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Post by atteSmythe on Oct 7, 2010 19:17:01 GMT
"Oh god, you saw Jeanne?" Er, duh, Kat. That's what this whole blinker-tossing escapade was for, wasn't it!? I guess she means that "Oh god Parley saw Jeanne wtf" but it still comes off as a bit derp. Well, remember that up until finding Jeanne, Annie had been speaking while in the ether, relaying what was going on. Kat had no way to know that Jeanne was stopping her from doing that.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 7, 2010 19:57:51 GMT
On another note,if the arrow trapped Jeanne's soul down there,do you think Kat could,given time,reverse-engineer a prototype to free Jeanne from her binding? If they could lay they hands on the "prototype", solving this puzzle would require zero research. They have only to imitate the method of dealing with unwanted trinkets recently demonstrated by most elegant lady Jones... ;D ...okay, i know, but the girls can borrow a portable hydraulic hammer or something. As someone mentioned before, it would make more sense in that case for her to say that a ghost shouldn't be able to do that. Dunno, she doesn't seem to be in a proper mood to stop and find a better way to phrase her thoughts.
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Post by mojojojo on Oct 8, 2010 21:05:24 GMT
[783]I find Annie's comment on Jeanne's emotion sharing not being fair just a tad odd. That's not the phrase I would have chosen to describe it. Late response - I think it's mostly to do with Annie's problem with the afterlife... or afterlife entities anyway. It ties in with Annie's problem with the guides, and also with Annie's irrational response to Mort's unintentional proposal. She's too young to cope with the dead, and a child's response to that would be "it's not fair". Actually, ignore the afterlife thing. "It's not fair" is a child's response, or rather the response a person gives when things turn our worse than they are believe they could and receiving sympathy is possible. Uh, that's clumsy. Has no one else heard a child of Annie's age complain "it's not fair"?
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Post by jayne on Oct 8, 2010 21:39:37 GMT
I still use the phrase "its not fair" when something unfair happens to me and I'm upset by it.
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Post by cheesegreetings on Oct 8, 2010 21:53:20 GMT
Late response - I think it's mostly to do with Annie's problem with the afterlife... or afterlife entities anyway. It ties in with Annie's problem with the guides, and also with Annie's irrational response to Mort's unintentional proposal. She's too young to cope with the dead, and a child's response to that would be "it's not fair". I think it's more than this. I think Annie does have a problem with the afterlife and is unwilling on some level to be the one who guides Jeanne to the Ether. She comes accross as more mature than she probably really is because of how little emotion she shows, but I think it's because she doesn't allow herself to confront her emotions. She doesn't want to face the emotions and/or trauma that she experienced when her mother died. That's why I think "Coward Heart" refers to Annie, or to how she sees herself.
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Post by Casey on Oct 8, 2010 22:04:28 GMT
Annie shows emotion all the time. I don't get why people say this. The only thing that makes Annie different from most is that supernatural occurrences don't make her go "What the hell was that?" like Parley did. And that's only because Annie's been exposed to the supernatural her whole life.
Annie is reserved and shy, but she's not emotionless. Just because, for example, the first 6 chapters she was trying to put on a brave face and not show how much the death of her mother devastated her does not mean that she didn't feel it... which we eventually saw in "A Handful of Dirt".
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Post by legion on Oct 8, 2010 22:14:49 GMT
Annie shows emotion all the time. I don't get why people say this. The only thing that makes Annie different from most is that supernatural occurrences don't make her go "What the hell was that?" like Parley did. And that's only because Annie's been exposed to the supernatural her whole life. Annie is reserved and shy, but she's not emotionless. Just because, for example, the first 6 chapters she was trying to put on a brave face and not show how much the death of her mother devastated her does not mean that she didn't feel it... which we eventually saw in "A Handful of Dirt". I approve of what this man just said.
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Post by rageboy on Oct 8, 2010 22:43:56 GMT
Annie shows emotion all the time. I don't get why people say this. The only thing that makes Annie different from most is that supernatural occurrences don't make her go "What the hell was that?" like Parley did. And that's only because Annie's been exposed to the supernatural her whole life. Annie is reserved and shy, but she's not emotionless. Just because, for example, the first 6 chapters she was trying to put on a brave face and not show how much the death of her mother devastated her does not mean that she didn't feel it... which we eventually saw in "A Handful of Dirt". I approve of what this man just said. +1. especially the handful of dirt reference
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Post by Refugee on Oct 12, 2010 4:36:42 GMT
"A ghost shouldn't do that.
Whatever it is that Jeanne does? That's what Mort does to scare people -- only Mort does it in a fairly mild, and he does it, how can I say this? Neutrally? He projects generically fearful images, and he lets people go of their own free will. Mostly, he allows their own emotions to develop and control their behavior, aside from, perhaps a bit of free-floating dread. He's doing what he understands he's supposed to be doing, as a ghost. And he doesn't mean any lasting harm.
Jeanne held Parley and Annie, wouldn't let them go. She forced images and emotions from her own past upon them. She used Annie and Parley as targets, receptacles for her own hate. She meant to hurt them, possibly to kill them. Perhaps most of all, she judged them, and found them guilty, essentially, of being Court folk.
She misused her ghostly powers to take revenge. That's what a ghost isn't supposed to do.
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