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Post by lurker on May 24, 2010 18:52:08 GMT
And there goes so much speculative hot air that has been brewing in the forums lately. ;D
This is interesting, though. It seems to imply that had Zimmy been able to control her etheric tendencies, she would be wielding supernatural powers. This also seems to imply that Zimmingham is an etheric distortion of the Court, and the nobodies are a physical realization of a figment of her imagination. This also means that while Jack was in Zimmingham, his mind got screwed with in a major way, and now he is irreversibly on the way to becoming a complete psychopath.
OTOH, I'm not sure if Jones' explanation covers everything... it doesn't explain, for example, why the other students present at the time didn't get pulled into Zimmingham. From the way Kat reacted to Annie afterwards, it seems that Zimmingham only happened in their minds. So how could this be "distortions that present themselves in the physical world"?
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 24, 2010 19:49:36 GMT
This also seems to imply that Zimmingham is an etheric distortion of the Court, and the nobodies are a physical realization of a figment of her imagination. I don't know, Zim City really seems to have more to do with Birmingham than with the Court. Tom has said that he used real places in Birmingham as references for Zimmy's cityscape, and Birmingham is her and Gamma's hometown.
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Post by legion on May 24, 2010 19:53:18 GMT
Zim City :D
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Post by Casey on May 24, 2010 20:17:13 GMT
I'm not sure if Jones' explanation covers everything... it doesn't explain, for example, why the other students present at the time didn't get pulled into Zimmingham. From the way Kat reacted to Annie afterwards, it seems that Zimmingham only happened in their minds. So how could this be "distortions that present themselves in the physical world"? I believe that was a different sort of incident. Annie, Jack, Zimmy, and Gamma may have been the only ether-sensitive or ether-attuned people there. Rather than the ether-world being let through into the real world, their attunement caused them to be pulled into the pocket-world that's somewhere between the material plane and the etheric plane (or perhaps a temporary warping of the two planes that are otherwise parallel but become "crossed" by Zimmy, though only ether-sensitive people become aware of the change). Zimmy is still capable of allowing etheric manifestations, which are melvolent based on Zimmy's discordant attunement to the ether, to cross over into the physical world, much like a black hole is sometimes theorized to draw in material from this universe and spew it out into a different universe. I don't think we've seen this actually happen yet though. If this all sounds very speculative it's probably because I've spent most of the day reading lostpedia and people's speculations on that story's more esoteric meanings, and my brain's just in that speculative mode.
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Post by todd on May 24, 2010 22:13:09 GMT
If the Court knows that its power station experiments are hurting Zimmy, and continues with them, that makes it seem all the creepier. (Even if they don't care about Zimmy, her leakages could endanger those around her - indeed, Jack's plight is proof of that.)
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Post by Yin on May 25, 2010 4:21:11 GMT
Zimmy is one person against the thousands (hundreds?) living in the Court. I suppose as long as she's kept out of range...
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Post by mudmaniac on May 25, 2010 5:51:51 GMT
So that makes the ppl there.... The Zims? >_<
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Post by cronkite on May 25, 2010 7:24:41 GMT
This comic just makes me more curious about what exactly Gamma's "power" is, and if it's something that only works specifically with Zimmy. Is it an etheric power, or is there something special about their relationship that makes her able to ease Zimmy's mind? Or is it both... or something completely different... derp...
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Post by warrl on May 25, 2010 10:10:56 GMT
This is interesting, though. It seems to imply that had Zimmy been able to control her etheric tendencies, she would be wielding supernatural powers. Annie speculated about that while she and Zimmy were in Birminghell. I'd go for a combination of etheric distortion and Zimmy's imagination. That was implicit in Not-Kat. We will hope not irreversibly. Thing is - - Zimmy has had a long time to get used to this (and presumably it didn't start at full strength while she was still in diapers).
- Coyote and Reynard are internally extremely strong - they don't derive their strength from what's around them - and of course have been living full-time in the physical world and the etherium simultaneously for probably centuries.
- Annie also draws a lot of strength from within herself, and has been knowingly and effectively dealing with various aspects of the etherium off and on since she first met Muut in the hospital.
- Gamma is fairly internally strong (draws some strength from Zimmy), confident, aware of her gifts, and used to this stuff.
- Jack - has none of that to back him up. He's a typical extrovert barely-pre-teen boy who possibly has already been whacked in the head once or twice with a two-by-hormone. And all of a sudden he's dumped into the etherium, either unable or not knowing how to do anything of his own will; attacked by some creature; and tossed out by some apparently random quirk of the forces.
Lack of sensitivity to ethereal forces. My take on it is that Zimmy (and Gamma beside her) is routinely subjected to both overloads that project into the physical world, and underloads that suck her consciousness into Zimmingham. And either way, Zimmy is not just a victim but also a channel. This was probably one of the first few times that there was an underload strong enough, and another sensitive like Annie (let alone the rather-less-sensitive Jack) close enough to get sucked in with her. The chance that I'm totally wrong is significantly different from zero.
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Post by blastdragon on May 25, 2010 21:00:59 GMT
This will also explain a little bit about Annie's cut everytime she is in the ether. When she is near Zimmy it appeared. Zimmy "sucks" all the ether-energy at her. And if Annie comes near Zimmy the ether-energy affects Annie. And it affect Annie like she is in the ether (while she's not).
When you don't get it I will give a little explanation. I see ether-energy as invisible parts that are everywhere. Everywhere is the quantity energy in the air. There are a few exceptions like near the power-station when it is on and near Zimmy. There the ether-energy-parts are sucked to. When Annie is near such place where are a lot of ether-energy-parts, the parts affect Annie. And in this case her cut appears like she is in the ether. My guess is that if Annie stayed at the station her cut also appeared.
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Post by zbeeblebrox on May 26, 2010 5:15:00 GMT
Was anyone else reminded of H. R. Giger by the fourth panel? Yes!
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Post by Refugee on May 26, 2010 5:54:43 GMT
This will also explain a little bit about Annie's cut everytime she is in the ether. When she is near Zimmy it appeared. Interesting, but I think the cut is simply part of her etheric self now, part of her identity in that mode. It was, after all, inflicted by an etheric being. The cut will be healed when Jeanne is healed.
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Post by violet on May 26, 2010 16:34:02 GMT
Coyote and Reynard are internally extremely strong - they don't derive their strength from what's around them - and of course have been living full-time in the physical world and the etherium simultaneously for probably centuries. Coyote also has a Ring Grace. Perhaps he can forge Zimmy one.
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