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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jan 2, 2019 8:04:05 GMT
Anthony's smiling in the last panel is unnerving me for some reason. (By a strange coincidence having to put up with an Anthony is my nightmare also.) |
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Post by madjack on Jan 2, 2019 8:06:21 GMT
Annie's eyes in the last panel are even more unnerving. Also they better be making cookies, because someone's getting them: Also: I bet Tony cooks. Because we could tell Surma probably never did, Annie lived her whole young life in the hospital, and Tony has at least a stir fry recipe he can make. |
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Post by youwiththeface on Jan 2, 2019 8:09:59 GMT
Ugh. Every time he acts normal it pisses me off because where was this when she needed it, Anthony!?
For some reason it feels especially gross here where he's with her. Like all the times he was an emotional and just general neglectful dick to her didn't happen.
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Post by stclair on Jan 2, 2019 8:10:42 GMT
... who is this and what has he done with Tony?
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Jan 2, 2019 8:23:20 GMT
I for one like the change in pace for Tony. He seems to genuinely get that Annie needs him right now. Don't forget, not only CourtAnnie's had 6 months of personal development, Tony too has been more in contact with his daughter, Rey, Kat,... He might have learned a thing or two about how to handle a teenage daughter!
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Post by Angry Individual on Jan 2, 2019 8:25:12 GMT
I always forget how much people hate Tony.
Honestly, I find this incredibly interesting. Because if he only acts like this around F!Annie, C!Annie is about to get hurt really hard.
And it will be dramatically glorious.
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Post by keef on Jan 2, 2019 8:39:57 GMT
... who is this and what has he done with Tony? This is Tony. He has grown up, it happens to some people. |
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Post by bicarbonat on Jan 2, 2019 8:40:46 GMT
This would be one hell of a "get" amid the awkwardness, confusion, and urgent weight of her mission: yeah, she has a clone; yeah, there's a whole patch of time missing; yeah, an unstable zord of a forest god is running amok. But she's home with her father, who laughs, smiles at her, encourages her, and includes her in regular "family" things. Howsabout we chalk the rest of that bullroar up to the cosmic game, eh? (heh!)
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Post by agasa on Jan 2, 2019 8:43:27 GMT
This is quite bizarre. I've come to expect different things of Tony.
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Post by gpvos on Jan 2, 2019 8:46:39 GMT
As a more subtle part of his trick, Loup has replaced Tony with a clone.
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Post by arf on Jan 2, 2019 8:59:33 GMT
I suspect Tony has been acting like this with c!Annie as well. The real question is why he hasn't been able to act like this with Annie before the split.
Also, both Annies know this too. How are they going to handle the information?
Stay tuned for next week's exciting chapter.
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Post by dramastix on Jan 2, 2019 9:22:16 GMT
I know he's been horrible in the past, and I really don't think he's quite made amends for that horribleness (unless it happened in the last six months and we're going to get a flash back coming up soon), but damn if this page doesn't just give me all the smiles. Annie deserves a little validation for once.
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Post by Angry Individual on Jan 2, 2019 9:45:39 GMT
I suspect Tony has been acting like this with c!Annie as well. The real question is why he hasn't been able to act like this with Annie before the split. Also, both Annies know this too. How are they going to handle the information? Stay tuned for next week's exciting chapter. I truly wonder about that.
I sort of get the feeling that he hasn't, purely because c!Annie still calls him "father". That always felt like her official way of greeting him since he felt more like a serious man.
I almost feel like after this, f!Annie will start calling him "dad" or something.
Also, I really hope that if two Annies is the new thing, that they'll start calling each other different names so we won't have to do c! and f! anymore.
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Post by wlerin on Jan 2, 2019 10:07:38 GMT
There have already been indications that Court!Annie and Tony's relationship has improved. Remember this page? Also, they're living under the same roof now, and facing potentially life-threatening hazards on a day-to-day basis. The restoration of his hand would also have been a huge boost to his self-esteem, and help heal at least some of the brokenness that defined him in Coyote's eyes. That new hand is the only reason he's able to cook dinner for Annie now, for example. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Jan 2, 2019 10:30:07 GMT
Maybe I am just being stubborn in my thoughts, but I feel like even if they've improved their relationship, he probably hasn't smiled for her alone.
If only because I feel like she was never /truly/ alone with Reynard and Kat around, and maybe their existence has made it harder for Tony to be himself even with the two of them (c!Annie and Tony) being together under one roof.
But f!Annie is alone right now. And I think that's why she's seeing this side of him.
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Post by madjack on Jan 2, 2019 10:51:20 GMT
I know I can be a bit of a raincloud, but Annie's expression in the last two panels is really setting off alarm bells. She's been starved of her father's affection her whole life and now she's getting it, she won't have a clue what to do with it. Giving unbalanced personalities the validation they are after rarely works out well for them, doubly so in Forest!Annie's case because she's always depended on Kat for emotional guidance, who may not actively take 'her' side anymore. Tony can't be that support because of his personality and the fact that he's directly involved in the equation and these are problems that need to be viewed from the outside.
It it a hurdle that needs to be crossed, but either Annie crossing it alone is worrying.
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Post by mithrandir on Jan 2, 2019 11:30:33 GMT
I always forget how much people hate Tony. Honestly, I find this incredibly interesting. Because if he only acts like this around F!Annie, C!Annie is about to get hurt really hard. And it will be dramatically glorious. I think C!Annie has been getting the benefits of New Improved Tony as well. In addition to the page wlerin posted, there's the fact that C!Annie was allowed to start using her makeup again. As for the suspicion this page is getting, I think it just feels too good to be true. Six months and Tony has suddenly learned how to Dad? "There's got to be a catch," says the cynical part of my brain. Though... maybe it's because the sudden radical shift in the balance of power between Court and Forest has freed Tony from the constraints he was under. Think back to Chapter 53: a lot of Tony's mistreatment of Annie when he came back, after all, was to protect her from the Court doing even worse. Now that Annie isn't the Court's biggest problem anymore, perhaps he's been able to ease up a bit. For that matter, maybe Donald let slip the trick he pulled with the blinker stone in 53, and C!Annie was able to forgive Tony. I do think we're going to have to see how New Improved Tony came to be... but not now. I think the next chapter is going to be Kat-focused. The robots going into shield-mode is a huge mystery, and Kat is their goddess, so she's got to be the key to unlocking that mystery. |
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Post by todd on Jan 2, 2019 12:55:05 GMT
I do think we're going to have to see how New Improved Tony came to be... but not now. I think the next chapter is going to be Kat-focused. The robots going into shield-mode is a huge mystery, and Kat is their goddess, so she's got to be the key to unlocking that mystery. I'd expect the next chapter to be about the bone and water and Loup's demands for them, since that's the immediate matter hanging over the Court and Loup (as he's stated) is impatient. There'll be time to investigate the side-mysteries once that problem's resolved. (I wonder, though, how important that element will be. When the chapter began, I was expecting it to revolve around Annie delivering Loup's message and the Court's response; instead, it only took up a couple of pages in the chapter, with most of the attention directed towards the "two Annies" problem instead. I still wonder whether this was really Loup's role in the story - to split Annie in half - and now that that's done and the characters have to deal with this problem, we'll be seeing Loup speedily written out, his function accomplished.) |
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Post by lunitaire on Jan 2, 2019 13:39:24 GMT
Tony did argue for Annie to be allowed to go into the forest, which was already a major pivot point for his character. When this decision drew the ire of Eglamore, Tony was forced to explain that he had been wrong before and realized this after better learning the overall situation at Court.
This new behavior could in part be due to his continual development in learning and getting comfortable with the life Antimony already had in the past six months.
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Post by mordekai on Jan 2, 2019 14:22:42 GMT
Uh... Have Renart and Court!Annie left them alone on purpose, so they can have family time together? That would be really nice..
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Post by speedwell on Jan 2, 2019 15:06:44 GMT
You don't suppose Kat has included some, uh, bonus programming in that hand's "software"? (Yeah, I'm kidding. Sort of. I think.)
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Post by speedwell on Jan 2, 2019 15:09:43 GMT
(I wonder, though, how important that element will be. When the chapter began, I was expecting it to revolve around Annie delivering Loup's message and the Court's response; instead, it only took up a couple of pages in the chapter, with most of the attention directed towards the "two Annies" problem instead. I still wonder whether this was really Loup's role in the story - to split Annie in half - and now that that's done and the characters have to deal with this problem, we'll be seeing Loup speedily written out, his function accomplished.) Well, it is an interesting foil. Two characters joined into one disruptive entity. One character split into two disruptive entities. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jan 2, 2019 15:55:42 GMT
I know I can be a bit of a raincloud, but Annie's expression in the last two panels is really setting off alarm bells. She's been starved of her father's affection her whole life and now she's getting it, she won't have a clue what to do with it. Giving unbalanced personalities the validation they are after rarely works out well for them, doubly so in Forest!Annie's case because she's always depended on Kat for emotional guidance, who may not actively take 'her' side anymore. I think Fannie will just continue to stand there smiling stupidly when she gets attention from Anthony. The problem will happen when that attention is interrupted. For the reasons you mention she won't be able to generate an appropriate response. You don't suppose Kat has included some, uh, bonus programming in that hand's "software"? (Yeah, I'm kidding. Sort of. I think.) If I were Kat I'd make the palm start growing hair, just for the giggles. |
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Post by The Anarch on Jan 2, 2019 16:07:40 GMT
Robo-Annie has initiated Happiness sub-routine. Beep boop beep.
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Post by csj on Jan 2, 2019 16:15:49 GMT
Annie's eyes in the last panel are even more unnerving. Also they better be making cookies, because someone's getting them: Also: I bet Tony cooks. Because we could tell Surma probably never did, Annie lived her whole young life in the hospital, and Tony has at least a stir fry recipe he can make. One step closer to organising the ultimate gunnerkrigg bakeoff. Anja will be happy. |
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Post by jda on Jan 2, 2019 16:53:33 GMT
If Tony has his doubts about the alien-ness of Forest!Annie, her eyes in the last panel will confirm them.  Who is this Pokemon? |
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Post by faiiry on Jan 2, 2019 17:01:32 GMT
WTF? I just don't get Tony. I guess he can only act nice around Annie if she's got long hair or if she might be a fake construct dreamed up by a god or something.
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Post by ctso74 on Jan 2, 2019 17:24:02 GMT
If Tony has his doubts about the alien-ness of Forest!Annie, her eyes in the last panel will confirm them. Who is this Pokemon? A mutated Medicham? WTF? I just don't get Tony. I guess he can only act nice around Annie if she's got long hair or if she might be a fake construct dreamed up by a god or something. It was hard to completely tell, but he didn't seem unusually (or for him usual) distant from Courtnie. He does seem super-friendly with Fannie, though. It will be interesting to compare/contrast his treatment of the two Annies. Then again, he could have simple grown. I can't speak for characters, but broken people sometimes pull themselves together, whether they deserve it or not. Sometimes into a "different" person. So it could happen, I guess... |
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Post by The Anarch on Jan 2, 2019 17:34:34 GMT
Who is this Pokemon?  |
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Post by Runningflame on Jan 2, 2019 17:44:09 GMT
First panel: Both Tony and Annie don't like themselves very much. That's sad.
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