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Post by Vuk(Wolf) on Jan 15, 2017 13:17:05 GMT
Has anyone taken a moment to basque in radiance of Jeanne's derpy face in panel 2?
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Post by westwindreborn on Jan 15, 2017 16:41:43 GMT
A lot of people are calling for Jeanne to heal smitty. Which was my thought at first too, but someone in here or the comments pointed out that Annie's scratch was never physical in nature, it was literally a wound her very essence. I'm not sure Jeanne has any healing abilities in the physical realm. The mark may simply be a case of ether manipulation, Jeanne sees mark, Jeanne wants to wipe the mark off, Mark is gone.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 15, 2017 18:00:00 GMT
Because she's in a hurry to help get Smitty get medical attention, so she's rushing through her official afterlife guide duties so that she can turn all her attention to making sure Smitty won't be needing those services as well? That's what I'm thinking, too. "Here's your boat, bon voyage [turns away]... Parley! Why haven't you bipped him to the infirmary yet??" After Parley BIPs Smitty to medical care, she might not be able to safely BIP back down to the river without him to retrieve anyone else. Annie may know that Parley has to wait for her. |
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Post by warrl on Jan 15, 2017 19:46:05 GMT
After Parley BIPs Smitty to medical care, she might not be able to safely BIP back down to the river without him to retrieve anyone else. Annie may know that Parley has to wait for her. Before admitting to herself that she loves Andrew, Parley was merely a bit sloppy on destination - e.g. she'd arrive sitting a few inches above the step/chair/whatever rather than on it, so fall on her butt. We have no indication that this sloppiness was ever significantly dangerous. Now that she's not conflicted with herself over that issue, her control may be better. |
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Post by stclair on Jan 15, 2017 19:50:51 GMT
Because she's in a hurry to help get Smitty get medical attention, so she's rushing through her official afterlife guide duties so that she can turn all her attention to making sure Smitty won't be needing those services as well? That's what I'm thinking, too. "Here's your boat, bon voyage [turns away]... Parley! Why haven't you bipped him to the infirmary yet??" IMO, it's also possible that once Jeanne (and her elfboi) vanish(es) into the ether, the dirk will also vanish, along with the wound. Which would be an excellent reason to hurry that along, before Smitty actually dies of it, which would probably be rather more permanent. |
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Post by saardvark on Jan 16, 2017 3:53:02 GMT
After Parley BIPs Smitty to medical care, she might not be able to safely BIP back down to the river without him to retrieve anyone else. Annie may know that Parley has to wait for her. Before admitting to herself that she loves Andrew, Parley was merely a bit sloppy on destination - e.g. she'd arrive sitting a few inches above the step/chair/whatever rather than on it, so fall on her butt. We have no indication that this sloppiness was ever significantly dangerous. Now that she's not conflicted with herself over that issue, her control may be better. ... though now that she might be panicked about saving him, and he a bit groggy on lending luck-support due to his injury, she may be sloppy again. Could go either way! |
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Post by jda on Jan 16, 2017 3:59:18 GMT
For another: Jones faced of with Coyote before and he was not overly certain of his ability to take her, if I recall correctly. Why then should a mere tooth be enough to kill her? Because he needed someone to believe that the tooth could cut *everything*. He can't believe in his own powers if a human doesn't. He knows Jones for long, brags around her, but maybe, before Annie, nobody knew enough of the two of them and their capabilities to BELEIVE that, somehow, someday, the tooth Coyote gave Annie would be able to cut the impervious Jones... Excelent point |
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Post by Storel on Jan 16, 2017 5:06:04 GMT
Ooh, nice bilingual pun on the comments page: So now we approach the end of the Arc d'Jeanne.  (For those who aren't aware, Joan of Arc's name in French is Jeanne d'Arc.) |
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Post by hp on Jan 16, 2017 7:38:01 GMT
Is there a name for the fetish for having relatively small or unchanging things from waaaaaaaaay back in a story being reincorporated? Chekov's OCD? 1. Why was Jeanne so important. She doesn't affect the bridge, she can't cross the water, what was she doing down there that was so important they invented a magical arrow and killed 2 people? I mean they can't just be re-writing Romeo and Juliet. When the robot king shows Kat the memory movie from Diego's robot (starting here), we learn a lot about Jeanne's history. Her death was not much after the "split" between Forest and Court. Before that, both sides lived in harmony. It was during that time that Jeanne dated the green guy (GG). Then something happened that made Coyote split the woods and the court. He created the river as a barrier; humans and forest dwellers went back for their respective sides. So Jeanne was separated from GG. Diego tries to woo her, saying he loves her and that she need to stop thinking about GG. He is shunned; that's when he calls GG a "traitor". Judging from the context, Diego believes GG is implicated in the fact that caused the split between Court and Woods. Maybe he was spying for Coyote, or working inside the Court while advancing Coyote's agenda. So out of jealousy and spite, Diego devises a "scheme" to "fortify the Annan Waters and protect the Court" (that's how the headmaster himself puts it). The plan needs a "sacrifice", which Diego says can only be Jeanne. The Court asks Jeanne to call her lover for a meeting on the river (which adds to the feeling that he was someone important to the Court and the Woods); then they murder him right before her eyes. The device traps GG's soul on the river bed, and so Jeanne is also trapped there. That is: They wanted to stop anyone from crossing the recently-created river, after some big fuck-up turned sour the relationship between Forest and Court. So they took the finest swordsmaster ever, turned her really invincible, really angry and ridiculously overprotective of that river. While she is down there, the only way in and out is through the bridge -- which is lit all over so shadow creatures can't stealthly penetrate. Now that Jeanne has been removed from the table, Coyote's minions can infiltrate the school again without depending on trojan robots with wooden arms and hidden shadow creatures. My guess is he is going back in full force to the same agenda the "split" interrupted and it's the beginning of the end for the Court. (edit: removed the part about the "tomb plot hole". I incorrectly recalled that Jeanne had a grave on the riverbed) |
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