Seeker of Thrones 2-8
Chapter: 2
“If I say my real name, the horrible curse that torments me will surely come true,” she continued. “For this reason, I cannot allow it pass my lips but a piece at a time. For now, it must suffice to call me ‘stranger’.”
– Codex of the Rising King
Those with numbers in place of words
are not expected to be heard.
Their lives worth less, ’til names are earned.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Interesting to see what stays constant over different names and masks of a devil.
Princes continues to smoke like a freight train, and now we see that Cio has always been a horny devil.
All devils smoke, and all are horny.
Ah, HAIR! Glorious hair!
Actually, to me Yabalchoath seem easier than Cio (because in my head I can’t decide whether I should read “C” in Ciocie Cioelle as “S” or as “Ch”, as both sound pretty enough).
Look but slightly upthread and you may spy an… extensive… discussion of how one might properly pronounce such a lustrous name.
Which, of course, wasn’t here when I made my comment…
A many-armed figure of thorns and freshly bloodied claws. Standing triumphantly amongst great wealth and the corpses of her hapless victims. Her face a mask of grotesque pleasure at the death she has inflicted and avarice for her reward.
If that’s not the very image of a Goddess of murder-vagrants, I don’t know what is. Praise Yabalchoath!
Alright, take a good long look at that pose in the last panel.
I defy you to not think of this as CioCio’s Bizarre Adventure.
ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ
waiiiitt.. did she just killed them by using her tongue?
ohh mayyy.. such bad bad evul she is..
Not her tongue.
Her hair.
Not her hair nor her tongue, but her nails did the bloody works.
Realizing the risks involved to a reasonable part of fullness, I still daresay – I’d tap that.
I wonder what those numbers mark. Days of service? Their guild rank? The money on their bank account?
As was mentioned above, its likely a code for entry to the vault. My Dad had something similar for his job – a small device with a code that changes every 60 seconds, synchronised with the work server.
Finally, the moment I was waiting for: to witness the passed glory of Cio.
Now I shall complete my work! Soon this Concordance will understand the reason of my presence here.
To flirt?
…this will result in injury.
Ah! In murder, what a goddess!
this suddenly became 2-8 and the previous is 1-7! what devil’ry lay betwixt now and past?!
How is Ciocie Cioelle pronounced? I’m having trouble breaking up the syllables and deciding if the ‘C’s are spoken with ‘S’s or ‘K’s. Yabalchoath is easy by comparison.
above are a few who spell the name:
a beverage of quite some fame
(I confess to being caught, the same)
Lots of people will try and claim its pronounced like Coca Cola. So either devils pronounce “elle” as “la” rather than “el” or “l~l” (Jokull) or “ya” like humans tend to or those people are crazy.
It’s possible a language exists that I dont know about where “elle” makes a “la” sound however. Maybe Welsh?
Gaulish, in point of fact. The ‘cie’ is the giveaway.
Adding an “a” sound at the end of a consonant coda is quite believable. Japanese always has a vowel at the end unless the last consonant is a nasal.
And ignore any preconceptions about spelling; this is after all a transliteration of demon-speech (or whatever other decidedly non-English tongue Cio was named in), and even in writing systems that use the Roman alphabet natively there’s rarely a one-to-one correlation between symbol and sound.
Also they’re saying that it’s pronounced like the constituent letters of Coca Cola, not like the word itself. “Ciocie” C-O-C (and the end-coda ‘a’), “Cioelle” C-O-L (and the end-coda ‘a’).
“EL·LE” like “ehl laye” or “El Lé Noiché,” not “EL·LA” like “Ehl·LAh” or “Ella.”
à à à
àà~
Ö~~ àà~!
Not like Coca Cola– like C-O-C-A C-O-L-A. Ci-o-ci-e Ci-o-ell-e.
The Welsh version can be easily simulated by trying to pronounce it after receiving local anesthetic for a dental operation.
I believe it is pronounced:
See-oh-see-ay See-oh-ell-ay
Okay, I think I got it. It’s more like “Kyo-Kye Kyo-el-leh”.
This side of talk amuses me
more than some others’ lechery.
I cannot grin, but I’ll bow to thee.
AH. So it is See-oh-see-ay Cee-oh-el-aye. THIS is truly a demonic name if its attempted pronunciation from its written form give so much consternation!
It is pronounced: See-oh-see-aye See-oh-el-aye.
Or in single letters: C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
She got a kik?
That is undoubtedly the best update ever. Cio (or should I say Yabalchoath?) is absolutely delicious, a horrifying delight!
Ducking batterwitch! Bygone you foul demon!
Batterwitch!
GUUUUUURL!
The chitinous shell and the joints of a crab, the eyes and hooves of a goat, (the same as Oscar) The mammarys of… what now?
Cio truly is the gift that keeps on giving.
Not exactly what I was expecting, but I am very glad to have spiky carapace leg Cio back. I forgive the artist of this interpretation of the Rising King’s story for giving Cio sexy hips…though the whole of me did not protest to that either…On another note, I like the Kali influenced tongue there.
Cio is horrifying, yet somehow… enticing.
All hail Yaldaboath the demiurge!
Oh no she’s hot.
I don’t know what I was expecting Ebon Cio to look like, but I do know it wasn’t this.
Aw man, look at hose joints! So wonderfully insectoid.