Reach Heaven Through Violence (Kill Six Billion Demons)

The funny thing is from what Abaddon's said on his blog Zaid isn't actually that big of a creep, he's just insecure and performatively dudebro masculine in a very similar was as Allison is insecure and performatively partygirl feminine... but he ain't Royalty.

Mind, since we see a lot of Allison and just the first scene of Zaid, he seems pretty skeezy so far! But I'm looking forward to him joining the main cast, but like... as Allison's platonic dude friend. That would be great. Like she rescues him and they immediately break up.

 

zoss cares for prophecies the same way juggernaut star cares for teacups- not at all

 

Well, also, what we actually got was not Jadis' prophecy. She stuttered on 'successor' and everyone got impatient and her lackey took over. And while presumably the lackey who gets to accompany her to important demiurge meeting time is pretty good at interpreting her prophecies, at that point it's no longer infallible. Everything Jadis says is absolutely true - everything her inner circle of servants relays based on markings on her preservation cube is merely fairly accurate.

Basically the prophecy Jadis was trying to communicate is absolutely true - but her servant assumed a male pronoun and everyone was like 'aaaah, old Zoss messed up at the end, the DUDE is the heir.'

 

Man, now that I think about it, having absolutely knowledge and knowing more than any other being in the entire cosmos but having severely impaired communication sounds... pretty hellish. No wonder Jadis wants to die. :C

 

ALSO, sorry for triple-posting, but I'm pretty sure theme-wise Abaddon took some inspiration from the Cumaean Sibyl for Jadis. The Cumaean Sibyl was loved by Apollo, but like basically every single one of his crushes, she didn't love him back. She loved him... as a patron god and a friend. So he offered her a wish for her virginity and she was like 'hell yeah' and they had sex and she asked for as many years of life as grains of sand on the beach they were boning on. But she still didn't love him romantically! So he got pissy, as he was wont to do with every single one of his prophetic mortal friends who are girls but not girlfriends, and pointed out she hadn't asked for eternal youth, and he wasn't going to throw that one in on the house.

So she lived and lived and lived and aged and aged and aged and as she withered away and got smaller and smaller she was eventually kept in a glass jar to protect and preserve her. After many centuries, all that was left was her voice, and even that was strained.

 

Dammit, Abbadon, I had the notion of devil-powered engines already in my own fictional 'verse. Looks similar.

 

Man, Allison's not pulling any punches, reading Cio's self-insert RPF "chronicle" out loud in front of everyone. True Royalty knows no limits to what they may do.
Also there doesn't seem to be much luck in terms of husbands in this world.

 

considering what we've seen of how women in general are treated by the society at large (and Throne specifically) i wouldn't be surprised if "husband" was in the old-school sense of "my wife/wives are my property"
so yeah...

 

Ciocie Cioelle... queen of my heart... holy fuck... that's just straight up rpf...... you're great.........

 

YABALCHOATH OMFG yes. Perfect. I love her in every form.

 

Heart eyes, motherfucker

 

Oh man. Ooooooh man. Cio is amazing in every body with every name.

 

I wonder if this is what she wants. Perhaps the King of Kings would be able to restore her previous self, or at least Cio thinks they could.

 

i'm here to say i love cio/yabalchoath

 

Who is ready for dangerous gorgeous god-king Al-YSUN with beautiful faithful demon Yabalchoath always beside her throne

 

SO READY

(also, does anyone else imaging Cio speaking with something akin to a yorkshire accent because of her frequent use of 'Tha'?)

 

Oh, interesting. So Cio doesn't want to go back to being what she was before. Does she feel it's her calling to find someone called to power early on, and try to guide them right?

 

She's realized that it's better to be the power behind the throne.

 

and/or the power behind Throne

 

Besides, that way she can moon after Allyson some more.