A show of desperation.
Website comment:>Nooooooo>-AshleyPatreon comment:>Is this the honest and intelligent thing to do or the honest and idiotic thing to do. Remember you're a Frummagem, Sette. There ain't no profit in honesty.
>>143259933I don't like any of this.
Yes, give Duane the one thing that can halt him doing something stupid.
>>143260031She is just a child after all. I doubt anyone has ever told them they love her with the sincerity he just did. She ain't thinking straight at all anymore.
>>143259933Cope mentioned Sette doing something we’d hate. Was that referring to a character choice or a plot development? Because while this is certainly a dumb choice to give him the necklace, it’s not something I’d hate her for.
>>143260031It doesn't even work here anyway.
>>143260091I don't recall what her quote was exactly, did she say Sette would do something we'd hate HER for or just something we'd hate that she did?Because I certainly hate all this.
>>143260098are we really sure it doesn't work? it's been two for two on uses so far, even if one of those seems rather up for interpretation.
>>143260123It seems blindingly obvious to me that the look of disappointment Duane gives her after the first time she tried it that it didn't work
>>143260123I don't think Duane is really being honest here (aside from loving Sette anyway). He's basically channeling Lem to avoid facing his whole world crashing around his ears.
I think she might claw at his memories on the next page. I am very concerned.
This whole scene is going to make me puke with tension, I don't know what's going to happen
I don't give a shit if it's the wrong decision, I'm glad she's finally not relying on mind control whenever things get tough. It's shitty behavior
>>143260189Yeah, I didn't consider she might be being sneaky right now.
>>143260197That's true, I'm proud of her for sacrificing such an important asset to show Duane how much he means to her. I guess it's up to him to get furious she was manipulating him at all or to accept the gesture and forgive her
>>143260136Duane talked all that stuff about not wanting to bring innocents into this stuff but his actions have been pretty consistently betraying those morals. Really, it seems Sette's more in denial about this than he is.
>>143260207That said, she looks pretty genuine right now.
>>143259933Everyone go back and read the last three pages and look at whats happening in the background of the webpage. I have a bad feeling about the next page.
>>143260214He just hasn't had time to let any lessons sit in. If Lem and Miki hadn't been at the shrine but everything else went the way it did, he'd probably be on his way to a much better mental state.But the fact that they WERE there and thus completely destroyed the illusion that had kept him going ever since he died just shattered any progress he made. The fact that he still blames EVERYTHING on Sonorie even though she had no hand in his death shows that right now he's hiding from the truth.>>143260235Ah shit, I noticed all the red snakes on the page in the OP, but even in the margins. More proof that nothing going on here is happy or positive. They are being magnets for Red snakes basically.
>>143260250She may not have a direct hand but her stink is there none the less
>>143259933You can kind of see why Cope called this traumatizing. No matter what exactly happens next, the point of this scene seems to be leaning towards the unfortunate truth that two people can truly love each other, and sometimes it's just not really enough.
>>143260262Only because Bastion's goons wrote her name above his corpse. She had literally nothing to do with his death. If they weren't at war with Cresce, they'd probably find some Gefendur politician to write over his body. It was pure deflection.
>>143260250Sonorie having no hand in his death is, even for us, speculation, and Duane's working with a lot less information. Like it probably was a psy-op but no one's taking the time to really gnaw over it so it's not exactly factoring into the mentality here
It took until this page for a question to occur to meDo Sette's feet have the same Khert manipuating properties as her hands?It's not really an important question, but now I can't help but wonder
>>143260341I'd imagine probably?
>>143260197>>143260210>falling for Sette sneakery
>>143260113It's hard to tell when it's coming. The scene isn't over with yet. Also does anyone remember if she has control over the red eels? Duane is in big danger of that's the case. She said it was traumatic but nothing so far is traumatic. It's sad but nothing crazy.
>>143260406I'm torn. She is certainly a sneak, but she's also clearly desperate for love.The only thing I can see here is that she's so offput by Duane's behavior that she doesn't even buy his "I love you" line. Which would be tragic in its own way, as I think that's the only thing he's being fully truthful about.
Does anyone remember what chapter had Sette’s flashback about being raised by Nary and how weird her physicality was?
>>143260425I don't think she can control them, though she can fuck them up.>>143260430Not off the top of my head, but I feel that might be Deadly Nevergreen? Maybe a subsequent chapter? Nevergreen was where Starfish told Sette that her Da would have sold her to him if she didn't live up to his expectations.
this panel is doing things to me
>>143260430This?
>>143260425Control? I can't remember any such thingMost I've seen is that she can wring them out of any First Silver they're hiding in
>>143260442>DNGOof, I’ll see you boys next month. >>143260462There’s one way early than that, I’m almost certain.
>>143260457Not sure what's she's doing with her arms. I guess she wants a hug? Duane just walking away lmao. Gotta give her a spine breaking hug.
>>143260558She's about to reach for her necklace. Beyond that I don't think it's a particularly meaningful gestures.
>>143260457Starfish rolling in his fat grave. I bet he wishes he had this much control over Sette.
she's turning more and more into a lion each panel
>>143260563>I don't think it's a particularly meaningful gestureI think it’s a pretty clear “hands over her heart” gesture, but crossing at the wrists so she doesn’t cut herself. As an aside, she looks so pitiful in that panel. Like an abused puppy wagging its tail when its owner comes home.
>>143260558>>143260563She's gesturing with both her arms in desperation to encompass how much he means to her, which would be with her entire heart, it also doubles as a self soothing hug. It doesn't make sense for it to be to be a gesture for the necklace, specifically because she wouldn't have to cross her arms like that ever to get it off in any sort of situation.
>>143259933Yandere desperate sette is so cute!!!
>>143260558Still hiding her palms even while his back is turned (while professing love). There's a lot of pathos in that.
So tittybird is going to snatch the amulet, right?
>>143259933Duane probably needs this.
>>143260891Tittybird has left the building, anon.
>>143260091Anon, it's blatantly obvious that she's going to claw him in some way that removes something from him. The question is what.
>>143259933This literally feels like I'm watching the world's messiest break up. Duane has been used and abused for long enough. Sette is trying to win him over by being cute and giving him the amulet. And let's be honest. Desperate Sette that wants her perfect version of Duane is very, very cute. Also she's hiding her hands, can't trust her fully yet. She's been manipulating him the whole story with that amulet. And it might be to late to win him over completely or change his mind.
>>143260442That was it. Nevergreen part 2. Did we ever learn Sette’s actual age? I know she’s developmentally still a child, but I wonder how long she’d have to stay a kid for the “girl that time forgot” label to become a thing.
>>143259933Nary is officially cucked by the way. Your own daughter professing and crying her love to another older man. She'll be calling him da or husband soon.
>>143260965Sette is like 20-23 years old. Stockyard and Ana knew her when they were little. They grew up together.
>>143260940He's still holding the cloak. It's going to be his memory of Mikaela at the very least.
>>143260998Nary was cucked the moment he had to beg a black (tongue) man to keep his wife pregnant, and then realized the baby came out not looking like him.
>>143261022Oh fuck. I thought she might steal Duane's memory of Miki to make him stop flipping out.I didn't suspect she might do it to become his only daughter.
>>143261010Fuck, man… having a screaming baby wake you up at all hours of the night for triple the amount of time must’ve been hell for Nary. I get what he meant now when he talked about that crippled puppy his gran strangled.
>>143261043Well, I can imagine people hating Sette for something like that.
>>143259933Sure would be unfortunate if something swooped in and stole the necklace right now.
>>143261047Nah, she grew up normally to a pointThen she just...stopped
>>143260472Probably mixing it up with her general affinity for squishes (Boo who is infested with them, is unusually responsible to her for an infected artifice). But the eels have always been more individual ambitious than the squishes and have never particularly shown themselves to be susceptible to her whims.
the day this comic ends is the day /co/ will lose a part of itself it'll never get back
>>143259933What's with all the Smoke Eels?
>>143261563It's pretty much the last good webcomic left.
>>143260998>hits pipe
It's gonna get worse before it gets better, ain't it
>>143261771So, so much worse.
>>143261771The whole comic is that meme that says the summary of Russian history is "and then it got worse"
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>>143260457starfish, you're dead and literally removed from reality. stay dead and removed from reality.
>>143259933You can never trust sweet things from Ash.
New Q&A picture
>>143262446Yeah I commented before and said that the eels might use starfish to hurt Sette. And she's spazzing out right now. I was kinda annoyed the plot point got swept under the rug with her? She damn near got graped and it's like rip it out and forget about it. Bs. That's like her archenemies. My worries is it's waiting for her to give up amulet so it can attack her. And it might possess Duane? Can red eels do that with him? I don't know. Starfish is a jealous bitch, that needs to stay dead.
>>143261563We still got close to a decade before that day likely.
>>143264174Starfish could only physically hurt her now. He's the only memory she successfully removed before Jivi got her to stop. She literally has no memory of him trying to rape her.Which, if you are going to remove a memory, not a terrible choice
>>143263893Ruckbros...
>>143260965The page right before this is so heartbreaking man. "Da, do you even like me?" Not "Do you love me?" but LIKE. And he doesn't even answer her seriously, she spent her entire life with Nary either being indifferent or outright hostile. No wonder she's so desperate to hold onto Duane, he's almost certainly the first person in her life to ever actually say he loves her.
>>143263893Rapesnake has replaced Starfish as my viscerally detestable hate sink.
>>143266714Helps that Starfish got his just desserts. Ruck is still a menace at large.
>>143260457I just want to cradle her head while she cries and steals my wallet.
>>143259933>honest confession>not even a SINGLE layer of ironyThis feels like an endgame situation where there's no more turning back and everything will forever be fucked.
I miss Knock
>>143260196unironically samegradually losing my shit waiting for these pages
>>143259933I don't understand this love. I wonder if this is some kind of pivotal moment that elevates them into mythical beings. Ssael and the Lion.
>>143263893Pretty sure that's Lionbro, not Ruck. The flowers in the picture are Jacarandas which is Lionbro's real name.
>>143270159It doesn’t have to be romance. Familial love can be just as strong.
>>143271362Let's be honest. Sette's love has gone beyond father and daughter at this point. Hell even family. This is something entirely else.
>>143271882You can say it’s deeper than family, but that still doesn’t automatically make it romance.
>>143271882>gone beyond father and daugther at this pointHas it though?There are four kinds of love:>ErosSexual love. Sette doesn't have any sexual attraction to the zombie.>PhiliaLove of friends and equals. This can be just as strong as Eros, it's just the other end of the spectrum. Non-sexual platonic love, the kind you'd find in soldiers and comrades.>StrogeFamilial love. Willingness to sacrifice time, energy, and resources for someone.>AgapeFar more ambiguous love like 'love of Mankind' or 'love of God'.Honestly, it's either storge or philia. The strength doesn't change the type.
>>143272312>There are four kinds of love:This is like saying there's X number of species as any sort of definitive statement. It's all just human imposed categorization, it's not like the Greek loves were developed with any real rigor.
>>143273412>missing the point entirely I know 4chan is exactly the place for stupid nitpicks, but come on. You’re tunneling in on something completely unrelated. He’s just saying that there are different kinds of love, and that these 4 are the broadest categories we can make to encompass what we know as love. >b-but what if I make up a fifth, then he’s wrong!ok
>>143273481>PseudosThe narcissistic self-love one feels fellating their ego when they think they've one-upped someone anonymously on the internet.
>>143265964It's tragically funny that Sette trying to emulate Nary and be a better Frummagen only makes him loathe her more because he despises the sharte gang life and only desires to obtain a hire station.
>>143273848>someone called me out for nitpicking>he’s just trying to stroke his own ego, I couldn’t possibly be in the wrong You can believe what you want, just know that you’re not contributing anything.
>>143274136wait, he wants to be whata clerk?
>>143274753Wants to be like Jeb.
>>143271882>Hell even family.don't let vin diesel catch you saying that blud
>>143259933How in the fuck are you supposed to understand this gibberish? And why's the resolution so bad?
>>143274762Oh
>>143273412> it's not like the Greek loves were developed with any real rigor.I mean mostly there mostly was the buggering little boys kind anyway
>>143274780HE SAID THE THING
>>143274780It’s an accent. Read it phonetically and it’s way easier. It’ll take a half second after each sentence for the meaning to come to you, but it works. As for the resolution, it’s because Cope hates old people. She doesn’t want anyone elderly reading her webcomic.
>>143259933nice
WHAT'S
>>143261010I thought she was around 16. Mika' s present age. And not too old to consider her growth stunted by Anna in that scene at the Brothel.
>>143274780Is resolution guy the new nigger guy?
>>143274780>And why's the resolution so bad?To get you to subscribe to the Patreon
>>143260267That can't be true =(. Love conquers all.
>>143276396no, wwat was cope. He is cop*ing*.
>>143276396No, he's just a faggot
Guys what if Duane goes full Griffith-tier
>>143260938>you are not herLion brown left the building
>>143276270That wouldn’t make sense for the rumor. If she was a teenager, every around her would assume she’s just stunted, not that she literally stopped aging.
>>143277810You mean what if he gets some cool armor and not the other thing… right?
>>143277810Eels would have to contribute to that. The eels are starting to look likes dicks again too.
