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Added 2024-09-18 03:43:51 +0000 UTCI saw a pretty even spread among readers: half knew what was going on and half were huffing the copium, haha. I had been certain someone would be really mad when Knock impossibly showed back up standing and speaking clearly after Cutter chomped her throat out, but she never really knew what happened. Suddenly she was just back up on the stupid spine. Even at the end, neither really knows what's happening. They're just glad to be home. Thanks, Tail~
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I wasn't sure one way or the other but it seemed like he might've like, bit her to the side a bit? I don't know, I can't follow action scenes in comics very well sometimes. But this is great stuff. Poor lil criminal cousin buddies
Josh
2024-09-21 19:35:41 +0000 UTClol, I gotta go see now
CelebrenIthil
2024-09-21 02:29:11 +0000 UTCI made this into a meme on the Unsounded Discord, if you wanna see
Cherenkov
2024-09-20 08:28:47 +0000 UTCLoud, bassy raspberry tart.
Alex Cully
2024-09-20 06:08:43 +0000 UTCOr raspberry.
Ashley
2024-09-20 06:03:09 +0000 UTCBeautiful. Is a pink ghost a feeling of "bittersweet"?
Alex Cully
2024-09-20 06:01:28 +0000 UTCat the end, all we can really ask for is a loving hand
Dr. Badvibes
2024-09-19 17:32:06 +0000 UTC(I did buy Knock's silver had gotten hooked to somehow tether her lower down on the kaiju, and that she was running on enough glut fumes that she hadn't quite finished dying. Knowing she actually splattered, but her will did hang on to that strand of silver enough to climb back to Ana is even more hardcore. Love her and will miss her, but a fitting end.)
CelebrenIthil
2024-09-19 03:15:31 +0000 UTCIn the end, Ana's last words were... a Knock Knock joke.
CelebrenIthil
2024-09-19 03:08:42 +0000 UTC*Chef's Kiss* I knew there was another foot that had to drop, and that 5th panel was perfect. Like a shot to the gut, and a perfect end for Knock. Wonderful.
HandsomePenguin
2024-09-18 23:49:50 +0000 UTCthe panel of knock's meat all over the ground is weirdly jarring and effective. rip u always managed to end things in the most satisfying and appropriate way. i enjoy it very much
Nikaleles
2024-09-18 20:26:44 +0000 UTCI kneel.
Old Coal Soul
2024-09-18 19:43:09 +0000 UTCjokes on you this is actually way better than the copium i was huffing
fdsddfsa
2024-09-18 18:48:04 +0000 UTCAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (I'm glad they were together at the end, though)
J
2024-09-18 15:50:17 +0000 UTCI for one am ready to see Cutter die now.
Taerjaga
2024-09-18 15:12:42 +0000 UTC. . . [no words]
czytanie
2024-09-18 14:52:35 +0000 UTCTearing up over the two of them ;o;
Libby Goldberg
2024-09-18 14:13:34 +0000 UTCMan, Ana did some objectively horrific things, but I hope she was able to find at least some measure of peace. That’s a difficult balance to strike in a character, and I think you pulled it off beautifully. Her complexity bounces off Knock’s whole hearted simplicity really well. It’s only right they went out together
Renee
2024-09-18 13:11:20 +0000 UTCAlso excellent choices with Knock first getting some feats of badassery alive and then giving Sette what she needed to hear in that moment after rising up again. She dies with Ana but is also pivotal to the progression of events. The death could have felt a little anticlimactic if it was just an oops she’s dead but at least she gets to reunite with Ana, but the nudge for Sette prevents that, makes her meaningful in death even outside her own emotional storyline with Ana. It’s just very well done. Consider this acknowledgement of all the work that went into working out how to do this buildup right.
antialiasis
2024-09-18 12:15:58 +0000 UTCTo be a bit more coherent: I think Knock and Ana got the perfect ending to their story at this stage. Ana is already dead, so Knock dying with her was always probably going to be the appropriate sendoff. Knock just being impressed by how Ana tore up the town, Ana realizing Knock is dead and Knock just smiling, the hug, “I’m just glad I made it home”. Home is Ana, they’re together, all is right with the world. I have so many feelings about them. Thank you, Ashley. Always shared your sentiment that often the best thing you can give to a character is a good death.
antialiasis
2024-09-18 12:05:11 +0000 UTCSette's command really worked at least a bit... For mere side characters these two went through an amazing arc, both being pivotal in the world-changing events.
forlornfoe
2024-09-18 11:42:32 +0000 UTCMan. What a good send-off.
Nate (Snowy)
2024-09-18 11:08:27 +0000 UTCoh no it's six am and I'm sobbing
grim
2024-09-18 10:17:31 +0000 UTC*a simplified, emotional music-box version of Whip It plays and I cry*
Rainwalker
2024-09-18 09:45:05 +0000 UTCLove this feeling, please stop.
Srećko
2024-09-18 09:06:10 +0000 UTCKnock and Anaaaaaaaa I love them so much and I am crying uncontrollably (in the best possible way)
antialiasis
2024-09-18 08:49:10 +0000 UTCI’m crying. Why am I actually, physically crying? Well done.
Malik M.L. Williams
2024-09-18 07:28:28 +0000 UTC:( I'm so emo :(((
Cassie
2024-09-18 07:20:07 +0000 UTCFall trajectory seemed a little severe for such a quick reappearance. I love a gal who knows what she's about.
Spen Cyrrh
2024-09-18 07:04:51 +0000 UTCThe term eucatastrophe, courtesy of Tolkien, comes to mind reading this page. Though it wasn't an avoidance of final doom, it has that feeling of a sudden turn, "giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief." Despite all of their suffering they are, at least in their final moments, together.
Stretch Andrews
2024-09-18 06:40:07 +0000 UTCSo I was right the first time. Shouldn't have doubted myself.
Duke BG
2024-09-18 05:54:03 +0000 UTCAye. That's clinched it. Knock is my favorite character.
Mister Scarecrow
2024-09-18 05:03:01 +0000 UTCI had assumed she was not going to survive that, but definitely did not catch that she was already dead.
Quinton
2024-09-18 04:44:09 +0000 UTCbeautifully done Ash. hit me right in the feels
metrocube
2024-09-18 04:34:35 +0000 UTCWAAAW. I had no expectations for Knock's survival - she's too tightly tied to Ana, and there was no way Ana was coming back from all that - but I did not guess she was a ghost already! "I'm just glad I made it home." Thanks I am also deceased now. May your squishes glom together forever.
CD
2024-09-18 04:30:41 +0000 UTCI had a feeling Knock wasn't making it out of this chapter. What a fine ending she had, though.
Ben Dennard
2024-09-18 04:23:25 +0000 UTCAhh this is a great feeling. Sad and bitterweet-- but I'm so happy about it. I feel like this is the kind of ending the comic is heading towards.
JarJar
2024-09-18 04:07:10 +0000 UTCI teared up, good for them. Best girl forever.
Spider
2024-09-18 04:07:06 +0000 UTCawwwww, they were fucked from the go, poor little lovelies, but hey, there's worse ends than this out there, far worse. Knock changed like the fucking course of history, but to her i'm sure thats not the most important thing she did. yay knock!!!
Gally
2024-09-18 04:01:50 +0000 UTCI'm glad they got to be together at the end.
codeGnave
2024-09-18 03:54:33 +0000 UTCNow they can shed all the bullshit eels and go be obnoxious pink squishes somewhere together.
Ashley
2024-09-18 03:51:10 +0000 UTCYeah, she didn't consciously do it. I'd compare it to when Turas accidentally tangled himself in Duane's plumb line way back when, keeping his soul from completely crumbling. Knock just got a little knotted up, with a khert fire slowing the khert down anyway, and used her final minute to keep being the mook and pal she's always been.
Ashley
2024-09-18 03:49:54 +0000 UTCWhat a beautiful sendoff. I always hoped they'd get something resembling a happy ending but I couldn't imagine what that could possibly look like. But there it is😭
Stephanie Aldrich
2024-09-18 03:49:38 +0000 UTCi was scared Anadyne would kill Knock as a final spasm of self-loathing violence-- I'm SO relieved!
Judith Bradford
2024-09-18 03:48:53 +0000 UTCLegit crying right now. But beautifully done. Thank you for a fitting end.
GracieV
2024-09-18 03:48:34 +0000 UTCDid Knock literally use that silver whip to separate her soul from her body as she died? I'm imagining she did that all on her own purely on instinct. A badass til the end.
Rifter
2024-09-18 03:46:58 +0000 UTCKnock's love for Ana, the empty silver, the fire, and most importantly- Sette's command. "Knock me down, I order ya to be not dead." Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa God god god god god Our girls in the margins made it home. My heart....
Madison
2024-09-18 03:46:56 +0000 UTC
