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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jan 20, 2020 8:03:03 GMT
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Post by madjack on Jan 20, 2020 8:08:37 GMT
If anyone was going to take 2 Annies in stride, it'd have to be Zimmy.
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Post by Fishy on Jan 20, 2020 8:15:18 GMT
And so the Fire Head Girl told Zimmy lovely stories about how devious Loup is... But what was the dark plot point this chapter has been leading to? Now we shall find out...
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Post by Darkfeather21 on Jan 20, 2020 8:19:50 GMT
It was hard to see the last two pages, but yeah, Gamma definitely looks a lot worse for wear here.
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Post by pyradonis on Jan 20, 2020 8:29:09 GMT
She does look a little tired indeed. But two Annies should be able to replace her for quite some time. |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Jan 20, 2020 8:35:43 GMT
She does look a little tired indeed. But two Annies should be able to replace her for quite some time. With three people, you could set up a pretty decent shift system, with failsafes! I'm loving how decent, caring, attentive,... Zimmy is being, while at the same time retaining her creepy, nonchalant air! |
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Post by noone3 on Jan 20, 2020 8:41:42 GMT
Is sleeping on a flight of stairs Gamma's other power?
Is it specific, like stairsleeping only, or is she able to sleep anywhere?
Can she sleep on a fire-escape ladder with a passing dubstep parade during earthquake and still be well slept?
Questions are stacking!
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Post by arf on Jan 20, 2020 8:51:28 GMT
Sleeping on a stair is surprisingly comfortable.
...also, that last panel is wonderful.
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Post by madjack on Jan 20, 2020 11:08:50 GMT
I wonder if they're in danger of breaking curfew if this storytelling time goes on for a while.
Which leads to another thought: How would the headcrabbed patrol bots deal with zimmy? Perhaps they have standing instructions to leave her alone?
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Post by migrantworker on Jan 20, 2020 13:30:28 GMT
Is sleeping on a flight of stairs Gamma's other power? Is it specific, like stairsleeping only, or is she able to sleep anywhere? Can she sleep on a fire-escape ladder with a passing dubstep parade during earthquake and still be well slept? Questions are stacking! Stairsleeping is a minor power only. Even us mere mortals already have a potential for it within us. To unlock it, we only need to imbibe a sufficient amount of ethanol solution. But be warned, excessive intake is counterproductive in several ways: it makes it difficult to identify stairs or to navigate towards already identified stairs, and an overdose may cause one to fall asleep on an object which is not a flight of stairs. |
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Post by saardvark on Jan 20, 2020 13:47:12 GMT
It was hard to see the last two pages, but yeah, Gamma definitely looks a lot worse for wear here. years of being Zimm's etheric energy sink and the probably related lack of sleep are wearing her out... |
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Post by saardvark on Jan 20, 2020 13:53:32 GMT
I'm loving how decent, caring, attentive,... Zimmy is being, while at the same time retaining her creepy, nonchalant air! yeah, its unusual for Zimms to be so interested in the goings on of others (outside of Gamma) unless she is almost forced to (eg, by Gamma into helping Annie in Divine). This is a new side of the Zimmster.... |
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Post by atteSmythe on Jan 20, 2020 15:37:23 GMT
People in a story actually sharing information with each other. Just another reason to love GKC
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Post by migrantworker on Jan 20, 2020 16:50:44 GMT
I'm loving how decent, caring, attentive,... Zimmy is being, while at the same time retaining her creepy, nonchalant air! yeah, its unusual for Zimms to be so interested in the goings on of others (outside of Gamma) unless she is almost forced to (eg, by Gamma into helping Annie in Divine). This is a new side of the Zimmster.... It is, yes. Just for that reason, today's page seemed rather... underwhelming to me on a first view. I doubt Zimmy is just a deus ex machina mechanism to give Annies some rest from Paz's accusations, and I hoped her reasons for showing up would be revealed. Did Gamma simply need some proper sleep? Is the arrival of the elves upsetting her? Does Kat's work have some side effect on her? We'll have to wait and see. Whatever it is, it can't be that important if they have time to chat. |
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Post by darlos9d on Jan 20, 2020 18:44:22 GMT
Never been so happy to see someone who looks like she crawled out of a television.
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Post by fia on Jan 20, 2020 19:24:14 GMT
I wonder what Gamma needed to be safe from when she and Zimmy met.
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Post by mturtle7 on Jan 20, 2020 20:31:04 GMT
I wonder if they're in danger of breaking curfew if this storytelling time goes on for a while. Which leads to another thought: How would the headcrabbed patrol bots deal with zimmy? Perhaps they have standing instructions to leave her alone? That would imply a level of bureaucratic competence which I really would not take for granted when it comes to the Court. Although, it has been six months, which I guess might be enough time for her & Gamma to have a few close calls with the patrol bots (I can only imagine what they would look like to her Nightmare Vision), go yell at some of those people who call her in for tests every so often, and then maybe eventually for the Court to install a new protocol in the headcrabs. |
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 20, 2020 21:37:20 GMT
Great expressions, again. =)
Speaking of which: why Annie on the right has this look?
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Post by pyradonis on Jan 20, 2020 21:59:16 GMT
I wonder what Gamma needed to be safe from when she and Zimmy met. What makes you think she needed to be safe from something back then?
I wonder if they're in danger of breaking curfew if this storytelling time goes on for a while. Which leads to another thought: How would the headcrabbed patrol bots deal with zimmy? Perhaps they have standing instructions to leave her alone? That would imply a level of bureaucratic competence which I really would not take for granted when it comes to the Court. Although, it has been six months, which I guess might be enough time for her & Gamma to have a few close calls with the patrol bots (I can only imagine what they would look like to her Nightmare Vision), go yell at some of those people who call her in for tests every so often, and then maybe eventually for the Court to install a new protocol in the headcrabs. The Court does deliberately withhold surveillance from Zimmy. I would not put it past them to include a general If subject == Students.Chester.Zeta { subject.ignore; } directive into their programs. (I would also not put it past them to have a special way of tracking her, which does not upset her. There has to be some reason she was invited to the Court after all.)
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jan 20, 2020 22:23:19 GMT
Ever since the possibility of alternate universes was introduced, I've been waiting for things or people to be different. (Waste of a perfectly good alternate reality otherwise...) Zimmy is acting just friendly enough to make me wonder. Or maybe, you know, character development or some nonsense. |
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Post by DonDueed on Jan 20, 2020 22:32:03 GMT
Seems to me like Zimmy is only talking to ForestAnnie. In fact, when she asks "What's all this about," she's pointing to CourtAnnie as if she's the odd thing to be explained.
Is this evidence that Zimmy sees fAnnie as the "real" one, or at least somehow "more real"? That seems a little odd. Maybe she can sense the six-month difference in their ages, but if so it would be cAnnie who was more properly a part of this timeline, whereas fAnnie would have been frozen for that period (from this timeline's perspective).
I'm still not sure I entirely believe Clippy's remark about neither Annie belonging here.
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Post by saardvark on Jan 20, 2020 23:02:43 GMT
Great expressions, again. =) Speaking of which: why Annie on the right has this look? I'd say she is looking with a kind of bemused, affectionate concern at the exhausted, sleeping-on-the-stairs Gamma. |
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Post by Igniz on Jan 21, 2020 5:44:26 GMT
Gamma does look sleepy... Actually, unexpected benefit of double Annies: Twice as many people available to help Gamma get some rest occasionally. Want some cookies, madjack?  |
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Post by netherdan on Jan 21, 2020 10:46:43 GMT
No Gamma! That's not a good place to nap! Someone at least get her to a flat surface! Preferably a soft one!
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Post by madjack on Jan 21, 2020 11:27:04 GMT
Gamma does look sleepy... Actually, unexpected benefit of double Annies: Twice as many people available to help Gamma get some rest occasionally. Want some cookies, madjack? Ooh those look great, except for two which are kinda terrible. I would eat a small Rey cookie, I think. |
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Post by saardvark on Jan 21, 2020 11:56:54 GMT
Gamma does look sleepy... Actually, unexpected benefit of double Annies: Twice as many people available to help Gamma get some rest occasionally. Want some cookies, madjack? Those are awesome! |
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Post by pyradonis on Jan 21, 2020 13:20:05 GMT
Seems to me like Zimmy is only talking to ForestAnnie. In fact, when she asks "What's all this about," she's pointing to CourtAnnie as if she's the odd thing to be explained.
Is this evidence that Zimmy sees fAnnie as the "real" one, or at least somehow "more real"? That seems a little odd. Maybe she can sense the six-month difference in their ages, but if so it would be cAnnie who was more properly a part of this timeline, whereas fAnnie would have been frozen for that period (from this timeline's perspective).
I'm still not sure I entirely believe Clippy's remark about neither Annie belonging here.
Other people and creatures have seemed to adress only Annie C., at least at first. I think we need not concern ourselves that much with every panel where it seems someone is speaking to one Annie only. Even if said person or creature does it deliberately it does not mean they know more than we do. If there is anyone who should be able to know more, it is Rey - and he says they are both real.
For Order of the Stick readers: It is like the thing with V's gender. No one knows it and no one will ever know, but everytime a character assumes V's gender in-story, someone on the forum makes a thread "IT'S BEEN REVEALED!"
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jan 21, 2020 16:41:45 GMT
^Also Fannie looks more like Antimony as Zimmy last saw her than Courtnie does. |
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Post by ctso74 on Jan 21, 2020 21:11:59 GMT
Did anyone else do a Staind "Iiiit's been a while", on that first panel? That phrase may be wonderfully ruined for me, like "Who ya gonna call".
That last panel is very pleasant.
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Post by worldsong on Jan 21, 2020 23:40:09 GMT
Zimmy does seem a lot more relaxed than she used to be. Of course the very first time we encountered her she also had a more relaxed attitude so it might just be that things have been going pretty well recently.
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