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Post by faiiry on Oct 3, 2018 19:31:46 GMT
Had a pretty outlandish idea... Loup said "several months," but everyone's definition of "several" is different, and he could easily be stretching the truth. For him, several months could be forty months or a hundred months. Although I doubt this will actually happen in the comic, we could skip years ahead and find Kat and everyone else are now adults.
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 3, 2018 20:58:01 GMT
That's what they did during the "Evac" chapter. But they left the buildings where they were. (They'll probably grow again later.) It seems from the next-to-last panel on this page that the Court has been farther away from the ravine for the whole chapter. (Which is a relief, because I was really worried for Arthur and Juliette). On the page you linked to, the ravine presumably looks to be so far away because Annie, Kat et al. are on a rooftop, since that's where all the robots went. |
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Post by Corvo on Oct 3, 2018 21:43:37 GMT
Thinking now, the other time when the Forest God messed with a miniature of a very big thing (AKA the moon), the effects were real. It'd be really interesting to find out the barrier around the Court was destroyed months ago, for no apparent reason.
On 'distance', I don't think puting the Court 20 miles - or 20.000 miles - away from the Forest would stop them for several months from going after Annie. Especially with Parley there.
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Post by Zox Tomana on Oct 3, 2018 23:34:09 GMT
Had a pretty outlandish idea... Loup said "several months," but everyone's definition of "several" is different, and he could easily be stretching the truth. For him, several months could be forty months or a hundred months. Although I doubt this will actually happen in the comic, we could skip years ahead and find Kat and everyone else are now adults. Speaking of stretching the truth: Coyote was no liar, but what about Loup? We only have his word that there's problems in the Forest... but we also know it was within the power of Coyote to manipulate time. Who's to say Loup hasn't intentionally caused Annie to be somehow disassociated from time while in the Forest? The months may not be an accident. Loup thus far has been just a flat jerk in general so... |
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Post by todd on Oct 4, 2018 0:13:58 GMT
Though I'm not sure (as I mentioned above) that this will work entirely to his advantage:
1. After this much time, and amid all the chaos of the Court's troubles, Coyote's gifts could easily have become mislaid, difficult to find.
2. The Court's unlikely to allow Annie to return with those to the Forest, thanks to that long absence.
Of course, Loup might want that, as giving him the excuse he needs to continue with the attack (and might figure that he could take them from the ruins of the Court - he'd want to destroy it anyway, judging from what he'd said about it). Though it could also be consequences that he didn't think out enough. (Aside from the fact that he doesn't seem all that mentally stable, it would match one tradition about tricksters - they often end up becoming the victims of their own cunning, something that happened to Coyote in particular in some of the stories about him.)
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 4, 2018 2:55:40 GMT
I'm curious to see what Robot looks like now.
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Post by speedwell on Oct 4, 2018 9:08:40 GMT
But I'm glad her hair is long again. Wonder if there are more side effects. If her metabolism has been running for months she should die of thirst and starvation on the next page. End of comic! Unless unrealistic nonsense. That transition into fire elemental might have had something to do with that. I imagine Smokey The Bear might not be too pleased with her right now, heh. Also, "realism" in a story arc involving a hybrid insane trickster god who can stop time and manipulate the etheric plane, trying to manipulate a teenage half-elemental to get him the parts of his own body that he can't get himself, despite being a god. How does that work, now? |
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Post by csj on Oct 4, 2018 10:56:08 GMT
Annie's gonna be forever stuck in this grade at this rate.
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Post by netherdan on Oct 4, 2018 14:17:20 GMT
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Post by Eversist on Oct 4, 2018 15:45:19 GMT
Hah! I had no inkling that this could be happening. Just thought it was etheric-rage-hair-growth (like others). I've been busy lately and haven't kept up with the forum like I usually do. Sounds like you guys were on it. Hopefully Loup wasn't cruel, and somehow the people at the court knew Annie was okay (even if through trickery), not just keeping the court away. That's a lot of hair growth... "several months" indeed.  |
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Post by Corvo on Oct 4, 2018 22:39:05 GMT
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Post by antiyonder on Oct 5, 2018 1:59:55 GMT
So people expect a fake Annie, huh?
Yeah cause we definitely needed GC to do a variation on the Clone Saga. Might as well have one Annie dying her blonde.
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Post by calpal on Oct 5, 2018 4:41:01 GMT
I suddenly have a mental image of 2D from Gorillaz and her robotic copy, and now I have the urge to go listen to a couple of songs.
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Post by youwiththeface on Oct 5, 2018 10:05:52 GMT
I suddenly have a mental image of 2D from Gorillaz and her robotic copy, and now I have the urge to go listen to a couple of songs. That's actually Noodle. |
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Post by todd on Oct 5, 2018 13:58:27 GMT
One concern I have about the time skip (I might have mentioned this before): the possibility that it could hold up the story for a while with everyone asking Annie where she's been all this time (assuming that whatever Loup was talking about didn't settle that question) and then the explanations of what's been happening at the Court for those past months (I find it unlikely that nothing worth noting took place during that time), meaning it could be a while before we get to such matters as what Coyote's gifts will do to Loup, how to solve the Loup problem in general, and the dark hints we've received in this chapter about the Court's goals and the effect it has on the Forest. I hope this won't lead to too much of a delay.
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Post by warrl on Oct 5, 2018 20:08:20 GMT
So people expect a fake Annie, huh? Yeah cause we definitely needed GC to do a variation on the Clone Saga. Might as well have one Annie dying her blonde. And with a bit more help from Loup she could cosplay as Harem. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 5, 2018 22:05:45 GMT
We don't get a good look at Antimony's fingernails but they don't appear to be extraordinarily long in #2046 so I'm thinking that the hair growth is more about Antimony asserting herself etherically than the length of the time skip. "Loup" is probably telling the truth about how much time has passed, more or less. Side-note: One might think that "Loup" could have exempted Antimony altogether from the time warp effects, either by himself or in cooperation with Antimony's own abilities. Why didn't he? "Loup" is making no secret that he wants Antimony to stay with him in the Wood. He's offered a lot of carrots and a big stick in the form of attacking the Court, so I suspect it's about putting some strain on relations between Antimony and the Court. She has friends and family there but if they've given her up for dead and mourned her it will make things different even though they may receive her warmly when she returns. Add to that the fact that Antimony must return with retrieve the gifts (or go back to otherwise confront "Loup") and experience another time skip, thus another extended absence no matter how they feel about it. |
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Post by todd on Oct 7, 2018 0:12:30 GMT
Alternate possibility: Loup made it look as if Annie had decided to stay in the Forest and abandon the Court (and given the incident at the end of her second year at the Court, among other events, that might not have been too difficult a story to pull off).
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