#reach heaven through violence

[thefiresontheheight]

[pcharming7]

Hey so do you like Dark Souls, Morrowind, anime fights, mythology, metal album art, weird looking alien demons, LGBT representation, and HYPE ™?, Boy, do I have the webcomic for you.

[cristiano-is-here]

You might not like it but this is what true royalty looks like

[theoretically-questionable]

Lots of things about Allison's character arc are Very Themes, but this in particular is. Very emblematic of how she's shaping out to be. Moderate thematic spoilers for Books 4 and 5 of KSBD below!

At this point, it's pretty explicitly textual that all seven Demiurges are afraid - and this fear has shaped their character and actions more than any other of their qualities.

Each have a particular, personal way their fear emerges:

Mammon's seclusion

Mottom feeding the tree

Incubus clawing for power

Jadis's inaction

Solomon David's absolute dominion

Gog-Agog's ironic, whimsical nihilism

Jagganoth's stoic, utilitarian obedience

These are all products of fear - specifically, fear of obliteration and impotence. Of death, in all its kinds.

Each of them is obsessed with seeking royalty through their own perspective, and terrified that they're going to fail. Terrified that there might be a power greater than theirs that could render them helpless.

In addition to preventing any kind of meaningful trust or collaboration, this fear is itself the thing that renders each of them helpless.

By now, in Book 5, Allison has been directly faced with all of these. She has seen that Mammon's safe retreat did not save him. That Mottom's ruthless sacrifice of others did not save her. That Incubus's machinations did not gain him anything. That Solomon's refusal to cede an ounce of his strength made him weak. And now, despite their overwhelming power and all-spanning perspectives over past cycles, she is coming to see that neither Gog nor Jag have any mastery of royalty.

Importantly, she saw that Maya, that once-demiurge-turned-drunkard, learned this too.

On her path to the Key, Maya grew to fear the hold that others had over her. Yet, borne on a palanquin by obedient servants, her power over others unquestionable, her master laid her bare with a single question: What next? What was the point of it all? To strive for power out of fear?

And so Maya fled, and lived to see at least half of a true life, full of trust and love. Now, after losing even that, Maya sees no path for herself - torn between knowing that power begets destruction, but a lack of it begets vulnerability. Unable to solve this, knowing her master Meti was never able to solve this, she insists Allison must face it too:

Her master, Meti, is also the one who so correctly said to the death-pondering monk:

“A dog has more sense than you. He doesn’t think of death at all. Not when he sleeps, not when he bathes, and certainly not when he shits. You and he will both die."

Maya, thus, also probes Allison about her thoughts on death (twice, actually, going back to their first in-passing encounter) And now, finally, Allison... shrugs.

Allison has been told to strive for her 'full potential' power for many different reasons - and been afraid to do so for just as many reasons. Afraid of her power, of her self, of her past, of her future, of the judgement of others, and of the possibility of failure.

And now, having passed through the gauntlet of fear, in these last few pages (Book 5, 3-76 to 3-78) Allison explicitly rejects not just the comforting defence of irony but the very fear of meaninglessness in the fact of unfathomable vastness of any kind - multiple universes, meaningless suffering, powerful gods, time loops, even death itself.

There is no fear. There is nothing that justifies her claim to power. There is no grand meaning or purpose. There is no undoing the horrors that have come to pass.

But she has a (maybe) sword, and someone who has been killing rats and dreaming of grand purpose is about to kill again.

What else is there to do but, in foolish defiance, ready her blade and strike them dead without thought?

"She who strikes without thinking can cut God."

[simcardiac-arrested]

[guiron]

[noneedtofearorhope]

[thenopequeen]

[hikorzik]

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS BABY

[siegesquirrel42]

finally read the 36 Lessons of Vivec. delightful stuff. the entire chuuni segment of this website really was deeply affected by this weren't they

[punchy-mchurtyfist]

Pretty Cure exemplifies what I'm all about cuz they save the world with love and friendship through EXTREME VIOLENCE

[deep-green-existentialist]

capital-R Royalty from webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons is real and it's what happens when an individualist takes mushrooms

[patchwork-by-oz]

Read Kill Six Billion Demons

[gameandwatch9-9-9-8]

[gristicuffs]

A Well Worn Life

To live is to commit to a

constant cutting motion.

To break apart everything

At all times

Within and without.

To consume is to

Tear, grind, boil in acid

Break down into so many

Nothings

All washed away in a 

River of blue, sometimes red,

To feed billions made into one.

To live is to be a mountain

Of dead cells.

Dead images

Dead ideas

Dead data

To live is to bury

And replace.

To live is to be entropy

Clothes wear down

floors cracks and sinks

Lights burning fuel

So I say live hard

Steep yourself in the violence

Of being alive

A well worn life

Corroded by use

Is a life passionately lived

[uncarving-the-block]

Why can 1 in 10 users on this site not fucking read