Unsounded

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More half answers and puzzle pieces.

We now know definitively that the silver wont just end up in Alderode, but was meant for it from the start.

We know a little more about Bell at least in the form of some concrete plan for the Silver.

But we dont know who's pulling all the strings? Is Bell really at the top of this? Who in Alderode is helping this alone? Could this have to do with Bowdie's attempt to avoid rebalancing?

Theres too damn much going on here.

What's what all the niggers?

>pirate-muddied western sea
Well that explains how Jivi's mother is going to come into the plot.

So has painting Bastian as a villain all this time been a bit of misdirection on Ashley's part, or is he just lying through his teeth?

My guess is that Bell is actually pulling a coup under the disguise of attacking Alderode.

He's still pretty villainous, don't let his bishie charm fool you. I want more Black Tongue Bromance from him, though.

Rahm's got great expressions

He's pretty amoral. Even if his end goals seem righteous, he's caused a lot of grief. He for sure had a hand in Duane's murder and may have done something with Mikaila's body. I'm pretty sure Duane's gonna kill him. Slowly.

The problem is that Bastian is a catalyst and a potential wild card, but not the puppet master. He may have been the one to kill and zombify Duane, but we don't know for sure who orchestrated Duane's death in the first place.

Is he? as we see him now he's just unscrupulous, and not even proactively so; he just takes jobs someone else would've anyway

>Aldish soldier
Lem? Or just another faceless player in this crazy game who is yet to be introduced to us?

>'m pretty sure Duane's gonna kill him. Slowly.

>Why did I destroy Adelier?

Yeah, he's a dead man. And he deserves it.

He's pretty reprehensible. He's not "main antagonist" bad if that's what you mean, but he's pretty bad.

If anything his involvement in Duane's murder was a boon. He'd just be a dead man without him.

I posted this in the last thread too, I"m pretty sure the Alderode half is this guy, or he's at least behind Duane's murder.

>Dead and passed on to be with his daughter and Ssael in the afterlife
vs
>Being a zombie, one of the singular most heretical things to the Ssaelit, who cremate bodies because the thought of decay disgusts them.

Bastian's probably egotistical enough to try and justify to Duane what he did. Think on that scene.

You're just thought soup when you die

>>Dead and passed on to be with his daughter and Ssael in the afterlife
>vs
>>Being a zombie, one of the singular most heretical things to the Ssaelit, who cremate bodies because the thought of decay disgusts them.
Not just that- Duane, a PRIEST of all things, was utterly convinced for the past six years that his zombiness was the direct result of Ssael hating him personally.

That just adds another level of awfulness on his already horrific unlife.

>Wait, wait, I had a perfectly good reason for having you and your daughter killed. Let me explain.
>Cut to next page
>First panel shows Bastion's mangled, half-eaten corpse floating in the water.

He's getting over it. This is an enlightening experience for him. Such an intelligent man should enjoy the insight into creation his current status is providing

That doesn't change the fact that he's a rotting corpse or the unending urge to eat people or the fact that he's been torn from his beloved family.

Or, you know, that his daughter was murdered right in front of him.

Those aren't things that one simply forgives.

Being a zombie was an unintended side effect. It's a new science, there will be kinks to work out.

And his daughter wasn't supposed to be there. Hell, they weren't trying to kill her even then.

>Hell, they weren't trying to kill her even then.

Oh! Well, that makes it totally cool! I bet he'll become Duane's best friend and confidant, and together they'll reanimate his daughter into the cutest little rotting daughteru ever!

You're fucking DAFT.

There is no afterlife though

I'm just saying, accidents happen. It's like blaming the truck driver for hitting your kid when she ran out into the road

Get out of here, Gefendur scum.

This is more like the truck driver veering around and trying his damnedest to ram you at full speed, knowing full well your child is right there as well.

I thought both religions believed in an afterlife once your soul was at a certain level of done.

If I'm remembering right, the Gefendur believe in a constant cycle of reincarnation. When you die, the Khert strips you of your memories and sends you back into a new body.

The Ssaelit believe Ssael broke this cycle after murdering the gods, and is awaiting the faithful in his own realm at the deepest part of the Khert.

>Only a cause directs a good man against his nature.

Silly Rahm, thinking that Bastion of all people is a good person.

>Purse strings looped 'round our necks
oh, so they're sharteshanians? I didn't know that

It's worth noting that Rahm seems a lot more upset about Bastion and Delicieu threatening to screw up his experiments than he is about the horrible things they've done. He's got no real sympathy for Duane and he seems unconcerned about all the people killed, maimed, or absorbed into the living hell of the Silver Eel. Shit, Bastion just calmed Rahm down by offering to use his role in all this to score Rahm some of Delicieu's tainted first silver.

I'm starting to think Rahm may not have his houseguests' best interests at heart. I'm even beginning to wonder if his flying craft runs on orphans' blood or something. The Black Tongues are not good people.

>Only a Cause

Ooooh, chapter name drop!
Nice, Ashley.

Wait, is that Bastion literally right there in the left page?


Damn, I need to reread.

Why are all Black Tongues so evil? I'm starting to see why their organization is banned. Can't ever trust them

Alderode or Cresce, Sup Forums?

Cresce. They're both shitholes, but Cresce seems like way less of a shithole.

Because they're basically mad scientists who operate outside the law

There is nothing wrong with Alderode

What the fuck is even going on anymore?

It's also starting to make sense that Tittybird stopped talking to them. Maybe when she originally founded their order it was about using pymary to go outside society's laws and rules to help people, but it's become an organization devoid of a moral compass.

Conspiracies to ruin Alderode from the inside, and to start a coup in Cresce

Bastion's so touchy.

what else can you expect from a naked bishie

I hope we get to see more of Alderode in the coming chapters. So far all we've seen of it is Duane and Quigleys flashbacks

>we don't treat our women like chattel
High and mighty talk for a guy who's joined the NO GURLZ ALLOWED sekrit club

under rated post
speaking of, does anyone have that comic to post, I forgot to download it last time it came up. The bonus comic from Vol. 2 that he's referring to, that is, the one that shows that Sharteshanians keep their purses around their necks.

You can believe a people deserving of basic respect yet not hold them as your equals. Lincoln thought blacks were inferior but did not agree with their enslavement

I'm sure there are no boyz teehee clubs out there as well

They really don't seem so terrible to me. You guys are overreacting

I wonder if Rahm is ever going to find out that Duane is talking with her

Ill take Ulestry thank you very much.

Cresce and Alderode are both fuckin awful.

What's wrong with Cresce?

if rahm is so immoral then what exactly are the black tongues currently doing that makes him refuse to contact them anymore?

Creating pain monsters to destroy countries

They break all their people down into simple cogs in the crescian machine to be discarded when they become broken.

No, no it's fucking not...

Cresce is a state where you have little to no agency as a human.

There is no pursuing what you want, only what you are given and allowed.

Lets be honest, a Black Tongue was almost certainly involved in the outbreak of the Weeping Plague.

A disease that spreads through Eye Contact had black tongue all over it.

Keep talking that way and you'll end up with a black eye.

Maybe Winalils himself. Half his family (his sister and mom) died from it, and iirc it originated in his town.

This is definitely a comic that needs to be re-read every so often

Maybe an accident in his early experiments?

Do we know if Winnalis is Ssaelit or not?

He is probably more of a narcissist.

>Man is the master of all, the epitome of creation

The shoe fits.

Do you guys know if Ashley has posted any character turn arounds for Sette and Duane?

I was hoping to find them for cosplay reference.

I know Duane's outfit changes frequently but turnarounds are still great.

tl;dr

Duane pls

Here's one she did of Sette a while back.

casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch08/ch08_72.html

And a clear shot of Duane's outfit.

>Every child is required to finish a certain level of education, after which they can attempt to qualify for specialized programs for medicine, pymary, advanced military, etc. Intelligence and ambition are rewarded in Cresce, with achievement leading to better work assignments, better allotments, and more LP. However, failure to achieve means one's city will step in and assign whatever employment is available, often unsavoury street-cleaning, sewage maintenance, garbage burning, field or factory work. This incentivizes achievement without creating a starving and impoverished underclass.
Sounds like you can totally pursue what you want to me.

live or dead duane?

Lmao, what the fuck? I hope you're gay or a girl and blinded by Bastion's sexiness or something. It would be really sad for you to make an argument like this without a good excuse for acting utterly retarded.

I'm just more understanding of the mindset of a wizard

If a guy drew this, he'd be flayed alive

Only if he was British. Or Canadian.

What the hell, I remember when this comic seemed like it was cute shit then it turned out to be edgy as fuck

what is the author's problem?

It's not edgy, it's just not cutesy and it's not a kid's story. Any fucked up shit that happens is in service to the story and verisimilitude. Bad shit happens to good people and bad shit happens to bad people

He is a villain just not as explicitly evil as say Starfish or Delicieu but all three have the same motivation of greed.

This comic has been about international Politics in a fantasy world since we firdt started seeing the Peaceguard take a larger role in things.

It has cute, it has nasty, it has a big ass monster made of the pain of its victims.

But none of those things are what its ABOUT.

Starfish also has the motivation of child rape, so I hesitate to compare them too directly.

From the vision tittybird showed Duane the attack is going to be on the ssaelit aldish why would Lem attack his own people?
It would make more sense to take out aldish gefendur to help narrow the population difference between the two faiths.

Starfish is motivated by crippling pedolust and Delicieu is motivated by intense insanity. Bastion wants to defy death; his motivation is ambition

They are both terrible but I have slightly more sympathy for alderode since they at least make a attempt even if pitiful at religious freedom and tolerance.

>What is wrong with a militaristic socialistic police state?
>I like having no control over my life and letting the state decide my destiny

They were all in it for their payment

And child Rape

Statfish got paid and could have left, but he really wanted Sette's nonexistent poon.

Sette's alleged cunny WAS his payment it's the whole reason he accepted what he admitted was pain in the ass job, it's the reason he put up with Quigly's bullshit as long as he did, Nary promised him Sette.
Likewise Delicieu was promised bodies for his experiments and Bastion has been promised funding for his research.

>it's not edgy

child rape

AVERTED child rape.

Shit bro I wanna cosplay live!Duane but I want to do his clerical garb but actually have it tailored and shit. And that costs significant monies.

Wow, that's sooo much better. I don't like that the creator gets away with this shit because she's female.
Imagine if a guy drew that naked baby vagina?

Guess what? Nobody would care unless it was sexualized.

Nudity is only sex in the West, and not even all of it.

She wasn't raped, she fucking stabbed the guy in the nuts and then blew him up before he could do anything.

The only person with their mind in the gutter here is you, user. Sette is deliberately supposed to be non-sexual; she totally lacks any reproductive organs whatsoever.

There's no reason to draw underage vulvas.
Ever.

>Sette is deliberately supposed to be non-sexual; she totally lacks any reproductive organs whatsoever.

How's that?

Oh, really? What if a character is underage, and has a vulva, and doesn't realize that nudity is taboo?

Not even then, huh? Well, in that case the fault lies not with the artist, but with people like you who automatically sexualize any nudity. Even drawn nudity. Even underage drawn nudity.

You are stupid, fuck off.

Drawn nudity is even worse than real nudity.

Someone consciously had to create it entirely themselves. They didn't stop while painting the stroke of the child's genitalia, and wonder, "Is this tasteless?"