“Few knew, and fewer still then those that could understand, among mortal kin, the terrible, icy sorrow enshrined in the hearts of those fiery guardians.”
If there’s one thing we’ve seen proven over and over in our world, the Law is not immutable or for one purpose. The Law is a tool. In the hands of a just and good ruler, it’s a shepherd’s crook. In the hands of a tyrant, the Law is a scourge. 2 Michael is of that rare breed who cares not that Law is used well, simply that it is weilded by a single iron fist.
The law, as carved by Koss with the chisel Yismir in to the cold soul of every angel is planted deep within my brothers. Almost all of them are bound to their natures by their time in the void and the stone of their bodies.
To take the the great chisel to ones body and soul is the hardest of tasks. It is apothiosis, the beginning of royalty, of sovereignty. And, we know the sword that awaits those who cannot.
I shall weep for my sibling who face the sundering, and pray that some may yet be saved. 🏳️⚧️
A Latin American cliche goes, “For my enemies, the law. For my friends, EVERYTHING!” It’s not a very stable model. See also the Dragon Emperor and legalism.
Come to think of it, if we’re seeing him naked and without his armor, that must mean that we’re seeing the Void here? Or is 2 Michael somehow still able to incorporate in the physical plane of Throne without his armor?
Can any angel do that? Or only certain angels? Or only in certain circumstances?
And what does all that mean for White Chain, who now has no stone armor shell?
Question, if her body is actually the motorcycle then does that mean that the other Thorn Knights are really the Skull Dogs they ride upon?
I want to say no but it would be funny if it was yes.
“I’m gonna hit the high like a battering ram
On a silver black phantom bike
When the metal is hot, and the engine is hungry
And we’re all about to see the light
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole
And everything is stunted and lost
AND NOTHING REALLY ROCKS AND NOTHING REALLY ROLLS
AND NOTHING’S EVER WORTH THE COST!”
I do wonder whether it is, or if Gog-Agog were to actually lock in she could devour a legion of angels, if not Metatron. Because I do assume she’s not taking acting at her maximum effectiveness even now – but then she may be incapable of doing so after so long.
Metatron is supposed to be a scribe.
And note he has no tablet or recording medium.
He may not be able to truly remember things for long unless he records it somewhere else…
‘Won’ would mean the loop has been broken.
This is not the case.
Gog is ‘just’ the most powerful demiurge active at this point…. And beat Metatron & the angelic host in combat, maybe… But it means nothing if Metatron can roll back the universe to have Zoss try something different.
there’s several orders of angels. the original was the concordant knights, formed to keep order after Zoss took over Throne with humans who made them their ash bodies. it dissolved when the Universal War among the demiurges broke out. white chain still thought of herself as part of it at the beginning of the comic iirc, clinging on to old ideology nearly all angels had abandoned by this time. then there’s the concordant harmonies, which is the direct successor group lead by 2 Michael. they claim to basically just be the OG knights but everyone knows they’re corrupt and don’t really care about keeping the peace anymore. and there’s the thorn knights, thats juggernaut star and the other hog riders on this page, they’re lead by Metatron 1 and seek basically just annihilation. close off throne from the rest of the wheel, kill everyone still inside, maybe turn the wheel back while they’re at it
right the big difference is that 2 Michael wants a new heir to take Zoss’s place and restore some semblance of order and the Thorn Knights want to wipe everything to how it was before Zoss came around at all, but they’re functionally on the same side (Metatron’s)
There are also Root Knights (independent angels who upkeep the old law) and Petal Knights (independent angels who forsake the law and seek life’s pleasures instead).
Michael has stated that he and Metatron are both royalists now, as they realised the original ‘kill everyone in throne’ idea behind the Thorn Knights was unattainable. Now their plan is to install a puppet king with Zoss’ power that they can control. Not sure how they’re planning to achieve that now Zaid is dead, though…
There are a handful of Allison supporters on one side (two I think) and everyone else on the other. Oh, and a bunch of angels in another dimension who aren’t involved.
I love everything about this fight, every time we think we’ve seen the biggest fish in the pond, another one rears its head forward. The most Holy of Hydras. Infinite Hype Spiral.
Recall, Pree Serendipitously, the prophecy of the Witch in Ice.
The King shall be followed by a hundred and eight stars, and he shall be flanked by a White Flame and a Black. He shall face the beast, and he shall annihilate it. The White Flame, in all its terrible glory, has made its appearance.
One thinks of a certain appreciator of formalities, in his cage beneath the world, and considers the word of the Fourfold Constellation, in their meditation on blood.
~When hope is gone, undo this lock, and send me forth, on a moonlit walk~
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes
– Langston Hughes
W spread
Michael is a little tiny bit pissed off.
Cool art, absolutely have no idea whats happening anymore, but it looks cool
Isn’t it beautiful? Isn’t it terrible? The ending of a world and the beginning of a new. Must it end at all?
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He wanted a front seat for the show
Even the Angelic hosts demand to be entertained.
Good thing we have a fool!
Lovely profile picture, Mr. Moose!
If there’s one thing we’ve seen proven over and over in our world, the Law is not immutable or for one purpose. The Law is a tool. In the hands of a just and good ruler, it’s a shepherd’s crook. In the hands of a tyrant, the Law is a scourge. 2 Michael is of that rare breed who cares not that Law is used well, simply that it is weilded by a single iron fist.
The law, as carved by Koss with the chisel Yismir in to the cold soul of every angel is planted deep within my brothers. Almost all of them are bound to their natures by their time in the void and the stone of their bodies.
To take the the great chisel to ones body and soul is the hardest of tasks. It is apothiosis, the beginning of royalty, of sovereignty. And, we know the sword that awaits those who cannot.
I shall weep for my sibling who face the sundering, and pray that some may yet be saved. 🏳️⚧️
A Latin American cliche goes, “For my enemies, the law. For my friends, EVERYTHING!” It’s not a very stable model. See also the Dragon Emperor and legalism.
METTATRON LIVES
METATRON HAS CHICKEN FEET!
That’s 2 Michael, Metatron has normal humanoid feet
I’d forgotten what 2 Michael looked like naked. He bears a passing resemblance to one Lady Ilganyag… 🤔
Interesting… I don’t remember him having the whole upper body of a human, just the head on the body of a bird. Maybe 2 Michael has upgraded?
Come to think of it, if we’re seeing him naked and without his armor, that must mean that we’re seeing the Void here? Or is 2 Michael somehow still able to incorporate in the physical plane of Throne without his armor?
Can any angel do that? Or only certain angels? Or only in certain circumstances?
And what does all that mean for White Chain, who now has no stone armor shell?
Angels CAN manifest into the real world, we have seen it before with some of their combat arts.
But I suspect that Metatron is actively exerting his power to allow the angels to manifest themselves more easily.
You call that living?
Eh, it beats working a 9-to-5. 😝
Fuck yeaaaa!!! The Holy Hair Metal Knights ride again!
SHES BACK??
The original motherfuckers have returned
She’s back! Our favorite little egg is back. Oh, isn’t she a beauty with her motorcycle that is actually her body?
Question, if her body is actually the motorcycle then does that mean that the other Thorn Knights are really the Skull Dogs they ride upon?
I want to say no but it would be funny if it was yes.
The host descends, the thorns bloom. The dispensation of the multiverse is at hand, and the Wheel will turn or be usurped from within
JUGGY STAAAAR
i’m choosing to believe “through the fire and the flames” is constantly blasting from juggernaut’s bone bike
methinks also Wasteland Warrior Hoots Patrol
“I’m gonna hit the high like a battering ram
On a silver black phantom bike
When the metal is hot, and the engine is hungry
And we’re all about to see the light
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole
And everything is stunted and lost
AND NOTHING REALLY ROCKS AND NOTHING REALLY ROLLS
AND NOTHING’S EVER WORTH THE COST!”
-Meat Loaf, “Bat Out Of Hell”
Worm Queen, this one might be a bit above even your pay grade.
I do wonder whether it is, or if Gog-Agog were to actually lock in she could devour a legion of angels, if not Metatron. Because I do assume she’s not taking acting at her maximum effectiveness even now – but then she may be incapable of doing so after so long.
She has the advantage of knowledge–remember that she’s seen this, done this, countless times before.
I don’t know that Metatron has.
How very like Metatron to witness but never see.
An object’s purpose is what it does, I suppose.
Metatron is supposed to be a scribe.
And note he has no tablet or recording medium.
He may not be able to truly remember things for long unless he records it somewhere else…
Give it a couple more loops, trust the process
She claims to have won before, why not again?
‘Won’ would mean the loop has been broken.
This is not the case.
Gog is ‘just’ the most powerful demiurge active at this point…. And beat Metatron & the angelic host in combat, maybe… But it means nothing if Metatron can roll back the universe to have Zoss try something different.
Gog might be the only one thinking : Showoff, just like last time.
I don’t think she gets paid
So… Whose side is 2 Michael on again?
Metatron’s. He’s a Royalist.
there are sides?
there’s several orders of angels. the original was the concordant knights, formed to keep order after Zoss took over Throne with humans who made them their ash bodies. it dissolved when the Universal War among the demiurges broke out. white chain still thought of herself as part of it at the beginning of the comic iirc, clinging on to old ideology nearly all angels had abandoned by this time. then there’s the concordant harmonies, which is the direct successor group lead by 2 Michael. they claim to basically just be the OG knights but everyone knows they’re corrupt and don’t really care about keeping the peace anymore. and there’s the thorn knights, thats juggernaut star and the other hog riders on this page, they’re lead by Metatron 1 and seek basically just annihilation. close off throne from the rest of the wheel, kill everyone still inside, maybe turn the wheel back while they’re at it
or at least that is how i understand it
right the big difference is that 2 Michael wants a new heir to take Zoss’s place and restore some semblance of order and the Thorn Knights want to wipe everything to how it was before Zoss came around at all, but they’re functionally on the same side (Metatron’s)
There are also Root Knights (independent angels who upkeep the old law) and Petal Knights (independent angels who forsake the law and seek life’s pleasures instead).
Michael has stated that he and Metatron are both royalists now, as they realised the original ‘kill everyone in throne’ idea behind the Thorn Knights was unattainable. Now their plan is to install a puppet king with Zoss’ power that they can control. Not sure how they’re planning to achieve that now Zaid is dead, though…
There are a handful of Allison supporters on one side (two I think) and everyone else on the other. Oh, and a bunch of angels in another dimension who aren’t involved.
The winning side.
I highly recommend reading the comic before commenting in the future.
Some of these plot points are over a decade old, you condescending git.
Agreed with qwerty; don’t be a tedious gatekeeping jerkoff, buddy. It’s a bad look.
How needlessly pretentious.
This is most goddamn awesome page
I love everything about this fight, every time we think we’ve seen the biggest fish in the pond, another one rears its head forward. The most Holy of Hydras. Infinite Hype Spiral.
Recall, Pree Serendipitously, the prophecy of the Witch in Ice.
The King shall be followed by a hundred and eight stars, and he shall be flanked by a White Flame and a Black. He shall face the beast, and he shall annihilate it. The White Flame, in all its terrible glory, has made its appearance.
One thinks of a certain appreciator of formalities, in his cage beneath the world, and considers the word of the Fourfold Constellation, in their meditation on blood.
~When hope is gone, undo this lock, and send me forth, on a moonlit walk~
I always thought the white and black flame flanking the Heir were White Chain and Nukoku.
And so the end begins.
My favorite character is back!!!!
This complicates matters.
Yay! I hope White Chain and Juggy get some closure before someone dies.
Really hoping that White Chain punches Juggernaut Star through Jagganoth, giving her form of a giant woman
Reach Gender Through Violence
Oh boy, now we get to see 2 Michael show off his “crippled old guy with a sword” cred that instantly makes him a badass in this comic
That’s a good point… an old cripple with an elegant weapon is among the deadliest of opponents one can encounter within the realms of narrative!
“Why be the king, when you can be the jester?”
-Striker Hutassa, Mech Pilot and military strategist.
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes
– Langston Hughes
One suspects that Gog and Meta have some history.
Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
It ended when I lost your love
WIFE