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Post by warrl on May 23, 2018 16:19:07 GMT
Anja acknowledging THAT as HER tech simplifies the timeline, as in not being Diego's. Not necessarily. Anja may have discovered the spell and developed the tech herself, but that doesn't necessarily mean she was the only one to ever do so. Can't picture Anja being extremely angry about anything. Maybe her "extreme anger" is a cover for the fact that she Knows Something. She's Spanish (or Galician), have you seen them when they get angry? You don't want to get in their way! Paz is Galician. Anja is Romani - which by the way is not the same thing as Romanian. |
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Post by shirozaki on May 23, 2018 18:12:19 GMT
She is Romani, but her family originated in spain.
From a Formspring question:
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Post by Gulby on May 23, 2018 18:16:10 GMT
From the last dozen of pages, I get the strong feeling that we're closer to the very end of the story than what I thought. And it makes me kinda sad. But I'm really waiting for all it has to deliver 'til the end. I'm so fond of this story.
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Post by bedinsis on May 23, 2018 19:00:14 GMT
I was thinking on how Tony can't seem to call anyone by their nickname (except Donnie in Microsat 5), and then I realised how devastating it would be if he called Kat Kat, but couldn't do the same for Annie. It would really drive home this whole minor storyline of Kat and Tony's friendship being mirrored with Annie's inability to connect with him. But nope, he calls her Katerina because he's a crusty old man and nicknames weren't invented when he was a kid, I guess. (Except Donnie.) He is also her teacher. How teachers and students are expected to interact can differ depending on who you ask, but a case can be made that by keeping interactions more formal the student is more likely to accept the teacher as an authority and thereby listen to them. I mean, you're not wrong in that he doesn't use nicknames; it's just that in this case it can at least be seen as appropriate. |
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Post by Runningflame on May 23, 2018 19:35:09 GMT
This is kind of odd to me. "Her shielding technology"? Not "Her shielding magic"?
(Also: good job Tony, having a conversation with two people at the same time! Now we'll see how he does when some emotion gets interjected.)
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Post by Eve Swann on May 23, 2018 19:40:05 GMT
This is kind of odd to me. "Her shielding technology"? Not "Her shielding magic"? (Also: good job Tony, having a conversation with two people at the same time! Now we'll see how he does when some emotion gets interjected.) Maybe the extreme situation will shake him up so much we'll actually see a breakthrough? Unlikely, but I can live in hope. |
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Post by Zox Tomana on May 23, 2018 21:04:53 GMT
This is kind of odd to me. "Her shielding technology"? Not "Her shielding magic"? (Also: good job Tony, having a conversation with two people at the same time! Now we'll see how he does when some emotion gets interjected.) The Shield itself is not a program when used by Anja, but she may have developed it into a program tied to her computer so her husband can use it as well. By this logic: Anja doesn't require the computer to make shields and bindings, but it can be used to supplement her powers and to allow others to use it. One imagines that the Court said "hey, that's neat! Yoink!" and secretly installed it into the robots. *pauses to imagine the headmaster vocalizing the word "yoink"* Also, Tony looks beat in that next to last panel. I dunno if it's due to art shift or intention, but he looks tired. How much you want to bet our favorite father-bot has been getting hardly any sleep helping oversee evacuation stuff? Even if one of his hands is out of commission, if he's a physician then he's valuable as medical oversight in the emergency response in the aftermath. |
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Post by keef on May 23, 2018 22:24:33 GMT
Probably the Angel fits her flock with this technology in the future and then, retroactively, they will always have possessed this power.
And yeah, "attack from Coyote"? Either he and/or the Court don't believe Annie and Andrew, or he hasn't been told that part.
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Post by todd on May 23, 2018 23:54:26 GMT
And yeah, "attack from Coyote"? Either he and/or the Court don't believe Annie and Andrew, or he hasn't been told that part. Or, as someone suggested, they might interpret it as "from Coyote" in the sense that Ysengrin used Coyote's powers to attack the Court. |
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Post by mturtle7 on May 24, 2018 5:12:38 GMT
Given that both her parents seem like the chillest hippies who ever walked the earth and whose house always smells of weed, I guess I just assumed Kat's spunk comes from... I don't know, her robot parts? I just wish we could SEE Anja's version of "extremely angry." Especially since Tony isn't given to exaggerating. It's true that we're more likely to see her sad, pleased, or amused than angry in her past appearances. That said, she's still kind of a badass, and can totally get angry when she needs to. For this case, try imagining the sixth panel here, but slightly more intense, and over the course of several days with no easy outlet to vent aggression on*. *except maybe Tony. Actually, definitely Tony. He makes a great person for venting aggression on, now that I think about it. |
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Post by philman on May 24, 2018 7:55:15 GMT
Wasn't Anja gitano, or Spanish Romani? Paz is Galician. Anja is Romani - which by the way is not the same thing as Romanian. Yes you're right, I was misremembering. Oops! |
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Post by rafk on May 24, 2018 8:53:57 GMT
A new mystery: who set up the shield protocol in the robots, and for what purpose? Jones, Jones, calling Doctor Jones. (seriously - knowledge that Jeanne was removed from the picture, access to everything and a quiet behind the scenes MO.. Who else?) |
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Post by todd on May 24, 2018 12:41:26 GMT
Jones, Jones, calling Doctor Jones. (seriously - knowledge that Jeanne was removed from the picture, access to everything and a quiet behind the scenes MO.. Who else?) In light of Jones' anti-interventionist stance, probably not. |
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Post by speedwell on May 24, 2018 13:14:52 GMT
I'm putting a few chips down on Tony himself being the one who installed Anja's shield functionality into the robots. It need not even have been done recently; it could have been done at any point after Anja and Donnie digitised it, even while they were young people.
I actually think it's far more likely that Juliette and Arthur passed the tech through to the other robots. Robot himself isn't that trusted by other robots, and if Kat wasn't involved, it must have been that the robots got the shield technology somehow from Anja when she was working with them years ago. Arthur might have got the functionality then, and we know Juliette was involved in some behind-the-scenes work at Court.
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Post by fia on May 24, 2018 13:58:50 GMT
The most obvious suspect is Donald. [edit] I'm tellin' you guys, he had means, method, opportunity and motive; he's known to sneak around plus he's even a user on Anja's system. Not telling Anja gives her plausible deniabiliy. If he got busted he'd take the rap and she would be safe.[/edit] A new mystery: who set up the shield protocol in the robots, and for what purpose? For me it is clearly Hyland. He was/is absurdly paranoid, was keeping an eye on Annie and co for a while, and is known to create shields using many robots. With his witchy etheric girlfriend and interest in Zimmy, plus his robotics genius and at times apathy to robot existence, he has motive and method. Also, he has hijacked Anja's system before. |
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Post by madjack on May 24, 2018 14:40:21 GMT
Ooooh Hyland is a good call, we haven't seen him for a while. I wonder how he would get that kind of access to the robots themselves to do any upgrading, maybe the Seraphs have gotten to him for their dirty work since they can't go near Kat?
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Post by pyradonis on May 27, 2018 14:37:54 GMT
This is kind of odd to me. "Her shielding technology"? Not "Her shielding magic"? (Also: good job Tony, having a conversation with two people at the same time! Now we'll see how he does when some emotion gets interjected.) There is a shield program, which Donnie uses here. Although this version looks different. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 27, 2018 14:39:06 GMT
The most obvious suspect is Donald. [edit] I'm tellin' you guys, he had means, method, opportunity and motive; he's known to sneak around plus he's even a user on Anja's system. Not telling Anja gives her plausible deniabiliy. If he got busted he'd take the rap and she would be safe.[/edit] A new mystery: who set up the shield protocol in the robots, and for what purpose? For me it is clearly Hyland. He was/is absurdly paranoid, was keeping an eye on Annie and co for a while, and is known to create shields using many robots. With his witchy etheric girlfriend and interest in Zimmy, plus his robotics genius and at times apathy to robot existence, he has motive and method. Also, he has hijacked Anja's system before. All true, but he did all that under the influence of the Whitelegs. I agree he might have the necessary skills, though. |
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Post by fia on May 27, 2018 18:07:30 GMT
All true, but he did all that under the influence of the Whitelegs. I agree he might have the necessary skills, though. I admit I was being sneaky and said 'Hyland' and not specifically 'Jack Hyland' because I have a minor suspicion it could have been Jack Hyland's father, who we know is paranoid about magic and stuff, and may well have the same Hacker Skillz his son has... I can't prove it mind you, as far as I can tell he's only been on one page. But that's my present hypothesis, it's either Jack or his dad. |
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Post by rafk on May 28, 2018 8:06:53 GMT
Jones, Jones, calling Doctor Jones. (seriously - knowledge that Jeanne was removed from the picture, access to everything and a quiet behind the scenes MO.. Who else?) In light of Jones' anti-interventionist stance, probably not. Jones has intervened far too much for me to buy that she has no feelings and no ulterior motives. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 28, 2018 14:02:38 GMT
In light of Jones' anti-interventionist stance, probably not. Jones has intervened far too much for me to buy that she has no feelings and no ulterior motives. Jones has Eglamore. I don't think she will intervene in the conflict, but I don't think she will leave Eglamore while he is still alive and I don't see Eglamore leaving the Court. It remains to be seen if she will intervene to save Eglamore. |
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