Seeker of Thrones 1-4
Chapter: 1
“In some parts they know the master of Throne as the god Zayus Patrom, father of lightning. In others they know him as the great warrior called Angel-Breaker, who fights with a spear dipped in molten silver. Only one name is bestowed upon him in common across all the wretched cosmos: King.”
-Sayophraxes, Silent Sister of the Wax Covenant
Are you sure it was a mistake?
This will go well
I bet Alison will be completely okay with this plan, and support it wholeheartedly.
Angels aren’t the smartest bunch. I suppose when you command such enormous strength and are born with purpose already hammered into your being, the need for deep or complex thinking is considerably diminished.
I get the feeling no mistake was made.
Methinks Zoss did *not* make a mistake.
Methinks Zoss is an ancient wily king who knows how to cut and how to lie.
Methinks Zoss chose AL-YIS-UN, for the kabbalistic significance of her name, but made everyone think she was his second pick.
Methinks Zaid is a patsy.
White Chain is also a patsy here….
The crux of the Prophecy is that The Ruling King will chose a Successor, and then “he” will do a bunch of things. I don’t know if this was intentional, but it’s a frequently misunderstood fact that English has pronoun ambiguity. “He” can mean a man or it can mean “that person we were just talking about” or it can mean “someone”.
Zoss made no mistake and had no need for Deception. The Ruling King chose his successor in the most direct way – by bestowing the Key of Kings upon them.
I will be shocked. SHOCKED! to discover that Al-Yi-Sun is actually the Chosen Successor later. Frankly I hope that this plot device is short-lived. It is far far too transparent. The presence of Zoss himself at the Demon Tree debunks the Zaid theory so thoroughly that it is beyond absurd–though Al-Yi-Sun will probably jump at the chance to evade her awful destiny.
I think it’s more useful as a way to create reasonable doubt inside Allison’s own mind.
To explain: Allison needs some time to level up; makes the story more interesting if she can’t just wield her Key right away. But the instructions for using the Master Key are deceptively simple: “you just use it”. So the only limiting factor is that you need to be *able* to just use it, without wondering whether it’ll work. Without even thinking about it.
Or, as Meti puts it, “To cut properly, you must continually self-annihilate when cutting. Your hand must become a hand that is cutting, your body a body that is cutting, your mind, a mind that is cutting. You must instantaneously destroy your fake pre-present self. It is a useless hanger on.”
So that nagging doubt, that idea that, okay, I’m just holding onto the Key until we find Zaid or whatever, even if *we* don’t believe it, it’s effective as a limiter. If you’ve got that in the back of your head, it’ll be a rarer thing to get emotionally charged enough to forget it, to go “fuck That”, and SLICE
I will beyond joy if Alison’s line in the next panel is “What makes you think it was a mistake?”
When the seven are struck down, there will be seven keys, right? If the same person wielded all 7, assuming one can even do that, would they have potential power equaling the wielder of Zoss’ key?
If so, then one must ask why Zoss simply didn’t keep all the Keys for himself. I suspect only one key per brow.
Now what if you had more than one head?
I feel like there must be some way of adding entries to a key though. The demiurges didn’t start out with 1/7 of the multiverse each, they claimed them after the original owners were killed. So maybe any key can hold any number of keys? It doesn’t even appear to be unique, since Zoss’ key has them all. Presumably Allison could, given the right knowledge, give Zaid (or anyone else) a copy of her key with all powers and rights intact?
In the words of esteemed Abaddon: “It’s kind of like a highlander situation, they absorb the power of the key and have some measure of control and understanding of it thereafter. Each key is a tuning fork for the voice of a specific God, so the current Seven are just tuned to more frequencies, so to speak”
So take of that what you will. Though also, there are exactly 777,778 keys total. The Master Key is unique, and may well be more powerful than the sum of the others. Or may not be.
That being the case, should the demiurges (or their replacements) fall upon themselves, we would wind up with an opponent for Allison (or whoever is holding the key at that point) with equally as much potential power as her.
Thematically this appears to be setting up Zaid as the un Allison, eventually given the highlandered full key, and harkening back to the battle between Yis and Un.
Okay, quick question, why are you blue now?
If you go back to the very beginning, specifically page 6, you can see that the key is alligned to Alison and not Zaid. I think that is proof enough that she was King all along.
“I was trying so hard to not break out into JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure posing here”
THE HARDEST BATTLE
I’m convinced that Zaid was never prophesied in the first. I think that Jadis’s prophecy did not specify the gender of the successor, and her translators simply delivered it as “he” because it didn’t occur to them that it could be anything else, and the Seven and Michael and everyone else just bought it. It’s occurred to me more than once that Metatron might be keeping something from Michael and the other angels – I wonder if he has a different play?
I don’t remember Zaid being that… ethnic.
He does look a little paler in his first appearance, but “Zaid” is typically an Arabic name.
When White Chain imagines somebody in that pose, they become ethnic.
A wise King should next ask, “So if Zoss slew almost all of the angels and stole the key from them, then why do they care about his choice of successor?”
I would ask if he slew them all before ever having a key, by what power did he slay them? Because I’d want that.
Maybe a LACK of power by the slain? Maybe opportunity? Without being deep, a mosquito can kill something a million times more massive than it. One single one can certainly get ME running for weapons!
A continuous cutting motion. =)
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ＴＨＩＳ ＭＵＳＴ ＢＥ ＴＨＥ ＷＯＲＫ ＯＦ ＡＮ ＥＮＥＭＹ 「ＳＴＡＮＤ」！！
ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ
OH! MY! GOD!
Why does she care what Zoss wanted? Isn’t her loyalty more to the angel hierarchy?
And the angel hierarchy has decided they’re stuck with mortals wielding Keys, but they can at least shape a nascent key-wielder to fit with their views of the universe better than any established user.
Why they don’t go “Oh, you’re already friends with the person that ended up with the Key? How about we just use her?” is a bit of a mystery, perhaps they believe you can only tweak the prophecy so much without it unraveling.
Walk like them until they walk like you.
Alison must not bercome the new rising King (or Queen)
She should proclaim a Republic, arm the proletariat and the luimpenproletariat, and defend the Republic from the menace of obscurantist angelism on one hand, the menace of primitive Thorn fascism on the other hand, and the collectivism and statism of Zoss’s wretched inheritors, or which Mottom was but one example, on yet still another hand. (Yes, that adds up to three hands. So what?)
No kings, no queens, no angels!
Defend the Republic of the Multiverse!
Call upon friendly alternative realities to help you. Appeal to alt-President Eisenhower!(And if this means that the Convair B-36 will find it’s final battle, it’s true purpose and it’s apotheosis in the skies above Throne, so be it!)
No paseran
(none of the above should be taken as in any way a request for Abbadon to do anything differently from what Abbadon is doing, all of which has been perfect in every possible way, and all of which is, of course, theirs alone to decide. The above is only an expression of appreciation, enthusiasm, and the deepest admiration. )
Does White Chain know that Allison effectively killed Mother Om, fufilling part of the prophecy? Wouldn’t this knowledge make them rethink things?
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If zoss actually intended Zaid to be the king then fuck him he has shit taste. Allison is better in every conceivable way and i want her to be the god-monarch of all existence.
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My mistake, I foolishly thought Metatron was a god, but it would seem he is merely a Prime angel.
Lets see… “Known as Father of Lightning…. Molten Silver dipped Spear….King” He does give quite the Zeus/Odin vibes does he not?