Jones: The Facts

She has parallels to Beatrix Kiddo? (via: chapter 28, page 9)

In spite of her standing, there are things about the court kept secret from even her (725).

Added that to the list, thanks.

This might be the quirks of the english language playing tricks on me (not a native speaker), but would one actually use the term "beholden" in that context? It seems to me to be more related to having a duty or obligation.

I'm not sure the clothing is a big deal, since every time we've seen her has been in an official capacity (teaching Annie, investigating the power station being started up by Jack, at the meeting with Coyote and helping prepare Annie to go to the forest). That may just be her "work" clothes.

I wonder if the pink scarf was a gift from Randy, since the only time we've seen her wearing it was around him.

In #288, Jones says of Ysengrin, "The way he has distorted his body... I've seen similar, but nothing quite like that." And the headmaster says, "Coming from you that disturbs me greatly."

EDIT: That's a big assumption. If Annie and Kat were having a school photo taken, they might want Reynardine to be in it... and Robot... and Shadow 2... (though he might not appreciate the camera flash)

We know that she understands emotions and can see emotional weaknesses. She understands Parleu's feelings for Smitty and shows tenderness towards Eggy. Also, she could have been older than Eggy, surma, and the gang back when they were in school. Or she could have just been tAller than Eggy. A lot ofgirls during their preteen years are taller than boys.

I think that Jones does show emotion on her face. It's just subtle. She's not deadpan.

And she's quite capable of faking passive anger. Panel 3 is definitely a frown.

Jones knows Egyptian which got me thinking about Greek myths (Egypt was a strong influence on the Greeks from even before they were really Greeks). The one that best fits the bill is Pygmalion's statue, sometimes called Galatea. If Jones was a stone or ivory statue brought to life by Aphrodite it would explain the attention she gets from the opposite sex and also why she would want to encourage Parley and Smit.

The only thing that doesn't quite fit is that Pygmalion and Galatea had one or more kids in some versions of the myth while Jones doesn't have any, but Tom recasts the mythic figures a bit for the comic.

I think that the possibility that she's a Gynoid or Ghost in the Shell-style cyborg could account for many of the things on this list.

If it turns out that she is a cyborg, her apparent dearth of facial expressions could be a limitation of the process that created her body, similar to Kuze Hideo from the second Ghost in the Shell series. It would also put that bit from (288) into more context, since she and the headmaster are discussing body modification and the headmaster seems to imply that she herself has been the subject of something similar.

Made an account just to remind people of Jone of Arc. AKA Jeanne d'arc
Also to point out the blond hair. And let you figure it out from there

Not sure how much I favour the nephilim theory, since it seems that those were all supposed to be dudes (but then, the Bible does generally have a thing against ladies) but, if it were true and Jones was a hybrid between a supernatural being (angel or not) and a human, wouldn't it be conceivable that Coyote might not know about it because it's not in his "area", so to speak?

I mean, if a Christian/Hebrew angel came down and boinked a lady, I wouldn't expect a Native American god to know or care about it. Especially considering said god is a large canine with little apparent knowledge of human clothing, let alone mating practices.

I guess what I'm saying is, Jones could still be 'etherical', that is, of a supernatural quality, without Coyote necessarily knowing (or caring) what she is.

Also, Reynardine could know her story through being in the Court for so long. (Maybe Surma even told him about it?) If she were an angel hybrid, he'd probably think it's hilarious. I mean jeez, that Judeochrisian god can't even keep his angels from doing the humans! Haha what a loser! Coyote would think that was SO funny if he knew about it! Hahaha! (Rey then determinedly ignores why he's in the Court in the first place.)


Still, though, I think Jones might be something else. She seems more like a construct to me than a hybrid of anything. I like the idea of a wizard or alchemist's golem that just sort of... kept on living. That could mean she's been around for a long long time, and doesn't feel beholden to anyone cause hey, her master died forever ago. OR she's Galatea, and doesn't feel beholden cause the dude who sculpted her died forever ago. I dunno, man. We'll all just have to find out.


Edit:
Also, for the whole Golem thing, there doesn't seem to be anything I can find that suggests that a human-looking golem is possible. Add to that, they are supposed to be perfectly obedient unless you muck it up, and then you end up with a pissed-off, willful one. Jones doesn't seem to be either of those extremes. So, never mind dudes, alchemical construct out.

Plus I also wanted to add that, even if she once had human emotions and acted normal (like, say, if she was Galatea and in love with Pygmalion) she might have essentially shed all emotion after living for however-many years. I mean, she'd be so incredibly old that everything would just be dead boring to her. Plus she's indestructible, so no fear. Back when she was a newly-created being, maybe everything was sunshine and rainbows, but I can see things starting to cool down after a few centuries. You also wouldn't want your emotions to get away with you and let you get attached to people... they're all gonna die in like a blink for you. ("Not beholden", indeed.) Might explain why she likes Reynardine and Coyote, who aren't going anywhere. And then the "coming from you" comment from the headmaster would mean that, well holy crap, Jones has been around for ages. Her not having seen this means it's pretty unique.

So yeah, add to my assumptions that she may have once had emotions, but chooses to ignore them now because why bother caring about anything when you're over 2000 years old? All you'd be looking for in life is the next moderately interesting thing to do (like watching a crazy thirteen year-old kid who can fly mess around with another crazy thirteen year-old with demons in her head.)



... Wow I can write long posts when I'm bored.



Edit again:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NS3sll2aXU
This is what I was thinking of with the bored of life thing.
(For those who don't know, that shows the Q Continuum from Star Trek. They're a race of immortal, all-powerful beings who eventually stop doing or saying anything at all because they're absolutely bored of life. The guy explaining everything is trying to convince the other Q to let him kill himself because he's so tired of living.)

I'll stop modifying this post now.

Jones has an office at the court
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=161
How it looks from inside is unknown.

Also, the title on her door proclaims her as "Ms. Jones," so the third bullet may not be true.

Updated the first post according to current developments (in the comic and this thread).

Hmm, I don't agree. I don't see any more of a frown there as in pretty much every other panel that shows her face.

Well, Annie addresses her as "Miss", too, regarless of being told "just Jones will suffice". Jones has never been shown to object to that habit.

Was not taught. It's not the same.
Yes, but she could expect the situation to develop as it did. Doesn't say much.