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Post by todd on Jul 10, 2018 12:46:18 GMT
More likely, if whatever Ysengrin has become still has enough of Coyote in him, he'll repeatedly change the subject, retell stories about his past self as Coyote (or maybe as Ysengrin, taken from the Roman de Renard) or demand that Annie retell them, show off his power in various feats (like the "moon-plucking" scene), and ask Annie why she's so concerned about the Court's well-being in light of her distrust of the grown-ups there, such actions of the Court's leadership as murdering Jeanne or tricking and imprisoning Renard, and the fact that she seems more at home with the Wood than the Court anyway, all while barely giving Annie an opportunity to make her request.
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Post by fia on Jul 10, 2018 15:40:13 GMT
I don't know, the tone set here is very serious, in a way unlike before The Breakout chapter. We've heard Ysenyote laugh in a really creepy way, no one could accompany Annie except for Jones, who was subsequently launched into space --- and she has finally gotten some approval from her father, and agreed to live with him once she comes back.
To me it would be strange if she did not bring the tooth, given the stakes.
In a very serious mood about this: what if Annie doesn't come back? Could Annie dying be the trigger for Kat's MechaAngel to manifest, for her to time-travel and create the Tic-Tocs? Or are we in a timeline where Annie has come back, but in which in a different case she did not?
On a different level, part of me isn't sure we are going to get all of our questions answered by the time the comic ends. Gunnerkrigg Court is a big place, the comic is part of a wide world, and mysteries are one of the things that keep it going - lots of things may remain unresolved. The Tic-Tocs may be one of them.
Wildspec: maybe Annie will try and fail to calm Ysenyote this time, and head back to the Court to hatch a plan with Andrew and Parley to split the two dogs up. Somehow though I think it more likely Annie will do this on her own, or fail altogether.
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Post by todd on Jul 11, 2018 0:08:36 GMT
In a very serious mood about this: what if Annie doesn't come back? Could Annie dying be the trigger for Kat's MechaAngel to manifest, for her to time-travel and create the Tic-Tocs? I doubt that Annie will die; she's the protagonist, and it would be difficult to continue the story without her (particularly in light of the periodic narration - unless she's telling the story from the afterlife). (It's also worth pointing out that we have no concrete evidence that this is the origin of the Tic-Tocs; that seems more like the kind of reader assumption that's cropped up often enough that people start thinking it's in the story.) If Annie can't persuade whatever Ysengrin has become to leave the Court alone, I'm not sure what she (or anyone else) can do. He seems to have reached the point where nothing (apart from the robot force field, and he might soon find a way around that) can check him, and have become too wily for any stratagem to outwit him. I doubt that Tom will go for a downbeat ending with the Court and everyone in it destroyed. So maybe, for the needs of the story, Annie will get through to the owner of the voice from the forest. |
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Post by Igniz on Jul 11, 2018 9:02:19 GMT
It occurred to me that the final regular page of the last chapter foreshadowed the "Neither" title. As someone pointed out (I forget whom), the Voice from the Forest called Annie "Little Antimony", and neither Coyote nor Ysengrin have addressed her by that name before. It was youwiththeface: Well that's not creepy. Also, has either of them ever called her Antimony before? I'm just curious because it feels so...out of place or wrong. are of interest as well. |
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