Kill Six Billion Demons

HIS NAME IS MYSELF HE PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE

>Never listen to the devil at a crossroads

“A curious fact – the Institute of Fractal Archivists insisted to me today they had found a peculiar period of history prior to the Second Conquest that according to their ontoscopes does not exist. Nearly two centuries to which a huge host of historical inaccuracies and inconsistencies have been attributed – I am familiar with the period myself. They theorize that this is because the period only existed for some people; that is to say the flow of time itself, the turning of the great wheel, was tampered with.
It is, of course, a preposterous explanation, though so very convenient I am inclined to believe it.”
-Payapop Pritram, personal notes S.C. 2420

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>missing time
I see Abbadon continues to lift concepts wholesale from The Elder Scrolls.

Great artists steal

Of fucking course his name would be "MYSELF" and not "HIMSELF". It makes perfect sense.

Seems like Allison newfound's attitude can only take her so far.

Everyone wanting to Kill You is part and parcel of being a King. Better get used to it. You'll never be able to trust anyone again. But with the power of a King used correctly you'll never have to.

>that eye in the last panel
spooky

The best get away with it

okay, now i am imagining MYSELF's voice as freaky fred.(from courage)

will be interesting when devils use faces stolen from humans as masks, which define their personality but shape and corrupt that personalityy turning its slowly into devils own identity which will explain why they change colors and slowly degrade back to original devil form. stolen "myself" mask forced upon devil is consumed by devil and the less "colors" it soges down the more dangerous and wild devil grows back to his hunger.

He calls himself Myself.
We call him Himself.

It's one of the interesting aspects of the YHWH phrase because you have to interpret it through your first person perspective.

explain the himself my self thing I don't get it

To understand that you are yourself and you are the universe is a main theme in the comic. It's basically the main thing of royalty.

His name for himself is "HIMSELF". what else whould it be? isn't your name for yourself your name?

>the other devils are his captors
>metal box pierced with dozens of glowing needles
>wrapped in and suspended by chains
>bloodstains
>scratches or marks caused by the needles all over it
>that fucking eye in the last panel
Guys I'm super scared right now

>royalty.

droped. leaving this thread..

>the speech bubble slithering its way around the bars in the bottom left panel

FUCKING, COMIC-KINO

He has no actual name so what you call him is him aka himself for formal address, and he can only call himself me, or myself by the same regard.
Therefore he seems to have two names but in reality he has no name.

>KINO
Please fuck off back to Sup Forums and never come back.

>capitalizes pronouns referring to him
nice touch

That eye in the last panel, though.

>that fucking creepy little eye

He's only in there because HE TOLD THEM TO DO THIS TO HIM.
Granted, I'm sure he did a thorough job and they are his actual captors now, but I also get the impression that if somebody sneezes too hard against that thing he's free and just won't be able to stop himself.

This and the obvious biblical parallel aside (I am that I am). He's a devil, without a mask, that still has a name. One he gave himself.

A piece of pure chaos that can still have an identity. A contradiction. We already know there is great power in such things.

So He knows Incubus is also inside her head isn't He?

I can hear it too, pretty fitting.

>He's a devil, without a mask, that still has a name. One he gave himself.

didnt the alt text one or two pages ago say that his imprisonment was just a formality as well?

I mean, thats also a real thing. Crazy retarded thing, but a real thing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

I imagine it's both. Like, he really is imprisoned right now, in that he cannot escape under his own power. I feel like he wouldn't have done the job half-assed he really did intend to be imprisoned.

But he could say "let me out" and his "captors" would be fighting to get their first.

Assuming to a Dragon Break, that's something similar but different. This bit from Sandman sums it up in a few sentences pretty neatly.

How is it used in TES?

There are these things called Dragon Breaks, basically where time got fucked by something, and they play a role in the history of the series. In the second game, Daggerfall, the protagonist gains control of the Numidium, an artificial god, and uses its power to cause a Dragon Break. This Dragon Break allowed the multiple, conflicting endings of the game to all be canon simultaneously. Another example of a Dragon Break is the one used to defeat Alduin that sent him forward into time to get Skyrim's plot rolling along.

That's pretty cool

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There is no way TES was the first to use this.

The most dangerous devils cut with words, not claws.

I am I, you are you
but you are I, when you say I, and I am you

he's talking from both grates.

wait, better yet

the most dangerous devils cut not with claws nor teeth, but words from sharpened tongues

Ok, what is this and is it any good? Cause it looks really cool.

>Ok, what is this and is it any good? Cause it looks really cool.


Kill Six Billion Demons

A web comic

And yes, it's as good as it looks

Go read it. then read it again, then read all the clever hidden bits and easter eggs and essays and short stories.

It's really that good.

Probably not the best time to be hopped up on godly goofballs, allison.

I'll be sure to do that, thanks!

Probably but I doubt he cares too much unless he wants to manipulate Allison. Incubus is probably staying the fuck away from Allison's mind right now.

That fucking eye is scarier than nothing at all, jesus christ.

I really really like that the grates are irregular.

>I got my peeper on you

So what's his angle here? I now he doesn't want to help Allison but will give her aid. Does he want the key? Does he just want more chaos? Does he want all the angels fucked and dead?

maybe he's sick of an existence where he has to be trapped permanently or risk destroying everything and wants allison to enact the hard reset like metatron

Just a mere formality, like a seal of approval.

He may want to get rid of the current demiurges. He may want to see a cool battle. He may want nothing at all.

I wonder what the purpose is of having Himself there to sign off on devils. What do devils gain by having him tell them what to do?

Ironically, organization.

he could probably get all of those things by some means without allison's help, or so i believe. maybe im overestimating how powerful he is based on what abaddon has said about him in the past. but he seems like the kind of guy who doesn't really want much besides a few/single very specific thing(s). especially not worldly possessions or power or anything

But why do they need it?

He's apparently as strong as a prime angel, but since he's locked up and chained I imagine his power is more innately consuming of the world around him. A fire has to have oxygen afterall,

Devils shed sapience by removing names and becoming closer to formless chaos

Myself is like a living paradox both named and nameless, in essence He is His own name

They dont need it but he likes to be organized and since hes the most powerful dude around everyone is gonna be fucking organized.

>the business of all devils is my business
Could it be that Himself knows everything devil related no matter the distance or the individual ? Like seeing their thoughts or seeing the world through them ? His last guess on Allison is an easy read since she's facing him, his first is easy too knowing Cio is a power-hungry slut, but the middle one involves knowing what Allison said.

I don't know. He may feel that he has a responsibility to keep the devils in check because he feels a stronger connection with all of them. Maybe he is in tune with the black flame. That would kind of explain how he can read Allison's mind.

What exactly "Magus Gates" do? Regular red ones, like Cio stole, not cool white ones. Are they only keys to stationary portals?

First off, Cio stole a Key of Kings, one of the white ones. Second, keep in mind I'm not sure I'm remembering this right, Magus Gates let you travel along Ley Lines but don't give you the ability to open gates to other worlds.

Opens a portal to 1 world. And also lets you align your will with the voice of 1 god. Makes you very very powerufl. Cio stole a Magus gate, a key of the demiurges, which is a white one, from Mammon. The red ones are leystones which are kind of a much much weaker version of the same thing.

PANEL SIX

THE CLOCK JUST STOPS

>hold me

>clock stops
>text under the page about time shenanigans
>cio warns Allison not to listen to Himself
Did he literally stop time or merely put Allison in another time just to introduce himself properly?

Yeah, that's what I don't get.
Cio clearly have red one, not white one, in here forehead. If she stole Kings Key from Mammon does that mean
1) Mammon don't have any Key now (unlikely);
2) Cio should have white shiny thing in here hade, not a dull red one..?

Probably anybody can get a leystone. She stole a key from Mammon when she was ebon. You weren't paying enough attention. The angels killed Cio and took the key back.

>1) Mammon don't have any Key now (unlikely);
She stole 1 key out of 111,111 that he had and he replaced that key with another
>2) Cio should have white shiny thing in here hade, not a dull red one..?
She did and she used it for a while until Mammon paid off a shitton of people to help fuck her up; as a result her mask was smashed and Preem Nand, the giant, gold-faced cat from way back, had to have it put back together to get her back. The red one in her head is just a leystone.

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I see. Thanks, guys,.

and nothing of value was lost.

why not both?

So when are we going to see who won the devil contest?

As soon as we get back to Oscar and see the team he's rounded up; so in like 2 pages.

>2 pages
Try at least 5

>>tfw abbadon doesn't even post your entry

He'll get to it. There were like two million.

Nah it'll be sooner I bet.

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Nice catch

Nice detail that Himself's speech bubbles come from different parts of the cage

>I also get the impression that if somebody sneezes too hard against that thing he's free and just won't be able to stop himself.
I get the feeling that if HIMSELF decides to look crosswise at the lock the whole fucking thing and everything around it will explode

>a friend

OUCH. Fucking KEKED.

See guys, it wasn't rape. Cio just wanted to murder her!

To continue on that, akatosh the god of time is represented by a dragon hence 'dragon break' which happens when it doubts its own existence and time goes wonkey having multiple converging timelines that merge into one when Akatosh rearranges himself.
You make Time have an existential crisis essentially.

I wonder if thats personal hubris or just to reinforce his own self and keep his identity.

Oh no, if he wanted out, he could get out, after all Himself can literally fuck with reality on a whim. I doubt there is any prison in existence that could contain him, I mean he's on par with Prime Angels.

Why would a being whose so self conscious that he broke reality to exist, want to undo it all? Devils are selfish creatures, they are hubris and desire incarnate, and Himself was so greedy he named Himself without obeying the rules

I'm imagining it like Sauron's eye in Allison's head, a giant burning fucking gaze scanning all around her mind, and Incubus hiding in the shadows.

because his existence has been reduced to being trapped in a shitty box for all eternity

I miss when he drew fat porn

But the whole thing is SELF-IMPOSED. He could bust out and defeat all of his "captors" any time if he felt like it

Just noticed that Himself speaks in handwritten instead of typed like other characters. Himself is Abadon self insert confirmed.

Are you sure they're the only one? Seems more like a stylistic choice.

Oh this is going far better than The user who hypothesized that Incubus wanted her there to bust Himself out, I think you're right.

I feel like posting this just because.

He says he is a being of formality, and his imprisonment is a formality. I don't think it's a matter of "wanting to" but something more.

What I get from it is that perhaps, ritual is formality in a sense. He has been ritually shut into his box, and even though he has the ability to leave it, the formality of it binds him regardless. He DOESN'T leave because he SHOULDN'T leave.

than I had hoped*

Don't know what happened to the rest of that first sentence.

Yeah, reach power through violence baby!

REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE BABY

But Himself doesn't follow rules, his very existence is breaking the rules if the world not to mention he is still a Devil. Should and shouldn't s go as far as the Devil wants, I mean, you shouldn't break into Mormon's bank and steal a key from him, but that didn't stop Cio. And it won't stop Himself.

I can see Allison saying "Myself" questioningly and Himself correcting her. Himself's name could very well not be the word "Myself" nor is it "Himself", but the very concept of the "self" itself.