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Post by amelie on Feb 1, 2007 2:26:36 GMT
oooh connection!
The fairies not being able to go to GC until they were dead supports this quite nicely
Also, maybe Mort just can't move on for some reason? His ineptitude as a ghost could be part of it.
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Post by julieth on Feb 1, 2007 4:03:22 GMT
yeah, like I said, GC is purgatory. Whee!
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Feb 1, 2007 5:20:26 GMT
I think Mort is a guide-in-training kinda guy.
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Post by todd on Feb 1, 2007 11:40:06 GMT
How's this for a wild speculation (and one which I don't take seriously, but - hey, this is *wild* speculation):
The ghost girl with the sword is really a future version of Annie, who gets sent back in time due to an accident with a time machine that Kat had built, but (due to some bugs in the machine that Kat hadn't gotten out of the system yet) gets altered into a ghost-like entity in the process. And the reason why she attacks Annie in the forest is because she knows that she has to, in order to keep the time-stream intact.
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Post by rastarogue on Feb 2, 2007 1:24:30 GMT
If the time-stream were changed we would not know, because it would seem as though that was the way it had been the whole time.
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Post by aoeniac on Feb 2, 2007 8:01:56 GMT
The real plot twist is when we find out they're all robots except for Robot.
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Post by Ben² on Feb 2, 2007 8:55:45 GMT
The real plot twist is when we find out they're all robots except for Robot. Dude! Spoiler warning next time, OK? Hee hee, but seriously, all this speculating has piqued my interest. I think I mentioned it before in the "Favorite Character" thread, but Mort is the one I want to see more speculating about. Who was he when he was alive? Did he go to Gunnerkrigg Court? Was he still a student when he died? And who was responsible (assuming he met an untimely end, which is often the case when ghosts are involved)? Anybody have any ideas? |
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Post by fjodor on Feb 2, 2007 9:00:46 GMT
I'm gonna go for the Portal theory once more.
Zimmy ended up in this world after stumbling through a portal and she can't come back. She came from a rough place with nasty buglike monsters, that use her as a channel to cross over. Small bugs succeed, that's why Zimmy is surrounded by them most of the time. Gamma is functioning as some sort of damping field generator that keeps the big nasties out. Like, Gamma-correction? The whole point of Gunnerkrigg is to train an army to keep the other world on a distance. Training starts young, and to keep motivation up, Dr. Disaster makes the drills fun.
I _so_ hope that 2 years from now, I'll be referring to this post and say "see: told you so!"But not any sooner than that. May the story take all the time it needs.
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Post by aoeniac on Feb 2, 2007 10:02:43 GMT
This next theory is probably the wildest of them all:
Annie's dad is actually just a simple, reclusive and apathetic surgeon. Nothing special or extraordinary at all.
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Post by Yin on Feb 2, 2007 10:05:54 GMT
How anti-climatic.
Then maybe Gunnerkrigg is just a school that happens to be infested by magic?
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Post by aoeniac on Feb 2, 2007 10:24:57 GMT
New wildest theory of all time:
There's actually nothing special at all about GunnerKrigg Court. It is simply a school built from an old industrial complex, and the largely paranormal and otherwise impressive technological happenings are merely a result of many gas leaks from those ancient and poorly maintained pipes lining many of the walls.
Annie's experiences while off school grounds can be attributed to emissions of toxic natural gasses from the ravine.
Oh how I drip with sarcasm today! Or whatever you care to call it...
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Post by Yin on Feb 2, 2007 10:31:01 GMT
AKA, it's all a drug-induced dream.
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Post by Ben² on Feb 2, 2007 10:41:34 GMT
AKA, it's all a drug-induced dream. Yes. Maybe someone accidentally left the stopper out of a bottler of ether at Good Hope, but soon Annie will wake up there on her mother's lap. |
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Post by Yin on Feb 2, 2007 10:56:59 GMT
But then she wouldn't have seen the death gods, either. That's one long dream.
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Post by shadow314 on Feb 2, 2007 17:35:38 GMT
Gunnerkrigg court IS PEOPLE! Solent Court... |
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Post by fjodor on Feb 2, 2007 21:39:37 GMT
One thing that keep bugging me is Muut's remark that he had business nearby when he came to give Annie that little gem from Mort. Who was the dead person he was about to escort? And why did they plant the woody arm? I'm starting to believe that GC is more likely a huge laboratory where all sorts of experiments take place. Remember the effect the cherries had on Kat and Annie. Can't be a normal cherry tree.
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Post by mrw on Feb 2, 2007 21:43:49 GMT
Truth cherries? Could be!
I suppose they could just have been fermenting a little, though.
I wonder if the tree was marking a grave...
Wouldn't it be poignant if Surma had been buried under that tree?
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Post by yeochild on Feb 2, 2007 22:03:17 GMT
Some ideas with varying degrees of sanity:
-Reynardine actually works for a good guy, he just happens to carry out the benevolent orders in a fairly malicious way.
-The whole of Gunnerkrigg is holographic. They put the hologram rooms in there because everyone would think "If, as I suspect, our school is holographic, why would they tip us off with hologram rooms??"
-The unknown older-generation girl summoned Reynardine and was his first victim.
-The enigmarons are passed-on suicide fairies.
-Kat is actually evil; she's just a really good actress.
-Sullivan's John is an immortal who set up the school centuries ago.
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Post by rastarogue on Feb 2, 2007 23:04:56 GMT
Everyone at the court is high the whole time, and all the magic is just a hallucination.
Mort I think was a student who died, but like some ghosts he probably has something left unfinished in his life.
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Post by todd on Feb 2, 2007 23:26:50 GMT
The one problem with the "Gunnerkrigg Court is all a hallucination of Annie's theory" is "How do you explain the scenes that she wasn't present at - for example, the scene in Chapter Seven where the Donlans and Eglamore are talking about Surma after Annie and Kat leave, or the bit at the end of Chapter Nine when the wooden arm gets planted?"
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Post by rastarogue on Feb 3, 2007 3:50:44 GMT
The one problem with the "Gunnerkrigg Court is all a hallucination of Annie's theory" is "How do you explain the scenes that she wasn't present at - for example, the scene in Chapter Seven where the Donlans and Eglamore are talking about Surma after Annie and Kat leave, or the bit at the end of Chapter Nine when the wooden arm gets planted?" The drugs enhanced her latent mental abilites, which allow her to view things that are not occuring in her direct line of sight. |
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Post by waruitanuki on Feb 3, 2007 7:33:09 GMT
The one problem with the "Gunnerkrigg Court is all a hallucination of Annie's theory" is "How do you explain the scenes that she wasn't present at - for example, the scene in Chapter Seven where the Donlans and Eglamore are talking about Surma after Annie and Kat leave, or the bit at the end of Chapter Nine when the wooden arm gets planted?" I've had plenty of dreams which seemed to be in 3rd person. More like I was observing what was happening, instead of really being in the dream. Sometimes I have dreams which are "3rd person" for part and "1st person" for part. Actually, my new theory is that the webcomic itself doesn't exist. Every time we think we're reading it, each one of us is, purely by chance, having the exact same hallucination. Then we come to this forum, which really does exist, and talk about a non-existent comic. Occasionally someone stumbles across this forum and goes looking for the comic. Some begin to have the same hallucination we have, but others just can't find the comic and get confused. Then they come back to the forum anyway, and act like they read it so people will think they're cool. |
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Post by julieth on Feb 3, 2007 7:42:31 GMT
Or maybe it's all Tom's hallucination. He's hallucinating that he drew a good webcomic and there are a lot of people reading it...he's a very effective hallucinator.
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Post by Ben² on Feb 3, 2007 10:47:38 GMT
Or maybe it's all Tom's hallucination. He's hallucinating that he drew a good webcomic and there are a lot of people reading it...he's a very effective hallucinator. Oh, crap. Now we're all gonna have to start theorizing stuff regarding "Descartes Demon" concept. Things'll start making even less sense! |
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Post by yeochild on Feb 3, 2007 11:19:23 GMT
Or maybe I'M hallucinating that YOU'RE hallucinating that TOM's hallucinating that ANNIE's hallucinating the whole thing. No, I have no idea what I just said either.
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Post by La Poire on Feb 3, 2007 12:07:12 GMT
There is no Court.
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Post by julieth on Feb 3, 2007 18:12:32 GMT
The Court has you. Ooh, my brain.
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Post by todd on Feb 3, 2007 23:11:35 GMT
You know, every other wild speculation is going to feel anticlimactic after this.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Feb 4, 2007 3:09:16 GMT
All you base are belong to Annie.
in response to upcoming flames: Ok, yeah, but SOMEONE had to say it.
Hmm... I think that we'll find out who Mystery Girl is next chapter. ^^
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Post by julieth on Feb 4, 2007 3:20:04 GMT
ooh, I was waiting for someone to say that.
"I'm the Gunnerkrigg Court, BITCH!"
Another one that I had to get out of the way. Anybody else have internet references?
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