WHEEL SMASHING LORD 6-190
Chapter: 6
“The way of the blade is the way of divergence, the art is the art of cutting. Stable and fortified things are ultimately weak in their constancy. By refusing to bend, they cannot participate in their self-annihilation. They are frozen, stiff, like the limbs of the elderly. A sword moves beautifully through time, you must move beautifully through time. Follow the pangs of your heart or face destruction.”
– Bilong ten Ssam, the Divergent Blade
The testament of a vigilant gaze…
Last Instance
Apotheosis is the taking of the chisel and hammer to ones flesh and mind. Will Vigilante Gaze remake himself in the image of kindness? Perhaps; Perhaps not.
Either way, this is going to be worthy of a heavy metal album cover.
Only testament I’ll ascribe to, STALWART KINDNESS
A seed has to destroy itself to bloom. That’s a violent act, Princess.
To move in any direction is to abandon all others; every act is an act of destruction.
Growth itswlf takes nutrients, creation destroys whatever base resources are used, change itself is the cycle of destruction for renewal
What is destruction, but a change from one state to another?
Or to put it another way, Lɪғᴇ ɪs Cʜᴀɴɢᴇ, and also, to borrow a wiser man’s words, Aʟʟ Tʜɪɴɢs Sᴛʀɪᴠᴇ.
A different wiser man talked about suffering as dukkha. Other word nerds derive this ultimately from prefix dys- (“bad”) and verb root stha (“stand”). Standing badly, when the universe around you is dancing. Standing badly, when the river prompts you to swim. Trying to stay in the same place, when the ground under you is moving.
Change, or be changed. There is no “stay”.
But there is always a choice.
The missile knows where it is and where it isn’t and moves from where it was to where it wasn’t.
HEAR HEAR
I’m not crying, you’re crying
AND THAT, HERE, IS WHY VIGILANT GAZE IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER, YSUN-DAMMIT !!
You have excellent taste.
fellow vigilant gaze enjoyers unite
Man, Vigilant Gaze truly is a great character.
I really hope they’re not going to sacrifice themself in a blaze of glory and justice to turn the tide of the battle.
Cultivated*
One of the lesser-known powers of saying something with the entirety of your heart and soul is most listeners will struggle to notice, or even understand, that you have mispronounced a word. An oddity of the spelling, or with the shape of the vowels and consonants as they fly out of the mouth, looks or sounds like nothing more than a rhetorical flourish or usage of old language to one so captivated.
I will not lie, I genuinely didn’t notice that typo until it was pointed out. And even then, I had to look through the wordsmithing manuals to realize that CULVATED wasn’t a way to say cultivated in ages past.
yes yes i wait vigilantly to gaze on his true form
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His? Methinks preem nerd might be jumping the gun.
Or possibly jumping the shark?
Or jumping jack flash?
It seems my metaphors may be mixed as well, this could be a wider problem…
There is kindness in the world because I am kind.
There is hope in the world because I have hope.
There is love in the world becuase I love.
Nice sentiment. Insufficient for this turning of the wheel.
To receive, you must first sacrifice:
I will suppress my kind nature so others can live kindly.
I will give up hope for myself that it might grow in others.
I will risk what I love so tomorrow’s children will know love.
Our failure to recognize unpleasant truths is why we’re at the mercy of brutal, cruel stupidity in 2026.
And yet
In striving for kindness in the lives of others, there is true kindness.
In culvating hope for others in spite of one self, there is hope for the world.
In risking your love for tomorrow’s children, your love is made manifest.
This same logic is also an excellent counter argument to the notion that the universe is “uncaring.”
Such a belief is built on the faulty premise that we are in some way separate from the universe. Same goes for the argument that the universe is mindless. Objectively the universe is actually a sentient being: you.
Now I want what he’s saying as a tattoo…
This entire series feels like an argument for tattoos. Like I would do an extra hour of cardio to keep the texts whole
I had never considered that tattoo maintenance requires maintenance of one’s physical body. That does a pretty good job of disincentivizing my vague tat notions!
On the other hand, aging, gracefully or not, is part of the charm of a good tattoo. Either way it tells a story.
And thus, the mouse.
I’m lookin for kindness today…
A shame, it seems the old timer is waving his death flag. I will miss him; he was one of my favorites.
The quote below is an interesting departure from Meti saying the sword is useless. Or maybe just a different side to what Meti is saying. The sword and violence in general is useless to things that want to stay constant, but no matter what it is needed for change. It doesn’t have to be mortal violence, peaceful protest is its own kind.
I think Meti’s lesson about sword law layers nicely with Vigilant Gaze’s declarations here.
If you would save the rat, then you must be willing to cut down the cruel rat-killer with every last ounce of your might.
I salute tears in my eyes
you’re goddamn right grandpa
I suppose I can’t be the only one expecting them to pull a fusion gambit like Aspected Chaos before them, even as it seems big ol’ Vigi here is making his last testament…
Regardless, whatever happens next is bound to be spectacular.
That is a brilliant idea I had somehow completely forgotten.
10 Vigilant Gaze Purges the Horizon, my beloved and based.
You tell ’em, big guy.
Cultivated, not culvated
I guess “to culvate” is to provide water via culverts, so it is like “to nurture”. Not far from “to cultivate” though.
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through the magic of editing i have fixed this, now who looks like the loser !!!!!!
Certainly not those of us with time machines.
congrats on drawing god from the heavens
It is something you must make
It is something you must take
It is something you should constantly become
Uh oh. Death flags are waving for Vigilante Gaze.
Bear witness to the testament of 10 Vigilant Gaze Subtext is for cowards Purge the Horizon!
Not going to lie, if I were one of those soldiers, just watching my squadmates being torn apart by literal demons from Hell, and an angel started to yap about having to defend kindness, I’d pray to God Almighty to hang the tone-deaf bastard by his entrails…
FUCK YES
A divine entity who lived through aeons, brought low by a MINOR SPELLING MISTAKE
May his spirit be culvated throughout eternity!
Trite.