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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 9, 2022 7:03:41 GMT
I guess it's on? Didn't see any agreement from Antimony, but if she's concerned she'll probably show up. |
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Post by bicarbonat on Sept 9, 2022 7:10:03 GMT
I so want Annie to cobble together all of the social perceptivity that she's accrued and punch this guy's clock, because that sweaty energy is capital-s Something.
Maybe it'll be an 11th hour "What, no – that's dumb" moment, à la "Over the Garden Wall," after they've gotten to the coast and Casanova here gets his Loup all over his Jerrek.
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Post by stclair on Sept 9, 2022 7:12:55 GMT
Smoooooth, dude.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 9, 2022 7:17:27 GMT
Additionally: Finally something for Lana to get jealous over, start creeping, and find out too much.  |
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Post by blahzor on Sept 9, 2022 7:29:58 GMT
"we could rob the bank just real quick then catch a bus to Vegas it'll be fine. Meet me here in front of the police station"
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Post by csj on Sept 9, 2022 7:40:29 GMT
"we could rob the bank just real quick then catch a bus to Vegas it'll be fine. Meet me here in front of the police station" 'since we're being sneaky and the court is doing this using the guise of weather machines... we could call this weather underground' |
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Post by arf on Sept 9, 2022 7:46:54 GMT
Why is it too risky? More old people seeing new people?
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Post by mochakimono on Sept 9, 2022 7:52:57 GMT
Huh, do I get half a cookie for half jokingly predicting "waving while running away and already 50 feet away in the next panel" on this page? Or maybe only a quarter of a cookie since I said it'd be Annie doing that.
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Post by novia on Sept 9, 2022 10:30:50 GMT
Why is it too risky? More old people seeing new people? and monsters on the trains.. |
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Post by novia on Sept 9, 2022 10:36:11 GMT
I so want Annie to cobble together all of the social perceptivity that she's accrued and punch this guy's clock, because that sweaty energy is capital-s Something. Is that Jerrek's sweat on Annie's face in the second to last panel? |
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 9, 2022 11:10:25 GMT
So, taking New People to try and capture Loup is fine, but travelling to the coast is too risky?
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Post by silicondream on Sept 9, 2022 11:20:31 GMT
I so want Annie to cobble together all of the social perceptivity that she's accrued and punch this guy's clock, because that sweaty energy is capital-s Something. I want Annie to remember the last time she took a fun trip with a boy with similar energy. Jerrek isn't quite as obviously manic-obsessive as Jack was during his possession, but he's getting there. Like you say, I'd hope that an older and more socially experienced Annie would be picking up on the danger signs here. Actually, it's interesting how neutral Annie's demeanour has been through this entire arc. Maybe it's because she and Kat are still scheming something; maybe it's because she's learned that visible anger just gives Loup the ego boost he wants; maybe she's walling off her Fire self again to some degree because she's anxious about losing her non-etheric family and friends. Guess I'll trust in Tom that Annie will eventually reveal how she's processing & using negative emotions. I wouldn't want to think she's lost her spark completely. |
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Post by stef1987 on Sept 9, 2022 11:42:11 GMT
"Too risky"? How so?
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Post by silicondream on Sept 9, 2022 11:56:01 GMT
So, taking New People to try and capture Loup is fine, but travelling to the coast is too risky? I'm not sure why our heroes were trying to capture Loup at all at this point, after the disaster that was the Court's last attempt. They seemed weirdly confident that he wouldn't respond by skewering them or summoning another landslide, and weirdly blasé about putting Kat on his enemy list. That said, for New People specifically, it probably is even more dangerous to travel to the coast. Loup already knows about the New People, but the leaders of the Court are hopefully still unaware. Best to keep it that way. |
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Post by phyzome on Sept 9, 2022 12:24:45 GMT
The mind is but a plaything of the body, is it not?
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Post by novia on Sept 9, 2022 13:34:27 GMT
So, taking New People to try and capture Loup is fine, but travelling to the coast is too risky? Ok fine, maybe Annie was just looking for an excuse not to do it. |
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 9, 2022 14:41:43 GMT
Seems legit. Perfectly calm Jerrick isn't troubling at all.
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Post by basser on Sept 9, 2022 15:40:45 GMT
It would be extremely funny if she ghosted him.
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Post by maxptc on Sept 9, 2022 16:31:14 GMT
Sneaking around an almost entirely empty city environment with a human looking non human is to risky, even with elfs and gnomes and all sorts of odd looking magial creatures now living there?
I dunno, it just doesn’t seem that risky compared to literally every other thing Annie has ever done....
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Post by drmemory on Sept 9, 2022 16:58:06 GMT
I guess it's on? Didn't see any agreement from Antimony, but if she's concerned she'll probably show up. Well she showed up last time something like this happened, back in Spring Heeled, and that dude was was acting way creepier then Jerrek is.
I sort of hope she takes Renard along again this time, but maybe it would be better for him to be somewhere else, reachable through the familiar link if something goes wrong.
My guess about the risk thing is that she's thinking it would be too likely for a NP to be seen by someone that shouldn't. Blowing the cover of all NP, not necessarily risk of physical harm to Jerrek directly. Not sure how valid that concern is - he doesn't really look very inhuman with the track suit covering all of his joints and inter-component interfaces. But, that being said, he's also someone that doesn't belong - there aren't all that many people in the court, and I could certainly see an administrator or Seraph picking him out as being a stranger.
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Post by Eversist on Sept 9, 2022 17:34:43 GMT
Court doesn’t know about the new robot people. — If she goes, Annie will likely bring Renard… hm. Kat’s going to be very excited about this. |
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Post by rabbit on Sept 9, 2022 18:38:01 GMT
Is that Jerrek's sweat on Annie's face in the second to last panel? Ewwwww, I hope not. Sweating on someone has to be at least second- or third-date behavior. Or maybe last date.
rabbit is glad he has fur on his face.
Seriously, though, for a long time I was looking at Loup's struggle with the Jerrek persona (which, based on his meeting with Robot, appears to be a creation of Loup's rather than a possession of an existing NP) as a "Coyote forgetting he is not a dead goose in a bush by a lake" thing. That is, the hormonal teenage perspective was interfering with Loup's plans.
That may well be part of it, but when I think about Coyote's power and how Loup has handled - or mishandled - it, it seems that Loup has perverted that power. In the same vein, I wonder if the love that Coyote (which felt brotherly) and Ys (which felt paternal) had for Antimony is likewise perverted by Loup - which is why some of us feel he is creepy. When Loup calls her " my love," it just seems icky - it does not have the same regard for Annie we see in Coyote's statement "I care for her happiness because she makes me happy" or Ysengrin's assessment of her fight with the forest monsters as "Beautiful!"
All this to say that while the Jerrek disguise may be having an effect on Loup due to Jerrek's infatuation with Annie, there was already friendship if not love for her in Coyote and Ys that may also be affecting him - in a twisted way.
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Post by novia on Sept 9, 2022 20:49:17 GMT
and I could certainly see an administrator or Seraph picking him out as being a stranger. |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Sept 9, 2022 22:38:49 GMT
This whole chapter is just creepy AF.
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 10, 2022 12:48:45 GMT
That said, for New People specifically, it probably is even more dangerous to travel to the coast. Loup already knows about the New People, but the leaders of the Court are hopefully still unaware. Best to keep it that way. Court doesn’t know about the new robot people. The whole reason why this place is interesting is because the Court leadership and the most fanatic members are in the process of relocating to another freaking planet and leaving this place behind forever. They haven't tried to recover any of the buried robots, not even set foot into the zone where they were. I'm telling you, they don't give a single fig about what is happening with their old robots at this point. A more reasonable concern would be the questions whether they will decide to try and "convince" some prodigies (like Kat) to leave with them by more forceful means, and where they intend to get the huge amount of Ether allegedly needed for the relocation from. |
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Post by stef1987 on Sept 10, 2022 13:40:59 GMT
Court doesn’t know about the new robot people. yeah, but, it's not like they are being even the least bit discrete, they're going about fairly in the open. And the elves even know about them. I was under the impression that the court just doesn't care about it |
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Post by todd on Sept 10, 2022 23:51:54 GMT
A more reasonable concern would be the questions whether they will decide to try and "convince" some prodigies (like Kat) to leave with them by more forceful means, and where they intend to get the huge amount of Ether allegedly needed for the relocation from. The problem with trying to force Kat to come is that a conscript would be likely to do a poorer job than a volunteer. Though it's possible that the Court hasn't realized it (it can be blind about certain things). As for the "huge amount of Ether" (they were talking about it at the meeting, I noticed, as if they'd already obtained it) - could there be a connection here with Ysengrin's warning to Annie about the Court intending to take her away somewhere? |
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Post by Eversist on Sept 11, 2022 0:53:49 GMT
Court doesn’t know about the new robot people. yeah, but, it's not like they are being even the least bit discrete, they're going about fairly in the open. And the elves even know about them. I was under the impression that the court just doesn't care about it 🤷♀️ Just answering the question. Given how Arizona reacted, I got the impression that maybe they still don’t know. |
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Post by blahzor on Sept 11, 2022 6:38:35 GMT
Court doesn’t know about the new robot people. yeah, but, it's not like they are being even the least bit discrete, they're going about fairly in the open. And the elves even know about them. I was under the impression that the court just doesn't care about it yeah but the court only cares about the court, if they have been prepping to leave since the attack they just need to worry about leaving everything else is useless b/c you are never coming back and possibly closing the door behind you. there's miles and miles difference in lcoations which is why the NP are sticking near the former court forest boarder |
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Post by todd on Sept 11, 2022 12:31:24 GMT
One other possible reason why the Court have apparently failed to notice the New People; the Omega Device didn't mention them, and even the Court's awareness of its increasingly faulty predictions wasn't enough to counter that.
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