[251] Story Discussion - I have an idea

[Aspen d'Grey]

Mmm, I saw this coming as soon as Annie said that. I'm betting she closed the door after Kat too.

Remember, early update at www.drunkduck.com/Gunnerkrigg_court

[mudmaniac]

High up tower, mysterious figure in blanket, friend that shoves you in and closes the door.

All the makings of a typical Asian Horror Movie....

I'm so very curious to find out what's under blanket number one. Would be sad if this week ended on a sad note for Kat.

[yeochild]

And now, of course, it transpires that the person under the blanket is actually Rapunzel and Annie got the wrong tower.

[Yin]

yeochild said:

And now, of course, it transpires that the person under the blanket is actually Rapunzel and Annie got the wrong tower.

I thought Rapunzel too!

Now, who else thought Rapunzel the second they saw the tower?

[todd]

I didn't, I confess. But when I saw what was apparently Alistair all wrapped up in the blanket, I found myself thinking "giant cocoon". (Between that and the odd-looking things on the edge of his face a couple of pages back, the metamorphosis theory is starting to seem all the more likely.)

And I laughed at how Annie resolved the issue.

[UbiquitousDragon]

Annie is so awesome. Love the art, again, on this page

Aaaaand, Gunnerkrigg is sunny, w00t?

[Boksha]

This has bad news written all over it.

[todd]

An odd thought that I suddenly had. If Aly *is* undergoing some metamorphosis and is going to look very different from the young boy with longish brown hair that Kat knew him as for most of the week when he comes out of that cocoon (if it *is* a cocoon), could there be some tie-in with Kat's unsuccessful experiment with make-up earlier and Annie's pointing out to Kat that Alistair doesn't need her to get all pretty for him? As in Kat coming to recognize that it doesn't matter whether Alistair's still that cute on the outside? (Though, knowing Tom, he'd be able to handle such a thing without it looking like a "Lesson of the Week".)

[Goatmon]

I have an idea!

What is it?

*Shove*

Hahahha! I'm rolling over here.

[Bobbey]

At first, I didn't look at the image long enough and my first thought was ''Oh my goodness, Alistair is a green blob!''...and then I read what Kat said. I feel stupid now:P

Gotta love Annie in this one...but how did she know that Alistair was conceled in that tower?

[UbiquitousDragon]

bobbey said:

Gotta love Annie in this one...but how did she know that Alistair was conceled in that tower?

Him and Kat, and Annie when she wasn't lifting him from the ground, spent most of the week with him so he probably brought it up/Annie asked where he'd been put considering the house/dormitory system [32].

[amelie]

I thought of the scene in Howl's Moving Castle where Sophie wears a blanket to conceal her transformation. So what if he's already...metamorphasised?

[mrw]

Oh Annie, you're so smooth. ...Not.

Curious the way Alistair (?) is sitting in the sun. The way the light fringing is done, it almost looks like Aly himself is glowing.
The whole tower thing does seem like this is a gender reversal of classic princess-in-the-tower legends, although I'm pretty sure Tom has turned it into something far beyond that.

Aly turning into a bird-man or something seems like a good possibility at this point. Perhaps his parents will simply fly in the window to pick him up? The tower with a big window would be a logical place for a bird front-door, yes?

What a Friday cliffhanger, though! Can't wait til Monday!

[aoeniac]

I'm honestly really not that concerned with what Aly is turning into, because I know Kat isn't going to care, and will probably even think it's wicked awesome since she's a science freak an all.

What I'm concerned about, is what this means as far as the nature of GunnerKrigg Court. Because there's obviously SOMETHING up with the "school" based on faculty, the labyrinth, the creature holding chambers, the robots, the students, and its proximity to the supernatural happenings in the woods. While all this screams that there's more to GKC than school, this new transfer student extends the scope of the court, in that it actively brings in students that are clearly not your average kids. Just what organizations is the Court associated with, and for what purpose? Or is the Court behind EVERYTHING? As if Zimmy being transferred to GKC by men in black wasn't sketchy enough, now we have Aly being brought here and just as quickly removed...

[Myrani]

amelie said:

I thought of the scene in Howl's Moving Castle where Sophie wears a blanket to conceal her transformation. So what if he's already...metamorphasised?

...Cor. That's precisely what I was thinking of, especially in the sense of Aly going birdlike such as Howl. He's set up in a tower to fly away, and as has already been stated a bunch of times, the blanket wrapped around him is implicative of a metamorphosis of sorts. At least, we're pretty sure that's Aly in there, right?

[Boksha]

Actually, this strip kind of reminds me of that Full Metal Alchemist setting in the first few episodes where the fat priest with the faux philosophers stone was supposedly bringing a guy back from the dead through alchemy. He kept the guy behind a curtain because he supposedly wasn't ready yet. Interestingly, birds were heavily involved in that bit as well. I hope for Kat's sake Aly currently doesn't look anything like the thing that was behind that curtain.

[todd]

mrw said:

The whole tower thing does seem like this is a gender reversal of classic princess-in-the-tower legends, although I'm pretty sure Tom has turned it into something far beyond that.

I wonder if it's significant that Kat was training Shadow2 to call her "Princess Kat" in the last chapter, in light of this.