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Post by snowflake on Jan 29, 2017 8:42:47 GMT
Wait a minute. If Parley was deemed to have potential and participated in mediation lessons based on who her father was, why wasn't Annie recruited sooner based on who her mother was?
... Perhaps the Reynardine incident made being Surma's kid not quite a glowing recommendation?
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Post by haspen on Jan 29, 2017 11:10:03 GMT
What if healing Smitty would mean another person would die before their time in his stead. And now Annie is debating whether to condemn a random stranger to death or not. (The answer is no, Annie.) Might not be a stranger. Might be Shadow, or Robot, or her Dad, or Kat, or [insert a person that Annie cares about] |
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Post by bedinsis on Jan 29, 2017 13:10:12 GMT
What if healing Smitty would mean another person would die before their time in his stead. And now Annie is debating whether to condemn a random stranger to death or not. (The answer is no, Annie.) Given that Smitty' special ability is to spontaneously create order where there previously was none, and having a random person die for an inexplicable reason would be quite chaotic I suspect his powers would make it so that the random person is himself. Now that would be tragicomic. |
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Post by Storel on Jan 29, 2017 15:54:37 GMT
Wait a minute. If Parley was deemed to have potential and participated in mediation lessons based on who her father was, why wasn't Annie recruited sooner based on who her mother was? ... Perhaps the Reynardine incident made being Surma's kid not quite a glowing recommendation? Parley and Smitty are both older than Annie. They were probably recruited at the same age that Annie was. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 29, 2017 16:26:48 GMT
Wait a minute. If Parley was deemed to have potential and participated in mediation lessons based on who her father was, why wasn't Annie recruited sooner based on who her mother was? ... Perhaps the Reynardine incident made being Surma's kid not quite a glowing recommendation? I think Annie was brought into the Medium training fairly quickly. Annie didn't arrive at the Court until Year 7 had already started, maybe about half way into the year. At the end of her first year the Headmaster said she should participate in Medium training in year 8. So in about six months they evaluated Annie and the Renard incident, then he decided to include her in the training after seeing Coyote's interest in her. Speaking of parentage... There hasn't been any direct evidence, but I believe the Court puts the students in tiers. Children of the Court, or legacy students, are the top tier. Kat is the epitome of a legacy students. Annie is one too but her legacy carries a lot of baggage. Children recruited by the Court are the middle tier. Paz is in that middle tier and Tom said no one asked her about Medium training. The wild cards in Chester and Folley house are the bottom tier. There seems to be no chance the Court will trust them while they are students. |
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Post by arf on Jan 30, 2017 2:16:51 GMT
As for the mysterious Thornhill students...
I wonder if Kat will snap, grab Annie, and tell George to bip the party to emergency, telling the guides they'll go with medical science first! (with a rude gesture remarkably reminiscent of Anthony's 'antenna')
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