seeing as white chain ‘unlocked’ her true self by punching salami dave, maybe juggernaut star could come to her senses, and like, kick mikey n#2 right in its angel parts. so she can be gorgeous and not full of hatred and misery.
But what other cured meat products have been fielded that possess such potential for rebirth? Our beloved Large Ham Chews The Horizon has returned to ash by his own flame, and was an angel beside. Maya has called dibs on the inky blood sausage, chopped liver heir is currently dead, and white chain quit her job as a cop.
Hmm.
Is there narrative room here for a clutch save by perspex jamon? She holds similar authority to salami dave, and would shatter in a suitably dramatic fashion for a nice splash page.
Unless…could we, potentially, substitute in for a tasty beverage? Despite its failure due to the consumerist self-conception of Alison’s people, new coke was superior from a non-biased perspective.
Heres hoping Juggernaut Star pulls a “NOBODY GETS TO KILL MY ENEMY BUT ME” and that breaking away from angelic hierarchy inspires the necessary change to admit to herself who she is.
Even the strength of the salami key and koi rata is not enough to defeat Self-Loathing Juorg and her transphobic dad 🙁
C’mon Juorg, admit you have a crush and kill your dad
Michael is demonstrating his lack of faith here at the end. The sacrifice of Vigilant Gaze suggests to Michael that he may be on the wrong side, despite his claimed affiliation with Metatron. So he dares not face White Chain himself, and is trying to strike her when he thinks she’s distracted.
In the meantime, all the subordinate angels are trying to deal with Gog, and Michael’s absence from that part of the fight probably bodes not well for the angels. Michael is allowing his personal animus toward White Chain overrule his tactical acumen.
I suspect he’s about to be eligible for a new number.
Note that both 2 Michael and 6 Juggernaut Star Scours The Universe both are putting in enough effort to summon their halos. White Chain hasn’t even begun to summon up her power.
Which begs the real question: why would someone who has mastered Ki Rata bother with a weapon? But manga fights often suffer from this stylistic flaw, where the hero and villain are required to exchange ineffectual punches for a while before releasing their supernova blasts, all for drama’s sake.
You gotta remember that simply learning the moves put White Chain in such a state that she required a Heart Explosion Bolus to recover in time for the final showdown. Ki Rata is quite taxing on the user’s body, so it’s only wise to save it for the occasions when other martial skills no longer cut it.
That is a fine observation. Is White Chain serious here? They want to send her back to the limbo of defeated Angels. She should at least be trying to do the same to them so they can go contemplate their failures.
I wonder if those angels are hanging around the sidelines as opposed to fighting elsewhere as a protest, like they’re on Michael’s team but are practicing malicious compliance.
I thought it said “duel”. But turns out that’s the title of page, so it may be that the title somehow showed up as alt text on my screen as the page uploaded. The irony of calling it a duel while 2 Mike is going in for the kill from behind is still there. And I’m still no master, but merely un’ what dwells in darkness.
I thought that they all used male pronouns (white chain excepted of course)? That they only conceived of themselves as genderless as far as they considered male not a gender in a similar sense to Simone de Beauvoir (although what it means for female to be the marked could be a whole metaphysical debate) or the grammar of many romantic languages.
Angels claim to be genderless but universally use male pronouns and titles and violently repress any deviation from the norm. Male is not only the default for them, it’s the only option. They idealize themselves as genderless, emotionless, without desire or will, but they certainly do not meet that ideal.
We don’t know what’s the typical behavior for angels. The bunch we see sitting in the void show no desire to force anyone into a norm, don’t even understand “different” and expect White Chain to plainly return to norm after sitting in the void for a long long time too. It’s 2 Mike and the royalist group that wants to force things, and of course thorns. Maybe the ideal is the norm but it’s underrepresented in the story because it’s unfeeling and boring.
Norms aren’t usually applied or impressed by force, at least not in all places or at all times. In the case of the angels it’s applied through a mix of abject violence applied by superiors, and social shunning by peers. We do see this happening in the Void, with almost all of the angels commenting with various degrees of hostility and tolerance on White Chain’s freakishness. They don’t physically punish her because it’s not their place—they leave that to their superiors.
These norms function by their being the only apparent choice. Male is the default gender for angels—the only gender. Femininity is a perversion. Masculinity is invisible. Importantly, NOBODY can meet the ideal. Angelic discipline is a hierarchy centered around an unattainable quality. Same for gender.
To wit regarding the unattainable ideal: Michael, second-highest ranked of all angels, is obviously male and driven by petty spite, pride, and bigotry. Juggernaut Star, the most devoted of all thorns and someone who should hate mortal imperfections like gender the most, is literally trans. Metatron can’t even stick to the law literally divinely ingrained into his body, and spends his time trying to subvert it through minions and schemes to turn the Wheel to his sovereign will. The second-closest being to God is cheating at the game. If the most powerful and enlightened angels can’t stop from bending their own nature along gendered lines.
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The girls are fighting yet again…
Oh fuck, WHITE CHAIN, BEHIND YOU!
Nah, she’ll be fine, surely…
We haven’t seen Allison for a while, I hope the next page is her dropkicking him from above.
You forget, she’s fighting an entire legion of furies atm
ngl misread that as furries and it’s still not even wrong.
Maybe even an orbital dropkick?
You’re the best
IN COMES AL-YISUN WITH THE CHAIR!
(The chair is literally Throne)
Oh Yisun, she’s wearing the word of royalty! She can’t hear us!
You’d think angels would have more of a sense of honor.
The only law in them is the Old Law, which is far beyond mortal conceptions of honor. They follow rules, but they ain’t your rules. Angels are dicks.
It’s no good. I’ve known too many angels
I’d say our stuffy old archangel is really “taking the Michael” here! >:=)>
Juggernaut Star my beloved, you can change!
seeing as white chain ‘unlocked’ her true self by punching salami dave, maybe juggernaut star could come to her senses, and like, kick mikey n#2 right in its angel parts. so she can be gorgeous and not full of hatred and misery.
But what other cured meat products have been fielded that possess such potential for rebirth? Our beloved Large Ham Chews The Horizon has returned to ash by his own flame, and was an angel beside. Maya has called dibs on the inky blood sausage, chopped liver heir is currently dead, and white chain quit her job as a cop.
Hmm.
Is there narrative room here for a clutch save by perspex jamon? She holds similar authority to salami dave, and would shatter in a suitably dramatic fashion for a nice splash page.
Unless…could we, potentially, substitute in for a tasty beverage? Despite its failure due to the consumerist self-conception of Alison’s people, new coke was superior from a non-biased perspective.
Such are the heavy questions we must ponder.
“Pound’er? I barely knew ‘er!”
*canned (worm) laughter ensues*
I think Juggy Star punching her way to humanity by using *White Chain* as a target would be perfect, myself.
We do have the Casu Marzu ( Maggot Cheese ) presenting the Dairy Products.
I read this as ‘changel’
It’s right behind me isn’t it.
If White Chain kissed Juggernaut Star, she could stunlock her for like 30 minutes at least
The final ki-rata technique (INSTANT YURI)
INSTANT YURI: TWO FINGER, ONE POINT TECHNIQUE
FROM THE TOP ROPE, BY YISUN IT’S MICHAEL WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
I came here to post this exact thing I appreciate you
Thank you for this.
As Aesma is my witness she is broken in half
That ain’t falco…
HAPPY FEET! HAPPY FEET!
Heres hoping Juggernaut Star pulls a “NOBODY GETS TO KILL MY ENEMY BUT ME” and that breaking away from angelic hierarchy inspires the necessary change to admit to herself who she is.
That’s exactly what I was starting to envision
Hasn’t anybody ever told Michael it’s rude to interrupt?
Lol all the random angels just watching, chillin xD
Even the strength of the salami key and koi rata is not enough to defeat Self-Loathing Juorg and her transphobic dad 🙁
C’mon Juorg, admit you have a crush and kill your dad
Not necessarily in that order!
yanno that’s a good point, juggy is an old, old angel (only on the 6 reincarnation!), and thus VERY powerful
honestly i think a takeaway is that white chain should be very proud of herself for holding her own ^_^
I thought White Chain frowned on external styles. But oh sure she gets to have a staff nbd
Did you even read the comic bruh
Michael is demonstrating his lack of faith here at the end. The sacrifice of Vigilant Gaze suggests to Michael that he may be on the wrong side, despite his claimed affiliation with Metatron. So he dares not face White Chain himself, and is trying to strike her when he thinks she’s distracted.
In the meantime, all the subordinate angels are trying to deal with Gog, and Michael’s absence from that part of the fight probably bodes not well for the angels. Michael is allowing his personal animus toward White Chain overrule his tactical acumen.
I suspect he’s about to be eligible for a new number.
The fact that there are angels sitting and watching is very interesting. Even unto Armageddon, they try to judge impartially.
Note that both 2 Michael and 6 Juggernaut Star Scours The Universe both are putting in enough effort to summon their halos. White Chain hasn’t even begun to summon up her power.
Which begs the real question: why would someone who has mastered Ki Rata bother with a weapon? But manga fights often suffer from this stylistic flaw, where the hero and villain are required to exchange ineffectual punches for a while before releasing their supernova blasts, all for drama’s sake.
You gotta remember that simply learning the moves put White Chain in such a state that she required a Heart Explosion Bolus to recover in time for the final showdown. Ki Rata is quite taxing on the user’s body, so it’s only wise to save it for the occasions when other martial skills no longer cut it.
On the other hand, it has been said that if you strike first and strike hard enough you may never have to strike again.
That is a fine observation. Is White Chain serious here? They want to send her back to the limbo of defeated Angels. She should at least be trying to do the same to them so they can go contemplate their failures.
Does the sister even retain her ability for rebirth, after her change? Or will she be slain like a mortal whose countenance she wears?
If she does, she won’t have to contemplate long, in any matter, seeing her death count.
Well that’s not very sporting of old Gabe…
I realize now that I misnamed them, but if old no 2 is gonna fuck up White Chain’s identity then we can fuck theirs up too.
“Basically, fuck that guy”
That Transphobe is about to get ISSEN’ED by our Goat the master of Ki Rata
Still waiting for KILL BOSS to kill a boss
The old bird goes for a cheap shot, not knowing the true price that a master of Ki Rata will set for her life. Fuck him up White Chain
Watchers in the woods
with the necks that go ‘click.’
and (cat) cowards who would desert a dying man
I wonder if those angels are hanging around the sidelines as opposed to fighting elsewhere as a protest, like they’re on Michael’s team but are practicing malicious compliance.
Leg Angels: Pass the popcorn. Who you betting on?
Alt text is delighfully ironic. And 2 Michael will always be a filthy little bitch.
Alt text has been changed! Still on point, definitely not as delighfully ironic as the original.
Oh please, wise master, please tell us what the original text was!
I thought it said “duel”. But turns out that’s the title of page, so it may be that the title somehow showed up as alt text on my screen as the page uploaded. The irony of calling it a duel while 2 Mike is going in for the kill from behind is still there. And I’m still no master, but merely un’ what dwells in darkness.
As much as I wanted to keep watching the previous fight, this one is looking cool.
But what if Juggernaut Star were to use they/them pronouns?
Well that’s the default gender for angels so I kinda think that breaks the metaphor of Juggernaut Star deciding on a gender
I thought that they all used male pronouns (white chain excepted of course)? That they only conceived of themselves as genderless as far as they considered male not a gender in a similar sense to Simone de Beauvoir (although what it means for female to be the marked could be a whole metaphysical debate) or the grammar of many romantic languages.
Not of course forgetting the petal knights who too do not always identify uniformly as thorns and concordant knights do.
Angels claim to be genderless but universally use male pronouns and titles and violently repress any deviation from the norm. Male is not only the default for them, it’s the only option. They idealize themselves as genderless, emotionless, without desire or will, but they certainly do not meet that ideal.
We don’t know what’s the typical behavior for angels. The bunch we see sitting in the void show no desire to force anyone into a norm, don’t even understand “different” and expect White Chain to plainly return to norm after sitting in the void for a long long time too. It’s 2 Mike and the royalist group that wants to force things, and of course thorns. Maybe the ideal is the norm but it’s underrepresented in the story because it’s unfeeling and boring.
Norms aren’t usually applied or impressed by force, at least not in all places or at all times. In the case of the angels it’s applied through a mix of abject violence applied by superiors, and social shunning by peers. We do see this happening in the Void, with almost all of the angels commenting with various degrees of hostility and tolerance on White Chain’s freakishness. They don’t physically punish her because it’s not their place—they leave that to their superiors.
These norms function by their being the only apparent choice. Male is the default gender for angels—the only gender. Femininity is a perversion. Masculinity is invisible. Importantly, NOBODY can meet the ideal. Angelic discipline is a hierarchy centered around an unattainable quality. Same for gender.
Angels are sexless, but not genderless.
To wit regarding the unattainable ideal: Michael, second-highest ranked of all angels, is obviously male and driven by petty spite, pride, and bigotry. Juggernaut Star, the most devoted of all thorns and someone who should hate mortal imperfections like gender the most, is literally trans. Metatron can’t even stick to the law literally divinely ingrained into his body, and spends his time trying to subvert it through minions and schemes to turn the Wheel to his sovereign will. The second-closest being to God is cheating at the game. If the most powerful and enlightened angels can’t stop from bending their own nature along gendered lines.
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