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Post by artemis on Mar 29, 2023 20:46:42 GMT
On Tuesday night, I was thinking about Monday’s page and wondering about what today’s page would be, and I had a dream that Paz was leaving because she and her family were going to become spiders, like how that boy Kat liked and his family became birds.
Clearly that’s not the case. 😅 Can you imagine tho. Both people Kat loved turning into animals and running off into the forest.
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Post by madjack on Mar 30, 2023 2:34:50 GMT
One, in that story, Paz suffers a traumatic event when that puppy with whom she had formed a bond swam off into the ocean. And it was family who consoled her when that happened. So going back to Spain makes sense as a means of healing from breaking with Kat. Too many of us know first hand that trauma - whether physical, mental or emotional - leaves scars.
The other reason is that, although Paz says "I'm leaving," it is really Kat who is swimming away.
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Post by Runningflame on Mar 30, 2023 3:05:27 GMT
And now we see why Paz didn't include herself in the list of Kat's anchors on page 2761. She has been one up till now, but she's decided to turn in her notice.
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Post by hnau on Mar 30, 2023 4:38:34 GMT
Kat was the only thing keeping Paz at the Court. But, was Paz the only thing keeping Kat on Earth? If Kat travels to the New World, she might be able cope with the heartache, just by forgetting about Paz.
We wonder why the Court still keeps the ether-gifted students - maybe all of them are plan C, after Loup and Zimmy? If so, they might not permit Paz to leave.
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Post by drmemory on Mar 30, 2023 4:46:50 GMT
I don't think we really have much of an idea about what will happen to the court and the forest when The Court leaves. They plan to leave a lot of people and other entities behind, including many who helped them along the way. But, we don't know how the infrastructure works, nor what they will do to the robots when they go! I could almost envision them just walking away (in a metaphysical sense) and leaving everyone to their own devices. I only hope they won't also be sucking the guts out of the court when they go - for example, taking the main computer with them, and key portions of the power grid. Heck, maybe they'll remove whatever makes the GunnerGoo maintain its shape and characteristics! Or maybe when they turn off (and possibly remove) their stuff, their space disruption technology will stop working, and the court will suddenly expand, causing big problems for people in the way. I could see The Court leaving being rather disruptive, and dangerous to those left behind. Even if they aren't planning to do this on purpose, the aliens responsible for the Star Ocean may have their own ideas. In my head, I still think of them as "The Scam Artists" and suspect them of pretty bad motives. On the other hand, if Kat is currently taking over all of their computers, that could be pretty disruptive as well.  But it also might well be the best case available. I feel like another cataclysm is drawing nigh, one way or another. The next one may be far worse than the one caused when Loup withdrew from the forest, if only because it will be centered on the human community, who really don't seem to be ready for something like that. Paz may end up being the only one safe from the effects! Due to being in Spain and all.
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Mar 30, 2023 4:54:17 GMT
Kat could probably use etheric tech and Court space-compression to make a portal from her residence to Paz's house in Spain thus eliminating the long-distance aspect of a long-distance relationship, if she wanted. If Paz wanted. ATTENTION: Please stop giving ideas to the Ascending Demigod with Impulse Control Issues about how to push into a corner the humans around her. Thanks. Yikes, that gave me vibes off My Super Ex Girlfriend. For those lucky enough to NOT having seen it: HOW was this not a horror movie?? Man the aughts were a weird time |
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Post by bedinsis on Mar 30, 2023 5:37:36 GMT
Welp. I guess this is why Kat "goes too far", according to the title of the chapter.
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Post by csj on Mar 30, 2023 6:28:30 GMT
unfortunately for kat and sweaty nerds everyhere, you can't pip install girlfriend
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Post by hnau on Mar 30, 2023 8:59:32 GMT
unfortunately for kat and sweaty nerds everyhere, you can't pip install girlfriendIt seems that pip uninstall girlfriend works fine, though.  |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Mar 30, 2023 10:24:59 GMT
Kat was the only thing keeping Paz at the Court. But, was Paz the only thing keeping Kat on Earth? If Kat travels to the New World, she might be able cope with the heartache, just by forgetting about Paz. We wonder why the Court still keeps the ether-gifted students - maybe all of them are plan C, after Loup and Zimmy? If so, they might not permit Paz to leave. Which would keep with the meta theme of the comic: rather than confronting and dealing with things, run away and create your own bubble. Kat is selected to go, and she does as a way of getting over Paz, but the Court doesn't account for her Pseudo Etheric ability, and she becomes the techno deity of a new planet. The planet, in turn, becomes the hellscape known as Zimmingham. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Mar 30, 2023 10:26:38 GMT
ATTENTION: Please stop giving ideas to the Ascending Demigod with Impulse Control Issues about how to push into a corner the humans around her. Thanks. Yikes, that gave me vibes off My Super Ex Girlfriend. For those lucky enough to NOT having seen it: HOW was this not a horror movie?? Man the aughts were a weird time Oh, it's a horror movie alright. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 30, 2023 10:26:55 GMT
Kat was the only thing keeping Paz at the Court. But, was Paz the only thing keeping Kat on Earth? If Kat travels to the New World, she might be able cope with the heartache, just by forgetting about Paz. Luckily Kat has a Project Friend to end all Project Friends in Antimony. Antimony will always need Kat's help with something (sometimes in urgent emergencies) or otherwise keep her attention by etheric shenanigans. I can see Kat being tempted to go to the really-real new world so that she'd forget Paz, though. I don't think we really have much of an idea about what will happen to the court and the forest when The Court leaves. They plan to leave a lot of people and other entities behind, including many who helped them along the way. Well, there have been the chapter break/intermission pages. We don't know if they're canon (and they probably aren't as such) but they may be hinting at general circumstances that will happen and there has been a reference to a possible airlift with askew buildings, maybe one that didn't entirely go well. I only hope they won't also be sucking the guts out of the court when they go - for example, taking the main computer with them, and key portions of the power grid. Heck, maybe they'll remove whatever makes the GunnerGoo maintain its shape and characteristics! Or maybe when they turn off (and possibly remove) their stuff, their space disruption technology will stop working, and the court will suddenly expand, causing big problems for people in the way. We don't know if the distorted space requires any sort of support to maintain itself (Kat did describe it as deep) but if it does it's probably pretty old. If the Woods predate the Court then the Court may be built on (inflated out of?) a naturally-occurring space distortion. The Seed Bismuth was probably etheric or etheric tech and therefore it and anything it may have needed in the way of a support structure dating from the beginning of the Court is probably something they'd have to leave behind. They might destroy or turn it off, though. Would Gillite Woods pancake-collapse if the Court goes? Maybe. Remains to be seen. Conventional plant and equipment, though... Sure, they'd need to be able to manufacture their own infrastructure there because there's probably no way to transport everything... but of course they'd want to take as much as they can so they can be up and going faster. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they strip transformers and wires from poles in a semi-circle area around the docks as their last act... the area of same determined by the amount of space left in the hold after all else is loaded. |
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Post by todd on Mar 30, 2023 12:57:29 GMT
And all of the potential trouble to the Court, the Wood, and everyone living there is due to the Court wanting their future-predicting machine to work. It's a sad comment on their priorities (though I suspect they'd justify it as "What's a few lives compared to the Grand March of Science?").
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Post by pyradonis on Mar 30, 2023 16:54:51 GMT
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Post by Corvo on Mar 30, 2023 17:59:48 GMT
Being in two places at once is probably not a problem for Kat anymore, so there's that.
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Post by blahzor on Mar 31, 2023 6:35:48 GMT
Being in two places at once is probably not a problem for Kat anymore, so there's that. Kat, when you go back to Spain here take this Kat body. I put in some light AI in it and a bit of my processing power |
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Post by blahzor on Mar 31, 2023 6:40:21 GMT
is this when we find out that every time someone left the court for the real world (post Surma tag-along) they were always in part of the Court extended range filled with court people pretending to be normal |
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Post by warrl on Apr 1, 2023 0:59:18 GMT
But then again of the alumni we've met the majority of them seem to wind up back at the Court, with the sole exception so far being a literal Valkyrie. Counterpoint: the Court is almost the only place we've been. Not likely to see someone in New York if you never go to New York. (Also, Surma left the court and didn't return.) |
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 2, 2023 14:48:45 GMT
Kat was the only thing keeping Paz at the Court. But, was Paz the only thing keeping Kat on Earth? If Kat travels to the New World, she might be able cope with the heartache, just by forgetting about Paz. Kat would have to leave basically all her friends (Annie and Renard as the most important ones, but also William, Janet, Parley & Andrew) behind, and she also said that her parents not being invited is one of the reasons she's not going. Though I wouldn't be surprised if she'd be tempted again for a moment. |
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Post by blahzor on Apr 2, 2023 19:16:44 GMT
Kat was the only thing keeping Paz at the Court. But, was Paz the only thing keeping Kat on Earth? If Kat travels to the New World, she might be able cope with the heartache, just by forgetting about Paz. We wonder why the Court still keeps the ether-gifted students - maybe all of them are plan C, after Loup and Zimmy? If so, they might not permit Paz to leave. i mean Annie is literally the only reason Kat does anything anymore really |
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 3, 2023 18:01:16 GMT
Kat was the only thing keeping Paz at the Court. But, was Paz the only thing keeping Kat on Earth? If Kat travels to the New World, she might be able cope with the heartache, just by forgetting about Paz. We wonder why the Court still keeps the ether-gifted students - maybe all of them are plan C, after Loup and Zimmy? If so, they might not permit Paz to leave. i mean Annie is literally the only reason Kat does anything anymore really Uh... no? |
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Post by blahzor on Apr 4, 2023 2:59:37 GMT
i mean Annie is literally the only reason Kat does anything anymore really Uh... no? The comic as it is doesn't exist if she doesn't. We're in the retroactive butter zone baby |
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But it also might well be the best case available.
