Time to make the call
>>153871988Another shoeless vagrant
looks like a new character has appeared Jivi's umbilical! (ew)
We're returning to Alderode next time
there's another blurb on the website. >...PIRATE ACTIVITY REPORTED IN WATERS OFF LONGBROW CAPE...>...VITS GUNSHIP DISPATCHED, RESIDENTS REMAIN ASHORE UNTIL ARRIVAL...>…DO NOT ENGAGE WITHOUT NAVAL SUPPORT!!!...>…DO NOT ENGAGE WITHOU>LINE DOWN LINE DOWN LINE DOWN>LINE DOWN LINE DOWN LINE DOWN×
>>153872003I keep sounding out the actual letters but I simply cannot help but see it as /v/
Website comment:>Another double update, make sure you click forward to see both pages!>~AshleyPatreon comment:>Another double update. Bit of animation on the site, along with a missive~>https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/TheRedCost/comic/ch01/ch01_064.html>Please don't make fun of Jivi, this is all very traumatic for him. But we'll leave the kids for a while next update and see what's happening in Alderode.
>>153872003>Mallards on the deskWait a minute.....
>>153871988There's a minor animation on the website
>>153872003Damn this bitch is a psycho, not surprising her son doesn't want to be around her
>>153872024I get the feeling that Regina has near Sette levels of reverence and possessiveness for anything to do with herself, but in an entirely less wholesome way.>>153872051Thanks Anon.
>>153872062V for vagina.
>>153872003huuuh so is that mom an actual schizo?also sette x jivi come at me fagets
>>153871988>Much worth doin's crazy...Siya later! Or maybe Siya again soon!>>153872003What's with all the ducks(mallards)? >Regivi's umbilical >RegiviHaha oh wow. Why not go all the way and name him Regina II, Regina?
>>153872024Preserving Jivi's umbilical cord is more like a normal mother than preserving her crew's genitals. At least Chinese eunuchs were able to keep their dick and balls in a personal pouch after castration.
>>153872003Wait... Jivi's real name is REjivi? Damn, that kid really is her property.
>>153872962No, that's the umbilical cord. It's a hybrid of them, so the name is too. Naming Jivi that implies he lives up to her standards, and no man could ever hope to do that. Jivi should be happy she's allowed him to keep his junk with how much of a disappointment he's been. Just like his father.
>>153873014To be fair in biological terms that umbilical cord is 100% Jivi and only Jivi which is why things like cord banking exist. I recognize however Regina wouldn't give a shit about that.
>>153873099Would you be willing to be the guy to tell her that?
>>153873228I would but I also would be expecting a bad death soon. Incredible that I even lived long enough to see her anatomies collection.
>>153872003What's with all the cocks?
she has cute feet at least.
>>153871988Poor Siya, forever condemned by fate and her own hesitant personality to the boring, sensible choices.
>>153872003>anglerfishessubtle, cope
>>153873501It's for the best, probably. Nothing goods gonna happen to these kids where they're going, and Siya should work out her issues at home. Religion has a bountiful relationship with visual arts, there's no reason a priestess can't be an artist either. Gotta look after Ruffles too.
>>153873501I mean, where they're going is going to get worse before it gets better. She's cheated death once already. Best not to push it.
>>153873827>men are too much trouble, that's why you should do what I did to have Regivi>strangle them and then cut off their Death Erections and balls and stuff them up your cunt until they're too rotten to stand>the anglerfishes had the right idea, about a lot of things
>>153873939oops, this stupidity was for this anon >>153873602
>>153872225Yeah, it was pretty obvious Mallard was fake. Regina too much of a pussy to use her name, unlike Sette the fucking boss.
>>153871988Where can I read this?
>>153874230>https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/TheRedCost/
>>153872003I cannot wait to see this psycho make her entrance.
>>153872003Fuck, is his full first name actually Regivi? Just the male form of her name? He just contracted it to Jivi to fit in Cresce better?
>>1538720031) Those little seabirds that seem to build their own floating nests are very cute2) Regina has those floating wooden ducks in her office, so she's Mallard?>>153874153Ashley did say she was really looking forward to us seeing him and he was goofy, tho
>>153872003She's so fucking cool.
>>153874153You think? We can see Regina's ship in page 2 panel 3 and it doesn't look like it has these spars Mallard is using to crush passing merchant sailors. Plus from the blurb this seems to be far, far away in Aldish territory. Now the ducks are a little weird, and clearly purposeful, so I guess they have some connection. But I still believe in Captain Mallard.
What's with all the cocks ? Aren't these bottles at risk of breaking whenever the sea rocks the ship ?I'm digging that seascape though.
Crazy how nobody in this comic is circumcised
>>153874804Why?
>>153872003>dragging a guy back to your personal cabin just to hack him to death with a machete
>>153874804There's no abrahamic religions in the setting so no need to sacrifice their foreskins
>>153875439Nigga, the oldest cultures on earth slice that shit off. Tens of thousands of years before Abraham.
>>153875557Is that how your doctor convinced your parents to mutilate you? lmao
>>153875557Proofs?
>>153875719Abbos practise it, some tribes have far more elaborate penis modification than the middle easterners with circumcision combined with cutting the penis vertically open to create a vagina-looking opening in place of the urethra.
>>153874886 >>153875719don't feed the troll. it's either a burgerlander whose scope of mind is so narrow that he thinks the genital abscission fad of his time and place is an universal part of the human condition, or, more likely, just some 'tard trying to derail the thread.
>>153874153>it was pretty obvious Mallard was fakespeak for yourself. maybe i am not just smart enough to figure it out, but i don't see regina being the mallard. isn't she some kind of officially sanctioned pirate? and the cargo ship at the beginning of this chapter mentioned they should have got an escort, so they are not someone cresce wants gone. also in an ask in january, ashley answered „Every time I think about this guy [Mallard] it makes me laugh. Just… you’ll see.“. which sounds like he is a real guy. maybe he is in league with flask, maybe not. maybe he was the one he killed on this page! (probably not)
>>153876570>isn't she some kind of officially sanctioned pirateYeah she's a privateer working for Cresce.
Why wouldn't you assume Mallard is a nemesis? A good dramatic pirate needs a nemesis, and Regina is the best there is.I'll be honest I half expected the whistle to be designed to explode if Jivi blew it.
>>153876672>I half expected the whistle to be designed to explode if Jivi blew itsame, lol
>>153876570Unless she's just a treacherous pirate pirating Creche under the Mallard alias for some xtra dosh.
>>153873950I didn't need to see that.gif
It's amazing how one fag with a controversial topic can derail a thread. It's depressing how many of you just go along with it
>>153875418Maybe she just chopped his dick for the collection.
those just look like tongues to me yall need ssael
>>153876672It would be really funny for Regina to be incredibly hardcore but have a ridiculous nemesis
>>153876570>isn't she some kind of officially sanctioned pirate?While I don't think Mallard is Regina - and I suppose she has that Mallard because she wants to find & kill this rival pirate - it's not at all unprecedented or unusual for privateers to turn pirate on their home nation.
One of the differences between Earth humans and Kasslynians is Kasslynians have a solid extra inch of length and girth.
>I wish to relax this morning. Bring a man to my dick jar room, so that I may kill him then use him as a footrest while I ponder and smoke.Regina got the aura farming down.
>>153876422Are you retarded? African tribes and australian abos have been doing it for 50,000 years.
>>153876570The implication is Regina is playing both sides. She can't pirate cresce herself but she could have someone do it on her behalf. Split the loot and pretend that she can't catch him when the queen comes calling
>>153871988Later Siya
>>153877271y'know, there's a dagger jammed through one of the ducks, and I don't feel like that's visual storytelling shorthand for an alliance
>>153877419I had to check the hi-res but yeah, you're right. I thought the knife was behind the duck. You also get to see that the leftmost jar has a dick and balls, still including some hairs!
>>153875773I did not need to know that.>>153877271Or that she wants to kill him dead and steal that glory for herself, as >>153877419 says. I also get the feeling the only country Regina likes even a little is Cresce, though obviously she is loyal first to herself and the ship she captains.
>>153877562Yeah IDK. The whole business of being a privateer is kinda at odds with Crescian economic values. And she pointedly doesn't have a 4 letter name. Certainly I can buy "even a little" but I'm real curious to see more of her and her worldly thoughts.
Also if anyone wants to do this but it's Regina and Nary and somehow all 3 of alderode cresce and Sharteshane burning in the background I'd appreciate it
>>153876672I expected it to whistle then immediately castrate Jivi since blowing the whistle means he has failed and doesn't deserve balls.
>>153877786I do sorta wonder if the cord is just a placeholder for his eventual dick.
Feel bad for the diehard Lemuel stan in the comments but I really would prefer a map.
>>153877838Holding out for the color map might have been good. Thought it might not have been cloth.
>>153877365Siya later
>>153877688I doubt she cares for Crescian values or could ever fit in with normal Crescian society. More, she cares for the freedoms and privileges it affords her and likely has an appropriately Crescian distaste for Alds. The queen has her nominal loyalty because the queen has given her approval to loot, plunder, and kill the Alds, and doesn't care much about the specifics of how Regina gets it done. That is likely as far as her loyalty to Cresce extends. She's no true believer in the system, and aboard her ship, most Crescian norms and laws are likely abandoned. I assume the only person Regina is truly, genuinely loyal to is herself.Part of me also thinks that there's no other country Regina could align herself to because she would never be willing to respect or follow a man's rule from what we know of her, and we don't know of any other women led countries, particularly ones that are major powers. Closest you could argue is maybe the church with their head priestess.>>153877838I have to be honest, I really hate how the Kasslynian map looks. Cope is incredibly gifted and devoted with most other things she attempts, but a map maker she is not. I find the way Kasslyne is laid out pretty unrealistic. I don't want either though. I have enough Unsounded prints I'll never frame. Give me an art book or the extra stories she's written for the comic in a stand-alone print book. Those would make me the happiest to spend extra.
>>153878331IIRC the only map we have is pretty undetailed, what about it comes across as unrealistic?
This is legit one of the worst things I've ever read and it should be hype but even the art is lame. The comic is cringe, the community is cringe, the author is cringe and besides chapter one I can't see why anyone would continue reading this shit. I am so sure some people here have been around for at least ten years and I honestly feel bad for them. I want to call this soulless but it's too boring even for that.Anyways, I just wanted to express my hate. Carry on.
>>153878414See you next thread
>>153874804>WWATF?
>>153878364It is, and hopefully a more detailed one made more recently would be better, I have no doubt Cope could get good at map making if she so desired. Although there's a limited amount she can change (or would be willing to change) a pre-established map her characters have spent an entire story trekking across. The biggest issue I remember is that there's a river running clear through from the Crescian coast to the Sharteshanian one which means that for 50% of it's journey it's running upstream. There were a few other glaring issues similar to that that overall make the map feel more amateurish and fake.
>>153878584I see that now. And there's no getting around that the river flows into Cresce, because Duane and Sette take it there.
>>153878584Perhaps some enterprising parties created a canal with a series of locks and dams to bypass overland and ocean trade? There's a similar thing happening in West Manilda. The profits must be immense.
>>153878827Yeah. Another issue I have is the way the coast and rivers interact, and the way the rivers crisscross in an almost checkerboard like pattern inside of Cresce. While smaller rivers might combine, they don't cross these same ways, where it appears that they're all flowing in different directions and continue to flow in in different directions after. For the coasts, the rivers empty into the sea in weird places, and with weird formations. The two large bays in Cresce and Sharteshane aren't allowed to just be bays, instead they have rivers pouring into them, and these rivers don't have deltas where they've deposited sediment but actually appear to have cut away the land instead, at what should be their slowest moving point. That implies that it's actually the oceans doing the erosion, which would be perfectly fine if you didn't have a giant river there. Instead it implies that the weird 50% upstream river actually flows upstream both ways. Someone better versed at maps could probably pull other details that seem off, but these are the things I can point to that are clearly wrong.>>153879097Honestly if we're going to handwave it I like the idea that the waterwomen did it. But making an excuse for Kasslyne's map doesn't really make the map look any more realistic and sensible in my eyes. If I'm buying a map I need to be able to suspend my disbelief when I look at it.
>>153879169I guess there's some leeway in that this is explicitly a created world born from the interactions of senet beasts and so normal geography might not be expected. Also realistically some of the map probably will just be redone if it's made more detailed for merch.
>>153876422This is the funniest self-own I've seen in Unsounded threads in about the last 4 years.
>>153879229>being owned is having a foreskin
>>153874804Ashley doesn't like mangled penises
>>153879335This update has an entire page of mangled penises.
Uaid could probably walk against the current. The land is literally made of Ogre corpses, we're not talking conventional tectonic drift here.
>>153879226>Also realistically some of the map probably will just be redone if it's made more detailed for merch.I hope so. I'm sure a reworked version of the map would be better, I'm just not sure how much would be subject to change.>>153879226 >>153879464Regarding the fantasy geography, while we can try to handwave it with an excuse, and it did probably exist like that in the first world, the mountain ogres weather and erode just like anything else now, rivers that aren't actively being controlled by water women should also flow just like anything else. And while water women still exist, they are rarer and rarer every day, and try to avoid humans. I would suspect that any influence they might once have had on the paths the rivers took to be gone now, or localized to only a few relatively untamed bits of nature. Perhaps these channels would still exist in modern Kasslyne, but as unused, empty canyons and ditches, starting to erode themselves. The age of the senets and their first world has long since passed.>>153879452Those penises aren't mangled, the bodies they came off of are. The penises themselves are in mint condition.
>>153879568Cutting the penis off counts as mangling it. They aren't normally detachable.
>>153879612Regina took good care to cut the penises off without damaging them and is now carefully preserving them. Those are pristine. Just because the men they came off of are damaged now doesn't mean her collection isn't immaculate.
>>153879676That's because they're trophies, dude.
>>153879676This really depends where we define the penis as beginning. I can see strands of flesh hanging off some of those cocks.
>>153879695Exactly, who would mangle their trophies?>>153879702Perhaps those are from her most recent conquests and she has not yet finished refining them.
>Unsounded: Foreskin and Circumcision Edition
>>153880757Obssesed
>>153872003I wonder if the eyes are from a rare woman rival or if she just felt particularly vindictive with that guy.
>>153881220Do you suppose they could be from Jivi's father?
>>153879169Waterwomen could have had a hand in it, sure, but the unnatural waterways look intentionally defensible against Aldish invasions.
>>153875773I need a source for that, a tribe name, SOMETHING
>>153881542The irises are light which suggests the man was either an Ald of a certain caste or a Sharte mutt, which would also be interesting considering how Jivi tries so hard to claim he's Crescian.
>>153881732Isn't his uncle that he went to work with Ulestrian? Or Madishanian?
>>153881981I know this comic does not shy from psychopaths chars but mutilating family and conserving their remains feels a bit unrealistic for someone who's supposed to be capable of running a ship and get famous doing it.
>>153877509why would cope cut off the balls, that's regina's job
>>153882077Prrrobably a censorship thing if I had to guess.>>153882020Why? Privateer is an extremely results-orientated job. Lots of monsters in history doing it.
>>153882115>Prrrobably a censorship thing if I had to guess.I know, that was supposed to be a joke.
>>153882020I suggest you never look into the conduct of actual golden age pirates.
>>153881981The uncle was Madishanian. Likely he was a paternal uncle.
>>153882199Pragmatic torture is not the same as keeping people's remains in jars lad
>>153882646>Pragmatic tortureI think, as anon suggests, you should look up the conduct of actual pirates.
>>153882737*sigh*Torturing someone for information or before execution in order make an example or spread the word of your activities is not the same as being a schizo that fucks corpses and eats them.I get this is a fantasy comic but keep the camp down a bit.
>>153882791This is a really fucking weird line of argument from you. In the first place>being a schizo that fucks corpses and eats themNobody is arguing this. This is not the behaviour we're seeing from Regina in the comic.>Torturing someone for information or before execution in order make an example or spread the word of your activitiesThere were absolutely historical privateers that tortured for sheer sadism, like Ned Low or l'Olonnais.People are saying Regina's actions fall within a spectrum fitting historical privateer depravity, but you insist on swinging between "torture only for a reason" or "the most ridiculous fantasy torture" when all anyone is arguing for is an in-between point. What's the deal here? To me this screams of 'I must be in the right' internet argument behaviour.
>>153882875>. This is not the behaviour we're seeing from Regina in the comic.Mate, I'm speaking exemplia gratia. As in "give more examples of similar, nonsensical behaviours" things that wouldn't fit the psych profile expected of someone who can manage a private navy.If you are so certain there's a measurable behavioral difference between preserving corpses in jars to stare at in your private chambers and fucking and eating them, then I'm all ears.
Beyond that, we already had Starfish. Having another schizo for an antag is just boring. But I didn't want to say it like that as to not hurt cope's fee fees.
>>153883261>manage a private navyAgain we're pushing the boundaries beyond what's actually demonstrated in the comic here. Regina captains a ship, she doesn't command a navy. A lot of privateers in history did, but we've no evidence Regina runs more than 1 ship.I think the difference between keeping trophies of your defeated enemies and being a cannibal necrophile is pretty huge and obvious, and you're making a deliberate false equivalence between them for reasons unclear to me.
>>153883328>Regina captains a ship, she doesn't command a navy.Are you in the spectrum? This is literalist non-sense.
>>153883379Alright. So far as I can see, your argument from this single page is:>Regina is SO crazy it's not believable she could logistically manage being a privateerNow if you see this as true regardless of whether she's a captain of 1 ship or multiple ships, fair enough. But you exaggerated to navy, i.e. multiple ships in your own post, and running multiple ships is certainly more of a logistical challenge than running 1 ship. So I thought it was relevant to clarify it's just the 1.Your actual feelings seem to be "I don't like Regina as an antagonist" which is fine, everyone likes what they want, but I don't find your attempt to make a logical argument for it at all convincing.
>>153883502Who's to say I don't like her, I haven't heard her speak yet.I feel like like a world were we already have Senets and other beings, including an entire race of magically modified humans, for the "schizo retard with incomprehensible morals" role, making all normal human antagonists equally schizo and retarded boils over into camp or even worse, misery porn, which this comic has miraculously managed to avoid - so far.
>>153883653I think she just mutilates Alds because she hates Alderode, dude. Like how Francois l'Olonnais mutilated Spaniards because he hated Spain. As you say, we haven't seen if she's a schizo retard yet.
>>153883653>roleroles, just in case you decide to argue there's not character who has "schizo" "retard" and "incomprehensible morals" in the same bag.
>>153874804Well that's because the setting doesn't have a John Kellogg equivalent.
>>153883502Adding on, if we want to go to extreme levels of exaggeration in terms of responsibilities for Regina, there are plenty of dictators throughout history who were effective at achieving various goals (whether simple logistic goals, compliance from those around them, unwise or harmful goals, or even pretty uncontroversially beneficial things) while also being absolutely insane, bloodthirsty, or depraved individuals. Yeah plenty failed too, but that doesn't mean they all do. And in particular, the job of privateer is one where extreme brutality would be rewarded well. Imagine being set free without her laying a hand on you after seeing her collection of jars, and watching her remove your captain's member. There's a reason stories of her have made it even to Sharteshane.
>>153884396Bit of great man theory dependence thereMost recent schizos ie. gaddafi did not achieve much on their but rather were supported by external conditions (endless sources of money) or having competent people behind the throne and being part of a self-sustaining system that doesn't depend on them for its daily administration.Furthermore, the skillsets require to run the day to day operations of a ship (accounting, manteinance, navigation plus being able to determine needs for length of travel-dependent variables i.e. food, minimum & critical maintenance materials stock, medical supplies, crew supplies, etc) are the same as those required to operate a fleet (synonymous with navy and other words) - in short, the only difference is that of scale and therefore not worth distinguishing in casual discussion. Schizos as a rule are not good at soft skills. Matter of fact go open the historic pirates wiki page and see that the majority of them have a high end education or were outright burgeoise.Do I need to cite the pages for my engineering books for you to believe me too?This is not the type of high mental power skills someone who keeps a whole pantry of dicks for staring purposes would normally have, and I don't think there's gonna be "brains behind the brawl" person for Regina, else Cope would have already signaled it.By the way, none of this is necessary to tell a good story, but Cope's 10+ years of detail-oriented storytelling has led me to expect a higher quality of internal consistency from her. And I know she knows her boats.
>>153884860>Do I need to cite the pages for my engineering books for you to believe me too?lmao you're not doing the stereotypes about the profession any favours here
>>153882875Also for religfag reasons. Humiliating enemy clergy was especially common.
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