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Post by blahzor on Feb 24, 2021 2:18:57 GMT
Seeing this and the next pages again makes me think Annie and the psychopomps must know she is never having a kid so her essence doesn't get passed on to the child (presumably always a girl) As the only other option is they knew she'd be split is why she's special *makes another note* That's not something I'd thought of. What if the psychopomps somehow knew Annie was going to be split, meaning that even if one of her had a child, the other one could still work for them? Interesting. I'm not sure how they'd know that would happen, though. I'd been going on the theory that they knew she'd been saved from death by time shenanigans involving the Norns. Though there's also the faint possibility that it's something involving her dad (what if Tony's descended from psychopomps?) But why they're so interested in her is still a big unanswered question. Seeing as they appear to people before death they'd know the exact time of death. Do having any time marked for her would be weird because the fire elemental part never really dies but gets transferred |
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Post by Bo No Bo on Feb 24, 2021 2:31:53 GMT
"Zimmy, this has been a most interesting conversation. I just wanted to say: " Get a damn haircut." |
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Post by saardvark on Feb 24, 2021 3:07:33 GMT
*makes another note* That's not something I'd thought of. What if the psychopomps somehow knew Annie was going to be split, meaning that even if one of her had a child, the other one could still work for them? Interesting. I'm not sure how they'd know that would happen, though. I'd been going on the theory that they knew she'd been saved from death by time shenanigans involving the Norns. Though there's also the faint possibility that it's something involving her dad (what if Tony's descended from psychopomps?) But why they're so interested in her is still a big unanswered question. Seeing as they appear to people before death they'd know the exact time of death. Do having any time marked for her would be weird because the fire elemental part never really dies but gets transferred The elemental is only transferred if there is a new child host to receive it. If Annie dies childless, what happens to the elemental? Does it die? Find a new host somehow? Become corporeal? And you raise an interesting question - is Annie (either of them) really two beings or one? I think maybe two - the elementals sort of a symbiotic relationship with its host, but they are separate, as the chapters showing Annie struggling to "reintegrate" would seem to indicate. |
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Post by saardvark on Feb 24, 2021 3:08:21 GMT
"Zimmy, this has been a most interesting conversation. I just wanted to say: " Get a damn haircut." a bath would probably be good too.... |
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Post by blahzor on Feb 24, 2021 3:25:55 GMT
Seeing as they appear to people before death they'd know the exact time of death. Do having any time marked for her would be weird because the fire elemental part never really dies but gets transferred The elemental is only transferred if there is a new child host to receive it. If Annie dies childless, what happens to the elemental? Does it die? Find a new host somehow? Become corporeal? And you raise an interesting question - is Annie (either of them) really two beings or one? I think maybe two - the elementals sort of a symbiotic relationship with its host, but they are separate, as the chapters showing Annie struggling to "reintegrate" would seem to indicate. there's like 3 options all of them cruel in some form to me 1) she never dies but still that urge to have a kid 2) she just gets reborn again and have the urge to have a kid 3) she dies and her entire family line just goes away which would make her sad to know and urge to have a kid |
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Post by mturtle7 on Feb 24, 2021 5:32:46 GMT
Seeing as they appear to people before death they'd know the exact time of death. Do having any time marked for her would be weird because the fire elemental part never really dies but gets transferred The elemental is only transferred if there is a new child host to receive it. If Annie dies childless, what happens to the elemental? Does it die? Find a new host somehow? Become corporeal? And you raise an interesting question - is Annie (either of them) really two beings or one? I think maybe two - the elementals sort of a symbiotic relationship with its host, but they are separate, as the chapters showing Annie struggling to "reintegrate" would seem to indicate. I was sort of under the impression that the fire/anger spirit she "cut out" with her weird improvised magic ritual was more of a...manifested spiritual metaphor, rather than an actual separate entity that lived inside of her like a symbiote. Her fire and her anger are one and the same, after all; not simply linked, but literally the same thing. Her fire powers are fueled by her anger, so when she "exorcised" her own anger, it just naturally took the etheric form of an angry fire elemental with its hair cut off.
I can totally see your interpretation being valid too, to be clear. But this is how I always interpreted it.
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Post by pyradonis on Feb 24, 2021 12:58:35 GMT
Her fire powers are fueled by her anger That's only what the Fire Nation thinks! |
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Post by speedwell on Feb 24, 2021 13:08:55 GMT
Since Kat learned soul transference, there is at least one fourth option.
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