Seeker of Thrones 2-16
Chapter: 2
“Enyis kept with him in his descent a totem – a gleaming trinket of sorts. This served two excellent purposes: first, when the deeps began to tear at Enyis, he would rub it with the pads of his fingers, and it had a wondrous soothing effect.
Second, should Enyis die, the glimmer of the trinket would make finding his body quite easy.”
-Enyis and the Boar King
Vanity is curious.
Turmoil leads to toil, which leads to failure.
Effortlessness is cool as fuck.
>/u/ confirmed
Praise YISUN.
The cage reminds me of one that once held a certain Red monarch, shortly before Aesma tried to use the wheel as a bludgeon.
Reminds me of another glowing girl with a short haircut and a tube of lipstick that could cut a man clean in half.
Yes.
Hell yes.
The Hysterical Dame?
KILL.
SIX BILLION.
DEMONS.
I don’t care how janky Ceo’s vernacular is. That at the beginning of the seventh panel is a grammatical.
“To march into hell for a heavenly cause”
“Cio… did you *rehearse* this speech?”
“Shhhh no words”
How’d you already get the next panel’s script? 😛
All aboard!
(No disrespect intended)
A dangerous woman from a far-flung world that may never have been once fell afoul of a most insidious demon. Her soul she lost, and won again, and with it great power, which she used both for good and, alas, for great evil. A man she met, and a child, who stole her withered heart and gave new purpose to her strength. To this child she once said, “A monster I may be, but I’m your monster.”
That woman’s name was Ilna os-Kenset, but it’s her I see in Ciocie’s eyes.
|A Note: Ilna os-Kenset is a character in the Lord of the Isles books, with which I am not in any way affiliated, nor do I intend infringement on her or those books.|
I think her hair was better before Cio was done with it. Should be interesting to see the Devil’s Court but I hope we have an interlude with Mammon before then. If he’s half as interesting as Mottom ended up being…
I think we’ll probably see them go to the Heretic’s Court first and then the action with Mammon, just based on Cio’s own former misadventure.
At this point I’m no longer certain if what we’re seeing are just artist flourishes on the part of the author, or if the world of dear Cio’s fanfiction is bleeding through into reality. Both she and Al-YISUN are starting to look suspiciously…prettier than before?
If she’s not careful there will be cherry blossoms and glowing romantic sunsets following her everywhere she goes in Throne.
I noticed that as well. Cio’s proportions have also become less spindly and more humanlike. Hopefully it doesn’t last — I rather liked watching a horned girl and a walking spider running around screaming.
Yeah, anybody else remember that when we first met her she had four arms? Wonder where she’s tucked them away.
That particular thing was a function of the Coat of Arms she had on at the time. It does that.
The general idea does hold, though- her appearance and the art in general have indeed morphed slowly over time.
Clearly, Cio still has a very deep-rooted grudge against Mammon. This is for a good reason, of course.
Love the last panel!
Lovem all, but especiall the last one ^^!
This is so gay, I’m gonna die. You’re going to destroy my small gay heart and I am all for it.
The Codex of the Rising King had the most remarkable narrative effect, that just when one thought it could not possibly get any gayer, one was, without fail, proven wrong. Pleasing, but remarkable.
I’m fairly certain Cio took her glasses off mid-page just so she could be all dramatic when she put them back on.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. God only knows how much I’d do stuff like that if I had glasses.
she absolutely did.
[And I might do the same if I didn’t have glasses I desperately needed to be able to see. Ho hum.]
One can tell these quotes will be going straight into the fanfic- er, the Codex of the Rising King, was it not?
Why exactly are they robbing Mammon? Has Allison gone power mad?
Zaid’s there.
less robbing, more.. un-kidnapping?
Of course, when the keeper treats the kept as a piece of property, maybe it is robbery.
To save Zaid, of course! Even though he is a creep…
A creep he is; that, no-one can deny.
And yet, to leave him in that prison dire?
He’s done no crime so vile that fate to earn.
A rescue, then, must Al and friends supply.
There’s the matter of the boyfriend.
They think they are doing it to rescue Zaid, but obviously Zoss has arranged for a meeting between Alice and each of the Beast’s seven heads.
A likely insight.
Un-fel is observant.
There’s something special about Cio in the seventh panel.
AL-YIS-UN is as she says, “fucking fierce” but Cioelle is particularly…
I know there is a word for this feeling but I seem to have misplaced it.
Determined. Fiery. Hot! 😛
So… does this count as a confession, or an oath of allegiance? (Both?:3 )
Is Al-YIS-UN masking her true self or shedding a false skin? And how reliable is the loyalty of black devils turned blue?
Try shedding an old skin — it wasn’t false, but now she has changed.
Look at the loyalty the Rising King engenders in their allies.
So, we shall now see a thing that is a rare sight for an Aeon- the Heretic Court, and an audience with Himself.
I’m for thee !
The allegiance of a devil so fickle, fierce, and true could be both powerful and dangerous for you.
Wait, what? She’s forty? What a young Devil!
This made me laugh more than it should
I’m caught up now! This comic is weird and cool, and I’m sorry for breaking character in the comments section to say this.
You are sorry too soon. Your character is but the first thing to break. Next comes your will, then your soul. Finally, your very sanity will splinter and break. Then you will truly know sorrow for recklessly perusing so much of the dread archive in so little time.
Welcome! And judging by your ceremonial headdress you will fit right in. here
Oh my. They may be getting off the boat soon, but they’ll never get off the ship.
OK, now this is totally ship teasing.
Maybe she’s trying to pull a CSI, but there doesn’t seem to be time for Cio to put her glasses on in between the second to last and last panels
Oh no, those two errors in the second last panel are following me around. First there’s ‘an lying arsehole’, then there’s Cio’s orphaned speech bubble. I want to stetch it like chewing gum and join it to the others.
My inner editor is kicking.
According to Jadis, the Wielder of Names shall face the Beast and annihilate him. It has been completely accurate up till now. There is nothing to fear, only badassery to look forward to.
I wonder.
If she made a good case, would the court give her her old name back?
That’s not for the court to decide. If it were up to them, she wouldn’t even -be- back.
Well, if one is going to do something incredibly suicidal you might as well look your best and get all best gear ready.
Aye, sometimes the best one can hope for is a beautiful death.
And the King of All Devils. I fear such a being.
The nested slash is gonna be sweet. Fanfic of a character writing a fanfic about herself and another character. How deep can we go?
I’m looking forward to finding out what draws Cio to Allison, straight from the devil’s mouth.
Not that there aren’t some obvious guesses, of course.
Apropos of nothing: falling petals? Really, now. Aren’t we coming on a bit thick?
I like it.
They’re not so much accessories as signs of her power. A cheap psychological trick which she may well grow out of in time, but for now it has real effects on her.
I do the same thing every morning, though less dramatically.
“I’m for thee” can have two entirely different meanings.
A flaw of Yabalchoath remains in Ciocie Cioelle; a little too quick to go for the hard sell.
Mind, waiting and expecting the customers to come to you is rarely a winning strategy, but still, decorum demands a less desperate declaration.
Hmmm thats interesting… yuri?
That’s interesting… yuri?
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPaGlnNaL80
Ah, good. About time Alice met Himself.
Hiding the key. Clever. It will save her the time commitment of beating up everyone in Throne.
Words cannot express my squeeing.
Now if only she can figure out how to cut the sexual tension.
How about scissoring?
That second to last panel looks so adorable ….with even with the giant skull and demons in the background. :/
Wives
Truly this is a ship forged in Hell.
Aw, Cio. Crush’n so hard. Ain’t no love like a devil’s love.
Our Queen is healed, the wounds of that aspirant to royalty fading from her flesh!
I’m not… averse to her growth in this direction, I just think it’s a bit rapid, maybe? I mean I like it, but would she really go from screaming(justifiably so) at everything to “I will die looking fierce” within the span of a week?
Indeed. Rather unrealistically long. I’ve known humans who have gone from one to the other in less than an hour.
Man is uniquely capable of adaptation. Over infinitesimal slivers of time, a mortal, whose days pass so quickly, can learn to wear a different face. Quite literally, sometimes.
The devil is a liar more than most. Change is not only possible, but inevitable. She simply has not lived long enough.
change is constant.
This is axiomatic.
Perhaps you are both correct in this matter- the waning flesh of man holds within it a fire whose will surpasses the multiplicity, after all. But the unconquered worlds bear nothing of substance compared to imperial worlds.
Still, I shall wait and see. Perhaps this is a front of hers for now- but as those of the black fire often say- fake it ’til you make it, mayhap?
Rapid in normal circumstances, but a brow full of star fire does strange things to a person.
Looking fierce? She Looks rather ordinary now. Hopefully this will change again in the future…
“I’m for Thee” is, coincidentally, both an oath of servitude, and common part of wedding wows, among devils.
I will turn on my heel and walk backwards into hell, just for a chance to keep my eyes upon yours.
It’s like a heist movie! Only in webcomic form!
Enyis is wise. He took the lessons of the Souls series to heart. When you perish, the swag on your corpse shines bright amidst the Dark.
Well, that’s not ominous at all.
Hah. Gaaaaaaaayyyy.
Y’see those lilies in panel five?
Confirmed. Absolutely, 100% confirmed. Allicio is endgame, folks; you heard it here first.
Curse you Abbadon. Curse you and this evil you have blighted my soul with. For every page you produce, my hunger for more grows, WILL I EVER BE SATED!?
There’s no end to Want.
Ominous. Alice to go and speak with Himself and his council. Shall they fear her as she would them? Or her flippant nature out wit another?
Abbaddon, in regard for the gloriousness of this comic and the stories woven into its incredible tapestry: I’m for thee.
idk why, but even though the low-speach used by most of the demons are out of the english norm enough, everytime I see Cio speak I hear her voice with a thick german accent… it all together is truncated enough so that I only understand what she says because I have the “transcript” in the comic page hahahahahahaha
I’m going to say what everyone is thinking.
“Shh… Now kiss.”
Within the various realms, a ‘Court’ most often refers to the retinue of a monarch or, alternatively, a tribunal. The Heretic’s Court of devil kind serves both purposes, and is, accordingly, quite awful.
C’mon Allison, you can totally trust that horny little demon!
I am not interested in this ship
A lot of vocal fans are, but I imagine plenty of us are not.
I like this page when I’m interpreting it as a sign of intense royal loyalty, not as a sudden romantic advance.
Oh well, can’t be helped. I’m hyped for the heist. Let’s see how this goes.
Please make sure to write a long meltdown post on why you drop the comic if this ever gets further, like your lot always does.
I greatly enjoyed similar tears in Gunnerkreig’s comment section, after all.
Calm youself.
frankly it’s probably both romance and loyalty to the liege, not mutually exclusive, those.
Personally I’m more into the violence than the romance, but hey, it’s all excellent anyway. Looking forward intensely to seeing Himself in person.
I think the ship is amusing, but I’m hoping it is just hinted at and never blossoms to fruition, at least not within the comic. I’d be fine with it remaining in the background as subtext.
Personally, I think kicking ass while looking badass is actually less cool than kicking ass while looking like a stereotypical blonde, but Opinions May Differ. 🙂
I’m glad to see Allison’s earlier tyranny has been tempered by a healthy dose of self-awareness.