Post by hannibalbarca on Nov 8, 2022 19:01:00 GMT
so far the picture i'm getting is as follows, and for the sake of clarity, bear with me that when i say "love" i do not mean necessarily romantically, because annie definitely doesn't like jerrek/loup romantically. i mean, with no labels, the appreciation one has for a person and who they are.
annie doesn't love loup for who he is. she likes jerrek, who's shy and nice and polite and definitely not a baby god. she likes the persona he's made for himself to blend in. this is clearly the case because if she knew he was loup, she'd hate him. because she hates loup. or at the very least, strongly dislikes him.
annie doesn't love loup for who he is. she likes jerrek, who's shy and nice and polite and definitely not a baby god. she likes the persona he's made for himself to blend in. this is clearly the case because if she knew he was loup, she'd hate him. because she hates loup. or at the very least, strongly dislikes him.
lana doesn't love jerrek. the alley way scene makes little sense in the narrative, the way it's shoehorned in and the way it's depicted (jerrek acting ""giga chad"" and it being rewarded by lana getting a crush on him 
) unless you interpret loup's reaction to the situation as him stepping out of the jerrek persona and actually having a clearly visible "loup moment". fourth panel here could be interpreted as a visual representation of this "loup moment" as loup is depicted in the comic with exaggerated, over-the-top comic features. i would even go as far as to say that reynardine agreeing with loup on the right action to take later on is another sign that this was meant to be a reaction that aligns with loup and other gods behaviors, but not with "court" (jerrek) standards.
) unless you interpret loup's reaction to the situation as him stepping out of the jerrek persona and actually having a clearly visible "loup moment". fourth panel here could be interpreted as a visual representation of this "loup moment" as loup is depicted in the comic with exaggerated, over-the-top comic features. i would even go as far as to say that reynardine agreeing with loup on the right action to take later on is another sign that this was meant to be a reaction that aligns with loup and other gods behaviors, but not with "court" (jerrek) standards. (if this is the intention and my theory is correct i sincerely despise the choice to use a thily veiled sexual assault scene to drive that point home. this is too delicate of a matter to be handled this way for this purpose and i don't think it did a good job at all.)
it's clearly this moment, out of character for jerrek, that made lana get a crush on him. and later on when she figures out he's loup that doesn't deter her in any way. she knows and appreciates loup for who he is. in fact, that's the guy she got a crush on, for better or for worse. not jerrek.
