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Post by Max on Jun 14, 2013 7:06:01 GMT
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Post by maxptc on Jun 14, 2013 7:07:30 GMT
And that will be my first outloud what the fuck moment from this comic in years. Awesome page.
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Post by americonedream on Jun 14, 2013 7:08:56 GMT
Oh no, she's adorable!
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 14, 2013 7:09:48 GMT
So Renard is sneaking off to help faeries? Makes perfect sense.
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Post by Max on Jun 14, 2013 7:12:03 GMT
She looks like a doll of sorts to me.
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Post by eightyfour on Jun 14, 2013 7:12:08 GMT
An animated doll of some sort, it seems. While I certainly did not expect this, it makes sense. What kind of sense will remain to be seen, though.
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Post by smjjames on Jun 14, 2013 7:12:39 GMT
So, is Hetty a city fairy? I'm a bit surprised that there is one in the court considering how etherically grey it has been shown to be. Then again, maybe I shouldn't be since they have been shown to exist.
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Post by Max on Jun 14, 2013 7:15:02 GMT
She called him Reynardine, which makes me doubt she is of Gilitie origin. Incidently, when was the last time someone called him Reynardine? Seems like most people just call him Renard now. ETA: As far as I can tell, the most recent occasion was the Headmaster in Chapter 41. |
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Post by smjjames on Jun 14, 2013 7:15:05 GMT
Although, she doesn't have the whited out eyes the forest faeries usually have.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 14, 2013 7:15:14 GMT
She looks like a doll of sorts to me. Out of curiosity, what makes you say that? The face does look pretty porcelain. The purse has a big red button on it, and she doesn't have any wings, so maybe not a fairy after all. The Github project is going to need a new tag, I think.  |
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Post by Max on Jun 14, 2013 7:18:08 GMT
She looks like a doll of sorts to me. Out of curiosity, what makes you say that? The face does look pretty porcelain. The purse has a big red button on it, and she doesn't have any wings, so maybe not a fairy after all. The face is part of it, but her proportions seem doll-like to me. Also, her fingers in the last panel appear "detached" from her hand. |
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Post by eightyfour on Jun 14, 2013 7:18:24 GMT
For me it's mostly her figure. True, fairies are tiny and slim, too, but there's something about her that just screams "doll" to me. Also note the distinct lines where her fingers connect to the hands. Looks a lot like doll-like joints to me.
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Post by snipertom on Jun 14, 2013 7:19:09 GMT
She looks like a doll of sorts to me. Out of curiosity, what makes you say that? The face does look pretty porcelain. The purse has a big red button on it, and she doesn't have any wings, so maybe not a fairy after all. The Github project is going to need a new tag, I think. a tag like... 'Hetty'?  my reaction was, btw, "wtf" too. |
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Post by smjjames on Jun 14, 2013 7:20:14 GMT
She called him Reynardine, which makes me doubt she is of Gilitie origin. Incidently, when was the last time someone called him Reynardine? Seems like most people just call him Renard now. Annie has done that a few times when he was in trouble, and Eglamore usually formally calls him reynardine. Reynardine is probably just a more formal form of Renard. |
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Post by eightyfour on Jun 14, 2013 7:22:24 GMT
For some reason those bright red eyes bug me. Going with the "animated doll" theory, I'm gonna expand that to "possessed animated doll".
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Post by Max on Jun 14, 2013 7:23:22 GMT
Reynardine is probably just a more formal form of Renard. It was the name Surma gave him years ago. ETA: from what I understand, his "true" name is Renard. |
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Post by smjjames on Jun 14, 2013 7:25:42 GMT
For some reason those bright red eyes bug me. Going with the "animated doll" theory, I'm gonna expand that to "possessed animated doll". She also has these orange spheres around her head and in or on her hair. |
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Post by noone3 on Jun 14, 2013 7:28:42 GMT
She looks like a doll of sorts to me. Out of curiosity, what makes you say that? The face does look pretty porcelain. The purse has a big red button on it, and she doesn't have any wings, so maybe not a fairy after all. Well, her boots strikes me as odd. They look somewhat robotish in design, maybe they're not boots at all but just robotic legs. Also her hands display a cutting line between fingers and the rest of the palm, and the same with the line under her neck. She is capable of facial expressions though (or at least trying better than Jones). Some doll-robot combo? |
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Post by eightyfour on Jun 14, 2013 7:29:13 GMT
I think those spheres are just some sort of jewellery or hair ornament she's wearing. Also: Hitty Her First Hundred YearsInteresting... coincidental? Maybe, but still interesting. |
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Post by download on Jun 14, 2013 7:32:13 GMT
I think it's a doll.
There are animated dolls in Greek (I think it was Greek) history
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Post by smjjames on Jun 14, 2013 7:34:45 GMT
I think it's a doll. There are animated dolls in Greek (I think it was Greek) history You mean myth? There was a myth with a statue that came to life. |
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Post by snipertom on Jun 14, 2013 7:36:43 GMT
She also has articulated joints.
Re: renard vs reynardine
As most of us are probably aware by now, "Renard" is French for fox, from the character "Reynard", an anthropomorphic fox from European traditional allegorical fables (in which appears grumpy old Ysengrin/Ysengrim who charges him with various misdeeds)
Reynardine, as it turns out, is a character from an English ballad known as "the mountains high", who is an outlaw who abducts/seduces beautiful young ladies. Later versions have him as a werefox.
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Post by snipertom on Jun 14, 2013 7:38:52 GMT
I think it's a doll. There are animated dolls in Greek (I think it was Greek) history You mean myth? There was a myth with a statue that came to life. Indeed, the story of King Pygmalion, who sculpts the most beautiful lady who he then falls in love with, then I think a god feels sorry for him and brings her to life. From which "Pygmalion" by Shaw was named; musical version of course "My fair lady" |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 14, 2013 7:40:19 GMT
I think those spheres are just some sort of jewellery or hair ornament she's wearing. Also: Hitty Her First Hundred YearsInteresting... coincidental? Maybe, but still interesting. Guys, guys. Be serious now. We're clearly looking at a shopvac with a face. It's just cleverly disguised.  |
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Post by philman on Jun 14, 2013 7:43:55 GMT
My first thought was a doll too, I'm imagining a high pitched and overly posh accent too, and I already don't like the character. But then I've always been creeped out by dolls like this. blergh.
In the renard/reynardine debate, I always assumed renard was French, given the name and source of myth. but when I introduced my (French) girlfriend to the comic recently she pointed out to me that reynardine would be a female name in France, with renard being male.
Doing a Wiki they are actually two separate myths, although both involving foxes
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Post by smjjames on Jun 14, 2013 7:45:34 GMT
She is kind of tiny to be a shop vac, LAUGHING ON LINE.......
Anyways, I do agree with her boots looking rather robotic than simply boots, so if she is a some kind of doll robot combo, she is clearly more than just a robotic doll.
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Post by TBeholder on Jun 14, 2013 7:52:39 GMT
Ah, friend in need... For some reason those bright red eyes bug me. Going with the "animated doll" theory, I'm gonna expand that to "possessed animated doll". Or maybe even simpler. Kat wasn't the only one who tried to tinker with golems. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jun 14, 2013 7:55:57 GMT
You mean myth? There was a myth with a statue that came to life. Indeed, the story of King Pygmalion, who sculpts the most beautiful lady who he then falls in love with, then I think a god feels sorry for him and brings her to life. From which "Pygmalion" by Shaw was named; musical version of course "My fair lady" I'm still thinkin' Jones is Galatea. Or better to say she's the origin of the Galatea myth, rather than the myth being her origin story. Also, what the hell, Proboards? I keep getting whipped away from the create post page back to the thread. [edit] And I never made nor posted that previous thread! [/edit] |
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Post by Xan on Jun 14, 2013 7:57:54 GMT
And that will be my first outloud what the fuck moment from this comic in years. Awesome page. This. |
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Post by stsasser on Jun 14, 2013 8:01:04 GMT
I think those spheres are just some sort of jewellery or hair ornament she's wearing. Also: Hitty Her First Hundred YearsInteresting... coincidental? Maybe, but still interesting. A wooden doll with a big red button on the back of her dress, at least on the cover illustration. |
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