KOS 9-116
Chapter: 9
The Gods showed the first human to YISUN, bringing her in a walnut shell because she was so delicate. They could not believe how small and frail she was. Though she slept quite peacefully, at every breath they quailed and wrung their hands, fearing that she would fall apart at any moment. They crept carefully and cautiously into YISUN’s speaking hall, cradling her and whispering in hushed tones as they gently presented her upon a cushion before the Lord of Songs.
YISUN took one look at her and said, “This is the most dangerous being in existence.”
-Spasms
That Colour…
No wonder it took so long.
Though I think Leflair Zöne’s going to wondering where some of their purple and pink went to 😛
“Oh? You’re approaching me…?”
It’s the pose and everything. Allison, you amazing goddamn weeb.
I had to scroll *way* too far down to find this.
Frame #3 is so totally sexy.
And frame #4, where Allicio is literally mopping the floor with White Chain, is devastating.
I wish to have it as a poster or print…
Wait! Did they just beat Chain by figuring out her boss pattern?
I dunno, it’s looking an awful lot like she has a phase 2.
Ah the one thing that could be the downfall of our dear brother is the fact that her order is fragile in of itself. She is young and does not know of the true essence of order otherwise she would not be in this situation. Had she been patient she would have had the “true heir” in her possession and half way off world. Proving her teacher that they were capable and not just a young misguided student that hasn’t yet gotten the lesson.
Aly’s finishing move: “Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!”
Fetchez la vache!
Get absolutely called out, White Chain. God damn.
“Cheat at Cards”
Truly the Apex, the Mount Qaf, The Holy Point for anybody,anywhere.
Oh yes, that’s brilliant. Tell White Chain how she can win the fight.
If White Chain doesn’t take Alicio’s advice to heart Alicio wins the fight. If White Chain does take their advice then their friend White Chain learns to accept change and grow as a person and likely working past the issues that lead to the fight in the first place. Win/win if you ask me. The latter might even be preferable in a “lose a battle but win the war” kind of way.
What nonsense is this? Every personal problem should be solved with kung fu.
I am always saddened when one of my children has become so root-bound that it can no longer grow.
The answer is simple, and unpleasant, as always. White Chain’s vessel must be broken if she is to have any hope of future growth.
It is only through the breaking and re-formation of the vessels that the Sephiroth became capable of acting in the realm of created things
“Many must be broken, so that he may make them whole.
Others will be crushed, and lose their own soul.”
While this is quite satisfying, I fear perhaps one has forgotten an important detail: There were three fighters left in this ring.
Allicio: Oh? You’re approaching me? Instead of running away, you’re coming right to me? Even though your grandfather, Joseph, told you the secret of The World, like an exam student scrambling to finish the problems on an exam until the last moments before the chime?
82: I can’t beat the shit out of you without getting closer.
Allicio: Oh ho! Then come as close as you like.
“A bored engineer is more dangerous than an atomic bomb. Atomic bombs are predictible. Bored engineers are not.”
Personally… Now that shes gone and basically bragged about it, i cant help but feel that she/they might be in trouble and have done one of those “Critical Mistakes” things…
Is it too much to ask for other guy to have been blasted out of the ring from their prior attacks?
This is the perfect example of the eternal struggle between Conservative and Liberal. (no, no, not your insignificant local politics, think more grandly.)
If the balance tips too far towards the Conservative side, things get stagnant, rotten, and tyrannical.
If the Liberal side over-dominates, all that is flies apart in a flurry of chaotic change. Destruction, nothing remains.
Both sides need a constant Kung Fu dual to keep them engaged with each other. They must keep testing the other and reality to see which side needs to give a little in the current situation.
Thus they enter a violent creative union and universes can be born.
The great healing of opposites.
could’ve and should’ve just said “order and chaos” or “stability and change” or something duder. whether u like it or not those words refer to “insignificant local politics” and it’s dumb to try and use them on a cosmic scale
There’s meaning to be found in drawing a connection between cosmic principles and local politics. Otherwise, they’re nothing more than arbitrary labels for groups engaged in pointless, destructive struggle.
sure, but this guy denied said comparisons right outta the boat! just explicitly bein’ all, “this isn’t about local politics” and then implicitly making the connection anyway! it’s foolish at best and rhetorically dishonest at worst
A paradoxical intervention designed to entice the mind and engage the emotions on various levels, to the end of increasing awareness of self. This I humbly model on the teaching style of of the Great Liar. I can only hope to one day be as concise as They
You are among the first to question my methods and thus require me to examine and improve myself. Do continue with my blessing and my thanks.
Conservation of tradition and the liberty to rethink paradigms are both essential to the healthy growth and stability of a society, but also to the health of a rational worldview. Letting yourself become emotionally invested in the supposed superiority of one over the other is the mistake.
That’s how people get their personal identity tied up with this
or that political party, and that’s how people get turned into obedient lambs, ready to parrot the party line on any issue, no matter how little it has to do with the tradition/change debate, or how ridiculous it might be.
The truth is, tradition and new ideas should compete, not just in civil debate, but inside the mind of each thinking individual. You should not accept either bias in your own judgement. So, bad behavior from either side of the aisle is never good, and all people should hold all of their leaders accountable for their actions, regardless of whether they have signed up for Team Tis-Yin or Team Un-Yang.
The fact that modern political discourse has labeled this ideology “Radical Centrism” says more about that diseased paradigm than the philosophy itself.
When cast to stone, by surprise
Defend yourself, avert your eyes
Take a second to sympathise.
It must be both the saddest and the proudest moment of any master when they realize that their pupil has surpassed them. They have reached the very point the two of them worked towards to all along but now they don´t have anything more to teach them and their time together will end.
Unless they decide to keep learning together, to go beyond.
Absolutely. Magnificent. And I LOVE this Chekhov’s gun of “cheating in cards” thing from the beginning of the book.
Ave, Abbadon, lecturi te salutant!
More of a ‘brick joke’ than a Chekhov’s gun I think, though it does take on greater significance here.
I’m just waiting for damsel-dude and rescue team to interrupt their little battle. “We have what we want, let’s get out of here.”
Solomon meanwhile … munching popcorn and enjoying the soap opera?
how to win:
one: cheat
thats it
I said this before, and I will said this again right now:
SEVEN PAGE MUDA INCOMING
I sure hope not. Beatdowns like that are reserved for the lowest of scum and nobody else. White Chain didn’t train Allison for all this time to be put on the same level as Steely Dan and Cioccolata
I can’t decide which I enjoy more: the physical beatdown, or the verbal one. Dayummm, let her have it, Allicio! Tell her off good!
Then beat her ass.
The inherent strength and weakness of Angels is that they know all the moves in the book.
A student scribbling in the margins of that book is completely beyond them.