Seeker of Thrones 2-12
Chapter: 2
“And there a bloody compact was made, to seek treasure in the deep and hollow places of the world. And the blood was mixed and thrown on the fire. Iron was grasped, and sweat was wiped from many a brow, for the road ahead was long, and descended far beyond the grasp and ken of happy men.”
– Enyis and the Boar King
Is that the beginnings of a halo I see above Alison’s head there? No wonder Cio’s startled.
Look at how close she is, to wear a crown of her own!
DROP THE SPOON
She’s still working out whether her totem is going to be a spoon or a scissor.
Rising King is the name of Allison’s Stand.
ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!
Righteous assertion. It is good to see our king exercise her will, even if it is a display as smll and brief as this.
Alison’s Weird Voyage: Fighting Inclination
The Rising King, and the Falling King, all in one moment.
When you have so few minions, you would do well to listen them! Specifically about medical concerns involving YOUR BLOOD.
Gives new meaning to the concept of stealing a boyfriend.
She told you, dog.
I TOLD YOU BRO
I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE BLOOD LOSS
It keeps hapening.
And yet no one listens.
To be fair Cio, it is a common mistake. I’ve forgotten that plenty of times myself.
Not that a little sucking chest wound ever seemed to be enough to stop my masters.
Now kiss. Or did they already? I don’t know how becoming a vatra works.
Actually, I think the only Devil’s Kiss Alison has is from Vladok, and he broke the pact before becoming Princess, so it might not count anymore.
I’m sure I’m being thick here but why exactly does Allison want to rob Mammon? I swear I’ve read every issue but there’s so much going on it’s easy to lose track of the particulars. Is Mammon holding her boyfriend?
Which, is a whole separate issue entirely, at this point why does she care about saving him and am I as a reader really supposed to believe the power was mistakenly given to her? I don’t for an instant nor do I believe Allison will hand it over to him. She barely knows the dude and he didn’t exactly leave a good impression from what I saw in the opening chapter.
My hope is that she disintegrates Zaid when it comes time to hold the crown or pass it to him.
Zaid is being kept with Mammon, yes. This has been mentioned, though to be perfectly honest I forget where.
None of us here believe that the power was given to her by mistake, but within the world a number of important figures have assumed this: 2 Michael and Juggernaut Star being notable ones, those two being why White Chain believes the same.
Why exactly she cares to save Zaid in the first place, however, is know only to her.
(Though, if you would like my speculation: She wants to prevent anyone else going through the panicked screaming everything-you-know-about-the-world-is-wrong experience that was the first few chapters of this comic. Or she simply is in dire need of a purpose.)
It is also possible, though perhaps unlikely, that she is still merely trying to, as the mortals put it, “get laid.”
Yes.
Mammon has Zaid, so he is next on Allison’s hitlist.
–just as soon as she get’s this whole “standing” thing under control.
As for handing over the key to Zaid, I don’t think so. She entered the Void with he stated goal of rescuing him, and I think she’s going to do that, more out of inertia than any real desire to be with him.
Really, I think she just wants to send him home, as a way of closing the circle on the crazy day that started her journey. I doubt she really wants to go “home” anymore, herself.
Yes, Mammon is her boyfriend’s holder as he is seen as the most secure location. She cares about saving him because she does not see him as deserving to be subject to the whims of these crazed demiurges, first impressions or no.
Behold your Queen, AL-YIS-UN, wounded and radiant
Behold power never meant for someone with a weak will. Behold growth.
Blood for the blood god!
Though wont the humans need their blood
If so I’ve made a terrible mistake.
Eh, I’m not in a hurry.
I’ll get it all eventually.
Later in Cio’s novel this scene will be changed to her back against the wall and Alison preforming a ‘Kabe-Don’.
That sickening moment when you realize that this is the same filter that Trump fans say the Trump/Clinton debates through.
Have you ever desperately needed to vomit the blood of everything that ever bled?
YISUN’s 40
On the one hand, I’m glad she’s got some confidence finally. On the other hand, Alison, This is NOT how you treat your friends if you want to have them when you need them most. Repeating past-Cio’s mistakes is likely -not- a wise plan.
they’re not friends, they’re just -here-.
Some people, that’s enough. Not Allison, seems like.
I just noticed Alice-UN was strongly reacting to every sentence or implication that she’s just a tool to someone.
True Royalty can’t stand being instrumentalized
However note that she reacts by asserting that everyone needs to serve a purpose as one of her tools.
True Royalty does not need to struggle to hold dominance like this. It merely is dominance incarnate.
The light forms bright as will makes might.
That flavor text reminds me of a bit from a children’s rhyme on my world.
Shining West!
Magnificent crest!
Of jewels and emeralds and pearls!
They belong to the crown!
In the queen’s dressing gown!
Not lost in a sand dune’s curls!
Lousiest attempt at propaganda I’d ever seen before the conquering.
While Allison is being kinda bitchy to Cio here, Cio has also erred in underestimating her and writing bad self-insert fanfic about her… Allison is likely no stranger to fandom, and would probably find amateurish RPS fanfic more than a bit creepy. Additionally, Cio has consistently underestimated Allison (assuming she couldn’t outdrink Vladok, telling her to abandon her quest, “make something of you” kind of rhetoric) – not particularly friendly behaviors, because Cio hasn’t tried to know the real allison, just the fantasy version she put on a pedastal.
Gotta wonder what her halo’s going to look like when it gets going!
Poor Human’s and their “Blood”
Yeah! I swapped out my blood for liquid gold years ago, and look at me now! Mammon’s advisors say I’m so valuable to the Bank that they won’t let me leave!
She who rides the lightning must be prepared to face the thunder. And the thunder of the Rising King is thunder indeed. Be not too afeared, Cio Cioelle ashta-Yabalchoath, for after a storm is a calm. Or not. Tha be robbin’ Mammon.