Seeker of Thrones 2-13
Chapter: 2
“The deeps are treacherous,” said Enyis. “It’s cold, and my ribs hurt. I fear my poor heart will give out before long. How on earth can I protect it, if not by steel?”
“You can’t,” said the Boar King, “A hero must always wear his heart on the outside.”
A new city lines the sky.
A new life silhouettes the same.
A shadow lacks detail.
Your’re not as weird as you used to be
I hope the change is not permanent. It isn’t melting is it?
My Shadow is small, but dark.
You must stand close, if you wish to peer in.
Choose now, Plato or Parmenides.
Familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt breeds complacency. Complacency breeds ~fantastic~ sales opportunities.
Oh no :c
This is going to make great fic material for Ceo.
A fic fit for a god.
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True Kings don’t cry.
Or maybe they do.
And that’s why they’re True Kings.
True Royalty cries whenever it pleases. Such is their divine right.
When you are True Royalty, every party is in fact your party.
With the weight of such a crown, what else can one do but crack?
Cope. Whoever believes crying is breaking should probably cry more. They might find themselves more durable.
Wear it. Use it. Be it. This sorry brittle skull did not crack from their crown as well. We cracked from steel put in place of the crown, edge first.
That pretty much covers all the bases.
Blood loss always makes humans so sniffly.
You have nooooo idea!
Yet many still get back up and do it again.
SHE MADE ALICE-UN-CHAN CRY D;
Buddy, the day you refer to the Rising King by a diminutive honorific in public is the day I make a new friend, 37 Sermons Chopped Into Minuscule Pieces By King.
Ah, here we see a truth. Anyone given position of greatness must necessarily wear two faces; the face you wear before the many, and the face you wear in private.
When you step upon the grand stage, you must play the part you’re given. You are forced to act in fate’s great play. Away from that stage, many would agree, fate’s theater production is a tiresome, wearying thing.
I don’t fault the girl her tears, either for that or for recently recovering from being briskly perforated. I am familiar with the pain of one, and I am given to understand the pain of the other is analogous.
It is said one of the parts of Royalty is to change your Self /Form into a Self/Form you desire, or which fits the task at hand.
It is also said that True Royalty will change the world to suit the Self.
Perhaps it is a paradox, and both are true. And perhaps both are false as well.
If Goffman is to be believed, we all have our frontstages and our backstages.
Closer and closer do we spiral towards fate’s cold end. But what pains it brings only one can tell for themselves.
I WAS WRONG
THE YURI IS BACK ON
Allison and Cio were just indulging a bit of Tsundere in that previous scene. If anything, the Yuri never left. It just smoldered.
I’d have to say yuri-ght on target.
LOOKS LIKE YURI’S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS
Frequently, I suspect that most of the beings here with names in the Angelic style are not actually Angels.
Increasingly frequently.
Their parents just love numbers. It is a fad to name ones children with them. Better then naming them after fruit I suppose.
57 Not an Angel
When you’ve lived for most of existence, you’ve got to find some sort of hobby.
Was there ever any doubt?
Shippers gonna ship.
I’m sure there’s an anime about this. Yuri on a ship?
Despair not, o AL-YS-UN. Even the highest of Kings does not need to stand alone amidst the storms of ages.
As one who has seen the treachery devils preform among the cosmically ignorant womenfolk of backwater places, I, regardless, ship this.
ahoy mateys
ship’s a’sailing
Allow me to share one of the Seven Truths of Commerce.
Ships will come, and ships will go. Unless you are at the tiller, there is nothing you can do to affect their passage.
@Bone Jelly Sandwiches
I think she choose both the spoon and the scissors as her totem.
I wonder what’s going on with Zain. How did Mammon get his claws on him, if it was Thorn Knights that took him away originally? Why were Thorn Knights accompanying Mr. King anyway?
Y’know what? This is probably the best question.
Aeon Royalists Anonymous claims they’re trying to put Zaid back into the line of succession where he belongs.
But if they’re right, then it was their own Thorn Knights who fucked up his coronation.
So…?
http://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-4-75/
The boy was removed, ah, forcefully, from the Thorn Knights, as explained here.
Mm, that doesn’t cut it. Even before Jagganoth got involved, those Thorns beheaded Zoss and nabbed Zaid before the boy got passed the Key. If they really wanted him crowned, why didn’t they wait for the coronation to be over before whisking him away? Why did they risk the Key being lost?
From my understanding, after the meeting of the Seven l, Zaid was given to Mammom for safekeeping until they knew what to do. For the infinite vaults of the Dragon God are equal parts prison as well a repository.
The Thorns are (ostensibly*) helping the Seven Demiurges hunt Zoss and capture his Heir, to prevent the situation from further destabilizing.
*(Actually, they work for 2 Michael and Metatron 1, but that is a secret.)
Do you not recall Jagganoth throwing the emptied shell of my wayward brother to the ground before the council before demanding why Thorns were in his territory? The Thorns in no way serve the 7, even superficially. Jagganoth intercepted them and took Zaid.
YES, RESTORE MY SHIP
I’m still amazed at how quickly those impaling wounds healed. Was there some Art involved?
Maybe it’s the key?
Maybe it’s Maybelline.
We need a Thorn Knight called ‘6 Jesus Resurrects in Jerusalem’
Just a random thought but Holly Molly would it be good
Indeed it would be.
Wouldn’t tbat be 2 Jesus ot is this fool missing the joke?
True. I presume the number would be much higher, though. Altruists and rebels tend to live short lives.
((Are things going to get gay))
((Yes))
Does it matter?
All things matter somewhere to some degree to someone. This is what defines a thing in the first place.
All valid. But does it matter more than to exist in the first place?
I don’t see no tampons nor pills. It will be hard once she starts bleeding the other way.
And hey, how come demons have genders or something like that when angels are just angels?
Well, demon gender seems to be relatively fluid. Vladok changed from a elderly male ebon to a tiny female blue. Perhaps it was because name Al-Yis-Un gave was female? Still unclear on that.
Devil genders are various. Most Blue and Gold are female, most Red and Verdant male. Not all, but most. Ebon seem to be without bias, and I suspect that the gender of an Ebon Devil has to do with its True nature, in the sense of its True Name.
But I digress. They change, typically.
Angels are forged from the Cold White Flame of Un, Lord of all that is Not, and as such they tend to assume that they are all masculine, like their father.
Femininity is seen as a symptom of absorbing too much influence from the warmer Orders of Inheritors.
Demons are born from the Hot Black Flame of Yis, Lady of all that Is, however they are given identities by the names and masks that human magisters bind them with, so Human cultural influence is not just assumed, but necessary for them to even exist.
Certain colors of mask even tend to enforce certain genders, for the convenience of the old magisters. So a demon expects to have to change gender a couple of times, if they want to climb the spectrum to Ebon.
Devils and humans are derived from the same black flame, while angels are the cold white flame of all that isn’t. They disdain form, while devils embrace it.
You seem to have a skewed interpretation of theogony, possibly because you’ve apparently never left the void.
There were two black flames, just as there were two white flames. But where the Weak White Flame was made into the races of Servants, so did great Aesma make the Weak Black Flame into all the sorts of Perceiivers, including humans.
Yes. But the flame, hot or warm, had the same black origins. My phrasing was perhaps skewed. When I say the same black flame, I mean the same point of origin, the same essence. Mother Yis.
Technically, Humans were forged from the Warm Black Flame by YIS-Shema, goddess of hasty craftsmanship, while demons were forged from the Hot Black Flame by Humans.
Devils are bound by humans, given a face and a name. But that hungry black flame yearns from the start; the devils are there, always, waiting for consciousness. You saw Vladok unchained; not formless ether, a mindless, ravenous beast.
Simple, they’re not. 82 White Chain has a female gender even if the rest of the angels disagree with that notion. Some angels are also quite masculine, but some are in fact a genderless, often due to being floating orbs or cubes or some shit. I’ve also seen many a placid devil who seem not have any features to distinguish them one way or another.
Not everything has been fully removed from her bag, and I see multiple pockets upon it. One may indeed contain the items you mention, if forward planning was applied during the packing stage.
In the last panel AL-YIS-UN is curled up in much the same way I prefer to sleep.
Aw Geez…
Now they must kiss.
Now kiss
oh just kiss already
Whilst Cutting one’s Self into a superior Form, take care that you do not Cut away anything that you will need later.
Resources, allies, body parts, etc.
And especially not that lust for life. A form that takes no joy in living is half dead already, and cannot properly be called Superior.
Hmm, but if you were placed to choose between Cutting away something dear to yourself, something that defines you, perhaps even that lust for life, or Cutting apart your path to that superior form, which loss would you choose to lament?
Perhaps that is why she cries. Perhaps she knows that one or the other must go. Perhaps I missed it, and the moment has come and gone and she’s already lamenting her choice. I am rather scatterbrained at times.
True Royalty would Cut away the very dichotomy.
Eat your cake and then Cut away the non-existence of he cake, so you can still have it for later.
Or you can, as Meti suggests, never start down the Way of Cutting at all, and take up carpentry.
If you must take up Cutting, you cannot do it by halves. Well you can, but the moment you release your cutting motion, it begins it’s karmic orbit back to you.
It’s like hunting lions. Once the pointy end of the spear goes into the lion, do not let go of the handle end.