Fan theory: the 2841 riddle, Omega device and the distortion

[rezmason]

Hi. I lurk, mostly. Not today!

Many long-standing GC plot elements and mysteries are at play in Chapters 90 and 91, and I've started knitting them together:

• Zimmy and Gamma are probably named after Zeta and Gamma functions, two mathematical objects that involve the complex plane— a domain of numbers with a real component and an imaginary component. (Forum members have raised this already.) Their names probably reflect their ability to combine real places and events with imaginary ones.
  

• Loup was able to turn Annie into two people, and Zimmy was able to turn her back into one. Loup gave the narrative of Annie entering the woods two endings; Zimmy abandoned the narrative of two Annies entering a distortion, and replaced it wholesale, comic panels and all, with one Annie.
• Coyote/Loup and Zimmy both distort the world surrounding them, especially in their respective domains— the Gillitie Wood and imagined Birmingham.
  
• Jones is well acquainted with both Zimmy and Coyote, including Coyote's "great secret" and his "stars in the sky" thought experiment— that the irreconcilability of myths and histories is explainable by supposing all mythical beings emerge somehow from human imagination.
  
• The Omega Device, which we've seen Loup and Zimmy ruminate over simultaneously, is meant to be a way to gain total knowledge at the cost of free will, myths, and etheric objects. Using it requires so much ether, we assume either Zimmy or Loup will be destroyed to power it.
• Zimmy wishes very much to not be observed, and the Omega Device— named after the final letter of the Greek alphabet— is arguably a tool of observation.
  
• The person who explained the Star Ocean to Kat at the shore was invisible, and the planned exodus to a new Court is a one-way ticket.
  
• Zimmy and Coyote/Loup both have conspicuous teeth, which we see converging at the end of Chapter 90. Annie and her friends believe the tooth/knife Coyote gave her long ago is destined to kill Loup.
• Coyote/Loup have some sense of when they will die. Similarly, Zimmy has some sense that Kat will cause her death, specifically the rendition of Kat that Kat cannot perceive. And the Omega Device can make extremely precise predictions about the future.
  
• Kat's powerful capabilities are struggling with precision in the distorted court.
• The origin of Gunnerkrigg Court, the creation of the "seed bismuth", is related to the usual strange topology and extent of the court. The boxy shapes Annie now sees in the "glass-eyed-men"-like silhouettes of the New People— and the icon for this chapter— are shaped like Bismuth crystals.
• Jack and Jenny's attempts to "look out for" Zimmy follow a strict non-interference policy.
  

That's a lot, but it's kind of coming together.

What bends as it straightens, has nothing to prove, but if you find one, you will always find two?

The answer to Coyote's riddle, I believe, is a story. There are two sides to every story— such as Coyote's mythos and Zimmy's mythos, which have just converged within the Court. Zimmy and Coyote regularly bend and straighten the story the characters live through. And a story, especially Coyote's and Zimmy's, has nothing to prove, unlike the Omega Device, which is a prover or solver. When the Omega device eliminates the unexplainable, human imagination (and the myths that they come from) loses power and cohesion, turning the world "boring", as Loup/Coyote once mused.

I believe the combination of Kat's etheric inertness/imperceptibility and her instruments' loss of precision will combine with a specific event to destroy Zimmy from an etheric perspective. That event may be her attempt to locate or protect Zimmy. Alternatively it may be the ongoing attempts of Annie and the New People to converge at Kat's location. This is why Jack and Jenny are trying not to interact with Zimmy; they know that events that occur in the Court can be changed by Zimmy's distortion into more dangerous phenomena, especially ones that observe her.

And for all we know, Kat's new system to find Loup and the Omega Device might be the Omega Device. It may predict and guarantee its own existence, like Roko's Basilisk, a myth that takes place in the future. After all, the tic-toc was an instrument of Kat's that caused itself, and became a myth among the robots.

Thanks for reading all that! What does everyone else think?