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Added 2024-09-13 03:34:15 +0000 UTCI know there was a lot of rooting for Knock to come back and just kick ass, but what everyone is learning here at the end is violence isn't really doing much against these creatures. It's maybe a little saccharine, but it's squishes that make everything better, and all the love and camaraderie that inspires them :) Power of friendship, baby!
With a little bit of face biting.
Of course now Sette is alone with a very angry bird.
Comments
A little thing like death can't keep Knock from finding her way
akrasia
2024-09-17 00:28:04 +0000 UTCNicely put <3
Ashley
2024-09-14 15:37:09 +0000 UTCIf that's saccharine, it's still true. Or you could say it's a sweetness the story has earned. I think when I first truly fell in love with Unsounded was at the Deadly Nevergreen when Anadyne asks Cutter if he's doing this and he says, "No, YOU are. All of you." That cooperation, kindness and camaraderie will triumph their opposites in this story is a deceptively simple truth on par with the bit in Harry Potter where Dumbledore tells him that what makes him different from Voldemort is his ability to love, and Harry all but rolls his eyes out of his head at how cheesy that sounds but then Obi Wan Dumbledalf points out that he's never even considered joining the Dark Side, and Harry's all, because they killed my parents and Sirius, and he's like, yeah, idiot, that's how you're protected by love. Also, in Anadyne's final moments, I hope she is warmed by the thought that at least she got to take a dump in Nary's shoes.
Josh
2024-09-14 15:23:33 +0000 UTCMeaty Glut Neck FTW!!
CelebrenIthil
2024-09-14 03:19:03 +0000 UTCYuuuuuuusssss. I knew it would take more than some biting to keep Ol' Knock down. I wonder if Sette's command to not die had any role in it. But man, Knock knows just what to say, eh Boss?
HandsomePenguin
2024-09-13 21:34:17 +0000 UTClook at what all that plooting gotcha
SET
2024-09-13 19:32:21 +0000 UTCI love the expressions on Sette and Khette! Especially on the bottom of page 1, wow. And the detail of Ana's soul starting to disintegrate into the khert as Knock holds her in her final moments~
chrysannarose
2024-09-13 16:40:58 +0000 UTCAlso, the most certain way of getting them to do something is telling them not to do it. "Don't crush it!" - "Wow, good idea, I almost didn't think of doing that"
Rob N
2024-09-13 16:25:10 +0000 UTCWell, a tidy solution would have seemed pretty unrealistic looking at this huge god(s)damned mess...
Rob N
2024-09-13 16:17:44 +0000 UTCWe'll find out soon enough :)
Ashley
2024-09-13 15:53:27 +0000 UTCHe was like: "Should I attack Sette? But she's Ilganyag's tool? WHAT DO??" Frozen.
Ashley
2024-09-13 15:52:38 +0000 UTCShe's only a ghost of herself though; she's not physically there. She's reflecting all the terrible memories and nightmares the pain is making her relive, maxed out to 1000. But it's done now.
Ashley
2024-09-13 15:51:08 +0000 UTCthis feels heart-warmingly triumphant. I never thought I'd consider one child biting another child on the face to be a good thing, but here we are! That being said, my god poor Ana. Matty wins the award for 'deserves his fate the least' by virtue of being a baby and ray of sunshine but dang, Ana gets that 2nd place trophy for sure. I know from Sessine's perspective she's the hero here but rn I want to see the titty bird get fucked up. Ruin her big day, Sette, you earned this.
gigi
2024-09-13 12:40:16 +0000 UTCThis, to me, looks like Sette is creating khert fire. If that ain't it chief, this still looks magic.
Alex Cully
2024-09-13 12:00:45 +0000 UTCCHOMP.
Dr. Badvibes
2024-09-13 10:39:22 +0000 UTCLETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
J
2024-09-13 09:16:12 +0000 UTCI kind of want to take Khette home, give her a bath and feed her custard until she's better... like that plague-riddled stray cat with half a tail I rescued from the neighbor's roof. She's been through a lot, poor moppet.
Jeremy Ball
2024-09-13 09:05:38 +0000 UTCI'M PLEASED ALL AROUND. Not a tidy solution by any means, but quite a fuck you to all involved.
JarJar
2024-09-13 08:20:51 +0000 UTCAin't no stopping legs that hairy. Deal.
Wambling Wombat
2024-09-13 07:40:58 +0000 UTCHere's a question, was that vision of sette pulling the silver possibly khette? Is it possible for memories to get mixed like that? I do love a multigenerational plan failing because you decided to be stupid and taunt the person who was the lynch pin at the last minute.
Mek
2024-09-13 07:23:35 +0000 UTCInteresting. When I left the comment on monday about how survivable IRL Knock's wound is, I was actually thinking about whether or not you'll bring her right back. I guess I was wrong in the assessment, she seems to have face and shoulder wounds, but maybe no arteries in the neck got torn. Either way... Well done, Sette. I guess she can just leave into the normal world right here and Sessine wouldn't be able to follow.
Duke BG
2024-09-13 05:56:32 +0000 UTCAlso, I can't stop looking at these panels. Just absolutely beautiful. I love the golden glow in Sette's eyes as she makes her choice. I love Knock knowing what to say- I love that-- *Boss.* Sette's her boss-- Sette...! I wanna cry....!
Madison
2024-09-13 05:28:01 +0000 UTCAlso, love Prakhuta yelling "Stop!" after she rips Anadyne's heart in two. Bit late for that, lizard!
L Anon
2024-09-13 04:59:06 +0000 UTCAs anyone who has been around kids would know: they can find all manner of inventive ways of fucking up your itinerary if they get it in their heads to do it.
LordOfChains
2024-09-13 04:55:48 +0000 UTCSette!!!!! I'm so proud of you!!!
Sara McCardle-Blunk
2024-09-13 04:53:25 +0000 UTCI GET KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I GET UP AGAIN!! FUCK EM UP FRUMMAGEMS!
Rifter
2024-09-13 04:36:28 +0000 UTCAnd you included Knock's leg hair 😭❤️
CD
2024-09-13 04:31:37 +0000 UTCHOOTING AND HOLLERING and you know what, I am actually glad it was Knock and those words that helped Sette make this choice. Feels good. Feels authentic. An acknowledgement of Sette's particular, personal reckoning with who her father and upbringing wanted her to be. Also, chomp chomp motherfuckers.
CD
2024-09-13 04:28:44 +0000 UTCIn the darkest of hours, there was one thing that never failed Sette. Not friendship, nor family, nor faith in her gods but that one simple truth of life for her: Biting is always an option.
Michael Stakely
2024-09-13 04:09:26 +0000 UTCKhette's face goes from thinking there's no way Sette's about to do what she looks like she's gonna do (bite her), to realizing she is (gonna bite her), then just the "OH NO AAAAA" of being bit on the face. Just like Sette bit Ephsephin all those chapters ago.
L Anon
2024-09-13 04:09:00 +0000 UTC(I can see why these were some of your favorite pages. You must have had a lot of fun with all of those expressions. But OUGH I was happier when I was too hype for Knock's return to look too closely at Ana. I was vaguely aware she was getting bits bitten and torn off, but now I looked closer and GYHHRGHHH all of that plus that one panel looks so horribly violating. I'm not easily rattled - like I don't mind the eye gore there, which I know will squick many people - but that did get to me. Poor Ana, one of the worst fates. Very climactic.)
CelebrenIthil
2024-09-13 04:08:56 +0000 UTCAlone with a big, angry bird, huh? I'm sure not for long!
Madison
2024-09-13 04:07:11 +0000 UTCMY WIFE!!!!!!!!!
Gally
2024-09-13 04:01:28 +0000 UTCBUT I GET UP AGAIN
CelebrenIthil
2024-09-13 03:52:47 +0000 UTCSCREW YOU TITTYBIRD, SETTE'S A BOSS, DIDN'T YAH HEAR?
The Clag
2024-09-13 03:47:11 +0000 UTCWow! Those pages are incredible! Go Knock! Go Sette! I absolutely loved the lighting effects too. Sessine, you've been Shartesided!
GracieV
2024-09-13 03:45:51 +0000 UTC*WHIP IT RETURNS IN A TRIUMPHANT CRESCENDO!!!*
Rainwalker
2024-09-13 03:44:47 +0000 UTC"Titty bird! Freaky lizard! That ain't the way it should be!"
Mister Scarecrow
2024-09-13 03:40:52 +0000 UTCAfter everything that's happened with Knock, in this entire story I'm just that scene of Knock from when Sette barges into the Nevergreen. "Wasn't she that thug who was gonna kill Quigley and helped use the plod mask to torture Duane? Huh? Oh that? Yeah, nah I forgive her she's perfect. They had it coming."
Mister Scarecrow
2024-09-13 03:39:46 +0000 UTCKNOCK ME DOWN ALWAYS GETS BACK UP BABYYYY
Walker Heiling
2024-09-13 03:37:15 +0000 UTC
