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Post by Max on Jan 26, 2011 8:00:50 GMT
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Post by Refugee on Jan 26, 2011 8:02:31 GMT
Yeah, Annie, you should know better than to get all snuggly with a guy in front of his friends. Haven't you ever watched Grease?
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Post by Raph on Jan 26, 2011 8:04:40 GMT
I remember someone mentioning he would make her walk on her own from then on, but I can't find the post. [edit]And it was Max, you may have your well deserved cookie.[/edit]
And that was a pretty good reaction from Ysengrin, but I've started to think it's part of Coyote's "I will grant her every protection".
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Post by asianborat on Jan 26, 2011 8:04:56 GMT
You called it? +1 Internet to Max!
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Post by edzepp on Jan 26, 2011 8:09:11 GMT
Walk on, little Fire-head girl. Walk on.
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Post by Geekette on Jan 26, 2011 8:09:17 GMT
Apparently one of Ysengrin's hidden skills is "being good with emotional young girls". He's doing better than most fathers!
((ETA: And that wasn't even a reference to Annie's own father. ._.))
Though personally, I'm going to indulge in the personal belief that a part of the reason he phrased his last sentence that way was because he wanted to gently give her the hint that he's sick and tired of carrying her. It amuses me more that way.
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Post by Aurelia Verity on Jan 26, 2011 8:17:38 GMT
fifth panel = hero shot  |
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Post by edzepp on Jan 26, 2011 8:18:46 GMT
One question that just sprang to my mind for some reason is how all the info this chapter changes Annie's relationship with the guides.
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Post by Max on Jan 26, 2011 8:21:29 GMT
I was wondering about that the other day. Her attitude toward them might soften, but she might still be angry at them for considering what was left of Surma unworthy of taking and not telling her why.
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Post by Raph on Jan 26, 2011 8:21:30 GMT
That'd be nice to know. They used to help because they kinda owed her something, but know that we know, were they just pleasing her?
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Post by pasko on Jan 26, 2011 8:23:47 GMT
Fifth panel is really beautiful.
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Post by edzepp on Jan 26, 2011 8:27:18 GMT
I was wondering about that the other day. Her attitude toward them might soften, but she might still be angry at them for considering what was left of Surma unworthy of taking and not telling her why. That seems likely. She's not fond of people keeping secrets from her. Wow, three more pages and this will beat S1 (43 pages) as the longest chapter ever. |
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Post by gildarts on Jan 26, 2011 8:28:10 GMT
second last panel, annie looks badass and ready to fight XD
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Post by edzepp on Jan 26, 2011 8:28:46 GMT
Or ready to stride across a bridge.
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Post by Refugee on Jan 26, 2011 8:38:03 GMT
Enough of this small squishy talk about feelings! Time for Big Manly Talk about Important Things!
Those colored ribbons do look a lot more like just ribbons today, rather than independent entities. Many seem attached to things by one end.
The symbols on the ground flag in frame 4 remind me of the firestone signals.
Still: I wonder if they are in fact responding to Annie's emotions. They seem a lot calmer today, as opposed to the flitting about they did while she was upset.
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Post by King Mir on Jan 26, 2011 9:02:52 GMT
I was wondering about that the other day. Her attitude toward them might soften, but she might still be angry at them for considering what was left of Surma unworthy of taking and not telling her why. That seems likely. She's not fond of people keeping secrets from her. I doubt she will be angry at the guides for their policy of noninterference. She must have come to expect them for that. Beside which, keeping secrets is a much lesser failure then failing to do your one vital job. Still, one doesn't go from mad to friends right away from a situation like this. |
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Post by booksforlunch on Jan 26, 2011 9:03:06 GMT
I was wondering about that the other day. Her attitude toward them might soften, but she might still be angry at them for considering what was left of Surma unworthy of taking and not telling her why. I could imagine her to be angry because they kept the reason for not coming for Surma a secret. But I wasn't under the impression that the guides deemed Surma's remains unworthy . They didn't come because there wasn't anything left to come for. It's now Annie's life-energy/soul/whatever. ... actually, it's interesting that the life-energy of the fire-element parent goes to the child. It isn't lost, but simply transferred to a new form. I can't help thinking of a Phoenix. (Officially de-lurked) |
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Post by legion on Jan 26, 2011 9:21:15 GMT
Another good page; this chapter is amazing.
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Post by spheney on Jan 26, 2011 9:36:45 GMT
For the net page, I am just imagining some Evita-esque balcony that she is marching to where coyote is announcing her stay to thousands of forest dwellers.
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Post by reshi on Jan 26, 2011 10:10:24 GMT
I do love the slightly awkward, tentative closeness that's grown between Ysengrin and Annie, they have quite a lot in common at the moment.
Poor guy, can't help but think of the phrase "Always the bridesmaid never the bride", only with the favor of a really powerful etheric being rather than marriage ^^;
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Post by 0o0f on Jan 26, 2011 11:44:33 GMT
Love Annie's face in the fifth panel. DETERMINATION.
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Post by Alexandragon on Jan 26, 2011 12:45:19 GMT
It's epic!
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Post by zylonbane on Jan 26, 2011 13:21:23 GMT
The best possible response to "You're strong enough to walk on your own" would have been for her to then FLY where they were going.
But maybe that would have been too Whedon.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Jan 26, 2011 13:58:47 GMT
Enough of this small squishy talk about feelings! Time for Big Manly Talk about Important Things! Those colored ribbons do look a lot more like just ribbons today, rather than independent entities. Many seem attached to things by one end. The symbols on the ground flag in frame 4 remind me of the firestone signals. Still: I wonder if they are in fact responding to Annie's emotions. They seem a lot calmer today, as opposed to the flitting about they did while she was upset. Now that you mention it, the patterns on the ribbons do look somewhat like the firestone signals. I was thinking more like circuit board designs, which made me think they were perhaps etheric wards against Court technology or something. Or maybe they're just pretty.  |
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Post by paxjax123 on Jan 26, 2011 14:20:50 GMT
I bet Annie will be able to fly and do lots of other neat stuff by the end of Summer. Also look at that face. That needs an avatar.   Uh, sorry. Not the best at making avatars. |
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Post by q3 on Jan 26, 2011 14:31:22 GMT
Somewhere, in an alternate dimension, Pirate Ysengrin (the one that wears an earpatch), is saying to Pirate Annie (the one with a hook for a hand), "Give me a hug, will ye? Fine, then, tech-lubber. Ye can walk the plank!"
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Post by mudmaniac on Jan 26, 2011 16:15:32 GMT
  It just seemed right at the time. |
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Post by Elaienar on Jan 26, 2011 16:17:27 GMT
I was wondering about that the other day. Her attitude toward them might soften, but she might still be angry at them for considering what was left of Surma unworthy of taking and not telling her why. I could imagine her to be angry because they kept the reason for not coming for Surma a secret. But I wasn't under the impression that the guides deemed Surma's remains unworthy . They didn't come because there wasn't anything left to come for. It's now Annie's life-energy/soul/whatever. ... actually, it's interesting that the life-energy of the fire-element parent goes to the child. It isn't lost, but simply transferred to a new form. I can't help thinking of a Phoenix. (Officially de-lurked) Welcome to the realm of people who post things! XD "There was nothing left to take" was something Renard said, and unfortunately we don't know how much he knows about Surma's condition. On the one hand, he's much older than Antimony, has been hanging out with Coyote for years, was friends with Surma (who evidently told him things she didn't tell Antimony), and is apparently pretty powerful and knowledgeable on his own. On the other hand, Antimony distinctly remembers having to help something on to the other side -- and on the same page Muut says "none of us came for her", which makes it sound like he believes (or wants Antimony to believe that he believes) that there was something left of Surma that needed guiding. Ok and in regard to the actual page I have decided I want those dangley paper things all over my walls. Some of them look like they're hanging in mid-air but in panel 5 you can just see a thin grey line holding one up. I wonder what they're made out of.... |
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Post by jayne on Jan 26, 2011 17:53:26 GMT
I think its funny how on the previous frame, Ysengrin is getting a death-grip hug and the next thing he says is "You are stronger than you were this morning" *Yer choking me kid!*
Friday we should see Annie entering the village. She knows which way to go so she must see it.
AND we finally know about what time it is. When Ysengrin first found Annie, it was morning, which means she went to talk with Kat and Anja fairly early and Kat was planning to meet Annie for lunch.
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Post by Refugee on Jan 26, 2011 18:49:06 GMT
It just seemed right at the time. Very right indeed. Well done! On the other hand, Antimony distinctly remembers having to help something on to the other side -- and on the same page Muut says "none of us came for her", which makes it sound like he believes (or wants Antimony to believe that he believes) that there was something left of Surma that needed guiding. Your comment inspires me: Perhaps Annie, possessing so much of what Surma had given her, was the only one who could guide her mother. Whatever it is that was transferred, it was not Surma's self, but that self was not able to make the passage without the presence of the one currently holding the gift. Sorta like sneaking through the security door on somebody else's pass card. Perhaps this is why Annie received so much attention before hand: she was being trained to do something only she could do. Muut could not speak more clearly on this without giving the whole game away. |
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