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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 14, 2018 7:06:54 GMT
I don't think any human of the Court (or GC reader) believed that Gillite Wood was a mere forest. |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Sept 14, 2018 7:25:35 GMT
Oh, oh no Annie, I remember one character in particular that was NOT amused by that point of view... and you're looking at 100% of 50% of him. Or is it 50% of 100%?
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Post by bicarbonat on Sept 14, 2018 7:28:57 GMT
...I take it he's not at all worried about the prospect of these basic humans tampering with the ether on their side of reality. Abjuring the physical world is a hard sell when even some of your own people go to lengths to basically straddle the fence indefinitely.
And if Loup blamed that desire on humanity's corrupting influence, I'd definitely wonder what makes life on the human side so magnetic to ether-native folks if humans are so basic? The wolf doth protest to much, methinks.
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Post by arf on Sept 14, 2018 7:41:33 GMT
A mere forest... where there be dragons (which we haven't seen yet) Annie's calming down, but I hope the reference to the Great Secret doesn't rile the Ys in Loup. |
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Post by hajo on Sept 14, 2018 8:52:41 GMT
Typo-alert: "...humans are part of the reason THAT he existed"
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 14, 2018 9:56:15 GMT
Typo-alert: "...humans are part of the reason THAT he existed" The "that" can be omitted in a sentence like this.
Now, is Annie looking more human again because she is calming down, or is Loup draining her powers?
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 14, 2018 10:10:11 GMT
I think Antimony is trying to thread a needle here. "Part of the reason he existed at all" isn't quite what Coyote said but she apparently wants to draw on "the great secret" as a principle to advance the value of humans who can't see (or otherwise interact with) the ether. "Loup" didn't say that mundane humans were worthless, either. If the gambit is successful perhaps "Loup" will say something positive about regular old humans and the conversation that follows will be more productive but it may also be the case that, as Antimony has already thrown a punch back in #2038, she has decided that things are only going to be settled through violence therefore she's got little to lose by reminding "Loup" about "the great secret" even though that angle has a good chance of really pissing him off. |
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Post by philman on Sept 14, 2018 11:48:35 GMT
Typo-alert: "...humans are part of the reason THAT he existed" The "that" can be omitted in a sentence like this. Now, is Annie looking more human again because she is calming down, or is Loup draining her powers?
I think she's getting more human in response to coyote criticising the humans in his own way. Showing him that she has both sides, both the forest and humanity. both the Court and Loup want to only encourage half of her. |
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Post by calpal on Sept 14, 2018 11:50:58 GMT
Now remember Annie: if he gets super angry, just run.
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Post by Per on Sept 14, 2018 12:32:56 GMT
Annie really looks a lot like Ava in the third "panel".
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Post by noone3 on Sept 14, 2018 15:15:03 GMT
This makes me thinking... Are all Annie's memories in the form of a comic? Are we all actually browsing through Annie's memories three days a week? That would even cover the gradual style change, as Annie grows up... There is something to think about.  |
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Post by hp on Sept 14, 2018 15:34:41 GMT
Wow, interesting bit about humans thinking in "stale symbols". That suggests a lot of implications about human vs. forest functioning a la Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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Post by netherdan on Sept 14, 2018 18:31:44 GMT
Now, is Annie looking more human again because she is calming down, or is Loup draining her powers?
Oh no. No no no no no her eyes are rolling she looks about to pass out please don't tell me she's being drained of her fire tell me Loup isn't splitting her fire elemental soul from her human body and is planning on keeping it hostage so Annie would do as he wants and would need to do it in her fire elemental form to face all the Court retaliation this would imply PLEASE NO Edit: SHE HAS A FRIGGIN DASHED LINE PATTERN SPLITTING HER FACE IN HALF like the ones that mark surgery incision areas |
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Post by Per on Sept 14, 2018 18:54:17 GMT
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Post by mochakimono on Sept 14, 2018 19:00:39 GMT
Humans are "they", not "we", eh?
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Post by keef on Sept 14, 2018 22:14:15 GMT
I scrolled through thirty-eight chapters of Chio-chan to find were you got that, but I'm not complaining. It was worth it. |
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Post by Dvandaemon on Sept 15, 2018 0:20:58 GMT
This makes me thinking... Are all Annie's memories in the form of a comic? Are we all actually browsing through Annie's memories three days a week? That would even cover the gradual style change, as Annie grows up... There is something to think about. Isn't this whole comic her flashback? |
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Post by netherdan on Sept 15, 2018 12:37:50 GMT
This makes me thinking... Are all Annie's memories in the form of a comic? Are we all actually browsing through Annie's memories three days a week? That would even cover the gradual style change, as Annie grows up... There is something to think about. Isn't this whole comic her flashback? This whole comic is Annie telling her daughter her life story, how she's gonna die and why that's ok because her soul will keep living with her daughter's Edit: fuck, now I'll have the mental image of Annie in a hospital bed telling stories for the rest of the comic |
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Post by Per on Sept 15, 2018 13:07:04 GMT
I scrolled through thirty-eight chapters of Chio-chan to find were you got that, but I'm not complaining. It was worth it. At some point we should have a comic discussion thread consisting only of reaction shots stolen from Chio-chan. |
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Post by jda on Sept 16, 2018 3:09:37 GMT
This makes me thinking... Are all Annie's memories in the form of a comic? Are we all actually browsing through Annie's memories three days a week? That would even cover the gradual style change, as Annie grows up... There is something to think about. Isn't this whole comic her flashback? Are we real? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? |
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Post by warrl on Sept 17, 2018 1:04:32 GMT
Humans are "they", not "we", eh? Well, Annie knows that among humans she is a special case who affects the ether differently. Probably even differently from ether-active (apparently-) pure humans such as George, Paz, Gamma, Janet, and Jack. (Zimmy probably is another special case of similar magnitude.) |
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Post by Zox Tomana on Sept 17, 2018 6:25:54 GMT
Now, is Annie looking more human again because she is calming down, or is Loup draining her powers?
Oh no. No no no no no her eyes are rolling she looks about to pass out please don't tell me she's being drained of her fire tell me Loup isn't splitting her fire elemental soul from her human body and is planning on keeping it hostage so Annie would do as he wants and would need to do it in her fire elemental form to face all the Court retaliation this would imply PLEASE NO Edit: SHE HAS A FRIGGIN DASHED LINE PATTERN SPLITTING HER FACE IN HALF like the ones that mark surgery incision areas The split-face line thing has appeared before when Annie has wakened Fire!Annie. See when she goes Fiery against the forest monsters Yssy took her to see, or when she formally introduces herself to the Forest as their medium. As far as the eyes appearing to roll back, I think she's looking "up" at Loup. |
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 17, 2018 12:17:38 GMT
Isn't this whole comic her flashback? This whole comic is Annie telling her daughter her life story, how she's gonna die and why that's ok because her soul will keep living with her daughter's Edit: fuck, now I'll have the mental image of Annie in a hospital bed telling stories for the rest of the comic It's not very probable that she would have to tell her own daughter her name first. |
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Post by netherdan on Sept 17, 2018 13:00:39 GMT
The split-face line thing has appeared before when Annie has wakened Fire!Annie. See when she goes Fiery against the forest monsters Yssy took her to see, or when she formally introduces herself to the Forest as their medium. As far as the eyes appearing to roll back, I think she's looking "up" at Loup. I'm so glad you're right It's not very probable that she would have to tell her own daughter her name first. Point taken. You saved my GC experience |
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Post by alevice on Sept 18, 2018 13:55:26 GMT
It should be noted that Annie's narrator voice used the past tense until she got the phone call from her father (which she hadentioned in past tense she wouldnt hear of in 2 years... 2 years before the call). After that event, she switched to present tense. So i doubt these are her chronicles anymore. Maybe she told her tale to herself.
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 18, 2018 14:05:39 GMT
Point taken. You saved my GC experience Haha, you're welcome!  |
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Post by Per on Sept 18, 2018 15:53:30 GMT
It should be noted that Annie's narrator voice used the past tense until she got the phone call from her father (which she hadentioned in past tense she wouldnt hear of in 2 years... 2 years before the call). After that event, she switched to present tense. So i doubt these are her chronicles anymore. Maybe she told her tale to herself. I'm not sure there's enough data to nail down a specific point of change. Tom had started to include non-Annie-narrative text boxes like "Soon" or "To be continued" or "0 seconds later" well before the phone call. It seems more likely that he scaled down the use of Annie's future narration pretty early on, and if he used it differently later, it would be primarily because of whatever effect he was after at that time, not as part of a grand plan. |
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