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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jul 15, 2019 7:02:37 GMT
Yep, they're talking over each other in Renard's brain. [edit] Also: Not entirely sure but the views in the bottom corners may indicate that he's seeing what the Antimonies are seeing, hopefully at intervals instead of one image in each eye simultaneously.[/edit] |
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Post by Darkfeather21 on Jul 15, 2019 7:22:48 GMT
I love how Renard is a slight mix between his large-form and his toy form.
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Post by saardvark on Jul 15, 2019 7:29:54 GMT
I love how Renard is a slight mix between his large-form and his toy form. and threading through him are strands of hair-fire that connect to both Frannie and Courtney...! (F & C are also directly hair-connected to each other, tho these strands aren't on fire. Slight inconsistency: lower Courtney lost her makeup!) |
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Post by Eily on Jul 15, 2019 11:08:44 GMT
The hair actually suggest that they are communicating through his stomach (or where his stomach should be). Or his heart maybe? Not that there's much to interpret from it |
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Post by saardvark on Jul 15, 2019 11:21:22 GMT
Im guessing that the hair-fire connection indicates communication/ownership, maybe potential ability/power sharing?, with the familiar, while F & C's direct hair connection is communication between familiar owners and indicating the Annies are the "same" in some sense.
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Post by ohthatone on Jul 15, 2019 13:28:51 GMT
Interesting that C!Annie's etherself still seems jagged. Has she taken a step backwards in her ability to move about the ether or just artist representation of the haircut in the ether? |
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Post by ctso74 on Jul 15, 2019 13:30:28 GMT
Man, the Annies really don't like homework.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 15, 2019 16:14:50 GMT
The hair actually suggest that they are communicating through his stomach (or where his stomach should be). Or his heart maybe? Not that there's much to interpret from it The fastest way to Renard is through his stomach? |
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Post by tustin2121 on Jul 15, 2019 16:42:13 GMT
I love how Renard is a slight mix between his large-form and his toy form. and threading through him are strands of hair-fire that connect to both Frannie and Courtney...! (F & C are also directly hair-connected to each other, tho these strands aren't on fire. Slight inconsistency: lower Courtney lost her makeup!) I find this form of his rather disconcerting myself. It's like Renard is being strung up and puppeted and he can't do anything about it except shout about it, and even that seems off and puppet-like. I don't like it. |
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Post by Eily on Jul 15, 2019 17:02:16 GMT
The hair actually suggest that they are communicating through his stomach (or where his stomach should be). Or his heart maybe? Not that there's much to interpret from it The fastest way to Renard is through his stomach? It looks like a good mean of tummynication. |
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Post by saardvark on Jul 15, 2019 19:01:02 GMT
the way the group is split is quite precise:
one muscle/fighter type each: Eglamore, Cvet, Parley
one ether adept each: Frannie, Courtney, Rey
If I calculated it correctly, theres only about a 14% chance of this happening randomly.... someone/something may be bending the odds to set it up this way.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 15, 2019 19:19:13 GMT
the way the group is split is quite precise: one muscle/fighter type each: Eglamore, Cvet, Parley one ether adept each: Frannie, Courtney, Rey If I calculated it correctly, theres only about a 14% chance of this happening randomly.... someone/something may be bending the odds to set it up this way. Also, Eggy ended up with the Annie more likely to get peeved by one of his "you can't do that" remarks. |
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Post by lamissquichante on Jul 15, 2019 21:17:47 GMT
the way the group is split is quite precise: one muscle/fighter type each: Eglamore, Cvet, Parley one ether adept each: Frannie, Courtney, Rey If I calculated it correctly, theres only about a 14% chance of this happening randomly.... someone/something may be bending the odds to set it up this way. Also, Eggy ended up with the Annie more likely to get peeved by one of his "you can't do that" remarks. ... and he didn't end up with Renard because they are old buddies... |
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Post by hp on Jul 15, 2019 21:23:50 GMT
The hair actually suggest that they are communicating through his stomach (or where his stomach should be). Or his heart maybe? Not that there's much to interpret from it Dunno if Tom is influenced by Carlos Castaneda's pseudo-autobiographical works in which he describes his spiritual "classes" under yaqui shamans Don Juan Matos and Don Genaro. There is a book in which Don Juan explains that the origin of people's "volition" is in the stomach region (not sure if "volition" would be the correct term, I've read the book in portuguese).
Then in another book Castaneda describes one lesson where the shamans are trying to teach him how to "see". So they start doing prodigious physical feats (such as walking on a tree trunk as if it were the floor or taking impossibly huge leaps, like, Richard Bach's "Illusion" style miracles). He freaks out so much he has some kind of perceptive epiphany, and starts to see people as surrounded by oval auras of light, with thin strings of light coming out of their stomach region. IIRC he then notices when Juan and Genaro do their stunts, they use those strings as "tentacles" for reaching and grabbing stuff and support themselves.
(I'm talking from memory and it's been like 15-20 years since I've read those books, so I could be misremembering something)
Man I'm sceptic AF and an atheist, but Castaneda's books are a ride. It seems he was a pretty problematic dude, tho.
Anyway... If Tom were referencing that kind of thing, maybe since Rey became Annie's familiar, she now might have control over his will, and as such is directly connected to his "volition center"
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Post by Runningflame on Jul 15, 2019 22:31:27 GMT
and threading through him are strands of hair-fire that connect to both Frannie and Courtney...! (F & C are also directly hair-connected to each other, tho these strands aren't on fire. Slight inconsistency: lower Courtney lost her makeup!) I find this form of his rather disconcerting myself. It's like Renard is being strung up and puppeted and he can't do anything about it except shout about it, and even that seems off and puppet-like. I don't like it. My first thought: |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 15, 2019 22:32:40 GMT
Anyway... If Tom were referencing that kind of thing, maybe since Rey became Annie's familiar, she now might have control over his will, and as such is directly connected to his "volition center" I sincerely hope not, that would be an even more disturbing slavery contract than before! |
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Post by mturtle7 on Jul 15, 2019 23:05:11 GMT
and threading through him are strands of hair-fire that connect to both Frannie and Courtney...! (F & C are also directly hair-connected to each other, tho these strands aren't on fire. Slight inconsistency: lower Courtney lost her makeup!) I find this form of his rather disconcerting myself. It's like Renard is being strung up and puppeted and he can't do anything about it except shout about it, and even that seems off and puppet-like. I don't like it. SAME. Renard's always had a variety of physical forms, ranging from "majestic" to "goofy" to "cute", but they were always separate from his natural Ether form as a fox. Seeing this weird hybrid form in a very ether-like setting is... unsettling, to say the least. And the puppetry symbolism with Annie's hair piercing his stomach just makes it even more creepy...brrrrrrr.... |
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 16, 2019 3:53:55 GMT
Also, Eggy ended up with the Annie more likely to get peeved by one of his "you can't do that" remarks. ... and he didn't end up with Renard because they are old buddies... They also separated Parley from Cvet and Rey from both the Annies. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 16, 2019 9:04:29 GMT
I find this form of his rather disconcerting myself. It's like Renard is being strung up and puppeted and he can't do anything about it except shout about it, and even that seems off and puppet-like. I don't like it. SAME. Renard's always had a variety of physical forms, ranging from "majestic" to "goofy" to "cute", but they were always separate from his natural Ether form as a fox. Seeing this weird hybrid form in a very ether-like setting is... unsettling, to say the least. And the puppetry symbolism with Annie's hair piercing his stomach just makes it even more creepy...brrrrrrr.... To be fair, Tom writes under the page that what is depicted is "Not quite the ether." So we should not assume the same symbolisms apply here. Also, the descriptions of familiar spirits I know, be they from folk tales or D&D, always have the familiar retain their free will, regardless whether they are forced to obey their human partners or not. Often the familiar spirit's main task was to provide guidance to a young witch or wizard, not being their servant - which is arguably what Renard's main role in the comic towards Annie was until now, anyway. (Yes, he did not teach her to use her etheric powers until after she lost the blinker stone, those teachings were mainly by Coyote, but you know what I mean.) |
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Post by saardvark on Jul 16, 2019 15:21:26 GMT
... and he didn't end up with Renard because they are old buddies... They also separated Parley from Cvet and Rey from both the Annies. hmm, obvious teams are broken up, yet each team still has fighter/ether ability balance. Like its a set up for a test of some sort.... |
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Post by Eve Swann on Jul 16, 2019 16:48:19 GMT
They also separated Parley from Cvet and Rey from both the Annies. hmm, obvious teams are broken up, yet each team still has fighter/ether ability balance. Like its a set up for a test of some sort.... A test of the real Annie maybe? Or something to do with the two of them and this universe anyway. |
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Post by saardvark on Jul 16, 2019 17:17:58 GMT
Also, Eggy ended up with the Annie more likely to get peeved by one of his "you can't do that" remarks. ... and he didn't end up with Renard because they are old buddies... welcome to the forum, btw! |
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Post by brilliantgrey on Jul 16, 2019 20:57:31 GMT
I'd like to see Renard in the ether. I wonder if anything's changed there now that he has a new contract?
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