Seeker of Thrones 7-81
Chapter: 7
Behold The Mirror of Laments,
Though it may be broken, its shards will pierce your heart.
No weapon is mightier.
Even the greatest sword can be bent against it owner.
– Song of Southern Winter
Behold The Mirror of Laments,
Though it may be broken, its shards will pierce your heart.
No weapon is mightier.
Even the greatest sword can be bent against it owner.
– Song of Southern Winter
Then, the quality of mercy was White Chain, but it was not a mercy born from kindness; rather a child of disillusion and pain.
When Chain: “We shall table this for now”
Stronger than an angel. Would that I could say such a thing.
See? What did I tell you, White Chain? The Law is meant to be impartial. Controlled. Dispassionate. It is supposed to make the populace feel safe, not put fear into them.
Only the guilty should fear the Law. When it is wielded in rage, there can be nothing BUT fear.
…
Plus, disturbing the peace is against city ordinance. So there’s that, too.
I sometimes find myself ignoring the actions of the mortals. So easy it is to discount their existences as inconsequential. Time and time again, though, they prove themselves so much more than we expect of them. It takes a special kind of bravery for one so fragile to attempt to stand against the might that I and my fellows can bring to bear, and attempt to calm them with naught but will. Foolish, some would say, and perhaps they would be correct, but brave nonetheless.
I am glad that the little flame intervened. My sister would have regretted what she would have otherwise done. As is, there is still time to bring her back from that pit of despair.
When the dog is in the ditch
And the swirling face looks down
The eyes look up and beg for help.
Cue epic costume change
I don’t understand why our little maiden stopped White Chains. They were only practicing the Old Laws, and upholding them as it should be.
In a world where the strong survive and the weak perish, it is the duty of those who are stronger to kill those who aren’t. Morals only get in the way of fulfilling your wishes. It would have been better to let Chains kill whomever this angel is. Maybe then their influence over those who would seek to break the Old Laws would think twice before throwing their life away so carelessly.
Define “strong.” With a simple gesture, she exerted her moral ascendancy over the brute forces of raw strength. And she won. In our Universe, the example that occurs is the Tiananmen Square man, placing his soft body and his one and only life in front of the behemoth tanks. He brought the tanks to a stop because, ironically, the tank crews also “suffered” from a certain moral sense. Morality requires intimacy; dropping incendiary bombs from 20,000 feet, or shooting a person a 600 yards safely partitions off our moral sense, and allows the commission of atrocity.
But one must also remember that morality is subjective. Do you think Chains would have reacted the same way before Al-YIS-UN found her way to Throne? No. They would at least shove her aside before destroying the Angel in brutal fashion, as those who support the Old Laws should. At most, they may have deemed her as a criminal just as well, and enforce them with much violence, as it should be.
That one Man from Tiananmen Square was lucky. Were the patriotism of that tank driver in more abundance than their weakness of violence, that oh so heroic man would be nothing more than a red smear on the ground.
I would prefer to instead engage with a action that would result in those thanks burning, with the men boiling inside rather than relying on a hope that they have the weakness of morality. One’s a certainty of victory. The other is always a gamble.
It seems that most of the people commenting here missed the most significant action by the peasant-girl-who-is-in-love-with-an-angel. She bought that blue fleur-de-lis cloth as a gift back in seeker-of-thrones-5-36, and now throws it down and walks away.
Can one break that which the Multiplicity forged defective?
It’s my supposition – my hope, really – that this arc is about Trying On Ruthlessness For Size, and then, after an initial rush, discovering that it doesn’t fit after all.
W. C. Biertse, here, will probably find this an easier decision than Cio (who’ll have to turn away from a familiar and seductive path) or Allison (who’ll probably have to shatter that line of thought manually). But both have already indicated – in their own way – the first inklings of REGRET, and REGRET is a powerful thing.
So we’ll see.
Things angels are supposed to respond to:
Law
Judgement
Right
Wrong
Things White Chain responds to:
A pleading look
The word ‘please’
The needs of the weak
This.
This is the kind of page that keeps me coming back.
She didn’t even drop her shopping bags when she stepped in front of the angel.
She’s total hero material, she really is.
Those poor cups.
Here we witness the art that beats even the might of an angel.
Behold: TWO EMPTY PALMS
KA!
RA!
TE!
OOH-Yah!
yes white chain we all know you’re a force of vengeance now carry these bags
Daaaaang gurl, that isn’t a safe fight to jump in the middle of, nope nope nope.
It’s quite impressive how you express the wide-eyed mortal fear these people feel even in the thousand-faceted eyes of a mantis-person. Quite impressive indeed.
How weak can mankind possibly be when they stand against the raging inferno of an Aeon’s rage?
YES.
“…and now that you’re not killing anyone, carry the shopping!”
Love the panel with Goblin family.
Awwwkwarrrd Silennnnceeeeee~
Angels explode big time so Nyave just saved everyone’s life there. Smart girl!
Take some deep breaths, White Chain. Deep breaths.
Even angels can fall prey to the sin of Wrath. Not all of them can resist the temptation.
Also, White Chain better take all those groceries back in one trip.