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Post by Yin on Jun 8, 2009 7:00:57 GMT
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Post by Casey on Jun 8, 2009 7:04:12 GMT
Mysterious conversation between Jones and Reynardine is mysterious!
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Post by jimbobbowilly on Jun 8, 2009 7:11:52 GMT
So nice to see Jones again, in a new outfit no less.
Hmm, she doesn't do favours for demon dogs. What a surprise.
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Post by Max on Jun 8, 2009 7:28:31 GMT
If I had to rank articles of clothing I would have expected to see Jones wearing, I would place a brilliant pink scarf at the bottom.
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So does this mean that Reynardine disapproves of Jones/Eglamore?
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Post by popo on Jun 8, 2009 7:30:18 GMT
Annie is shocked to see Jones not wearing olive.
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Post by Tierra Y Libertad on Jun 8, 2009 7:33:33 GMT
Smitface always ruins the sim.
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Post by Midnight Meadows on Jun 8, 2009 9:12:22 GMT
If I had to rank articles of clothing I would have expected to see Jones wearing, I would place a brilliant pink scarf at the bottom. Seconded. Seriously... What up with that scarf, Jones? |
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Post by penguinfactory on Jun 8, 2009 9:39:07 GMT
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Post by starburst98 on Jun 8, 2009 9:47:23 GMT
of course, we ALL know that parley is tsundere. and what secrets does jones have?
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Post by bisected8 on Jun 8, 2009 9:57:16 GMT
Well it looks like Smitty's in deep smit...
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Post by roboticelf on Jun 8, 2009 10:39:41 GMT
If I had to rank articles of clothing I would have expected to see Jones wearing, I would place a brilliant pink scarf at the bottom. Seconded. Seriously... What up with that scarf, Jones? It's not a scarf it's a ribbon. It's to keep her head from falling off. |
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Post by todd on Jun 8, 2009 10:44:29 GMT
The chapter's looking more promising now. (I'll confess that I've got this much in common with Annie; I'm more interested in whatever Jones and Reynardine were discussing - and the intrigues and mysteries at Gunnerkrigg related to them and the others around them - than in another spacemonauts adventure.)
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Post by Dentrala on Jun 8, 2009 13:54:55 GMT
Smitty is the best in the first panel.
And I definitely am not liking Jones' fashion sense.
*EDIT* Actually, it makes sense now. The hot pink scarf is actually radioactive decay, which fuels Jones' robot body.
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Post by bisected8 on Jun 8, 2009 14:17:42 GMT
I don't see why everyone's complaining about Jones' pink scarf. It's blatantly a focale.  |
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Post by sudrien on Jun 8, 2009 14:52:18 GMT
That "pink" has a name - Magenta. Only... Magenta does not exist. It is a construct of our minds. I have no idea if this means anything  |
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Jun 8, 2009 15:49:12 GMT
I'm guessing that Rey wants Jones to tell him what it was that Annie talked to Coyote about back in chapter 20. He must not realize that she doesn't know, or if Annie told her, she can't tell him, probably because she wants to maintain her neutrality. I think Parley just ruined Smitty's name forever too.
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Post by cantabile on Jun 8, 2009 19:57:19 GMT
Rey seems disappointed to see Jones working with the court...
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Post by Goatmon on Jun 8, 2009 19:59:32 GMT
Annie's face is hilarious.
I guess it's unsettling for her to realize that Reynardine and Jones are familiar enough to have a casual chat.
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Post by clementine on Jun 8, 2009 20:56:40 GMT
Jones calls him Renard, not Reynardine. She must've known him before he came to the court. Interesting... Also, pink scarf? Obviously she has a hot date with Eglamore |
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Post by mjh on Jun 8, 2009 21:43:25 GMT
Rey seems disappointed to see Jones working with the court... Does she really? Annie had noticed before that Jones wasn’t taking sides and that’s precisely what she is telling Reynardine now: “I’m not beholden to anyone, Reynard, you know that.” Reynardine used to take the Court’s side and has little trust in either Coyote or Ysengrin. I suppose Reynardine had suggested to her to give up her neutrality and side with the Court. |
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Post by todd on Jun 8, 2009 22:13:33 GMT
Annie's face is hilarious. I guess it's unsettling for her to realize that Reynardine and Jones are familiar enough to have a casual chat. I thought that the look on Annie's face in the next-to-last panel was prompted by Parley coming along and interrupting Reynardine and Jones' conversation just as she was hoping to learn something from it. (Judging from the eye-rolling in the second panel, I think Annie's already getting fed up with Parley constantly harassing Smith during their medium classes.) |
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Post by Dentrala on Jun 8, 2009 22:38:11 GMT
I'm pretty sure Jones "took the test" from the Forest, though. (And I never knew that about magenta - that's pretty neat). Because people find it disturbing that she would comment on Ysengrim changing shape, and she seems on pretty sweet terms with Renardine. She looks kind of like an animal though.
Here's where I wait for someone to quote me with an answer in Tom's thread discounting this. <,<
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Post by Casey on Jun 8, 2009 22:52:43 GMT
We don't have any evidence for or against Jones being a forest convert that I'm aware of... but it does make for an interesting theory. Right now I'm trying to remember if there wasn't something about fairy converts retaining their regional dots... I'm probably just remembering that their regional dots are repeated on their clothing if their clothing covers their shoulders... but that's while they're still fairies. Even so, we do know that Jones doesn't have any dots on her shoulders. That still though isn't really evidence for or against her being a forest convert...
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Post by todd on Jun 8, 2009 22:55:12 GMT
Incidentally, I'm a bit surprised that Annie would take Reynardine along with her on this outing, even if he didn't actually accompany her into the simulation chamber. After certain incidents in their past history, I think she wouldn't want him around while she's in that spacemonaut uniform - though maybe she figured that Reynardine's learned enough from past disciplinary measures not to make any inappropriate remarks.
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Post by Dentrala on Jun 8, 2009 22:56:29 GMT
We don't have any evidence for or against Jones being a forest convert that I'm aware of... but it does make for an interesting theory. Right now I'm trying to remember if there wasn't something about fairy converts retaining their regional dots... I'm probably just remembering that their regional dots are repeated on their clothing if their clothing covers their shoulders... but that's while they're still fairies. Even so, we do know that Jones doesn't have any dots on her shoulders. That still though isn't really evidence for or against her being a forest convert... That's true, but those were just fairies. Supposedly any animal in the court can switch, so Jones isn't necessarily a fairy. The evidence for her being a convert are only that she has probably changed physical shape, and both Coyote and Renard know her. The last one isn't actually evidence, but I can dream! |
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Post by bisected8 on Jun 8, 2009 23:03:15 GMT
Wait, where's the evidence that she's changed shape?
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Post by Casey on Jun 8, 2009 23:08:57 GMT
That's true, but those were just fairies. Supposedly any animal in the court can switch, so Jones isn't necessarily a fairy. Wellll..... the first two panels of this page seem to indicate that forest converts that are girls are all fairies, and forest converts that are boys are everything else. However, again, I'll be the first to point out that this isn't evidence of anything. Red could be referring only to forest converts who become students at the Court. She could also be including boy-fairies in the group "a bunch of different stuff". But that would only go towards explaining the boys at the court that weren't fairies, not the girls. We only know of girl forest-converts having been originally fairies. It's an argument in favor, but it isn't evidence, I know. It's actually got me to wondering whether Jones wasn't originally a demi-god-like creature like Ysengrin, Renard, or even Brynhildr. The latter gives us evidence that there are other, "godlike" creatures in the Gunnerverse besides the dog-gods. I don't know, she could even be an embodied abstract like Themis... the presence of Brynhildr in the Gunnerverse opens up a lot of possibilities. |
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Post by bisected8 on Jun 8, 2009 23:12:51 GMT
That's true, but those were just fairies. Supposedly any animal in the court can switch, so Jones isn't necessarily a fairy. Wellll..... the first two panels of this page seem to indicate that forest converts that are girls are all fairies, and forest converts that are boys are everything else. However, again, I'll be the first to point out that this isn't evidence of anything. Red could be referring only to forest converts who become students at the Court. She could also be including boy-fairies in the group "a bunch of different stuff". But that would only go towards explaining the boys at the court that weren't fairies, not the girls. We only know of girl forest-converts having been originally fairies. It's an argument in favor, but it isn't evidence, I know. It's actually got me to wondering whether Jones wasn't originally a demi-god-like creature like Ysengrin, Renard, or even Brynhildr. The latter gives us evidence that there are other, "godlike" creatures in the Gunnerverse besides the dog-gods. I don't know, she could even be an embodied abstract like Themis... the presence of Brynhildr in the Gunnerverse opens up a lot of possibilities. Given what we know about Reynard, if there was a way for the god-like creatures to become human, wouldn't he have used it? He was possibly willing (we don't know if he knew the side effects at the point he possessed that guy) to kill and reluctant to accept more power from Coyote after all. |
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Post by Mishmash on Jun 8, 2009 23:15:14 GMT
That is an interesting point todd, I didn't interpret Annie's expression that way, but it perhaps makes more sense. There she was trying to do a Mort and eavesdrop and she was ruined by noisy ol' Parley.
I feel really sorry for Smitface here, he looks so guilty for ruining the mission and Parley is giving him quite the hard time. She probably doesn't even realise.
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Post by Casey on Jun 8, 2009 23:29:01 GMT
Given what we know about Reynard, if there was a way for the god-like creatures to become human, wouldn't he have used it? He was possibly willing (we don't know if he knew the side effects at the point he possessed that guy) to kill and reluctant to accept more power from Coyote after all. Without entering the debate about what we "know" about Renard, I just want to reiterate my point that Brynhildr A) is human(oid), B) is demi-god-like (being the daughter of Odin) and C) has been at Gunnerkrigg Court. This allows for the possibility for other, humanoid, demigodlike entities to be at the Court, irrespective of whether specific, canid, demigodlike creatures can make themselves look humanoid. |
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