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Post by russlol on Jan 30, 2007 3:18:20 GMT
One of my favourite things about GC is the way it keeps me guessing. The latest revelation about Zimmy's eyes blew my main theories out the water, and raises way more questions than it answers.
The point is, I thought it'd be fun to start a thread where people can post their crazy ideas about the comic. Not your sane ideas, because those could be right, and that might ruin the story for some people. Just your crazy ideas.
I'll start with two of my own.
1) Eglamore is Annie's father!
2) Ghost-girl-with-a-sword is the other girl from the photo!
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Post by oorahairforce on Jan 30, 2007 3:35:45 GMT
Gunnerkrigg court IS PEOPLE!
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Post by AluK on Jan 30, 2007 4:16:55 GMT
1) Ghost-girl-with-a-sword is, actually, Surma.
2) Annie never made to the school. She's comatose, right now, and dreaming everything.
3) The school is some kind of purgatorium thing. Everyone, except for Mort and the Ghost-girl-with-a-sword, is dead.
4) Annie sees dead people.
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Post by aoeniac on Jan 30, 2007 4:33:30 GMT
Reynardine was created by Surma Carver!
The "very nice man" is Anthony Carver!
Not so wild:
Gunnerkrigg Court is a place to carefully moniter and, in some cases, develop, children and persons with various manners of talents.
Tic-Tocs are controlled by the school, but not everything they see gets reported to the staff at large.
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Post by xux on Jan 30, 2007 4:37:47 GMT
The "very nice man" is Anthony Carver! Aw...that's what I was gonna say...:/ Not so wild: Gunnerkrigg Court is a place to carefully moniter and, in some cases, develop, children and persons with various manners of talents. Tic-Tocs are controlled by the school, but not everything they see gets reported to the staff at large. I don't think this is very far off, to be honest. |
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Post by aoeniac on Jan 30, 2007 4:42:37 GMT
Certainly makes that "Not so wild" precautionary tag seem well placed!  |
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Post by xux on Jan 30, 2007 4:45:49 GMT
That seems like a too obvious solution behind the school, though...
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Post by russlol on Jan 30, 2007 4:50:39 GMT
Gunnerkrigg court IS PEOPLE! No, that's Soylent Court. How about... Surma isn't actually dead! |
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Jan 30, 2007 5:01:10 GMT
Nah, how about the weird guy in the Cherry tree room is Annie's father?
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Post by mrw on Jan 30, 2007 5:30:54 GMT
Nah, how about the weird guy in the Cherry tree room is Annie's father? See, now that I'd believe. |
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Post by julieth on Jan 30, 2007 5:45:27 GMT
Uh...they're all dead, and in purgatory?
Oh wait, that's my lost theory. Nevermind. The true statement is that it is of course ALL A DREAM.
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Post by aoeniac on Jan 30, 2007 5:45:29 GMT
Nah, how about the weird guy in the Cherry tree room is Annie's father? What if that guy is the very nice man? We're not too sure at this point exactly where the very nice man's true motives, goals, or alignment lie. Let alone how and why he would interact with various characters. I mean, that room didn't exactly look like it needed a gardener. And it's kinda strange how Annie started thinking about her mother after hearing that guy's voice, and how he got uncomfortable after that. I mean, I guess you could say that anybody would start thinking about sad things when intoxicated by those berries, and how anybody would be uncomfortable seeing a kid cry, but it's a possibility none the less. Which brings up the question as to why that arm the very nice man gave to Robot was put in that room (by Eglamore? Or did it get recovered from where Eglamore disposed of it?) and is apparently being allowed to grow. |
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Post by legendary on Jan 30, 2007 5:53:47 GMT
The book... To Serve Man... It's a cookbook!
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Post by monkeybucks on Jan 30, 2007 5:57:37 GMT
The next chapter of Gunnerkrigg Court will be a musical.
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Post by xux on Jan 30, 2007 6:00:37 GMT
Maybe the arm is indestructable and still retains some dark powers so they keep it in that greenhouse place, out of reach of any shade, of course, so as to keep it out of trouble.
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Post by La Poire on Jan 30, 2007 8:08:28 GMT
Have any of you noticed that the cherry tree has four long branches and one short, like four fingers and a thumb? Perhaps those rooms are for monitoring wooden limbs... Well, that kind of came out wrong.
Aaaanyway, the girl on the photo is possessed by Reynardine, obviously. Anthony is secretly crawling around the Court, watching Annie. He controls the Tocs – or maybe he was the nice man, who possessed Robot to take Reynardine because Rey killed his wife.
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Post by Yin on Jan 30, 2007 10:48:03 GMT
Ooh, ooh, REYNARDINE is Annie's father!
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Post by todd on Jan 30, 2007 11:47:39 GMT
The scary thing is that I'd seriously thought myself that Anthony was the "nice man" who gave Robot his arm and (apparently) sent him after Reynardine.
I know that, before Chapter Eleven came out, I'd thought that Zimmy might be some sort of artificial construct that was serving as an outlet for Gamma's negative emotions in a ventriloquist's dummy fashion - boy, was I wrong!
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Post by fjodor on Jan 30, 2007 18:35:13 GMT
Wild Theory Xa: the pictures in [Ch2, p7] are portals to another place.
WT Xb: Anthony Carver vanished through one
WT Xc: Reynardine, (and possibly The Minotaur) ended up in GC through such a portal
This is a cool Topic!
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Post by mrw on Jan 30, 2007 19:09:44 GMT
Wild Theory Xa: the pictures in [Ch2, p7] are portals to another place. You know - I'll bet you're right. Sure would explain the footprints and the weird glow. Maybe that's how the Minotaur got to Gunnerkrigg from Crete. Maybe those are his footprints. Wild Unrelated and Groundless Speculation: Girl-with-sword is ex-girlfriend of Anthony Carver, who killed herself after he dumped her for Surma. Harbors deep resentment for Anthony and Surma's child. |
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Post by fjodor on Jan 30, 2007 19:40:44 GMT
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Post by Myrani on Jan 30, 2007 20:06:07 GMT
Zimmy's science experiment was artificially altered DNA but what Annie didn't know was that it was Surma's.
How the heck that'd work, I don't know.
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Post by Uglyhead on Jan 30, 2007 20:42:14 GMT
A woman dying of complications relating to pregnancy or the birth of her child is a rarity in the developed world. Surma's death of complications relating to Antimony's birth seems to be a real fluke.
Perhaps there was something special about Antimony's birth. So far, she's seen various incarnations of death, met two ghosts(befriended one, the other one, not so much), and can apparently act as a dampening field for a certain girl. Who knows what else she might be able to do? The limits of her potential?
Reynardine sounded like he cared about Surma, didn't he? But then he tried to body-snatch her daughter when she came to him in his prison. Desperate to escape, or something else? Perhaps he was not mourning the passing of Surma as a person he cared about, but as a powerful body he could have inhabited, and maybe a daughter was the next best thing(if not better), besides being a get-out-of-jail free card.
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Post by mrw on Jan 30, 2007 21:09:25 GMT
Perhaps Antimony IS Surma. As Annie grew older and stronger, Surma grew weaker and weaker until her body died.
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Post by rastarogue on Jan 30, 2007 21:23:20 GMT
Ooh, ooh, REYNARDINE is Annie's father! You beat me to it. Also GC is one big detention facility for demons who are trying to take over the world. Every year they get their memories erased and start over. Reynardine somehow got his memory back but nobody believes him and so they try to keep him locked up. because they are demons they don't age so that's why there are no older students. |
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Post by La Poire on Jan 30, 2007 22:02:23 GMT
Actually, it might be that Reynardine didn't want Antimony's body, he actually wanted her wolf doll. That would make sense as he didn't attempt to possess Annie when he was on the rooftop, he waited until he could attempt to do it in plain sight of Mr Eglamore to fake his own death. Of course, it went bad when he found out he couldn't do anything in the doll because of the antimony symbol.
That might be a bit to tame to belong in this topic, but I don't know where else I should post it.
Oh, and there's probably something in the thing fjodor linked to, Tom seems to love that sort of thing.
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Post by todd on Jan 30, 2007 23:27:59 GMT
Re Uglyhead's post: I'd speculated myself about Surma's death having something to do with bringing Annie into the world, especially because of many stories where the birth of a great hero with amazing powers results in the death of his/her mother in childbirth. But I hesitated about mentioning it here because it didn't strike me as wild enough.
For a piece of wild and thoroughly improbable speculation (of a sort), how about this:
Sullivan's John will become Annie's boy-friend!
(It was an odd little idea that I once had, though I don't think that it'll ever happen; for one thing, Annie simply doesn't strike me as romantically inclined in the least.)
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Post by fjodor on Jan 30, 2007 23:32:00 GMT
Wild Theory Ya: Robot also brought Shadow 2 to GC the first time.
WT Yb: because of this, Robot was taken apart.
WT Yc: When Robot got back, his wings were stripped from his back and the holes were filled with sensors, homing devices and more advanced stuff like that.
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Post by waruitanuki on Jan 30, 2007 23:35:24 GMT
The book... To Serve Man... It's a cookbook! Man, I was going to do that one... Let's see... Ah ha! Gunnerkrigg is actually the name of the sled Surma had as a child! Or... Antimony is actually a patient in an insane asylum, and the "very nice man" is actually a doctor who can help her. Wait, no, I've got it! It was Earth all along! |
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Post by La Poire on Jan 30, 2007 23:39:27 GMT
But (unpossessed) Robot still seems like a really nice guy though, so he must have done it voluntarily. He didn't seem so exited by the idea of returning to the Court, so it might very well be that he encountered something he didn't like there, probably whoever took him apart.
I really miss Robot, hope Eglamore didn't destroy him completely.
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