Theory About Jaggy and KSBD Ending
I think KSBD will end with Alison baking bread for Jagganoth. I have two points which support my theory, first that violence is suggested to be the wrong solution, and second that Jagganoth's annihilation might be inevitable.
First, Maya says that both, "How do I kill [Jagganoth]?" and "How do I defeat [Jagganoth]?" are the wrong questions. However she says that the second question is better, but still wrong. So there is something about greater violence being the wrong avenue here. Which makes sense, because if Zoss couldn't beat Jagganoth in an infinite number of cycles, why would we assume the solution is just more violence?
Second, I think Jagganoth might be inevitable, like death. He is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object. All the strongest beings in the universe couldn't beat him. He has won this war every cycle going back until potentially infinity. He is truly invulnerable, and cannot be defeated, only slowed. I think he might be a metaphor for the inevitability of death. If so, how would killing or defeating death make any sense? Of course they're the wrong questions.
My theory then is that the question is something like "How do I delay him?" The end of KSBD won't be a violent heroine beating the crap out of another big bad guy, it'll be Alison finally listening to what Cio was saying before they all went off to fight in Solomon David's tournament. The end of KSBD will be accepting happiness, and trying to make the most of what little time they have left. I think the end of KSBD will be Alison baking bread for Jagganoth, like his mother used to, and it will make him either so profoundly happy or so confused by the kindness that he'll postpone his divine, inevitable rampage. Eventually Jagganoth will still destroy the universe and restart the cycle, but Throne will be a happier place in the meantime, and it will last longer than in past cycles. This is a bit like what Maya wanted to do when she gave up being a demiurge, except Alison will kill Incubus first, then choose happiness. The point of KSBD will then be: the point of life isn't power, it's your loved ones, but you need enough power to protect your loved ones.
(I have nothing to support this theory, just want to get this on the record somewhere on the off chance this turns out to be right.)
TL;DR: I think KSBD ends with Alison baking bread for Jagganoth, in order to slow his inevitable universal annihilation.
Posted Apr 17, 2023, 8:00 PM UTC
I think she annihilates Jag, but not as an act of violence, but of freeing him from the prison of the wheel. That annihilation can be an act of kindness, or even, simply, one of "it's enough that she wants to achieve it".
I mean yeah Jagg basically had that reaction when Solomon went Super Saiyan. Jagg very much wants it to end