strategy, but if Allison’s sparring with Incubus in the dreamscape is at all accurate and realistic there is a chance she could have won as per the rules of the tournament.
Yes! Just as this episode reiterates in some ways Cio’s near-killing of Allison, one can easily imagine Allison drawing a drop of Solomon’s blood just as she did to Incubus.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
I do believe that Allicio could have succeeded in this way, since the who story is about finding power that one didn’t know one had. It needs a few more plot twists for her to do it. My point is that White Chain doesn’t believe it. Allison’s point is that White Chain isn’t even capable of contemplating it.
Also I wouldn’t trust Solomon to not kill Allicio right after she drew blood. He’s shown his willingness to kill unexpectant people before and getting Allison’s key would make him by far the strongest of the 7. This whole excursion was a rescue mission and Allison should have stuck to the plan.
He already if totally confidant he is the strongest of the 7 already. Claiming Allison’s key would just get him embroiled in another universal war which is the opposite of what he wants. He is tired of ruling and politics and desperately wants some one worthy to take his empire so he can pursue a purer, higher, more esoteric form of royalty. If any thing he’d be disappointed than anything else if Allison beat him and asked for Zaid instead of his kingdom.
Allison says she gives up, but I think that she actually won this fight. She forced White Chain to change his (her?) ways, to use underhanded tactics and be his (her?) true angelic self.
Sometimes one can reforge a sword that once was broken. Ah it takes some effort, but to take the time to do so has meaning. Often the sword is stronger than it was before.
It is almost impossible to reforge a sword broken by the smith that forged it.
A smith that breaks their sword always feels regret. It is like killing one’s own child.
I love the umbilical cord imagery, whether it be intentional or not. White Chain, rising from (an armor of) ashes, taking her first steps outside of the void in her own form, abiding by her own rules instead of the angels’ law.
In many ways this is a rebirth.
Too bad it comes at the cost of these unseemly spikes
White Chain lingers on the first steps to becoming a thorn knight, refusing to retreat, out of anger, and refusing to advance, out of shame. Such an arrangement cannot last forever.
Congratulations White Chain, you won by sucker-punching the only person who looked up to and liked you as an individual. While they were distracted by their regret in being forced to harm you.
Can’t wait for Solomon to give White Chain their just rewards.
As I predicted several pages ago: White Chain is learning a new lesson in remorse. Maybe now she can reconcile her hard-wired need to follow the letter of the Law, with her immediate duty to her friends and, by extension, the Multiverse as a whole.
Well, I guess you don’t get to 82 without learning a few tricks. But I feel like the real lesson here is about to be learned by White Chain, just as Cio learned by nearly killing the heir. Seems like a strange way to cement relationships, but then Allison is not your typical barista.
So, this is how the embers of holy flames look lile…
You know, even if regular embers can’t match the radiance of the fire they come from, they still keep a warm, inviting brightness.
But this… these embers are so… sorrowful
Salamat Daddy wants to quit being king, Allison wants to quit fighting. She claims to only fight to save Zaid, who “doesn’t deserve any of this.”
SD will call her on her shit, he knows about the break out attempt and that this show is a ruse. He will bring Zaid to bear, and tell Allison that since she stopped fighting his life is forfeit, and take his head. In a fit of righteous indignation, her royalty will flare and she will fight him.
He will use his free action dialog to ask her the difference between Zaid and any other of the poor turds in existence. Nobody deserves this, why would she fight for only one of them? A true regent would fight for them all.
then he would spray blood out of his eyes like a gila monster and use his winning wish to curse her with his kingdom and run away to live out the rest of his life on vacation.
Then gog agog couldn’t keep the act together any longer and would make the headless Zaid meat-puppet start dancing while the real Zaid continues eating bon bons in another castle.
WAIT! I just realized the middle of her back was where the power button symbol was in her dreamscape sparring with Incubus! Foreshadowing of a weak point Allison has that White Chain would know about and exploit?
Man. That victory has to taste just SSOOO sweet there. you can just see by the way she is savoring it. Cant help but wonder how ashes in the mouth taste when your mouth is made of ashes.
Ok, first of all, I take back all the disparaging remarks about Angelic fighting prowess. Secondly, this reminds me so much of the moment Cio attacked Allison: the moment she won, when she thought she’d killed Allison, she came to her senses. It really looks like White Chain is having her ‘Oh sh*t!’ moment right there.
Now WC will have her fight with Solomon David and get what she’s always wanted, breasts and the right to be as womanly as she wants. She might even get her period every millennia.
I wondered if angels bleed, so I looked back at where 23 something something (I forget their name) had been beaten up and they’re oozing some kind of fluid which may or may not be the angel equivalent of blood. So, maybe that?
Hmm…I’m disappointed in this outcome. It all seems too easy, too obvious, and nobody is learning a lesson from this. And the only one who needs to learn, is White Chain. But I also get the feeling that a lot of this is Allisons’ fault, for one reason and the ONE ‘plot device’ that I really can’t stand seeing: Miscommunication. Am I the only one who thinks that Allison would act like a normal person, and come out with it all off the bat, so nobody(WHITE CHAIN) is confused?
“Zoss appeared to me, and verbally confirmed that I’m to be his successor – he made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that I am the Heir. The Sovereign. Kill Six Billion Demons. It’s me, it has to be, so where are we getting this ‘Zaid’ idea from?”
So many stories are built up on needless drama because the one unforgivable sin is that they keep a fundamental bit of info to themselves. When no, I truly feel that people would act like people, and be honest about everything. In this, specifically and especially, that omission is both dangerous and foolish in the extreme.
Nay, while us’s understanding thy frustration, methinks the Aeon would dismiss such information as mere prattle, or would think Allison may just be right bonkers. White Chain is very set in her ways an’ in believing what Michael yammered on to her regarding the heir, and killing Allison to get the key to Zaid if it comes to that. Though to White Chain’s credit, she didn’t seem too cheersome ’bout the command to kill her.
Really though, I don’t think White Chain would be the only being to scoff or give a strange look in response to Allison talkin’ about visions of Zoss that only she can see. This one understands why she’d keep quiet about it.
Victory of the Thorns
One has to wonder if this is how David’s perverted tourneys always end. An angel kicks everyone’s ass… and then Dave ends the angel.
Too predictable. Who comes to gladiatorial battles for the predictable?
Dave, for one.
Yeah, def. not digging that red spiky textbox, and the three stars on White Chain’s brow turning into three jagged spikes.
Here’s hoping we see a little more Wisdom and Restraint here.
Drawing blood thoughtlessly
The stem may even grow a thorn
Unguarded even the cold white flame
May burn dangerously hot
When they first release from their shell, those same stars are just as long
“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”
-Confucius
I ask of you, fellow pilgrims. Is there not a demiurge here? And does she not stand tall in victory over Royalty?
Aye, the squire speaks true. A shackle of stagnation and rot upon the wheel, masquerading as law and peace.
All law is violently enforced.
“Sovereign statehood is defined as a monopoly on the use of force.”
Now comes regret.
This is going to require some talking out.
If only all creatures possessed a silver tongue and honeyed voice, perhaps we’d welcome each day with a little less dread.
Y’know what? I’m not even mad that I was wrong. I really thought White Chain was trying to throw the match to get the other angels off their chest, but this character development is also welcome.
It just keeps getting dumber
Sorry you feel that way, but I must say it’s not a very constructive sentiment. Try to be more concise with your feelings if you want others to comment on them properly. For example; Personally, I feel as the comic’s emotional depth and establishment of risks have improved tremendously, and even with the universe’s fate in the balance it is still relevant on a human level, and therefore possible relate to. Why would you disagree with such a sentiment, or in what ways does the comic’s progression upset you?
It seems to me that spending a lot of words in response to an entry so trite is wasteful.
Did it warrant a response at all?
That’s a personal question we must all ask. For instance me telling you this is worth it, same for the guy you’re replying to. Sure it may not change anything, but it’s still nice to voice one’s opinion.
Speaking up always makes you a voice for the voiceless. Do not hesitate.
“We do not rebut fools for their benefit, but for the benefit of the observer.”
I mean, most of the comments are equally non constructive – they’re just positive, and therefore unremarked upon by fans. Personally, I think it can be valuable. Negative responses serve a purpose to the author and can encourage re-evaluation of the choices being made. I’d say in that sense that unexplained positive accolades are in fact more meaningless and damaging, and fans shouting down dissenters (as some are doing below) contributes only to a warm bedding of ego and insulation from critique.
Either way, I as a fan am kinda bummed too. As much as White Chain thinks Allison is full of herself, I’d say she’s way more aware of her flaws than WC is. Between the two of ’em, I think WC is definitely more in need of some humbling.
True. Helpful. Inspiring. Necessary. Kind.
IMO a comment should have at least two of those. Which means that positive comments have a lower entry barrier than negative ones.
In what way?
BOOOOO you’re not needed here go away!
All opinions are welcome here in the glyphosphere. After all, we pursue the truth of the divine lie, though sometimes it may grate against our better sentiments.
Yeah not liking WC very much right now, she’s nothing but a damn bully really.
White Chain really didn’t change, she was always a bully.
These last two pages really let me down to honest. The story looked like it was going in a great direction,,, now this.
What did this even accomplish? They came here to to win the tournament.
WC stood in the way of that…and for what?
What. Did. This. Accomplish.
Character Development?
WC needs to resolve her blackrom flirtation with Thorns : it is pitting her loyalty to her kind against her loyalty to a friend.
Allicio needs to realize that grasping for power is a piss-poor replacement for finding one’s place in the universe.
As for winning the tournament… do you really think Allicio could face The Salami and survive?
Did you lose track of how this is all a big honey-pot trap in all the excitement?
“WC needs to resolve” “Allicio needs to realize”
Yeah, but they haven’t. For it to count as character development it needs to have happened… past tense.
Also, I really don’t think Alice has been trying to acquire power for power’s sake.
Looks to me like WC feels ashamed of the Thorny outburst.
That’s quite a lot for a stone-arse.
And Allison has been trying to acquire power, catch as catch can, for the purpose of not getting pushed around. And that path is pretty much the same as every other power-hungry asshole’s. Because there’s always one more bully, and the ends justify the means, and before you notice, the bully is you.
I have to agree with you there: if you remove WC’s bluff, you get a powerful moment of clarity after Alicio uses that friggin’ nuke on her friend
Character development. Allison and WC both realizing they might have gotten a little bit carried away.
That remains to be seen.
As it stands we have the shattering of trust between two allies, a major plot setback that invalidates essentially the entire current chapter, and a major character _regression_ on WC’s part. The only character development so far is Alice learning to think before leaping in… and that could have been had without this betrayal by WC.
And I’d consider it a rather strange reaction on either of their part if they came away from this with any sense of self recrimination at all. The natural response would be double down on blaming the other person and let it turn into bitter hatred.
The arc is not yet over, dear Dragoon. Forget not the other angel present, and what insights they might hold. For though there are Thorns, this one seems to be of a different order, one that has kept to itself.
True.
It never fails to baffle this one when persons complain of failed arcs while the arc is still rising. This one suspects that we are only now reaching the apex – or nadir – of this arc. Only the unobservant or impatient measure a line before it is complete.
This one eagerly awaits the next developments.
Invalidates the chapter?
They knew it was a trap.
And they adapted their entry into the trap to be a distraction to allow them to steal the honeypot.
Then they essentially fucked up by getting drunk on power, beginning to believe their own bluff.
Right now I think we can consider everyone EXTREMELY distracted.
And this here : WC friggin bluffed! And Allison reminded WC that she is not in fact a killer, even for “duty”.
Their fight actually gives them a way to walk away from the tournament without Salami immediately going “Something is WRONG, check on the hostage!”
Even steel breaks like glass if it is not tempered. The hardest sword, the sharpest sword, is far from the best, for it is the most fragile. Therefore one must never lose their temper, for even though they cut best without it they won’t last long or serve their wielder well.
It seems that white chain has burned too hot, and ill-quenched their anger. They would do well to control their temper too.
Also, holy fuck, is Cio ok!? It looks like she might have been wounded by that unsubtle dismounting.
Based on the expression on her face when she hit the ground, it looks like she’ll recover.
Speaking of that–I distinctly remember Cio having clothes before she de-masked herself. Where did those go? And why haven’t they reappeared now that she’s removed from Allison?
Does it matter? The audience paid for a good show and it seems they got a very good one. And they got a very impressive victor.
and Allison’s clothes also kind of exploded in shreds off her when she put Cio on (page 104?)
So Allison should also be nude ? EVERYONE should be NUDE ! Devils, angels, humans, nudity everywhere ! \o/
I like Your enthusiasm. Tho it seems only Allison’s boots and kimono/jacket was shredded to make place for extra arms.
Boring answer: Cio’s clothes are where she left them, in the spot where her previous body dissolved. They are real clothes, not generated by her mask and soul.
Meta answer: White Chain may be shown naked because she’s gendered but sexless. Cio may be shown naked because she’s humanoid but not human. But Alison may not be shown fully naked (not draped inventively by her own hair) without offending readers.
Mischievous answer: if the party now has to split up and flee, Cio escaping Rayuba naked and penniless might make an interesting story.
I’m with Annelise on this one, I think the mechanics of this all should mean everyone, Allison as well, should be nude now.
I always found fusions whereby the clothes are involved pretty silly. A person is not their clothes!
Yeah Alison’s clothes looked wrecked during the transformation, and not only that on this page the clothes that were generated by their de-transformation are shown actually being cast off and falling away, only putting more weight behind the view that these physical objects are affected by this transformation. (and somehow generated by them, that would be neat, are those now all artifacts of Alicio’s birth?)
From a storytelling and imagery view, the naked human standing (or submitting and crawling) before the enraged angel would also further the feeling of the power disparity between them (Though I feel like Alison’s gonna strike back in a second, mostly because her face is hidden) and create a more powerful image. I hope the nudity wasn’t avoided because it might cause offense, the violence/sexuality disparity (where it’s okay to see our protag impaled and bloodied, but not naked) always bums me out. I can get not being sexually explicit, that’s a personal taste and creative choice, but there shouldn’t be anything offensive or provocative about a naked body in the proper context, particularly not in a work like this, which is clearly not for children.
Still looks pretty painful and quite jarring at the same time.
She’s just vibin’
Devils are tough; she will be OK physically. Her mask is undamaged, so her soul can rebuild her body.
How her mind will come out of this remains to be seen. Last time she was struck unconscious she came back … not quite herself for a while. I do hope she’s not going to do something she regrets.
She doesn’t appear unconscious though, or at least we don’t see her being unconscious.
The sudden disconnection is likely going to be pretty disorienting for a min or two though.
Actually, I didn’t notice Cio lying on the ground in the background of the last two panels until this morning.
That said, yeah, there is concern whether she’ll go full Yabalchoath. Though I guess it depends on her mental state right before she goes unconscous or she’d go full Yabalchoath every time she sleeps, trances, or whatever devils do in a resting state, if they have one.
Hope we find out what that other angel had to say now.
Us thinks 10 Likes to Watch / 25 Rusty Bucket (still not sure of that’n, but may lean towards it being the Observant Dogger) might berate Stonyarse for bein a proxy Thorn, and for attacking Allicio (as a human Allison could be consider’d a work of God (Aesma’s working of the Warm Black flame) to be ‘preserved and glorified’). He did, albeit feeblewise, try to stop White Chain from attacking Allicio after all. Before sittin down and watchin.
Just how he, or other happenins, come to change White Chain’s current stance’ll be most enthrallsome.
Indeed. He also made quite the accusation, that White Chain “blasphemes against it/them.” Whether it really is Rusty Vengeful, or Daddy Zoss borrowing his armor(not unlikely, Dad has been shown in what looks like another suit of angel armor), I hope that after this, they bestow upon White Chain a savage and painful beating. I just can’t be okay with how this has unfolded and she shouldn’t get away with basically sucker-punching God 2.0 and betraying someone who thought White Chain was a friend.
I will say this, Abaddon has done a great job in writing WC in such a way that now I completely despise her.
Aye, been waitin’ a while to see what he has to say. Perhaps the blasphemy he’d accused White Chain of has just been proven true.
It just keeps getting better
dang, i figured i was being super optimistic on the last page but i didn’t think it’d be this bad.
…is that shame on white chain’s countenance? if so, there’s probably hope for her yet… course if there was no hope for her at all she’d likely have simply killed allison and absconded with the key somewhere between panels 3 and 6.
OHOHOHOHOhoooooo!
What a delicious twist!
The path of thorns is not one befitting of our dearest White Chain.
Terror and heartache–but I repeat myself.
Gotta say, I was hoping Allison and Cio would have surpassed Whitechain. Then went to win against the last angel to show that united as human and demon they were stronger then angels. But still nothing compaired to a Demiurge who likely has killed dozens of human/ demon combo’s. But hey, cant get everything, just hope Whitechain learns something from this.
this in film or series would be so good and relevant in so many ways … aaah Abbadon is really great
do these count as nudes?
THESE HANDS OF MINE ARE BURNING RED
THEIR LOUD ROAR TELLS ME TO GRASP VICTORY
ERUPTING
BURNING
FINGER
LOOK! THE EAST IS BURNING RED!
STAR FINGAAAAA
Finally! An answer! Angels DO have navels. If there’s an umbilicus, there has to be a navel, or at least one soon after cutting that cord.
Next, Boss, maybe you could do some exploration on the topic of group dancing on a pin?
As many as they want, but the pin may not last very long.
“It looked like you were going to kill me,” says she who undoubtedly just got done killing others who didn’t have to die and could’ve functionally killed her own master. She’s lucky she knows her master will listen to her plea.
Did you not see those large groups of people sitting on the lower floor who she ringed out? Her knocking all those people out of running so rapidly by taking out the pillars they were on probably significantly reduced the number of deaths given the murder fest that was going on.
Touched by an Angel.
* Vibe checked by an Angel
Allicio did need to wield that power more… accurately, but White Chain had a bit of a Demiurge moment there themselves.
Neanderthal to human being
Evolution, kill the gene
Biology is superficial
Intelligence is artificial
There’s extra dice left in the back
or side if you’re using a map
that shows the walls but hides the trap
Watch the candles we left burning,
Dying out like wheel’s turning,
Slowly fill the gap. Roll the
Dice, and hear your conscience yearning.
well at least nobody has to fight dad now.
Dig how much can be expressed by White Chain changing color.
Ah the sin of Wroth,the animal that consumes the virtue known as Patience
So… yeah, WC is angry and pissed here…
But seriously “You threw a burning spear through my chest and tried to kill me, and my response is to De-power you temporarily, and ask you the surrender” is… actually pretty damned reasonable?
Like… “Burning finger” sounds like a deliberately low powered attack, and that seems like an important lesson here; even when the Stakes were high WC had the restraint to use minimal force (Given her present goals).
We might not AGREE with those goals, but WC has been pretty good about being careful while chasing them.
We have seen White Chain use this technique before, in the fight with the Petal Knight 33 Judicious Rains, and it was a technique strong enough to spur the rogue Aeon to surrender. I suggest you review this fight to remind yourself of our dear Aeon’s fatal flaw.
Next You also must take into account that our beloved Heir has a few unearned perks, namely being able to take blows that by all accounts should have killed or seriously injured her in stride. See how she took a blade to the eye, and had her throat slit and still continues to draw breath.
To call what White Chain has done ‘Restraint’ is a gross mischaracterization. She struck as hard as she could, on an opponent that by all means lowered her guard, with a technique strong enough to cripple an Aeon. It is only by Allison’s Inheritance, and her Devil-Armor that she remains alive.
Allicio has already tried to de-escalate the situation, twice, if you consider the lowering of her guard to be a de-escalation, and both times White Chain had spat in her face, and doubled down. Allison is the one dealing with a threat to her mortality in this conflict, not White Chain, and there is only one being curled up and pleading for their life. White-Chain once proclaimed to Juggernaut Star that she would never become like them, never become a murderer, and yet in losing herself in her Wrath, she has become so like Juggernaut Star that even her Voice and Form reflect the Thorn Knight.
Just so. Thank you.
On the other hand, that might be the level of force necessary to actually disarm a devilskin warrior with a key of kings. You don’t try capturing a kaiju alive using a mancatcher.
And yet, if 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil actually had lethal intent in her blow, would she suddenly be offering submission now?
No, if White Chain’s goal was to deal lethal damage to Allicio, she would continue doing so, for angels are singular in purpose. (Note, as well, the strategic placement of the blow: we know from White Chain’s fighting in Hell 71 that devilskin women can have their masks knocked off if struck quickly from behind. This was a strategic blow, intended to defuse but not harm Allicio). In this entire altercation between them, White Chain’s goal has been to de-escalate the whole situation. After all, what happens when you throw Allicio, inflamed with power, up against Solomon David?
Death, universal war, or worse. White Chain has finally deescalated the situation.
One feels one should point out it was my brother who angrily attacked Allicio – in their opinion as “one more of the ruiners of heaven” – and landed an angelic mawashigeri to the face while Allicio was dealing with the last of other contestants (in continued non-lethal fashion of stamping the plinths). And then followed up with Ovis’Palm while Allicio was trying to talk with her.
Instead of the persuasive, reasoned, verbal, argument that Allison’s not ready to face Salami, and just a bit ‘drunk’ on the new power that had been realised by Cio’s knowledge of how to use the key better, White Chain caused and conflagrated this entire altercation between them. Even Cio tried to talk to White Chain and get them to de-escalate what they’d started.
Nand’s ‘daughter’ devils in Hell 71 were unceremoniously sent back to the Void with all necessary prejudice. And WC’s final technique Burning Finger is harsh enough to completely surprise another angel that it would even be used, and cause them to beg for clemency. We witnessed that day as well a wroth White Chain, full of wrath, and out of control anger, heavily influenced by her own still unresolved issues.
As outlined in Broken Worlds, Burning Finger has a tendency to cripple those it’s used on, and can outright banish angels and devils alike to the void.
Additionally, Preem Nand’s ‘dolls’ are not Devilskinned warriors, they were devils, plain and simple. They were merely placed directly upon a human soul flame, as it bared a striking resemblance to the poor souls being feasted on in the White-Eyed Woman.
Not to mention, a blow can be struck with lethal intent, and clemency offered. They’re not mutually exclusive (So long as the blow is struck without the intent for instantaneous death). However, I could argue that White Chain offered clemency, not because she intended to to so from the start, but because pummeling a defenseless human into a bloody stain on the floor is distasteful for the Aeon. Yet, as we’ve seen in the same bout in Hell 71. She’s not above doing so in anger and if there is anyone capable of telling if White Chain’s blows and intent is to kill, it would be Allison, her student. and lo, what words are leaving her mouth? A demand to be taken seriously as an opponent? A lamentation that she was too weak to overcome her teacher?
Her ‘goal’ in this fight, as with all fights, is to win, by any and all means necessary. She only offered clemency now because she knew she could kill Allison with ease, or continue to break her body and will until she did. You’re ascribing too much restraint to an Aeon who is currently using an ancient Devil-Slaying art that is implied to be a danger to herself, who is acting in anger and fear.
I merely want to put forward the idea that White Chain didn’t KNOW what would happen to Allison, and in those moments, didn’t care in the slightest. She was fighting one more ruiner of heaven. One more vile creature. And now that she has indeed won, she is burdened with the regret and pain her actions, fueled by anger and fear have caused.
Ah, forgive this one. The bout in Hell 71 did not show too much of White Chain’s Wrath, but rather White Chain’s role in the War of the Teacups in the palace of the usurper Mottom.
An angel messanger of proper God order destroys an union between two women casue they are too pwoerful in her opinion.
Figures.
But seriously it’s anticlimatic as hell for me seeing this resolution to Allicio getting defeated like that. And by who.
Even WC seems to be ashamed of this story development.
And for a moment opens the path of thorns…
Interesting that in many ways this is a reprise of the fight white chain had back in 7-28 with the thorn knight, including the use of the burning finger to defeat her foe and her righteous anger that Nyave interceded against. That thorn angel was trying to surrender also and white chain was going to murder her. Interesting call back to that aspect of white chain and her evolution moving forward.
Pivotal moments for both characters, a broken Alyson and a broken angel.
Also Nyave is going to be pissed, that’s frankly a terrible way to run a distraction…
That was in 7-80, sorry
That was not a thorn knight, but a petal knight, more or less their opposite.
Thanks for the correction.
It would seem the rose’s thorns sprout when the drive to impose their Will on the world is kindled
I wonder what emotion must be kindled to make the vines petals to bloom, or roots to take hold
Can a flower feel shame for drawing the blood of those who would seek its scent?
Sorry 7-80 was the fight
Oh well. Cio very nearly killed Allison before they managed to talk things out. I guess that’s just how things work in this family.
So does that mean we’re gonna have another time skip that opens with Allison and White Chain banging?
fucking humans…. i guess in both senses of the word
When the dust settles, the yells have quieted and the defeated lay on the ground the real moment of strength and fear arrives when the victor is confronted with the consequences and horrors of their own power.
What an asshole. >:|
Recall the conversation about bluffing in 7-60?
And why is she surprised that White Chain looked like she was going to kill her? In the previous page she literally took a killshot at White Chain and internally rejoiced about it before she realised she had been duped. All of this while still in the middle of a literal deathmatch. Get your head out of your ass you stubborn bitch you’ve still got shit to learn, how hard is that to aknowledge?
“and internally rejoiced about it”
wat. that didn’t happen at all. like are we reading the same comic?
Nah that’s my bad, didn’t read for a day or two and accidentaly skipped the last page where she was mournful. Either way she’s had a shitty attitude to being told that she hasn’t mastered her powers for ages now so the point of knowing your own limits still stands.
wait where did you make a point about her not knowing her own limits? also she did learn her limits but WC decided to keep going instead thus negating that lesson.
“and internally rejoiced about it ”
How the hell is that the interpretation you got from the last page
With Allicio bested this leaves us with only two participants. And White Chain’s shell is exposed… (sweats in angelic)
STAR FINGER
Somehow I knee this would happen, yet it caught of guard. Time to see what happens next
Death to all angels tbh
Zoss agrees.
Heh. If Zoss&Co. had stayed out of Throne, none of this mess would have ever happened. Royalty. Never can keep their bloated egos out of things that are none of their business.
i like the parallel between this fight and the fight between allison and cio earlier in the story. i can only hope it ends as well! allison has to be accompanied by a white and a black flame, remember, and she’s already accompanied by cio.
For those who like their plots bitter as well as twisted, here’s an idea.
While Alison and White Chain argue and try to rein their emotions, Cio wakes up, goes full Yabby and attacks White Chain. The angel, not yet fully in control of herself, slaps Cio clean into the void, breaking her mask. Allison flees, carrying the mask fragments.
Book 5 then opens with Allison truly alone, separated from her friends and hunted by White Chain (and many others). She has to rely entirely on her own strength and wits while taking desperate risks to get her girlfriend restored.
i bet she is bluffing now, 100%
I’ll be extremely disappointed if she’s not. As much as I enjoy White Chain, I just want Alison to have ONE victory against that pompous shit.
NOBODY WINS
FATALITY
White Chain may have gone a step too far. I wouldn’t be surprised if this time Allison broke ties with her, especially after faking her own death to get in a sucker punch. Great work teacher, you’ve scarred your student using the worst dirty trick possible.
Now that we know about this combo thing, there will come a time when they all reconcile and we get the ultimate combo – Alison, white chain, Cio.
So it seems Angel bodies even without the ash suits are… quite solid for something made of fire. So is the suit just like, an anchor that keeps them in this plane?
Yes, their flame is too cold to exist outside of the void… so they wear armor made of ash that fills the void
Oh White Chain; not only are you a traitor, but now you’re stealing G Gundam moves too?
For shame.
I still don’t understand why White Chin decided to do all of this. Cause she was what? too powerful? didn’t have enough discipline? if that’s the cause it looked like she learned her lesson 2 pages ago. but now with this it seems like the reverse has happened. seems like the real lesson that was learned is that you should be as ruthless as possible and never take your guard down.
gj white chin. you really did it this time.
One assumes that White Chain never believed that Allison could win the tournament and face Solomon; it wasn’t part of the plan. Then much excrement occurred and Alicio looked set to win. This was horrifyingly bad: we now see that Alicio was only just strong enough to defeat an angel, and Abaddon has said (Tumblr, somewhere) that all the Seven are stronger than any angel. If Alicio fought Solomon, she would lose and the key would be captured. White Chain knows this, even though Alicio was over-optimistic.
For White Chain to protect the key, Allison needs to lose, or give up, or just run away, before Solomon removes her head. The grudge match and the philosophical needle and the fury have obscured this, but White Chain’s strategy is actually right. And yes, sadly enough, killing Allison to get the key to safety is still an option.
this is probably the best explanation I’ve heard for all of WC’s actions. it covers all my major problems with what WC did.
like I can fully admit that the only way Alison was going to realize that she wasn’t a match for Solomon was to be beaten by WC in such a way.
I would like to point at that if Solomon mostly stuck to his own rules all Allicio would have to do to win is draw a single drop of his blood. Then she could just ask for Zaid’s freedom and then they could just run away really fast before Solomon changed his mind. Not that that’s necessarily the best strategy, but if Allison’s sparring with Incubus in the dreamscape is at all accurate and realistic there is a chance she could have won as per the rules of the tournament.
Yes! Just as this episode reiterates in some ways Cio’s near-killing of Allison, one can easily imagine Allison drawing a drop of Solomon’s blood just as she did to Incubus.
I do believe that Allicio could have succeeded in this way, since the who story is about finding power that one didn’t know one had. It needs a few more plot twists for her to do it. My point is that White Chain doesn’t believe it. Allison’s point is that White Chain isn’t even capable of contemplating it.
Also I wouldn’t trust Solomon to not kill Allicio right after she drew blood. He’s shown his willingness to kill unexpectant people before and getting Allison’s key would make him by far the strongest of the 7. This whole excursion was a rescue mission and Allison should have stuck to the plan.
He already if totally confidant he is the strongest of the 7 already. Claiming Allison’s key would just get him embroiled in another universal war which is the opposite of what he wants. He is tired of ruling and politics and desperately wants some one worthy to take his empire so he can pursue a purer, higher, more esoteric form of royalty. If any thing he’d be disappointed than anything else if Allison beat him and asked for Zaid instead of his kingdom.
Allison says she gives up, but I think that she actually won this fight. She forced White Chain to change his (her?) ways, to use underhanded tactics and be his (her?) true angelic self.
Allison lost the battle but she won the war.
I-is that…the forbidden Taijutsu of the Leaf Village…Kakashi’s secret technique:
…ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH!
Okay but why is nobody talking about how sexy this form of WC is.
what a bitter defeat
That umbilical cord is distracting.
Well, that was fast. Painful, too.
Sometimes one can reforge a sword that once was broken. Ah it takes some effort, but to take the time to do so has meaning. Often the sword is stronger than it was before.
It is almost impossible to reforge a sword broken by the smith that forged it.
A smith that breaks their sword always feels regret. It is like killing one’s own child.
i mean shes lying, but the lie hurt as well.
when words dont work, fists, when fists fail hurt them with your words.
that shame at the end, hahahahaha
I think the angel from book 3, 7-80 would agree with Allison here. White Chain has some issues they are working out.
I love the umbilical cord imagery, whether it be intentional or not. White Chain, rising from (an armor of) ashes, taking her first steps outside of the void in her own form, abiding by her own rules instead of the angels’ law.
In many ways this is a rebirth.
Too bad it comes at the cost of these unseemly spikes
Weeeeelll
Hell.
White Chain lingers on the first steps to becoming a thorn knight, refusing to retreat, out of anger, and refusing to advance, out of shame. Such an arrangement cannot last forever.
Congratulations White Chain, you won by sucker-punching the only person who looked up to and liked you as an individual. While they were distracted by their regret in being forced to harm you.
Can’t wait for Solomon to give White Chain their just rewards.
Hey wait a minute. That was clearly TWO FINGERS! By the laws of Anime she has cheated.
What if dear White Chain carried her shell on her back and walked the lands closer to her true nature? She might feel less body dysphoria.
As I predicted several pages ago: White Chain is learning a new lesson in remorse. Maybe now she can reconcile her hard-wired need to follow the letter of the Law, with her immediate duty to her friends and, by extension, the Multiverse as a whole.
When you cry out “Oh God!”, does it mean more to an Angel that it would to a human?
Well, I guess you don’t get to 82 without learning a few tricks. But I feel like the real lesson here is about to be learned by White Chain, just as Cio learned by nearly killing the heir. Seems like a strange way to cement relationships, but then Allison is not your typical barista.
Barista could do worse than learn the tea ceremony after all this.
I had never seen Grace Jones THIS angry until today.
An heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyo echos through the cosmos
Like I’ve said over and over: Allison wasn’t allowed to win this fight.
Man. I really thought those two were inseparable.
Closest White Chain has come to having breasts.
I think Alison might have actually won.
The one where you realise you were both mostly wrong but still a bit right.
So, this is how the embers of holy flames look lile…
You know, even if regular embers can’t match the radiance of the fire they come from, they still keep a warm, inviting brightness.
But this… these embers are so… sorrowful
hell is the job you can’t quit.
Salamat Daddy wants to quit being king, Allison wants to quit fighting. She claims to only fight to save Zaid, who “doesn’t deserve any of this.”
SD will call her on her shit, he knows about the break out attempt and that this show is a ruse. He will bring Zaid to bear, and tell Allison that since she stopped fighting his life is forfeit, and take his head. In a fit of righteous indignation, her royalty will flare and she will fight him.
He will use his free action dialog to ask her the difference between Zaid and any other of the poor turds in existence. Nobody deserves this, why would she fight for only one of them? A true regent would fight for them all.
then he would spray blood out of his eyes like a gila monster and use his winning wish to curse her with his kingdom and run away to live out the rest of his life on vacation.
Then gog agog couldn’t keep the act together any longer and would make the headless Zaid meat-puppet start dancing while the real Zaid continues eating bon bons in another castle.
How terribly like a thorn she becomes.
touched by the finger of God.
Or Master Asia.
I thought it all looked a bit too easy.
WAIT! I just realized the middle of her back was where the power button symbol was in her dreamscape sparring with Incubus! Foreshadowing of a weak point Allison has that White Chain would know about and exploit?
could be mark of something like chakra point, perfect area to hit to disperse energy, or some other mystical whats it.
Man. That victory has to taste just SSOOO sweet there. you can just see by the way she is savoring it. Cant help but wonder how ashes in the mouth taste when your mouth is made of ashes.
I always knew that Alison and Cio would break up, but daaaaang…that’s a hell of a way to get some personal space…
Hah! I thought she dodged.
So how damaged can an angel’s shell be while still able to host it’s essence?
Ok, first of all, I take back all the disparaging remarks about Angelic fighting prowess. Secondly, this reminds me so much of the moment Cio attacked Allison: the moment she won, when she thought she’d killed Allison, she came to her senses. It really looks like White Chain is having her ‘Oh sh*t!’ moment right there.
Now WC will have her fight with Solomon David and get what she’s always wanted, breasts and the right to be as womanly as she wants. She might even get her period every millennia.
with a stone body, would it be lava?
I wondered if angels bleed, so I looked back at where 23 something something (I forget their name) had been beaten up and they’re oozing some kind of fluid which may or may not be the angel equivalent of blood. So, maybe that?
Lava would definitely be cooler though.
Thorns.
Hmm…I’m disappointed in this outcome. It all seems too easy, too obvious, and nobody is learning a lesson from this. And the only one who needs to learn, is White Chain. But I also get the feeling that a lot of this is Allisons’ fault, for one reason and the ONE ‘plot device’ that I really can’t stand seeing: Miscommunication. Am I the only one who thinks that Allison would act like a normal person, and come out with it all off the bat, so nobody(WHITE CHAIN) is confused?
“Zoss appeared to me, and verbally confirmed that I’m to be his successor – he made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that I am the Heir. The Sovereign. Kill Six Billion Demons. It’s me, it has to be, so where are we getting this ‘Zaid’ idea from?”
So many stories are built up on needless drama because the one unforgivable sin is that they keep a fundamental bit of info to themselves. When no, I truly feel that people would act like people, and be honest about everything. In this, specifically and especially, that omission is both dangerous and foolish in the extreme.
Then again, would WC even listen? Who knows…
Nay, while us’s understanding thy frustration, methinks the Aeon would dismiss such information as mere prattle, or would think Allison may just be right bonkers. White Chain is very set in her ways an’ in believing what Michael yammered on to her regarding the heir, and killing Allison to get the key to Zaid if it comes to that. Though to White Chain’s credit, she didn’t seem too cheersome ’bout the command to kill her.
Really though, I don’t think White Chain would be the only being to scoff or give a strange look in response to Allison talkin’ about visions of Zoss that only she can see. This one understands why she’d keep quiet about it.
Huh… of course there is a way to disassociate a human/devil bond.
The secret name of this “burning finger” technique is “A thousand years of pain”.