[2022] You will live here with me

[Nepycros]

*BADDEST TIME WHISTLE*

[Nepycros]

Anthony, Papa, amigo...

You fucked up.

[theonethatgotaway]

Spankies incomiiiiiiing!!

[madjack]

Aug 3, 2018 7:10:03 GMT Nepycros said:

Anthony, Papa, amigo...

You fucked up.

Don't even want to claim cookies he made this call so easy.


Edit: In fact, I'd say Tony himself deserves these cookies. I'm now picturing Tea rocking up on his doorstep with an empty plate and saying "Here, The Internet wanted you to have these".

[brokshi]

Loup is terrifying! Exactly the worst traits of both Coyote and Ysengrin. This segment is gripping me more than anything but the Jeanne arc since Tony arrived.

[Nepycros]

Aug 3, 2018 7:14:01 GMT brokshi said:

Loup is terrifying! Exactly the worst traits of both Coyote and Ysengrin. This segment is gripping me more than anything but the Jeanne arc since Tony arrived.

Jeanne was just a ghost.

Frout Loup is a god. Much higher stakes.

[gergle]

"I do not promise this for anyone else"

These unknown individuals had best -

1 Have eaten their wheaties
&
2 Bring friends

[madjack]

Really hoping she turns this promise around on him now, and extends the terms of 'hurt' to emotional damage at seeing her friends in danger, etc. The world's most dangerous game of goalpost shifting ensues.

[Angry Individual]

"You just said you'd shred my flesh" is honestly the funniest thing combined with Annie's expression.

And also confirms that I feel like his promise is about as empty as her chances of getting home.

[speedwell]

Wait, Loup claimed Coyote loved her? OK, that shot up a red flag. I don't think it is any more appropriate to say Coyote loves/loved someone than it is to say the wind loves someone. I think Loup is being cynically manipulative. This comes across to me like the stink off a load of crap, sorry to be crude.

[imaginaryfriend]

"And now we will announce your new status by scent marking."

"Uh... how do we do that exactly?"

"As the male I will pee on a tree first. Then you pee on the same tree. We repeat that process until we've marked the entire Wood."

"...What if my friends... or someone sees us... doing that?"

"Even better. They will either challenge us and lose or do nothing and submit to my dominance."

"..."

[avurai]

This is just about the closest you could make a situation that I could see Renard decide to actually return to the Forest over.

This is literally it.

“Yes, hello. That’s a no from me.” ~Reynardine

[avurai]

Aug 3, 2018 7:43:48 GMT avurai said:

This is just about the closest you could make a situation that I could see Renard decide to actually return to the Forest over.

This is literally it.

“Yes, hello. That’s a no from me.” ~Reynardine

In which case, this might be the greatest long-con in webcomic history on Coyote’s part.

[arf]

"Creepier and creepier." said Annie.

[hnau]

Now I wonder what the child of a half-human half-fire elemental and a half-wolf half-coyote trickster god might look like...

[artezzatrigger]

Aug 3, 2018 8:30:20 GMT hnau said:

Now I wonder what the child of a half-human half-fire elemental and a half-wolf half-coyote trickster god might look like...

Wh...

...Why would you put that mental image in our heads???

[Dvandaemon]

Yes why?

[avurai]

Aug 3, 2018 8:30:20 GMT hnau said:

Now I wonder what the child of a half-human half-fire elemental and a half-wolf half-coyote trickster god might look like...

[madjack]

That's not even the worst mental image in this thread...

[foresterr]

Aug 3, 2018 7:43:48 GMT avurai said:

This is just about the closest you could make a situation that I could see Renard decide to actually return to the Forest over.

This is literally it.

And then he posesses Loup and together they form Doggo Captain Planet

[zaferion]

Loup's blue fur in the last panel looks like water putting out Annie's fire. I'm not sure if I like that symbolism at fucking all, Tom.

[faiiry]

In Soviet Russia, dog owns you!


And so the other penny drops, or however the saying goes. Loup DOES want Annie to pick a side: the forest or the court, or religion/science, if you're feeling metaphorical. And when she won't pick, he'll threaten her friends. In the same way as the psychopomps "threatened" her friends when she wouldn't join them. Poor Annie. Everyone wants to make a pet out of her.

[netherdan]

Well, it surely shits to be attractive

[todd]

I'm wondering now how the story will proceed from here. Loup has issued a threat against the Court - if Annie doesn't agree to stay in the Woods, he'll presumably renew his attack upon it. If Annie gives in (and the alternative is certainly unpleasant enough that she might have to, unless she can find a third option), that ends the comic in a recognizable form, since it's specifically about Annie's time at the Court, and there are still too many loose ends for it to end now.

The "third option" seems like the best hope for the story to continue (at least, without renaming the comic) - though finding one will be difficult. People have suggested using Reynardine's body-hopping ability to defeat Loup, but given how Annie and Reynardine feel about it (it would mean the death of Loup, and whatever's left of Ysengrin), I don't think either would want to solve the problem that way - not unless everything else had been tried and failed. (The Court probably wouldn't be keen on it either, fearing that it would result in Rey - whom it fears and distrusts - now in Loup's powerful body, and outside any semblance of control.) Using Coyote's tooth to kill Loup would probably also not appeal to Annie. But I've the feeling that there aren't any non-violent options left to handle Loup; they may wind up having to kill him, followed by Annie mourning that it had to come to this.

(If they do solve the Loup problem with Reynardine's body-hopping ability, this could be used to write Rey out of the story. People have noticed that he hardly ever shows up any more, suggesting that Tom may have run out of ideas on what to do with him; in that case, removing him might be the best option.)

The "it's too dangerous for Annie to meet with Loup" argument now looks much more valid - though that again raises the question of what the right solution for solving the problem is.

[dingo]

See the "energy bubble" pattern on green tree limb panel backdrop? The pattern is introduced on page 5, but is absent prior to Loup's entrance. Trap springing?

[ctso74]

Aug 3, 2018 7:15:20 GMT Nepycros said:

Frout Loup

Great nickname. Quite apropos for today's comic. Creepy.

Aug 3, 2018 12:52:39 GMT todd said:

I'm wondering now how the story will proceed from here. Loup has issued a threat against the Court - if Annie doesn't agree to stay in the Woods, he'll presumably renew his attack upon it. If Annie gives in (and the alternative is certainly unpleasant enough that she might have to, unless she can find a third option), that ends the comic in a recognizable form, since it's specifically about Annie's time at the Court, and there are still too many loose ends for it to end now.

The "third option" seems like the best hope for the story to continue (at least, without renaming the comic) - though finding one will be difficult. People have suggested using Reynardine's body-hopping ability to defeat Loup, but given how Annie and Reynardine feel about it (it would mean the death of Loup, and whatever's left of Ysengrin), I don't think either would want to solve the problem that way - not unless everything else had been tried and failed. (The Court probably wouldn't be keen on it either, fearing that it would result in Rey - whom it fears and distrusts - now in Loup's powerful body, and outside any semblance of control.) Using Coyote's tooth to kill Loup would probably also not appeal to Annie. But I've the feeling that there aren't any non-violent options left to handle Loup; they may wind up having to kill him, followed by Annie mourning that it had to come to this.

(If they do solve the Loup problem with Reynardine's body-hopping ability, this could be used to write Rey out of the story. People have noticed that he hardly ever shows up any more, suggesting that Tom may have run out of ideas on what to do with him; in that case, removing him might be the best option.)

The "it's too dangerous for Annie to meet with Loup" argument now looks much more valid - though that again raises the question of what the right solution for solving the problem is.

Or Reynard could simply return. Perhaps, Loup would be happy to swap Annie for Rey. He certainly would be a stabilizing influence on the new Loupy.

We still don't know, if we can trust a word out of his maw. I don't know if his seeming instability is something that will settle, like a newly built house, or if this is just a result of his violent birth and contradictory make-up. Not a good god to be in the clutches of.

[ohthatone]

Aug 3, 2018 7:20:53 GMT madjack said:

Really hoping she turns this promise around on him now, and extends the terms of 'hurt' to emotional damage at seeing her friends in danger, etc. The world's most dangerous game of goalpost shifting ensues.

She's called Coyote on BS before so I really hope something similar happens (please?)

[ohthatone]

Aug 3, 2018 9:34:25 GMT foresterr said:

Aug 3, 2018 7:43:48 GMT avurai said:

This is just about the closest you could make a situation that I could see Renard decide to actually return to the Forest over.

This is literally it.

And then he posesses Loup and together they form Doggo Captain Planet

hmmm, assuming he CAN posses Loup, what would happen if he left Loup's body? if Loup "dies" would he revert back to Coyote and Ysengrin (in which case that could explain why Coyote gave him an imperfect gift, as a contingency plan)? or would he just get absorbed in Loup's body?

[OrzBrain]

I want Annie to grab hold of "Loup's" right ear and yank for for all she's worth so much. Would Coyote just pop out?

[fia]

All the horrors of mankind can be given form by the ether