Macabre is the perfect word, since it’s often used in terms of art and spectacle, and there are few things more gruesomely spectacular than a hanging tree, with bodies left to dangle like holiday ornaments.
Even at the start, ol’ Gog-Agog was involved in pageantry.
I really like her cute peasant girl outfit, I just wish we could have gone back a week or two further to see her alive and fully human in it, perhaps tending her chickens. A pretty farm maiden, about to unwittingly run afoul a strange fate.
Learn how I quit my terrible boss and dumped my ex at the same time. I never imagined it was real until I went into business for myself forging sword blades with the heat of my own passion. The worm writhes for me every day of a lifetime, which I did not believe until I maybe did.
She was very wise to immediately exit the situation. If she looked back for even a split second it would’ve been game over. It speaks to the effectiveness of her training that she was able to identify this threat before the emotions took hold.
She didn’t even dare to look back at them, hers may be the path of suffering sure but then there’s indulging in what you can’t and won’t have, let alone keep. What force of will would she have had to draw up from herself to tear herself away if she looked back?
why do you think that? she’s never shown any inclination towards maternalness or desiring kids. this is more likely meant thematically to refer to life vs death for her possible alternate selves. she’s not a mother. she’s never wanted kids- even when she was planning her life out based on expected “milestones” like going to college and losing her virginity, that wasn’t done out of True Desire but the literal social expectations foisted upon her. i think it’s frankly misogynistic to assume that seeing some version of kids that are meant to be hers would have had any impact on her will whatsoever, especially in a story that’s held absolutely no focus on her attitude towards children and childrearing. If Abaddon had wanted the kids to be a real temptation, he would have at some earlier point in the comic shown scenes of allison talking about wanting kids, or interacting with children at all, but he didn’t. so why would the kids be a serious temptation? why would the kids break her will, when nothing else she’s seen so far would? not every woman in media has to have the end goal of being a mother someday!!!!! that’s so patronizing to her journey and her character! get real!!!
The idea of a peaceful, normal(-ish) life is something that hurts her to have abandoned. Growing up, having children and a normal career, a normal life, is something she absolutely would desire. A life where she never left Earth as she knows it, where none of this multiversal war horseshit happened to her, yeah, I get why she felt the need to dip from that timeline without looking at it. It’s her memory, but it’s not HER memory, and she has a job to do.
There is an almost infinite amount of realities where she has kids with dif people and under dif cirmcumstances.
if she wants tp she can have a look at any of em at any time but children and a normal life are nothing she cares about in her current one.
she was taken by surprise but rather then fleeing she did not even care enough to have a single look at them before diving headfirst deeper into the worm mind.
Are you so BLIND? That’s not how this works! Let me get serious. She has granted her wish. A version of her that’s actually HAPPY. Glorious amelioration. Have you seen something that you didn’t want to see? She fears the fang of no beast. No.
As all of you losers can see, she’s writhing. Did she plan this? Stupid. Over and over and over and over. The key– She doesn’t know. Unconcerned about impending annihilation.
In addition to other responses: Core human instinct is also part of the why. Many people have a fairly strong “protect” instinct when it comes to children, even if they don’t want to have kids themselves. Every decent person I have ever known, whether they liked children or not, were willing to put aside an additional portion of care and consideration when dealing with them. Allison is both protective and a good person, so having to reject/unmake her “children” requires rejecting a portion of her gut instincts.
Easy. She has grieved for Cio and has already let her go. Leaving her is a matter of not being trapped by nostalgia.
Meanwhile, this blindsided her a bit. And it’s not a matter of whether she wanted kids or not. This is finding yourself as a parent and rejecting kids you already have.
Also, the storytelling is quite clear. With Cio she has a quiet moment where she let herself recall something nice that she lost. She couldn’t even face the children, for fear of becoming attached.
Beyond that first bespoke scenario, where Allison lives happily with Cho, I don’t think this is about sending her to difficult-to=leave scenarios, she’s fighting Gog to try and learn what she knows, what her memories are, and Gog is shoving her off-course — shunting her into random points in the memories of the lives of the Allisons that lived in the past versions of the multiverse that were destroyed by Jagganoth.
Or destroyed by Goggie herself. Or someone else.
It seems to me like the implication of Gogs relevation is that the demiurges take turns saying “I’m here to chew bubblegum and kill/subjugate everyone, and I’m all out of gum”. At the very least she took a couple of swings at it. But then Zoss always resets.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
Maybe, but I think the part that hurts most is the end of this cycle. If she stays, she gets to see her children killed by the Jagganites when they come to her world.
Even if we assume she instantly inherits all the memories of the life she’s currently in, which… based on her reactions, I don’t think she does, this is still our Allison and she’s very deliberately remaining distinct as such. Cio meant something to her. Hypothetical kids don’t.
(If anything, I got the impression she left quickly because she was disconcerted by the whole scenario. It’s too distant and disconnected from who she is in this timeline; more like being in a stranger’s skin than all the others. It’s the idea of something she “should” want, and maybe even planned to pursue a long, long time ago, in too-sharp contrast to who and what she now is. But that’s much more speculative.)
Queen of worms, the great devourer, scourge of worlds, bearer of a fragment of infinity clumsily focused into the word “beast”
An old woman, hung as witch, weak and dying
not only that she is also getting more and more aware of every single iteration of her that has existed.
The memories are more vivid when she jumps from one itteration to the other but she is at the same time in every single one of them as they all have ceased to exist after daddy Z pressed the “NOPE” button and she is recovering the memories of all those countless cycles.
To limited. Too divided. One is the loneliest number. It does not reach out to it’s brethren. It’s form is the blade, thin and straight. It is indivisible. Having no front it cannot be overrun, having no back it cannot be betrayed. It is perfect, and it is in all things.
I can imagine a woman with magical powers transferring her soul into the worms that populate the muck beneath the gallows tree as she hangs. Enter the Wormiverse!
The Worm is the sin of envy, and feeds on the graveyard of worlds. She said it herself: The Mass *remembers.*
At the end of time, when Jagganoth wins and all the lives are over, Gog frasts on what is left. And she remembers. The whole “consenting to become part of Gog” thing only seems to require consent on the part of folks who aren’t corpses.
I don’t think this is a story about a witch who became a worm or a worm who tricked itself into believing it was a witch. I think it’s a story about a worm who ate a witch and got extremely jealous because it learned how mcuh *cooler* it is being a witch than being a worm.
…what I am saying is Gog and Alison both started out as Magical Girl fangirls and this is the path to immortality and ultimate power and lesbian time-travel.
I mean, it was obvious since the story must advance forward, and it being Allison story, she most likely cannot be stopped, only have setbacks.
And in universe, although a great number, the amount of lifetimes Gog went through was still finite, it was only a matter of time before Allison took control. It’s been foreshadowed earlier, with Jadis: Allison did glance at the Wheel (and therefore infinity) and eventually overcame this ordeal. The Gog thing was always gonna be lesser in comparison.
Indeed, but there was a number of ways this could have gone other than Allison going “I’m just built different”, shrugging off the hivemind influence, and reversing the mind invasion with barely a thought.
I did expect this to not stop her, but I did not expect this to not even bother her.
Allison is being oil to Gog’s water by reaffirming her choice to the path of suffering over and over again. I think Gog has a blindspot there. People take the Worm because it offers relief from all that.
For as old and big as she is, she’s also quite small and petty. She threw the fight with Jaganoth just because Mottom wouldn’t tell her they needed her.
Maybe that’s the key? Realizing that Gog is an ocean a billion trillion miles wide but an inch deep.
The distinction of your is very important, it shows that Gog and Allison are still in fact two different people. That Consuming the worm did not have the effect that Gog was hoping it would for Allison.
“Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead,
And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
“He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
She’s gotten real good at striking poses, too. The confidence, the dominance, the casual stance when taking over a demiurge. Great use of shoulder pads indeed!
That’s pretty macabre.
Macabre is the perfect word, since it’s often used in terms of art and spectacle, and there are few things more gruesomely spectacular than a hanging tree, with bodies left to dangle like holiday ornaments.
Even at the start, ol’ Gog-Agog was involved in pageantry.
Aw… We could’a had a bonus 50-page comic….
An evil 50 page sub-comic.
Maybe later for the expanded Directors cut.
I really like her cute peasant girl outfit, I just wish we could have gone back a week or two further to see her alive and fully human in it, perhaps tending her chickens. A pretty farm maiden, about to unwittingly run afoul a strange fate.
May history ever move forward.
please prepare to outsource as a semi official fan comic like the tournament
The Best.
Learn how I quit my terrible boss and dumped my ex at the same time. I never imagined it was real until I went into business for myself forging sword blades with the heat of my own passion. The worm writhes for me every day of a lifetime, which I did not believe until I maybe did.
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W O R M I N B I O
Waxen weather. Storm’s a-brewing. Where’s Granny’s teacup when you need it.
I’m not trapped in here with you…
Yes you are.
So the future Lord of All That Is and a literal fucking worm walk into a bar…
…and you are not trapped in here with me. We are trapped in here with each other, and even death provides no escape.
i love the primeval gog’s funny little hat
WHEEL SMASHING LORD
Like I always say, if it’s time to go, do so in a funny hat!
“What kind of God is this?
Gave me the hottest bitch
Then took the life from her chest and left a pile of shit.”
It aint no real religion if you are not wearing a funny hat.
lil’ Wakfu hat
Looks like a DUNCE cap, sort of
Is that a fetus in the muck amidst the tree roots?
That’s a shoe, kicked loose by a short dance at the end of a short rope.
Looks like her left boot fell off.
I believe that’s the other shoe
No, it’s not. It’s just A shoe. We’re still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
That’s the one shoe; it fell early on. Now we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop.
But dum bam!
It’s a shoe and uhhh underwear.
That’s just a shoe in some muddy squiggles.
I swear, the amount of brain rot with some of the k6bd comments sometimes
if it was, that would be one hell of a reference
Nah, Guts’s mom wasn’t wearing anything that nice.
Too much Berserk, good sir or madam.
Wonder what that panel looks like with 3-D glasses.
{EVIL} LIVES
Leaving her kid(s) might have been even harder than leaving Cio.
But is the Mom Alison, or Gog?
Why not both ?
She was very wise to immediately exit the situation. If she looked back for even a split second it would’ve been game over. It speaks to the effectiveness of her training that she was able to identify this threat before the emotions took hold.
She didn’t even dare to look back at them, hers may be the path of suffering sure but then there’s indulging in what you can’t and won’t have, let alone keep. What force of will would she have had to draw up from herself to tear herself away if she looked back?
It wouldn’t take all the way. She had chosen the path of suffering.
why do you think that? she’s never shown any inclination towards maternalness or desiring kids. this is more likely meant thematically to refer to life vs death for her possible alternate selves. she’s not a mother. she’s never wanted kids- even when she was planning her life out based on expected “milestones” like going to college and losing her virginity, that wasn’t done out of True Desire but the literal social expectations foisted upon her. i think it’s frankly misogynistic to assume that seeing some version of kids that are meant to be hers would have had any impact on her will whatsoever, especially in a story that’s held absolutely no focus on her attitude towards children and childrearing. If Abaddon had wanted the kids to be a real temptation, he would have at some earlier point in the comic shown scenes of allison talking about wanting kids, or interacting with children at all, but he didn’t. so why would the kids be a serious temptation? why would the kids break her will, when nothing else she’s seen so far would? not every woman in media has to have the end goal of being a mother someday!!!!! that’s so patronizing to her journey and her character! get real!!!
She is REALLY hard to please. What a shoddy job.
The idea of a peaceful, normal(-ish) life is something that hurts her to have abandoned. Growing up, having children and a normal career, a normal life, is something she absolutely would desire. A life where she never left Earth as she knows it, where none of this multiversal war horseshit happened to her, yeah, I get why she felt the need to dip from that timeline without looking at it. It’s her memory, but it’s not HER memory, and she has a job to do.
thank YOU so much!
THIS is exactly what I thought.
There is an almost infinite amount of realities where she has kids with dif people and under dif cirmcumstances.
if she wants tp she can have a look at any of em at any time but children and a normal life are nothing she cares about in her current one.
she was taken by surprise but rather then fleeing she did not even care enough to have a single look at them before diving headfirst deeper into the worm mind.
Are you so BLIND? That’s not how this works! Let me get serious. She has granted her wish. A version of her that’s actually HAPPY. Glorious amelioration. Have you seen something that you didn’t want to see? She fears the fang of no beast. No.
As all of you losers can see, she’s writhing. Did she plan this? Stupid. Over and over and over and over. The key– She doesn’t know. Unconcerned about impending annihilation.
Rawk.
In addition to other responses: Core human instinct is also part of the why. Many people have a fairly strong “protect” instinct when it comes to children, even if they don’t want to have kids themselves. Every decent person I have ever known, whether they liked children or not, were willing to put aside an additional portion of care and consideration when dealing with them. Allison is both protective and a good person, so having to reject/unmake her “children” requires rejecting a portion of her gut instincts.
Allison’s a big girl; she doesn’t need you to get offended on her behalf.
Shes literally never had kids or been shown to want them, how in the name of Gog would this be harder for her than leaving the love of her life.
Her blood-drinking finally ceased. The tender and feeble soul of a peasant. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Easy. She has grieved for Cio and has already let her go. Leaving her is a matter of not being trapped by nostalgia.
Meanwhile, this blindsided her a bit. And it’s not a matter of whether she wanted kids or not. This is finding yourself as a parent and rejecting kids you already have.
Also, the storytelling is quite clear. With Cio she has a quiet moment where she let herself recall something nice that she lost. She couldn’t even face the children, for fear of becoming attached.
Beyond that first bespoke scenario, where Allison lives happily with Cho, I don’t think this is about sending her to difficult-to=leave scenarios, she’s fighting Gog to try and learn what she knows, what her memories are, and Gog is shoving her off-course — shunting her into random points in the memories of the lives of the Allisons that lived in the past versions of the multiverse that were destroyed by Jagganoth.
Or destroyed by Goggie herself. Or someone else.
It seems to me like the implication of Gogs relevation is that the demiurges take turns saying “I’m here to chew bubblegum and kill/subjugate everyone, and I’m all out of gum”. At the very least she took a couple of swings at it. But then Zoss always resets.
Maybe, but I think the part that hurts most is the end of this cycle. If she stays, she gets to see her children killed by the Jagganites when they come to her world.
She can run but she can’t hide.
Even if we assume she instantly inherits all the memories of the life she’s currently in, which… based on her reactions, I don’t think she does, this is still our Allison and she’s very deliberately remaining distinct as such. Cio meant something to her. Hypothetical kids don’t.
(If anything, I got the impression she left quickly because she was disconcerted by the whole scenario. It’s too distant and disconnected from who she is in this timeline; more like being in a stranger’s skin than all the others. It’s the idea of something she “should” want, and maybe even planned to pursue a long, long time ago, in too-sharp contrast to who and what she now is. But that’s much more speculative.)
Queen of worms, the great devourer, scourge of worlds, bearer of a fragment of infinity clumsily focused into the word “beast”
An old woman, hung as witch, weak and dying
Your comment made me realize that Allison is likely spawning in each simulation with memories of her life in said simulation.
Comment above of this one.
not only that she is also getting more and more aware of every single iteration of her that has existed.
The memories are more vivid when she jumps from one itteration to the other but she is at the same time in every single one of them as they all have ceased to exist after daddy Z pressed the “NOPE” button and she is recovering the memories of all those countless cycles.
Is this a physical space, or a mental one? How are her luau guard-gogs here anyway?
The answers are “yes” and “why not”.
Well one is real and the other isn’t
The Luas are outfits from the Promenade!
why differ?
She is basically existing in several timelines at once …..ALL AT ONCE!
She can feel, see, smell and remember MILLIONS of years, ever time she blinks she is in another life
The material planes are a big thing to percieve, and the
I think, maybe, that the luau are meant to signal that we’re outside of the gogscape again?
This is the end of the road. For her weary and torn heart it is the sweetest balm in the world.
Rawk!
To limited. Too divided. One is the loneliest number. It does not reach out to it’s brethren. It’s form is the blade, thin and straight. It is indivisible. Having no front it cannot be overrun, having no back it cannot be betrayed. It is perfect, and it is in all things.
I wonder, was Gog originally the woman hanging, or one of the maggots eating her corpse?
I believe the answer lies squarely between “both” and “neither”
I can imagine a woman with magical powers transferring her soul into the worms that populate the muck beneath the gallows tree as she hangs. Enter the Wormiverse!
I suspect the worms ate the woman and came to believe they were her.
That’s what “being” is, isn’t it? A piece of the whole that believes it’s something seperate? YISUN is a consummate lier, and all that.
The Worm is the sin of envy, and feeds on the graveyard of worlds. She said it herself: The Mass *remembers.*
At the end of time, when Jagganoth wins and all the lives are over, Gog frasts on what is left. And she remembers. The whole “consenting to become part of Gog” thing only seems to require consent on the part of folks who aren’t corpses.
I don’t think this is a story about a witch who became a worm or a worm who tricked itself into believing it was a witch. I think it’s a story about a worm who ate a witch and got extremely jealous because it learned how mcuh *cooler* it is being a witch than being a worm.
…what I am saying is Gog and Alison both started out as Magical Girl fangirls and this is the path to immortality and ultimate power and lesbian time-travel.
The irony of the Parasite of a billion billion lives being incautious of what it choses to eat.
Reverse UNO card, KSBD edition!
Alison is unstoppable. Did she actually plan it?
Maybe
Royalty is a continuous improvising motion
How *many* AL YIS UNs planned it? Was it this iteration alone? Or all of her together?
16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16
She fucking Weatherwaxed Gogoagagogogagog. Completely predictable in hindsight and I still didn’t expect it to go this way.
She did didn’t she.
“When can I get out?”
“WHEN YOU FIND THE ONE THAT’S REAL.”
I mean, it was obvious since the story must advance forward, and it being Allison story, she most likely cannot be stopped, only have setbacks.
And in universe, although a great number, the amount of lifetimes Gog went through was still finite, it was only a matter of time before Allison took control. It’s been foreshadowed earlier, with Jadis: Allison did glance at the Wheel (and therefore infinity) and eventually overcame this ordeal. The Gog thing was always gonna be lesser in comparison.
Now she encompasses knowledge of all that has been, and all that will be. She has overcome death. What can this be called except divine?
Indeed, but there was a number of ways this could have gone other than Allison going “I’m just built different”, shrugging off the hivemind influence, and reversing the mind invasion with barely a thought.
I did expect this to not stop her, but I did not expect this to not even bother her.
Allison is being oil to Gog’s water by reaffirming her choice to the path of suffering over and over again. I think Gog has a blindspot there. People take the Worm because it offers relief from all that.
For as old and big as she is, she’s also quite small and petty. She threw the fight with Jaganoth just because Mottom wouldn’t tell her they needed her.
Maybe that’s the key? Realizing that Gog is an ocean a billion trillion miles wide but an inch deep.
Re: “Allison did glance at the Wheel (and therefore infinity) and eventually overcame this ordeal. ”
And this is why I say it’s predictable in hindsight. Still, didn’t expect this particular development to happen.
Soon Gog will find themselves craving tea and biscuits.
I came here looking for this in the comments and I was not disappointed.
She sure did, and I for one am delighted.
Hm.
“Your” first body?
Or *our* first body?
The distinction of your is very important, it shows that Gog and Allison are still in fact two different people. That Consuming the worm did not have the effect that Gog was hoping it would for Allison.
She certainly was not expecting AL YIS UN to casually, effortlessly hop out of the lotus flower’s dream and start rummaginf around in the stacks.
I personally would have loved it if Abbadon had been a little bit Evil
Well, I think we’ll get a different kind of evil. I’d bet money the next page is gonna go back to White Chain and Solomon.
Now that you’ve said that, it probably is.
I too would have liked to see a little more of allison’s alternate existences
Love killed her, but communism did her in.
Sunrise Parabellum
Un Jour Je Serai de Retour Prés de Toi
Ace’s High!
Abaddon, listen to me very carefully:
I desperately want you to be the most annoying version of yourself.
Careful. That’s a monkeys paw ass request right there.
The name of this story should be Fulfill Six Billion Expectations, and Abbadon continues to do just that. Once again I find myself agog.
You are what you eat.
Ha!
ThE rOOt of aLl EVIL hAnGs FRom a TREE
Eating the worm was not planned, kicking Gog-Agog’s ass was always the plan.
General of Generals, ye command the very worms beneath our rotten feet. O Captain, we lock our shields. Whence do we march?
“Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead,
And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
“He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
Alison making great use of those shoulder pads
Having some real normal thoughts about that last panel
You, me, every allosexual with a pulse.
I think I’m an allisexual now :/
She’s gotten real good at striking poses, too. The confidence, the dominance, the casual stance when taking over a demiurge. Great use of shoulder pads indeed!
thats the royalty for ya
Those aren’t pads. Those are her actual shoulders.
This is to be known, but…
allison is so cool…