[2298] " ...out of your hands."

[philman]

I mean, he's being kind of a dick about it, but if Annie's plan was just "Loup asked for the Coyote water because it will make him stronger, I'll get it and then give it to him", then you can kind of understand why the Court sees the danger in that?!

[pyradonis]

Apr 29, 2020 21:34:46 GMT ctso74 said:

Apr 29, 2020 12:31:59 GMT rafk said:

For those of you who have only been reading the comic for the last, say, 5 real life years this is an example of why the rest of us consider the Court to be high-handed arrogant dicks.

My first thoughts on the comic were: "Man, why does he have to be such a tool about it, though?... Oh right."

If Aata and the entourage are there, when Loup gets the Water, then they'll be able to converse with the "piece" of Coyote. I wonder, if they play a part in Coyote's "wonderful plan"?
Typing this out, I realized that "Aata and the Entourage" would be a great band name. Now, I can't stop thinking of them in some Court-sanctioned battle of the bands. They ultimately lose to the Daft Punk cover duo, KATony.

Great, two new GKC band names for my headcanon playlist. They fit right in with Robot Souls and the Supernatural Realm, and Incoming Giant Wasp Air Strike.

[Eily]

Coming next, the Court gives the water to Loup, with suspicious confidence about the outcome. They are quickly proven wrong however when Loup doubles his offensive against the Court, and fourty chapters of war and scheming begin. After that point, a minor subplot about a lost teapot leads Robot, now an ally of Loup, to find something floating in Loup's Ocean. Robot takes it off, therefore cancelling the Court's modification of the waters memory. Loup, who has seven of its tails fighting one Annie each, his head trying to outwit Rey, and the rest of his body trying to contain Kat, suddenly exclaims "Oh, Coyote was right". Loup then disappears, never to be seen again.

The Court, having learned the extent of its mistake, decides to start tempering with the Zimmy-Gamma bond "to be ready for future threats". Jones is a florist.

[IvDead]

Two ideas that don't get out of my head right now, Jones planting redwoods and patting cactus, and Court's top echelon being shippers with the real purpose of Shadow Men being indirect wingmen.

[Eversist]

I think a confrontation between the Court and Loup is exactly what this comic needs!!!

... *fears for every named character's life except for Jones*

[Runningflame]

Apr 30, 2020 2:54:06 GMT IvDead said:

But I'm curious if Court Annie knows about Loup's "love" for Antimony, as I don't remember any place explicitly showing that she knows of it.

She's aware. I agree that the Annies probably haven't told anyone else, though.

[imaginaryfriend]

I think somebody's gonna get eaten.

Hopefully the Court is just taking custody of the water for safekeeping and will just be the ones to carry it to the Wood. Even though they're unwelcome "Loup" might let it slide if they were appropriately worshipful and submissive about it, but what are the odds of that happening?

...but I don't think that their opinions or suspicions about Antimonies are so bad that this would be necessary unless they were planning on doing something more. Even if the Antimonies are fake/compromised the one thing they could be trusted to do is take things "Loup" wants to "Loup." I don't believe they think that highly of Fannie (or to a lesser extent Courtnie) but even so I can't believe they're worried she'll abscond with it or somehow get the jar stuck up her nose, or trade it for some magic beans before she can get it to the Wood. "Loup" isn't expecting more negotiation and he isn't going to appreciate the Court attempting to substitute themselves for Antimonies in the arrangement. He's not going to appreciate some sort of attack or trick either, if that's what they're thinking, and even if they achieve surprise I don't think the Court etheric tech has the mojo to achieve much. Maybe after whatever they're planning has happened they could do something about "Loup" in the short term, but unlike Coyote who laughs off being knocked far away this one will come right back.

[mordekai]

The Annies should just sit this out. No matter what goes wrong, they will blame her, so fuck everybody!

She should make some popcorn and wait from a safe distance... 400 km may be enough... Earth's curvature will block part of the scene, but the fire and explosions should rise high enough to be visible from her position...

[todd]

I suspect that what the Court wants at this point is to be in complete control of the situation - not having to cede control to Annie or Loup or anyone else, for fear that doing so might require the Court to give up (or at least, scale down) its experiments. The experiments seem to be the ultimate cause of this mess - without them, Loup and the other forest-folk wouldn't be trying to get rid of the Court - but the Court must see renouncing them as "not an option".

[soho]

How are we all ignoring the fact that Annie could have just manipulated the vial out of the guy's hand. Wasn't that one of the first abilities she honed?

[Eversist]

Oct 15, 2021 16:42:03 GMT soho said:

How are we all ignoring the fact that Annie could have just manipulated the vial out of the guy's hand. Wasn't that one of the first abilities she honed?

Pardon me if I’m missing your meaning, but how does her taking it back solve anything? She’s not in a position of any authority against the Shadow Men or the court.

[warrl]

Apr 29, 2020 22:36:02 GMT imaginaryfriend said:

But really, I suspect they just want to make sure things go as planned. They had someone along observing negotiations with the Anwyn. They probably want to do that again but more so.

And more often. They've usually been allowing Annie to effectively be the Court's representative to the Forest, even though she's actually the Forest's representative to the Court.