Hundreds of pages of self-discovery, only to reach “swords don’t kill people, people kill people” at the end? Was Abbadon a 2nd Amendment troll all along?
Acting like that was the only thing said on this page AND acting like this is the end of the comic AND acting like that’s the only thing it’s ever said.
Allison even called herself stupid in this page and the comments are filled with people going “wow so what Allison said is the only point to this whole comic huh?”
I’m impressed that you are this dense. The whole point is that all of this fucking deep philosophy and serious attitudes have done literally nothing to help. All the demiurges have be broiling in the own complex and deeply rooted beleifes, and it’s done nothing for their own mental health or growth. They have stagnated and broken down.
It’s not so much “swords don’t kill people, people kill people” as it is a pulling back of the veil of mythologization that has been laid upon swords throughout this comic.
A reminder that No, your arm has not become a sword, you are not subsumed by the sword, you are not subsumed by violence. You are simply yourself, making your own choices. “You are prim, you have always been prim and you shall always be prim.” The sword does not, and has not ever mattered. Indeed, it has never existed. Consider, there is no such thing as a sword, there is only you.
I had a ~10 year premonition that I would die in a certain year. Got the cancer the year before that, got it all cut out before the premonitioned birthday (to the best of anyone’s knowledge), so far so good since?
Fate is only a cage for those who refuse the royal action of cutting, I guess.
Destroy the throne so that nobody may seek its power. Destroy the throne so that nobody will shed blood for it. Destroy the throne so that no tyrant may sit there again.
And when it is done, sheathe your sword, go home, and start up a noodle shop.
I love that, in this universe obsessed with enlightenment and meaning, that Allison seems to be one of the only ones who “get” the message that Yisun was saying, because everyone else is, ironically enough, frantically looking for meanings.
The universe is an absurd place and lacks reason and purpose; thus, instead of chasing after a thing that does not exist, one must provide one’s _own_ meaning
Don’t dismiss the future, of course, but focus on the _now._
i love allison sm, and i love how uplifting this all feels, it’s soo good and it makes me so happy
i’m not eloquent enough to convey how much i love your comic, specially because of pages like these and this whole build up to these kinda points, thank you for sharing it with us <3
Well everything which has a form of something straight and a pointy, hell even a small dagger, can be described as being phallic, duh.
What was really the point of it? That Maya was in the wrong being obsessed over swords/dicks for her whole life than trying to enjoy it in the fullest allegory in a way which could be more pleasant for her like following some passion like cooking?
What will Allisson do now being free and fully knowing she has 35 years of her life going where she is basically immortal wise to do whatever she wants?
Have orgies?
Get family like Maaya with that boring guy who got turned into complete warrior with 2 free awesome swords where he didn’t have any hardships like women did to get them only cause he is a guy kind of logic in a story in this and maybe a self-insert candidate for straight male readership like?
Plan to hunt down the people who wronged her and betrayed her as her life goal meaning Worm Queen, Vampire anemic guy and untouchable big Red King?
That will be her life mission now, or trying to get or find Cio again in her new form or something? Or author decided to make that dead for real to make room for new love interest?
Despite everything being 25-30 and still knowing you have 35 years to do something before you will kick the bucket is a lot of leeway some never will get, we can laught she won’t need to get on her retirement plan and be a grumpy old lady that way.
This is what I sometimes dislike about this story author creates very serious tragic backstory make it some very serious thing and then destroys it all with a bit retarded dick/sword joke.
It really a but ruins the atmosphere here.
To the wise and wheel-shaking revelations of a master, she is an ant, who is unbothered.
To the petty sword-squabbles of a master and master, she is the giant, who is unbothered.
Meti Ten Ryo was true royalty, and lived in a perfect state of liberation.
But an entire world full of liberated royalty is worth less than a single farmer, laboring to pull food from the earth.
Meti, of course, knew this, and so she lived in a barrel, and abhorred everything she spent her life pursuing. And when she died, she had her body fed to the dogs, the only good her royal body ever did.
Hardly. Even her life of Diogenes-level cynicism was nothing but a waste.
Meti assigned the sword just as much power as her adherents did, even if it was from the opposite perspective. She lived miserably and only experienced joy through the humiliation of others. Just like the Demiurges she drowned in her own philosophy. Doomed. Not Royalty.
A couple of people actually guessed that the question was “What then?” and it is a pretty devastating question to ask for somebody who has such lofty goals. What happens after you conquered the world, the universe or all of existence? You get your bloody ever after but what happens then?
Everybody seems stuck on not getting the answers they wanted when that’s the whole point. The questions never have one answer for everybody, and if somehow there is, you won’t be the one to find it or know of it. But you cannot break yourself on the questions, because that takes you farther from your answer rather than nearer.
Pensive Exultation Regarding Astonishing Revelation of Self
I think the number of people getting genuinely offended at Allison calling swords phallic and lame is kinda funny. For one thing, it’s not even being framed as some profound insight or revelation – she’s saying something kind of dumb and simplistic, which of course she would. Unless you count things like Excalibur or other weapons from fairytales and myths, Allison doesn’t come from a world that invests a universe of meaning and symbology into the sword the way that this world does. So, of course she can’t connect with Meti’s intentionally vulgar counter-philosophy that attempts to rip the meaning from the metal and consign the sword to the realm of the mundane – in a way that, arguably, still elevates it but instead as a corrupting influence.
They’re just sharp sticks to Allison – why would she have any reason to engage seriously with what they mean or don’t mean? So she says something silly, reductive, kinda dumb and utterly disconnected with the philosophy of a woman she’s never met who’s manual she’s never read and it’s fine. It never mattered that much in the first place.
The story is not passing judgement on the audience for liking cool swords, friends, it’s not a big deal to point out that they kinda look like dicks sometimes.
At the risk of sounding stupid, I honestly kinda like the idea that it’s less refutation and so on… and more that Allison is literally so empty headed her thoughts are legit, “I’ll figure it out when we get there,” with no further deeper thought at all to consider.
Also Maya having met someone so… flippant, weird and… Simple?
Must be… Refreshing? Maybe?
Whether or not swords are phallic doesn’t matter. Swords are awesome
Hundreds of pages of self-discovery, only to reach “swords don’t kill people, people kill people” at the end? Was Abbadon a 2nd Amendment troll all along?
Acting like that was the only thing said on this page AND acting like this is the end of the comic AND acting like that’s the only thing it’s ever said.
Allison even called herself stupid in this page and the comments are filled with people going “wow so what Allison said is the only point to this whole comic huh?”
Absolute nonsense.
Narrow scope from a narrow mind, it seems.
Also, the 2nd Amendment is great.
I’m impressed that you are this dense. The whole point is that all of this fucking deep philosophy and serious attitudes have done literally nothing to help. All the demiurges have be broiling in the own complex and deeply rooted beleifes, and it’s done nothing for their own mental health or growth. They have stagnated and broken down.
It’s not so much “swords don’t kill people, people kill people” as it is a pulling back of the veil of mythologization that has been laid upon swords throughout this comic.
A reminder that No, your arm has not become a sword, you are not subsumed by the sword, you are not subsumed by violence. You are simply yourself, making your own choices. “You are prim, you have always been prim and you shall always be prim.” The sword does not, and has not ever mattered. Indeed, it has never existed. Consider, there is no such thing as a sword, there is only you.
Prim is wise
Thirty five years huh?
My premonition placed mine at fifteen.
Plenty of time
I had a ~10 year premonition that I would die in a certain year. Got the cancer the year before that, got it all cut out before the premonitioned birthday (to the best of anyone’s knowledge), so far so good since?
Fate is only a cage for those who refuse the royal action of cutting, I guess.
would swords be better if they were cunt shaped ? stupid lesbian
Wut
..excuse me, what in GROFIT does this comment mean?
How did idiots get this far in the comic without getting filtered by the Book 1 infodump?
no one strikes me as sadly narcassistic , consumed by a desire to have all blades resemble thir own visage. Truly a tragic fate.
Meti looks a bit like Zoss, here.
Also, that last panel made me shudder. She looks like a *messiah*. She’s royalty.
Typo in the second to last panel in WSL28, should be “And all I can do” but there’s an “I” extra. Beautiful work, as always!
Also “your master was was pretty obsessed”
Her fully formed halo in the last panel – is it the first time we’ve seen that? What has she finally achieved to manifest that glyph?
We’ve seen it before. She just doesn’t keep it turned on all he time. This is true of other characters in this story also.
Destroy the throne so that nobody may seek its power. Destroy the throne so that nobody will shed blood for it. Destroy the throne so that no tyrant may sit there again.
And when it is done, sheathe your sword, go home, and start up a noodle shop.
And then someone finds the keys, bulids the throne, unearthes the ruinous powers, and the cycle starts all over again!
I love that, in this universe obsessed with enlightenment and meaning, that Allison seems to be one of the only ones who “get” the message that Yisun was saying, because everyone else is, ironically enough, frantically looking for meanings.
The universe is an absurd place and lacks reason and purpose; thus, instead of chasing after a thing that does not exist, one must provide one’s _own_ meaning
Don’t dismiss the future, of course, but focus on the _now._
“haha and then what ;)”
Dying is the only way to run out of _now_.
“we’ll figure it out when we get there.”
the true fool’s answer. Which may be why I didn’t think of it.
And is why it’s correct.
This entire saga could have actually ended with this page. Third time that’s happened…
i love allison sm, and i love how uplifting this all feels, it’s soo good and it makes me so happy
i’m not eloquent enough to convey how much i love your comic, specially because of pages like these and this whole build up to these kinda points, thank you for sharing it with us <3
Well everything which has a form of something straight and a pointy, hell even a small dagger, can be described as being phallic, duh.
What was really the point of it? That Maya was in the wrong being obsessed over swords/dicks for her whole life than trying to enjoy it in the fullest allegory in a way which could be more pleasant for her like following some passion like cooking?
What will Allisson do now being free and fully knowing she has 35 years of her life going where she is basically immortal wise to do whatever she wants?
Have orgies?
Get family like Maaya with that boring guy who got turned into complete warrior with 2 free awesome swords where he didn’t have any hardships like women did to get them only cause he is a guy kind of logic in a story in this and maybe a self-insert candidate for straight male readership like?
Plan to hunt down the people who wronged her and betrayed her as her life goal meaning Worm Queen, Vampire anemic guy and untouchable big Red King?
That will be her life mission now, or trying to get or find Cio again in her new form or something? Or author decided to make that dead for real to make room for new love interest?
Despite everything being 25-30 and still knowing you have 35 years to do something before you will kick the bucket is a lot of leeway some never will get, we can laught she won’t need to get on her retirement plan and be a grumpy old lady that way.
This is what I sometimes dislike about this story author creates very serious tragic backstory make it some very serious thing and then destroys it all with a bit retarded dick/sword joke.
It really a but ruins the atmosphere here.
The absurdity is the point.
In order:
You too think about dicks a lot don’t you.
Yes. What would make Maya happy she never needed to become what she did to do.
She just told you. She’s not thinking about it all that much.
Maybe? See above.
Probably not. They were never really that good as a couple.
That is expressly what she’s not doing how did you not grasp this, that’s the same answer as a million idiots who’d be destroyed by the question.
Al-yisun is not thinking about dicks or pussies this much and neither should you.
If you want.
This is a wonderful story with beautiful philosophical contemplation. Think about dicks a bit less and you might appreciate that more.
To the wise and wheel-shaking revelations of a master, she is an ant, who is unbothered.
To the petty sword-squabbles of a master and master, she is the giant, who is unbothered.
“Even if you did defeat me, what would you do then?”
Level Clear!
[Start Again]
Aunt Maya’s face when you tell them swords are lame
About time someone called out Meti’s bullshit. She’s never been any better than the demiurges and their own bullshit philosophies.
Meti Ten Ryo was true royalty, and lived in a perfect state of liberation.
But an entire world full of liberated royalty is worth less than a single farmer, laboring to pull food from the earth.
Meti, of course, knew this, and so she lived in a barrel, and abhorred everything she spent her life pursuing. And when she died, she had her body fed to the dogs, the only good her royal body ever did.
Hardly. Even her life of Diogenes-level cynicism was nothing but a waste.
Meti assigned the sword just as much power as her adherents did, even if it was from the opposite perspective. She lived miserably and only experienced joy through the humiliation of others. Just like the Demiurges she drowned in her own philosophy. Doomed. Not Royalty.
Her being something doomed and a waste is also royalty. She is very successful at it.
I’m sure she believes being a doomed waste is Royalty. Doesn’t mean she truly is.
And yet those who cut gods agree she surely was.
A couple of people actually guessed that the question was “What then?” and it is a pretty devastating question to ask for somebody who has such lofty goals. What happens after you conquered the world, the universe or all of existence? You get your bloody ever after but what happens then?
Everybody seems stuck on not getting the answers they wanted when that’s the whole point. The questions never have one answer for everybody, and if somehow there is, you won’t be the one to find it or know of it. But you cannot break yourself on the questions, because that takes you farther from your answer rather than nearer.
Give up the eye sure
the arm as well
the leg is nothing
but the smokes, Jadis provided lots of things but only this one matters
I think the number of people getting genuinely offended at Allison calling swords phallic and lame is kinda funny. For one thing, it’s not even being framed as some profound insight or revelation – she’s saying something kind of dumb and simplistic, which of course she would. Unless you count things like Excalibur or other weapons from fairytales and myths, Allison doesn’t come from a world that invests a universe of meaning and symbology into the sword the way that this world does. So, of course she can’t connect with Meti’s intentionally vulgar counter-philosophy that attempts to rip the meaning from the metal and consign the sword to the realm of the mundane – in a way that, arguably, still elevates it but instead as a corrupting influence.
They’re just sharp sticks to Allison – why would she have any reason to engage seriously with what they mean or don’t mean? So she says something silly, reductive, kinda dumb and utterly disconnected with the philosophy of a woman she’s never met who’s manual she’s never read and it’s fine. It never mattered that much in the first place.
The story is not passing judgement on the audience for liking cool swords, friends, it’s not a big deal to point out that they kinda look like dicks sometimes.
And anyway, look at Alison’s weapon in the last panel, stronger than any sword. . .
At the risk of sounding stupid, I honestly kinda like the idea that it’s less refutation and so on… and more that Allison is literally so empty headed her thoughts are legit, “I’ll figure it out when we get there,” with no further deeper thought at all to consider.
Also Maya having met someone so… flippant, weird and… Simple?
Must be… Refreshing? Maybe?
Let it be known to all and sundry that I guessed the question back on that other Meti page!
Allison is no longer slipshod in her thinking
Heaven need not be reached by violence.