Don’t wait, act now! This cozy closet–uh, studio apartment–within convenient smelling distance of the local sewage processing plant is sure to go fast! Rent is only 1 limb/newborn child per month!
It clearly says Ivory, not Pale… and unmasked? Although her exoskeleton resembles ash more than ivory to me. If White Chain’s essence changed by passing through Solomon David, perhaps merging with Allison has changed Cio into something not entirely flame, too.
That’s the ticket: Eat the rich! Not because it will instill fear or because we are all starving, but to CONSUME their essence. We will subsume them within all of Society.
Such monstrosity cannot be permitted to stand, for the whole of the Wheel cries out for its destruction. Perhaps, however, a frail shadow shall survive the Rising King’s purgation of this monstrosity, a shell bereft of its terrible hunger.
Or she would refine herself, become more rigid and unyielding, and in doing so transcend the very concept of colour. This is no time to attempt to sneak by the Rising King as a mere shade, but to stand as a glittering, faceted bulwark!
ivory is teeth and tusks. Note the toothsome exoskeleton. Her whole body is a mask, in a way, but isn’t that a mask on the lower part of her face? I’m pretty sure a devil is bound by their mask, like a devil is just a demon with a mask, and the mask is some kind of obligation like a contract?
I think she technically has a mask: she absorbed one of the shards during her introduction, so it’s probably safe to assume that the other fragments are also somewhere in her.
I guess ivory devil is what happens when what was supposed to be a pale devil gains enough willpower to shed all the extra names and “speedrun” to ebony while bypassing the other ranks – though that’s only a wild guess of mine.
Bi devils exist. We know Cio was gay for Allison. We don’t know that she was only into one gender. Throne doesn’t seem like a place that would have stigmatized one type of relationship to the point where it would be necessary to differentiate between gay and straight, that curse was forged by the devils of earth, I doubt it would fool the peoples of very many other worlds.
Her eyes are gone. Cio’s big bright eyes and her beloved affected eyeglasses. One of the ways she grounded herself, defined her desire to be a silly little woman and not a monster. I am afraid for this incarnation of our departed friend.
Man, Cio, what the fuck happened to you? How many reincarnations have you maintained continuity through when most devils retain nothing of themselves? Growth is violence, the body wrenching itself in to new shapes as the mind struggles to adapt. If it goes too far, exceeds the limits, sometimes you get something… cancerous. Who are you? What is left, and what is possible?
You can’t cross the same river twice, the sages say. You can never go back. The past isn’t real, there’s only the now, and what is to come. What is a fan fiction writer who doesn’t dream of new stories?
Yeah. Some devil masks have a tendency to not look like masks and that *could* be happening here, but the puncture wounds REALLY make it not look like a mask and the white flesh (?) we see under the breaks in her armor also add to that impression. It’s almost like she’s a devil being held together by an angle’s armor, rather than a mask.
But she’s not wrong either, for wanting a small and quiet place to call her own. She’s being honest with her feelings in a way Allison seems to have trouble doing, I think.
Allison is being extraordinarily honest with her feelings, I think, but she’s having some understandable trouble with Nukoku’s perspective. After all, she only just escaped the “small and quiet place” that Jadis was subtly holding her in for the last 3 years! The phrase means very different things to each of them right now, emotionally if not literally.
She’s just being the same ol’ dismissive, callous Allison she’s always been- no room for nuance, no room for compromise, no room for… thinking, honestly. For a philosophy student, she’s really bad at that. Cue someone harping on about “ACTUALLY that is the true essence of royalty blah blah”
To (butcher a) quote (by) the poets: “Human angels, Ivory demons, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!”
These really do seem to be the end times for the Wheel. Truly, civilization is ending – not that it ever really existed in the first place, mind you! But the illusion (of a hard magic system) was nice, for a time.
As always, they’re constantly calling out one another’s BS. If Nukoku can eat the worm and not lose herself, then she has a vested interest in not breaking the wheel. The cycle continues forever.
an Ivory devil?
Strange strange.
Pale devils are the weakest order bound by a mask
Ivory parallels these pale devils.
But she has no mask to bind her
has no name given in the binding
Where does she get this name to give herself?
Something about her reads more powerful than an ebon devil and yet she parallels the weakest. What a strange creature she has become.
When an Ivory demon emerges, unheralded and unknown, it shatters established beliefs, challenging the known hierarchy.
Its sudden appearance itself a shift in cosmic balance, a disruption of established order.
This apotheosis of Ivory demands attention, signaling an upheaval in power dynamics.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
There are small lies and big lies. One of the big ones, told by the Vatra, is that no devil can be a person without a mortal to make and bestow their mask. All devilkind seems to have bought that, but it doesn’t make it true.
Oh my
Oh my…
The devil came back,
the old devil came back,
and she did so for lack
of the love she so cherished.
O what a sight,
what a terrible sight!
Such will be the blight
of a love so unblemished!
The old evil turned coat,
lost her many-armed coat,
and her book, tales and boat
and her old long name perished.
So hear me now, children,
weep her tears now, children;
pink they are and Ivory the villain
unmasked,
unwanted,
and the King she relished.
Do as Thou Wilt!
Rise, if you must.
– Old Devil’s Drinking Song, Anonymous.
NEW COKE
im sent
In Brazillian Portugese, and I’m NOT making this up, Nu Co Ku means “naked ass” (literally, “naked with the ass”).
kkkjjjjjjjjjjj
HUE HUE HUE HUE
Name checks out
M E W A N T D A T D E V I L ‘ S ASS
In Japanese it means “Slave Country”
I like yours better
good
So, what American red necks call “Mooning”.
vc envergonha a nossa nação com essa piada, seu arrombado.
Calaboca patriota ridículo.
O brazil é uma merda, sempre foi e sempre vai ser.
E é por causa dos red pill incel B17 homo enrustido que nem voce.
Ninguém tem culpa da profissão da sua mãe.
Nem que voce gosta que lhe empurrem a janta.
I can’t with this comic
The commitment to the bit is just impeccable
Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion and Abaddon is the Wheel Turning King
“As he spins out memes, and LAUGHS AT GOD!”
—7 Juggernaut Star Scours the Internet
I’m not sure how long it took the fan base to figure out the Cio’s name the first time around, but this time it took about 10 seconds.
abaddon is a pure believer in kayfabe, he will ALWAYS commit to the bit
AAÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NEW COKE
Coincidence? I think NOT.
watch?v=x_Vbbhq0rhA
Enyu Cayoh Cayyu
Nah, doesn’t work as well as cokes name used to.
Wait no it is literally Nu Koku(cola)
ABBADON!
HOW DARE YOUUUUU!?!?!?!??!
I came up with Ennied’bya Ciokayie and I think it works well enough! She could go by En or Ennie.
god dammit
I’m fucking dying.
Lol
I could have lived a life without getting this joke, and been better for it.
goddammit
Oh, dear. That means we don’t have long until the original brand gets reintroduced as the “classic” version.
That might make things a bit confusing, having two of these running around.
Oh no, she’s hot!
That hips-to-waist ratio is something alright.
You have to keep in mind, she’s wearing a baggy exterior…
Does not look too baggy around the thighs in the last panel
“People don’t really change. They just grow thicker layers over who they really are, and pretend.” LOL baggy or just layers?
*Alison sweating profusely*
Bro there is blood everywere
THAT JUST MAKES IT HOTTER, FOOL.
WHAT ?! EWW !!
Hey we aren’t here to kink shame
That’s just her cola leakin’ out fam, it’s cool
Yeah, quite hot, if not for the hair and the fact her figure reminds me of Duplica by canvassolaris (don’t google it)
In this economy?
Don’t wait, act now! This cozy closet–uh, studio apartment–within convenient smelling distance of the local sewage processing plant is sure to go fast! Rent is only 1 limb/newborn child per month!
Also, it’s so cool that the stakes are so epic, that rules like “white devils don’t speak” are being broken. THIS white devil speaks!
It clearly says Ivory, not Pale… and unmasked? Although her exoskeleton resembles ash more than ivory to me. If White Chain’s essence changed by passing through Solomon David, perhaps merging with Allison has changed Cio into something not entirely flame, too.
White chain merged with Solomon. Could Cio have merged with Incubus in a similar way?
The signs are all here – her new shell looks a lot like Incubuses blood alchemy and just like him she can reshape and regrow herself.
A little cardboard box opposite the sewerage treatment works? You want the Barking Riverside development, they’re selling like hot cakes*
*May contain recycled materials
alas, but what will she give for this small and quiet place? even amidst the heaven-felling, god-devouring death throes of late stage capitalism?
Reach the Billionare’s Index by violence.
^This, but Unironically
That’s the ticket: Eat the rich! Not because it will instill fear or because we are all starving, but to CONSUME their essence. We will subsume them within all of Society.
Violent TAXATION that is!
Right?
…right?
I absolutely one hundred percent called that the name would be something like New Coke or Pepsi or something like that
Such monstrosity cannot be permitted to stand, for the whole of the Wheel cries out for its destruction. Perhaps, however, a frail shadow shall survive the Rising King’s purgation of this monstrosity, a shell bereft of its terrible hunger.
Daidu Koku
Or she would refine herself, become more rigid and unyielding, and in doing so transcend the very concept of colour. This is no time to attempt to sneak by the Rising King as a mere shade, but to stand as a glittering, faceted bulwark!
Pehp-see, the Crystal
I WAS WONDERING WHAT THE HELL THAT NAME MEANT OR REFERENCED
Ivory… is that different from the white-masked devils? Somehow greater than the Ebon devils, even despite lacking a mask?
ya it was clear she was not a pale devil here, since they can not speak, shes some inverse of an Ebony devil, the peak and yet divorced from it all
Just like how White Chain became something beyond an angel, she became something beyond a devil.
She seems merged or at least influenced by Incubus and his blood alchemy. Looks like a paralell to New White Chain.
maybe similar to whatever Himself is?
Sigma Devil
ivory is teeth and tusks. Note the toothsome exoskeleton. Her whole body is a mask, in a way, but isn’t that a mask on the lower part of her face? I’m pretty sure a devil is bound by their mask, like a devil is just a demon with a mask, and the mask is some kind of obligation like a contract?
I think she technically has a mask: she absorbed one of the shards during her introduction, so it’s probably safe to assume that the other fragments are also somewhere in her.
I guess ivory devil is what happens when what was supposed to be a pale devil gains enough willpower to shed all the extra names and “speedrun” to ebony while bypassing the other ranks – though that’s only a wild guess of mine.
Confirmed in the Patreon hangout that Ivory is above Ebon!
I am not looking respectfully at all. In fact I am violently drooling.
Ironically, the highest form of respect.
As if to say, “I find you so attractive, I have lost all composure in your presence”.
I find it weird and embarrassing, but I guess people need to take what they can get.
You heard it here first folks, liking the hot terrifying Demon Woman is apparently cringe behavio-pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt
SEMEN
DAEMON
TAKE MY SOUL
Semen Demon? ew.
She’s gay, dude.
Pree Nukoka did copulate with Oscar and her former sphynx betrothed.
Are you sure Oscar was male? And as for the “husband”, that was clearly bestiality.
*Cio was gay. This new one is still up in the air.
Was Cio gay? I thought she was a devil and just did whatever she fancied.
Bi devils exist. We know Cio was gay for Allison. We don’t know that she was only into one gender. Throne doesn’t seem like a place that would have stigmatized one type of relationship to the point where it would be necessary to differentiate between gay and straight, that curse was forged by the devils of earth, I doubt it would fool the peoples of very many other worlds.
We know Cio had a boyfriend and a husband.
OH NO SHES HOT
The pattern of speech is closer to hers (theirs?) too. Someone else pointed it out on the fan discord. That the design is, too, is only apparent now.
What is this? What is she? Why the shard of the mask?
We will find out soon, I am guessing.
Her eyes are gone. Cio’s big bright eyes and her beloved affected eyeglasses. One of the ways she grounded herself, defined her desire to be a silly little woman and not a monster. I am afraid for this incarnation of our departed friend.
I mean… maybe not *gone.* Hidden, for now, but it’s entirely possible that someone could brush the hair from her eyes tenderly.
I like the holding onto hope here
At this point, I actually suspect that some variation on the scene you describe is rather inevitable. Chekhov’s Gun, and all that!
OH NO SHES HOT X2
Hear me out
In this matter the council is unanimous.
No need for words. We’re all thinking it.
Let heir cook
I edited this and forgot to reinclude: by “hers (theirs?)” I meant to say Aspected Chaos, the cio + ali + wc fusion thingy.
Looks like white chain wasn’t the only hot fire of the void brought closer to humanity.
ayo, demon lady bares it all
Man that Embodied Chaos thing had – R – E – P – R – E – C – U – S – S – I – O – N – S –
Before combining the flames of creation in to a transcendent being please consult with your doctor or ontologist.
Also thank you to everyone who explained the joke because hahahahahahaa
Re: Ivory – People really do be transcending the fundamental limits imposed on them at the moment of their creation by the gods these days.
> ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’
– A failed Demiurge of an unremarkable world
Man, Cio, what the fuck happened to you? How many reincarnations have you maintained continuity through when most devils retain nothing of themselves? Growth is violence, the body wrenching itself in to new shapes as the mind struggles to adapt. If it goes too far, exceeds the limits, sometimes you get something… cancerous. Who are you? What is left, and what is possible?
You can’t cross the same river twice, the sages say. You can never go back. The past isn’t real, there’s only the now, and what is to come. What is a fan fiction writer who doesn’t dream of new stories?
to be fair most devils dont have people preserving their masks between incarnations, but now she has no mask
Her face is probably still a mask. Blue Cio’s face also didn’t look like “a mask” until she pulled it off and presented it to Allison.
I mean her body was always more of a violet; her hair just tended to hide the borders between the rest of her body and her face.
Yeah. Some devil masks have a tendency to not look like masks and that *could* be happening here, but the puncture wounds REALLY make it not look like a mask and the white flesh (?) we see under the breaks in her armor also add to that impression. It’s almost like she’s a devil being held together by an angle’s armor, rather than a mask.
But she’s not wrong either, for wanting a small and quiet place to call her own. She’s being honest with her feelings in a way Allison seems to have trouble doing, I think.
Allison is being extraordinarily honest with her feelings, I think, but she’s having some understandable trouble with Nukoku’s perspective. After all, she only just escaped the “small and quiet place” that Jadis was subtly holding her in for the last 3 years! The phrase means very different things to each of them right now, emotionally if not literally.
She’s just being the same ol’ dismissive, callous Allison she’s always been- no room for nuance, no room for compromise, no room for… thinking, honestly. For a philosophy student, she’s really bad at that. Cue someone harping on about “ACTUALLY that is the true essence of royalty blah blah”
An apt description for many philosophers. We should remember the former incarnation of Pree Al-Yisun was a Nietzschean.
That’s a very good point.
To (butcher a) quote (by) the poets: “Human angels, Ivory demons, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!”
These really do seem to be the end times for the Wheel. Truly, civilization is ending – not that it ever really existed in the first place, mind you! But the illusion (of a hard magic system) was nice, for a time.
i need her
You fool! This isn’t even my final form!
Ugh, Ebony Devils are so blasé. Siri, play「REBORN SIN AGAINST HEAVEN: IVORY DEVIL」on repeat.
::cue sixpence none the richer as nukoku tosses her long hair::
note not the Pale devils that do not speak, but an Ivory Devil that wears no Mask
“No mask? No mask!”
Excellent King in Yellow reference. You are seen!
Abbadon is not helping me beat the monster fucker allegations, I’ll say that much.
I love that even with a new name and self, she can still call Allison on her bullshit that easy. Curious to see what comes of this…
As always, they’re constantly calling out one another’s BS. If Nukoku can eat the worm and not lose herself, then she has a vested interest in not breaking the wheel. The cycle continues forever.
Absolutely, it’s a knot that’s hard to untangle.
After the release of his TTRPG “Goblin With a Fat Ass” he never tried to beat those allegations.
Its like shes slowly emerging from a chrysalis/iron maiden.
Peak character design. 10 out of 10.
even more time between new pages….
Everyone has a life.
Lmao go out and touch grass
an Ivory devil?
Strange strange.
Pale devils are the weakest order bound by a mask
Ivory parallels these pale devils.
But she has no mask to bind her
has no name given in the binding
Where does she get this name to give herself?
Something about her reads more powerful than an ebon devil and yet she parallels the weakest. What a strange creature she has become.
When an Ivory demon emerges, unheralded and unknown, it shatters established beliefs, challenging the known hierarchy.
Its sudden appearance itself a shift in cosmic balance, a disruption of established order.
This apotheosis of Ivory demands attention, signaling an upheaval in power dynamics.
There are small lies and big lies. One of the big ones, told by the Vatra, is that no devil can be a person without a mortal to make and bestow their mask. All devilkind seems to have bought that, but it doesn’t make it true.