Post by zink on Aug 30, 2022 21:10:52 GMT
Hopefully this is fine to post, I've only lurked occasionally so I don't know the "unwritten rules" around here.
I've been a reader for a very long time, I believe I found Gunnerkrigg when Annie was saving Robot's chip from the Seraphims, and I haven't stopped reading for more than a month at a time. (Side Note Gunnerkrigg and Questionable Content got me through some really bad Homelessness times). But Chapter 86: Page 14 sparked an idea that finally got me to make a Forum Account.
I believe that Kat is not Human.
I believe that Kat is Omega.
I don't mean that Omega is Kat from a different Timeline or the Future, or that Kat made Omega, or anything like that. I mean that Kat is literally the physical manifestaion, or Avatar you could say, of what is known as "the Omega Device".
I'm not sure how to word this in a clearly coherent way, so I will just list some of the "moments" or "evidence" that lead me to this conclusion:
1. When Zimmy looks at Kat at the end of Chapter 38: Divine. If you said "this is a picture of something called an 'Omega Device'" that would make perfect sense to me. On a relevant note: I believe Zimmy to be an extremely reliable narrator. Zimmy has an extremely hard time communicating, but she isn't just honest, her honest vision pierces directly into the soul of everything; it'd be like calling an MRI Machine a liar. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049
1b. gosh golly I didn't even realize that chapter is titled: Divine. As in a story about Divinity. That entire chapter still contains so many unanswered questions in general too.
2. Kat is constantly referred to as an Angel (and other Divine Beings like the Fates). In a loosely metaphorical sense: an Angel could be considered a "Divine Infant" (not like cherub, I mean like 'developmental stage'). In other words: Kat is the Angel which is the newly "born" developing sentience of the Divine Omega Machine.
2b. I'm not sure it's mere coincedence that Angel starts with A, as in Alpha, as in The Alpha and the Omega.
3. Kat has FAR too much power for a "really smart human". She's just going around casually creating new sentient life, entire biological contructs, traveling through Time&Space, and now re-shaping matter like it was clay. If Kat was ACTUALLY a hyper-powerful sentient AI being powered by pure Ether then it would make perfect sense that she could do all those amazing feats. Cause at that point she's basically just a Super Smart Magic 3-D Printer with a really good holographic Avatar. ... I suppose like the holographic AI Doctor from Star Trek(SG-9 iirc).
The more I think about it, the more sure I become. And now I'm wondering if Gunnerkrigg Court is actually a story about a literal Deus ex Machina; as in a story about Kat(The Machine, The Omega) becoming God. Kind of reminds me of Isaac Asimov's The Last Question.
I've been a reader for a very long time, I believe I found Gunnerkrigg when Annie was saving Robot's chip from the Seraphims, and I haven't stopped reading for more than a month at a time. (Side Note Gunnerkrigg and Questionable Content got me through some really bad Homelessness times). But Chapter 86: Page 14 sparked an idea that finally got me to make a Forum Account.
I believe that Kat is not Human.
I believe that Kat is Omega.
I don't mean that Omega is Kat from a different Timeline or the Future, or that Kat made Omega, or anything like that. I mean that Kat is literally the physical manifestaion, or Avatar you could say, of what is known as "the Omega Device".
I'm not sure how to word this in a clearly coherent way, so I will just list some of the "moments" or "evidence" that lead me to this conclusion:
1. When Zimmy looks at Kat at the end of Chapter 38: Divine. If you said "this is a picture of something called an 'Omega Device'" that would make perfect sense to me. On a relevant note: I believe Zimmy to be an extremely reliable narrator. Zimmy has an extremely hard time communicating, but she isn't just honest, her honest vision pierces directly into the soul of everything; it'd be like calling an MRI Machine a liar. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049
1b. gosh golly I didn't even realize that chapter is titled: Divine. As in a story about Divinity. That entire chapter still contains so many unanswered questions in general too.
2. Kat is constantly referred to as an Angel (and other Divine Beings like the Fates). In a loosely metaphorical sense: an Angel could be considered a "Divine Infant" (not like cherub, I mean like 'developmental stage'). In other words: Kat is the Angel which is the newly "born" developing sentience of the Divine Omega Machine.
2b. I'm not sure it's mere coincedence that Angel starts with A, as in Alpha, as in The Alpha and the Omega.
3. Kat has FAR too much power for a "really smart human". She's just going around casually creating new sentient life, entire biological contructs, traveling through Time&Space, and now re-shaping matter like it was clay. If Kat was ACTUALLY a hyper-powerful sentient AI being powered by pure Ether then it would make perfect sense that she could do all those amazing feats. Cause at that point she's basically just a Super Smart Magic 3-D Printer with a really good holographic Avatar. ... I suppose like the holographic AI Doctor from Star Trek(SG-9 iirc).
The more I think about it, the more sure I become. And now I'm wondering if Gunnerkrigg Court is actually a story about a literal Deus ex Machina; as in a story about Kat(The Machine, The Omega) becoming God. Kind of reminds me of Isaac Asimov's The Last Question.
