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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 9, 2018 8:05:50 GMT
Looks like "Loup" did create another Antimony to distract the Court after all. How about that. Cookies to those who guessed it. Not sure that was the best strategy for "Loup" though. |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Nov 9, 2018 8:07:25 GMT
"Well, this is awkward."
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Post by fjodorii on Nov 9, 2018 8:17:34 GMT
Did someone see that coming? He/She gets a cookie factory. And the Internet.
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Post by Angry Individual on Nov 9, 2018 8:22:29 GMT
Well, I hope Anthony always wanted two daughters.
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Post by madjack on Nov 9, 2018 8:24:35 GMT
The real twist is there will be more than one Jones too.
Edit: Actually maybe not, since Loup forgot about her.
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 9, 2018 8:29:20 GMT
The real twist: even the hairclip was copied over! Loup isn't pulling any punches here.
Looks like Annie2 has gone back to wearing makeup over however many months it's been.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Nov 9, 2018 8:29:24 GMT
Did someone see that coming? He/She gets a cookie factory. And the Internet. Besides a possible time jump (but we KNEW that happened), this was the most likely situation. The question now will rather be... how did this Annie compare to the OG Annie, and why did no one notice? |
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Post by keef on Nov 9, 2018 8:31:20 GMT
"Great! I always wanted a twin sister!"
So, what was the story Annie 2 told the court? And is one of them a fake, or are they equally real? And is Kat really wearing a dress? These questions—and many others—will be answered in the next episode of...Soap Gunnerkrigg Court!
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Post by Nepycros on Nov 9, 2018 8:35:59 GMT
Loup had better make that Annie disappear fast, or transfer that Annie's memories over to the real one.
Annie missed out on months of her life, and the most "loving" thing to do would be to give it back somehow. This would at least set Loup up as more of a complex villain rather than a complete asshole.
It's not that I expect Loup to do something like that, it's more that in this situation, I would do it to "make up" in some way, erasing damages at least partially.
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Post by philman on Nov 9, 2018 8:39:57 GMT
The real twist: even the hairclip was copied over! Loup isn't pulling any punches here. Looks like Annie2 has gone back to wearing makeup over however many months it's been. The hairclip also seems to have conveniently disappeared from the Annie from the forest. Also, how long IS this timeskip? Kat and Court-Annie look a lot taller than when we last saw them, and Kat's features in particular suddenly look a lot more adult-like. |
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Post by blackmantha on Nov 9, 2018 8:43:45 GMT
♫ I think I'm a clone now
There's always two of me just a-hangin' around ♫
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Post by Sauzels on Nov 9, 2018 8:52:18 GMT
The question is, will Annie' just disappear now that Annie is back and her job is done, or is Loup going to use Annie' to keep messing with everyone just for fun?
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Post by hargharg on Nov 9, 2018 9:02:59 GMT
Cliffhanger Friday Strikes Again!
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Post by noone3 on Nov 9, 2018 9:04:35 GMT
What if she didn't even know?
What if they are ideally duplicates?
What if he send the original out and kept the copy?
What if he took half of her molecules two meters apart and substituted the missing ones? Which one is more real than other then?
What if Tony liked the copy better?
Thats unrestraint trickster-deitying for ya!
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Post by heranje on Nov 9, 2018 9:08:05 GMT
Loup's Trick - Personally leaning toward some kind of decoy Annie as the trick. I think Loup either sent back a corpse that looked like Annie, a walking talking doppleganger to take her place, or perhaps had a doppleganger come up to the edge of the forest and declare that Annie was leaving the Court and was going to live in the forest now. hahahahaa Now the question is - is this Annie a perfect copy, or just a very good mimic? And will she disappear now that real-Annie is back? If she doesn't, and she is a perfect copy rather than a mimic, that could be a factor in Loup's favour - making forest-Annie feel superfluous in the Court, perhaps with her friends not believing that she is in fact the original, and driving her back to the forest. Oo, the idea of there being two Annies - a Forest-Annie and a Court-Annie. Too convoluted narratively to last probably, but a pretty interesting thought nevertheless. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 9, 2018 9:08:38 GMT
Did someone see that coming? He/She gets a cookie factory. And the Internet. at least, possibly others. Besides a possible time jump (but we KNEW that happened), this was the most likely situation. Only if one makes the assumption that "Loup" would have trouble preventing the Court from doing something which, "Loup" having Coyote's power, shouldn't have been a problem. Looks like "Loup's" troubles are much worse than he's letting on. Just having Antimony lose time by being in the Wood (and then having to return with Coyote's gifts and lose even more time) would have served "Loup" well in straining her attachments to the people she was close to in the Court. They may have been fooled by Annie II but now there's a handy excuse; the blame can all rest on Annie II and "Loup" instead of their individual choices. Their feeling of separation from Antimony will be much less than if Annie II didn't exist. Perhaps "Loup" could have destroyed the Court (or effectively destroyed them) like he claimed but if he couldn't prevent them from interfering with his interaction with Antimony, maybe even taking Antimony back, without this trick (or something that achieved the same end) then "Loup" was and is in a box. He can't destroy the Court without sacrificing Antimony's affections, such as they are, but if he leaves them alone they'll interfere one way or another. The question is, will Annie' just disappear now that Annie is back and her job is done, or is Loup going to use Annie' to keep messing with everyone just for fun? If Annie II disappears in a way that wastes all the interesting potential she has then I'd be irritated. |
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Post by zirka on Nov 9, 2018 9:11:44 GMT
What if she didn't even know? What if they are ideally duplicates? What if he send the original out and kept the copy? What if he took half of her molecules two meters apart and substituted the missing ones? Which one is more real than other then? What if Tony liked the copy better? Thats unrestraint trickster-deitying for ya! Well, the whole thing with Surma dying tells us there can only be one fire elemental spirit. So, that's difficult to believe there could be two "real" Annies. You either got the fire in ya or ya don't. This page makes me really sad cause I'd like to think that a Best Friend like Kat would have known since day 1 that she got a fake Annie. If I was Annie I'd be crushed. I hope there's more to this situation. It's in Loup's best interest for Annie to be welcomed back quickly, if he wants any of his stuff back. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 9:17:02 GMT
And is Kat really wearing a dress? She's pregnant and Tony's the father. I do wonder whether she's still an item with Paz; a time-skip could maneuver around the need to show any soapy details (in fact, makes it more interesting) and Kat's hair is markedly disheveled suggesting severe stress, for which Antimony's absence can't account; the gown doesn't help to alleviate this impression (Oostende has not been captured yet, it seems). There's been hints in the treatises (Paz usually sitting by herself, or with Renard who is alone in love, while the other couples such as Shadow/Robot or Andrew/George tend to be grouped) and at the beginning of the Torn Sea (Paz admires Kat for how smart she is but admits to not caring about machines much; that... is familiar). Meanwhile, Another Antimony has dressed herself exactly as when she (...?) visited the Realm of the Dead, haircut and hair-clip exempt. e: Or maybe not, unless she sewed on longer sleeves. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1335 Could still be a deliberate callback, though. |
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Post by Eversist on Nov 9, 2018 9:35:02 GMT
Yo, you guys remember my dumb post/spreadsheet cataloguing Annie's outfits? I got all excited because I thought we had seen this outfit before and wanted to see if there were any silly observations I could make about that. As far as I can tell, the last time(s) we saw a similar outfit was Chapter 21, page 504 (cardigan is short but sleeves are long), Chapter 33, page 885 (vest) and Chapter 47 page 1298 (sleeves on the cardigan not as long). ... So not quite the same outfits. Fun! ;P Edit: Oopsie-sniped by @korba, haha |
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Post by Corvo on Nov 9, 2018 9:35:39 GMT
Hahaha, genious! I'm guessing this isn't a doppelganger or anything, but Annie herself! Loup just gave Fire-Annie a real body! Well, that's the theory I'm going for.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 9, 2018 9:37:44 GMT
And is Kat really wearing a dress? She's pregnant and Tony's the father. That would be hilarious. Even funnier: Eglamore is the father, having unintentionally wooed Kat away from Anthony by accidentally volunteering to travel with Kat to a robotics and AI conference (thinking "protein loading" was about diet and physical fitness). They've only returned to the Court because they decided they wanted to raise their child there. I do wonder whether she's still an item with Paz; a time-skip could maneuver around the need to show any soapy details (in fact, makes it more interesting) and Kat's hair is markedly disheveled suggesting severe stress, for which Antimony's absence can't account; the gown doesn't help to alleviate this impression (Oostende has not been captured yet, it seems). Meanwhile, Another Antimony has dressed herself exactly as when she (...?) visited the Realm of the Dead, haircut and hair-clip exempt. Not sure that Kat's hair is disheveled, could be just shaggy from growing it out. I think we can guess a little about how Annie II has been behaving from how she's dressed and her hair length. Or at least what her attitude towards Anthony has been. And yeah, the nearing final disposition of the Kat/Antimony duo probably means bad news for Paz. |
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Post by dard on Nov 9, 2018 10:19:14 GMT
Okay, I read "Annihilation" a couple of weeks ago.
Getting a Deja Vú right now.
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Post by zaferion on Nov 9, 2018 10:27:35 GMT
I want an unlikely scenario where Annie and Annie 2 become fast friends and their friendship only serves to take down Loup faster. The whole Evil Clone thing is boring and overdone /wildspec
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Post by foresterr on Nov 9, 2018 10:32:48 GMT
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Post by hnau on Nov 9, 2018 10:35:55 GMT
So, Coyote is dead and living the lives of an ant Annie and Loup at the same time?
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Post by saardvark on Nov 9, 2018 10:39:10 GMT
The way Kat and Tony are side-eyeing Annie2 might mean they were a bit suspicious that she wasn't quite "right"....
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Post by artezzatrigger on Nov 9, 2018 10:41:52 GMT
Oh thank god its not memory erasure!
Gonna be fun seeing how the deal with Doppel!Annie turns out.
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Post by philman on Nov 9, 2018 10:52:59 GMT
Does this mean we see Zimmy again? Yay! |
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Post by alevice on Nov 9, 2018 11:03:38 GMT
So, Coyote is dead and living the lives of an ant Annie and Loup at the same time? But then the fake Annie remembered... Oh! I am CoyoteLoup too! HAHAHAHAHAHA |
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Post by TBeholder on Nov 9, 2018 11:06:55 GMT
Well, if there was a bet on participants of the incident that finally beats Parley's "Most Awkward Scene" record, Anthony most likely would be in "Top 3"… But really, are they confused too, or they did this?
If that's just a gynoid made by Kat, what's the point?
If that's a magic creature who duped them, it had to fool not only Annie's little friends (some of whom have non-trivial ways to check if they have a shadow of doubt), but probably also a handful of ether-aware folk, starting with Anja.
Speaking of which, will Annie this time do the smart thing and use ether vision immediately?
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