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Post by Mitth'raw'nuruodo on Jan 17, 2013 15:29:51 GMT
Remember, no one expects the Spanish Robot Inquisition. Also, it is the height of heresy to allow a witch to live, so must Anine be killed?
In all seriousness, I don't think that these robots are doing anything more than being the self-same silly robots as we've always seen.
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Post by Nnelg on Jan 17, 2013 19:24:02 GMT
Perhaps they'll duel to the death at the end, walking pillar of fire versus some crazy mech Kat built. Probably not, but a man can dream. ;D In all earnesty, it's entirely possible we may see something similar some day. (Although Annie and Kat will more likely be on the same side than on opposites.) One possible climax for the entire series is open conflict between the Court and the Forest (or factions thereof), and/or against a yet-to-appear third side that arises from/takes advantage of the petty squabbling. Such a conflict, if if should occur, would be necessarily small, at most manifesting as sporadic skirmishing in the last book (with a climatic battle at the end unlikely); and would mainly occur off-panel. The girls would certainly not try to get involved in it in any way other than to end it peacefully, but there is always a chance that the need to act would be thrust upon them against their wishes (like self-defense or protecting refugees). In which case, we could totally see the girls in "super action mode". (We'd only get a few pages of action; but oh, what pages those would be!) EDIT: I would like to also include the slightly (or significantly) more likely possibility of a robot civil war erupting, which the girls probably would try to intervene in (but only in an entirely humanitarian way).
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Post by generationthegreat on Jan 17, 2013 23:22:59 GMT
So when Annie goes into the Ether to disable those three robots, and then the fourth robot yells "Stop!" that made me think of something. Either:
A. The Seraph can see her within the ether, which would be another point for Annie in the Annie/Kat debate over whether robots are ethereal machines or just machines. And also be really crazy.
or
B. The Seraph can't see her within the ether, which means from its perspective, Annie just stood there and three robots dropped dead. Which is also really crazy.
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Post by grahamf on Jan 17, 2013 23:40:44 GMT
Am i the only one who thought this thread should've been called "boop boop boop"?
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 18, 2013 0:32:13 GMT
I agree. I wonder if that first panel was intended to show her pressing each of the buttons in quick succession or if she is actually pressing them all simultaneously. Oh, come on. Ether-action panels always "flow" without borders. Also, is it just me, or her etheric self is not conected to her body? Impossible to say, since her hair still disappears off panel. Oh, that's true. I guess we'll have to wait a little more to see if what the fairies did had any effect on Annie. It's not what they did, it's what they said about using the noob stone. I just get the feeling Robot doesn't see Annie in a positive light that much anymore and tales of Annie 'killing' or 'booping' all of these robots are going to get around. Anyway, Annie is still his "mommy", the one who gave him a new life and free choice. He's not going to forget that in a hurry. ...to sent him into the forest. Which both got him puppeteered to kill her and led to meeting both shadow-boy and Kat. Which is way too much. S13 didn't have objections while Kat was... " being a butt" or Ch.35, so who knows. May treat her as "dangerous", but with her abilities, temper and habit of finding troubles, that's merely sane. Rather, I see those two as embodying potential harmony between the two systems. Which makes the question about the fall-out between Surma and Anja so much more interesting? Remember, no one expects the Spanish Robot Inquisition. Also, it is the height of heresy to allow a witch to live, so must Anine be killed? Yes, but the Robot Inquisition would try to burn her.
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Post by Lightice on Jan 18, 2013 0:47:13 GMT
...to sent him into the forest. Which both got him puppeteered to kill her and led to meeting both shadow-boy and Kat. You misremember. Annie gave Robot something he had never had before: choice. She told him to escort Shadow to the edge of the Forest and then decide for himself what to do next. He decided to go into the Forest on his own. I haven't yet seen anything indicating that those two would have stopped being friends at any point. They just couldn't keep in touch that much when Surma was confined to Good Hope with her illness while Anja had her job in the Court.
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Post by legion on Jan 18, 2013 8:27:16 GMT
Remember, no one expects the Spanish Robot Inquisition. Also, it is the height of heresy to allow a witch to live, so must Anine be killed? It depends on which pope you ask. I believe a majority of them would actually contend that the height of heresy is *to believe that witches and witchcraft exist in the first place*.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 18, 2013 17:21:07 GMT
While we're discussing the devil; that reminding you of someone? The fact that the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden implied that Adam and Eve had a choice to eat from it all along. All the serpent did was encourage Adam and Eve to say "You're not the boss of me!"
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Post by The Stranger on Jan 18, 2013 18:03:05 GMT
The robots are just saying "blah".
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Post by Nnelg on Jan 20, 2013 23:30:22 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks Robot will eventually start depicting Annie as the evil counterpart to Kat? Sort of like a devil on her shoulder? I just get the feeling Robot doesn't see Annie in a positive light that much anymore and tales of Annie 'killing' or 'booping' all of these robots are going to get around. I was doing some unrelated research and found this: Word of Tom on how Robot sees Annie.Granted, that was during Chapter 39, but I think it's safe to say that Robot won't become hostile over powering down a few seraphs. There's always a possibility, but I think it's safe to say it'll take something extremely drastic before Robot becomes hostile towards Annie.
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Post by warrl on Jan 21, 2013 20:31:24 GMT
Remember, no one expects the Spanish Robot Inquisition. Also, it is the height of heresy to allow a witch to live, so must Anine be killed? As far as I can recall, we haven't met Anine. The only robot whose designation I remember offhand is Sthirteen, aka "Robot". I don't have enough seriousness to get myself into.
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