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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 25, 2017 0:39:19 GMT
I discovered the page today because, reasons. And I'm freaking out bad for Smitty. BUT ! I had an epiphany. It's time now for my wild spec : Smitty died on a battle ground, right ? And we know someone who is a psychopomp for warriors : Brinny, the daughter of Odin, Brunehilde the Valkyrie. Why would have Tom mentionned her a while back, and being part of the group the parents were, if she is of no use as such for the story ?... The psychopomps are here to know which one will take Smitty to the ether, waiting like vultures around the not-dead-yet-but-soon-Smitty, just to see Brinny arrive with her peculiar "bip" portal, to claim Smitty. And she will take him body and soul, Valkyrie's way. And what else have we learned, chapter one if I recall correctly ?... That what we know of greek mythology is "real" in Gunnerverse, if a little modified by tales, because we know Basil the minotaur is real and so was Theseus. AND SO, if Theseus was real, Orpheus was too, probably. You know, the one that BROUGHT BACK HIS WIFE FROM THE DEAD REALM. ... New adventure for the team ! Go to the Vallalah to bring back Smitty ! And learn some other fact along the route to resolve the mystery either of how did the Court grew, or how to bring back Rey's soul into his forever resting body. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH~~~ *Going slightly mad* Don't worry, it will soon be revealed that this was all an elaborate mission rehearsal simulation run by Blue. When they do this for real, Smitty will hide behind the fairies. |
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Post by fia on Jan 25, 2017 2:50:36 GMT
It's time now for my wild spec : Smitty died on a battle ground, right ? And we know someone who is a psychopomp for warriors : Brinny, the daughter of Odin, Brunehilde the Valkyrie. Why would have Tom mentionned her a while back, and being part of the group the parents were, if she is of no use as such for the story ?... Ha! I like this theory. This would be a quite literal deus ex machina. Especially if Smitts ends up in Valhalla somehow! |
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Post by warrl on Jan 25, 2017 4:23:57 GMT
I'd say that getting Rey's soul back into his original body would actually be pretty easy... if he wanted to go back.
After all, we know he can hop out of the body he's currently in (leaving it dead... and his current body was originally a plushie, i.e. already dead) and into another body if that body has eyes. He has that power himself. His original body has eyes. At most he needs someone to open them and hold them open for a few seconds.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jan 25, 2017 5:41:38 GMT
Maybe, though the question is - how? Short of Annie and Kat going to live in Gilltie Wood (it's unlikely that the Court would allow that to happen Huh? How could the Court decide that Annie can't go live in the forest? They can kick her off of Court grounds, which would allow her to go to the forest, or they could keep her locked up in the Court to prevent her from going to the forest (and risk Coyote's anger again). But how could the Court get the power to "expel" Annie from both the Court and the Forest? You're probably right about Kat, in that the forest-folk might not like a giant robot. I'd say that getting Rey's soul back into his original body would actually be pretty easy... if he wanted to go back. After all, we know he can hop out of the body he's currently in (leaving it dead... and his current body was originally a plushie, i.e. already dead) and into another body if that body has eyes. He has that power himself. His original body has eyes. At most he needs someone to open them and hold them open for a few seconds. He also needs permission from Kat to take another body, which she hasn't yet granted (that we know of, on panel), aside from a blanket escape clause concerning Anthony. But if Rey did decide he wanted to go back to his original body, it's probably safe to assume Kat would let him. The Court might try to stop him, resulting in a breakout sequence, and they presumably wouldn't allow him to continue living in the Court, but he could get his body back eventually if he wanted it badly enough. |
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Post by saardvark on Jan 25, 2017 12:22:46 GMT
I think that, for exactly many of the reasons you mention, the Court maybe will do the unwise thing and expel Annie and Kat --- the other roads lead to plot dead-ends (detention, surrender to guilt), or deeply ignoble behavior (making Parley take the blame). Rey is a special case as a being with demigod powers. The Court might feel that Kat will be neutered because of lack of access to Court labs and technology. And they might feel that their own ether-magic-tech (e.g., Eglamore's purple anti-fire chalk) + Tony will be enough keep Annie off their backs or under control. They will be wrong, of course, on both counts... but the plot can go forward in interesting ways from this point. Maybe, though the question is - how? Short of Annie and Kat going to live in Gilltie Wood (it's unlikely that the Court would allow that to happen - and the forest-folk might not accept Kat), if they're expelled, they'd no longer be in the Court's vicinity, which would make it difficult to continue the story (at least in a way that would allow the comic to keep its title). If they're expelled, therefore, the most likely way for the comic to continue would be for new leads - most likely Paz and the other classmates taking center stage, vowing to continue where Annie and Kat left off (if lacking most of their contacts, a potential problem). Maybe they could write to Annie and Kat in their new school in secret, allowing Annie and Kat to make occasional appearances as ex-leads, with the baton passed on (until, at least, some way is found to bring them back for the final chapters). Of course, the exile might not last long, once the Court finds itself faced with: a) another angry visit from Coyote and b) a revolt from the robots over Kat's expulsion. Leading, no doubt, to the Headmaster and his fellows privately cursing Annie's name all the more and wishing that Surma had sent her to some ordinary school instead. I agree, the way forward is murky in *any* scenario... at the moment tho, I think the expulsion route may lead to more interesting story lines. Unless Gulby is right, and we have an expedition to Valhalla!  |
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Post by Storel on Jan 26, 2017 0:18:41 GMT
Well, if the psychopomps don't owe Annie anything, either it's because (a) they have already given her something of equal or greater value (her psychopomp education, the blinker stone, something having to do with her life in the first place that we don't know about); or (b) because she never officially made a deal with them at all, and they know she is actually doing this for herself; she knew the risks involved, etc; this is the way things were meant to be, world-continues-to-spin kinda deal; or (c) there is some ulterior motive to letting Smitty die. Or (d), Smitty's not actually dying, so they don't need to do anything. ANNIE YOU HAVEN'T ASKED THEM THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION. WHICH ONE OF THEM IS KETRAK?  ? Annie already knows. She's seen Ketrak before, and so has Kat. We just haven't seen him (and we probably never will). |
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Post by warrl on Jan 26, 2017 1:39:23 GMT
Annie already knows. She's seen Ketrak before, and so has Kat. We just haven't seen him (and we probably never will). There's no way Tom could draw anything as horrific as what Kat saw. (And some people would find Kat's MechaGoddess form horrific.) |
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Post by fia on Jan 26, 2017 14:22:01 GMT
Annie already knows. She's seen Ketrak before, and so has Kat. We just haven't seen him (and we probably never will). There's no way Tom could draw anything as horrific as what Kat saw. (And some people would find Kat's MechaGoddess form horrific.) Unless you've seen The Fly* ... horrific things aren't always horrific because of what they LOOK like, sometimes they're horrific because of what they bring to mind. But I do think the joke is that you're left to wonder what Ketrak looks like (and, in a similar vein, what Zimmy's science fair "abomination" looks like). * Tom's made references to Vincent Price, a classic horror actor, who is in the film. He seems to be a fan of the classic horror oeuvre. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a film he had seen. |
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