Seeker of Thrones 11-152
Chapter: 11
5. Violence is circular. Perception is not circular and lacks flawlessness- therefore, rejoice in imperfect things, for their rareness is not lacking!
6. Love of self is the true exercise of the God called I.
7. Only an idiot cannot place his absolute certainty in paradoxes. The divine suicide is a perfect paradox. A man cannot exist without paradox – that is the full of it.
-Psalms, Book I (ROYALTY)
White Chain is skilled in the ancient art of “I was standing here the whole time”
Drax the Destroyer is also very skilled at that.
She has mastered the ability, of standing so incredibly still that she becomes invisible to the eye.
I love the eyes in White Chain’s hair, reminds me of a peacock tail <3
Allison: It’s kind of like here, except instead of spending all our time trying to kill everyone else, we spend all of our time trying to murder eachother.
Shits wack back there too
White Chain must be great at parties
Little known fact about Pree White Chain’s previous incarnations:
Slain by notorious fish stealer and food rapist Josep the Trout
Once killed a man with his own severed head
Through fell sorcery, their armor was once transmogrified into trashy romance novels(though was later restored to its ashen state).
Used to be a luxury rickshaw designer
Prior to the current incarnation as never once owned a any sort of hat aside from the helmet of their armor
Once swore eternal vengeance on the concept of lettuce, though revoked it later after a tragic and heartfelt romance with a sapient romaine
Comments like these are why I keep a trained eye on the Discussion section.
wHite cHain owns a Hat you say?? I see!! I see!!
For someone made out of stone, White Chain is quite the ninja.
The softest of stones.
Challenge! Make up random nonsense for White Chain’s undoubtedly convoluted backstory. Go!
awwww this is actualy really sweet to see them actualy getting together finally.
Allison: Well, my country elected an orange dunderhead that I would sell to Jagganoth for one corn chip, so there’s that.
Given that this comic started before 2016, it’s not likely Allison would know about that. Her timeline hasn’t caught up to that yet.
Depending on how the multiversal war plays out, it might not even happen. We can only hope…
Maybe if someone tells her what happens in 2016, that might just be the push she needs to achieve royalty.
Hrmm… She left before that happened. Probably doesn’t know anything about it. Best to just leave stuff like that unsaid. Reckon?
Yes, hopefully he died horribly and slowly in a car crash. We can only hope.
Yep, the country should have elected the syphilitic old woman instead. Oh well.
“Eventually this comic is going to devolve into just panels of Cio making faces”
-Abbadon
… paraphrased. (Also thank you for your hard work and the comment moderation Abbadon!)
Looks like my ship just sank.
The S.S. AlliCio will be missed.
For those of you who forgot what question Alice is answering in panel 3, it was basically, “Do you want to fuck later?”
So, yeah. She’d like that.
Did it tho?
Never interrupt an angel. It is, surely, against the Law.
The party is having some friendly banter? NOW THIS is the real fanservice.
the intimacy of angels and demons
Once heard from a bardic scholar that devils practice love of self through all their facial expressions.
This is the best thing ever.
Also, vanishing glasses on panel 5!
A collection of writings would be great – the Psalms, the Spasms, etc.
I love how White Chain just low key expects them to ask about her.
That guy whose character backstory is 3 pages long…
…I was that guy.
An angel on one shoulder, a devil on the other.
“…he will be flanked by a black and white flame…”
Hrmm… Good eye! Today you win the Internetz!
Really puts the last panel in perspective when you look at it that way, LOL!
“Heeeeeeeyyy Allison…”
She will be flanked by a white and a black flame.
AHHH the glasses! AHHH the soup!
Cio’s poor soup!
I love that White Chain closes all of her eyes when telling her life story, that’s adorable.
GOD DAMN IT, CIO! I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW AN ANGEL IS CREATED!
I believe we already had a page description lore dump that explained how angels came to be. Which, presumably, is White Chain’s origin, since I don’t think the forge god made angels in more than one batch.
Kos hand forged them from the Cold White Flame, which he took from the Forehead of UN.
When he had engraved the Old Law into their very souls, he quenched their molten forms in the Ashes of Oblivion, which hardened into their battle shells.
These were not like the battle shells you see angels wearing these days, which are forged by mortals from fragments of the original. These were the original Prime Angels, who were destroyed by Zoss.
Since then she was killed an additional 80 times, each time banished for an uncountable eon, to meditate in the void, before returning to a new, crudely man-made shell. 80, unfathomably long lifetimes of enforcing the Old Law our Multiplicity laid out for them, nigh heedless of the fact that these laws existed to protect tyrants, now long dead.
Slowly the various angels developed different ideas about what laws to enforce and how. Some became enforcers to the guilds or the Black Emperors, while others pledged to defend the weak, and others decided to keep the old ways, and still others just said, “Fuck it. I’m’a go party.”
These evolved into the Angelic Orders, who vie for control over the concordance of angels. Though, in secret, many of the orders’ leaders are now sworn to serve METATRON ONE, the last of the Prime Angels. Meaning these rival factions are merely unwitting catspaws to the same dark power.
Then she met Alice. The End.
I bet white chains spent a significant time of her life as a tree.
Like Jun, from Tomo Chan.
It’s where she got her haircut from.
I’ve perfected the art of standing so still, that ive become invisible.
Adorable.
And Allison has an angel and devil on her shoulder. Not too bad as advisors go.
How can such a collection of dysfunctional weirdos be so cute?
Allison is the only one who doesn’t have huge earrings.
Everyone else on the ship does. Hmmm.
Wheels turn behind the face
Positioned for perfect pace
Measures time by moving space.
At last, the three ladies(?) at the center of this comic realize they are thoroughly stuck with one another, and so will have to do that more dreaded and onerous feat: Get Along.
Friendship is indeed magic, for nothing less than sorcery can make different people enjoy each other’s company. (It is also, for this reason, why Dogs are wonderful and magic af, for they slot into friendship almost as if bid to that state by natural law.)
Well thanks to the fact that dogs are pack animals and we humans basically inserted ourselves in to the pack leadership, not the alpha, dogs are then compelled to seek the favor of the leader.
So replace natural law with one part a few million years of evolution and another part of a few thousand years of breeding.
Friendship is magic, the greatest of the Holy Words. Praise the Sixfold!
My original form was stardust – suck on that for a second, she-dawg.
Cio’s expression in the first three panels.
Everybody’s expressions in the last two.
Good grief, Abaddon. How do you keep on killing it without taking the time to resurrect it occasionally?
I bet Cio is bragging about her plot to finally conquest Al Is Un heart (or body).
I used to rather dislike Cio, but the magic of a proper apology has made all that melt away. Congrats on the character development Cio
So many great faces on Cio here.
I love White Chain’s design.
I love how everyone’s appearance has been changing as the story progresses. That’s a lot of work and I appreciate the the time and effort that has gone into this.
If this comic was replaced entirely with Cio faces I’m not sure if I could really say it would be worse
Question, for the Psalms that you have, are you basing them off any real world philosophies or is it just what you have to fit in with the mythology of this world?
An immortal, whether angel or devil, would find it hard to relate to a human, true mortals as they are.
This will be very awkward, and very humorous.
Methinks if White Chain wants to get results, she should tell her story from the end backwards, instead of from the beginning.
With how much Allison has made Cio blush in the past, I’m glad Cio finally got to return the favor.
Those first three panels are just… wickedly smug, and I approve!
Also, White Chain was chilled into shape by Koss, or some say Kossm.
HELLOOOOO ALLISON
I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND
Hrmm… Not sure about y’all, but when I see Cio’s apron, I can’t help but think of Oklahoma. And Oklahoma makes me think of musicals and barbeque. Mmm… barbeque!
“OOOOOOH-Klahoma where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain!
…
You’re doing fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma, O.K.!”
Blue devils are wicked, but twice as naive.
Dastardly, cryptic, and easy to please.
They think that they’re proud — methinks they’re ashamed,
Embarrassed of loving the fact that they’re named.
Thyself is a mirror, reflecting fractals of distorted reality. Perception is not to see, but to deceive oneself
Eternal sunset sounds like a good place to chill
It’s a bit spicy for my tastes, but I understand that not everyone suffers from the compulsion to swallow the Sun, every time it sets.
I enjoy how Cio tries to look cool but is a blue devil and therefore just makes really silly expressions.
Love Allison’s face in the first frame: “Oh shit, do I really want to get into fucking demons?”
White Chain doing “And one time, at band camp…” is great too.
I have read this fucking masterpiece in one sitting today.
Best. Fucking. Webcomic. Ever.
The details, the characters, the world and story are all amazing and thoroughly weird and cool. Keep making this wonderful piece of art, and even tho I’d kill for, like, 10 more pages, keep making it at your own pace.
I am buying any/all hardcovers that exist.
I am just totally fucking in awe of how amazing this comic is.
I’m glad we finally found out that White Chain is dual classing as monk/rogue.
I dig characters with facial scars. I’m starting to like this series. More.
I started re-reading the story, just to see how different White Chain is now than before.
There was a lot of violence, destruction, & a tendency to try to lead & dominate almost everything, not just in battle, but also in conversations, to what everyone was going to take as the next course of action. The epiphany they had when they saw people reacting to them about to beat someone to death with a table.
A lot of other callbacks and forshadowing in very subtle ways. For example, we’ve seen Thorn Knights, Mammon, & Incubus fairly early on, the ash armor that angels can inhabit & bound demons can control (in the case of the buses) looks eerily similar to armor people are wearing. It’s just, who do you get to possess the darned thing in the first place, a hostile demon that somehow fits inside a limb, or a friendly angel.
Not to mention our meddling King of whom Allison is the successor, who also seems to floating around messing with space time quite a bit, as he keeps showing up to see how things are panning out after his eventual death… This might be a fringe theory, but it really seems to me now that the God King trying something a bit more complex that he is keeping to himself. Like, when Allison told him he lost his head, he corrects her & says heads, then covers for it saying there are 7 more to cut off… I am thinking the only mistake he did there when he said heads is conveying the truth, if only for a nanosecond when he backtracked.
As in, he scouted out worthy successors that weren’t screwed up people looking for personal power. Instead, he looked for two very screwed up people suffering from co-dependency issues.
I mean, the few comics before Allisson’s boyfriend get kidnapped & put into a magical cryosleep did not endear me to him in the least… But is he always like that? We might be just about to see a flashback to see what exactly Alice saw in him in the first place, & why she wants to save him. Now, just imagine if the shoe was on the other foot, & he had the key instead… I did, & then I got to thinking that, that was the entire point in the first place. Allison’s predecessor really started to doubt their decision when she was about to abandon a friend, Cio, to accomplish her goals. I am thinking the pair were technically chosen in anticipation of how prophecy actually works, & he IS already screwing around with the timey-wimey anyway. Maybe he got to thinking, what if he purposely just decided he would show up there, after he scouted them out a bit & was convinced he might get the results he needed throughout space-time, seeing the effects he wrought before he actually takes his actions, with his actions being, thrust the key into the face of whoever is closest of the two, knowing full well whoever got the key would be kidnapped before it could happen, thus making whoever was still there the closest person, & they got the key instead (thus causing a new cycle, & two versions of the entire multiverse, one where he has the key and has to rescue her, & one where she gets the key and has to rescue him. And would both versions of the same person be linked after a key gets slammed into the other one in order to make the odd-duck technically averted prophecy happen? I may have gone too far with this speculation though…)
You know, Cio, I see what you’re doing with your tail there. Mehehe…
Cio’s glasses appear to be missing in panel 5
I wonder if, when White Chain’s shell was intact, she always kept the same pair of eyes facing out, or put them in a rotation?
Noooo, I want to hear more from White Chain!
Does anyone else imagine White Chain speaking with Christopher Judge’s voice? Because I do
I imagine she does speak in that register when she has a chip on her shoulder about being a traditional “genderless” angel. I wonder if she knows any angel jokes…
“A thorn knight, a petal knight and a root knight meet on an abandoned planet…”
Cio is drawn so cute and sexy here… even a root knight can admit that.