something tells me throwing bricks at this man is not a good idea
Website comment:>Afraid all y'all gentlemen need to back off.>~AshleyPatreon comment:>Hope their permits are in order...>This is Magistratus Valentin and his brother in Riv Commandant Jan Rousseau. Fancy big lads with fancy big names and great big fancy ideas about the future of the city. They are fun but very skeevy, don't turn your back on either one.
tfs at his hand, a plat kid?
Finally this weird fella on the preview cover makes his debut. The big bad of this arc?
>>154364881Coppers do some freaky shit with their Plats apparently A trudging flower bush pet one sounds about right
>>154364881Yup, deformed eugenics plat
what's with all the rotters?
>>154364936Bit early to say. They feel a bit Upper Echelon of Goons what don't know they're still just goons, but that might be my One Poece bias.
Of course Coppers would develop yaoi hands.
Excited for these guys. Ash told me they're lewd rapist sex perverts.
>>154364670Is this going to be like a heartwarming kids film, where a plucky team of loveable losers (the Lions of Ssael) battle the city authorities to save their beloved sports ground from being redeveloped into a skyscraper?
incredibly soulless.
>>154364670I hate these two characters already. Good work, Ashley. (genuinely)
>>154364670Every time I see any of those deformed flower plats, I think a WMD hitting Alderode would be a good thing.
What's with all the brick throwers?
>>154364670It must've been hard to hold in her desire to show all this campy alderodian bullshit for the entire first half of the comic
>>154364670Fucking super villain looking mother fuckers. Like someone dropped their Gackt and Sephiroth figures in red paint.
>>154364670Oh shit.
>>154364670>No plods at the Temple of Song!>Begone!Yay! It's been too long since the last Aldish musical number.
>dress the plods in green>sends them to the Temple of SongSometimes the act of baiting can be an art.
>>154364670Nah he seems chill probably
>>154364805>Commandant Jan RousseauRosseau-ncrantz?
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>>154364670This guy has to be the tallest copper we've seen so far. Looks like he's 12 feet or something.
>>154366155I think the ones that we saw visiting the battlefield were bigger.
>>154364670>his>brotherENOUGH
>>154366203I'm glad someone saved my magnum opus
>>154366155They're a bit more "reasonably" proportioned. The ones at the occupied khert hub were just genuine giants, scaled up and out. These guys are more "normal" big people, in that they look like someone stretched a dude out a bit too much.Though it's probably just because Valentin is a fucking dweeb who doesn't work out. Rousseau seems a bit more filled out.
>>154366203>his brotherNot gonna lie, man. I fucking chortled.I'll never forget that handsome long-haired copper that showed up in Grenzlan, though. I'd kill for some sexy art of him.
>>154364805Lads?That's not a big copper mommy? It's a big ass twink?I've been misled.
>>154366390Big Copper Mommy is with the rebels. These are just garden variety religious zealots, stirring the pots, little realizing they are setting fire to their own house.
>>154366105Ashley said this chapter was filled with VS references man. I’m even wondering if Valentin’s big ass low hanging spiky hands were inspired by Sydney’s mechanical ones.If Jan ends up getting crushed by that statue you aren’t gonna be able to say shit to me.
>>154364670>bronze and gold and silver lads standing shoulder to shoulder against the red toffs taking their jobsScargill would be proud.
>>154364670There was a Composer Valentin mentioned in part 1 right? Could he be a relative of this guy?I know coppers make really bad mages but I don’t think they’re flat out incapable. I wonder if he can use the plats as little repeaters to extend his own pymary. I also wonder if those are plat kids or if he’s just bred adult plats into midgets.
>>154366557Silver guy has a juicy brow piercing so he’s prob a little richer
>>154366607>or if he’s just bred adult plats into midgets.first rule of eugenics, they don't last long due to health complicationsplats already are mayfliesash likes her kid sufferingeasier/more likely for them to be kids
>>154366449>religious zealotsNah, coppers are going to be fully aware of the geffie religion being based on absolute horseshit and senet beasts. They're just using it, not believing it.
>>154366919Depends how fast they grow. It only takes a few generations to forget something if no one practises or remembers it.
>>154366449>>154366919I can see upper caste and well connected coppers knowing geffendurism is bullshit but poor ones being left out. I wonder who is influencing the upper caste coppers to genocide the soud and annihilate Ssaelism (and possibly their own way of life since soud are part of the dammakhert caste system). I'm partially convinced that Sessine's enemy is involved due to many factors: the copper bans, using Sessine's weeping plague to weaken the ssaelit, but for what purpose I cannot guess.
>>154367129"Secret Keepers". They are going to know the most ancient of truths. Some of them might even be the most ancient truths.
I wonder if the original intention behind the creation of the castes was to make the longer lived ones (clearly meant to be the rulers with coppers aesthetically modeled after Rortide) better at everything including lifespan and pymaric ability, and the final results like inverse correlation between pymaric ability and lifespan as well as copper gigantism in advanced age are unintended consequences.
>>154367362>copper gigantismI want to see a copper house in the comic one day and a person of normal height walking inside it and interacting with the enlarged space. Also want to hear about coppers growing out of shorter sections of their own houses as they age. It wouldn't be exaggerated as picrel, but I love stuff like that.
>>154367593I imagine the old coppers just have built mansions with doors and furniture scaled for themselves and their kids just have to move out and rent or live in a castle dimitrescu segment for 300 years before they grow big enough to sit comfortably on the chairs.
Those giant red poofters wouldn't last 5 minutes against /ourlad/ Vlad.
>>154367162It would certainly make sense for things to kick off as Sessine was now dead/incapacitated in that case.
>>154365712It’s a pretty grim message>this is the only future we see for you>dead bodies enslaved to our will
>>154366271See if you can bag a commission slot when the next KS opens up I guess. I can’t imagine Ash would have a problem drawing a gigantic twink.
>>154366459I keep thinking I should play VS sometime because there’s clearly so many references to be had for it in Unsounded.
>>154369197You should play VS, not because of references in Unsounded but because it’s an excellent game and a wonderful piece of game history. VS is basically pushing the PS1 architecture to its cinematic limit, and doing so in a wonderful dark fantasy setting with sparse but very rich dialogue that the translators really put in the effort for. It has lived rent free in my head ever since I played it as a kid (I had a major zombie phobia which didn’t help).Here in 2026 it seems so unlikely a major studio would ever make a game like VS again. Maybe some sort of director’s personal project from Capcom. It is grindy, the subsystems are not new player friendly, but it’s still very much worth trying imo.
>>154367231According to Sessine even the senet beasts don't remember the most ancient truths.
>>154369805Wasn't that to manipulate Duane earlier? She also said to Sette that she witnessed the creation of the world's systems and knows well how to use the khert to rewrite the world.
The lil' plat dressed up as a poptart. Wonder if they got their eugenics program to also consistently produce twins and they just eat twinflesh year 'round.
>>154369106Waiting for Sessine's incapacitation is ideal, but the enemy had a lot of success under Sessine's watch that for some reason she wasn't able to fully counter. I can't wait to meet him/her just for the feat of stealing Jac.
>>154371677I just know their faces are gonna look insanely fucked up.
>>154364670These guys must be really old so why aren't they speaking all olden timey and shakespearian like vampire?I guess the tall guy has a bit of affect but I'm disappointed in Redman Jr.
>>154374085Oh I thought the anemone thing was their face
>>154374268Maybe these are networked businessmen from the capital while Vampire was a small town guy.
>>154374301I mean, that would be super fucked up. But I'm assuming it's some kind of flower garland they wear.
>>154364670OK, SERIOUS question I just noticed on this page. That Ssael statue definitely has an angle where you can see upskirt. Do you think they sculpted Ssael's hog?
>>154374432You should be killed instantly if you are a 250+ year old copper and you use the word apparently. No hate.
>>154374497I'm just hoping the shadwe has a talk with these guys, they're at least a century older than him so we'll see how the discourse differs from the one he had with Bodie and the temple management.
>>154374583We haven't seen much Copper/Jet interaction for sure
Vienne spent her adult life thinking of what these guys do and they didn't think of her at all.
>>154375218I mean, obviously. Their entire modus operandi is not thinking about her, stopping other people thinking about her, stopping her thinking about herself. It’s so insulting that even in her final moments they still disregard her agency even as they covet her work. Aldish sexism really is a vanity it cannot afford in this supposed existential struggle with Cresce.
>>154366203Coppers are natural powerbottoms though
>>154369981She could still be the most knowledgeable but only have a partial understanding of it.
>>154366218Thank YOU for making it and blessing us with such kinoIt and that soijak mask Ruck are some of my favorite thread OC pics in all of my time on /co/
>>154376503Perhaps all of Aldish history is really just a discussion of whether the copper tops or bottoms.
>>154364670He's pretty skinny compared to the other coppers
>>154364670Are all the soldiers behind them, even the ones carrying the big statue, also coppers?
>>154377756looks like it yeah. they're big guys
>>154377646Coppers have to exercise like anyone else to gain muscle. But because they're so tall, being skinny makes them look even more like disproportionately lanky freaks.
I'm over it.
>>154377756A teaser from the tumblr Q&A from a while ago showed the soldiers to (mostly) be non-Coppers who are just wearing red gloves. Rousseau seems to be slightly taller than them so he's probably 200-300 years old.
>>154364670If all these twin-eaters aren't dead by the end of this sequence, the Temple of Song officially deserves to get destroyed.
>>154374085Maybe I'm overthinking it but their little hands look kind of abnormally chunky which kind of gives me a bad feeling of what kind of fuckery is going on with them.
>>154377927Can't imagine how much an old copper has to eat and lift to make gains. All of the poorer ones must be lanklets.
