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Post by lovecraft1024 on May 28, 2010 13:06:39 GMT
How much does Rey know about Jones? Seems like he's never surprised by anything she does - just amused. So it would seem to me that Annie could ask *him* about Jones, if she were actually intimidated too much by her, or embarrassed by the potential awkwardness...
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Post by Rex on May 28, 2010 13:13:12 GMT
Yeah, I picked up on that too. Rey seems to be very comfortable/unsurprised around Jones. Maybe it's comfort born out of the knowledge of what she is?
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Post by GK Sierra on May 28, 2010 14:10:34 GMT
How much does Rey know about Jones? Seems like he's never surprised by anything she does - just amused. So it would seem to me that Annie could ask *him* about Jones, if she were actually intimidated too much by her, or embarrassed by the potential awkwardness... He probably knows almost all there is to know about the court, the forest, and the relation between the two. He is, after all, a demi-god on par with Ysringren.
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Post by stroth on May 28, 2010 14:17:42 GMT
what the hell is she then? ;D I don't care what Reynardine said. She is obviously a terminatrix, come from the future to ensure that the court brings Skynet online in a timely fashion.
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Post by wanderer on May 28, 2010 14:27:45 GMT
Ye gods, Jones, show some restraint! That wall is probably there for a reason.
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Post by the bandit on May 28, 2010 14:41:10 GMT
I don't care what Reynardine said. She is obviously a terminatrix, come from the future to ensure that the court brings Skynet online in a timely fashion. You can definitely read this comic with the deep bass slides of the Terminator music and feel right at home. If I had to favor a speculation, it would be the metal golem. Though the Galatea inspiration from way back in Parley's bedroom still holds a place in my heart. - - - It all brings a new depth of meaning to Eglamore's comment that "indoors and at close range, Jones would flatten me," doesn't it?
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Post by wanderer on May 28, 2010 14:45:15 GMT
Annie, please ask her what she is.
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Post by TBeholder on May 28, 2010 15:18:13 GMT
Enforced Awesomeness ensued. what the hell is she then? ;D If she's not Galatea, she's something a lot like it. Although even a marble golem would be careful about chipping themselves using their hand as a wrecking ball. I'm inclined to suspect a statue "visited" by related goddess, whose presence put it even beyond its original durability. I went to Wikipedia to find the right name for the creature I was thinking of, but either I used the wrong searchterms or I was misremembering it. It's karmadynamics in action. Ye gods, Jones, show some restraint! That wall is probably there for a reason. Did it occur to anyone else that Jones also gives an object lesson related to the situation in which she found Annie? Namely, "don't hold back your power when it makes more sense to use it freely". Antimony isn't quite an unstoppable juggernaut like Jones, yes, but if she didn't hang in indecisivion and dared to go all out - she's not so far behind to play a distressed damsel. For one, by now she's hot enough to vaporize those bugs. It all brings a new depth of meaning to Eglamore's comment that "indoors and at close range, Jones would flatten me," doesn't it? Well, i wouldn't call it "depth"...
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Post by basser on May 28, 2010 15:47:54 GMT
Jones. Is. Terrifying.
And, sadly, since according to Tom he meant for Jones to specifically be "mysterious", I can't see that we'll be getting answers anytime soon. Possibly ever. Which would be torturous.
My vote is on the Iron(Wo)Man theory. Not the Tony Stark IM, the Black Sabbath IM. "He was turned to steel/By a great magnetic field." Images of baby Jones falling into some nutty alchemical muckup, maybe.
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Post by lovecraft1024 on May 28, 2010 16:11:32 GMT
Well I guess we're going to have to wait to find out, but there *were* other people on that boat. None of them are watching this? Are they cowering in the wheel house? Were they planning to come ashore as well, or was this just a drop-off? Jones said in #723 something about needing to return the boat...
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Post by lovecraft1024 on May 28, 2010 16:18:35 GMT
It all brings a new depth of meaning to Eglamore's comment that "indoors and at close range, Jones would flatten me," doesn't it? Well, i wouldn't call it "depth"... Ha ha, not depth, but definitely a certain gravitas!
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Post by lovecraft1024 on May 28, 2010 16:20:03 GMT
By the way, anyone else think that panel 5 would make a great avatar?
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Post by zbeeblebrox on May 28, 2010 16:24:42 GMT
Jones, this is why people think you are a robot!
...Although, Beatrix Kiddo would probably be all like, "Meh, I can take her."
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Post by lurker on May 28, 2010 16:38:29 GMT
Rey explicitly stated that she was not a robot, and that even he and Coyote can't answer the question of what she is. So I'm more inclined to think that she is a supernatural being on the order of Coyote, although apparently less etherically-attuned (she can't use blinker stones). Maybe she has some humanity in her, but definitely no mere mortal. There are indications that she was around even back in the days when Coyote and Ysengrin first came to Gillitie, which definitely puts her in the supernatural category.
Either that, or the early Court people (ilke Diego) had achieved more than mere robots, but also cyborgs, and Jones is one of them. Perhaps a combination of human + machine + etheric technology?
P.S. Or perhaps she is one of those forest beings that took on a human body... which may explain why the headmaster found her comment on Ysengrin's body disturbing. If she was a powerful forest being, then she may have retained some aspect of it after she was "humanized".
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Post by Nicolescrib on May 28, 2010 16:44:15 GMT
Ok, so this is waaay out there, and I don't think I really believe it myself, but what if Jack somehow figured out how to disguise himself as jones? There isn't really much evidence suggesting it because Jones acts strange all the time anyway, but it would make sense from Jack's perspective. Also doesn't really explain why she (Jack?) didn't just climb the rope or go across the bridge. But it's an interesting theory.
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Post by violet on May 28, 2010 16:44:48 GMT
But assuming Reynardine knew what he was talking about and wasn't just making assumptions himself, what the hell is she then? ;D Evidently? Uranium. Also...why did she smash the wall, anyway? Surely there's some less destructive way to the other side. Maybe there's...a secret emergency button in there, or something? Maybe she just doesn't care. For one, by now she's hot enough to vaporize those bugs. Huh? I wonder if maybe she's the True God of the Middle, or something. It doesn't really fit the style of Gunnerkrigg's mythos, though.
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Post by Nicolescrib on May 28, 2010 16:45:39 GMT
Meh. The robot/god idea is more plausible.
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Post by violet on May 28, 2010 16:54:33 GMT
Ok, so this is waaay out there, and I don't think I really believe it myself, but what if Jack somehow figured out how to disguise himself as jones? There isn't really much evidence suggesting it because Jones acts strange all the time anyway, but it would make sense from Jack's perspective. Also doesn't really explain why she (Jack?) didn't just climb the rope or go across the bridge. But it's an interesting theory. Actually, I think that's not really Jones, it's Kat. The Gold Buttons are all holograms she's created, and the Jones suit is a sort of cunning armor she's developed by studying Diego's robots. RobotJonesKat is being much more overtly robot-ey than RegularJones, because that's basically the extent of Kat's knowledge about Jones: Annie thinks she's a robot, and she acts very cold (and, presumably, robot-ish). (Also, Kat is enjoying playing with being super-strong and stuff.) Kat doesn't much like either Zimmy or Jack, but in a cage match, she expects Zimmy would probably trounce the Spring-heeled boy, which is why RobotJonesKat is allowing the meeting to occur. Also, the anti-gravity ship is actually an extension of Kat's earlier experiments with microgravity devices, given to her present self by her future self from a world where she never saved Annie. (FutureKat warned NowKat against telling Annie about any of it, though Kat did let a little bit slip.) Also, both the Court and Forest are actually holographic simulations created by Dr. Disaster to keep the world in the dark about the impending Enigmatron invasion. And Anja is Keyser Söze.
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Post by blue on May 28, 2010 16:57:52 GMT
Jones is just full of Kool-Aid, giving her mastery over walls.
Also: drinking the kool-aid -> Jonestown Massacre. My theory is perfect.
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Post by atteSmythe on May 28, 2010 17:35:14 GMT
A mimetic poly-alloy. Liquid metal.
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Post by Nicolescrib on May 28, 2010 18:13:03 GMT
Haha, I like the kat idea. What/when did she let something slip?
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Post by resurrectionist on May 28, 2010 18:19:35 GMT
In the same vein as a golem or huldra, maybe Jones is a homonculus or similar artificial human.
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Post by optern on May 28, 2010 18:30:42 GMT
Maybe Jones took a bath in the Styx.
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Post by jabbym59 on May 28, 2010 18:41:06 GMT
She's a brick houusse,she's migthee mightay owwwooo =p
Also,she's concerned about breaking the dock,but not the wall?
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 28, 2010 18:42:12 GMT
Jones is just full of Kool-Aid, giving her mastery over walls. Also: drinking the kool-aid -> Jonestown Massacre. My theory is perfect. The folks at Jonestown actually drank the off-brand stuff; Flavor-Aid, I think. Oh, yeeeeaaaah!
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Post by Nicolescrib on May 28, 2010 18:50:29 GMT
Yup, flavor-aid.
She might not be concerned with breaking the bridge. The first thing that comes to my mind is how things aren't able to cross the anaan waters. Perhaps there's something similar with the bridge? Or she just feels like being confusing.
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Post by blue on May 28, 2010 18:56:09 GMT
That is true! But kool-aid won the association anyway!
As an aside, in my head I had blown off the "Jones is dense look at how she is sunk into the bed" thing because she was still the same height, relative to everyone else on the bed. Anyway I think Annie is about to show off one of her unique abilities. (She is the only person in the world who wouldn't be curious enough about Jones's display to ask anything about it immediately)
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Post by violet on May 28, 2010 19:34:20 GMT
She might not be concerned with breaking the bridge. The first thing that comes to my mind is how things aren't able to cross the anaan waters. Perhaps there's something similar with the bridge? Perhaps Annie is currently on the dock.
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Post by Nicolescrib on May 28, 2010 19:58:38 GMT
Good point.
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Post by hal9000 on May 28, 2010 20:24:32 GMT
The Gunnerkrigg staff must spend a lot of time patching up walls after Jones. Maybe someone would offer to build some passageways, if they were brave enough to broach the topic with her. Jones is made of neutron star material, obviously. Ehh, not quite neutron star material. The amount of that stuff that you could fit into a thimble would weigh more than the Knock Nevis fully loaded, so if Jones were entirely neutron matter she'd have a gravitational pull on the same order of magnitude as a small moon. I think tungsten or iridium alloy and carbon fiber are more likely candidates.
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