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Post by arcuna on Jan 9, 2023 11:15:19 GMT
Edit: I am dumb
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 9, 2023 11:43:22 GMT
I wonder whether a more "sociable towards humans" Antimony would have gotten less involved in the secret goings-on at the Court that drove the story. Nearly all the other children seem to pay little attention to them (Kat is the main exception, and that was because of her ties with Annie); involved? But who do you think are those people participating in this convoluted cluster of cabals, circles, cliques, clubs, companies, conspiracies and coteries? Of those we know by name — good old Donny with his extracurricular cryptography exercises, Kat, Juliette, Shell, etc. So it seems that most of them are former "other children" — human students hanging out with the other human students. And then they A. …had their circle of friends, and at some point felt the need to keep things quiet? B. …met a problem unsolvable within their current “inner circle”, then used knowledge and existing contacts to find someone with the right abilities (like Juliette did before and Annie does now)? C. …were plainly recruited by an existing cabal? Why do you think the ways of peer clustering we have seen or almost-seen are not common? in the power station chapter, for example, while the kids sneaked out at night to watch the Court's experiments, most of them seemed more interested in their romantic stirrings towards each other than in the weirdness itself). Annie's background might have resulted in her being more interested in launching a serious investigation of the Court. Without it, she'd have probably regarded it as just a boarding school with some unusual features, without asking why. And in Ties three students stopped in a corridor looking at some robots acting unusual and then strayed further “to get a better look at this”… And in The Thousand Eyes two students (already a couple that found some less well-trodden place) followed a strange bird… It’s the Court — weirdness permeates everything, and eventually something happens. You can’t spit in a dark corner without a chance to short-circuit some strange robot who should not have been there.  |
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Post by pyradonis on Jan 9, 2023 15:46:09 GMT
Jesus christ, can we have a page where things are actually explained, instead of "I know about thing!" or "Oh no, vague but terrible consequences!" I hate to admit it, but I've been feeling like that a lot lately too. That's why this scene with Aata last August was such a breath of fresh air for me. It was the first time in a long time that I felt like questions the characters were asking actually got answered on-screen, rather than just speculated on or vaguely hinted at. And it's been a long time since... I know that long-running mysteries are one of the best parts of this comic, but ever since the Annies got re-fused, a lot of the mysteries have felt a lot more...frustrating, I guess, than usual. To me, at least.
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Post by storyteller on Jan 10, 2023 2:42:40 GMT
I wonder whether a more "sociable towards humans" Antimony would have gotten less involved in the secret goings-on at the Court that drove the story. Nearly all the other children seem to pay little attention to them (Kat is the main exception, and that was because of her ties with Annie); in the power station chapter, for example, while the kids sneaked out at night to watch the Court's experiments, most of them seemed more interested in their romantic stirrings towards each other than in the weirdness itself). Annie's background might have resulted in her being more interested in launching a serious investigation of the Court. Without it, she'd have probably regarded it as just a boarding school with some unusual features, without asking why. Depends on your definition of "More social" I think. See Zimmy really starts letting loose once Kat is mentioned. And the thing is that Zimmy talked to Annie about Kat prior to this - before Annie merged back into one person prior. At a point Antimony not talking to people hampered her ability to solve questions. Especially when other people had answers - see her never talking to Kat about what she saw in regards to her while freeing Jeanne. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jan 11, 2023 17:58:16 GMT
I wonder whether a more "sociable towards humans" Antimony would have gotten less involved in the secret goings-on at the Court that drove the story. Nearly all the other children seem to pay little attention to them (Kat is the main exception, and that was because of her ties with Annie); in the power station chapter, for example, while the kids sneaked out at night to watch the Court's experiments, most of them seemed more interested in their romantic stirrings towards each other than in the weirdness itself). Annie's background might have resulted in her being more interested in launching a serious investigation of the Court. Without it, she'd have probably regarded it as just a boarding school with some unusual features, without asking why. Depends on your definition of "More social" I think. See Zimmy really starts letting loose once Kat is mentioned. And the thing is that Zimmy talked to Annie about Kat prior to this - before Annie merged back into one person prior. At a point Antimony not talking to people hampered her ability to solve questions. Especially when other people had answers - see her never talking to Kat about what she saw in regards to her while freeing Jeanne. I remember her talking to Kat about this. She even tried to draw how Kat had looked to her. |
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Post by lurkerbot on Jan 11, 2023 23:58:11 GMT
Depends on your definition of "More social" I think. See Zimmy really starts letting loose once Kat is mentioned. And the thing is that Zimmy talked to Annie about Kat prior to this - before Annie merged back into one person prior. At a point Antimony not talking to people hampered her ability to solve questions. Especially when other people had answers - see her never talking to Kat about what she saw in regards to her while freeing Jeanne. I remember her talking to Kat about this. She even tried to draw how Kat had looked to her. As shown here. |
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