Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 ... 51 52 [53] 54 55 ... 67

Author Topic: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread  (Read 100863 times)

Cruxador

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #780 on: March 15, 2019, 10:14:50 pm »

Nice Diogenes callout.
Logged

MetalSlimeHunt

  • Bay Watcher
  • Gerrymander Commander
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #781 on: March 15, 2019, 10:28:21 pm »

More pepper.
Logged
Quote from: Thomas Paine
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Quote
No Gods, No Masters.

smjjames

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #782 on: March 19, 2019, 09:09:13 pm »

New one up, and we're seeing Incubus's origin story as well.

Also, that is a hell of a dedication on Maya's part, and I just noticed that he has a nose scar along with looking generally beaten up. Wonder what's with the naturally white hair (or maybe an extremely light blonde?) though
« Last Edit: March 19, 2019, 09:17:04 pm by smjjames »
Logged

Xantalos

  • Bay Watcher
  • Your Friendly Salvation
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #783 on: March 19, 2019, 11:21:55 pm »

New one up, and we're seeing Incubus's origin story as well.

Also, that is a hell of a dedication on Maya's part, and I just noticed that he has a nose scar along with looking generally beaten up. Wonder what's with the naturally white hair (or maybe an extremely light blonde?) though
Albino, it's why he has pink eyes and develops vision problems later on in the timeline. At least, I'm assuming he's blind at the time of the comic.
Logged
Sig! Onol
Quote from: BFEL
XANTALOS, THE KARATEBOMINATION
Quote from: Toaster
((The Xantalos Die: [1, 1, 1, 6, 6, 6]))

smjjames

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #784 on: March 19, 2019, 11:42:13 pm »

New one up, and we're seeing Incubus's origin story as well.

Also, that is a hell of a dedication on Maya's part, and I just noticed that he has a nose scar along with looking generally beaten up. Wonder what's with the naturally white hair (or maybe an extremely light blonde?) though
Albino, it's why he has pink eyes and develops vision problems later on in the timeline. At least, I'm assuming he's blind at the time of the comic.

Good point, and I don't think he's fully blind at the time of the comic, but could have enough vision problems to use the sword like a cane, though he seems to be using it like a walking cane rather than one used by blind people.
Logged

Liber celi

  • Bay Watcher
  • council does your hair
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #785 on: March 20, 2019, 12:04:17 am »

He lives by the sword: he walks by the sword, sees by the sword, eats by the sword, thinks along its notched line, rules from inside its sheath.

"Consider: there is no such thing as a sword" -Meti
Logged

wierd

  • Bay Watcher
  • I like to eat small children.
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #786 on: March 20, 2019, 06:50:04 am »

*binge reads the whole damn thing so far*

You know... The cosmology here is VERY much like that found in Gnosticism. (or at least some branches thereof).

Here's my prediction/theory:

The origin god, being filled with *ALL* songs of creation, and *ALL* knowledge, but bound by being alone, chose to "die", so that he could have the world be born-- as depicted in the series, but also to rebirth himself within it, so that he could enjoy proper company with the things he created out of himself.

Note the progression of creation, in which a single being splits into two, then a panoply of demigods, then their own eventual demise through subcreation. This is an important theme.

This process was undone via the actions of mortal beings, who are the creations of Aesma.  They are stated to be her "mistake", but an omniscient being is incapable of making a mistake, only willfull choices.  My prediction is that the mortal human race is the way it is, in order to be the reverse-catalyst to mythically undo the subdivision of the gods (via human greed and ambition), and re-combine all the forces that split during creation, to reincarnate the origin god, and still permit the universe to exist, along with its other inhabitants. Note that the 7 demigods of the 7 part world have between them consolidated all of the universe equally between them, but lack the catalyst to continue to reunion of the scattered power of creation themselves. This action is the anti-creation phase of the demigods of the last wave of creation that created the wheel. There are 7 demigods, and 7 spokes of the wheel. Where once the songs of creation rang out from Hub, they are now drawn back again, but the spokes created remain.

Enter the king, and his role in this.  The king was the first catalyst in the process of reunification, who took the power of the first god by force of ambition from metatron, and bent it into a form humans can use, again by his own ambition.  He created the key of kings, which I propose represents the "Is not" of the first duality, as he represents the male aspect of the first subcreation. He is unable to create the aspect of the "Is" (the female aspect), since the other demigods he lorded over failed to consolidate further.  He fulfills his mythic purpose by passing his key to our young heroine, and tasks her with defeating and stealing the power from the 7 demigods.

Her role is to return the "is not" to her counterpart (note, a male, depicted with a conspicuous black void where his head thingie should be in the council meeting overview), while retaining the consolidated keys she wrests from the demigods, to become the "is".  The two unite, and reproduce the reincarnated true god, which can then exist within the world, while still being the world.


/prediction\theory


It will be entertaining to see if this is what happens or not.
« Last Edit: March 20, 2019, 07:01:21 am by wierd »
Logged

Mephansteras

  • Bay Watcher
  • Forger of Civilizations
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #787 on: March 20, 2019, 10:58:47 am »

Huh, interesting idea. I could see it, though knowing how this comic works it won't be that simple. As in, they won't just get married and have a kid who turns out to be god, something weirder than that will happen.
Logged
Civilization Forge Mod v2.80: Adding in new races, equipment, animals, plants, metals, etc. Now with Alchemy and Libraries! Variety to spice up DF! (For DF 0.34.10)
Come play Mafia with us!
"Let us maintain our chill composure." - Toady One

Liber celi

  • Bay Watcher
  • council does your hair
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #788 on: March 20, 2019, 04:09:27 pm »

The Chain of Being in K6BD is strangely long and explicit and I do wonder if we will climb it all the way to the top.

Did Zoss and his Demiurges consciously mirror Koss and the Multiplicity? Did they inherit their powers by that, Morrowind-style? Who are all the god stories really about?
(Tangential: If Zoss' keys are enlightenment, how can they be exclusive?)
Logged

ggamer

  • Bay Watcher
  • Reach Heaven through Violence
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #789 on: March 20, 2019, 06:54:20 pm »

I'm eager to see whether the "cycle" zoss refers to is a repeat of the previous cycles of power, or a literal "cycle," in that someone established a kind of time loop that hasn't stabilized out yet.

Egan_BW

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #790 on: March 20, 2019, 07:11:09 pm »

Logged
Not true, cannot be proven, true but misrepresented.

Cruxador

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #791 on: March 20, 2019, 07:31:49 pm »

I'm eager to see whether the "cycle" zoss refers to is a repeat of the previous cycles of power, or a literal "cycle," in that someone established a kind of time loop that hasn't stabilized out yet.
It's a motorcycle.
Logged

Frumple

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Prettiest Kyuuki
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #792 on: March 20, 2019, 07:37:08 pm »

Silly crux, of course it's not a motorcycle. Motorcycles have two cycles on them, not one. It'll be a unicycle, rode by a dancing, fighting, fornicating god.
Logged
Ask not!
What your country can hump for you.
Ask!
What you can hump for your country.

Trekkin

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #793 on: March 20, 2019, 07:42:24 pm »

Silly crux, of course it's not a motorcycle. Motorcycles have two cycles on them, not one. It'll be a unicycle, rode by a dancing, fighting, fornicating god.

Clearly, the Wheel is YIS's unicyle as the Void is UN's, and they peddle hand-in-hand through the multiverse.
Logged

wierd

  • Bay Watcher
  • I like to eat small children.
    • View Profile
Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« Reply #794 on: March 20, 2019, 09:03:52 pm »

Logged
Pages: 1 ... 51 52 [53] 54 55 ... 67