82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil
Kill Six Billion Demons was created by Abbadon, it can be read on its own website
Welcome back to the blog and happy pride month! Today marks my 75th blog, and I think it's time I check off another milestone. Kill Six Billion Demons is one of the more recognizable webcomics to hit the VS sphere to the chagrin of its non-VS fans sorry, as it has a plethora of amazing matchups and absurdly cool fight potential. Several characters in the webcomic deserve their own blog. Even so, they're never recognized on the same level as Homestuck's most popular ideas.
In the end I went with one of the main characters. I decided to make this blog not only to shill how awesome K6BD and White Chain are, but also to help sell my favorite matchup involving a webcomic character.
It's no better time to cover this series when it's on its final book. Of course, here's a MAJOR SPOILER WARNING! Special shoutout to kingsly and the K6BD Reddit Discord server for helping me sort out lore inquiries. With that being said, let's get into it.
Researched materials:
Kill Six Billion Demons, Liturgy, Broken World RPG, the official killsixbilliondemons Tumblr
Other sources:
Background
“Pree Aesma. YS-Asram the Bloodied One. Prama, Hansa, and Pavam, who temper my heart. YISUN. Atru Vayam. I do not ask for your forgiveness. Merely—your witness!”
REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE.
A phrase that has permeated through the cosmos. Bloodshed is the only way to incite true positive change. Paradise may be achieved, but violence is a vicious cycle akin to a wheel.
The story begins with Allison Ruth, an anxious barista and sorority girl who was preparing to make love with her admittedly creepy boyfriend of three weeks Zaid, when all of a sudden…
An masked stranger speaking an unknown language invades their room, presenting Allison with a mysterious artifact. The figure is suddenly decapitated by a horde of warriors in spiked armor on horseback who proceed to kidnap Zaid. Before Allison can react, the still living headless being shoves the artifact into her forehead, burnt into her mind and soul.
In an instant, she's sent to a vast, dangerous world occupied by devils, angels, and the mountainous corpses of gods. The life Allison once knew was gone in a flash, as she now finds herself in Throne, the city in the center of the multiverse. Throne used to be Heaven, a true xanadu, but it has been reduced to a rotting cadaver overtaken by scoundrels and bottom-feeders.
Throne is only part of a larger multiverse known as the Wheel. The seat of creation previously usurped by the conquering king Zoss, who went missing is now ruled by seven corrupt demiurges in his place.
The artifact embedded in Allison's skull is the Master Key, an absurdly powerful object crafted by the one who bestowed it to her, Zoss, capable of destroying creation itself. It's the original universal key that can open and close gates that link to other worlds. This is important because there was a war over these gates for power over the multiverse. Said war lasted with seven victors, the last remaining demiurges, who each rule over 111,111 universes.
If a demiurge were to find Allison, they'd likely rip the Key out of her skull and it would stoke the flames of another multiversal war. Zaid was actually the one prophesied as the Key's true heir, destined to slay the demiurges, but fate has other plans.
It's plain to see that Allison is lost, out of her depth, and terrified beyond belief in this unfamiliar hellscape. She wouldn't last a day there by herself, so it's fortunate she was quick to make a powerful and knowledgeable ally: White Chain, or as she's officially known, 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil.
White Chain is an angel. Contrary to the popularized wings and halo look, angels in this world are made of smokeless flames encased in stony armor that allows their fiery forms enter the physical plane. Angels serve as single-minded cops with latent martial art talents, but they're a far cry from how much influence they possessed prior to the war.
She considers herself part of the Concordant Knights, a now defunct order of peacekeepers that held more traditional views of serving the law.
The law was splintered and the oldest and holiest angel warriors perished. There's little angels can really do when the demiurges turn a blind eye to crime syndicates dominating the multiverse to continue living lavishly and gluttonously.
This left remnant angels to come to the conclusion that reality was better off purified through bloodshed than left to rot, bringing forth an extremist majority of angels known as the Holy Thorn Knights founded by the oldest living angel, and being in existence, Metatron.
Allison literally falls into a dispute White Chain has with a gangster, and the angel is quick to notice the Key in her forehead. Initially treating Allison as a powerful thief playing the fool, she quickly realizes the situation at hand. Since the other angels would have Allison executed for possessing the Key, White Chain chooses to take her to a confidant that can remove it, an ex-thief devil named Cio.
The three team up to get rid of Allison's superweapon and rescue her boyfriend, who's been captured by the demiurges.
White Chain takes the role of Allison's protector and guide, teaching her everything necessary to survive in this insane world. She may be a lawman, but White Chain is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the peace, like offering Allison as a concubine to a crime lord to have complete access to his domain.
White Chain is no-nonsense and to the point. She's blunt and unafraid to speak against anything personally bothering her. If she finds she's too soft in her approach, she immediately ups her strictness to rectify her mistakes.
Although White Chain appears just as stubborn and rigid as the other angels, which she is, but there are qualities she possesses that isolate her from others.
For starters her views on the physical world clash with the Thorn Knights', as well as her master Michael. Most angels are immutable beings that look down on mortals, but White Chain is thankful for humans. It's because of them that they're able to interact with the physical world with their forged bodies.
She cares for the billions of lives that could be affected by wars and cherishes experiences she has with them. As forceful as she tries to be, she has a soft heart. Influenced by her attachment to humanity and the world, White Chain's body slowly experiences changes to not only look remarkably human, but feminine as well.
It's established early on that something contentious in White Chain's life is her gender identity. Angels are a genderless, yet male presenting race. They're taught to be detached from physical attachments, including diverging genders. They view femininity as weak. White Chain takes being called a woman an insult, but truthfully she has always been predisposed to a more feminine nature and doesn't view it as inferior.
When Allison goes missing, Michael is made aware of White Chain's actions with the human. He ignores her pleas, as the Key would have been a game changer for the angels. For her transgressions, she's banished into the Void. It's there that White Chain notices what her body is going through.
It's in angels' nature to not desire to change, so she feels deeply insecure and scared of her body's evolution, but being in the Void gives her time to reflect. What does it matter to them if she feels feminine?
Her stay in the Void isn't long, the speaker for the Thorn Knights Juggernaut Star seeks to return her to the physical world to aid Allison find Zaid. As Zaid is Zoss' apparent true heir, bringing the Key directly to him coincides with the genocidal goals of Metatron—who was assumed dead for eons.
Metatron offered her the power of a Thorn Knight if she accepted. If White Chain refuses she'll be executed and reincarnated with no memory of change. It turns out Michael was in on this too when she attempts to flee. He only used her banishment as leverage to force her to understand the weight of her new holy mission assigned by Juggernaut Star. By doing this she would redeem herself in his eyes.
White Chain finally takes her leave, forced to accept this job in spite of her opposition. All other angels view her sympathy and desire for change as a disease to be purged from her system. All she wants is to save the world she cares about. The other angels just turn a blind eye to their suffering when it should be their responsibility to help.
In the meantime Allison returned to Throne by her own will and Cio has been helping her reach the demiurges. A lot has changed since then. The demiurges may appear to be cutthroat demigods, but in reality they're just people like everyone else. Some have grown old and senile, others feel trapped and would rather give up their godly power. All of them are just clinging to one state or another because they are scared of change.
Then there's Jagganoth. Jagganoth isn't one for peace, as it's his holy mission to annihilate the multiverse and its enslaver Metatron so he can wipe the slate clean of corruption. Joined by the ambitious demiurge Incubus, they work together to drive a wedge between the other demiurges and start a cosmic war to tear up the Wheel.
Juggernaut Star escorts White Chain to the area Allison is in (not before trying to kill Allison themselves). Eventually reaching her, the group is reunited and helps Allison escape the palace of the demiurge Nadia Om. Despite her agreement, it doesn't take long for White Chain to tell Allosion why she's here and what she wants with her: Metatron lives and her master wants the Key returned to its true wielder.
On the journey she continues struggling with gender and identity. She tries to keep up the cruel and unfeeling image of other lawmen, literally hiding her face among the facial molds she wears, but it's clear to see none of them fit. She's more human than she's willing to admit, and when she sees how her actions scare those, she has a well-needed wakeup call.
This is physically signified as she stops hiding her true angel form from her friends, and she starts to try and be more open about herself among the group. She is oblivious to her social awkwardness, but at least she's trying to mingle with her inclusive crew . She's happier and relaxed around them, even if she's too stubborn to admit it. White Chain especially starts to be more present around Allison, who she starts training in martial arts.
Even so, White Chain is still stuck in her ways of following the old law do do what she believes is right. Allison sees how the others of her kind treat her and says her master doesn't need them. Not only that, but she can't get anywhere if she plays by the book all the time. White Chain puts up with them because they're her kin and it is simply her way.
The adventure is never dull. There's a heist, Allison and Cio fall in love with each other, and war between the demiurges instigates as they seek control over Zaid. It took a year, but the group was able to reach Zaid's location in the world of the demiurge Solomon David, where a tournament is being held for the chance to challenge the demigod himself. Of course, Allison enters to rescue Zaid.
Allison becomes increasingly aggravated at White Chain's refusal to stand up for herself, and starts ignoring her teachings. When Juggernaut Star appears to her again to urge her to hasten her duty, White Chain chooses to enter the tournament to better the odds of returning the Key to its rightful owner—even if it means fighting her student.
She's led to believe she'd failed as a Concordant Knight and her softness will lead to ruin. This prompts her to fight against Allison and Cio in the tournament to put an end to their reckless actions that could threaten the heavens like the demiurges.
The fight has both sides calling each other out, mainly the angel's unwillingness to change and being stuck in fear. She's so afraid of her code, "brothers," and herself that she can't ever forget her duty over her own desires. Her over-reliance on discipline is just turning her into a jerk. If she continues refusing to admit to herself who she really is, she'll never grow or change as a person.
White Chain is the one to emerge victorious, but at the cost of terrifying her friends. She looked like she was going to kill them, and that finally got through to her. To really hammer it in, White Chain came in contact with another participating angel, Vigilant Gaze.
Vigilant Gaze has been slumbering for eons, and finally woke up after hearing White Chain's name uttered. Having known her through previous lives, he sook her out to tell her she has forgotten the sacred oath entrusted her order: to protect humans rather than controlling them through fear. He tells her to never forget who she is.
That's when Juggernaut Star chooses to interrupt threaten White Chain to finish her work, but Vigilant Gaze stands up for her and stands by her cause. Finally, White Chain admits that her shell isn't her body. She pulls Juggernaut Star out of their armor, only to learn they too have a humanlike true form. Like White Chain, their connection to humanity was met with disdain and punishment, but unlike her, they're convinced trying to fight against natural order is futile.
Even so, Juggernaut Star is thwarted and White Chain is declared victorious. Despite her wounded state, she recklessly decides it's best to challenge Solomon David anyway. She has to do something, even if it all feels hopeless.
Witnessing him fight off stragglers in person, White Chain finds a connection between himself and her. Solomon represents a system that does everything in its power to crush those that stand out and rewards those who are complacent with how things are run. It's a system built on fear all for the sake of a stagnant history. White Chain has been defending this system every waking moment of her life, even as she fought against its cruelty.
If she doesn't fight Solomon now, she may never atone for her sins.
For as one-sided as her battle against an almighty demigod was, this fight led to a miracle. For the first time, fate is finally in her own hands. To get there, she had to suffer persecution from her own family. They viewed her as a flaw to be corrected instead of something transcendent. Transcend she did. Solomon pushed her body to its absolute limit, White Chain evolved into something magnificent.
For the first time in creation, an angel achieved a human form. Well, not quite human. She still possesses many powers she once did as an angel, but she no longer needs a shell. She's a new being entirely. In this new body… she feels at peace.
Even if White Chain didn't beat him by the rules of the game, she bruised Solomon. That alone won the people. White Chain was recognized as the winner and Allison finally reunited with Zaid. It seemed like their journey was finally coming to a close……
And then Jagganoth rained from the skies and eviscerated Solomon's nation, leading to Allison's gang and all the demiurges to rally against him as Zaid is ushered to safety. From Jagganoth, the group learns Zaid and Allison are far from the first heir. Metatron provided Zoss the means to reset the multiverse with each failed heir, renewing the cycle of violence.
This loop has happened an innumerable amount of times, which Jagganoth seeks to end once and for all, even if it means destroying the omniverse. Despite their numbers, it wasn't enough. Allison lost an arm and an eye, two demiurges perished, Cio was murdered, and White Chain went missing.
In the three years since Jagganoth declared his campaign of total multiversal purgation, White Chain's life has changed drastically. When she was separated from her friends during the aftermath of her fight against Jagganoth, Solomon forcefully bestowed her his Key after he used it to temporarily seal the Red God before vanishing. This gave White Chain the power of a demiurge.
While Allison was recovering, White Chain has been taking care of the refugees of Solomon's shattered empire in his stead. The people made her their empress, but she forcibly gave up the role in favor of Allison's friend Nyave.
She flees from her status, not wanting to perpetuate demiurge tyranny. It's been busy fighting against Jagganoth's forces and working in a newborn republic with Allison's allies, but at least she can experience the pleasures of eating and drinking now.
When Allison finally returns with a badass new look, White Chain is shocked and relieved to learn she's still alive. They have a lot of work cut out for them—reuniting the remaining demiurges for their aid against Jagganoth's army. White Chain previously sought the aid of her angelic brothers, but they remain afraid of risk, especially aiding an outcast like her. It is an impossible task to stand up against such a terrifying force, but they have to try.
White Chain sets out to locate Solomon in his exile, who refuses to take back his Key. He doesn't have much life or drive left in him, but he's able to use his remaining strength to teach her the greatest martial art of all Ki Rata. By the end of her training she was supposed to kill him, but she lets Solomon live, just as he had cursed her with his Key.
And so, it's time for all-out war. White Chain trusts Allison enough to let her run wild, but the master has her own demons to worry about. As it becomes clearer Allison's forces are are completely outnumbered, the immaculate scribe of God Metatron 1 descends upon the arena. The Thorn Knights attackall sides of the war, allied with her former master Michael to witness the heir's ascension. Little did they know that Zaid already perished in the war.
Now, it's time for White Chain to show her former master how far she has come.
White Chain is similar to Allison in a way, as she doesn't accept complacency or what everyone tells them is possible. Rather she does what she believes is right. As unlikely as it seems, perhaps she and her friends can break the cycle of violence once and for all.
Experience and Skill
The Concordant Knights passed down martial arts dating back thousands of years. Out of Allison's whole team, White Chain is unparalleled when it comes to martial arts. She even invented her own technique, Krayu Mat: Twin Soul Form.
Most impressively she instinctively performed the greatest martial art in existence, Ki Rata, then mastered its forms in the span of eight days under Solomon David's guidance. There is an absurdly low survival rate for those who learn the martial art—and it nearly killed her—but she prevailed.
White Chain learned all her fighting moves and extensive lore knowledge from her master, the prime angel Michael. Now she passes her skills onto Allison, who she trained in the 47 Empty Palms for a year. Part of her lessons included lecturing her how to clean in order to learn martial arts. It's not easy to learn from a being that has mastered a martial art due to her immutable nature, but she's proud of how far Allison has come under her wing.
The 82 in White Chain's name refers to how many times she has been reborn. Most of these deaths were in defense of Throne. She's been around since the time of the gods, though she has long since forgotten those days.
It should be noted that when angels reincarnate, they forget most of their fighting techniques they learned in their prior life (though they do retain latent martial art knowledge). White Chain's current reincarnation is 35 years old at this point in the story.
She acts quickly, immediately rendered a maid unconscious right as she walked in on her talking to Juggernaut Star. She's skilled enough to stop blades with two fingers.
White Chain was victorious in the Ring of Power, Solomon David's tournament to see who is worthy enough to face the demiurge in a one-on-one fight. The entire roster was made up of over a thousand of some of the strongest warriors in all of the Wheel. Holding out against Solomon while he wasn't using his full power is massively impressive on its own.
The Concordant Knights passed down martial arts dating back thousands of years. Out of Allison's whole team, White Chain is unparalleled when it comes to martial arts. She even invented her own technique, Krayu Mat: Twin Soul Form.
Most impressively she instinctively performed the greatest martial art in existence, Ki Rata, then mastered its forms in the span of eight days under Solomon David's guidance. There is an absurdly low survival rate for those who learn the martial art—and it nearly killed her—but she prevailed.
White Chain learned all her fighting moves and extensive lore knowledge from her master, the prime angel Michael. Now she passes her skills onto Allison, who she trained in the 47 Empty Palms for a year. Part of her lessons included lecturing her how to clean in order to learn martial arts. It's not easy to learn from a being that has mastered a martial art due to her immutable nature, but she's proud of how far Allison has come under her wing.
The 82 in White Chain's name refers to how many times she has been reborn. Most of these deaths were in defense of Throne. She's been around since the time of the gods, though she has long since forgotten those days.
It should be noted that when angels reincarnate, they forget most of their fighting techniques they learned in their prior life (though they do retain latent martial art knowledge). White Chain's current reincarnation is 35 years old at this point in the story.
She acts quickly, immediately rendered a maid unconscious right as she walked in on her talking to Juggernaut Star. She's skilled enough to stop blades with two fingers.
White Chain was victorious in the Ring of Power, Solomon David's tournament to see who is worthy enough to face the demiurge in a one-on-one fight. The entire roster was made up of over a thousand of some of the strongest warriors in all of the Wheel. Holding out against Solomon while he wasn't using his full power is massively impressive on its own.
Equipment
Blue Devil Liquor
This liquor causes the drinker to temporarily understand the language of devils. This is possible thanks to the beverage growing a blue devil inside the drinker's body. The effect lasts until the drinker pukes it out, but they can retain the language by consuming the devil. Blue devil liquor also comes with the temporary side effect of sprouting horns.
This liquor causes the drinker to temporarily understand the language of devils. This is possible thanks to the beverage growing a blue devil inside the drinker's body. The effect lasts until the drinker pukes it out, but they can retain the language by consuming the devil. Blue devil liquor also comes with the temporary side effect of sprouting horns.
Key
Also known as magus gates, Keys are one of the most powerful and godly weapons in all of the Wheel. When Metatron gave the names of YISUN to Zoss, the Conquering King forged these names into Keys, which all remaining demiurges possess. Once one of these circular objects are implanted in a person's forehead, they're granted godlike powers and strength capable of "ripping creation itself".
Keys come with an assortment of powers their wielders can tap into such as creating weapons and extra arms out of universal fire and teleport. However, White Chain vehemently refuses to utilize the Key to her advantage, lest she risks turning into another tyrannical demiurge so I won't go deep into its magical qualities. Still, it did automatically enhance her physical capabilities.
Also known as magus gates, Keys are one of the most powerful and godly weapons in all of the Wheel. When Metatron gave the names of YISUN to Zoss, the Conquering King forged these names into Keys, which all remaining demiurges possess. Once one of these circular objects are implanted in a person's forehead, they're granted godlike powers and strength capable of "ripping creation itself".
Keys come with an assortment of powers their wielders can tap into such as creating weapons and extra arms out of universal fire and teleport. However, White Chain vehemently refuses to utilize the Key to her advantage, lest she risks turning into another tyrannical demiurge so I won't go deep into its magical qualities. Still, it did automatically enhance her physical capabilities.
Armor
An unnamed set of armor she wears in the war against Jagganoth's army. The headgear resembles the helmet her angel shell bore, it even folds out in combat just as that did.
An unnamed set of armor she wears in the war against Jagganoth's army. The headgear resembles the helmet her angel shell bore, it even folds out in combat just as that did.
The Staff of Proklasthios
A staff White Chain "borrowed" to use in the war. I couldn't find any lore about Proklasthios beyond a commenter stating it belonged to a god of law, who caused earthquakes just by lifting the staff.
A staff White Chain "borrowed" to use in the war. I couldn't find any lore about Proklasthios beyond a commenter stating it belonged to a god of law, who caused earthquakes just by lifting the staff.
Abilities
Martial Arts
Angels are basically the kung fu cops of the multiverse. It's well known that angels have tens of thousands of years of contemplation to perfect martial arts. Detachment from earthly concerns and desires is what elevates angelic martial arts above the rest. White Chain's 82nd reincarnation may be young, but she is already a master in martial arts, especially the fist arts. I'll go deeper into the specific martial arts she practices in the techniques section.
Angels are basically the kung fu cops of the multiverse. It's well known that angels have tens of thousands of years of contemplation to perfect martial arts. Detachment from earthly concerns and desires is what elevates angelic martial arts above the rest. White Chain's 82nd reincarnation may be young, but she is already a master in martial arts, especially the fist arts. I'll go deeper into the specific martial arts she practices in the techniques section.
Increased Agility
Her stone exterior may be heavy, but White Chain is exceptionally agile and dexterous. For as unsubtle as they are both in appearance and personality, angels can move incredibly quietly when they want to too. Their agility was purportedly gifted to them by the god Koss to better apprehend criminals, but angels typically use it to avoid disturbing people when walking on stairs and wood floors.
Her stone exterior may be heavy, but White Chain is exceptionally agile and dexterous. For as unsubtle as they are both in appearance and personality, angels can move incredibly quietly when they want to too. Their agility was purportedly gifted to them by the god Koss to better apprehend criminals, but angels typically use it to avoid disturbing people when walking on stairs and wood floors.
Angel Physiology
White Chain’s stone body is merely a vessel for her true spiritual form, which is made of the Cold White Flame, a smokeless fire. The smokeless fire is extremely cold to the touch, so much that it still burns. An alt text description compares this physicality as a stone shell protecting a nuclear explosion skilled in millennia old martial arts.
The stone shell is what's able to keep her tethered to the physical world. If the connection is broken, she's stuck in the Great Void, the void between worlds.
Since that is what her real body is made of, she lacks internal organs, bones, etc. Angels dwell in a plane outside of creation, requiring body armor to enter the physical world.
All living beings are also made from the Flame Immortal, the infinite and sustained essence of YISUN. The Flame Immortal and Atum, the soulflame essence of every individual, is one and the same. There's no duality between body and soul in the webcomic. Beings are 100% soul and the body is illusory.
White Chain’s stone body is merely a vessel for her true spiritual form, which is made of the Cold White Flame, a smokeless fire. The smokeless fire is extremely cold to the touch, so much that it still burns. An alt text description compares this physicality as a stone shell protecting a nuclear explosion skilled in millennia old martial arts.
The stone shell is what's able to keep her tethered to the physical world. If the connection is broken, she's stuck in the Great Void, the void between worlds.
Since that is what her real body is made of, she lacks internal organs, bones, etc. Angels dwell in a plane outside of creation, requiring body armor to enter the physical world.
All living beings are also made from the Flame Immortal, the infinite and sustained essence of YISUN. The Flame Immortal and Atum, the soulflame essence of every individual, is one and the same. There's no duality between body and soul in the webcomic. Beings are 100% soul and the body is illusory.
Limited BFR and Self-BFR
As a peacekeeper, White Chain is often tasked with dealing with criminal devils through banishment. While it looks like a gruesome execution, they aren't permanently killed. With her deadly palms, White Chain can send devils back to the Void.
What's most important to note is that angels can travel to the Void whenever they please, or as shown above, pull another angel from their shell and into the Void. Even with her new body, White Chain can still appear in the Void.
As a peacekeeper, White Chain is often tasked with dealing with criminal devils through banishment. While it looks like a gruesome execution, they aren't permanently killed. With her deadly palms, White Chain can send devils back to the Void.
What's most important to note is that angels can travel to the Void whenever they please, or as shown above, pull another angel from their shell and into the Void. Even with her new body, White Chain can still appear in the Void.
Immortality (Types 1 and 4)
Angel death is best described as torpor. The fixed number of angels that exist cannot truly die. They live forever, and even if their bodies are killed, they will undergo reincarnation and eventually reform in the Void.
Angels retain their original personality when they reincarnate, but their memories are reset. Even so, they are reborn with vast innate knowledge of martial arts, mathematics, navigation, etc.
Angel death is best described as torpor. The fixed number of angels that exist cannot truly die. They live forever, and even if their bodies are killed, they will undergo reincarnation and eventually reform in the Void.
Angels retain their original personality when they reincarnate, but their memories are reset. Even so, they are reborn with vast innate knowledge of martial arts, mathematics, navigation, etc.
Flight
White Chain's true angel form has wings covered with many eyes. It's capable of flight, and can allow her vessel to fly while performing Krayu Mat (more on that later). She gained an extra set of wings after evolving, and can summon and retract them whenever she wishes.
White Chain's true angel form has wings covered with many eyes. It's capable of flight, and can allow her vessel to fly while performing Krayu Mat (more on that later). She gained an extra set of wings after evolving, and can summon and retract them whenever she wishes.
Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, and 3)
A being made of the immortal flame has no need for breathing, sleeping, or eating. She's able to experience these pleasures now that she's evolved.
A being made of the immortal flame has no need for breathing, sleeping, or eating. She's able to experience these pleasures now that she's evolved.
Fusion
During the tournament, Cio let Allison wear her mask, causing the two to fuse into the Devil Skin Warrior Allicio. This state provided symbiosis: the human benefits from the devil's body as an armor while the devil has direct access to the human soul flame. As a fusion of human and devil, they have the potential to be pushed beyond the limits of both and rival the demiurges in sheer power if they're able to maintain this state.
So what happens when you add whatever White Chain has become into the mix? Enter Aspected Chaos: The Fool, an 18.8 ft tall triune being powerful enough to keep up with the demiurges against Jagganoth.
Bearing Allison's key, they've showcased being able to form weaponry from it, along with a binding that could restrict Jagganoth. They even showcased telekinetically lifting a huge chunk of the ground into the sky.
Of course, this isn't a form she can bust out without Allison and Cio being present. Not to mention, Cio has since become Nukoku after dying. If they were to fuse again, it's likely to be somewhat different.
During the tournament, Cio let Allison wear her mask, causing the two to fuse into the Devil Skin Warrior Allicio. This state provided symbiosis: the human benefits from the devil's body as an armor while the devil has direct access to the human soul flame. As a fusion of human and devil, they have the potential to be pushed beyond the limits of both and rival the demiurges in sheer power if they're able to maintain this state.
So what happens when you add whatever White Chain has become into the mix? Enter Aspected Chaos: The Fool, an 18.8 ft tall triune being powerful enough to keep up with the demiurges against Jagganoth.
Bearing Allison's key, they've showcased being able to form weaponry from it, along with a binding that could restrict Jagganoth. They even showcased telekinetically lifting a huge chunk of the ground into the sky.
Of course, this isn't a form she can bust out without Allison and Cio being present. Not to mention, Cio has since become Nukoku after dying. If they were to fuse again, it's likely to be somewhat different.
Resistances
- Time stop resistance: When Solomon stopped time to finish off White Chain, she instinctively performed ki rata and was able to move.
- Time stop resistance: When Solomon stopped time to finish off White Chain, she instinctively performed ki rata and was able to move.
Techniques
The 47/49 Empty Palms
There are a variety of fighting styles practiced in the Wheel, including Demon Flips the Cart, Pattram Sword Hand, Falling Snow, and Head of John. The martial arts form she’s most skilled in is the 47 Empty Palms (also sometimes addressed as the 49 Empty Palms but I haven't seen a difference between the two beyond the higher number indicating it's stronger).
It's a fighting style as ancient as the gods themselves. It's so old fashioned that it has gone out of practice among angels.
To quote from the Manual of Hands and Feet: "The style involves miraculous alignment of the body’s meridians to multiply the muscular power and striking force of bare handed strikes tenfold. Since the style relies heavily on the cultivation of internal force, its external strikes may seem unassuming to the untrained eye until they hit their target with the force of an ox cart."
Practitioners project the power of their Atum, their personal soul, into their strikes to displace air. This lets them project the force of their blows at a range, taking the form of hand-shaped projectiles.
It’s not limited to upper body movement, as she can still perform attacks with the lower body.
In practice, the angel recites a prayer of forgiveness, in which they will do nothing but defend themselves. Across each book, White Chain's prayer evolves across each book signifying her development before she gives it up completely. The key components that make up Empty Palms are wisdom, restraint, and emptiness—the Trigram Mantra.
Moves within this martial art include:- Empty Palm Vanquishes the Wicked: A straightforward palm strike at a range
- Empty Palm Purges the Impure: A two-finger jab that scorches
- Empty Palm Crushes the Unrepentant: A kick sttack
- Empty Palms Quench Evil Flame: Performed alongside Allison, their combined blows pushed Killboss into a wall
- Ovis' Palm: A larger flaming palm projectile
- Empty Palms Shake the Pillars of Heaven: Rapid punches with simultaneous air-displaced blows
There are a variety of fighting styles practiced in the Wheel, including Demon Flips the Cart, Pattram Sword Hand, Falling Snow, and Head of John. The martial arts form she’s most skilled in is the 47 Empty Palms (also sometimes addressed as the 49 Empty Palms but I haven't seen a difference between the two beyond the higher number indicating it's stronger).
It's a fighting style as ancient as the gods themselves. It's so old fashioned that it has gone out of practice among angels.
To quote from the Manual of Hands and Feet: "The style involves miraculous alignment of the body’s meridians to multiply the muscular power and striking force of bare handed strikes tenfold. Since the style relies heavily on the cultivation of internal force, its external strikes may seem unassuming to the untrained eye until they hit their target with the force of an ox cart."
Practitioners project the power of their Atum, their personal soul, into their strikes to displace air. This lets them project the force of their blows at a range, taking the form of hand-shaped projectiles.
It’s not limited to upper body movement, as she can still perform attacks with the lower body.
In practice, the angel recites a prayer of forgiveness, in which they will do nothing but defend themselves. Across each book, White Chain's prayer evolves across each book signifying her development before she gives it up completely. The key components that make up Empty Palms are wisdom, restraint, and emptiness—the Trigram Mantra.
Moves within this martial art include:
- Empty Palm Vanquishes the Wicked: A straightforward palm strike at a range
- Empty Palm Purges the Impure: A two-finger jab that scorches
- Empty Palm Crushes the Unrepentant: A kick sttack
- Empty Palms Quench Evil Flame: Performed alongside Allison, their combined blows pushed Killboss into a wall
- Ovis' Palm: A larger flaming palm projectile
- Empty Palms Shake the Pillars of Heaven: Rapid punches with simultaneous air-displaced blows
Krayu Mat
Krayu Mat is the oldest martial art in existence exclusively practiced by a handful of angels. All angels learned it at some point in their repeated reincarnations, but most view it as archaic and prefer different fighting styles. It's impossible for species with a weak soul flame like a human to practice it, as it would tear their flesh in ten thousand places and utterly annihilate their physical body.
This is because Krayu Mat is all about angels sticking their true form out from their vessel and fighting as one. In practice, it's basically angels using their true bodies as stands from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
There's more utility than using both form in combat simultaneously. As said before, White Chain can hoist her shell in the air to fly. She also bluffed her own death by sending her true form to the Void as her shell experienced a deadly attack, then returned to counterattack.
Now that she has evolved past her shell, her more fragile body likely isn't suitable for such an unusual martial art. Still, this is too raw to not include.
Moves in this art include:- Resplendent Soul Fist: Summoning her true form to rapidly punch with her wings
- Twin Soul Form: This technique was invented by White Chain on the spot while fighting Solomon. Both her shell and angel body fight unified and side by side without her smokeless flame being tethered to her armor. This would rarely, if ever be used by another angel ever again.
Krayu Mat is the oldest martial art in existence exclusively practiced by a handful of angels. All angels learned it at some point in their repeated reincarnations, but most view it as archaic and prefer different fighting styles. It's impossible for species with a weak soul flame like a human to practice it, as it would tear their flesh in ten thousand places and utterly annihilate their physical body.
This is because Krayu Mat is all about angels sticking their true form out from their vessel and fighting as one. In practice, it's basically angels using their true bodies as stands from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
There's more utility than using both form in combat simultaneously. As said before, White Chain can hoist her shell in the air to fly. She also bluffed her own death by sending her true form to the Void as her shell experienced a deadly attack, then returned to counterattack.
Now that she has evolved past her shell, her more fragile body likely isn't suitable for such an unusual martial art. Still, this is too raw to not include.
Moves in this art include:
- Resplendent Soul Fist: Summoning her true form to rapidly punch with her wings
- Twin Soul Form: This technique was invented by White Chain on the spot while fighting Solomon. Both her shell and angel body fight unified and side by side without her smokeless flame being tethered to her armor. This would rarely, if ever be used by another angel ever again.
Leisure Kicks
As the name suggests, it's an exclusively leg-based martial art meant to inflict powerful and rapid blows. The hands are reserved for killing blows only. It's uncommonly exercised, but its practitioners are extremely dedicated to it. There's one technique I'd like to analyze here.- Unnamed foot technique: This doesn't really fall into any specific category, but it's best mentioned here. Using her foot, White Chain lectured Allison to keep her shoulders square, head up, and posture forward. When Allison was fighting someone while she couldn’t feel her arms, she flashed back to this moment to beat him with this technique.
As the name suggests, it's an exclusively leg-based martial art meant to inflict powerful and rapid blows. The hands are reserved for killing blows only. It's uncommonly exercised, but its practitioners are extremely dedicated to it. There's one technique I'd like to analyze here.
- Unnamed foot technique: This doesn't really fall into any specific category, but it's best mentioned here. Using her foot, White Chain lectured Allison to keep her shoulders square, head up, and posture forward. When Allison was fighting someone while she couldn’t feel her arms, she flashed back to this moment to beat him with this technique.
Ki Rata
Ki Rata is the most powerful martial art to have ever existed. Its core technique is a breathing method that allows internal force to be cultivated extremely and focused on a minuscule point, resulting in monumental power. Blows using this technique are named after the number of points they contain.
To illustrate how powerful each blow is, one point blows are strong enough to crack rock with a touch. Two blows can behead a person with the air pressure from a flicked finger. Solomon, a master in this martial art, has demonstrated up to 77 points in one attack. Improper use of Ki Rata will literally tear its wielder's body into pieces.
In practice it's absurdly flashy. It's such a high level martial art that its masters gain the ability to stop time. There are other over-the-top moves Solomon has demonstrated with it, but I'll mainly list what White Chain herself showcased.
The martial in of itself is its own superweapon. Its masters are primarily concerned with preventing people from learning it and practicing it themselves. When they must take a student to keep Ki Rata, the student must swear to never actually use it. It's chiefly taught so that there are those still alive who recognize it and are strong enough to kill someone who learned it by themselves.
The circumstances surrounding White Chain achieving it are different, as she instinctively performed it without any previous training by moving within stopped time. Instead of killing her, Solomon proposed to train her years later. Even if she's new to Ki Rata, the fact that she knows it at all immediately makes her one of the most powerful martial artists alive. Her Ki Rata moves include:- Two Point Technique: Burning Finger: Using this against a giant fish under a frozen lake, this move carved a giant perfect circle around the ice
- Five Finger, Six Point Technique: Raining Blood: White Chain uses her staff to make six points. These pinprick-sized points blew holes in at least 26 warriors midair.
Ki Rata is the most powerful martial art to have ever existed. Its core technique is a breathing method that allows internal force to be cultivated extremely and focused on a minuscule point, resulting in monumental power. Blows using this technique are named after the number of points they contain.
To illustrate how powerful each blow is, one point blows are strong enough to crack rock with a touch. Two blows can behead a person with the air pressure from a flicked finger. Solomon, a master in this martial art, has demonstrated up to 77 points in one attack. Improper use of Ki Rata will literally tear its wielder's body into pieces.
In practice it's absurdly flashy. It's such a high level martial art that its masters gain the ability to stop time. There are other over-the-top moves Solomon has demonstrated with it, but I'll mainly list what White Chain herself showcased.
The martial in of itself is its own superweapon. Its masters are primarily concerned with preventing people from learning it and practicing it themselves. When they must take a student to keep Ki Rata, the student must swear to never actually use it. It's chiefly taught so that there are those still alive who recognize it and are strong enough to kill someone who learned it by themselves.
The circumstances surrounding White Chain achieving it are different, as she instinctively performed it without any previous training by moving within stopped time. Instead of killing her, Solomon proposed to train her years later. Even if she's new to Ki Rata, the fact that she knows it at all immediately makes her one of the most powerful martial artists alive. Her Ki Rata moves include:
- Two Point Technique: Burning Finger: Using this against a giant fish under a frozen lake, this move carved a giant perfect circle around the ice
- Five Finger, Six Point Technique: Raining Blood: White Chain uses her staff to make six points. These pinprick-sized points blew holes in at least 26 warriors midair.
Lore and Cosmology
YISUN and the Division
To understand the full scope of K6BD's omniverse, I first have to establish its origin point YISUN.
YISUN is the one true god all of creation stems from. YISUN has simultaneously always and never existed. Before there was YISUN there was YISUN. YISUN encompasses totality and everything that's also an absence of totality.
At the instant of YISUN’s creation and death, they were the undisputed master of the entire omniverse. Their knowledge was infinite and their power over reality was boundless. One time YISUN grasped the spokes of the universe and turned it on its side with as much force as a feather fall.
However, existing in an infinite state meant YISUN had no equal, and so life became stagnant and meaningless. It was then that YISUN chose to commit holy suicide by splitting themselves into two separate beings.
YISUN’s division created Yis and Un, each representing all that is and all that is not. Both were shocked by each others’ existence and warred for seven years, then made love for seven hours. This resulted in a second division: the birth of 777,777 gods, who each rules over their own universe. These gods went on to form the Wheel, a collection of 777,777 universes each ones oversaw. Within them there are 330,452 different earths.
By the end of the Universal War, 111,111 were bestowed to what would be known as the Seven.
While YISUN's time in the webcomic is brief, many legends of them are recounted in the Liturgy. In those, the deity has showcased insurmountable feats of cosmic power.
To understand the full scope of K6BD's omniverse, I first have to establish its origin point YISUN.
YISUN is the one true god all of creation stems from. YISUN has simultaneously always and never existed. Before there was YISUN there was YISUN. YISUN encompasses totality and everything that's also an absence of totality.
At the instant of YISUN’s creation and death, they were the undisputed master of the entire omniverse. Their knowledge was infinite and their power over reality was boundless. One time YISUN grasped the spokes of the universe and turned it on its side with as much force as a feather fall.
However, existing in an infinite state meant YISUN had no equal, and so life became stagnant and meaningless. It was then that YISUN chose to commit holy suicide by splitting themselves into two separate beings.
YISUN’s division created Yis and Un, each representing all that is and all that is not. Both were shocked by each others’ existence and warred for seven years, then made love for seven hours. This resulted in a second division: the birth of 777,777 gods, who each rules over their own universe. These gods went on to form the Wheel, a collection of 777,777 universes each ones oversaw. Within them there are 330,452 different earths.
By the end of the Universal War, 111,111 were bestowed to what would be known as the Seven.
While YISUN's time in the webcomic is brief, many legends of them are recounted in the Liturgy. In those, the deity has showcased insurmountable feats of cosmic power.
The Wheel
The multiverse is akin to a wheel, though not in a perceivable shape. The Immortal Flame is its axle, Throne is its center. Its spokes: the great flames of gods, the heat that nourishes its creation and heirs. In the void, a land of smoke and ash, distance has no meaning. All that is not living crumbles and warps.
At the center of all universes is Throne. Raised by the gods themselves, then carved from their petrified corpses the Red City is home to 800 million souls. Throne itself is about the size of southern California. Here's a map of it to illustrate its scale.
The space between dimensions is the Great Void, where angels and devils reside. Distance has no meaning there. One can walk 100 paces and skip 5 universes in the physical world. Those 100 paces can turn into 1,000 on the way back on the same route.
The Universal War left many worlds destroyed (note that Abaddon uses the terms "world" and "universe" interchangeably), and the gates leading to other worlds closed off without the use of a Key.
The Wheel is most comparable to a hyperbolic space. It's infinite on the inside yet finite from above. It is both with and without an edge. It technically doesn't have a rim because it's infinite, but because it's bounded by infinity it must have an edge. It clearly has a place outside of it, the Void.
There are numerous times people have attempted to see the shape of the universe, and virtually everyone who has instantly perished. The goddess Aesma grew to a cosmic size to view the shape of the multiverse in five breaths. It was described as bearing witness to all of existence and non-existence in its totality. At a glance it looked somewhat wheel-shaped, which was completely the wrong answer.
Eventually she did gaze upon all of existence and non-existence in all of its totality when YISUN flipped the universe on its side and presented it to her, instantly blinding and maiming her.
The multiverse is akin to a wheel, though not in a perceivable shape. The Immortal Flame is its axle, Throne is its center. Its spokes: the great flames of gods, the heat that nourishes its creation and heirs. In the void, a land of smoke and ash, distance has no meaning. All that is not living crumbles and warps.
At the center of all universes is Throne. Raised by the gods themselves, then carved from their petrified corpses the Red City is home to 800 million souls. Throne itself is about the size of southern California. Here's a map of it to illustrate its scale.
The space between dimensions is the Great Void, where angels and devils reside. Distance has no meaning there. One can walk 100 paces and skip 5 universes in the physical world. Those 100 paces can turn into 1,000 on the way back on the same route.
The Universal War left many worlds destroyed (note that Abaddon uses the terms "world" and "universe" interchangeably), and the gates leading to other worlds closed off without the use of a Key.
The Wheel is most comparable to a hyperbolic space. It's infinite on the inside yet finite from above. It is both with and without an edge. It technically doesn't have a rim because it's infinite, but because it's bounded by infinity it must have an edge. It clearly has a place outside of it, the Void.
There are numerous times people have attempted to see the shape of the universe, and virtually everyone who has instantly perished. The goddess Aesma grew to a cosmic size to view the shape of the multiverse in five breaths. It was described as bearing witness to all of existence and non-existence in its totality. At a glance it looked somewhat wheel-shaped, which was completely the wrong answer.
Eventually she did gaze upon all of existence and non-existence in all of its totality when YISUN flipped the universe on its side and presented it to her, instantly blinding and maiming her.
Aesma the Destroyer
YS-Aesma was a trickster goddess who ruled over aspiration, greed, self-sufficiency, regret, and lust for power. She was a disciple of YISUN and was responsible for creating humanity. Recountings of her calamitous misadventures and lessons she never learned are recounted in the Liturgy, which includes some of the most impressive feats in the K6BD cosmology.
Is it possible that White Chain met Aesma in a previous reincarnation and potentially scales to her? Likely not. Even if she did, no angel besides Metatron remembers the gods. Still, her stories have notable bearing on the webcomic's lore so they should be mentioned.
Aesma is strong, easily able to lift UN-Medam's Staff, which weighs a hundred million tons. She's comparable to the Master of Space-time. Clapping his hands shook the dust from the seven corners of the multiverse. Aesma dodges stars flying out from his beard.
In five breaths, Aesma grew to a cosmically giant level, so tall that she was able to see the shape of the multiverse. Stars bent and space-time warped with her great weight, giving way as she tumbled outside of creation. The loud clap as she ripped through reality shook the plum garden of YISUN's speaking house so badly that it bore little fruit that year. Shrinking back down was even faster, knocking down the 30 story-tall Master of Space-time.
Aesma fought the King, who destroyed almost a hundred cities and crushed the Great Sun Disc (some sort of artificial sun) in his hand. In their battle she threw an entire mountain, the moon, stars—including the Eye of Night, a star so massive that it broke through space-time and collapsed into a hole infinitely more massive—against him. It took Aesma lifting the Wheel itself for him to admit defeat. That feat shook all of creation.
YS-Aesma was a trickster goddess who ruled over aspiration, greed, self-sufficiency, regret, and lust for power. She was a disciple of YISUN and was responsible for creating humanity. Recountings of her calamitous misadventures and lessons she never learned are recounted in the Liturgy, which includes some of the most impressive feats in the K6BD cosmology.
Is it possible that White Chain met Aesma in a previous reincarnation and potentially scales to her? Likely not. Even if she did, no angel besides Metatron remembers the gods. Still, her stories have notable bearing on the webcomic's lore so they should be mentioned.
Aesma is strong, easily able to lift UN-Medam's Staff, which weighs a hundred million tons. She's comparable to the Master of Space-time. Clapping his hands shook the dust from the seven corners of the multiverse. Aesma dodges stars flying out from his beard.
In five breaths, Aesma grew to a cosmically giant level, so tall that she was able to see the shape of the multiverse. Stars bent and space-time warped with her great weight, giving way as she tumbled outside of creation. The loud clap as she ripped through reality shook the plum garden of YISUN's speaking house so badly that it bore little fruit that year. Shrinking back down was even faster, knocking down the 30 story-tall Master of Space-time.
Aesma fought the King, who destroyed almost a hundred cities and crushed the Great Sun Disc (some sort of artificial sun) in his hand. In their battle she threw an entire mountain, the moon, stars—including the Eye of Night, a star so massive that it broke through space-time and collapsed into a hole infinitely more massive—against him. It took Aesma lifting the Wheel itself for him to admit defeat. That feat shook all of creation.
Feats
Overall
- Singlehandedly defeated gangster Vash and his surrounding goons
- Trained Allison in the 49 Empty Palms for a year
- Made it three rounds into the 313th Ring of Power, until it transitioned to a battle royale format. She participated against over a thousand participants. Out of everyone, she won the tournament.
- Defeated Allison and Cio when fused into Allicio by bluffing her own death, re-entering her stone armor, and undid their fusion
- Held up against Solomon David, who was holding back for half the fight, and won in the eyes of the people
- Instinctively learned how to perform Ki Rata
- She is the first of her kind, part human part angel
- Invented the Krayu Mat fighting technique Twin Soul Form
- Located Solomon in Svelben after searching for him for almost three years
- Saved Solomon from a big angry fish
Strength
- Banished a devil by hitting the back of a devil's head with her palm, causing her face to fly off.
- Tilted Nadia's floating palace with the force of her attack
- Can balance her whole body on two fingers
- Made a crater in an arena from repeatedly punching Solomon so hard
- As Aspected Chaos, they levitated a massive chunk of the earth
- She has the power of a demiurge now that she has Solomon's Key
- Kicked the head of a statue so far away it caused a sonic boom
- Using Ki Rata broke a perfect circle in the ice covering a river
- Blew holes through at least 26 people simultaneously with Ki Rata
Speed
- Blocked a blade with the tip of her finger
- Her arms move so fast while using the 47 Empty Palms that it looks like she has many arms. The same happens with her wings when practicing Krayu Mat.
- Made a sonic boom when flying in her angel form
- Reacted to a spear thrown at her while deflecting tons of attacks
- Knocked Solomon away before he could be hit by a giant fish’s fire breath
Durability
- A vacus needle was thrown into her head, causing vessel to temporarily become empty for as long as it was stuck in it. It interrupted her connection to her armor, so more like a KO than a death.
- Her vessel, while in stasis, withstood being flown into the ground like a missile
- White Chain experienced banishment
- Simply hearing Metatron speak “obliterated thought”
- Tore off her own face
- Hit by Allicio's Ten Cubit Spear
- Allicio's Thirty Cubit Spear blew a hole through her stone body, which her angel form avoided
- Cracked the ground as she blocked a kick by Solomon David. The very attack caused her body to crack
- Hit by the pressurized air from Solomon's Ki Rata move, which is said to decapitate a person in the best of circumstances
- Thrown down into the colosseum from above
- Consuming the tiger and wolf killing medicine would’ve caused her heart to instantly explode with her human level of Atum refinement post-evolution. Instead it worked as intended, recovering her body with the caveat of removing five days from her lifespan
Scaling
Allison & Cio
White Chain's badass human pupil and her gremlin-coded blue devil confidant who are totally gay for each other. White Chain has fought side by side with them and defeated them while in their fused state. Even with how much Allison has progressed, she hasn't utilized the strongest aspects of the Master Key's limitless potential. Thus, I wouldn't quite pin Allison at universe buster level yet… sorta. I'll get to that once I discuss the demiurges.
- Allison slew Hastet by throwing a Key-empowered torch through him
- Allison sliced through a mimic
- Allison punched a criminal through a ceiling, taking a beat for them to fall down
- Allison shielded her group from a city-destroying explosion
- Allison slashed a huge hole through a deep wall
- Allison's punches dent stone
- Allison wrangled an entire warship with the Key
- Allison kicked straight through a warship, bisecting it
- A knife broke when it attempted to pierce Allison's eye
wasn't as sturdy when Jagganoth cut her down - Allison was sliced in half by the Maybe Sword, or maybe she wasn't. That was for her to decide.
- Allison and Cio withstood a small explosion
- Allison and Cio survived having their arm and eye destroyed by Jagganoth
- Allison survived seeing the shape of existence—all of space-time as an object perceivable by humankind. Everyone else who gazed upon it immediately perished, and those who weren't were left terribly maimed.
- Cio bisected and chopped a guy to bits with paper
- Cio scarred Allison and threw her into a pillar, causing a small explosion
- Cio moved away from a bullet fast enough that it merely grazed her cheek
- Allicio cracked the ceiling of an arena after swiftly leaping up to it
- Allicio caused a big rainbow explosion with Aesma's Heel
- Allicio actively destroys Solomon's arena
- Allicio's Thirty Cubit Spear shot straight out of the arena's ceiling
Angels
The most relevant angels to discuss regarding scaling are 6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe, and 10 Vigilant Gaze Purges the Horizon. Juggernaut Star is a narratively dark reflection of White Chain whom she fights on numerous occasions. Vigilant Gaze is a fellow Concordant Knight whom White Chain is allied with, so both should be comparable.
Regarding White Chain's master, Michael hasn't showcased any notable feats beyond being stated to be uber strong. Then there's Metatron, who is canonically the most powerful living being in all of Kill Six Billion Demons. Unless some truly crazy shit happens during the all-out war going on in Wheel Smashing Lord, White Chain isn't scaling that high.
- Juggernaut Star executed an angel with their wheel
- Juggernaut Star sliced through people with their hands
- Juggernaut Star slashed through the ground of an arena
- Juggernaut Star cut off Vigilant Gaze's arm
- Juggernaut Star rolled far away in their wheel, leaving a fire trail
- Juggernaut Star survived being cut through by the Maybe Sword
- Juggernaut Star is on par with 3/4 Goku /j /j /j (I had to sneak one of these in here somewhere, the scan is too funny not to include)
- Vigilant Gaze's Great Chariot Cannon fired a large blast across the arena
Demiurges
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This is where the scaling really starts to become tricky. How far does White Chain and her friends reasonably scale to the demiurges? They include the Seven, Zoss, and formerly Maya. While not the absolute strongest characters in all of K6BD, they're top tier. I mean, the Seven are Key-wielders literally rule over 111,111 universes each. That's insane.
As stated by Abaddon, no angel is stronger than a demiurge other than Metatron. White Chain isn't exactly an angel anymore, but to say she's stronger than a demiurge is false. She was able to fight with the demiurges against Jagganoth on equal footing while fused with Allison and Cio, but that requires her allies for outside help.
Even so, downscaling should be reasonable.
White Chain fought Solomon David, and while he wasn't going all out compared to his battle against Jagganoth, by the end the fight she bruised him. Solomon held this tournament 313 times (which happens every three years or so) and no victor has pushed him this far as White Chain did.
There are other examples of White Chain's friends harming the demiurges in some way. Allison spilt Incubus' blood in her dream—the realm Incubus deals with. Cio stabbed Incubus and made him spurt out blood only to get immediately merked by him afterwards. Most notably, and while more so an ability-based feat, Allison got a one-up over Gog-Agog by absorbing her to be a part of herself instead of the other way around.
Allison was also trained by Maya, whom she survived an attack from that she absolutely would have died from if she didn't figure out how the Maybe Sword functioned. Maya trained her specifically how to deal with Jagganoth, the results of which have yet to be seen. Maya is also highly comparable to Incubus, even after losing her demiurge status. They've fought alongside each other and pushed each other to near death many times before.
While Zoss is crucial to the lore, he hasn't been seen in action in most of the webcomic's run. He remains the strongest demiurge, probably even more than Jagganoth. Jagganoth is absolutely capable of his multiversal conquest of total devastation, but no matter how many times he has tried, he hasn't been able to prevent Zoss from resetting reality.
It's also stated that he "became" the shape of the world, as opposed to how Jadis and Aesma viewed it and were terribly maimed as a result.
For, unless White Chain becomes comparable to Zoss or Metatron in the coming updates, she likely just downscales from Maya and the Seven.
- Mammon's hide is impenetrable to swords
- Mammon rained meteors from the sky
- Jadis froze all of Jagganoth’s arrows as they rained to the ground
- Jadis and Solomon survived a city exploding point blank
- Jadis witnessed the shape of existence and lived. She was only left horribly maimed when most others who looked at it had their heads explode.
- Nadia blew up Gog's head
- Nadia turned Pryan Sor into an immortal tree
- Nadia turned a person into petals with her breath
- Nadia holds up her entire floating palace through her force of will
- Nadia impaled Allison with plants
- Nadia's fight with Mammon caused a big explosion in the fortress Yre, blowing up an outside wall. This likely has no bearing on the feat itself feat itself but I wanted to mention somewhere that Yre has infinite space inside it.
- Nadia flew her palace all the way to Yre, crashing into it
- Maya sliced through Juggernaut Star's vessel, creating a large explosion
- Maya decapitated Incubus
- Maya sliced through mountainous statues with barely any movement
- Maya chopped through Mana's head from far away
- Maya cleaved through Allison and surrounding statues
- Maya parried a giant beam into a warship
- Maya deflected and sliced a bullet in half at the same time
- Maya swiftly hops across falling rubble
- Maya deflected a beam from a giant warship
- Maya deflected Incubus' arrow
- Maya resisted ten consecutive attempts at decapitation
- Incubus impaled Jagganoth to help Allison's binding succeed, causing a massive explosion
- Incubus diced Cio to bits, rapidly turning around to slash in the blink of an eye
- Incubus shot a hole through Zaid's torso
- Incubus' arrows can destroy warships
- Incubus injured his scalp while slicing off all the hairs off his head with a sword
- Incubus regenerated all of his skin after withstanding Jagganoth's Blood-Sated Soul Art
- Incubus regenerated from decapitation
- Gog-Agog exploded out of one of her bodies and instantly reformed
- Gog-Agog merged tons of her copies that contained Chakravartin Jagganoth and the huge chunk of earth Aspected Chaos levitated
- Gog-Agog turned people into a massive merged mass that engulfed buildings
- Gog-Agog had her face caved in
- Gog-Agog can reform her entire body so long as her worms are still alive
- Gog-Agog instantly pieced herself back together after being eviscerated by Chakravartin Jagganoth
- Solomon put two suns in this world. On that subject, all demiurges are capable of moving Throne's sun if they wanted.
- Solomon easily lifted a giant cube
- Solomon blew apart a monk's upper half with his fist
- Solomon completely SPLATTERED hundreds of people during stopped time
- Solomon flicking pressurized air with his finger can decapitate a person
- Solomon threw White Chain down into the colosseum from midair, leaving a crater
- Solomon pushed the 30 ft tall Jagganoth far away
- Solomon punches through dimensions
- Solomon threw a man through a mountain into the sea
- Solomon clapped water away around himself while underwater
- Solomon is implied to have rebuilt his world's solar system
- Solomon dodged a giant slice from Jagganoth
- Solomon can move 3,000 miles an hour
- Solomon dodges Chakravartin Jagganoth's giant death beams
- Solomon's arm braces took the blunt of Jagganoth's sword. His blade broke against them.
- Jagganoth has mastery over space-time, reality as we know and perceive it
- Jagganoth is the strongest of the Seven. Only the combined might of the six other demiurges could stand up to him
- Jagganoth is stated to be able to destroy the multiverse
- Jagganoth destroyed a city as he brought down his sword upon it
- Jagganoth's sword slash could level city blocks
- Chakravartin Jagganoth raised his arms from outer space, and that action razed towns down below and parted clouds
- Chakravartin Jagganoth performed the Supreme Divine Art: Blood-Sated Soul Sword. It's 80,000 slashes at once, leaving no space that is not a sword. This was performed from space. The attack split mountains in half, cut through cities, and demolished the terrain Aspected Chaos was levitating.
- Jagganoth beheaded Mammon and ripped his heat to shreds
- Jagganoth crushed Nadia in his palm
- Jagganoth perfectly shot through a barrage of meteors from the sky
- Jagganoth survives blows that would fell a thousand men
Weaknesses
- She’s terrible at noticing sarcasm and doesn’t have an ounce of subtlety in her body
- One of the rules angels follow is to never lie. When humans crafted their stone bodies, they made it so that their vessels would crack if they ever uttered a lie. This is likely why there aren't any angels that practice the Art, the magic system of K6BD that's basically lying to reality convincingly enough that it becomes true.
- Angels are uncontested outside of gods and other angels
- Angels can experience banishment too if their armor is pierced with a vacus needle. An angel's atum, or personal soul, cannot flow through the needle, so it breaks their connection to their shell. When pricked, their shell petrifies and their true form is sent to the Void until the needle is removed. As an aside, a petrified angel is the hardest material in the multiverse. Before you ask, their bodies have been weaponized before.
- Angels fully petrify upon death, differently from the results of banishment. The time it takes to reincarnate depends on how long they previously lived, but it can be wildly inconsistent at shorter lifespans.
- White Chain was such a stickler to the old law that she refused to take risks that could turn out in her favor. Her over-reliance on discipline and refusal to change makes her a highly predictable fighter if one can get past her sheer power and speed. Thankfully, she was able to grow past her inflexibility.
- Since it's inorganic, the shell cannot repair on its own. When her vessel had a hole blown through its chest, she required the aid of Solomon's men to patch her up
- Even after years adjusting to her new body, it doesn’t move like her old one. It’s too fragile yet too strong at the same time, rendering her previous martial arts knowledge not as useful
- Angels and devils, who bear strong soul flames, can't exist in the Pure Void, the place beyond the part of the Void where impressions of the Wheel are cast
Matchup Potential
White Chain vs Garnet (Kill Six Billion Demons vs Steven Universe)
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Vibe Check
The matchup can be summarized as follows: Stoic, stubborn, and sometimes obliviously awkward zen-like mentor figures from species with rock themes and martial artist skills. Both face prejudice by their own culture due to how their identities deviate from the norm, but they find people that accept them and help them come out of their shells (literally for White Chain). Both characters even evolve at some point into stronger bodies that represent who they truly are more.
Above all else, this is a matchup about love. A love for humanity in spite of their races' disrespect towards them, a love for their comrades who affirm their feelings and identities, and a love for themselves when their cultures reject them; and of course, Garnet's existence itself is a product of the love between Ruby and Sapphire.
You could even draw similarities from their races. Angels and gems are genderless beings that present as exclusively male and female respectively and are led by a corrupt authority. As a bonus, both characters are able to fuse with others.
So yeah, this really ticks all the boxes I'd want for a Garnet matchup, save for debatability. Still, that doesn't mean the fight itself can't be cool. Their martial arts skills and projectiles match and White Chain generally fights on Garnet's scale. Whether you'd want to go with angel or human White Chain for the fight is up to you. I prefer angel since it's unknown if she can successfully perform Krayu Mat as a human.
Both Kill Six Billion Demons and Steven Universe have great choreography. Add in the former's flashiness and you've got jaw-dropping animation potential right there. Even though K6BD is a more violent and gory series, a bloody death isn't required. It isn't a tonal clash either, as Steven Universe also delves into complex and even mature themes.
The fight potential really skyrockets when you factor in certain questions.
Even if White Chain winning is apparent, can her sheer fighting prowess get past Garnet's future sight despite how predictable her fighting style is? That's a conflict I'd really love to see presented the animation. What would happen if White Chain were to knock Garnet out of her fusion? Imagine both fighting side by side for a moment while White Chain unleashes Krayu Mat. It could lead to an epic proclamation of Garnet's love as they re-fuse, and in turn White Chain makes her own as she comes to understand them more.
It's a shame Garnet vs White Chain isn't that well known, it rules! Maybe if Kill Six Billion Demons ever receives an animated adaptation of some sort (also unlikely, especially with how expensive adapting such a highly detailed and over-the-top comic would be), but Death Battle has brought on comic characters with little to no adapted media like Kyle Rayner before. Go for it!
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NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it
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