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Post by siretigs on Jan 15, 2011 0:20:37 GMT
Coyote's tooth may be one of the only things that can harm Coyote. I was thinking this. Similar legends about Gods do exist where the can only be harmed by themselves however I don't think he's particularly worried about his well being, if he was concerned then he wouldn't have given it to her in the first place. There is also the possibility that the tooth was given to Antimony with intention of using her so he could strike the court. After he made his first appearance it was made clear that the people of the forest and the school didn't get along, yes? Now Coyote doesn't seem that bothered by this relationship but that doesn't mean he isn't inclined to hate the court, especially after tricking Reynard, again he showed knowledge of this but no personal feelings however I think he still has some negative feelings to the court. When he gave her the tooth he claimed it could cut the very earth but why would Annie need something so powerful? It might be that he wants Reynard to find it and use it against the court. Coyote obviously liked Reynard a lot otherwise he wouldn't have given him so much power. I think that it's more likely that Coyote is trying to teach her a lesson but it's something to dwell about .
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Post by snarkamedes on Jan 15, 2011 0:26:05 GMT
Think this might be Coyote's reaction to how she blurted out the 'Reynardine was tricked! Tricked I tells yas!" earlier. His way of teaching her to keep her mouth shut regards certain pieces of infomation.
How much longer before we have to call her 'Stumpy' Stibnite I wonder...
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Post by Sadie on Jan 15, 2011 0:35:45 GMT
Think this might be Coyote's reaction to how she blurted out the 'Reynardine was tricked! Tricked I tells yas!" earlier. His way of teaching her to keep her mouth shut regards certain pieces of infomation. Why would Coyote want to teach Annie to not tattle-tale on the Court to him?
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Post by goldenknots on Jan 15, 2011 1:58:39 GMT
While the drawing didn't indicate it directly, I had the immediate impression that it looked like a tongue wrapping around her wrist -- looks like Coyote's mouth is open while it's being placed.
It doesn't have to be visible to anyone else, just Antimony. Might show up the way the cut on her face does.
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Post by Necropaxx on Jan 15, 2011 2:44:04 GMT
I think Coyote meant to say especially Ysengrin.
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 15, 2011 2:51:26 GMT
"snip off your hand" could mean that it snips apart and falls off her hand, which my sister suggested. It wouldn't neccesarily be lying. Quite possibly, but even if this will occur to Annie, it's not like she's going to test the theory. And for this lesson it's the threat that matters. Why would Coyote want to teach Annie to not tattle-tale on the Court to him? First, the specific case was more of "not to blab around Ol' 'Grin things bound to send him into murderous rage". Second, in general it's about not forgetting herself completely the moment someone steps on her toe. With secrets or fire, her lack of self-control became very dangerous. Coyote proposed to teach Annie about dealing with her temper (though dodged any hard promises), so he began right away. Better late than too late and all that. It doesn't have to be visible to anyone else, just Antimony. Might show up the way the cut on her face does. No, so far ether-vision was all or nothing, and the cut is not visible while this band is. Also, by doing this now Coyote deliberately leaves Annie a path to retreat. On the one paw, she will be not cornered, but making a choice - if he did it after Jones left, it would felt very different. On the other paw, she obviously will still go for it, but it's much better for her self-respect and she will already takes a small step, by acting responsibly and not chickening out the moment she met any hardship.
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Post by King Mir on Jan 15, 2011 3:31:47 GMT
I hope that Coyote will remove it when she leaves the forest in the fall.
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Post by snarkamedes on Jan 15, 2011 4:11:20 GMT
Why would Coyote want to teach Annie to not tattle-tale on the Court to him? Just as a general rule. She's reacting to unsettling infomation by blurting stuff out, or revealing it at the wrong time. Coyote's intention here might be to teach her to keep stuff to herself rather than use it to lash out. Bottle it all up inside rather than unburden herself at the first opportunity... everyone knows that's healthier for you. Plus Coyote will be playing games on his own 'people' as well as them across the ditch. Infomation is power; so long as Coyote retains the most complete picture of what's going on he can watch the others wandering around/reacting in their own smaller circles and play his fun little games with them. Annie blurting things out at will is something that needs to be prevented for this state of affairs to continue at his maximum levels of ROFL.
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Post by Raph on Jan 15, 2011 4:27:10 GMT
All right, now the first day at the forest isn't over and she is already in danger. I'm eager to see what comes next, be it a behavior lesson or not.
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Post by Refugee on Jan 15, 2011 4:30:12 GMT
I took "no harm will come to you" to apply only to that one trip, with Coyote's invitation, on more or less official court business. Annie made this trip for her self without Court sanction or even an appointment.
She's on her own.
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Post by q3 on Jan 15, 2011 4:41:33 GMT
I wonder if Coyote hasn't pulled similar tricks before. Like, perhaps, on a certain tree-wolf whose armor is causing his body to waste away, but who through it all consistently declares his loyalty to Coyote. The same tree wolf who went to great lengths to secretly leave some seeds with Coyote's enemies, which said enemies immediately set about studying... i was definitely right about the forest not being nearly as safe as it seemed. however...the bind directly contradicts coyote's promise that no harm would come to annie. That promise applied to her first visit to the forest - not necessarily to any subsequent visits. Remember the stunt he pulled on her last visit with Ysengrin's quiet time? And most certainly such a promise would not apply to a visit that she did not even bother to announce ahead of time... A normal sword can not hurt Jones, who seems to need to be touching the earth at all times. (Jones can't fly or swim) Jones on a boat.Not touching the earth. Maybe Jones, like Dracula, takes a bit of her native soil with her on long boat trips. Maybe Jones is Dracula?!?!?!?!
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Post by scyllarus on Jan 15, 2011 4:58:17 GMT
i'm not certain about what the promise applies to. i could see it applying only to the first visit, or announced visits, but coyote wasn't specific about it. also, ysengrin doesn't actually hurt her - in fact, he snarls something along the lines of "if you were anyone else..." instead of chomping her head off. i think this only confirms that coyote commanded that the denizens of the forest not hurt annie.
i'm still in the boat that, while annie's probably got a right to be mad about how the court is run, we as readers need to remember kat's chapter. the court's made of people who are just trying to make things better for themselves. diego might have been in the wrong for killing jeanne's lover and poisoning the annan waters, but he's one man. and yes, the court did agree to his plan...because he was more-or-less the expert. i'm actually kind of glad that we're finally getting to see the ugly side of coyote, and perhaps the forest.
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Post by Max on Jan 15, 2011 5:31:46 GMT
Another thing to remember (if it hasn't been brought up in this thread yet) is Coyote's eye symbol on Annie's head in the third treatise.
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Post by americonedream on Jan 15, 2011 7:01:14 GMT
Another thing to remember (if it hasn't been brought up in this thread yet) is Coyote's eye symbol on Annie's head in the third treatise. That made me think of Coyote calling Jones wandering eye and that eye representing her. That was what immediately popped into my head when Coyote called her that.
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Post by antoids on Jan 15, 2011 7:16:21 GMT
man, i'd give my right hand for a bracelet like that
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Post by Sadie on Jan 15, 2011 8:14:35 GMT
Second, in general it's about not forgetting herself completely the moment someone steps on her toe. With secrets or fire, her lack of self-control became very dangerous. Coyote proposed to teach Annie about dealing with her temper (though dodged any hard promises), so he began right away. Better late than too late and all that. hsdfjsdhj OH COME ON. Do you really think human nature works this way? This is a terrible way to teach someone self-control. Look, it's not about the consequences, okay? Controlling your emotions in order to protect yourself from a threat/negative consequence or to achieve a desired outcome is the act of people WITH self-control. If you can do this: You Have Self-Control. People who lack or struggle with self-control are the ones with heavy regrets, unfulfilled dreams, bad relationships, and the crushing realization that they will never be strong enough to stop messing up over and over again unless they get help. The last thing that will help them is an escalating scale of worse consequences in search of that magical one that'll suddenly cause them to start controlling themselves.
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Post by atteSmythe on Jan 15, 2011 8:27:02 GMT
Well, she's done a good job so far this chapter of proving that she cannot keep secrets. Annie didn't honor the Court's wishes that a secret be kept, so he just upped the ante a bit. Putting aside the question of what and how Coyote knows and/or doesn't know what the Court asks Annie to do --- So hey, any of you guys remember that time long ago at the beginning of the chapter when Anja told Annie an awful secret about someone very close to her that was yet another example of the Court liking to control those around them? And then a bunch of people got on the forums and some advocated her sharing that secret for good reasons -- the Court was untrustworthy, Reynardine was more her ally, Surma tricking him was wrong in the first place -- and some advocated her not sharing that secret for good reasons --- Reynardine isn't fully trustworthy, Annie doesn't have all the information, Anja may be right about the danger -- and every opinion in-between? While maybe no one reached a consensus over which was the best or more 'right' choice in the context, there was enough doubt over the nature of the secret itself that any answer required considerable deliberation and a paragraph-long justification to fly. So then Annie chose the answer "to tell" with the justification of "because I was mad and hurt", which pretty much even the people said "okay, Reynardine started it" agreed was the 'wrong' reason to have revealed the secret. And now it's turned into "Annie needs to learn keep secrets better". You mean the secret that a bunch of people had to justify being worth keeping in the first place? I guess what I'm getting at here is that the lesson of "you should keep secrets, even potentially unsafe and dangerous ones, because someone told you to and you won't like the consequences" is really awful lesson. I really wasn't advocating one way or the other. She has shown she won't keep secrets - whether she had a good reason for telling those secrets is an entirely different issue. And coyote knows of this because of Annie's blurt-out of the secret about her mother just a few pages back. Personally, I think there's a big difference between telling Rey that he was tricked and telling Coyote that Rey was tricked.
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Post by Sadie on Jan 15, 2011 8:38:57 GMT
I really wasn't advocating one way or the other. She has shown she won't keep secrets - whether she had a good reason for telling those secrets is an entirely different issue. And coyote knows of this because of Annie's blurt-out of the secret about her mother just a few pages back. Personally, I think there's a big difference between telling Rey that he was tricked and telling Coyote that Rey was tricked. Showing that she won't keep a secret under this set of conditions doesn't show that she won't keep secrets, period. Speaking of, what pages was it where Annie blabbed the secrets about Jeanne, the robot's video of Diego, what was up with Jack, the fact that Robot is up and about when he should be a box of paperclips, Shadow 2's return to the Court even though Forrest Creatures aren't allowed inside without permission, and the students' night time visit to watch the Power Station? I mean, she really can't keep her mouth shut for anything, she must have shared these things with all the worst possible people. Edit: Ooops, forgot to address the rest of your comment. So, Coyote knows that Annie won't keep Court secrets from him. This wouldn't tell him that she's sharing secrets she was told to keep, because he has no (readily apparent) way of knowing how she came by this information. This scenario would've played out the same way if she was sharing something she overhead in a hallway. What it does tell him is that she's willing to put the Court and herself at risk to give him information she feels he needs. Which is far, far more useful and interesting than "she won't keep secrets when she's told". Actually, that's a cool thought. Assuming Coyote was paying attention (some people have suggested Coyote didn't already know Rey was specifically tricked by Surma and the stinging of his pride wasn't distracting him), he'd have noticed that Annie will put herself at risk to accomplish a goal she feels justified in. Of course, he doesn't know if she fully understood that she WAS at risk, but hmm, what if he made the risk really, really obvious? What sort of goal would the fire headed girl consider more important than her own hand? Could she possibly be tricky enough to weasel her way out of loosing her hand and still accomplish that goal? Now that really would be a jest. A fire headed girl who just did want she was told would be almost boring by comparison...
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 15, 2011 9:00:25 GMT
"snip off your hand" could mean that it snips apart and falls off her hand, which my sister suggested. It wouldn't neccesarily be lying. On the third thought, it could have another advantage: after using it for a lesson, Coyote could set Annie up for a "self-sacrificing" action to save some critter, then drop in and explain everything (before laughing his rump off). This would make her firmly accepted and even respected once the word goes out. But i don't see how mentioning of such a thing could immediately help anyone, let alone save. I hope that Coyote will remove it when she leaves the forest in the fall. Since it works only in the Wood, it's not that great a deal... also, in the Court she probably can simply cut it. man, i'd give my right hand for a bracelet like that But it's sort of self-defeating - without a hand it would just snip off... Second, in general it's about not forgetting herself completely the moment someone steps on her toe. With secrets or fire, her lack of self-control became very dangerous. Coyote proposed to teach Annie about dealing with her temper (though dodged any hard promises), so he began right away. Better late than too late and all that. hsdfjsdhj OH COME ON. Do you really think human nature works this way? Very yes. This is a terrible way to teach someone self-control. Normally it would be way over the top, but a hard nut needs a heavy hammer. People who lack or struggle with self-control are the ones with heavy regrets, unfulfilled dreams, bad relationships, and the crushing realization that they will never be strong enough to stop messing up over and over again unless they get help. The last thing that will help them is an escalating scale of worse consequences in search of that magical one that'll suddenly cause them to start controlling themselves. I don't know about emos, but for the people who actively try to stay on the chosen path having some good reminder definitely helps to not stray off. In this case the problem developed far beyond the point where normal memento ("hello, myself, remember how i wanted to rid of childish rages?.. just saying.") would change anything. It should be a reminder of something that cannot be simply ignored as insignificant in the heat of moment. Hence the choice. It's a slightly different variant of old good gom jabbar. Heh, i even mentioned St. Alia, but didn't expect to see this on the next page...
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Jan 15, 2011 9:19:07 GMT
No one in the Court ever threatened to cut part of Annie off. =P [snipped quote] This place seems biased towards Coyote and the forest. Haven't you read the horrible things people have written about Court because they don't make it a point to share all their secrets with a 13 year-old schoolgirl? Come now! Be fair. There are things Annie has a plain right to know. Telling her about the Reynard incident was idiotic of Anja, to be honest. That's a private matter she had no right to; not to mention being better off a secret, but Annie's link with her mother was something she had an absolute right to know. The court has a very, "We decide. For your own good!" attitude. The court doesn't have to induct her into the inner circle, but life would be easier on everyone if they saw fit to even give her some basic information. That said. I agree with your basic point. I won't name names as to avoid the NO I WAS RIGHT FIRST I SAID IT race, but a lot of people already pegged this from the start. Annie running into the forest was the biggest mistake she could have made. It isn't a safe haven. It's good in it's own way, but it is certainly not a place for humans. It doesn't operate on the same rules or expectations. It's only coyote playing patty cake with her so much that she thinks otherwise. EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, now that I've mentioned the jerk, Coyote is most certainly not your bro. Annie is better off at the court even with it's flaws. It's not the awful place some think to be sure. That is, of course, unless Annie feels like giving up her humanity. Then she's better off at the forest. As a side note, it occurs to me that the court might not have necessarily been keeping a secret. They could have assumed she already knew about the situation with her mother. That's the kind of thing, you know, your parent is supposed to cover with you. Not strangers you hardly know.
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Post by hal9000 on Jan 15, 2011 9:49:47 GMT
Don't worry, Annie! Even if you do slip up and tell someone about the tooth, Coyote would be happy to give you a replacement evil hand! An evil hand is a distinct disadvantage. Fortunately, I can think of at least two replacements that would work great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_L0A3PUoY
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Post by King Mir on Jan 15, 2011 9:57:54 GMT
I took "no harm will come to you" to apply only to that one trip, with Coyote's invitation, on more or less official court business. Annie made this trip for her self without Court sanction or even an appointment. She's on her own. You forgot This page, where he promises to grant her every protection.
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Post by hargharg on Jan 15, 2011 10:07:01 GMT
[...] Maybe Jones, like Dracula, takes a bit of her native soil with her on long boat trips. Maybe Jones is Dracula?!?!?!?! I haven't thought of that, maybe Jones has dirt in her shoes, so she can always stand on earth... My bad. : )
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Post by Sadie on Jan 15, 2011 10:16:58 GMT
Very yes. Normally it would be way over the top, but a hard nut needs a heavy hammer. You know if we're going to go with tool metaphors; sometimes a screw needs a screwdriver, not a bigger hammer. People who lack or struggle with self-control are the ones with heavy regrets, unfulfilled dreams, bad relationships, and the crushing realization that they will never be strong enough to stop messing up over and over again unless they get help. The last thing that will help them is an escalating scale of worse consequences in search of that magical one that'll suddenly cause them to start controlling themselves. I don't know about emos,[/quote] Dude, A+! "I don't know about (insert slang for people who suck and are worthy of scorn), but" is the best response to someone's point! I am so giving you a debate-cookie. Aka: the ones that have self-control? Yeah, I completely agree that reminders can help them lots, if that's how they're wired. Granted, I question whether or not something that's the equivalent of a highway patrol following you everywhere to make sure you don't speed (re: the fashionable hand removal bracelet) actually helps improve your self-control. Oh, Dune.... it's been a while, but wasn't Alia insane? No, nevermind that; you do know it's not the threat of death that allowed them to endure the pain, but the choice to endure the pain as an alternative to dying AND the endurance to back that choice up? I know, it seems nitpicky, but it is a key distinction. The ones that failed the test failed it even with the threat of death present. Which means it wasn't the size of the consequence that allowed for success or failure, but rather the manner in which the test-taker responded to the existence of the consequence. Also, it was a TEST of their existing self-control. A TEST. Not a lesson on how to control themselves; a test to see how well they've mastered the skill. So again, throwing a really huge consequence at someone because the small ones don't seem to be working is an awful way to teach them self-control. A good reason for them to exercise their existing self-control? Maybe; assuming it's something they've chosen to respond to and how they chose to respond to it. The other problem with the "just make it worse for them if they're a loser" method is that it's an act of control on the part of the person imposing the consequence. Sure, they may justify by it saying they're controlling the person because they can't control themselves, but it's rarely done with their consent.
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Post by todd on Jan 15, 2011 11:39:44 GMT
diego might have been in the wrong for killing jeanne's lover and poisoning the annan waters, but he's one man. and yes, the court did agree to his plan...because he was more-or-less the expert. Though not one of the other Founders, as far as we can tell, ever stopped to think that the guy proposing that they kill Jeanne and her lover and trap her soul into a ghost-guardian was a rejected suitor of hers, and that there might be some connection there. (Then again, Othello never once stopped to think that the guy telling him that Cassio and Desdemona were having an affair was the guy who wanted the promotion that Cassio got.) The Donlans and Eglamore might not have told Annie about how she was the cause of Surma's death because it was so horrible - who wants to go through life knowing that they were responsible for their mother's death? Though, of course, that allowed the possibility that Annie might find out some other way, under worse circumstances. (Perhaps the only solution for that problem would have been for the cycle of the child receiving the mother's life-force to have never begun at all.)
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Post by theweatherman on Jan 15, 2011 12:52:41 GMT
Whoever said that the court is disliked alot more than the forest, I completely agree.
The court killed a women and her lover and left her to stay there smothered in her own hate, that's a horrible thing to do, but this was hundreds of years ago, everyone who did that is dead and a new generation has stepped in, likely a far nicer generation too (people a few hundred years ago tended to be assholes). In short, don't judge the court today by the court of yesterday.
Sure, they kept secrets from Annie, but guys, she's 14(ish), it's highly likely they would have told her eventually when she can deal with this better. When she did find out she ran out of the court into a forest filled with a pissed off tree-wolf and a god, scaring pretty much everyone and risking her life.
I think that is exactly what they did not want to happen.
Oh and for everyone who says that this is creepy, this isn't creepy, it's terrifying! A 14 year old girl, whacked with emotional pain, is being threated with the removal of her hand by a god, she's probably going to be in tears by the next comic, or will break down the second Jones leaves. She's got to spend the entire summer with people willing to cut her apart.
If I were her, I'd try anything possible to go back with Jones to the safety of the court.
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Post by jayne on Jan 15, 2011 14:45:29 GMT
There's a lot to like about the court: technology, security, the ability to study anything that is interesting and at whatever level challenges you.
But its, old, chipped, broken down, not much grows there and I need my green things. I get the feeling the classrooms have that smell that old buildings acquire over time. Its just not a pleasant place to be 24/7.
At least not for me but I've chooses a squirrel girl as my avatar so I'm a forest fan anyway.
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Post by warrl on Jan 15, 2011 15:55:48 GMT
After {Coyote} made his first appearance it was made clear that the people of the forest and the school didn't get along, yes? Now Coyote doesn't seem that bothered by this relationship but that doesn't mean he isn't inclined to hate the court, especially after tricking Reynard, again he showed knowledge of this but no personal feelings however I think he still has some negative feelings to the court. Coyote is a trickster. Most versions of a (non-vicious) trickster appreciate a good trick pulled by someone else, even on themselves. And since Coyote is at least partly the teaching sort of trickster, he probably figures Reynard will learn a lesson from the experience. So he would regard it as the Court paying homage to himself. As far as I can recall, Coyote has never shown a dislike for the Court. On the other hand, he separated Court and Forest when they were about to come to blows, and the Court was not yet well-established so was fairly vulnerable. The Court then felt threatened by *him*, and he bound himself by his own word to protect them from that threat. Later the Court wanted to re-establish dialog for its own reasons, and pretty much dictated the terms and protocols of contact. (At the same time, he doesn't want to see the Court overpower the Forest; he wants both to thrive.) I suspect Coyote was getting bored with the situation and wanted to wander off, so to protect the Forest from the now-well-established Court he sought to give some of his power to Reynard who "loves humans" (and, in the mythology, is another teaching trickster) - not to Ysengrim who hates humans in general. It sounds impressive, but you can take a butterknife or a strong stick and cut the earth. (Not very deeply, of course, and you want to avoid rocks.) The evidence that this is his intent, or that Reynard is likely to try to harm the Court?... I know of none. Reynard entered (and thus killed) the one human (of no known particular importance) in pursuit of red hair and a foxy tail, and then later entered (and thus killed) the Rogat Orjak in an unsuccessful attempt to not be captured. And that is ALL the harm we know him to have done. There is also the apparent attempt to possess Annie (or her doll) which would simply be another attempt to escape captivity, and perhaps he thought that because of her not-exactly-human nature it might not kill her. Aside from that we don't even know of any damage he ATTEMPTED to do. That, and I also think that certain Forest beings learning that such a gift is in the Court could have unpleasant repercussions. Specifically I suspect that Ysengrim has not figured out that Coyote doesn't favor the Forest.
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Post by blahzor on Jan 15, 2011 17:26:24 GMT
Forest, i suspect the main reason is the object lesson. Coyote would make up something or at least tell Annie it's a "very hush-hush" subject the moment he gave her this toy - if he really cared about it. That, too. Jones may be the only one really dangerous. But again, Coyote saw her in the Court and ignored this possibility altogether. Good grief. It's the least of Annie's problems - she can invent a plausible lie or, even better, tell the truth in several different ways... none of which would involve as much as a slightest hint at the possibility that she have something to hide. "... too angry to think", but seems so. she can basically say "this is coyote's way of make sure no harm will come to me in the Forest"
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Post by Sadie on Jan 15, 2011 19:32:22 GMT
Why would Coyote want to teach Annie to not tattle-tale on the Court to him? Just as a general rule. She's reacting to unsettling infomation by blurting stuff out, or revealing it at the wrong time. Coyote's intention here might be to teach her to keep stuff to herself rather than use it to lash out. Bottle it all up inside rather than unburden herself at the first opportunity... everyone knows that's healthier for you. Okay, I can agree that the lesson of "don't blurt out something just because you're mad" may be something Coyote wants Annie to learn (though frankly, it seems like it would result in less hilarity than the alternative). B-but I'm sorry -- I just can't wrap my mind around the logic and explanations people are presenting for it. I keep trying and all I get is: Coyote: Silly fire headed girl! You aren't supposed to tell me secrets the Court is trying to keep from me just because you're upset! Look how you've bothered poor Ysegrin :> Ysegrin: Sir, I'm mad at you for saying you left one of us to that fate knowingly. Coyote: Which I wouldn't have had to say if it weren't for blathermouth here. Really, girl, I've only spent all our previous visits encouraging you to favor me and the Forest over the Court. It's almost as if I wanted you to act in ways that you thought would help me or that I could take advantage of, hahaha! But no, seriously, this revealing secrets when mad thing has got to go. It's for your own good. Have a bracelet. :> Annie: Um, why are you giving me one specific secret to keep quiet about it? I mean, I could still loose my temper and tell a different secret without getting my hand cut off. Coyote: Nonsense! While obviously you have a compulsive urge to tell every single secret that enters your ears -- Annie: Hang on, hasn't it always been part of my character that I'm secretive and close mouthed and this is the first secret I've been careless with ever? Coyote: -- no. Don't interrupt. As I was saying, giving you a specific secret to keep with a specific consequence if you don't automatically gives you the restraint to hold back all secrets! :> Annie: So.... you mean you want me to learn to not reveal any secrets while in a rage, ever, including ones that could benefit you or that you could take advantage of? Coyote: Haha, that would be very out of character for me, wouldn't it? :> Annie: So you mean this will teach me to know the differences between when it's okay for me to open my mouth and when it's not? Coyote: Hahaha, no, it just teaches you that I will hurt you if you don't keep your mouth shut when I want you to. But that's sounds too mean of me, so yes, it will :> Annie: .... :/
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