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[Frumple]

This is a shot in the dark, but might that be too violent to resonate with Indian audiences?  I don't honestly know enough to argue in favor of that but the relatively little I know of Indian culture gives me a gut feeling that they wouldn't be down for fiction where the main promise of the story is magic punch action.

Alternate theory, its possible that in India Bhuddist and Hindu monks are too mundane for wuxia-esque stories to work.  Like how there's no way an American could have made Evangelion.

That... seems pretty improbable. Eva's cultural boundary was more art style and giant robots than hilarious abuse of religious iconography -- you should probably give a gander at some of the more niche sci-fi mags or something from ye' old yesteryear, ferex (or apocrypha in general, ha). Just watch out for the porn if that's not yer shtick.

Similarly I could swear bollywood, just as an example, is pretty chill about bringing in violence, if maybe not as enthusiastic as some venues, and what little my holey memory can manage right now superpowers by way of religious(/martial arts) enlightenment is as much a thing wit' india's stuff as anyone leaning towards apotheosis through fist. I'd probably expect different inclinations (and almost certainly a different word) to come out of indian culture but it'd be odd for whatever's been keeping it off my personal radar to be stuff like that.

... though now it's bugging me, and a quick check is finding stuff like Baahubali (one of the highest grossing films in india back in 2015, apparently?) that's a fairly close match at first glance. So... I'unno, about the point of night I'm too out of it to keep trying to kick together stuff to make sense of things.

Honestly, it half looks more like just being a matter of there not being a particularly enthusiastic translation community for getting stuff from india native whatever to english. Seem to recall seeing more than one mention of that over the years... difficulty finding hobbyists able and interested in translating from... whatever it is I've already forgotten the name of, because of course friggin' brainmeat... to english. I don't have nearly the exposure to the culture's media to keep trying to figure it out right now, bleh.

...also it's approaching wildly off topic >_>

[NullForceOmega]

Well, Cio is still blue, and from her hesitation the entity we define as 'her' is at least somewhat present.  Still very much not happy in any way, and this is not going to be an easy discussion for either of them.

[Egan_BW]

I don't see how this will be a difficult discussion for Cio.
"You left me to die!" *stab* [no farther discussion is necessary]

[NullForceOmega]

Since her knife is in her hand and she didn't use it (twice), that argument is almost completely moot.

[Egan_BW]

She's obviously not thinking straight. Once she's coherent enough to be speaking she'll have the presence of mind to remember that she has a knife.
Besides, when you're really mad you probably want to shred the person's face a little before doing the stabs.

[NullForceOmega]

Are you really so anxious for the comic to end?

Narratively that just flat out isn't going to happen, at least not in a life threatening way.

[Egan_BW]

I neither expect the comic to end nor do I think that speculating here is going to make that more likely.

[Cyroth]

Oh please, a little stabbing between friends never hurt anyone.

My guess is Mr. senile grandpa will end up interrupting Cio/Yabbadabbadoo before any lasting harm is done.
He'll probably remember her for a second and make her apologize or something 

[Max™]

Oh dear, I guess this makes more sense now:

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[Egan_BW]

Don't forget christmas Alison!

[EnigmaticHat]

I note a little ambiguity as to

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How deep those cuts were; in the first panel were the slash occurs they look merely grievous but the next panel there is so much blood.  The way the cut is drawn the gashes are NEAR a lot of her facial features but its not clear if they went through them.  Like, does Allison currently have a left eye?  Its not clear from that.  Also, the way I've read the last few entries is that Allison no longer has superhuman toughness or healing.  Clearly that read was incorrect, or... she'd have gone splat right there.  Like if this was a minor character and all we had to go on as to her fate was these panels, I'd say right now that Allison is dead.

But, um, holy shit.  This arc has had so many unexpectedly violent moments.  Even by the lofty standards of KSBD.  What the fuck.  Really wishing I waited a bit to catch up on this thing.

[Liber celi]

Don't bleed on the gold.

[hops]

Are you really so anxious for the comic to end?

Narratively that just flat out isn't going to happen, at least not in a life threatening way.

> Implying stabbing Allison will kill her.

[NullForceOmega]

Are you really so anxious for the comic to end?

Narratively that just flat out isn't going to happen, at least not in a life threatening way.

> Implying stabbing Allison will kill her.

Read more carefully.

[smjjames]

Well, Cio is still blue, and from her hesitation the entity we define as 'her' is at least somewhat present.  Still very much not happy in any way, and this is not going to be an easy discussion for either of them.

Yeah, even though the features from her former ebon self/persona are leaking through heavily.

Also, responding to an earlier post, when the in-universe version of lucifer (king of all devils/demons) said that Cio would die if they failed, I thought he meant she would be corporeally dead and the shards of her mask scattered across the universes. He did mention that she has rivals that would still like her to be taken out.