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Post by kelantar on May 1, 2015 14:33:58 GMT
(Or he might have some high-tech security systems to watch over her - probably ones that Kat can't easily hack into or deceive.) I think he's mistaken if he thinks there's a Kat-proof security device. I agree that the sneak probably references getting around Anthony, but the question is, who is doing the sneaking? Annie or Kat? |
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Post by Vilthuril on May 1, 2015 14:38:07 GMT
Well now... so someone's going to be sneaking around? If it's Annie, that means things are looking up for her. I'm very hopeful.   (Yes...I DO think largely in related-images-and-stories! And that's okay.) |
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Post by jocobo on May 1, 2015 15:20:29 GMT
Does no one else see the small red sparks in the foreground? Either those are dust motes, glowing from the light of the sun. OR, maybe, just maybe, they're flecks of ashes, glowing in the light of a fire?
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Post by nero on May 1, 2015 15:26:23 GMT
So the shadow is from the window and there might be a fireplace. It certainly looks like a dad chair so I think its Anthony's. Or really any man's chair. But what is that chair looking at?
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Post by keef on May 1, 2015 15:44:24 GMT
I'm guessing... a flashback chapter? To more benign and innocent times, something maybe involving Kat or some other kids, by chance? Maybe a flashback to the times mentioned here?  |
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Post by warrl on May 1, 2015 17:40:19 GMT
...and in a corner. The chair sneaked away when no one looked! Chairs moving around on their own. Annie's new accommodations are clearly haunted. I wonder if she has an occasional table and a throw rug. |
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Post by emmau on May 1, 2015 17:51:30 GMT
I'm guessing... a flashback chapter? To more benign and innocent times, something maybe involving Kat or some other kids, by chance? Maybe a flashback to the times mentioned here?
I really hope it's not a flashback, though. :c |
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Post by Refugee on May 1, 2015 19:10:25 GMT
Those speckles we see: Some have identified them as dust motes, others as sparks.
But some of those speckles are quite large, and semitransparent.
I think we're looking through a dirty window pane; the speckles are unfocused specks on the glass.
I make no assumptions about whose point of view we're riding on.
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Post by fish on May 1, 2015 19:30:03 GMT
I'm hoping for a chapter focused entirely on Anthony, including some juicy flashbacks.
Anyways, I'm gonna go and reread the entire story so far, before the current issues get resolved. I imagine some of the scenes will have a bitter aftertaste, knowing what we know now; don't wanna miss out on that.
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on May 1, 2015 19:43:24 GMT
This is the one where they SNEAK in and MURDER ANTHONY WITH FIRE ? Nope. Because they aren't murderers. That's what friends are for. Remember: A good friend will help you move. A true friend will help you move a body.  |
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Post by Refugee on May 1, 2015 19:58:10 GMT
What I find strange is that Anthony expects her to be a good girl and do what he says and yet she has to live on her own and care for herself? Question marks because latter isn't confirmed. Anthony notes that Antimony has violated the rules of her school which bring into question her fitness for her current class. Since she goes back a class, she loses the privileges associated with it, such as the advanced living quarters. He's also forbidden her to wear makeup in his class, which she no longer attends, so that rule may no longer be in effect. He's demanded that she turn control of Renard over to him, but she has not yet done so, and may ask her adult friends at the Court to intervene, or other wise evade the order. That's all we know, and that is not inconsistent with her being left to herself, as long as she follows the rules attendant to year Nine, and doesn't screw up again. Whether or not he imposes additional rules, or expects to keep close watch on her himself, we do not know. And of course this says nothing about his lapse of parental supervision since Surma died. |
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Post by Eisenblume on May 1, 2015 20:42:04 GMT
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Post by Rasselas on May 1, 2015 21:39:07 GMT
Sometimes a chair is just a chair.
But not when you're reading Gunnerkrigg Court.
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Post by bluevitriol on May 1, 2015 21:51:09 GMT
That chair suspiciously looks like there would be a LOT of change under the cushion.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 1, 2015 22:19:25 GMT
I'm guessing... a flashback chapter? To more benign and innocent times, something maybe involving Kat or some other kids, by chance? Maybe a flashback to the times mentioned here? I'm hoping for a chapter focused entirely on Anthony, including some juicy flashbacks. Anyways, I'm gonna go and reread the entire story so far, before the current issues get resolved. I imagine some of the scenes will have a bitter aftertaste, knowing what we know now; don't wanna miss out on that. This! I am putting my chips down on a flashback chapter about Anthony. After all, he turned into a sneakiing Sneak McSneakerson and can't be located when he doesn't want to be. Others have also said/wanted this next chapter to show what happened to Anthony in the past, so apologies to everyone else I didn't quote. |
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Post by Rasselas on May 1, 2015 22:28:51 GMT
Ok stupidly an idea has occurred to me. I dunno, it must've been mentioned before, but.
Kat is making a body for Robot. But could she make one for Reynardine?
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 1, 2015 22:35:55 GMT
Ok stupidly an idea has occurred to me. I dunno, it must've been mentioned before, but. Kat is making a body for Robot. But could she make one for Reynardine? As long as it has eyes. Whether mechanical robots have eyes is open for debate. Their optical sensors may not count. Biological constructs are probably Reynardine-Ready. |
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Post by CarbonRabbit on May 1, 2015 22:46:34 GMT
For some reason I wonder if it has to do with Daniel, the guy Rey killed. His empty chair in his empty apartment. I dunno; I guess because someone mentioned how similar the windows in the icon were to Eglamore's windows in Quicksilver. Eh well.
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Post by Refugee on May 1, 2015 22:48:52 GMT
Ok stupidly an idea has occurred to me. I dunno, it must've been mentioned before, but. Kat is making a body for Robot. But could she make one for Reynardine? As long as it has eyes. Whether mechanical robots have eyes is open for debate. Their optical sensors may not count. Biological constructs are probably Reynardine-Ready. If a couple of buttons on a stuffed toy count as eyes, then actual optical sensors ought to count as well. But I am not convinced Annie can really pass control to Anthony. Not saying she can't, just that she may not really control him anymore beyond their friendship and her good will. I also admit hoping that if Annie is going to deny her Father on this, that she does it openly, that she simply refuses to betray her friend who has been there for her when Anthony was not. === I am also laying my bet that "Sneak" refers to Anthony. |
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Post by todd on May 2, 2015 0:14:53 GMT
Then again, the sneaking doesn't have to be from the girls. We haven't heard from the GC adults, concerning the last chapter. It was so short, how could we? It could be a sneaky meeting behind Kat's back, by Egg's and her parents. I wonder how much they can do. They aren't the ones in charge, after all; the ones in charge are the Headmaster and his fellow higher-ups whom we haven't met yet. The "inner circle" decided on Smith being the Court medium when Jones, the Donlans, and Eglamore were convinced that it should go to Annie; clearly the "inner circle" won't care what Eglamore, the Donlans, and Jones have to say about what Anthony's done. And they probably see an advantage in Anthony's actions; no more problems with Antimony's meddling for a long time. She'll be too busy studying to cause more diplomatic incidents with the forest, send robots across the bridge, free (or partly free) an imprisoned "demon", etc. (Indeed, that makes their failure to act when they learned about Annie's cheating all the more strange - unless they believed that Anthony was the only one who could get Annie to obey the new conditions as her punishment.) |
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Post by atteSmythe on May 2, 2015 0:56:21 GMT
It's what Anthony calls Antimony when he catches her doing something behind his back. You little sneak.
...I may be feeling a little 'worst case scenario' after the last chapter.
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Post by sapientcoffee on May 2, 2015 5:38:00 GMT
Nope. Because they aren't murderers. That's what friends are for. Remember: A good friend will help you move. A true friend will help you move a body. A best friend will help you move books! For some reason I wonder if it has to do with Daniel, the guy Rey killed. His empty chair in his empty apartment. I dunno; I guess because someone mentioned how similar the windows in the icon were to Eglamore's windows in Quicksilver. Eh well. |
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Post by youwiththeface on May 2, 2015 16:14:28 GMT
Ok stupidly an idea has occurred to me. I dunno, it must've been mentioned before, but. Kat is making a body for Robot. But could she make one for Reynardine? As long as it has eyes. Whether mechanical robots have eyes is open for debate. Their optical sensors may not count. Biological constructs are probably Reynardine-Ready. I mentioned this in another thread, but keep in mind the recently revealed fact that the court can take animals and turn them into people by moving their soul or totem into a body they are able to grow. |
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Post by Vilthuril on May 2, 2015 16:48:52 GMT
As long as it has eyes. Whether mechanical robots have eyes is open for debate. Their optical sensors may not count. Biological constructs are probably Reynardine-Ready. I mentioned this in another thread, but keep in mind the recently revealed fact that the court can take animals and turn them into people by moving their soul or totem into a body they are able to grow. If the plastic thingies on a doll count as eyes for the purposes of Reynardine's magic, then I see (such pun! much wow!) no reason why vaguely eye-shaped sensors wouldn't be plenty good enough. And indeed, as youwiththeface notes, it has turned out there is more than one way to (de)skin and (re)skin a forest creature. Thus leading to the inescapable conclusion that if Kat did make a body for Reynardine, Annie would help her move it. [The following should be read in a Heinz Doofenshmirtz voice.] Because they're good friends. Paz would help. That makes sense, right, Perry the Platypus? Now that is truth. Or your rock collection. Though if you need a large chair, or worse a couch, moved down a hallway and through several doors into a small apartment it doesn't hurt if your friends are also bodybuilders and have a really good sense of geometry.  Its own navel, joining with all of us in the continuing quest to unscrew the inscrutable Tom.  |
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Post by Refugee on May 2, 2015 18:42:05 GMT
Guys. The chairs are not quite the same design (for instance, the chair Annie and Kat are sharing doesn't have side wings) and yet, they both can represent comfort and and either privacy or intimacy. The Sneak chair seems too narrow to share, which to me suggests on built for a child. |
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Post by stef1987 on May 3, 2015 9:38:17 GMT
Ok stupidly an idea has occurred to me. I dunno, it must've been mentioned before, but. Kat is making a body for Robot. But could she make one for Reynardine? People regularly mention something about a new body for Rey, but when has he ever made any indication he wants an other body? (or any one else for that matter). There are numerous options for Rey, he even still has his real body to return to if he wants, but he doesn't, he wants to stay in the plush because he wants to stay Annie's 'property' basically. |
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Post by csj on May 3, 2015 11:06:46 GMT
Ok stupidly an idea has occurred to me. I dunno, it must've been mentioned before, but. Kat is making a body for Robot. But could she make one for Reynardine? People regularly mention something about a new body for Rey, but when has he ever made any indication he wants an other body? (or any one else for that matter). There are numerous options for Rey, he even still has his real body to return to if he wants, but he doesn't, he wants to stay in the plush because he wants to stay Annie's 'property' basically. I think reynardine would want to go back to his original body, but the fact it is more or less 'trapped' in the Forest - amongst other things, limits his options. Besides, Coyote probably as a trap set out for him if he does go back. After all, someone has to replace ysegrin.... |
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Post by stef1987 on May 3, 2015 19:55:59 GMT
People regularly mention something about a new body for Rey, but when has he ever made any indication he wants an other body? (or any one else for that matter). There are numerous options for Rey, he even still has his real body to return to if he wants, but he doesn't, he wants to stay in the plush because he wants to stay Annie's 'property' basically. I think reynardine would want to go back to his original body, but the fact it is more or less 'trapped' in the Forest - amongst other things, limits his options. Besides, Coyote probably as a trap set out for him if he does go back. After all, someone has to replace ysegrin.... hm, regardless of whether it's a trap or not (which I don't think it is, at least not really, I suppose most anything related to Coyote is a trap in some way), that's not what's stopping Renard |
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Post by Rasselas on May 3, 2015 21:29:07 GMT
He stayed in a body owned by Annie because that was the only way the Court would allow him to stay in her proximity. They wouldn't let Rey in his original body traipse around the Court, he'd have to return to the Forest and not live with Annie anymore.
Ownership of this body is soon to be in questionable hands. It is now a pressing problem, where it used to be a status quo. So a new body for Rey might be an option.
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