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Post by basser on Nov 8, 2019 2:35:36 GMT
I feel like we were kind of given a rundown on this whole situation already, no? The fact that the critical gifts are the goose bone and the lake water ( which is actually just Coyote in a tiny bottle) seems pretty significant considering it was a story about how Coyote managed to trick himself into thinking he was dead. Coyote also gives some interesting morals before settling on the lesson of not being a dead goose. Are those morals meant for himself, or Ysengrin? Both? Or maybe they're aimed at the Court, who've expressed their desire to be rid of Coyote and Ysengrin? Also seems significant that the tiny bottle of Coyote-water is trapped in ironwood, which is presumably the same type of wood Ysengrin's tree-mecha body was made from. Basically what I think is happening is that the "memory" Coyote put into the gifts was the knowledge that he can't be killed. Seems like perhaps the goose bone is what allows him to do like he did in the goose story, where he gets to be conscious and aware while still fully believing himself to be "dead". And then the water would be be what reminds him he's not dead after all, at which point he presumably gets bored and dissolves the whole Loup situation. One assumes Ysengrin will not be chill about this. I also think it's fun how this whole arc involves two characters merging into one while another character splits into two. |
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Post by jda on Nov 8, 2019 8:22:54 GMT
Basically what I think is happening is that the "memory" Coyote put into the gifts was the knowledge that he can't be killed. Seems like perhaps the goose bone is what allows him to do like he did in the goose story, where he gets to be conscious and aware while still fully believing himself to be "dead". And then the water would be be what reminds him he's not dead after all, at which point he presumably gets bored and dissolves the whole Loup situation. One assumes Ysengrin will not be chill about this. Well, that'd be a real Coyote-ex-machina resolultion, because that'd be really jus Coyote playing with itself, and a damn is not given about the rest of the universe. Somewhere in a motivational poster I read that "We are made of stars, we are the Universe getting to experience itself". So, the Court, Forest, Annies, ROTD, etc, are just about to remember they are all Coyote... I also think it's fun how this whole arc involves two characters merging into one while another character splits into two. Nice catch. |
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Post by alevice on Nov 8, 2019 18:26:08 GMT
Is Ysengrin body made of ironwood? Annie was able to burn it when he broke her stone.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Nov 8, 2019 19:20:22 GMT
Somewhere in a motivational poster I read that "We are made of stars, we are the Universe getting to experience itself". So, the Court, Forest, Annies, ROTD, etc, are just about to remember they are all Coyote... Off-topic, but... That would be a truly epic, if somewhat tragic, ending to "Gunnerkrigg Court." Every character would literally be Coyote. (Or is that what would happen if Annie drank the water?) |
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Nov 9, 2019 0:34:07 GMT
Or maybe they're aimed at the Court, who've expressed their desire to be rid of Coyote and Ysengrin?
Coyote: "And the moral of the story is, you may not like me in the Court, but you like the alternatives even less! HAHAHAHAHA! Also, here's a lyre made from a badger skull. Don't ask me where it came from, I have no idea."
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Post by todd on Nov 9, 2019 0:41:24 GMT
Somewhere in a motivational poster I read that "We are made of stars, we are the Universe getting to experience itself". So, the Court, Forest, Annies, ROTD, etc, are just about to remember they are all Coyote... Off-topic, but... That would be a truly epic, if somewhat tragic, ending to "Gunnerkrigg Court." Every character would literally be Coyote. I hope that Tom won't take that route; it would take away much from the story if all the character interactions and growth were nothing more than fragments of Coyote that didn't realize what they really were. (Though, if the story does end that way, it could have the final page being Coyote talking to the audience about what a letdown that revelation was - "but the story, pointless, though it might seem, served its purpose in seizing your attention long enough. Long enough for you to remember - you're all also parts of me who'd forgotten that's what you were." The final panel shows light shooting out from Coyote's eyes towards the readers, as if to re-absorb them....) |
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Post by DonDueed on Nov 9, 2019 3:25:10 GMT
Off-topic, but... That would be a truly epic, if somewhat tragic, ending to "Gunnerkrigg Court." Every character would literally be Coyote. I hope that Tom won't take that route; it would take away much from the story if all the character interactions and growth were nothing more than fragments of Coyote that didn't realize what they really were. (Though, if the story does end that way, it could have the final page being Coyote talking to the audience about what a letdown that revelation was - "but the story, pointless, though it might seem, served its purpose in seizing your attention long enough. Long enough for you to remember - you're all also parts of me who'd forgotten that's what you were." The final panel shows light shooting out from Coyote's eyes towards the readers, as if to re-absorb them....) Welp. Now I don't have to read this webcomic anymore. Apparently. |
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Post by warrl on Nov 9, 2019 3:51:11 GMT
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Post by Gemini Jim on Nov 11, 2019 17:41:47 GMT
Off-topic, but... That would be a truly epic, if somewhat tragic, ending to "Gunnerkrigg Court." Every character would literally be Coyote. I hope that Tom won't take that route; it would take away much from the story if all the character interactions and growth were nothing more than fragments of Coyote that didn't realize what they really were. (Though, if the story does end that way, it could have the final page being Coyote talking to the audience about what a letdown that revelation was - "but the story, pointless, though it might seem, served its purpose in seizing your attention long enough. Long enough for you to remember - you're all also parts of me who'd forgotten that's what you were." The final panel shows light shooting out from Coyote's eyes towards the readers, as if to re-absorb them....) Mark Hamill's Joker would be a good choice for this. |
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