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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 30, 2018 8:06:48 GMT
Court!Annie has no problem frying her enemies with her laser beams. |
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Post by youwiththeface on Nov 30, 2018 8:11:11 GMT
The fact that we don't yet know Court!Annie's full nature makes this display of power just a bit unsettling to me. Also, we've seen these before. Way back in Ties. |
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Post by saardvark on Nov 30, 2018 8:11:20 GMT
this has apparently happened before; everyone is pretty chill about it.... just another day on GC rapid transit!
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Post by madjack on Nov 30, 2018 8:14:52 GMT
If this is daily life, Parley and Eggs have gotta be stressed.
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Post by jda on Nov 30, 2018 8:19:24 GMT
Mmmm, and now Forest!Annie is bound to "defend" the forest creature, thus making more visible the rift between them both.
Also, I find disturbing how Court!Annie seems to be more robotic in its approach. I happen to believe Annie to be more sympathetic with nature...
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Nov 30, 2018 8:30:10 GMT
Annie! Even if you are Court!Annie, you should still feel like you're the Forest Medium! That means NO ZAPPING OF FOREST PUPPIES!!
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Post by jda on Nov 30, 2018 8:34:44 GMT
Annie! Even if you are Court!Annie, you should still feel like you're the Forest Medium! That means NO ZAPPING OF FOREST PUPPIES!! My very thought. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 30, 2018 8:38:36 GMT
Forest!Annie: So unimportant to the action that she was completely omitted in this comic even though in the previous one she was seated only one window down from where the Bound Dog broke in. |
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Post by philman on Nov 30, 2018 8:45:44 GMT
Annie! Even if you are Court!Annie, you should still feel like you're the Forest Medium! That means NO ZAPPING OF FOREST PUPPIES!! Did you forget This entire chapter?Zapping of forest creatures is the only way to show them who's boss! |
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Post by madjack on Nov 30, 2018 8:47:52 GMT
Annie! Even if you are Court!Annie, you should still feel like you're the Forest Medium! That means NO ZAPPING OF FOREST PUPPIES!! Did you forget This entire chapter?Zapping of forest creatures is the only way to show them who's boss! Never mind that it's not even a real animal in the first place. Although no-one present was also there when Anja found that out. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Nov 30, 2018 8:55:10 GMT
At this point, would Court!Annie be the medium anymore? She got told to go away the moment she arrived, and her home has been constantly attacked by creatures such as the wooden puppies.
I wouldn't blame her for taking a more direct approach in dealing with them, really. Living with constant attacks for six months would probably change most people's attitudes in fighting back.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 30, 2018 8:56:16 GMT
For what it's worth Court!Annie did avoid the passenger area on the Bound Dog. So probably no forest creatures harmed... in this incident.
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Post by arf on Nov 30, 2018 9:13:01 GMT
Court!Annie
Just like Real!Annie... with lasers.
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Post by merry76 on Nov 30, 2018 9:20:05 GMT
I think Annie using her fire in the form of a laser (well, heat beam) is a new one. Laser is a very technical application of fire. I think Court!Annie drifted very much to the technical side. Also, I read Court!Annie as CourtNotAnnie, because programming programmed my brain that way  |
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Post by csj on Nov 30, 2018 10:20:11 GMT
omae wa mo shindeiru
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Post by rimwolf on Nov 30, 2018 12:13:13 GMT
Also, I read Court!Annie as CourtNotAnnie, because programming programmed my brain that way I C what you did there. |
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Post by fia on Nov 30, 2018 13:28:55 GMT
Annie get your laser guns...  Still though, wow. For me it increases the feeling this is a distinct timeline. I've always wondered what variants besides smoke and fire there were for fire elementals - I'd guessed explosions or fireworks as one, but I didn't guess lasers. |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Nov 30, 2018 13:55:37 GMT
Annie! Even if you are Court!Annie, you should still feel like you're the Forest Medium! That means NO ZAPPING OF FOREST PUPPIES!! Did you forget This entire chapter?Zapping of forest creatures is the only way to show them who's boss! There she was under attack. The Bound Dogs, to my memory, have always been more like a bus to the shadow people, than tanks for the forest. It wasn't necessarily attacking here, maybe just trying to get away from the Court, AGAIN. |
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Post by faiiry on Nov 30, 2018 14:01:38 GMT
New power new power new power aaahhhh
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Post by todd on Nov 30, 2018 14:13:30 GMT
Still though, wow. For me it increases the feeling this is a distinct timeline. To me, the problem of this being not the "real" Court but an alternate one is that it makes Annie's return to the "real" Court harder to tell. It has to be true to the "real" Court and yet not feel like a repeat of what we've already seen - and that seems like far too much of a challenge. Unless Tom cheats and has Annie's return to the "real" Court take place off-stage, which would also be dramatically unsatisfying. |
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Post by todd on Nov 30, 2018 14:15:36 GMT
Zapping of forest creatures is the only way to show them who's boss! There she was under attack. The Bound Dogs, to my memory, have always been more like a bus to the shadow people, than tanks for the forest. It wasn't necessarily attacking here, maybe just trying to get away from the Court, AGAIN.[/quote] Given the circumstances, I doubt that anyone in the Court (even Annie) is going to consider the possibility that forest-folk charging in are coming in peace. (And don't forget that back then, Coyote, not Loup, was in charge of Gilltie.) |
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Post by ctso74 on Nov 30, 2018 15:07:13 GMT
Thankfully, we time-skipped past the day, that Tony took Annie to get a kitten for their place.
Tony: "Choose one of the creatures, that you would like to be responsible for."
Annie: "I'd like that one-" *points* "ZAAAA..."
Tony: "..."
Annie: "..."
Tony: "Plants are nice."
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Post by OrzBrain on Nov 30, 2018 15:11:52 GMT
I see Annie's been hanging with the Lazer Cows again. . .
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Post by youwiththeface on Nov 30, 2018 16:04:37 GMT
Still though, wow. For me it increases the feeling this is a distinct timeline. To me, the problem of this being not the "real" Court but an alternate one is that it makes Annie's return to the "real" Court harder to tell. It has to be true to the "real" Court and yet not feel like a repeat of what we've already seen - and that seems like far too much of a challenge. Unless Tom cheats and has Annie's return to the "real" Court take place off-stage, which would also be dramatically unsatisfying. In the event this happened, the "real" court doesn't have to be a repeat of what we've seen. Either in the "real" court it's been six months but everyone's been worried crazy because an alternate Annie never came back, or it hasn't been six months and nobody knows what Annie's talking about when she finally makes it back and starts rambling about an alternate court that took another version of her in, or there's some other difference. Or we just end the chapter once she gets back and have ourselves a tiny bit of a time skip to skate over what would've been a retread. Tom's got some options. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Nov 30, 2018 16:28:02 GMT
I find disturbing how Court!Annie seems to be more robotic in its approach. I happen to believe Annie to be more sympathetic with nature... Looking back at the comic a second time I think Court!Annie is supposed to be statuesque in the last panel as she confidently displays more skill with her powers than Forest!Annie. And by my count that's death flag #3. There she was under attack. The Bound Dogs, to my memory, have always been more like a bus to the shadow people, than tanks for the forest. It wasn't necessarily attacking here, maybe just trying to get away from the Court, AGAIN. Given the circumstances, I doubt that anyone in the Court (even Annie) is going to consider the possibility that forest-folk charging in are coming in peace. (And don't forget that back then, Coyote, not Loup, was in charge of Gilltie.) Is agree. Even if the roots stopped the train by chance the Bound Dog isn't inside the maglev car by accident. I suppose there's an outside chance that they want something from the passengers or maglev itself (so this would be an RDR2 appropriate train robbery) but I'm more inclined to believe they're here to kill or kidnap people of the Court. Maybe a kidnapping is more likely since they probably could have derailed the train instead of taking the trouble to board it, but maybe the Shadow Men are just more angry than I/we know. re: Bound Dogs, they're pretty quick and agile, no problems with most terrain, maybe a bit stealthy, seats at least three, and they have good close-in attack capabilities but not a lot of armor or ranged attack capability so I guess they're equivalent to littoral patrol/multimission acv. |
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Post by netherdan on Nov 30, 2018 17:38:29 GMT
Looking back at the comic a second time I think Court!Annie is supposed to be statuesque in the last panel as she confidently displays more skill with her powers than Forest!Annie. And by my count that's death flag #3. What I'm reading from that is that Court Annie is a lot LESS powerful than she should be and is using her power in a concentrated manner. As fow why she's weak that could mean that she's the fake one, the split one made from a fragment of Annie's fire, that she didn't heal her emotional scars properly, or that her life force is decreasing for some reason. All current theories on her origin apply (I think) And I think that Forest Annie should step in and burn the thing to ashes while comanding the fire to not to burn anything else just to show off superior control of larger amounts of fire power (and then look back for a compliment from her dad just to find him shocked/disappointed, for drama reasons) re: Bound Dogs, they're pretty quick and agile, no problems with most terrain, maybe a bit stealthy, seats at least three, and they have good close-in attack capabilities but not a lot of armor or ranged attack capability so I guess they're equivalent to littoral patrol/multimission acv. For what it's worth Court!Annie did avoid the passenger area on the Bound Dog. So probably no forest creatures harmed... in this incident. There she was under attack. The Bound Dogs, to my memory, have always been more like a bus to the shadow people, than tanks for the forest. It wasn't necessarily attacking here, maybe just trying to get away from the Court, AGAIN. Where do you guys got so much information on Bound Dogs? I don't remember anything in the comic that sugested they were some kind of golem vehicle things |
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Post by zaferion on Nov 30, 2018 17:44:55 GMT
I think Annie using her fire in the form of a laser (well, heat beam) is a new one. Laser is a very technical application of fire. I think Court!Annie drifted very much to the technical side. I wonder how much of that is Tony's influence. Tony would probably want to be involved with Annie's training, and he wouldn't be okay with the ether's laissez faire approach to things and would appreciate a more technical, controlled approach to magic the etheric sciences. Whether the Za Laser came about by his actual suggestion, or Annie's innate desire to impress him, who knows. Then again, it may have just come about by necessity. If these attacks are relatively common, Annie is the only one of the main characters that has the immediate ability to fight back, and she would need to learn how to attack without incinerating everything and everyone within 10 feet of her. |
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Post by fia on Nov 30, 2018 17:46:59 GMT
Things I learned today from Wikipedia: Scientists have been able to use fluorescent proteins derived from cells to create lasers. Here's the original study in Nature from 2011. I was wondering how Court Annie would ever have learned to focus her electromagnetic radiation / plasma (if that is what she produces) into lasers... (or how she produced it in the first place). When I found the article I squee'd. |
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Post by zaferion on Nov 30, 2018 17:50:23 GMT
I don't remember anything in the comic that sugested they were some kind of golem vehicle things We know they're vehicles because when the one in Ties got killed, Shadowmen rushed out of its canopy to hide somewhere else. As for it being a golem, I think that's just inference unless there's something I forgot. They look identical to Ys's terrifying powers of gardening so it's not that big of a logical leap to make, especially now that there are roots spitting forest creatures out beneath the Court now. |
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Post by netherdan on Nov 30, 2018 17:53:11 GMT
I think Annie using her fire in the form of a laser (well, heat beam) is a new one. Laser is a very technical application of fire. I think Court!Annie drifted very much to the technical side. I wonder how much of that is Tony's influence. Tony would probably want to be involved with Annie's training, and he wouldn't be okay with the ether's laissez faire approach to things and would appreciate a more technical, controlled approach to magic the etheric sciences. Whether the Za Laser came about by his actual suggestion, or Annie's innate desire to impress him, who knows. Then again, it may have just come about by necessity. If these attacks are relatively common, Annie is the only one of the main characters that has the immediate ability to fight back, and she would need to learn how to attack without incinerating everything and everyone within 10 feet of her. That, plus the fact that she's may be weaker or conserving energy for another reason (constant attacks, limited "mana"). I think that the control of what the fire burns is an innate ability of fire elementals (not only via Blinker Stone) hence why she can have her fire head glow without igniting her hair or why she only singed her clothes while kicking the forest army's ass with her fire boots to defend Ysengrim |
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