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Post by exuberancium on Feb 4, 2013 17:07:07 GMT
Oh man, I wonder... Ysengrin doesn't remember totally flipping out, so he thinks he's still friends (or at least a Ysengrin approximation of friends) with Annie and nothing bad happened. And, assuming that this is the medium selecting ceremony and that Annie is the one to become medium... what if Ysengrin started to express a slight amount of pride in Annie, while Annie kept her distance (both emotionally and physically) from Ysengrin because of recent events. It would be especially funnysad if this once again triggered Ysengrin's insanity if he misinterpreted this as Annie thinking she's better than him now that she's medium. That almost definitely won't be at all how this plays out, but it will still be interesting to watch. Come on, Wednesday, hurry up! I want to see what happens next! As someone pointed out in last page's thread, Tom said on his Formspring that there are two mediums (media?!); one for the court, one for the forest. Ysengrin is the forest one. Do you have a link for that?
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Post by GK Sierra on Feb 4, 2013 17:59:40 GMT
He's a more of a megalomaniac than any honorable omnipotent being ought to be. If I were omnipotent I don't know that the compulsion to be honorable would have as strong a pull on me. Omnipotence breeds megalomania.
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Post by Lightice on Feb 4, 2013 19:11:45 GMT
He's a more of a megalomaniac than any honorable omnipotent being ought to be. There are lots of words you can associate with Coyote, but I don't think that megalomaniac is one of them. He has at no point expressed lust for power or desire to expand his influence. Considering how he has been characterised, I'd imagine that he would find ruling over others a painfully boring exercise. No, he wants to throw wrenches into the Court's well-oiled machinery simply to see how they'll react. Do you have a link for that? There was one right on the previous page.
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Post by Eversist on Feb 4, 2013 19:22:47 GMT
We don't got time for a party! We already wrapped up the main plot for this chapter! I think the headmaster is going to begin to make an announcement and then it cuts to treatise. I think it's too early for the treatise, but I may be wrong. I feel like it was longer ago when Tom said he had finished the last page of volume 4. My time perception skills are lacking. -- I'm surprised that the glass-eyed wo/men behind Jones have like... hair? And ears? They've always been pretty featureless before; maybe they can alter their form and have "dressed up" for the occasion? :B
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Post by Lightice on Feb 4, 2013 19:26:15 GMT
I'm surprised that the glass-eyed wo/men behind Jones have like... hair? They've always been pretty featureless before; maybe they've "dressed up" for the occasion? :B I think those are just normal Court people in shadows. Tom usually doesn't put much detail in background characters if he can help it. It wouldn't make much sense for Glass-eyed Men to be present for the occasion, especially not on the Court's side. They would be in Coyote's retinue if they'd appear at all.
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Post by Eversist on Feb 4, 2013 19:43:08 GMT
If they are, Tom chose a strange way to portray them. Usually with unimportant background people he outlines them in black and picks an understated color to fill them in with, and doesn't bother with depicting eyes.
I dunno, the pure black plus the perfectly round white eyes, I'm more inclined to think they're glass-eyed men, and they showed up before Coyote because they're less important than him. And I just remembered Shadow shape-shifting into a bird-form earlier in the chapter.
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Post by pasko on Feb 4, 2013 20:06:29 GMT
eglamore looks very sad. I think he knows something we don't know.
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Post by Necropaxx on Feb 4, 2013 22:06:37 GMT
Eglamore wearing a suit is just... odd.
Also: The tension in this page is off the charts, yo.
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Post by Eversist on Feb 4, 2013 22:21:37 GMT
Something seemed off about the perspective of the door in the third panel...
So Tom, if you're partial to constructive crits (and you see this), the dots in the lining that runs up and down should be a bit closer to the other door, rather than right in the center of the seam. Right now it looks like we're looking at that part of the door head-on, while the rest of the door has (very nice and dynamic) perspective.
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Post by Ophel on Feb 4, 2013 23:09:57 GMT
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Post by alexh on Feb 5, 2013 2:17:01 GMT
Noticed how Coyote, Ysengrin, and Eglamore are all looking to the left. (toward Anja and her husband?) Not towards Annie. Dunno if that's important, but there you go. If they are, Tom chose a strange way to portray them. Usually with unimportant background people he outlines them in black and picks an understated color to fill them in with, and doesn't bother with depicting eyes. I dunno, the pure black plus the perfectly round white eyes, I'm more inclined to think they're glass-eyed men, and they showed up before Coyote because they're less important than him. And I just remembered Shadow shape-shifting into a bird-form earlier in the chapter. I imagine they're depicted with eyes because individually they are not important, but as a group, they have vested interest in Annie and are _watching_ her.
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Feb 5, 2013 4:07:03 GMT
Another theory: the Court is going to go ahead and appoint Antimony as the medium, but Ysengrin will object on some other grounds. It'll totally be Coyote who objects, if anyone. The way he last talked to Annie sounded quite a bit like a negative appraisal of her mediating skills. Although, in general, I wouldn't be surprised if he always objects to every selected medium, purely on the grounds of being a trickster god who doesn't like it when things go smoothly. (but more likely, they'll just do the thing and it will happen. Thus: "changes")
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Post by Nnelg on Feb 5, 2013 4:23:20 GMT
If they are, Tom chose a strange way to portray them. Usually with unimportant background people he outlines them in black and picks an understated color to fill them in with, and doesn't bother with depicting eyes. He does when he wants to illustrate that the unimportant background characters are looking at something specific: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=35www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=267I dunno, the pure black plus the perfectly round white eyes, I'm more inclined to think they're glass-eyed men, and they showed up before Coyote because they're less important than him. And I just remembered Shadow shape-shifting into a bird-form earlier in the chapter. Given how the Shadows in general feel about humans, and the extreme improbability of the Court letting any one more than is is absolutely necessary visit from the Forest, I'd say it's more likely that Zimmy is going to be the new Medium.
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Post by amrita on Feb 5, 2013 7:06:42 GMT
Since we're doing crazy alternate theories on what else could be going on instead of Annie's appointment as the Medium, a real twist would be that this ceremony has a completely different purpose, after all. Headmaster: Let the annual Court-Forest pie-throwing contest begin! That might explain why they're in such a rush to elect a new medium, since it would give Coyote and Ysengrin a reason to come to the Court's side. Ysengrin dropped those seeds last time, didn't he? Maybe it'll get mentioned in this chapter. I hope we'll get to see more of the headmaster, too.
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Post by GK Sierra on Feb 5, 2013 8:07:36 GMT
Since we're doing crazy alternate theories on what else could be going on instead of Annie's appointment as the Medium, a real twist would be that this ceremony has a completely different purpose, after all. Headmaster: Let the annual Court-Forest pie-throwing contest begin! That might explain why they're in such a rush to elect a new medium, since it would give Coyote and Ysengrin a reason to come to the Court's side. Ysengrin dropped those seeds last time, didn't he? Maybe it'll get mentioned in this chapter. I hope we'll get to see more of the headmaster, too. It looks like the headmaster is actually sitting up straight this time instead of acting like a comically bored child.
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Post by Eversist on Feb 5, 2013 8:42:38 GMT
Alright guys, I concede. They're just people. :B
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Post by philman on Feb 5, 2013 9:11:31 GMT
eglamore looks very sad. I think he knows something we don't know. I think he is just pissed that he has to escort the 'honoured guest' Ysengrin, when the last time he saw him he was trying to kill Annie.
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