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Post by jda on Jan 28, 2019 15:13:31 GMT
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Post by jda on Jan 28, 2019 15:15:03 GMT
There is only one word missing...
Bra**ers
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Post by rimwolf on Jan 28, 2019 15:16:08 GMT
I dont think a death match is a viable option. If both Annies are real (as in, split into two timelines that now merged again, leaving us with both copies), there is very little sense in killing one off. Nor would it prove anything. Trial by combat is so barbaric. Aside from anything else, a practical problem with a death match is that they might well kill each other. |
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Post by The Anarch on Jan 28, 2019 15:16:24 GMT
but the comic does hardly revolve around what Reynard would like.  |
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Post by Refugee on Jan 28, 2019 15:53:37 GMT
The true Annie need not be worried, only the false Annie.
Of course, the false Annie likely doesn't know she's false....
Our Annie has always had an affinity for the forest, for Coyote, even for Ysengrin.
The Other Annie has an affinity for her Father, and vice versa.
I am, incidentally, rather disappointed in Paz.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jan 28, 2019 16:04:24 GMT
For some reason I am imagining a matched pair of velcro suits and a running start. |
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Post by Eve Swann on Jan 28, 2019 16:14:36 GMT
Crashing together would they make a firework? |
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Post by Refugee on Jan 28, 2019 16:53:06 GMT
I dunno guys, is locking two people in a bunker really the best way to force them to get along? It has yet to be shown that getting the two Annies to get along is the goal here. This looks like a room designed to contain energies. "I'm going to get myself a pina colada while you two try to kill each other. Cheers!" |
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Post by Refugee on Jan 28, 2019 16:56:49 GMT
I dont think a death match is a viable option. If both Annies are real (as in, split into two timelines that now merged again, leaving us with both copies), there is very little sense in killing one off. Nor would it prove anything. Trial by combat is so barbaric. Aside from anything else, a practical problem with a death match is that they might well kill each other. And wouldn't that let the Court breath a little easier? |
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Post by Refugee on Jan 28, 2019 17:02:48 GMT
Crashing together would they make a firework? More, I think, like the spirals you see in a particle accelerator when two particles collide. If this doesn't work just right, there will be a spray of various sub-Annies, all spiraling around each other, exhibiting differing degrees of charm, beauty, strangeness, and so forth. Not even Jones would know how things will settle out when the various Annies finally combine and settle into their lowest state. (Yes, quantum electro dy-annics. I bet the math will be fierce.) |
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Post by novia on Jan 28, 2019 17:33:03 GMT
"They wanted to stage a false kidnapping"
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Post by Per on Jan 28, 2019 17:40:19 GMT
I bet everyone who thought Parley was going to smash the Annies' heads together at supersonic speed in a place where there's a carpet to stain is feeling pretty silly now. I was hoping we'd have a few pages of montage debunking all the standard hollywood magical clone tropes though. That's pretty much the whole last chapter of Gastrophobia (before it died). I have a hard time reading this F as anything but a shortened expletive. |
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Post by turion on Jan 28, 2019 18:01:57 GMT
Now they turn around, just to see a huge queue of more Annies along the cellar.
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Post by netherdan on Jan 28, 2019 18:10:02 GMT
Smash two Annies together to see if we could detect etheric matter |
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Post by mturtle7 on Jan 28, 2019 19:11:27 GMT
Realistically, I know perfectly well that this is probably some kind of etheric-scientific testing room Kat set up to determine the nature of both Annies. That said... ...this is pretty much exactly where my head went, too. |
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Post by youwiththeface on Jan 28, 2019 20:23:53 GMT
I don't know, my first thought was Parley got them out of the way because the group doesn't trust either of them now.
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Post by Refugee on Jan 28, 2019 20:25:47 GMT
Trial by combat is so barbaric. It certainly can be--but under certain circumstances it can be definitive. My sense is that Frannie (I love those nicknames, by the way) is more complete, better integrated, if you will, and would win the bout. Granted, it would not be a trial by sword-play, but something else, something etheric. But that may not be the plan. I'll wait and see. (One possibility is that Courtney is a fragment of Loup. IF she is "defeated", she will not be destroyed, but rather re-absorbed.) === Pardon if I'm repeating old stuff--I've been away for awhile, and don't know what's been discussed. |
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Post by DonDueed on Jan 28, 2019 20:27:54 GMT
Well, at least she didn't bip them straight onto her bed.
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Post by Polyhymnia on Jan 28, 2019 20:38:16 GMT
I'm betting on some kind of test that isn't violent and probably wouldn't hurt them, otherwise I don't think Parley and Kat's expressions would be so guilt-free. They seem like they're expecting an outcome that will help their friend. Paz does not seem to agree, or else is daring F!Annie to freak out.
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Post by DonDueed on Jan 28, 2019 20:40:57 GMT
I'm betting on some kind of test that isn't violent and probably wouldn't hurt them, otherwise I don't think Parley and Kat's expressions would be so guilt-free. They seem like they're expecting an outcome that will help their friend. Paz does not seem to agree, or else is daring F!Annie to freak out. Could be as simple as, "The only way you two can get out of here is if you COOPERATE". |
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Post by peachpie on Jan 28, 2019 20:52:11 GMT
Also goddammit Paz why are you still so sullen? F!Annie hasn't done anything yet...
Since Kat would immediately recognize non-Annie-ish behavior where, say, Anthony might not since he hasn't been in close extended contact with her like this before, I've actually been wondering since Fannie's friends came to get her if Courtnie isn't on her best behavior when Kat isn't around. Perhaps Courtnie hasn't felt quite right to them since she came back from the forest, and it's her they're suspicious of rather than Fannie, or they just don't know what to think now.
I also think Anthony's inexplicable ease around Fannie will come back into play eventually.
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Post by madjack on Jan 28, 2019 21:11:53 GMT
Hmm, I suspected that Kat's etheric computer would be involved, but since she hasn't bipped along, I guess not. Still think that disembodied floating screen we saw on the train is part of it, so she can use it's functions remotely and wouldn't have to actually drag it anywhere. I was hoping we'd have a few pages of montage debunking all the standard hollywood magical clone tropes though. That's pretty much the whole last chapter of Gastrophobia (before it died). I have a hard time reading this F as anything but a shortened expletive. Never read that, also, heh. Also goddammit Paz why are you still so sullen? F!Annie hasn't done anything yet... Since Kat would immediately recognize non-Annie-ish behavior where, say, Anthony might not since he hasn't been in close extended contact with her like this before, I've actually been wondering since Fannie's friends came to get her if Courtnie isn't on her best behavior when Kat isn't around. Perhaps Courtnie hasn't felt quite right to them since she came back from the forest, and it's her they're suspicious of rather than Fannie, or they just don't know what to think now.
I also think Anthony's inexplicable ease around Fannie will come back into play eventually.
Not having any context about the past 6 months is making any meaningful speculation really hard. I think most of the friendship circle would fall into the don't know what to think group but I'd really like to know exactly what has drawn out Paz' protectiveness this way. |
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Post by blackouthart on Jan 28, 2019 21:33:21 GMT
Not having any context about the past 6 months is making any meaningful speculation really hard. I think most of the friendship circle would fall into the don't know what to think group but I'd really like to know exactly what has drawn out Paz' protectiveness this way. Yeah, I’m hoping there’ll be a flashback sequence at some point through Paz’ POV? That would be an interesting perspective to have on the last 6 months. Maybe Kat isn’t as okay as she seems. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Jan 28, 2019 23:01:38 GMT
I have two guesses. This is either:
A.) Kat is about to horribly interrogate her best friends, breaking them down to their very core in order to find out which of these two are the real Annie (unless they both are truly real).
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B.) This is a "Get Along" Box and they're about to ditch them alone together and observe what happens. For science.
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Post by todd on Jan 29, 2019 0:15:42 GMT
The most likely goal to me: whatever tests are coming are to determine the exact nature of the two Annies' separation.
This seems a better purpose to me, from a storytelling point of view, than "Which of them's the fake?" since the evidence in the comic so far is that the answer is "Neither". Even if the other characters might not be convinced of it yet, the story's moved on past this stage. (Unless we fast-forward through the tests to have Kat, just a couple of panels later, saying that all the evidence and study is pointing to their both being Annie, after which we can move along.)
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Post by mordekai on Jan 29, 2019 0:21:38 GMT
"You'll stay in this locked bunker until you learn to get along with each other." I think you are probably right.
They have good intentions, but I hate it when people do stuff like this in fiction... trying to manipulate or force your friends into doing something to change their minds without their consent, like you know better than them and are entitled to manage their feelings in their behalf...
You know, the typical "lets put them into a stressing situation and force them to work together..." or "Boy X and Girl X are always arguing... we should manipulate them so they start dating..." or "let expose him/her to a fake life threatening danger so he/she learns a valuable lesson and unlocks his/her true blahblahblah..."... you know, that stuff...
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Post by jda on Jan 29, 2019 0:41:44 GMT
Somehow, my first idea was that they were bipped to Sandy Squirrel's.
Now, after reading so much about EtherDome(TM) deathmaches, I got the idea that, either all the others will be just bipped in for the interrogation, or Parley took them both to see... someone who knows Ether enough (Anja), or with Lore enough to resolve this situation (Jones?).
Why wait to go in the middle of the night and not a simple routine visit? Well, it's just an idea.
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Post by warrl on Jan 29, 2019 0:41:48 GMT
My only immediate thought: they should trade sweaters. Or, alternatively, they should trade dresses and keep their sweaters.
That way, when they come out it'll be hard to figure out which is which. (Until someone thinks to ask about something that happened in the Court last week.)
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Post by jda on Jan 29, 2019 0:47:01 GMT
My only immediate thought: they should trade sweaters. Or, alternatively, they should trade dresses and keep their sweaters. That way, when they come out it'll be hard to figure out which is which. (Until someone thinks to ask about something that happened in the Court last week.) You mean, other than seeing the length of hair? |
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Post by madjack on Jan 29, 2019 0:57:04 GMT
Here's another thought: Anja has a lie detector among her power suite, doesn't she? That might come in handy here, especially if it's also (been made into?) a program Kat can run on her computer. |
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