A demon trying to get away from the fact she used to be, like, Super Caligula. An angel trying to square being female with being a member of a genderless (if often rather male-coded) species. It’s always a bit of a relief to contemplate people with even worse identity problems than your own.
If they stay on the ol’ ship any longer, they are gonna need a lot of guts to get off. More and more fools will be coming after them, armed with delusions of grandeur. A cascade of danger, if you will. Genuine grit. Focused frenzy. These are the strengths that are needed now, and I think AL-YISUN is surrounded by comrades that will lend these strengths to her. In a word: ~ B E R S E R K ~
My temporary concern over the quality of character development from seeing Alice lash out as a ‘bad girl’ has been resolved, *very* quickly. And it felt very organic. Glad to see the story isn’t trying to force an identity that feels fake, and is self-aware of how unnaturally quick her change seemed. (It was clearly forced.)
It’s obvious to me (again) that Abaddon knows what he/she is doing.
Ship or no ship, the biggest thing to come from these last few panels is Cio’s seeming wisdom coming in a well wrapped, sexy, finalistic, but utterly hypocritical bundle. I would expect that reality is more nuanced than her views, her stamps, reflecting upon others. White Chain’s issues and resolution are probably beyond even this devil’s wisdom.
Hopefully this theme isn’t simply left crystallized in these few pages.
Is it just me or is there a parallelism between White Chain and Alyson?
White Chain is looking for an actual physical mask that will fit while our heroine has been wearing a figurative mask. The hair colour being just one part of that mask she wore trying to “fit in” and be “normal” where that means average and mundane. In some cultures that is called being “honorable” as in behaving as one is expected to behave despite what damage it may do to ones self.
Here we see one slowly stripping away aspects of her mask. Will the other realize something similar about themselves and go on a similar journey of self discovery?
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ALYISUN has yet to ask herself why she’s there.
You have noticed well. How many of us dare to peer behind our own mask! None who have tried have survived unchanged.
A demon trying to get away from the fact she used to be, like, Super Caligula. An angel trying to square being female with being a member of a genderless (if often rather male-coded) species. It’s always a bit of a relief to contemplate people with even worse identity problems than your own.
I find something delightful in a demon lecturing on why one shouldn’t wear masks.
It’s not like she can remove it; it seems the whole personality is in the mask.
Here’s a concerted (but subtle) effort to nail down the gender bias of the posse.
Also I’ve never seen smoke drawn like that. Not bad, Mister A. Not bad at all.
It’s a wonder the ship still moves, given the personal baggage levels of 3 of the people onboard.
If they stay on the ol’ ship any longer, they are gonna need a lot of guts to get off. More and more fools will be coming after them, armed with delusions of grandeur. A cascade of danger, if you will. Genuine grit. Focused frenzy. These are the strengths that are needed now, and I think AL-YISUN is surrounded by comrades that will lend these strengths to her. In a word: ~ B E R S E R K ~
My temporary concern over the quality of character development from seeing Alice lash out as a ‘bad girl’ has been resolved, *very* quickly. And it felt very organic. Glad to see the story isn’t trying to force an identity that feels fake, and is self-aware of how unnaturally quick her change seemed. (It was clearly forced.)
It’s obvious to me (again) that Abaddon knows what he/she is doing.
Ship or no ship, the biggest thing to come from these last few panels is Cio’s seeming wisdom coming in a well wrapped, sexy, finalistic, but utterly hypocritical bundle. I would expect that reality is more nuanced than her views, her stamps, reflecting upon others. White Chain’s issues and resolution are probably beyond even this devil’s wisdom.
Hopefully this theme isn’t simply left crystallized in these few pages.
Is it just me or is there a parallelism between White Chain and Alyson?
White Chain is looking for an actual physical mask that will fit while our heroine has been wearing a figurative mask. The hair colour being just one part of that mask she wore trying to “fit in” and be “normal” where that means average and mundane. In some cultures that is called being “honorable” as in behaving as one is expected to behave despite what damage it may do to ones self.
Here we see one slowly stripping away aspects of her mask. Will the other realize something similar about themselves and go on a similar journey of self discovery?
I don’t mind them being on the boat… just as long as it doesn’t turn into something to celebrate when they finally get off the boat… A’La Beserk..
Huh.
White Chain’s facemask has quite similar breaks on the eye sections as the mask that Cio was looking at after she went back to being blue.
Coincidence?
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And they were roommates