Chrome
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Post by Chrome on Sept 24, 2010 3:23:54 GMT
Unless Steadman's ability to shoot arrows with such sublime aim is actually one of those extra-normal abilities?
What if the Court founders all had some degree of extra-normal ability, and had been fleeing from a world that feared such abnormality and wanted to kill them? Or rather, a society trying to study/protect these things. Either one would make them rather persona non grata in most of Europe at the late 1700s/early 1800s....
That would actually make the founders' departure and brief alliance with the Wood creatures (until it fell apart) make even more sense. They'd be weird enough themselves to accept strange beings as Coyote as a norm of sorts. They'd also be paranoid enough from having been routed from their homes to want to make a firm entrenching wherever they ended up, argument or no.
Somewhere around that time frame, I've forgotten when beside it being around the late 1700s/early 1800s, there was a rather big crackdown on secret societies, from a religious as well as anti-rebellion standpoint. There was a documentary I'd caught one time, explaining how the Illumati basically disappeared during that time, as well as other secret societies. So I wonder if the Court was one of these, before they took off for the Wood as refugees. The "blinded Sun" image would suggest the larger world wouldn't care about oddballs like these, and it would explain the current Court's fascination with those of extra-normal capabilities.
Diego certainly could be classed as such. Steadman's aim as an archer also indicates this, especially considering Jeanne trusted him to get a message out to Elfboy despite the huge distances between the Court and the Wood. (I could believe a sniper firing at what had to be a pretty impressive distance from that window to hit a target on the Wood side when you think about the Annan Waters' divide and so on....but an archer? That's badass.)
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Post by cu on Sept 24, 2010 6:37:24 GMT
Oh my gosh! A notion of unspeakable evil crossed my mind! Not even the Court Founding Fathers could be so cruel! But... still... so evil, but so effective, so machiavellian... what if... what if...
(Those of you prone to nightmares, please stop reading now, this forum definitely needs a spoiler tag.)
What if the arrow is loaded with a product that nullifies the effect of hair mousse!!!!!
There, I said it, I feel a bit dirty inside, but I had to share my fears.
Look at Diego's hair! Come on, who would look at him without cringing, least of all, befriend him. Not even a psychopomp would come near him. Danny Elfman's hair points upwards even inside the water, the stud!
Now imagine Jeanne's heartbreak, her towering rage, her utter disappointment... what remains for her in life but to become a vengeful ghost and exact justice against phony Gilliteans with all their high and mighty hairdos, crossing the waters to deceive poor youngsters into fake friendship or even love?
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Post by blinkerstoned on Sept 24, 2010 10:14:31 GMT
Oh my gosh! A notion of unspeakable evil crossed my mind! Not even the Court Founding Fathers could be so cruel! But... still... so evil, but so effective, so machiavellian... what if... what if... (Those of you prone to nightmares, please stop reading now, this forum definitely needs a spoiler tag.) What if the arrow is loaded with a product that nullifies the effect of hair mousse!!!!! There, I said it, I feel a bit dirty inside, but I had to share my fears. Look at Diego's hair! Come on, who would look at him without cringing, least of all, befriend him. Not even a psychopomp would come near him. Danny Elfman's hair points upwards even inside the water, the stud! Now imagine Jeanne's heartbreak, her towering rage, her utter disappointment... what remains for her in life but to become a vengeful ghost and exact justice against phony Gilliteans with all their high and mighty hairdos, crossing the waters to deceive poor youngsters into fake friendship or even love? ;D Hmm,somebody should seriously do an edit of the scene with Red and Blue...you know,the hair scene....except by replacing it with Jeanne and Elfboy
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Post by Per on Sept 24, 2010 10:45:39 GMT
I think Tom is leading us along again. What if Steadman and Sir Young were just trying to help the two lovers get together, and the arrow was supposed to be a noise-making one (like one of those party whistles) and release confetti, and the etheric part was a blinker stone message that wrote in big colored letters, "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU TWO!" But something wasn't right with the arrow, and it was silent, and the blinker stone unbalanced the arrowhead causing Steadman's shot to go awry, and it accidentally killed Elf-boy. Then the fragments of the stone managed to write out "YOU TOO!" in twisted letters before flickering out, and Jeanne panicked and ran away down the ravine, until she eventually came to die of starvation. No wonder they would want to "bury what was done here"! How embarrassing! And Diego felt bad because the arrow "did nothing." The three guys only wanted to help, and they ruined everything. :-( Sort of how you probably wrote this post just to be helpful, but ended up making me emit very strange snorting sounds in a computer lab with people in it. I'm thinking of picking up a sword and taking swipes at anyone who comes in here.
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monte
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Post by monte on Sept 24, 2010 14:34:04 GMT
Unless Steadman's ability to shoot arrows with such sublime aim is actually one of those extra-normal abilities? Diego certainly could be classed as such. Steadman's aim as an archer also indicates this, especially considering Jeanne trusted him to get a message out to Elfboy despite the huge distances between the Court and the Wood. (I could believe a sniper firing at what had to be a pretty impressive distance from that window to hit a target on the Wood side when you think about the Annan Waters' divide and so on....but an archer? That's badass.) I really think you're overthinking things... Again i point to Eglamore you can leap dozens of feet into the air. He was not chosen as the court's guardian because of his physical abilities, but simply his personality. If Eglamore can train himself to leap so high into the air, then why can't steadman simply be THAT good of a shot?
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Post by jayne on Sept 24, 2010 15:13:18 GMT
Unless Steadman's ability to shoot arrows with such sublime aim is actually one of those extra-normal abilities? Diego certainly could be classed as such. Steadman's aim as an archer also indicates this, especially considering Jeanne trusted him to get a message out to Elfboy despite the huge distances between the Court and the Wood. (I could believe a sniper firing at what had to be a pretty impressive distance from that window to hit a target on the Wood side when you think about the Annan Waters' divide and so on....but an archer? That's badass.) I really think you're overthinking things... Again i point to Eglamore you can leap dozens of feet into the air. He was not chosen as the court's guardian because of his physical abilities, but simply his personality. If Eglamore can train himself to leap so high into the air, then why can't steadman simply be THAT good of a shot? Its possible that Steadman is just naturally that good. In current day, some people have etheric abilities. Did the people originally come to the court with abilities or did they occur after exposure to the forest? We're not sure why some people have these skills but they found Zimmy and Gamma far from the court which leads me to believe such things are world wide and maybe Steadman did come to the court with such a skill.
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