YES! YES! You found it Alyson! The only True Virtue YI-SUN ever gave the world! The only way to break the Unbreakable Chain! The only way to end the Cycle of Terrible Kings! Kill thy Great Enemy!
I fear any human from a city of angels. We have far to many in Throne for the safe conduct of commerce, any little mortal girl that grew up around angel city police officers is bound to have some stories to tell.
They really do fit the yin/yang roles as well. The “yang” Allison is capable on her own, but aggressive and ruthless. Meanwhile, the “yin” Allison recognizes her weaknesses and isn’t nearly as aggressive, but is prone to self-doubt and stagnation.
I really do like Abaddon’s writing here. In a more Western story, it would definitely just end with the power Allison being defeated and destroyed, but instead Allison recognizes that these are all facets of her; one cannot exist without the other, all that’s needed is more balance.
Just as quickly as he appeared, Zoss has left again in a “disolve into the wind” anime style, apparently satisfied or even knowing of this new course from the brief set of words.
in before incubus is pissed he’s lost control, though
The instestines are back again. I suppose they are supposed to be the surface of Allison’s brain. But then that doesn’t explain the water, unless she has water on the brain. The ways of the universe are mysterious.
Anyway, good to see some integration happening even if she has turned purple. Not usually a good sign when people turn purple, but in this case it might be ok.
Now, priorities: where is the fucking cat?
Gundhram the Reader, Belligerent Knight and Amateur Historian
Not mysterious at all, my feline enthusiast friend, for it is cerebrospinal fluid. Its the stuff thats meant to cushion the skullmeats and ensure that said meets get enough blood.
I’ve had it splattered on me often enough and it’s not markedly unpleasant, even if it doesn’t have quite the same glamour to it as good old-fashioned copious amounts of blood.
It’s interesting: power-Allison has a fleshy human color scheme, but it’s the inverse of merged-Allison’s colors, which are the /actual/ normal colors for this, being a place where her Shade would be. Appearance of normalcy vs normalcy.
No need to lie. Everyone feels it. Look and perceive the joy and excitement in the comments above. Everyone knows something meaningful has happened and more is to follow.
Embrace the shivers. They are one of the main reasons I do the work I do.
A normal girl from Los Angeles cannot slay a dragon. The problem is the severe lack of dragons in the vicinity of that city; I conclude that this must be because of the surfeit of normal girls around there. By the time you get far enough away from LA to have dragons appearing, the occurrences of girls from there are rare enough that calling them normal would be a demeaning jest.
I also hear that vampires are in serious danger round there. I have no desire to visit such a beastly place.
I solve this all by giving that entire world a wide berth. There’s many necks in the multiverse to choose from, as my grandsire used to say, before the embarrassing incident with the metal-necked threnagons of Murtlefort-5.
After that he just mumbled a lot and used a straw.
I grew up near a Los Angeles and have visited 4 others. Three of the five were quite pleasant, if you stay off the freeways. The other two were actual cities of angels and as such were staid and boring.
Oh, my. AL-YS-UN has mastered the paradox of identity, and reclaimed her disassociated aspects of herself. I suspect this means she’s “mastered” Incubus, he can no longer tamper with her will.
Now there is the girl I was waiting to see, all Allison! It all makes a wonderful you! Well done! Very proud of your ascendancy and personal realization! Also, that is a wonderful new look for you, very familiar and inspired, fantastically put together.
Now, if you would, please go provide aid to your friend…? She really needs that. That is likely the most important thing you can do right now. Seriously. Please. Going in all hot headed and forgetting that feels to be a mistake. I have many concerns and that is the primary one.
Now, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Cio isn’t in Alison’s head, she’s out there in the matierium. One must defeat the gatekeeper before one may pass.
(The jailer is the key)
True! I was treating her victory (or merger, as these tend to go) over her own self as fait accompli in my haste and excitement. If this is truly a retelling, a new lie in the form of a rebirth, things will never be so simple. She is not the only one here who must be held back this day.
Advice is easier to give than follow no matter how often you give it, I suppose.
Yis and Un both wielded infinite art and were infinitely stale. But what happens when they are brought together? you get Yisun again (infinite similarity) or the Multiplicity (infinite difference). Worms and Giants are but a subset of the great lie. Which pleases you more?
I guess I’ll come out as a fan from behind the cloak of anonymity, as I think this crowd may be good for some feedback on a little project I’m working on. I’m struck by the recent use of color to indicate aspect, and I’m especially intrigued by the blend of color in the merged “real” Allison. I’m now wondering if my thoughts about my project have been seeded all along by the events here. Regardless, any feedback is welcome (constructive or invective, doesn’t matter … data is data and data is useful for change). Regards, all.
Your cause is noble and decent (by my definition). It’s scope is vast. It seeks to simplify to the universal that which is murky and polluted by mortality. And then to create a morality based on the results with which to judge creation.
I am intrigued and may send my you my thoughts through the glyph-o-sphere.
As YISUN spoke, “there is no form or substance that does not have its roots in the TOWER, which is under assault from the EGO, that terrible enemy called I.”
You are grand and you are infinitesimal, Alison. Your roots feed you; do not let them consume.
Though I’ve already provided some of my thoughts on this development, I think I will also point out that the Flame burns more intensely with the True King, the King of Multitudes. Interesting that a Truth, such as Flame, favors the heir to a consummate liar.
So she sung to the demon hence known as Princess, Sororities (sisterhoods, apparently in ancient earthish) are liquor drenched dionysian cults of scholars, and those from Al-Yisun’s home in the Kingdom of Calafia are apparently renowned for their fearsomeness.
The Rising King has learned something important, beyond the scope of them that usually barter with Incubus. ACTUAL self-mastery, an important step on the zero-sum path of enlightenment.
I love the fact that the Conquering King hasn’t really said a damn thing and that she has never really come across a single PSALM or SPASM in her entire life, as far as I’m aware of. There is nothing outside of her that is making or helping her come to this realization.
It is Her. And Her alone by which She shall inherit the Throne of the now absent King.
This is why Zoss chose her, I think. The core teachings of YISUN are sublimated into her being at a basic level, and so she comes to their realization naturally; a bit like recalling memories from a past life. Hmmm…….
DESTROY THE GRAND ENEMY CALLED I, ALICE, FOR THOU HAVE FAR GRANDER FOES TO CLEAVE ASUNDER WITH THE BLADE OF THY INCANDESCENT WILL
The bird of the bottomless pit, worm of clear skies
In finding that the all and the one and the nothing are ultimately the same, one may see the fractally interconnnected vacancies that comprise the whole.
Huh. Didn’t that last panel say something different before?
I kinda wish webcomic artists would leave a note or something when they updated things, I always end up wondering if there was actually a change or if I’m just going crazy.
!["‘Lord, then which should I be, the giant or the ant?’ [said Hansa]'
‘Both,’ spoke YISUN,’ or either, when it suits you. Destroy the grand enemy called ‘I’."
- Psalms](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SOT103r.jpg "\"‘Lord, then which should I be, the giant or the ant?’ [said Hansa]'
‘Both,’ spoke YISUN,’ or either, when it suits you. Destroy the grand enemy called ‘I’.\"
- Psalms")
The throne of self
YES! YES! You found it Alyson! The only True Virtue YI-SUN ever gave the world! The only way to break the Unbreakable Chain! The only way to end the Cycle of Terrible Kings! Kill thy Great Enemy!
KILL THE SELF THAT IS CALLED “I”
Yyyou were only off by two letters.
AL-YISUN RETURNS TO TAKE BACK RIGHTFUL CONTROL OF HER FORM
She never lost it, that’s the point. She just forgot/ran from who she was for a bit. Let her Yis take control while she sorted out all her Un-bits.
Now it’s time to bring it together, and form the True All-Yis-Un Zord XD
More like just Al-Yis presently…
Let’s hear it for girls from Los Angeles! Wooohoooooo!
I fear any human from a city of angels. We have far to many in Throne for the safe conduct of commerce, any little mortal girl that grew up around angel city police officers is bound to have some stories to tell.
Ladies who know what’s up, see through a lie at 100 feet, and have had enough of your bull pucky!
They can cry at the movies, knife a thief because this is gucci damn it, and are some of the best women in the world.
Ain’t no sheep in this town – nothing but lionesses and hyena – mess with them, and there will be teeth in your jugular, and that’s a fact.
Panel three has some excellent parallels with the way YISUN was represented during White Chain’s story about Throne.
Consider: the number one is insufferably boring.
Yes, it is far too reasonable. For as it is said, the only reasonable numbers are zero, one, and infinity.
I was appreciating the yin/yang outfits of Galaxy Allison and Sociopath Allison.
The midriff/back hole is the “dot” of contrasting color.
They really do fit the yin/yang roles as well. The “yang” Allison is capable on her own, but aggressive and ruthless. Meanwhile, the “yin” Allison recognizes her weaknesses and isn’t nearly as aggressive, but is prone to self-doubt and stagnation.
I really do like Abaddon’s writing here. In a more Western story, it would definitely just end with the power Allison being defeated and destroyed, but instead Allison recognizes that these are all facets of her; one cannot exist without the other, all that’s needed is more balance.
YIS-Alice Versus UN-Alice.
Aw, yeah!
So, after they war for seven years…
I am very big
For I.
Do you perchance contain multitudes?
I am many. Many-in-one…?
Your god’s a real beauty. Butt makes me weep; I call it a boo-hooty.
Truly a hot god. All the other gods are doing their squats wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof5pRAIZmw
FIGHT
I expected the Mortal Combat theme but yeah it fits lol
this comic makes me very happy. I feel joy in every part of my gargantuan form
Hey! There they are! Self Control and Teamwork! Off to slay the grand enemy called “I”. What’d I tell ya?
To achieve greatness by cutting away one’s weaknesses is to create the perfect enemy.
It’s time to beat the shit out of yourself…. Or a grouphug.
Kill the enemy called “I”, because “I” am my own worst enemy.
Alice is an expert at beating herself up.
This is very true!
“Anime!” “Coffee!” “Crippling self doubt!” “Anger!” “Depression!”
“By your powers combined, I am Kill Six Billion Demons!”
“Kill Six Billion Demons! She’s our boss king! Gonna take Incubus down to no-thing!”
She is YISUM, Personified,
and she’s fighting on to say she tried!
“she’s our psyche’s, all combined, and she’s fighting for “I” genocide!
“she’s our psyche’s all combined, and she’s fighting for “I” genocide!”
This is… a thing. It’s something. I can say that for sure.
And that is what we call “pulling yourself together”.
And that is how it is done! Fine form your highness. Fine form.
Hmm, so inside Alison’s mind, the more powerful Alisons are also the sexiest Alisons?
Sex is energy.
Sex is life.
Sex is power
Corrolary: Power is sexy.
Just as quickly as he appeared, Zoss has left again in a “disolve into the wind” anime style, apparently satisfied or even knowing of this new course from the brief set of words.
in before incubus is pissed he’s lost control, though
FUCKIN DOPE
The only me is me. Are you sure the only you is you?
No, of course not. I’m loads of mes.
The instestines are back again. I suppose they are supposed to be the surface of Allison’s brain. But then that doesn’t explain the water, unless she has water on the brain. The ways of the universe are mysterious.
Anyway, good to see some integration happening even if she has turned purple. Not usually a good sign when people turn purple, but in this case it might be ok.
Now, priorities: where is the fucking cat?
Not mysterious at all, my feline enthusiast friend, for it is cerebrospinal fluid. Its the stuff thats meant to cushion the skullmeats and ensure that said meets get enough blood.
I’ve had it splattered on me often enough and it’s not markedly unpleasant, even if it doesn’t have quite the same glamour to it as good old-fashioned copious amounts of blood.
A very good point. It all makes sense now.
Thank you for reminding us to keep our focus: WHERE is the cat?
Somewhere safe, knowing Cat Master…
Alas, AL-YS-UN cannot be bothered to consider the cat just now. Since the cat is not in her mind, it is not present in these scenes.
She ended up with the punk hair! I sure hope that transfers over to her physical form.
Holy YISUN, it’s happening
Looks like she’s finally getting crowned.
An hour’s flight is not enough
to escape hills and valleys
of wealth and poverty
Yet audiences can
Delight in fantasy
As heroines mud wrestle
Heroin.
There is no happy end.
No Angels guide you in.
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS QUEEN
I deem it no accident that AL-YIS-UN is dominated by her cold white self, and her hot black self rises in protest.
It’s interesting: power-Allison has a fleshy human color scheme, but it’s the inverse of merged-Allison’s colors, which are the /actual/ normal colors for this, being a place where her Shade would be. Appearance of normalcy vs normalcy.
Tell em, baby! Work that self esteem!
The great enemy called I
The one syllable name of the two syllable name YISUN
Definite article in Arabic, ALYISUN; Allison.
The definitive two syllable name of the seven syllable name that is ROYALTY.
not going to lie, this is giving me shivers
No need to lie. Everyone feels it. Look and perceive the joy and excitement in the comments above. Everyone knows something meaningful has happened and more is to follow.
Embrace the shivers. They are one of the main reasons I do the work I do.
Resolution.
She cuts herself in forms greater still.
No, not division, a greater violence: Fusion.
More seriously, or maybe less, the alt-text is perfect.
Well said, you have a healer’s eye.
Something grand, or simple, has been born.
Either way it is new, and new is interesting.
YISUN: “Eh, division is boring now. Let’s try fusion next. Maybe that will make this lie more interesting.”
Is it wrong that I want to see White-Alice and Black-Alice perform the fusion dance from Dragon Ball Z now?
…is that a trick question?
Yes. Also, a trick answer.
AL-YIS-UN
How many chakras are depicted? Where the collar comes from? Can a normal girl from Los Angeles slay a dragon?
Find Out Next Week on KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS
She drank an Ebon demon under the table. Dragons should be easy.
A normal girl from Los Angeles cannot slay a dragon. The problem is the severe lack of dragons in the vicinity of that city; I conclude that this must be because of the surfeit of normal girls around there. By the time you get far enough away from LA to have dragons appearing, the occurrences of girls from there are rare enough that calling them normal would be a demeaning jest.
I also hear that vampires are in serious danger round there. I have no desire to visit such a beastly place.
Nah, vampires are thriving in LA.
It’s Sunnydale where the vampires are in danger.
I solve this all by giving that entire world a wide berth. There’s many necks in the multiverse to choose from, as my grandsire used to say, before the embarrassing incident with the metal-necked threnagons of Murtlefort-5.
After that he just mumbled a lot and used a straw.
Pulling herself together, as it were.
By your powers combined, I am CAPTAIN PLANET!!!
You win the internet.
While ’tis better to be the giant than the ant, ’tis best to be both. Much like ’tis best to be both feared and loved.
AL-YS-UN!
Praise Her!
IA! IA!
Oh… another appearance change coming 😀
Remember, it’s a girl from LOS ANGELES. Dragons are nothing in comparison.
I grew up near a Los Angeles and have visited 4 others. Three of the five were quite pleasant, if you stay off the freeways. The other two were actual cities of angels and as such were staid and boring.
Three out of Five stars. would visit again
BY OUR POWERS COMBINED
In a tale full of violence (separation) the discovery of peace (union).
They define and co-create eachother
Ehhhhhhh, I’m assuming the last line is supposed to be cheesy / lame on purpose
When your powers combine, you form Captain Rising King?
Oh, my. AL-YS-UN has mastered the paradox of identity, and reclaimed her disassociated aspects of herself. I suspect this means she’s “mastered” Incubus, he can no longer tamper with her will.
The Tempter conquers by consent of the conquered. Her heart cleansed of the Temptation of Strength, she may become ROYALTY.
I’m imagining him in his “meeting” with “Mister J”, and then having the greatest “Oh, shit!” moment right about now.
Now there is the girl I was waiting to see, all Allison! It all makes a wonderful you! Well done! Very proud of your ascendancy and personal realization! Also, that is a wonderful new look for you, very familiar and inspired, fantastically put together.
Now, if you would, please go provide aid to your friend…? She really needs that. That is likely the most important thing you can do right now. Seriously. Please. Going in all hot headed and forgetting that feels to be a mistake. I have many concerns and that is the primary one.
Now, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Cio isn’t in Alison’s head, she’s out there in the matierium. One must defeat the gatekeeper before one may pass.
(The jailer is the key)
True! I was treating her victory (or merger, as these tend to go) over her own self as fait accompli in my haste and excitement. If this is truly a retelling, a new lie in the form of a rebirth, things will never be so simple. She is not the only one here who must be held back this day.
Advice is easier to give than follow no matter how often you give it, I suppose.
Hell yes! Kick the crap out of uhhh yourself.
She has sad-Allison and critical-Allison on her side; she’s an expert at beating herself up.
Be there infinite difference or infinite similarity? Between the worms and the Giants.
Yis and Un both wielded infinite art and were infinitely stale. But what happens when they are brought together? you get Yisun again (infinite similarity) or the Multiplicity (infinite difference). Worms and Giants are but a subset of the great lie. Which pleases you more?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Yass King
Thus she spoke in the totality of being,
the Flame that burns with blackest heat
and Light that sears the eyes of the unworthy.
The name of the King is AL-YISUN, in part and in whole.
The Holy Suicide.
First they fought then they… uh oh.
No, this is not a pay per view situation.
Is it a suicide, or a birth? What will the young King’s mindscape look like when the false King is defeated by, and joins, the true King?
I guess I’ll come out as a fan from behind the cloak of anonymity, as I think this crowd may be good for some feedback on a little project I’m working on. I’m struck by the recent use of color to indicate aspect, and I’m especially intrigued by the blend of color in the merged “real” Allison. I’m now wondering if my thoughts about my project have been seeded all along by the events here. Regardless, any feedback is welcome (constructive or invective, doesn’t matter … data is data and data is useful for change). Regards, all.
Your cause is noble and decent (by my definition). It’s scope is vast. It seeks to simplify to the universal that which is murky and polluted by mortality. And then to create a morality based on the results with which to judge creation.
I am intrigued and may send my you my thoughts through the glyph-o-sphere.
Thanks!
Strength comes not from lack of weakness, but in spite of it.
Hmm… VERY nice. Way to pull yourself together, Al-Ys-Un, and gitter done. Only one stray “self” left to bring into the fold.
*i’ll face myself- battle remix starts playing*
If I is the grand enemy, and I is the secret name is YISIN, does that mean that YISUN is the grand enemy?
Rise Aspirant Rise!!!
As YISUN spoke, “there is no form or substance that does not have its roots in the TOWER, which is under assault from the EGO, that terrible enemy called I.”
You are grand and you are infinitesimal, Alison. Your roots feed you; do not let them consume.
I’ve only just realised the humour in God’s successor hailing from the City of Angels
Remember that YIS and UN did after the fight?
Hmm… the first lesson is to love thyself 😉
Praise YISUN, who has given us the gift of their perfect circular suicide!
Praise YISUN, Conquerer of the Beast Called ‘I’!
Yeah actually, I do kind of feel like a normal girl from los angeles couldn’t slay a dragon.
Dawwwwwwwwwww. After school special time.
ok abaddon we get it you like giant women with stockings
damn it, you got me
i got you half a chapter ago bud……..keep it to a dull roar
Next page: dragon eats Alison, comic ends
I think the answers is a resounding
YES!
“…But I can’t kick your ass unless I come closer.”
“Oh, really? Then get as close as you need to.”
[MENACING]
There was a girl here once; But the woman who saw it is now gone.
I just binged this in two days and damn.. damn what a page to end on
Is there any page you would not say this to? No there is not!
I see now.
Overboob is evil, Underboob is good.
All boobs reflect the self.
Madelyne Pryor and Power Girl refute your argument.
This too is a paradox.
First dispense with these concepts of “good” and “evil”, as they will do you no good.
But yes.
All boobs have the potential for both good and evil.
You must be master of the boobs, as you are master of all other things.
Then you will be on the path to Royalty.
It’s as I predicted. The Young King finds peace within herself. But can our Chronicler and Queen of Thieves still be saved?
Though I’ve already provided some of my thoughts on this development, I think I will also point out that the Flame burns more intensely with the True King, the King of Multitudes. Interesting that a Truth, such as Flame, favors the heir to a consummate liar.
Ah ha ha “ruthless” and she’s Allison Ruth I see what you did there, this isn’t really her is she.
I am thou, thou art I…
To Embrace Yourself is an act of Self-Love, and thus the first, last, and only step towards Royalty.
And so the wise man spoke.
“Y’gotta get your shit together.”
Still though if she tries to slay a dragon she gonna die.
I dunno about that. She might still be new to her Key, but she does evidently have THE Key,
I dunno about that, she might still be ‘learning’ how to use her Key, but it is still evidently THE Key. She might have a chance, sort of
The Hot Black Flame
The Cool White Flame is, indeed, very cool.
To love others, one most love thy self. Accept your flaws, accept your merits, and you will be Royalty.
Don’t have em fight. I want power Alison to reply “hell yes!” before hi fiving and leaving only one. Then go back and save Cio.
And then to be folowed by the cat as the pair marches on.
Let’s be real, a normal girl from Los Angeles is not by any means normal compared to normal girls from rest of the known universe.
So she sung to the demon hence known as Princess, Sororities (sisterhoods, apparently in ancient earthish) are liquor drenched dionysian cults of scholars, and those from Al-Yisun’s home in the Kingdom of Calafia are apparently renowned for their fearsomeness.
“All that is arises from the same substance, and the whole cosmos may be considered one vast organism animated by one life-giving principle.”
-Luc Benoist and Robin Waterfield, The Esoteric Path: An Instroduction to the Hermetic Tradition, p. 106
*Introduction
…and then they kiss.
It’s not gay. It’s masturbation.
It’s extremely gay. But that’s the best kind, isn’t it?
FLAWED DIAMOND AM I
DIVIDED SELF ?
ACCEPTANCE OF FLAWS
GIVES UNION !
FINDING MY POWERS
YASSS QUEEN!! Slay that BITCH, DESTROY THE GRAND ENEMY CALLED “I”!!!!
DRAG HER FOR FILTH!!!
BOOTS THE THRONE DOWN AL-YISUN!
Allison needs to take a minute and just think about flexibility, love, and trust.
[X] Roll to seduce.
“You really think a normal girl from Los Angeles can’t slay a dragon?”
…
Yeah. I’m actually pretty damned certain of that…
“A true King must crush the weak- not to show his strength, but to keep them from finding theirs.”
-Preem Vanse, “A Meditation On Royalty”
I’ve caught up! Oh terrible of patience-borne fates!
Meanwhile Cio’s life ebbs away.
The Rising King has learned something important, beyond the scope of them that usually barter with Incubus. ACTUAL self-mastery, an important step on the zero-sum path of enlightenment.
I love the fact that the Conquering King hasn’t really said a damn thing and that she has never really come across a single PSALM or SPASM in her entire life, as far as I’m aware of. There is nothing outside of her that is making or helping her come to this realization.
It is Her. And Her alone by which She shall inherit the Throne of the now absent King.
This is why Zoss chose her, I think. The core teachings of YISUN are sublimated into her being at a basic level, and so she comes to their realization naturally; a bit like recalling memories from a past life. Hmmm…….
DESTROY THE GRAND ENEMY CALLED I, ALICE, FOR THOU HAVE FAR GRANDER FOES TO CLEAVE ASUNDER WITH THE BLADE OF THY INCANDESCENT WILL
One has her heart open, the other her stomach. Truly are leotards the greatest symbol in YISUN’s Creation.
Is that actually Allison? I assumed it was just a splinter of Incubus since all the other Incubusseses had the exact same design.
This is Alison, back together
And I’m never going down at the hands of the likes of y…me
More Yis and Un callbacks in the lineart od the next page. Maybe he who speaks of Al-Yis-un speaks in truth.
In finding that the all and the one and the nothing are the same, one sees the simultaneous interconnected vacancies of reality.
In finding that the all and the one and the nothing are ultimately the same, one may see the fractally interconnnected vacancies that comprise the whole.
It’s been a week since this page was posted; I expect the next update to be huge!
That preview! Looks like AL-YISUN has become AL-KISSUN. Now get back there and do that to Cio!
Huh. Didn’t that last panel say something different before?
I kinda wish webcomic artists would leave a note or something when they updated things, I always end up wondering if there was actually a change or if I’m just going crazy.