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Post by Suburban Ascetic on Jun 6, 2007 7:31:48 GMT
I do have something of a silly question - what are those things on top of Aly's family's heads? I doubt that they are antlers, but they don't look very feathery.
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Post by Ben² on Jun 6, 2007 7:46:48 GMT
Ha ha, ol' Pappy seems to be balding pretty badly. Kat might want to think twice about pursuing Aly, if that's a sign of anything to come.
Also, the thing about him being a bird might also be something to be concerned about.
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Post by Goatmon on Jun 6, 2007 8:11:27 GMT
I do have something of a silly question - what are those things on top of Aly's family's heads? I doubt that they are antlers, but they don't look very feathery. problem solved. Moving on... This is rather bizarre, awkward, and sad all at once. What I'm wondering is this; If this is something brought about by his parents, when did it happen? Had his parents already had their son before they went through this change? If so, wouldn't that mean this allegedly (based on what I've seen thus far) unnatural change is being forced on their son as well, regardless of how he feels about it? There's a depressing thought.... Also, when I first read today's page, my first instinct was that they're the regional fairies we saw here. www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=139The scenarios both fit, but the hairdos don't match up. Of course, they admitted that the rest of their class had already moved on to the school so perhaps these two are a previous generation of former fairies? Or not. Speculation is always fun.  |
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Post by todd on Jun 6, 2007 10:36:04 GMT
This was definitely a surprise. Who'd have thought that both the "metamorphosis theory" and the "suicide fairies theory" were correct?
But goatmon raises an interesting point; did Aly's parents pass that test before or after he was born - and if after, that brings up the ramifications of Aly being affected by his parents' receiving new bodies.
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Jun 6, 2007 12:21:44 GMT
This was definitely a surprise. Who'd have thought that both the "metamorphosis theory" and the "suicide fairies theory" were correct? But goatmon raises an interesting point; did Aly's parents pass that test before or after he was born - and if after, that brings up the ramifications of Aly being affected by his parents' receiving new bodies. But if it was before, how weird it'd be to not be the same species as your parents ... And I totally didn't make the connection between the suicide fairies, but I like the sound of it. |
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Post by Madii on Jun 6, 2007 14:15:48 GMT
I couldn't help but think when I read today's strip: Does this mean Aly came out of an egg?!
My mind is reeling a little right now. Bird-parents?! And what test?! New bodies?! Overuse of question marks and exclamation marks?!?! Time to pop over to Wild Speculation for a spell, methinks.
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Post by fjodor on Jun 6, 2007 17:23:04 GMT
This is awesome. For one thing, it means that fairies visit GC with the consent of the staff. It's not like they have to go completely undercover or something. It also means that vuirtually every student and teacher could be a fairie.
So we have three answers and 482 new questions. I believe that's slightly above the normal average
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Post by todd on Jun 6, 2007 17:39:27 GMT
If I was Annie (or Kat), I'd be looking closely over every pop quiz and exam that my classes at Gunnerkrigg Court gave with a magnifying glass, to make certain that there aren't any surprises in the fine print. (Though the fact that there are some still-human alumni from the Court about - including Kat's parents, Mr. Eglamore, and Anthony (not to mention the now-deceased Surma) - suggests that being transformed into a bird, or some other kind of animal, isn't an inevitable fate for students in the Court. And since the suicide fairies' test as described in Chapter 8 was one where they knew that they'd get new bodies if they passed the test - and wanted them - I assume that Aly's parents also knew what they were getting when they took it, or what they would get if they passed it.)
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Post by libra on Jun 6, 2007 20:19:09 GMT
I wonder what their original bodies were?Human due to their son, perhaps?Or are they normal now?
Why would they want a new body anyway?To go to GC?Aly doesn't seem happy about whats happening.
I don't think there is a normal average, fjodor.
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Post by owl on Jun 6, 2007 20:25:41 GMT
O.O So...maybe the progression is Suicide Fairies --> Gunnerkrigg Students/Humans ---> Birds?
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Post by La Poire on Jun 6, 2007 20:51:00 GMT
O.O So...maybe the progression is Suicide Fairies --> Gunnerkrigg Students/Humans ---> Birds? What I don't get though, is why the second transformation? The suicide faeries would get new bodies when they passed the test, so what Aly is saying seems to describe them, but I mean, Aly's parents must (? could be something really freaky, I suppose) have been human at some point, so why did they transform on to birds? Did they pas another test? And did Aly pass the same test? He seems, bassed on his pop-culture references, to have been human up to this point of his life, or at least for a long time. Sorry for babbling, but a theory strikes me: what if Aly's parents weren't suicide faeries but rather that they were already birds to start with, but like the suicide faries had to pass some test to receive new, human bodies? Perhaps the new bodies were only relatively temporary; they had time to get Aly, but now they've turned back and for some reason Aly is turning as well. Sorry if all this is inconsistent or confusing, I basically thought it out as i wrote it, and I'm to tired to really read through it now. |
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Post by libra on Jun 6, 2007 20:56:32 GMT
La Poire, stop reading my thoughts :
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Post by La Poire on Jun 6, 2007 21:18:34 GMT
Stop thinking so loudly. I can't hear myself – well, you know.
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Post by luhtarian on Jun 6, 2007 21:35:41 GMT
The fact that one has red eyes and one blue made me hope that they were the same fairies we saw earlier... but the blue-eyed one is obviously male, so I suppose not.  |
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Post by owl on Jun 6, 2007 22:19:08 GMT
Sorry for babbling, but a theory strikes me: what if Aly's parents weren't suicide faeries but rather that they were already birds to start with, but like the suicide faries had to pass some test to receive new, human bodies? Perhaps the new bodies were only relatively temporary; they had time to get Aly, but now they've turned back and for some reason Aly is turning as well. Sorry if all this is inconsistent or confusing, I basically thought it out as i wrote it, and I'm to tired to really read through it now. Mmmmmaybbbeee...but don't you think Aly would have said something about that? Perhaps not. Perhaps next update? The way he phrases it leaves it open for a "but.." Yeah, it definitely seems as if Aly's been human for quite a long time. So then would all the "supernatural" creatures (I'm assuming Aly & Co are supernatural...they've got HAIR....) want to pass the test and join Gunner's Crag? Why are they so eager? The suicide fairies, even though they "might have to go on a diet", still seem really eager to get there. And it wouldn't be all...Reynardine doesn't care, Basil's, well, Basil... |
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Post by todd on Jun 6, 2007 22:20:40 GMT
The fact that one has red eyes and one blue made me hope that they were the same fairies we saw earlier... but the blue-eyed one is obviously male, so I suppose not. I doubt that the suicide fairies whom we met in Chapter 8, even if they had found somebody else to squash them with a stone almost immediately after Annie and Kat left the forest, would have had time to have become parents to a son around twelve years old by the time of the events in Chapter Thirteen (short of time travel) anyway. |
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Post by Goatmon on Jun 6, 2007 22:41:20 GMT
That is, if Aly ages like a normal person. So far it's not looking like he has a normal human origin, so it stands to reason that he might not age like one.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 7, 2007 4:50:12 GMT
This chapter is certainly shaping up to be a barrel of laughs.
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Post by todd on Jun 7, 2007 11:43:09 GMT
Incidentally, Winsbury had better hope that Alistair is too much of a gentleman to take advantage of his new form to carry out some additional payback (and of a far less civilized variety than the great slam dunk).
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Post by Bobbey on Jun 7, 2007 21:47:02 GMT
I thought that today would be the day where at least some questions would be answered, but this only leads to more unanswered questions. Reading this thread is making me more confused than enlightened (sp?), but I guess I was expecting this kind of reaction...You can't blame Tom, he's always putting us on the edge in every episode  |
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