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Post by speedwell on May 21, 2020 12:34:36 GMT
Seriously though, why is it so hard to believe that Kat is just crying because she is touched by what the Annies said? Well, for me, it's because Tom is able to get across to me Kat's feelings of guilt, duty, and even abandonment so clearly that it's the first place my mind goes. In fact my first thought was that Kat was secretly thinking, "I've got so much on my plate I can't stand it, and I don't have my best friend to lean on because she's involved in every miserable aspect of this situation and I can't ask for help on top of everything, and anyway, when WAS the last time she got her head out of her own fundament and gave me some selfless encouragement?" Although that may be a bit harsh. |
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Post by Polyhymnia on May 22, 2020 0:27:33 GMT
I feel like we’re getting slightly wildspec-y in here—Kat’s more stressed than we’ve ever seen her, is doing the most subversive and therefore dangerous thing she’s ever done, and is burning bridges because of her stress. She’s utterly out of control, as her whole world (the court, concepts of science, her best friend) has been rocked by deities that shouldn’t exist, and lives around a constant reminder of her powerlessness. It’s essentially a faith crisis, and she’s burying her feelings about it in her work and fighting to press down the implications of where she fits into all of it since she can’t process something that big. Then the Annies come along, more perceptive than usual, and essentially tell her that she’s snapping and they’re worried about her, but that reads as “you need to process your feelings instead of burying them.” She’s been focusing on a problem (how the Annies work) to try and work through one bit of the crisis without having to deal with all of it. The declaration of love from one of the sources of crisis doesn’t help. They tell you you’re worth it, but you just want to cry and cut back about the actual problem that they don’t seem to be experiencing, while blocking out the rest of the implications behind it, and they’re just saying don’t worry about that and just go back to your normal self (something that you feel too exhausted and confused to mimic). The fact that they don’t seem to see the problem and want you to feel better, when from your perspective you clearly need to solve the problem in order to feel better, makes you want to cry in frustration and vulnerability and loneliness, because nobody else seems to realize the enormity of the problem at hand. So essentially, Kat is having a breakdown over all the contradictions she is witnessing? Hmm, that's actually quite an optimistic scenario. Annies wouldn't necessarily need to do anything to help her through, except provide a shoulder to cry on. And that would be a much more positive resolution, compared to other speculations higher up in the thread. Yeah, pretty much--I'm projecting a little, but what I saw in this scene mirrors an experience I had where there was just so much going on and I felt unable to do what was necessary. Since she's stressed, and frustrated with a problem to a degree we've never seen in the comic before, those emotions are coming to a head, and she's lost control so much that she cries. As we saw back with Diego, Paz, and the lab rats, Kat focuses on all problems, including emotional ones, until she is able to reconcile the contradictions she's facing. Her last identity crisis was about the morality of the court, her home. This is over the nature of the court, and science--her home has been trashed by something that defies the laws she lives by, and she's really trying to reconcile it, but can't. Annie's just calling her on it (lovingly) and now she has to address the contradiction that she hasn't been able to solve, and admit that she hasn't been able to solve it even though she needs to. I don't think it's quite as simple as providing a shoulder to cry on, though, because there are actual stressors in Kat's life that will need to be addressed for her to move on. She will have to come to terms, somehow, with the supernatural. Even for how brilliant she is, she's not able to scientifically explain Loup, and she won't be able to without MAJOR leaps in her understanding. We still don't even know how something as simple as a blinker stone works. The fact that there are two Annies and apparently neither are "her" Annie isn't something she'll be able to forget, and I don't think it's a problem she'll be able to forget, just like Annie and Parley couldn't leave Jeanne alone. |
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Post by Polyhymnia on May 22, 2020 0:31:54 GMT
Seriously though, why is it so hard to believe that Kat is just crying because she is touched by what the Annies said? Probably because she looks so distressed when she tears up. She doesn't reach out to hug the Annies. She looks like she's been slapped in the face. Her face kinda reminds me of Annie's in this panel, complete with the hands covering the face. She doesn't look like she's been complimented to me. |
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