WHEEL SMASHING LORD 6-205The Eternal Edge>his favorite sword was thirty long, the hilt with two handed grip and wrapped in oxhide. it was balanced expertly, and a name engraved under the tang - a relative of some sort, he was fond of saying, though it beggared belief that such a man had emerged in this world anything than fully formed. Lunar Emissary
>>155922328>And where does it end>It never ends.KINOI'm finally beginning to understand Incubros.
he looks fat in that page
>>155922328Unironically, how can Maya recover from getting aura diffed this hard?
>>155922328Maya's like a fantasy jeet right? Is Incubus from the same world? Is he actually an albino jeet?
>>155922328>Incubus knew the answer to the riddle all along Fucking kino, he spent most of books 3 to 5 losing aura and becoming increasingly pathetic, hell he was freaking out when this fight began, but he might actually be closer to Royalty than we assumed.
>>155922328>it beggared belief that such a man had emerged in this world anything than fully formed. Lunar EmissaryRemember when Abbadon used to say that Incubus had no origin and just popped out of a sewer back in the day
>>155922756Yeah. Their world wasn't isolated so its theoretically possible he's part of some foreign not-Valyrian race that dumped babycubus off their ship or knocked up a local, but he's probably just got plain old albinism.
>>155922580Maya kinda sucks inmensely. Killed her master and lied to Allison about it, repeatedly underestimates Incubus and refuses to see his obvious merits as a students. Stubborn, close minded and hypocritical and unlike Allison she's a peasant, she doesnt even have the royalty mindset to make up for it.
>>155923047She's an actual fraud, in the non-meme sense.
>>155922328Incubus stocks SKYROCKETING with that fifth panel.
>Gog v. Metatron>Incubus v. Maya>White Chain v. Jobbernaut Tranny AGPs the UniverseAll that's left is Jagganoth emerging and Himself, right?
>>155922328>Sequence changing to Juggernaut and White Chain Hopefully a lore drop is coming.
>>155922328>Shaved his hair >Passed the rat test >Fed Meti's body to the dogs according to her will >Immediately knew the answer to her question He truly was the perfect student
>>155922328I like how his blood arms are remarkably similar to those of a Thorn Knight, like our grill Juggernaut Star>>155923441and yet Maya insists he is a poor swordsman. She's probably my fav character in the comic but either she's right and we haven't seen the truth yet or she has been high on copium for far too long to see reality
>>155923513Meti's manual does say that she hopes the student is encouraged to become a farmer. Incubus was a keen student of the most literal aspects of sword law, but openly disdains the philosophical part. He's an extreme pragmatist so he resonates more with the kill or be killed part of her teachings.
I've missed my sweet angel, 6 Jugs.
>>155923618He was right, since the only worthwhile part of Meti's teachings was the practical skills. Otherwise she was just another dumb hypocrite who made a big show of crying about the privilege afforded to her by her own abilities.
Seems Maya calling Inky a poor swordsman was nothing more than the kvetching of a common scrub about how the person who keeps beating their ass isn't ACTUALLY good their game.
>>155923618>He's an extreme pragmatist so he resonates more with the kill or be killed part of her teachings.Reading this sentence makes me rethink the flashback where Incubus allegedly killed Maya's family. He'd have no guilt there because under Meti's philosophy if she didn't want them to die, she should have stopped him from killing. That specific tenet seems to be one of the few that they both practice.
>>155923618>openly disdains the philosophical part. He's an extreme pragmatist so he resonates more with the kill or be killed part of her teachingsok, I see it now. He's all in for the power granted by Meti's teachings but for the part concerning morality. kinda of reminds me of Ki Rata, actually
>>155922328I love Incubus actually, and he's right.
>Incubus was sparing Maya this whole entire time just to try and recruit her again because he genuinely cares for herHOLYFVCKINGKINO
>>155922865>he might actually be closer to Royalty than we assumed.He'd ditch Maya if he were.
>>155923441>Passed the rat testHe failed his own rat test when he let Maya kill Meti. Though it was a harder test than Maya's since he had to choose between his teacher and his compatriot.
>>155923624Do you think she can be fixed?
Incubus, Salami Dave, Gog,Why are the best characters in this series the Demiurges?
>>155924666That's only a failure if he actually wanted Meti to live. Maya ditching the sword upset him but he seemed more amused by Meti's decapitation than anything.
>>155922328Oh this is fucking great, he knows HE KNOWS WHAT EVERYONE IN THE STORY NEEDS TO KNOWTHIS IS WHAT YISUN WANTSTHIS WORLD, THIS WARIT'S ALL THAT SUICIDAL DRAMA QUEEN WANTSTHAT IS THE ANSWER TO YISUN'S DESIREBut he is further from Royalty than anyone because all he wants is what Yisun wants.
>>155925028...and a simp cannot be Royalty
>>155925021Doesn't seem very amused at the time.
>>155922328>After running for three years and three days, Prim finally came to a tumbling halt. No matter how far she ran, no matter how fast her legs carried her, she could not find the end of the road. No matter how she scanned the horizon, or reached out with trembling fingers, she could not grasp her resting place. The road continued forever.>There was a way-angel there, standing on a pillar of basalt, who understood many things, and he said to Prim: ‘O piteous thing.” Struck by her dreadful appearance, he recognized her as the orphan of Hansa, for he was very wise in the world. ‘What seek you on the road, small one?’ said the angel, “Perhaps I can offer succor.”>“The end of the road,” croaked Prim.>“There is no end,” said the angel, and it was so indeed. For the road was the rim of the Wheel, which encircled infinity. There was, truly no resting place. For some, this would have been dread news, enough to strike the life out of them. Many had given up when they learned of this, and laid down to die, as was sometimes the way of men in those days.>But for Prim, it washed over her, and soothed her, and for her weary and torn heart was the sweetest balm in the world.”-Prim Masters the Road
>>155922960Yeah. I used to think he was being less literal about it, that Incubus was some kind of mind-demiurge made manifest and therefore just kinda showed up, to explain his temptation-in-dreams MO. But alas.
>>155925122He was watching big sis Maya having a mental breakdown; he's even looking in her direction instead of Meti's. Of course he isn't amused.
>>155925090Of course not, any King/Queen who puts another above themselves is just a Servant with an ego
>>155922756Maya and Inky both grew up in the yellow city which orbited Throne (it fell into the void during the war because of how intense and fucked the fighting was), since Throne was populated by many worlds after it was opened to the common people the residents of the city could be any race from many different worlds.
>>155924980It's still Pastrami Dan, but this is an interesting development
People need to stop claiming 'royalty' is a concept with merit, its literally just another false notion fools in this series bind themselves to.
This comic has devolved into something that people would make fun of you for thinking it'd turn into when it first came out. It's honestly sad and all the characters are really ugly.
>>155925575uhh mode this lil" cracka insel is offending fat scowling BLACK kweens o algo
>>155924666the rat is maya
>>155922756Maya has always been black.>>155923618>>155924324On a metaphorical level Incubus became a farmer while, barring a brief period, Maya did not. The problem with Meti's philosophical teachings is that they more or less loop back around to the practical teachings in a way that invalidates the philosophy. >>155924617>Alison motivates Inky to punch Maya's head off and become Royalty
>>155925615wagwan
>>155924666He cared about Maya as a sister and didnt give a shit about Meti. If anything, we won the rat test *again* when he killed her family. His peasant flaw was being irresolute, wavering when he attempted to execute Maya because he was torn and secretly wanted her to come back to him. Hence his embarassing failure to behead her with 10 blows.
>>155925634Ada does not do consistent skin colors anyways and none of the characters are part of their IRL cultures. Everyone is white, even the demons.
how come Incubus is only marginally stronger than Maya even though he has a fucking key?was he just completely inferior to her without the key?
>>155925122He's looking at Maya the whole time. Her running away like a bitch is what bothered him, when he talks about the death itself later he's smiling about it. I don't think he actively wanted her dead or anything, but probably the only time he would even think of protecting Meti is when he still needed her to train him.
>>155925690Keys are just paths not answers
>>155925690In KSBD being really good with a sword is more important than literal divine powers. Remember, royalty is a continuous cutting motion.
>>155922328The best and most unusual ending here would be Maya actually accepting the offer. She's his only family and the only person that even matters to him and he keeps reaching out no matter how many times she rejects him. There's no ending their situation with violence anyway, which they both know. They're just play fighting.
>>155925690He was apparently the #2 of their little operation, so she probably was his superior. She developed her most potent technique after she lost her key. Not to mention the fact that he's demolishing her right now.
>>155925656>>155923441>>155924666meti speaks of losing, but only of losing the exchange. the rat thing was a lesson, not a test.
This is just a comic of a bunch of retards being retards forever that should have ended ages ago.
>>155925861Wait until you hear about history.
>>155925861You read this comic when it first came out and thought it was going to be drastically different huh. I feel the same way about that garbage ass comic called Unsounded that people spam here.
>>155925745I'd actually be the most thematically apropos ending.
>>155925925Name 3 things you like so I can call them dogshit.
>>155925979The first three chapters of this comic, the first three chapters of Unsounded and Morrowind.
>>155925690Keys aren't some ultimate power. Almost every demiurge became a demiurge by killing the previous key-wielder.
>>155925569Royalty means less than nothing. The only reason anyone wants it is as some dumb title of authority. Hansa was Royal, but he was never happy. He was a miserable, cantankerous, old asshole who spent every moment spreading that misery to others. YISUN was Royal, but was also never happy, given the whole "suicide out of depression" thing.
This comic seriously reminds me of the Keys To The Kingdom book series.>God is gone>all of creation is ruled by 7 individuals each wielding 1/7th of God's power>normal human is chosen as God's heir>bad guy is trying to delete the universeIf the rest goes the same way, then I call bullshit.
>>155926708Jagganoth deletes the universe, Allison recreates it exactly the same but ressurects Zaid, and splits off a human version of herself with no memory of what happened? Hell nah.
>>155924617Not just Maya. The survive at all costs mentality holds him back as well because he can't learn not to give a fuck about other people's opinions about it.
>royalty means not caringYou people are dumb.
>>155925690Maya didnt have the maybe sword back then and Incubus is too cripplingly dependent on swords to use his key creatively. Even so, Maya is too strong willed for Incubus to just kill her with a thought using his key.
>>155922328>Understands the path has no end Royal>Clings to his childhood bestie in an attempt to relive the old daysNot so Royal
>>155925690He's not trying to kill her in the first place so whenever they fight, he's automatically holding himself back.
>>155927618>Incubus is too cripplingly dependent on swordsMaya still needs a sword (a broken one but its handle and hilt are still intact with some of the blade remaining) when using the Maybe Sword, Incubus will cut you with bodily fluids.
>>155927744Yeah but Maya isnt a nigh omnipotent key wielder. Compared to the likes of Jagganoth and Mottom, Incubus comes off as uncreative.
>>155927772what key? it's a specially sharp rock
>>155927744Yeah she fucking sucks as a sword god too, the maybe sword should be called the cope sword.
>>155925979>>155926117Jackie Chan
>>155925656>If anything, we won the rat test *again* when he killed her family.And with Cio and Alison. If you have the power to stop someone from inflicting violence upon what you care about, why don't you? Its interesting how more recent pages have recast Incubus' comments about how Alison would be better off without Cio and that he "learned that the hard way".
>>155922328The most Royal thing Incubus could do right now is turn around and walk away from Maya's petty one-sided rivalry Too bad he cares
>>155925925What did you think Unsounded was going to be about?
>>155928741different ahnon but fo sure not about gay niggers and meme animay faces every single page
>>155922328Everyone is talking about Incubus meanwhile I'm glad White Chain ditched that ugly ass armor she showed up with.
>>155923047> Allison got taken to this world by sheer bad happenstance> Luckily fell in with the 'good guys' who are weak but virtuous> Surely they will win through persistence> Wait> Her masters were all weirdos and degens and killers themselves> Salami was actually kind of a cool bro keeping out even worse things> The amount of actual power you need to resist things is just that incredible > But the salty degens who couldn't make it cry crocodile tears about how they're the oppressed ones
>>155925569"Royalty" is author fiat like CHIM is console commands and whatever the current lorekeeper wants it to be
>>155925690He doesn't want to kill her.He tried to cut her head of 14 times when she was powerless but he couldn't bring himself to actually kill her
>>155929798stop using your brain moran
>>155922756"Race" is almost meaningless in KSBD. You can say "black, "white", "latino", whatever, but theres a gorrillion different worlds with humans and things close to humans on them. Our earths "races" are probably a tiny fraction of whats out there in KSBD. Probably alot of "humans" that evolved alot like us but have different organs and stuff.
The big universal joke is that you cant beat Jag. But there is another way to "win" the game.
>>155925839>Not realizing that the rat is the one who lost
>>155925690He's subconsciously holding back because he doesn't actually want to kill her. She's his best friend and he wants her to get back on the sword path so they can go back to doing cool sword related nonsense together like the good ol days
>>155929988Canonically, they're all Philippinoe
>>155924882BHC can fix her.
>>155922328>he's still simping>a FUCKING MILLENIA and he still haven't gotten over her
>>155928327>TRUST MEI think there's very little room for interpretation at this point, maya and inc FUCKED.
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>>155928760did you see darknest kissing bastion and flipped your shit, right before the actual fucking climax of the comic's story and its most out there panels?bruh
>>155928741Cozy adventure about a girl who can't age being best friends with a zombie and going to a city so she can do crime stuff.Caught on it was going to be a 20 year long snooze fest pretty quick. Same with comic, once salami showed up the whole thing just went into the bin. One of the worst tourny arcs I've ever seen brought to paper.
>>155925745Maya lost people to inc, there's no way she'd accept it now. Could not live with herself or the memory of her failure to both meti and inky and later to her family.Inc couldn't accept maya being suicidal or depressed either, he'd just kill her out of frustration.It's over. Their best hope is dying together. Kissing on the way out.>>155925569royalty in canon is the philosophical ideal of enlightenment being the immediate prior step to godhood. in practice its literally just buddhist englithment aka socially acceptable suicide.
>>155929988>that evolvedCreated by their God*ftfy
>>155931307>20 year long snooze festthere literal WAR ARC were a snoozefest?
>>155931374To be fair, some gods put evolution in their universes.
>>155931461Nothing is good enough for anon, bearer of the word "flame war"
>>155929988alot is not a word. You RETARD!
>>155925656>His peasant flaw was being irresolute, wavering when he attempted to execute Maya because he was torn and secretly wanted her to come back to him. Anon under that model Jagganoth is the most Royal motherfucker there is, which we know to be the precise opposite of truther.
>>155923047>Maya kinda sucks inmenselyTrue, but her narrative is good, and it's immensly gay to cope with it by pretending that Incubus doesn't. >>155931325>Their best hope is dying together.This desu. Maya knows she faces her end, Incubus still copes for le survival even when everyone including him knows with absolute and immutable certainty that Jag will kill everyone and them him. Which makes his effort of immediate survivor meaningless, and simultaneously cements his own self-appointed place in the Cycle as constant permanent beta-bitch getting dominated. No other demiurge recognized him as a lord, and he answered them by... proceeding to perpetually bend the knee to whoever happened to intimidate him today.
>>155929798> Salami was actually kind of a cool bro keeping out even worse thingsSalami had his moments and I enjoy his vibes, but the matter of fact is he stagnated 1/6 of the multiverse into total cardboard box infertility incapable of producing anything or anyone of real value under his coddling rule, all in order to maintain muh order that folded instantly to Jag just showing up. The single useful thing to come out of Celestial Empire is Dave himself, and it's a whole plot point that the Empire only held him back. That's what broke him the most - "for muh greater good" was his entire justification, and was undeniably a compete total fucking waste and he knows it. It's a cold, hard fact that he would be better off spending those millenia just practicing ki-rata. Monks of the Silent Voice were completely right, he was completely wrong, and all the sacrifices along the way only projected his own suffering onto countless other to no gain whatsoever.
>>155930522If he would eaten just one teeny tiny worm, he could experience the good old days of swordbuckling again. Contact your local friendly Gog-Agog for fresh worming and dive into happiness.
>>155932254Eons of safety and stability for countless people is worthless? While their peers are being conscripted into the omegadeath genocide army or seeing their world bled dry by tributes or getting turned into worms, Salami's citizens got to live in a prosperous society.>his empire was holding him backHe knows that, though. He says as much to White Chain. He's just not willing to leave it without a suitable successor.
>>155925569based and hansa-pilled
>>155932382>Eons of safety and stability for countless people is worthlessEons in a barn are worthless for cattle being led to a slaughter, yes. And this argument is inherently flawed because if coddling a litter of chosen in a safe place for a while is the measure of rulership, then Dave gets squarely beaten by Mammon. It's the wrong avenue to take for him, because he very deliberately designed the Celestial Empire to not be the Vault of Yre. It was supposed to be a true community - united, eternal, strong in the face of adversity through the power of it's numbers, institutions, discipline and organization, even without Dave. It was meant to be able to protect itself, unlike Dave's lost family, but it never learned to because just like a traumatized father, Dave has never allowed to to walk a step beyond his sight and build it's own strength. When the first real adversity came, the Empire failed utterly, specifically because Dave built something as infertile and egotistical as Yre - a sad monument to his sadness and vanity - but LARPed like it's something more than that. >conscripted into the omegadeath genocide army >world bled dry by tributesSolomon did that too. Rayuba's twin new suns did not come from a multiversal Amazon. It's just where Mottom or Incubus did it chaotically, he was trying to organize his Application of Particularly Sharp Rocks towards building something, but something turned out to be nothing more than a house of cards. >He's just not willing to leave it without a suitable successor....while also being the specific reason why there could be no suitable successor until it was too late.
>>155925813I suspect Incubus was always better than her from the start, but he never challenged her leadership because he liked their dynamic and liked hanging out with sis.
>>155922328>It never ends.Inky once again proving he is the most Royal fucker out there.
>>1559325576 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe:>AAAA THE EXISTENCE IS NOTHING BUT GETTING BUCK BROKEN AGAIN AND AGAIN FOREVER I CAN'T AAAAAAAAA~Incubus>The existence is nothing but getting buck broken again and again forever \(*^ v ^)/ yay~I can almost see desu, but not quite.
>>155932084>perpetually bend the knee to whoever happened to intimidate him today.Were you not paying attention to anything Incubus was doing all comic?
>>155932447Something that hasn't really been brought up since the Rayuba arc is that Dave's method of choosing a successor in no way selected for competency or even capability to rule.
>>155932787Well, when your bare minimum needed force to keep some nippah from taking over your kingdom and killing every citizen within your first day of office is knowing how to perform the TEN TITANS BLACK HOLE SHATTERING BLOW, the idea of what someone's tax policy or thoughts on welfare kind of go out the window.
>>155932726Oh, there's a master plan there?
>>155932028Its not everything but we've known since at least book 2 that a trait or Royalty is being unwavering.
>>155932726Doesnt seem like he ever planned to usurp Maya nor could he have usurped Jagganoth if he wanted to. For all his "Its only about winning" talk he seems content to remain near power as long as it ensures his survival.
>>155925021In retrospect It's funny that Incubus was like, the one demiurge who didnt kill his Master or benefactor.
>>155933366Abby has said he fully intends to backstab Jagganoth after Jag has weakened himself against the rest of the Demiurges.
>>155932787This entire setting is edgy shit at core and all that matters if powerlevelz, this current drawn-out garbage final battle literally shows any amount of chaff working together trying to push feelgood democratic modern liberal buttfucking values is fucking worthless against singular tyrants with actual powers.
>>155933341>we've known since at least book 2 that a trait or Royalty is being unwaveringThe character with peak validated Royalty atm is still Zoss, who wavers quite a lot.
>>155933415>he fully intends to backstab Jagganoth after Jag has weakened himself against the rest of the DemiurgesAnd what is he going to do? Bleed all over him?
>>155933906Zoss straight up tells Allison that the power of the key will not accept an irresolute wielder.
>>155933993>power of the key>RoyaltyHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm~
>>155933906 (You)>Zoss, who wavers quite a lotFuck Zoss>Un-Hansa, THE DOUBTING GOD>Ys Pree Aesma>Allison herself>Salami who made the first real step towards Royalty in his life the day he actually fr doubted himself really hard for the first time in aeonsContinuous cutting motion or not, Royalty has never been associated with doubtless determination - that is the domain of Jagganoth's obsession, Jadis' non-will, Mottom's trauma, Gog's detachment, Mammon's holy count, and Incubus' survival.If all it took was just being a monomaniacal retard about something, all of our demiurges would've already solved the Wheel long ago. It's the definitive fetter of mind binding it to endless repetition on the Wheel. A Lord is not paralyzed with doubt, but he most certainly evaluates, changes his mind, regrets things, expresses will through decisions and finds strength beyond strength through rising beyond the self, rather that being a slave to the thirst for existence (or nonexistence).
>>155933906>>155933993Wasn't Zoss already Royal before he got the key?
>>155922865He's a fool. It ends when you decide to end it. He's a bad swordsman not because he loves his weapons, or takes too many blows to loo off a head. It's because he's not willing to kill Maya and free himself from this charade. Notice how he keeps asking her to come back to him and to the sword. He can't give up their cycle and history. His attempts to kill her are weak, because he knows that her existence gives him meaning.Maya is also a fool. She tries to break the cycle by perpetuating it. You can't stop it by getting into sword fights and hoping to be the better swordsman. If she took her sword, said that it all ends with her, and took her own life, she would strip Incubus of his purpose, and be free of their little cycle of revenge and the blade.
>>155934873Meti only ever intended to train one student. The other was never anything more than a warning, and a lesson, to her true disciple.Meti's final lesson will only be completed when Incubus decides to kill the rat, and in the process forsake all mortal ties to this world to attain Royalty.
>>155934993Man, the advent of Maya murdering Meti instead really calls in to question the point of a lot of what Meti spoke. All seemed obvious before, but not now. And Meti 100% knew Maya would kill her in rage.
>>155934231Royalty is not beyond skepticism or self examination. However, acting indecisively or half assedly has been derided by both Meti and Zoss. Solomon's pretend play succession contest, Mottom's fear and victimization, Mammon's self pity, Gog's "I used to be the greatest and taking things seriously is below me" escapism routine and Incubus and Maya's inability to let go of each other are testaments to this unroyal flaw.
>>155935444I agree and recognize the digits.
>>155935286I come back to these two pages, and I feel like Zoss is speaking to Incubus just as much as he is to Alison. "Little men who play at sticks and think themselves the lord of the world" describes who Maya used to be far more than it does Incubus, and "Relinquish your foolish delusions of control. You cling too much to victory. You cannot save her." applies EXTREMELY well to his whole thing with Maya.In fact, it almost feels like he isn't making a distinction between Incubus and Alison at all. Like he's treating them as two heads of the same entity....or, perhaps, like a swordsman and her sword. The Maybe Sword might not be the prophesized Terrible Blade of Want. It might instead be Incubus, a man who is very much like a naked blade in search of a hand to wield him.
>>155935444Who gives a shit about Meti? She doesn't even merit the respect Zoss received for his unmatched achievements of being big dick god king of the entire universe who invaded heaven.Her 'philosophy' outside of the one line about sharp rocks is nonsense, its just her being egotistic while playing at being a hobo.A shitty version of Diogenes since he didn't have ridiculous superpowers in his back pocket.
>>155934993>forsake all mortal ties to this worldThat would just make a Jag and Jag is already a better Jag than Incubus could ever be. Back when Incubus was licking dirt from under Meti's, popping his first Maya boners and coming up with kenshi nicknames, Yaun was already a dead man.
>>155935569It's been pretty obvious since Incubus first showed up in flashback. He's the actual indigent, filthy and starving, while Meti waxes poetic about how swords suck in between getting all her wants and needs handed to her because everyone is afraid she'll kill them.
>>155935569>Who gives a shit about MetiIncubus, evidently, as he took her for a teacher. >big dick god king of the entire universe who invaded heavenZoos is pretty adamant that the whole God King stuff was a mistake. >She doesn't even merit the respect Zoss received for his unmatched achievements>ridiculous superpowersSo Zoss is the real shit because he could shit lightning and thunder, but Meti is a bitch fake because she could shit lightning and thunder. Everyone treats Meti as supreme authority on Royalty specifically because she went down the same path as Zoss, and on the way made tangibly wiser choices.
>>155935671There are major differences between Meti's and Zoss' philosophy, and Zoss straight up realized he fucked up and has been trying to do things differently.
>>155935579No, Jag has many, many ties to the mortal world. His entire purpose for destroying it is to save it, after all. And, most importantly, Jagganoth is a man and not a sword.A sword, on the other hand, has no need to philosophize. It has no greater purpose, no master plan. It simply cuts anything that touches its edge.>>155935569Go reread the 18 Precepts, but understand that they are directed at Incubus and not Maya. And then they will all make sense. For example:>Your stance must be wide. You must not be spare with the fluidity of your wrists or shoulders. You must have grip on the handle that is loose and unstrained. I heard it said you must be tender with your sword grip, as though with a lover. This is patently false. A sword is not your lover. It is a hideous tool for separating men from their vital fluids.Incubus has named his favourite blade after Maya, his lover.>When decapitating an enemy, it is severe impoliteness to use more than one blow.Incubus has shown great disrespect to Maya.>The weak swordsman clings to victory. He thinks of his life, his obligations, the outcome of the battle, his hatred for his opponent, his training, his pride in his mastery. By doing so, he is an imperfect vessel for the terrible fires of Will. He will surely crack. He will not laugh uproariously if he is cleft in two by his opponent’s blade. When his sword is shattered, his hands will be too reserved to tear his enemies’ flesh.Incubus is constantly distracted in this fight by the potential for true victory - having Maya at his side once again.>The weak swordsman strikes his enemy down and thinks his task done. He relishes in victory. He casts away his sword and returns to his lover. Little does he know his single cut will encircle the world five times and strike him down fifty-fold.Again, Incubus thinks victory in this battle is returning to his lover, Maya the God-Queen.All this is not random philosophy. It's specifically for Incubus.
>>155935671Stop being purposefully dishonest.
>>155935692A sword doesn't instantly cut anything that touches its edge, it still has to make contact with sufficient force.
>>155933415>he fully intends to backstab JagganothThis implies he has a feasible plan.
>>155935286>And Meti 100% knew Maya would kill her in rage.I disagree. I think she always suspected Incubus as the true, better student would kill her. Meti's final laugh was both mocking Maya and herself as Maya killing her is like the D student inadvertently surpassing the A+ student at the most critical moment.
>>155922328>it was balanced expertly, and a name engraved under the tang - a relative of some sort, he was fond of sayingIncubus engraved Maya's name on his blade I never imagined he was such a sentimental type.
>>155936473>she always suspected Incubus as the true, better student would kill herGet real, Incubus can't even kill Maya. He a little king.
>>155936643I didn't either; it's an interesting discovery.Haven't seen anyone comment yet, but Incubus's expression in the 5th panel is full of pain.
>>155933415delusional stinky boy
>>155935579Something I rarely see mentioned is that Jagganoth seems to believe that, despite being keyless, Maya is fully capable of taking back her throne.
>>155935579any reasons for the torture dungeon?
The writing of this comic is so bad, when is abb gonna stop dragging it out.
>>155936643Not only she was a woman during his during of age she was the only woman who ever gave a fuck about him, even if said fuck was just out of pity.Meti probably didn't respect him as a sword god until he was already old enough to be a demiurge fearing own mortality.Legit speaking why did Maya even hate the dude so much he didn't ever stop to think what he though of her. Or maybe she did and both narrators are lowkey pretending this isn't a millenia long lovers spat.
>>155937095this is literally the only moment since the turney where the writing has been good.
>>155937110Fairness to Maya, he did kill her kids.
>>155937055Same reason why most people have a torture dungeon. Ironically the broken mirror that looks like someone punched his own reflection in a rage says more than the First Consort being tied to the rack.
>>155937138I'm speaking during their training.The narrative has given no single point where Maya gave a fuck about Inc, while Inc was "killing" millions to her name every day. Yet she let him become his second right up to the point she broke and left. I can only assume she genuinely hated the guy, or both are so hurt they are really pretending they weren't lovers. Inc with the "she was my sister" crap and Maya with the "evil boy born evil"
>>155937166Something interesting is that while Incubus calls Maya "sister," Maya typical uses indirect terms or euphemisms for Incubus even to his face. That's a pretty heavy level of intentional detachment.
>>155937166>The narrative has given no single point where Maya gave a fuck about IncShe was literally the first to show him kindness, Meti would have let him starve. Then they're stated to have been inseparable during the second conquest.
>>155935531I don't think Abby is smart enough for that type of double allegory lad.
>>155935531>Relinquish your foolish delusions of control. You cling too much to victory. You cannot save her." applies EXTREMELY well to his whole thing with Maya.Interesting observation but I find it unlikely since Zoss would despise Incubus' path independently of whether Maya sticks with him or not.
>>155937288Yeah but did she give a fuck out of humanistic sense of responsibility (that she later forgot about and likely just ignored incubus as "that thing that keeps orbiting her") or did she actually care for him as a person?If we are to believe her own claims at face value she never even realize how much Inc cared for her.
>>155937378>but I find it unlikely since Zoss would despise Incubus' path independently of whether Maya sticks with him or not.It's the same path he walked, just with more trauma and less ambition. Zoss would definitely help him if he didn't consider him a lost case, and right now, he turned out to be the least lost of all demis.
>>155937166>>155937385>The narrative has given no single point where Maya gave a fuck about IncGirls don't tend to fall for guys who gleefully cut into small cute animals.
>>155934993Still can’t tell in that last panel if he just cut his hair or straight up carved his scalp off down to the bone
>>155937693both, obviously. whittle letters are just hair, red when he nicks himself to shit
>>155937397Yeah but Zoss' enlightement includes realizing the pointlessness and limitations of aspiring to multiversal godhood. He wouldnt tell Incubus to drop Maya and continue doing whatever the hell he's doing. Plus we dont know about the more trauma part.
>>155934993Just realizing that Maya had an unfair disadvantage since Meti wanted her to shave her head with her rusty, old, tetanus ridden sword while Incubus used Maya's own shiny sword from the middle army.
>>155937793umm wrong sweetie she a stronk melaninated fem wymxin
>>155937673>ratfucker has an "opinion"
>>155937378>Interesting observation but I find it unlikely since Zoss would despise Incubus' path independently of whether Maya sticks with him or not.Why not? Zoss has chosen the idiot's blow path with Allison as heir, and if Zoss believes in "strength beyond strength" in theory he knows Incubus too could learn from this meeting.
>>155922538surely you mean fat cock?
>>155937929I apologize, I did not mean it as a personal attack. If I knew you to be a sadistic creep in advance, I would've picked more considerate words.
>>155937793It's pretty telling for all that she fellates Meti, she explicitly does not agree with Meti's teaching methods.
>>155923140>>White Chain v. Jobbernaut Tranny AGPs the Universeboth of them are trans though.
>>155922328>>155922463>>155923047It's been a while since these were published so for anyone who needs a reminder about the question that meti asked maya, it's in these 2 sequences:https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wheel-smashing-lord-1-15-to-1-17/https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wheel-smashing-lord-1-27-to-1-28/What incubus is saying is a call back to those pages.
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>>155937138>Fairness to Maya, he did kill her kids.It's possible, but we dont actually know for sure. She doesn't actually say he did that, and some things she's said explicitly were lies.
The lineart difference betwee the early post-jadis pages and current pages is gigantic.Abby was stressed the fuck out when his kid was born
>>155938367Maya's face in the last panel is still so funny to me
how is sword phallic? most have completely opposite shape
>>155938854>most have completely opposite shapeI don't know what you mean by thiscan you post a sword that looks the opposite of phallic?
>>155939030do you have a dick? swords tends to taper, they're slimmer at the point.
>>155939117and I do mean very slim, at this point you're arguing that every pipe and every plank is "phallic"
>>155939117dicks also taper towards the point
>>155939152planks are flat at the end, unlike dicks"pipe" is literally a euphemism for dick
>>155938308A defining elements of their relationship is that they butted heads all the time. From the very first moment, Maya spent *years* refusing to cut her hair.
>>155938588tbf (assuming they existed) it's hard to believe they didn't die given their farm was torched and Maya left immediately afterwards. The alternative is more outlandish as either Incubus would have abducted them or Maya would have deserted them.
How in the fuck does the maybe sword work?
>>155939739be brown and or gei just win
>>155939739unironic 1d2+18 willpower test. Only royalty survives.
>>155939739it's an infinitely long cut that, once it reaches you, determines if you live of die according to your own will, thus the Maybe part; maybe it kills you, maybe not
>>155938854>how is sword phallic? most have completely opposite shapeat the risk of sounding pedantic, swords get shoved into other people.
>>155935611This is what I keep coming back to, Maya chose the Sword Life because of ego and a desire to have power over others. Incubus was already a step below barrel dwelling hobo relying on handouts so becoming Poisoned By The Sword honestly wouldn't be as big a deal as becoming Poisoned By The Vermin You Must Subsist On. Maya had alternatives, which is why Meti keeps calling her Noodle Seller even when she has a key. Incubus has never wanted to anything more than survive, whether that means hiding, fleeing or learning how to murder absolutely anything so that he won't be fucked with. I wonder if Jagganoth here >>155935579 wasn't even being mean when he said "This throne was never yours" - deep down, Incubus doesn't want to be a king, he wants to be a murderhobo wandering around having fun with his murderbuddies. Poor Inky. A bottom forced to top, a sub forced to dom.
>>155940274Damn. I thought the whole 'breaking the wheel' thing was just a lesson on violence begetting violence, justifying radical pacifism and giving up power where appropriate.
>>155937385I'm inclined to think of Meti's comments as almost another version of the rat test - if you want the rat to live, you should take steps to ensure it survives. Perhaps by selling it noodles, for instance. Maya's attempt to feed lil Incubus comes across more as a spiteful dig at Meti rather than a real attempt at empathy, to me.
>>155939694One could wonder if Maya, upon finding out that Incubus was coming, killed them herself to spare them his wrath. They would then be dead because of Incubus, in a roundabout sort of way. I think its more likely that Incubus killed them because he expected Maya to pull out the old murder magic skills to defend them, defending the rats and all that, and was surprised when she didn't. He doesn't look at all happy in the house burning scene.
>>155941216Maybe we wouldn't. Imagine the awkward scene if he just wanted to say hi and exchange words.
>>155938367Allison is so fucking garbage as a protagonist, that last panel is godawful.
>>155940274>once it reaches you, determines if you live of die according to your own willBut if you dont know thats how it works, does it just kill you anyway? It sliced up the blacksmith dude, and Im pretty sure he had an incredible will. Or if you know thats how it works, cant you just be like "Nah, I feel like living today." and it does nothing to you? I have a feeling it wont do shit to the Jagahog.
>>155941725Thats kind of the point. Shes a dumbass college girl that got isekai'd into a new realm as "the chosen one". Shes just been bumbling her way through everything like an idiot, only getting as far as she has because of her friends. The joke is that she might JUST be stupid enough to save the universe.
>>155941806If you're motivated enough your passive force of will resists it.
>>155941859Considering how fucking useless she's been in this war sequence its gonna take a massive hamfisted asspull for her to even get out of this conflict, nevermind anything else that comes after.
>>155941216>think its more likely that Incubus killed them because he expected Maya to pull out the old murder magic skills to defend themThat sequence which is going to end with him having a melty and cutting her throat open with a dozen blows is going to be depressing as hell.
So Jags broke the script by assaulting Rayuba and trying to Allyson's keyIn the usual cycle, the heir ascends to the throne of heaven by usurping the demis, the [THING] happens and he dies/disappears, and Jags comes back to slowly end the world until Zoss gets pissed off and leaves.I'm not sure what THING is, maybe its really the heir getting jagged right in front of metatron, then he bails until jag ends the world and zoss resets the wheel
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>>155941898everyone's been used. whole thing is "everyone not a demiurge gets deleted" from the start
>>155941898She knows the Maybe sword and hasnt used it yet. That's her trump card.
>>155942936Gog was a trump card too, and she squandered that.
>>155938854>Elongated object = Dick>Men like elongated object because it dickRetarded I know, but it's apparently a part of feminist theory.It's sort of like claiming that anything with a deep indent in it is a pussy.Hmm, maybe that's why women like Stanley Cups so much...
>>155943082Not really, Gog is at her most powerful and fully on board with the mission now.
Do we actually know HOW incubus got ahold of maya’s key? It doesn’t look like either of them have it during this part of the flashback
>>155943092There's more than one Stanley's cup?
>>155944357Those two soldiers probably had the hardest "try not to laugh" challenge oat as Incubus fumbled Maya's execution TEN TIMES.
>>155944357Just realized that Incubus tried to execute Maya with the very sword named after her. That's fucked.
>>155935692> Meti told Maya if she wanted to save the rat, she should have been prepared to kill her fellow student with all her mightIf Incubus wanted to save Maya, he should have slain Meti right then and there. With all his might.
>>155944357You think that last panel was a dig at Ten Earth-Shattering Blows?
>>155944980>fumbledThe only person there who thought Incubus was actually trying to kill Maya was Maya.
>>155938854Who knows why a long straight object held at a 30 degree angle is considered phallic.
>>155944357I just realized this was inspired by the Bride's Wedding scene in Kill Bill.
>>155944357>he tried to cut my head off TEN TIMES>idk she was so sloppy I nearly cut her head of ten fucking times
>>155943092>feminist theoryWasn't it Sigmund Freud who came up with that shit?
>>155941806>But if you dont know thats how it works, does it just kill you anyway?yes> It sliced up the blacksmith dude, and Im pretty sure he had an incredible willhis will was strong, but Maya's will to kill him was stronger, I guess. That or he really wasn't that attached to life >>155941806>cant you just be like "Nah, I feel like living today." and it does nothing to you?Allison survived the Maybe Sword by not thinking about death at all
>>155938367Oh shit, I ask myself Meti's question to this day, I don't need reminding. I'm so angry I've learned such deep esotericism with this comic then I remember it's all lies and I calm down a bit then I get anger again BECAUSE IT'S ALL FUCKING LIES FUCK YOU YISUN Where's my coat I'm going back to the road
>>155922463Jesus those tiddies
>>155947967Big sister is blessed.
>>155946636He did, but feminism picked it up and ran with it, despite it being largely discredited, like a lot of his other shit.Don't know how much it's used these days, since I don't do gender studies, but it used to be parroted a lot a few decades ago.
>>155944357>>155946624wait, isn't that a bit fucking weird? At that point Maya had already lost the Flame Key to Incubus, so she couldn't do shit to stop him from cutting her head, yet Inky Boy just couldn't pull it offdid Maya teach Incubus Head of John?
>>155946636Sigmund Freud said alot of shit
>>155948813Its feelings-based writing, all that matters is that its "cool".
>>155941806It's not a conscious choice to resist the maybe sword.You see everything around you sliced in a line, but you don't feel pain. You look down, but before you do your subconscious already determined that you just got fucked, and indeed you see that you are now two disconnected halves slowly sliding apart like in a samurai parody flick.Or, in Alllisons case, you get hit with the Maybe sword. The only thing going through your subconsciousness is "lol. lmao". You feel fine. You are fine. Literally too stupid to understand you just got hit with a superweapon, which ironically makes it harmless.As for Jag, it's a tossup between him honestly feeling that he is invincible, or having a buried doubt that there's something out there that could kill him.
>>155949198>As for Jag, it's a tossup between him honestly feeling that he is invincible, or having a buried doubt that there's something out there that could kill him.Or "I'm already dead, chopping at my bones isn't going to make me more so."
>>155949198Reread the part where Maya uses the Maybe Sword on Allison, it can 100% be a conscious choice. >>155945889Why? 10ESP had been running for six years at that point.
>>155949198The maybe sword is an incredibly lame form of plot device.
What's the point of a sword that can sometimes not kill its target?The maybe sword is just a worse normal sword.
>>155950425>What's the point of a sword that can sometimes not kill its target?that sometimes it might kill its target, and so far it's the only weapon capable of killing Jagganoth, supposedly, since he's indestructible du to the angel wing nails
>>155950871So besides using it on someone who would otherwise be invaluable to swords, what would be the point of using it?
>>155951073It can slice through buildings.
>>155950871It seems stupid that this lameass thing would be able to kill him when nothing else could. Also its pretty obviously going to fail when they actually try to use it on him so Allison can pull off something even more bullshit to resolve the situation.
>>155951113If any of them were actually badass swordgods they would be able to do that naturally, like anime swordsmen do. Its basicbitch shit.
>>155951113Can't most of the people who have handled the Maybe Sword already do that?
>>155949383>it can 100% be a conscious choiceThen I guess it's a shittily thought out narrative element, if anyone can just go "Nah, I tank it" and be fine. Makes you wonder how anyone dies from it.
>Inb4 the Maybe Sword is just a normal sword, and anything can actually be a maybe sword, since it's all about perception/will of wether something gets cut or not
>>155952248Maybe it's just some stick a dude painted silver to scare bandits
>>155952106>if anyone can just go "Nah, I tank it" and be fine. Makes you wonder how anyone dies from itthey aren't aware of its power since it's Maya's secret technique, so far only Allison and Inky Bush know of it too, and I guess White Chain, Princess and the rest of the band also>>155952248>the Maybe Sword is just a normal sword, and anything can actually be a maybe swordwell Maya's sword is literally a shitty spare blade forged by an apprentice swordsmith as practice, in fact it's so badly made it shattered when Maya used it for the first time>it's all about perception/will of wether something gets cut or notmaybe, maybe not. Perhaps anything with an edge no matter how sharp or dull is a potential Maybe Sword
>>155950425normal swords dont always kill their target
>>155944029I don't think there hasn't been a cycle where Gog hasn't joined forces with the heir and the demis to seal jags, like in RayubaHer entire arc is "I escaped causality to try everything zoss style, and none of it worked. So fuck you, I got mine". She's basically Angela from Lobotomy Corp down to cosplaying 50 different costumes.She probably walked out in Rayuba because she was certain it wouldn't work.So whatever Gog can pull off doesn't stand a chance against jag or the fully realized heir, either in full power or just mass of flesh forms
I love Allyson and I'm tired of pretending I don't
>>155953513some sort of edgeless blade, huh...
>>155952106At least as far as Maya is concerned, you also have to survive her actual swordsman skills that literally turns thin air into a monomocular razor that cuts everything in a hundred mile cone.So if even if you can beetle your way out of the maybe sword's effect, you still need to tank an instakill attack.
>>155951130>It seems stupid that this lameass thing would be able to kill him when nothing else could.Sword fighting mantles the act of cutting, which is the closest action to mantling YISUN, who endlessly divided himself to become creation. Sword fighting *literally* brings you closer to god.The maybe sword isn't a real sword slash, it's forcing the receiver into zero-sum argument where failing literally CHIMs you in half and no force inside the wheel can stop it since the wheel is just a subset of god. It's abby going back to his Elder Scrolls fanfiction days.
>>155953792>Perhaps anything with an edge no matter how sharp or dull is a potential Maybe Sword>Jags gets killed with an especially sharp rock
>>155941806>Im pretty sure he had an incredible will. Mana quite evidently hated his life and everyone in it. He was violently molded against his will into a great violent molder of things used on people against their will.
>>155956075hating your life isn't a requisite to not being... uuuh cosmologically sentient.he could hate his life and still NPC through it, but all the panels we saw of him were of him being quite content with his lot. He was just an ugly bastard with a job, who from one single line we were hinted that he thinks demiurges and sword saints were a bunch of somewhat admirable dicks
>>155956188Nah, he was poisoned and surrendered to violence as inevitability of existence, hence he inevitably gets Cut.
>>155956221>surrendered to violence as inevitability of existenceSomeone didn't understand Zoss
>>155941806>It sliced up the blacksmith dude, and Im pretty sure he had an incredible will.The amount of will Mana had doesn't matter since he didn't pass the vibe check. Like Intra letting the Blue City fall or Au Vam dying with the Yellow City, no matter how powerful you are you will fail the moment someone else catches you by surprise.
>>155955478So then it's just a super cutting technique and the whole "It kills you unless you refuse to die" is just bullshit.
>>155957776no, it's both things at once. one kills the mooks, the other the final boos.
>>155959244I mean in specifically maya's case she can do both things at once.Allison probably can only do the maybe sword.
One of these days, I'll start reading this comic.
really wonder who killed intra, he lived during the universal war
>>155960783Will that day be Today?
>>155961854I'm still calling it. Intra is future Incubus hurled backwards through time like a reverse Samurai JackDigits will confirm it
>>155963723Inky just can't catch a break, can he?
I just reread the whole comic and noticed Abby's Pandemic Derangement Syndrome for the first time.
>>155940835>deep down, Incubus doesn't want to be a king, he wants to be a murderhobo wandering around having fun with his murderbuddiesJagganoth knows that most of all Incubus wants to not die. He knows that Incubus is a star lord, storm king, crowned with a key of power culled from ten thousand and one warrior. And a miserable worm who flees his rightly appointed death. Even now, he squirms on that pile of divine corpseflesh he calls his flagship, which will soon become a heap of rubble to be picked over by the crows, and indulges in dreams of reunion with his former lover, as he sends twenty thousand thousand men to their deaths, indulging in blood alchemy to extend his life and supping on blood of virgins. One hundred worldd scoured, picked clean and split for dogs. One million mothers hanged, their faces forgotten.Did he forget that Jagganoth's words marked the length of his lifespan? Does he think his death will not find him at the appointed time? That throne was not and never be his because Maya has already killed that man, he merely returned wearing the face of a friend who betrayed her.
>>155963723Funny there's a blurb that speaks of a "fourth conquest"And didn'y abbs say at one point that Incubus was gonna be the last guy standing after Ally dies, and he will rule for some time before Maya appears out of nowhere and kils him
>>155963926>Pandemic Derangement SyndromeElaborate.
>>155963928You type like a fag, and your shits all retarded.
>>155963934There's a page in the tourney arc right before WC and Salami start fighting where WC goes on a page long rant about her and Salami being the same, people who "enforce the system" which smashes all those who stand out or try to make something of themselvesWhen it makes no fucking sense when you remember Salami is literally "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT (MAKES LAW): the immortal art of coping" and his "system" literally is whatever he wants it to be, and not some hell bureaucracy enforced through institutional pressure. Then I check the alt text and its literally a "joke" about ACAB the page date says "august 2020".I think I can elaborate more and it should also explain why this comic used to have had an overproportionately large hatefandom but I'd to have talk about a bunch of shit like the KSBD official Discord raiding this thread non stop, lowkey peer pressuring Abbadon, which may have resulted in White Chain becoming human-looking for basically no reason and with no storylet reference / forewarning or the comic even bothering explaining how, and to compensate for that nonsense you end up having Nukoku do the same "parallel" except she doesn't even become half-human and does nothing but exist, which feels like Abby just did that half assed the "unique transformation" parallel to justify humaning WC. But I gotta sleep. also nukou's eye makes me think of Himself
>>155946636>>155938854The association between long penetrative objects wielded by men is much older than Freud and I don't think really needs a lot of explaining. Weapon appears as a synonym for penis in Middle English.
>>155963928Yeah it is kinda funny that Incubus maintains his immortality in the way we know Jag personally despises.
>>155963961Anon, I...
>>155964009I don't think it's a PDS, I think that Abby was doing the WC/SD conflict, and therefore he had to examine their parallels, and the best he got is their roles as representatives of authority, which prompted the "authoritarianism is... le bad! Fuck da police".WC transformation is a consequence of WC becoming the troon representation in the cast, so some form of transition was necessary as a conclusion. Her becoming a troon rep is by itself a (poor) consequence of her preceding identity crisis, which in turn is a consequence of Esoteric Straight Cop WC being a very boring character. Nukoku is a consequence of Cio's death being pointless, which follows from Cio's existence being pointless. There's no elegant solution to that character.
>>155964390The whole gay liberty thing was pretty lame, they immediately were shown to be incapable of actually standing up for themselves in this war and have all getting bitched out hard.
>>155926708Elite ball knowledge. That was a good book series.
>>155926776>jagganoth wins but allison just recreates the universe...fuck that fits too well.
>>155964416It was a very bad contrast between the immediate character study (WC/SD) and the overall plot (Rayuba invasion).WC's theme of contemporary gay liberty values is generally a very poor fit for everything else in the story - the plot, the the setting, the aesthetic, the cast, etc.>The Coming King cannot rule the Wheel, he must reach beyond strength and break it with the Blade of Want... but he must never ever ever ever ever ever ever misgender an MtF xister!
>>155938367>Aren't they phallicSays the chick who CONJURES SPEARS!!!
>>155943092>>155946636>>155964099Show me a feminist weapon, a vagina shaped weapon that kills people by shoving them inside.
>>155965577>engulfing weapons
>>155937138I mean... did he?We see him wiping a giant bloody sword in front of languid Maya but what if the sword's just bloody from trying to cut off her head
Honestly at this point wouldn't be surprised to find out Maya killed her own kids and was just lying to everyone about even that.
>>155965648Anon, you're on 4chan, not Twitter. We don't do gaslighting here.
>>155965692>this comic>not twitter>implying implications
>>155965577Catchpoles are vaguely yonic, go around your head and are used to force you to enter a confined chamber, after which you might get executed. That's basically unbirthing.
>>155941725Allison is the worst part of the story, yes-
>>155945016>>155948813He obviously wasn't trying to kill her, retards. Is literacy dead or something?
>>155965753Its still pretty retarded when someone trying to "not kill someone" still slashes them in the throat 11 times. The whole thing is stupid in terms of writing and trying too hard to be epic (in the literal sense).
>>155965781We don't even know what actually happened beyond what Maya has told us, and she's known for coping and lying.
>>155965812>Incubus slashed her once at most before deciding he wasn't really into it/left her for dead>Maya then cut herself in the neck 10 more times to sell the bullshit she tells people
>>155965648Like she had a psychotic break and legit can't acknowledge she went a little nuts and murdered her family in a ptsd fueled rage?
>>155965781He knew she could tank it. And everything worked out: Maya picked up the sword again and even developed a new technique. Now he just has to finally convince her to rejoin him in murderhoboing together forever.
