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Aesma and the Red Eyed King

Part 1

Once, and always, there was Aesma Ten Yondam, who was a very powerful goddess. She had anywhere from two to forty five arms, she was exceptionally strong, and had an insatiable red hunger for dominion. She knew five ways of smiling, ten of the forty five forms, and all the syllables of Royalty, though she understood none of them. In her blackened heart she let many wicked schemes and plans ripen and kindled an endless rage against the inadequacy of the universe, which made her one of YISUN’s favored companions. She was poor at Patkun, could not tolerate pedantry, and her ribald jokes and raucous behavior frequently got her thrown out of YISUN’s speaking house.
On one such occasion, Aesma was thrown out long before she could get at the wine. Her wailing and pounding at the doors of the speaking house drew nearly two score of pilgrim-saints, who were passing on the King’s road. When they approached to inquire about her distress, she engaged them in a ferocious battle that lasted the better part of five hours, as was her custom. The battle was so fierce that it cracked two roaming moons and threw part of one into a primal sea, which boiled away to steam.

“That’s better,” sighed Aesma, when the dust had settled and the sea had finished boiling. “Hey,” said Aesma to the battered and bloodied pilgrims as an idea struck her, “Where can I get some wine about here?”
“Foul creature! If it’s nourishment thou seeks, get thee the great and holy Temple of the Disc of the Sun,” croaked a furious pilgrim. “Drink thee of the consecrated wine there, not thy common lecher’s milk, and purify thy fetid soul!” Aesma was grateful, and turned the man into an exceptionally large golden fish as way of saying thank you, for she was fond of well-colored fish. She grabbed a strand of frozen light and broke it into the shape of a door. This was an old and popular trick which the god Un-Kaon had taught her in return for Aesma stealing sweets, for Kaon had a terrible sweet tooth. It was called Division, for it was a cutting art, of which there are thirty and one.
Aesma leapt out of her skin and through the door, and then back into her skin, which was waiting on the other side, through a tangle of twisted planes of space. As she emerged, the temple of which the man spoke lay directly ahead of her. It was a grand and stately building, with sandy white columns, and the Holy Sun Disc enshrined there was visible for fifty or sixty leagues about, so bright it was.

The priests offered libations and chants to the great altar of the Sun there, and payed homage to the stars, and studied in minute detail the nature of a man’s soul. Each was a scientist and philosopher of clean and manly visage, who wore a neatly pressed apron. He discarded ostentation and valued virtue above all else. Members of the temple spent many hours contemplating the proper roles for women and men, the just ways of proper rulership, and the ways in which a man’s perfect qualities could be compounded in his body as in his mind. They had there a great golden scale, with which the head priest measured the weight of a man’s vice against his virtue. It was a place of great influence on the enlightened thinking of the time, a temple of grand seriousness and moral import.
For this reason, of course, Aesma immediately hated it. She lasted about thirty minutes in the public service. “I can’t stand it!” howled Aesma, “Your elegies are dull! Your saints are all liars. Your youth are pallid and weak, and your wine tastes like piss. One cannot as much fart in here without being preached at.”

“Out, demon!” said the Hierophant, and brandished his stave of authority. A score of priests stood beside him, robed in their aprons and strewn about with their golden chains. The light of good and righteousness sharpened their noble features and rugged eyes.
“Were violence not forbidden in this most holy temple, we would have thee out by the stave,” boomed the head priest. “I pity thee, crawling thing, for thy black heart is all shriveled and malnourished without the guidance of moral authority!”
“At least I’m not being sucked on by old men!” spat Aesma at the holy congregation. She then pulled down her loincloth and mooned them, to great dismay. Then the staves came out after all, and she was thrown out of the temple in a short order.
“Get thee a husband!” said the exasperated priest, and slammed the door shut. Aesma thought this was not a bad idea at all. Husbands were rumored to be better than dogs. She set off, her quest for wine quite forgotten.
Aesma looked far and wide for a husband. She broke a sunbeam fifty times by Division and split her mind into fifty shards and hurled those shards, molten, through the gaps therein. This was a trick she stole from Ovis by watching her bathe. Each shard grew into a splinter-clone of Aesma’s evil body, and did great mischief as it ravaged the earth, befouled the land, frightened the populace, and scoured the nations of the universe for husbands. But after five hours had passed this way, Aesma grew frustrated and annihilated all her extraneous selfs in godsfire. It took some effort, for their accomplishments in such a short time had been exceedingly high, and one had even installed herself as queen.

The side story is great

Exasperated, she resolved to ask the God Un-Ogam, who she often came to with difficult questions. Ogam was in his White Aspect, and thus a little more contemplative. However, he was a ferocious god of battle, and not a philosopher, and thus rarely gave good answers. Aesma liked visiting him anyway, as he was older than her and loved to spar. So Aesma rode her chariot to the gore-soaked battlefield where Ogam was doing battle with a dozen minor gods of justice, and landed it amidst the melee “Ogam!” shouted Aesma, “Find me a husband! Surely you have a slave that will do?” Ogam couldn’t hear Aesma at first, as he was in a berserk rage, bending the great stave of the bird-headed god of Law UN-Ghum in half. When the stave snapped, Ogam hurled Ghum into the sun and calmed down a little. He and Aesma were very close friends.
“I have many slaves,” said Ogam to Aesma, “but none will do for you, little sister. None are your equal. Come back later, and I will find you a great, roaring god for your spouse, hung like a bull and with muscles like an elephant!”
Aesma was discontent, and smacked Ogam in the forehead. Ogam hardly noticed, as his skull was thicker than a fortress wall. This was one of his excellent qualities, in Aesma’s view. “I’ve waited enough!” fumed Aesma, “Why, just now I was preached at just for wanting a drop of wine! If you can’t find me an equal, tell me, who is my equal?”

>If you should meet God on the road...

So is Aesma pronounced: Yzma, Asthma, Ehsma...?

Ayy zmuh

This comic manages to be consistently excellent, in terms of both writing and art. I love it.

A-Yes-Muh

Allison seems very surprised seeing Maya there. Probably because she's giving her a death glare. They've never met.

But they did

Oh yeah. Totally forgot about that. She probably recognizes her then.

Damn,I knew she'd show up. I think I saw the mendicant knight some pannels ago.

It SHOULD be 'Ehsma.' But who fucking knows.

How strong are beings like Maya and juggernaut? Fighting one of the seven seems like it would be no small feat.

maya was supposedly around in the war that resulted in the seven making the compact. aka, she i one notch below them.

They're all here. They're the pursuers.

Juggs is apparently stronger than any of the Seven, discounting Jaggi. Maya's strong enough to have conquered 20,000 worlds for whoever she worked with, but if she's less powerful than a member of the Seven then she's way weaker than Juggs. Odds are, Juggs is as powerful as he is because he's had time to grow in power, after all, he's only been killed 5 times ever, so he's probably the closest to being a Prime Angel in terms of strength.

Last thread someone said that Abbadon said that the strongest of the Demiurges, Jagganoth is 1 Goku, 6 Juggernaut is a Majin Vageta, the other Demiurges are Frieza, and Zoss is 6 Gokus.

Juggernaut has got 75% of Jagganoth's strenght. Jagganoth is the strongest Demiurge, so he's possibly currently the strongest being. You would also need all other Demiurges to unite just to stand up to Jagganoth, so I guess they possess roughly 1/6 of Jagganoth's power each.
Maya led armies during the Universal War and survived, so she must be quite powerful, but I don't think she's equal to any of the Demiurges.

I see. I figured they were among the most power non 7 but I underestimated Juggs.

The current power level tier list seems to go as follows
Zoss
>>>>
Metatron
>>
2 Michael or Jagganoth, we don't know how strong Michael really is
>
6 Juggernaut
>
The demiurges all about equal
>>>
Just about everyone else

We don't know how strong Maya is. She's clearly very strong but if she's demiurge level remains to be seen.

The power levels in this series feel way off. Supposedly these dudes can kill entire planets yet we've somehow never seen anything more impressive than kung fu and weak lasers.

You gotta build up to that. You shouldn't just Asuras Wrath it.

Nah just going all Asura's wrath would be okay too.

Ash-mah

That's moronic. Either show it or don't talk about it.

The Angels being that strong feels weird to me. Like, Zoss made them all his bitch BEFORE he forced all of God's secret names out of Metatron and attained godhood. It seems absurd that any angel, prime or otherwise, should be stronger than any of the demiurge a, who theoretically wield a seventh of his peak power.

I would like you to expand on this argument, because it feels nonsensical to me. I would understand if you were saying that you shouldn't make characters ridiculously overpowered because it's hard to write that effectively. I could see the merit in that argument.

However, you seem to be saying it's okay to fill your fictional world with ridiculous overpowered cosmic gods as long as they never demonstrate their power on-panel? How does that make sense?

He's saying that you should demonstrate those powers for special moments when shit gets real, otherwise said powers wouldn't feel special

Agreed. They haven't been built up as being this strong. The demiurges were being built up as the ultra-badasses that we were all excited to learn more about. The angels seemed more like side-villains. Now we are learning that there are several angels that can slap the shit out of the demiurges with no effort? Feels anti-climactic.

Nah,

It will be shown. Make no mistake.

I'm saying that it's a better idea to build up to the heavy hits than go straight into it from the beginning. We're still in the beginning of the story and we're about to get a taste of cosmic power I'm sure very soon when the shit starts popping off as Juggernaut, White Chain, Allison, and Mottom all face off. One of the draws of this story is the huge scale of power and you don't want to blow the load too soon. I agree with Abbadon's method of doing it more like Gurren Lagann than Asura's Wrath.

I don't agree. At this power level they should be doing completely insane shit on a casual basis. Think about the scale involved here. Random adventurers in throne are strong enough to conquer dozens of thousands of normal worlds, and they are like ants compared to the demiurges, who are like ants compared to the angels. This shit is being told rather than shown to us and it's really lame.

If you want godlike power to be special in your story then you shouldn't say that every named character has godlike power.

It seems a bit odd to say that the series is going on about how powerful dudes are without living up to it when the only currently-active characters whose power level has been hyped in the comic itself are the demiurges, and the comic is currently set on a flying castle held aloft by a casual act of will by one of those demiurges, at a ball held with the royalty of her vast universe-spanning empire, held together once again by force of will on her part, during which she's repeatedly demonstrated casual reality-warping abilities.

Not quite. These demiurges are one or two generations behind the first. The first were the ones who were able to crack the weakened dimensional seal of Throne after Zoss did and they were very powerful. These 7 demiurges we know now never did that and most likely couldn't. They would pale in comparison to those, they only got their power through luck, inheritance, or seizing opportunity. The originals all found their way there by intense will and many many years of study. They were that strong without the keys. These demiurges rely on the keys to achieve some of that strength.

Metatron is an angel that can crack minds and boil flesh with his words. As far as we know only Zoss was able to defeat them. The regular angels like White Chain aren't nearly that strong and rank somewhere in the middle on the tier list. 6 Juggernaut received Metatron's blessing himself for some reason and that gives him some of that power that the original demiurges used to invade heaven.

Not to mention 6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe is a much cooler name than anyone else has.

>Random adventurers in throne are strong enough to conquer dozens of thousands of normal worlds
Very few people are actually that strong. Aside from the demiurges only Maya is probably that strong that we've seen. Even Preem Nand who controls one of the gates only reigns over his little guilds. And most angels are far weaker than the demiurges.

You are misunderstanding the type of writing Abbadon is going for here. He was mostly influenced by Vedic myth which has beings of ridiculous cosmic scale but the focus is not on their battles most of the time. It's supposed to focus on their teachings to mortals, how to live life and enjoy it. This doesn't involve sundering earths casually. It's not supposed to be that kind of story and when we get to that stuff it makes it all the sweater.

I feel people have been really spoiled by spectacle creep throughout all media. If action is not firing on 10s a lot of the time it seems boring to people.

I like how it's difficult to pin down what kind of story K6BD exactly is.
But it boils blood in my veins when I see people wanting it to become reskinned Steven Universe

What do you mean?

Her husband is going to be a tree, huh

>reskinned Steven universe
How do you mean?

On a side note I'm loving the side story and the weirdly abstract scale it seems to have. The way Aesma is traveling, Division, sounds an awful lot like how Allison was first transported to Throne, jumping in and out of her skin

Man, I hope this post isn't as retarded as I think it is.

Oh, there are people in the comment section that want Juggernaut to have a redemption arc, Allison team up with Mottom etc. while drawing comparisons to SU.

Of course I grossly exaggerated the problem, but it still angered me.

Not only that. A beautiful garden. And Mottom will tell Allison which flowers correspond with which body parts and every time a fruit falls from the tree or the leaves fall he can feel it in excruciating detail.

It would be kind of fun if he actually was alright, no torture or anything, but just had his power stolen by Mottom. Maybe just eternally bored out of his mind

>The way Aesma is traveling, Division, sounds an awful lot like how Allison was first transported to Throne, jumping in and out of her skin
It's the same and one of the more high tier powers. To travel by division lets you cross the universes as a whole, neither leaving your soul or body behind. When Allison went from Earth to the void she was a shade. She hadn't travelled by division. She was just casting a shadow there which is why she was translucent. Division is the way Zoss reached throne.

It doesn't seem too far fetched. I don't think Mottom is going to turn good, or anyone will but I can see some of them sort of allying themselves with her. It's what Mottom's doing in an antagonistic way. I'm really interested in the story Jagganoth tells when Allison meets him. Juggernaut though will need to be put down hard.

>Abbadon reveals his foot fetish

>Anonymous asked:
>how did Six Juggernaut Star last die?
>He was killed during the Universal War while fighting to defend something he held dear.
What could this be, a tea set? It certainly isn't a person

>the character as we know them know is exactly as they have always been
HURR

I dunno what the fuck a Steven Universe redemption arc is but I'd like Juggernaut to stick around. A flamings skeleton spirit in a suit of spiky metal armor that knows god-level kung fu rides a motorcycle made of skellies is just too good a character to kill off.

I don't know what an angel could slip up and hold dear.

It'll be a while. He'll probably be around for the whole story.

>one of the more high tier powers
Where did you learn this?

The angels are also kind of like the gems in terms of the different substances they can be made up of.

I hope Abbadon will expand on it in the near future, maybe it was what made him join the thorns

>can we leave, I'm feeling hot
Just fuck already!

It's a pretty loose compassion. Gems project bodies around their being via space magic whereas angels are beings of life force inhabiting bodies constructed for them.

Another angel? Maybe he was gay for like 4 Potatoes Sitting In A Boiling Pot or whatever, and they died super hard, and he found his feelings to be too human and began to think what the point of it all was
And then he took up motorbiking

Angels can't really be gay, because they don't really have gender. White Chain is a deviant, which is why she feels feminine. Apart from that, angels refer to each other as "brothers" because they have to refer to each other somehow.

Right, so he was gay.

Homosexual in the broadest sense would be more appropriate.
But this raises an interesting question - are angels even capable of romantic love? They are made of cold, white flame. Does it inhibit their capability to feel emotions?

I love these idiots.

Angels can likely feel anything; what limitations are on them are self-imposed because of their naturally rigid adherence to the Law.

it's pretty clear angels are kind of stuck up and are more "human" than they think.

>as he was older than her and loved to spar
D A D D Y
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They're not "more human" than they think. Rather, they're not so different from both Servants and Humans and they CAN have personal desires beyond their adherence to the Law. Their desire to follow the Law probably comes alongside all the other miscellaneous knowledge prepackaged with them at their creation. It's all they know from "birth", so with their "limits" already set for them, they can't (ie; find it difficult to) think outside of the box. That's why, while Angels can qualify for Royalty, their belief in the Law prevents them from achieving it. Because they believe they can't go against the Law. So Petals and White Chain? Corruptions of their race, a sign of Throne's decay; which is pretty much true for Petals, but not so much for White Chain.

>4 Potatoes Sitting in a Boiling Pot
I choked

All those lesser angels you never hear about for more embarrassing reasons

Tumblr or him just answering powers

If he was 4 he definitely would not be lesser

>Let's go meet a confirmed pedo rapist in his rape hut where he's surrounded by people who have dedicated their life to supporting his rapist habits while looking like a child.

What could possibly go wrong?

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aesma top tier waifu

I'm going to bet he's become a particularly horrible tree.

"Holy fuck, it's that death-chick other human!"

Maya is...fucking scary.

Holy crap.

Also, the Pursuers are here! What could go wrong?

God I love that last panel, really speaks to how much of a badass Maya is.

>Maya is...fucking scary.
It is creepy that she keeps saying these one-liners with her casually appearing to the side at random. The fact that she just appears in one panel among the crowd when we know shit is soon to go down helps. But yeah, hope that's the last we see her in a scene like this, at least for a while. Twice is pretty much the limit here, if she intends to involve herself directly soon. Otherwise, further Cheshire Cat-like behavior would be unsuitable for her.

>
>If he was 4 he definitely would not be lesser

Maybe he's 4 because he's a terrible coward who avoids fighting and runs when confronted?

She seems super focused on death. Like one of those goth chicks who writes poems about their own funeral or someshit.

"THE MENDICANT, the beggar knight, roughly clad and shod, He lives as though he were a beast, but fights he as a God."

>We don't know how strong Maya is.
Isn't it strongly implied that she's Meti's very apprentice?

A single line referencing a single character trait they share isn't strongly implying. Not to say I don't believe she is, but we have very little evidence.

Also, while that would confirm bad ass status it in no way helps us gauge her power level.

He's a Thorn, user. They're the most rigid adherents to the Law and love purging the fuck out of the "impure".

And he's, uh, confirmed to be pretty powerful. Along with Metatron (or was it Michael? I think it's Metatron), he's one of the few people who can comprehend the full extent of Zoss' strength.

So yeah, his low number is a result of him being very powerful, rather than him spending most of his time just chilling and contemplating his infinite existence.

I think what user is trying to say is that the characters are described as capable of incredible things, yet they end up falling short of the expectations the lore built up when you see them in action.

Whoops, excuse this one. Thought you were talking about Juggs.

Fuck Hot Potatoes.

Nah, she is Meti's apprentice. Abbadon confirmed it, I think, on tumblr.

I think she wields the "Blade of Want"? Which pretty much guarantees that she's a cut above the rest.

We have yet to see anyone with any build up go all out. I understand the frustration of Abbadon taking it slowly but things do seem to be coming to a head very soon.

Really? Could I get a link?

Abbadon confirmed that "the terrible blade of want" it's metaphorical, and not an actual blade.

Then what's that energy blade thing that can be manifested? I forgot what it's called, if it's not the blade of want.

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Thanks.

Throne of Want?

GUNWITCH IS A CUTE

Oh yeah, try going through the RPG rule set. It might be mentioned there.

162 Dogs Lifting Legs on the Road

>pixie cut on the gunwitch

My heart, it cannot take this.

>The blade of want is a metaphor man, some buddha shit.

>It's the Maybe Sword you want. That shit will get explained in like 100 pages so good luck user.

The good thing is that Abbadon said this in 5/05/2015, so it's been almost an hundred pages since.