Jeez. It’s pretty apparent that Maya was either holding back or got a lot weaker after being drunk all the time from this point, given her showing against Juggernaut Star. Unless I”m missing something there.
At the same time, Maya sliced apart a portion of Mottom’s palace.
Previously, Maya killed a gang outside the noodle vendor store (off screen) without wrecking the neighborhood. The same way she did not run around with the Maybe Sword casually wrecking the carnival of fools pursuing Alice.
I think that Maya has some restraint and minimum threshold before she pulls out the sword and wrecks stuff.
You are right – Maya’s greatest feature is her sense of mystery and intrigue.
Maya’s slice was enough to kill whatever was in her way. It just so happened that what was in her way wasn’t her enemy.
Even unlimited power doesn’t do anything if it’s not correctly targeted. Unless you simply Cut Everything. Doing so would make it difficult to rebuild your tower afterwards, I think.
Meti was highly successful in Cutting Juggernaut star and likely knew she could survive the resulting explosion. She just didn’t know to cut the wheel as well as the rider.
Took me a while to realise we’re slicing the whole building in half, including the head of that dude who stood too close. And then I realised the red we’re seeing in panels two and three is the sky.
Honestly, kudos to Abbadon. That slice not only Goemon Ishikawaed Mana, it Goemon Ishikawaed me, the reader. Had to go back in time to fully understand what just happened.
I think we can infer what Incubus thinks about death, in contrast to Maya.
Maya has a powerful will to kill that allows her to cut anything she wants dead, and all the surroundings, and the bystanders as well.
Incubus has a powerful will *to live*. He’ll scalp himself, eat dung, learn blood alchemy, steal his best friend’s star fire, make deals with enemy gods, and instigate universal war just to breath another minute of the air he did not earn.
This is likely the source of his sloppy swordsmanship. It’s also likely why he practices the Head of John style; to be harder to kill.
Now that I type all this out, it seems pretty obviously in-line with everything he’s been telling us, for the entire comic. I just didn’t expect him to be so forthright about it!
Now I sort of want to see the underlying philosophy of the Head of John style. After all I think we’ve seen that clinging to life and clinging to death aren’t necessarily evil and good, respectively. The Wheel-Turning king clings to the death of all things obsessively.
When the barber takes a little too much off of the top.
It is the uncertainty that makes this blade so powerful. The chances that this sword can kill a god are not high but it is never 0. There is a chance, a potential and that is the scary thing.
Or perhaps the Maybe Sword is the converse of the Blade of Want. Maya asked Allison what she thought of Death, and Allison doesn’t think about Death… she doesn’t fear Death… she doesn’t fear Loss… she doesn’t have Want. She has a purpose, and maybe the purpose overlaps with her residual desires, but desire is not the driving force.
I’m waiting when we will get a man backstory in this story about being sexually used by ugly bastard woman, where he will have to live through that and after hating it enough he will discover a magical sword too like author did to Maya backstory.
But then male characters can’t have such backstories, right?
Look at Zaid some time passed and he became a hero and even got two magical swords around him for FREE without need for an evil awful tragic backstory for it.
Shame in fantasy stories women always will get the shitty tragic backstory connected to sex while men get everything for FREE just cause they are men and most readers self-inserts candidates.
Always? Really? Allison has no such backstory, nor does Cio, and particularly not White Chain – her story is nearly the opposite, having proudly earned her sexuality (or at least her gender) through ages long combat against male bureaucracy. But I’m sure you will continue to see what you want to see.
And as for Zaid, who knows what happened to him during the missing years? It couldn’t have been pleasant.
Look, can we be sure that it was the sword which did that? Maybe those planes were always in the universe, just waiting to divide everything over themselves.
A shitty broken sword with an attack power of one, attached to a swordsman with the weak and soft heart of a peasant, which gives an attack power penalty of -2, results in an attack with a power of 255.
…You are suggesting that the most lethal swordswoman currently inhabiting the circular suicide of material existence is, in fact, Civilization’s own ATOMIC GHANDI?
Consider: there is no such thing as a sword.
To cut properly, you must continually self-annihilate when cutting. Your hand must become a hand that is cutting, your body a body that is cutting, your mind, a mind that is cutting. You must instantaneously destroy your fake pre-present self. It is a useless hanger on.
In my language, “can” and “maybe” are homonyms. The pun can’t get any better.
Jeez. It’s pretty apparent that Maya was either holding back or got a lot weaker after being drunk all the time from this point, given her showing against Juggernaut Star. Unless I”m missing something there.
Meti broke her will.
Sx years developed her hate enough to offset that.
At the same time, Maya sliced apart a portion of Mottom’s palace.
Previously, Maya killed a gang outside the noodle vendor store (off screen) without wrecking the neighborhood. The same way she did not run around with the Maybe Sword casually wrecking the carnival of fools pursuing Alice.
I think that Maya has some restraint and minimum threshold before she pulls out the sword and wrecks stuff.
You are right – Maya’s greatest feature is her sense of mystery and intrigue.
Maya’s slice was enough to kill whatever was in her way. It just so happened that what was in her way wasn’t her enemy.
Even unlimited power doesn’t do anything if it’s not correctly targeted. Unless you simply Cut Everything. Doing so would make it difficult to rebuild your tower afterwards, I think.
Meti was highly successful in Cutting Juggernaut star and likely knew she could survive the resulting explosion. She just didn’t know to cut the wheel as well as the rider.
Well at least he died a happy man
In that him dying made us happy.
He did die laughing
Took me a while to realise we’re slicing the whole building in half, including the head of that dude who stood too close. And then I realised the red we’re seeing in panels two and three is the sky.
Honestly, kudos to Abbadon. That slice not only Goemon Ishikawaed Mana, it Goemon Ishikawaed me, the reader. Had to go back in time to fully understand what just happened.
I think we can infer what Incubus thinks about death, in contrast to Maya.
Maya has a powerful will to kill that allows her to cut anything she wants dead, and all the surroundings, and the bystanders as well.
Incubus has a powerful will *to live*. He’ll scalp himself, eat dung, learn blood alchemy, steal his best friend’s star fire, make deals with enemy gods, and instigate universal war just to breath another minute of the air he did not earn.
This is likely the source of his sloppy swordsmanship. It’s also likely why he practices the Head of John style; to be harder to kill.
Now that I type all this out, it seems pretty obviously in-line with everything he’s been telling us, for the entire comic. I just didn’t expect him to be so forthright about it!
“The weak swordsman clings to victory.”
Now I sort of want to see the underlying philosophy of the Head of John style. After all I think we’ve seen that clinging to life and clinging to death aren’t necessarily evil and good, respectively. The Wheel-Turning king clings to the death of all things obsessively.
It’s unusual. ‘Maybe’ and ‘maybe not’ mean the same thing.
Is the glass half full or half empty? Maybe we need to simply divide the glass into half a full glass and half an empty glass.
When the barber takes a little too much off of the top.
It is the uncertainty that makes this blade so powerful. The chances that this sword can kill a god are not high but it is never 0. There is a chance, a potential and that is the scary thing.
He died happy ! So wholesome. ^_^
To think that hatred can be forged into a blade so sharp
She’s make a helluva moyel
Never buy gribenes from The Maybe Mohel, they may or may not be chewy!
The sanctioned action is to bisect a motherfucker
The Maybe sword is a manifestation of the blade of want. Maybe it can cut anything, as long as the wielder’s want transcends the thing being cut.
Continuous cutting, indeed.
Maybe.
Or perhaps the Maybe Sword is the converse of the Blade of Want. Maya asked Allison what she thought of Death, and Allison doesn’t think about Death… she doesn’t fear Death… she doesn’t fear Loss… she doesn’t have Want. She has a purpose, and maybe the purpose overlaps with her residual desires, but desire is not the driving force.
Maybe.
Two cuts. A severe impoliteness.
Technically it was only two SWINGS. The first one didn’t cut. The second, however…
Looked like it cut to me.
Not a beheading. See, his chin and neck are still there, attached firmly to his body.
Maybe not.
One swing with a broken sword hilt with two jagged points.
Maybe.
I’m waiting when we will get a man backstory in this story about being sexually used by ugly bastard woman, where he will have to live through that and after hating it enough he will discover a magical sword too like author did to Maya backstory.
But then male characters can’t have such backstories, right?
Look at Zaid some time passed and he became a hero and even got two magical swords around him for FREE without need for an evil awful tragic backstory for it.
Shame in fantasy stories women always will get the shitty tragic backstory connected to sex while men get everything for FREE just cause they are men and most readers self-inserts candidates.
Always? Really? Allison has no such backstory, nor does Cio, and particularly not White Chain – her story is nearly the opposite, having proudly earned her sexuality (or at least her gender) through ages long combat against male bureaucracy. But I’m sure you will continue to see what you want to see.
And as for Zaid, who knows what happened to him during the missing years? It couldn’t have been pleasant.
Oh, do shut up. If this fiction isn’t to your taste, you’re entirely welcome to locate another and read that.
You should write that story.
if anyone self-inserts as zaid, the blandest motherfucker so far, of all characters then lol lmao
Look, can we be sure that it was the sword which did that? Maybe those planes were always in the universe, just waiting to divide everything over themselves.
You know, Maybe.
An artless cut of no skill, but perfect in the principles of violence.
The goal is simply to cut, and in this, Maya has surpassed Royalty.
A shitty broken sword with an attack power of one, attached to a swordsman with the weak and soft heart of a peasant, which gives an attack power penalty of -2, results in an attack with a power of 255.
The Maybe Sword is an overflow error!
…You are suggesting that the most lethal swordswoman currently inhabiting the circular suicide of material existence is, in fact, Civilization’s own ATOMIC GHANDI?
And this pleases me.
Hypothetical Sword?
Theoretical Sword?
Metaphorical Sword?
…Conjectural Sword?
Hol up, is this the sword that the apprentice made (and the sword Maya forged was metaphorical/abstract)?
Ding ding ding.
The garden of stone statues makes a lovely practice field. A target rich environment.
The perhaps blade
Schrodinger’s blade.
Maybe it will cut.
Only when you’re not looking at it.
Maya exercising incredible restraint by not cleaving the mountains on the horizon.
Consider: there is no such thing as a sword.
To cut properly, you must continually self-annihilate when cutting. Your hand must become a hand that is cutting, your body a body that is cutting, your mind, a mind that is cutting. You must instantaneously destroy your fake pre-present self. It is a useless hanger on.
In the words of mister Torgue: “I THINK WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION: MAYBE.”
MISTER TORGUE HIGH-FIVE FLEXINGTON is Observant