caber
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Post by caber on Oct 12, 2019 17:56:49 GMT
If he did not, it would still be a good idea to star seeing a therapist. If there is a therapist that can unpack the problems of Anthony, they are a god among mortals... actually, is Jones busy? Ironically, she's seems to be good a helping people work through problems. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Oct 12, 2019 22:29:07 GMT
This could either be real dark (Tony thinks Courtnie is the original Annie, who killed her mother by being born, and thus clams up every time he sees her, whereas the new Annie was created/shifted by Loup, and so is not his mother-killing daughter); or an opportunity for a metaphysically driven puzzle (the Annies have different essences somehow so one of them doesn't trigger his etherically driven social anxiety). Is there another possible explanation?? I mean. It can't just be the hair. Annie had long hair when he arrived. And it can't just be the makeup - it was months before she started wearing it. Ugh, or maybe this is another Loup trick? Actually, I DO have an alternative theory about this! I posted about it a while back, although I can't remember where. Maybe in one of the Chapter 70 page threads? That'll take forever to find...whatever, I'll just restate it here.
Basically, it all becomes a lot clearer when you realize that Tony wouldn't naturally think of the Annies as just clones with slight differences between them, he'd think of them as Past Annie (from 6 months ago) and Present Annie. So the differences he'd see between them can be presented as a timeline, like so:
1. Six months ago, the relationship between him and Annie was still super distant, but they had both warmed up to each other just enough for him to ask her to live in his house, and for her to agree ( www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1999). 2. Annie went off to the Forest, came back having stopped the direct attacks but failed to do anything else (which probably crushed her self-esteem quite a bit), and then moved in with Tony during the evacuation. He's able to be courteous and respectful to her now, but he still can't get himself to talk to her like a friend, and that must have pissed her off more and more as time went by.
3. Especially because, at some point, she marched up to him and angrily demanded that he let her put on her make-up again ( www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2119). Because he's Tony, this would of course have caused him to blame himself again and wallow in some more self-pity over what a terrible father he was that his own daughter would be so angry at him. 4. And now we get to the Present, when he and his daughter are still trying to function as family, and she's trying to stay close to him but she's also pretty visibly angry at him and he can't get himself to open up around her at all.
So to him, Forest Annie is actually just a chance for him to turn back time to an earlier, brighter point in their relationship, and redo all their interactions so he can erase all of those nasty, paralyzing, regrets he has. Thus, he's suddenly able to be nice and jovial with Past Annie, while still being socially paralyzed around Present Annie.
It's an alternative theory, that makes plenty of sense given Tony and Annie's characters as we've seen them so far, and doesn't even require magic-induced selective social anxiety or other such WildSpec! How's that?
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 13, 2019 22:26:47 GMT
It's an alternative theory, that makes plenty of sense given Tony and Annie's characters as we've seen them so far, and doesn't even require magic-induced selective social anxiety or other such WildSpec! How's that?
Very plausible. Way too sensible for a webcomic forum, though.
By the way - has there ever been indicated a reason in the comic why Frannie still does not wear makeup? Both Annies would still look different enough.
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