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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 20, 2023 7:04:13 GMT
Looks like that old bridge that was there when the comic was new. And an Annan Gap is here, too. Comic up early tonight for some reason. |
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Post by jda on Oct 20, 2023 8:07:02 GMT
Erm.. time to face Jeanne again? Repeating boss battle previous to Game Ending Big Boss??
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 20, 2023 8:24:29 GMT
Erm.. time to face Jeanne again? Repeating boss battle previous to Game Ending Big Boss?? Well, if the spiders in the distortion are bigger, and the Ysengrin and Antimony's fire are bigger, then probably... ...probably best they stay on the bridge and not go down to this Annan. |
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Post by hnau on Oct 20, 2023 10:10:00 GMT
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 20, 2023 13:18:28 GMT
Erm.. time to face Jeanne again? Repeating boss battle previous to Game Ending Big Boss?? Or everybody isn't "bigger", but their best selves in their perfect situation. Loup has a noble quiet purpose, with a honest companion by his side. Maybe, Jeanne will be her old self with her elf boyfriend. They could be friendly guards at the border checkpoint. Jeanne: "Afternoon! Anything to declare?" Hairclip Elf: "No fruit, right? Sometimes, spider eggs can look like fruit to outsiders." |
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Post by Gemminie on Oct 20, 2023 14:06:44 GMT
The New Person with the long black hair has found the bridge leading from the Forest to the Court! And somehow the tiny gap between the trees that revealed it has grown to reveal an entire panorama. Other NP gather around, and the dark-skinned one with short hair happily says that this is familiar. Together they begin walking across the bridge. The bald-headed NP is still carrying the box of seeds/CPUs they gathered.
Annie and Renard look at each other; her expression is not happy. Perhaps this is because she saw that bridge (and the ravine it crossed) destroyed with her own eyes. Perhaps it's because that bridge holds a lot of memories for her, some not very good. Or perhaps it's because the NP are the ones traveling this time; it's their sense of the familiar that's governing this particular step of the journey, not Annie's. Or perhaps she's simply not sure where this will lead. But she and Renard follow the New People as they journey across the bridge.
The distortion appears to have different regions or scenarios; we've seen a Zimmingham-type one and a Coyote/Badlands one, but those appear to have been in the same physical location. The Forest one may or may not have been in a different physical location; Annie didn't confirm with Kat whether they'd physically moved. And now there's a region that looks like at least the bridge to the Court. I'd guess they'll get to a Court-like place on the other side. But who or what will it be populated with, and is it getting them any closer to their destination? Or will some incident happen on the bridge before they get there? It's not as if crossing this bridge has been entirely incident-free.
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Post by drmemory on Oct 20, 2023 15:33:11 GMT
This is clearly another scene in Coyote's passion play. I wonder whose memory things are being taken from? The bridge was destroyed and the gap closed and the court (on the side we're on) overflowed by a tidal wave of trees and dirt. So this clearly isn't real, in case anyone thought it might be. I'm going to guess that we're about to see the Dragon Slayer. Ysengrin was pretty much the protector of the forest, and we saw him in the last scene. If this is similar, it's time to see the protector of the court, James Eglamore. Outside chance it could still be Kat, as previously theorized. She wasn't present when Annie fell of the bridge, but she WAS watching through the eyes of her birb, and what she did then is ultra-important to Annie. I guess it depends on who exactly Coyote is trying to educate, and why he's doing it. Maybe he's trying to teach the NP how awesome she is, so they too (along with the elves) will accept her as the leader of the combined forest and court after Coyote is fully dead?
I'm sort of hoping we aren't about to see early Annie be pushed off the bridge and killed...
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Post by Gemini Jim on Oct 20, 2023 15:46:55 GMT
Well, we've dealt with the Zimmy spiders, and then Coyote the riddle hamster, and finally Ysengrin's perfect self. Way back at the beginning of the chapter, it looked like the distortion was divided into several parts. So this "bridge" could be leading somewhere new, mysterious and yet familiar. Or they might have looped (Louped?) back to the spiders. Just because it looks like the Annan Waters, doesn't mean it is. EDIT: it would be funny if there was another Annie on the other side of the bridge (which disappears after she crosses it) and now Annie has to replay this scene all over again. But if we are playing in Memoryland, it's probably earlier than that. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Oct 20, 2023 19:47:31 GMT
Erm.. time to face Jeanne again? Repeating boss battle previous to Game Ending Big Boss?? Or everybody isn't "bigger", but their best selves in their perfect situation. Loup has a noble quiet purpose, with a honest companion by his side. Maybe, Jeanne will be her old self with her elf boyfriend. They could be friendly guards at the border checkpoint. Jeanne: "Afternoon! Anything to declare?" Hairclip Elf: "No fruit, right? Sometimes, spider eggs can look like fruit to outsiders." I think you meant Ysengrin, not Loup.
Regardless, this theory implies that Coyote's best self is being a small, verminous, animal that asks people incomprehensible riddles, and his perfect situation is getting punted into the sun. I can't emphasize enough how on board I am with this.
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Post by blahzor on Oct 20, 2023 20:02:12 GMT
Annie and Rey look at each other b/c they know Annie bout to be pushed off that bish
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 21, 2023 11:15:51 GMT
Or everybody isn't "bigger", but their best selves in their perfect situation. Loup has a noble quiet purpose, with a honest companion by his side. Maybe, Jeanne will be her old self with her elf boyfriend. They could be friendly guards at the border checkpoint. Jeanne: "Afternoon! Anything to declare?" Hairclip Elf: "No fruit, right? Sometimes, spider eggs can look like fruit to outsiders." I think you meant Ysengrin, not Loup. Actually I think the Loup from before Lana was eaten might have seen himself that way. Only that, unlike Ysengrin, the love for his redheaded companion was romantic. |
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Post by drmemory on Oct 23, 2023 5:15:10 GMT
It seems just a bit weird that an NP said "Ah! This is familiar!" when looking at the bridge from the forest side. When did a NP or a robot ever see that view? The bridge was destroyed before Kat started churning out NP, wasn't it? Pretty soon after at least. The only robot we ever saw over there was S13, and he never got a NP body.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems slightly odd.
On the bright side, there are all kinds of interesting things that could happen next. Like a rerun of Annie being pushed off the cliff by a shadow-controlled, beat-to-shit Seraph robot! My personal crime reconstruction has Annie getting pushed off the bridge and plummeting to her death, and the zombie elf (Jean's lover) finding her body (or even seeing it happen) retrieving her barrette. Then Kat rewriting time with her birb and saving another Annie, with Coyote destroying the birb before Kat can mess with time any further. So the long-haired skeleton seen at the bottom of the river during the Jean episode was the original Annie, and the zombie elf gave her barrette to the Annie from the other timeline - the one we've seen ever since.
One of the grey areas is - are we still in the timeline the new Annie came from, or did that Annie actually get pulled into the other timeline? I think the latter, due to the skeleton and the zombie with the barrette, but 'tis hard to be sure...
Perhaps we're about to learn more, or perhaps we're about to see some other incident entirely.
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Post by blahzor on Oct 23, 2023 6:30:33 GMT
It seems just a bit weird that an NP said "Ah! This is familiar!" when looking at the bridge from the forest side. When did a NP or a robot ever see that view? The bridge was destroyed before Kat started churning out NP, wasn't it? Pretty soon after at least. The only robot we ever saw over there was S13, and he never got a NP body. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems slightly odd. On the bright side, there are all kinds of interesting things that could happen next. Like a rerun of Annie being pushed off the cliff by a shadow-controlled, beat-to-shit Seraph robot! My personal crime reconstruction has Annie getting pushed off the bridge and plummeting to her death, and the zombie elf (Jean's lover) finding her body (or even seeing it happen) retrieving her barrette. Then Kat rewriting time with her birb and saving another Annie, with Coyote destroying the birb before Kat can mess with time any further. So the long-haired skeleton seen at the bottom of the river during the Jean episode was the original Annie, and the zombie elf gave her barrette to the Annie from the other timeline - the one we've seen ever since. One of the grey areas is - are we still in the timeline the new Annie came from, or did that Annie actually get pulled into the other timeline? I think the latter, due to the skeleton and the zombie with the barrette, but 'tis hard to be sure... Perhaps we're about to learn more, or perhaps we're about to see some other incident entirely. I mean some might have seen the bridge lights. The weather robot as well as they were always up high |
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Post by yellowb on Oct 23, 2023 14:26:23 GMT
It seems just a bit weird that an NP said "Ah! This is familiar!" when looking at the bridge from the forest side. When did a NP or a robot ever see that view? The bridge was destroyed before Kat started churning out NP, wasn't it? Pretty soon after at least. The only robot we ever saw over there was S13, and he never got a NP body. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems slightly odd. On the bright side, there are all kinds of interesting things that could happen next. Like a rerun of Annie being pushed off the cliff by a shadow-controlled, beat-to-shit Seraph robot! My personal crime reconstruction has Annie getting pushed off the bridge and plummeting to her death, and the zombie elf (Jean's lover) finding her body (or even seeing it happen) retrieving her barrette. Then Kat rewriting time with her birb and saving another Annie, with Coyote destroying the birb before Kat can mess with time any further. So the long-haired skeleton seen at the bottom of the river during the Jean episode was the original Annie, and the zombie elf gave her barrette to the Annie from the other timeline - the one we've seen ever since. One of the grey areas is - are we still in the timeline the new Annie came from, or did that Annie actually get pulled into the other timeline? I think the latter, due to the skeleton and the zombie with the barrette, but 'tis hard to be sure... Perhaps we're about to learn more, or perhaps we're about to see some other incident entirely. I mean some might have seen the bridge lights. The weather robot as well as they were always up high Hmm... but all the NP here (at least those whose faces we can see) are smiling, and they are happy to see the bridge. Which is odd. What is also odd is the NP with no face in panel two. |
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 23, 2023 16:20:39 GMT
It seems just a bit weird that an NP said "Ah! This is familiar!" when looking at the bridge from the forest side. When did a NP or a robot ever see that view? The bridge was destroyed before Kat started churning out NP, wasn't it? Pretty soon after at least. The only robot we ever saw over there was S13, and he never got a NP body. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems slightly odd. On the bright side, there are all kinds of interesting things that could happen next. Like a rerun of Annie being pushed off the cliff by a shadow-controlled, beat-to-shit Seraph robot! My personal crime reconstruction has Annie getting pushed off the bridge and plummeting to her death, and the zombie elf (Jean's lover) finding her body (or even seeing it happen) retrieving her barrette. Then Kat rewriting time with her birb and saving another Annie, with Coyote destroying the birb before Kat can mess with time any further. So the long-haired skeleton seen at the bottom of the river during the Jean episode was the original Annie, and the zombie elf gave her barrette to the Annie from the other timeline - the one we've seen ever since. One of the grey areas is - are we still in the timeline the new Annie came from, or did that Annie actually get pulled into the other timeline? I think the latter, due to the skeleton and the zombie with the barrette, but 'tis hard to be sure... Perhaps we're about to learn more, or perhaps we're about to see some other incident entirely. Was there a long-haired skeleton on the bottom of the river? I only remember the skeleton of Jeanne's elf boyfriend (recognizable through his size, wearing the same pants and having the arrow stuck in his back). |
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Post by drmemory on Oct 23, 2023 17:55:08 GMT
It seems just a bit weird that an NP said "Ah! This is familiar!" when looking at the bridge from the forest side. When did a NP or a robot ever see that view? The bridge was destroyed before Kat started churning out NP, wasn't it? Pretty soon after at least. The only robot we ever saw over there was S13, and he never got a NP body. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems slightly odd. On the bright side, there are all kinds of interesting things that could happen next. Like a rerun of Annie being pushed off the cliff by a shadow-controlled, beat-to-shit Seraph robot! My personal crime reconstruction has Annie getting pushed off the bridge and plummeting to her death, and the zombie elf (Jean's lover) finding her body (or even seeing it happen) retrieving her barrette. Then Kat rewriting time with her birb and saving another Annie, with Coyote destroying the birb before Kat can mess with time any further. So the long-haired skeleton seen at the bottom of the river during the Jean episode was the original Annie, and the zombie elf gave her barrette to the Annie from the other timeline - the one we've seen ever since. One of the grey areas is - are we still in the timeline the new Annie came from, or did that Annie actually get pulled into the other timeline? I think the latter, due to the skeleton and the zombie with the barrette, but 'tis hard to be sure... Perhaps we're about to learn more, or perhaps we're about to see some other incident entirely. Was there a long-haired skeleton on the bottom of the river? I only remember the skeleton of Jeanne's elf boyfriend (recognizable through his size, wearing the same pants and having the arrow stuck in his back). I could well be misremembering. Let me do some research.
Addendum: I think I was confused by the seaweed, and the way the elf skeleton was shown repeatedly as Annie was leaving here. I had it in my head that we were seeing a second skeleton, a smaller one with more hair. And perhaps small boobs. |
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Post by blahzor on Oct 23, 2023 23:23:21 GMT
I mean some might have seen the bridge lights. The weather robot as well as they were always up high Hmm... but all the NP here (at least those whose faces we can see) are smiling, and they are happy to see the bridge. Which is odd. What is also odd is the NP with no face in panel two. and the non discript buildings and they only know of 1 place with buildings. the court where they speent all their lives at. the warning is that some of the buildings are still standing |
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 26, 2023 13:44:10 GMT
Was there a long-haired skeleton on the bottom of the river? I only remember the skeleton of Jeanne's elf boyfriend (recognizable through his size, wearing the same pants and having the arrow stuck in his back). I could well be misremembering. Let me do some research.
Addendum: I think I was confused by the seaweed, and the way the elf skeleton was shown repeatedly as Annie was leaving here. I had it in my head that we were seeing a second skeleton, a smaller one with more hair. And perhaps small boobs. Yeah, it's less obvious on this panel compared to the one where Annie first finds the skeleton. I mean, it would have been a delightfully dark twist if the remains of another Annie had been lying down there all the time, and even in plain sight (for one chapter). I'm almost a little disappointed it's not the case. |
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Post by drmemory on Oct 27, 2023 15:53:58 GMT
I could well be misremembering. Let me do some research.
Addendum: I think I was confused by the seaweed, and the way the elf skeleton was shown repeatedly as Annie was leaving here. I had it in my head that we were seeing a second skeleton, a smaller one with more hair. And perhaps small boobs. Yeah, it's less obvious on this panel compared to the one where Annie first finds the skeleton. I mean, it would have been a delightfully dark twist if the remains of another Annie had been lying down there all the time, and even in plain sight (for one chapter). I'm almost a little disappointed it's not the case. I'm still not 100% sure that isn't the case. I mean the zombie elf had to get Annie's barrette from somewhere!
On the other hand, it may have just fallen off when she hit the water, after the birb(s) dropped her. I actually found the page where we last saw it!  She was wearing it in the air, and no longer wearing it when she rose from the water. If it just was washed away when she hit the water, then I must wonder why the dead elf retrieved it, and hung onto it all that time...
Barrette Mystery Options:
1. Original Annie plummeted to her death. The dead elf took her barrette from her corpse and hung onto it for years, for some reason, then returned it to her after she unlocked Jeanne. 2. Annie in our modified timeline lost her barrette when she hit the water. Again, the dead elf snagged it and hung onto it for years etc.
In the grand scale of things, this is a tiny unimportant mystery. I doubt very much whether the barrette thing was something Coyote directly controlled and am not expecting the thing to suddenly be revealed as an artifact of great power. But you never know!
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 27, 2023 16:17:22 GMT
Yeah, it's less obvious on this panel compared to the one where Annie first finds the skeleton. I mean, it would have been a delightfully dark twist if the remains of another Annie had been lying down there all the time, and even in plain sight (for one chapter). I'm almost a little disappointed it's not the case. I'm still not 100% sure that isn't the case. I mean the zombie elf had to get Annie's barrette from somewhere!
On the other hand, it may have just fallen off when she hit the water, after the birb(s) dropped her. I actually found the page where we last saw it! She was wearing it in the air, and no longer wearing it when she rose from the water. If it just was washed away when she hit the water, then I must wonder why the dead elf retrieved it, and hung onto it all that time...
Barrette Mystery Options:
1. Original Annie plummeted to her death. The dead elf took her barrette from her corpse and hung onto it for years, for some reason, then returned it to her after she unlocked Jeanne. 2. Annie in our modified timeline lost her barrette when she hit the water. Again, the dead elf snagged it and hung onto it for years etc.
In the grand scale of things, this is a tiny unimportant mystery. I doubt very much whether the barrette thing was something Coyote directly controlled and am not expecting the thing to suddenly be revealed as an artifact of great power. But you never know!
I think back then everyone just assumed it was the barrette Annie had lost when falling into the water after the Tic-Toc(s) dropped her, but now that you say it, it is a bit strange... After Annie pulled the green arrow out of the elf's skeleton, it was seen being carried away by the current, so... Was the reverse decaying zombie that got out of the water even connected to the skeleton, i.e. had the zombie actually swum back to the shore, or was it just his ghost with some neat special effect? Also, when Annie finds the skeleton, both its hands are open and definitely not holding a barrette. But if the elf we saw later was just a ghost, then how could he have the barrette, he had just been released after being trapped for a couple hundred years! A mundane explanation would be that the barrette had stuck onto something under water and thus remained in the same place, for the elf to pick it up. But why is it still in usable shape, after years under water? Was it somewhere different? Did the elf bring it back from the realm of the dead? In any case, as exquisite as it would be, I can't imagine the comic going as dark as "by the way, that barrette you've been wearing, it was plucked from the battered corpse of your alternate timeline self". |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 27, 2023 17:53:46 GMT
I think we have to assume that Mr. Green was in some way aware of things going on in his environment when he was lying there dead at the bottom of the Annan. It's probably a side-effect of the use of Diego's arrow which damaged the RotD and therefore distorted reality. If not, he wouldn't be aware of who owned the barrette unless he could somehow read Antimony's mind. Assuming he couldn't move, the barrette settling to the bottom nearby would've been the only quasi-interaction anyone had with him since his death, which would make returning it important to him. If he could move a little before the arrow was disturbed then he might indeed have been clutching it this whole time; otherwise he just noted where it landed and retrieved it later, though that wasn't shown in the comic. We are talking about a hole or distortion in reality as it is commonly conceived so it's not completely impossible that the barrette Mr. Green gave to Antimony isn't the same as the one that was lost but there's a problem with that. If Mr. Green is aware of what's going on around him, as I think he has to be, he'd also be aware of the barrette being washed away so far as to be unrecoverable if that was the case, and if that happened I don't think he'd know how to obtain another on purpose. Could he have done it by instinct, just out of desire to return the barrette? Maybe, but his main goal was to return to Jeanne. I think returning the barrette was just something nice and convenient to do on his way (and was symbolic of Antimony finally completing her goal of helping Jeanne). Could the barrette have survived down there these years? Potentially yes, especially if it was made entirely of plastic. Metal parts might be in danger of corroding depending on what they are, and if the barrette isn't wedged between rocks or stuck in silt it could get battered and scraped by the current. We don't see Mr. Green's right hand so he may have been clutching it this whole time, or alternatively it could have gotten stuck in his remains one way or another and him holding it was semi-metaphorical. Would have been interesting to see if there was another set of human remains at the bottom of the Annan before it was destroyed... but Jeanne probably killed a bunch of creatures and maybe some people over the years so sorting them out would have been difficult. However, if there was a dead Antimony at the bottom of the Annan, would Mr. Green have taken the barrette to give to a living one? Remember, the 'pomps don't come for Antimony's line. That means that if there was a dead Antimony down there her ghost would be around somewhere. Maybe Antimony's ghost wandered off somewhere over the years but even so, why rob from one Antimony to give to another?
[edit] Additionally, there could have been a preservation aspect to the magic of Diego's arrow. He could have made it entirely out of materials that would've resisted corrosion from being underwater indefinitely but it probably would've been easier to just magic it if he could. If the barrette had metal parts they might have benefited from any preservation magic if they were close to the arrow, particularly if it was very close. [/edit]
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Post by drmemory on Oct 27, 2023 19:01:46 GMT
Didn't the elf have the barrette in his hand when Kat picked the lock on his high-tech handcuffs? Here
Since the elf was trapped by the arrow, he couldn't really have been swimming around and found it. Or so I'd guess. Maybe it fell on his skeleton when Annie lost it, and he hung onto it? Still a bit weird though. And doesn't explain which Annie it came from.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 27, 2023 19:46:48 GMT
Didn't the elf have the barrette in his hand when Kat picked the lock on his high-tech handcuffs? HereSince the elf was trapped by the arrow, he couldn't really have been swimming around and found it. Or so I'd guess. Maybe it fell on his skeleton when Annie lost it, and he hung onto it? Still a bit weird though. And doesn't explain which Annie it came from.
The stuff going on inside the maze-thinger is semi-metaphorical so even if Mr. Green there had a barrette in his hand then it may not have been what he returned. He might have been clenching his hand because he was thinking about it. I'm not sure his corpse was 100% unable to move this whole time but if he was, Antimony's presence may have changed things. Antimony is a medium and attractive to dead people. That could have been prompted his skeleton to move even if it never did before. |
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Post by blahzor on Oct 28, 2023 9:32:36 GMT
Didn't the elf have the barrette in his hand when Kat picked the lock on his high-tech handcuffs? HereSince the elf was trapped by the arrow, he couldn't really have been swimming around and found it. Or so I'd guess. Maybe it fell on his skeleton when Annie lost it, and he hung onto it? Still a bit weird though. And doesn't explain which Annie it came from.
i think it was meant that he picked it up after he was free'd |
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Post by drmemory on Oct 28, 2023 19:55:27 GMT
Didn't the elf have the barrette in his hand when Kat picked the lock on his high-tech handcuffs? HereSince the elf was trapped by the arrow, he couldn't really have been swimming around and found it. Or so I'd guess. Maybe it fell on his skeleton when Annie lost it, and he hung onto it? Still a bit weird though. And doesn't explain which Annie it came from.
i think it was meant that he picked it up after he was free'd I can see that as a possibility, but then what was he clutching in his hand when his cuffs were removed by Kat?
Am I the only one that ponders this kind of tiny unresolved question from comics from several years ago? Honestly, this kind of thing is one of the big reasons I love Tom's stuff. If this were coming from one of the big comic companies, I'd assume it was a plot hole or mistake. Coming from Tom, I assume it was either intentional, or something he changed his mind about exploring.
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Post by blahzor on Oct 29, 2023 2:01:47 GMT
i think it was meant that he picked it up after he was free'd I can see that as a possibility, but then what was he clutching in his hand when his cuffs were removed by Kat? Am I the only one that ponders this kind of tiny unresolved question from comics from several years ago? Honestly, this kind of thing is one of the big reasons I love Tom's stuff. If this were coming from one of the big comic companies, I'd assume it was a plot hole or mistake. Coming from Tom, I assume it was either intentional, or something he changed his mind about exploring.
It can't belong to Annie because he was trapped long before she even existed or fell |
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Post by drmemory on Oct 29, 2023 20:20:05 GMT
I can see that as a possibility, but then what was he clutching in his hand when his cuffs were removed by Kat? Am I the only one that ponders this kind of tiny unresolved question from comics from several years ago? Honestly, this kind of thing is one of the big reasons I love Tom's stuff. If this were coming from one of the big comic companies, I'd assume it was a plot hole or mistake. Coming from Tom, I assume it was either intentional, or something he changed his mind about exploring.
It can't belong to Annie because he was trapped long before she even existed or fell I agree, if we're thinking in terms of the natural and linear time (vs. supernatural and timey-wimey shenanigans). But the only thing we saw in his hand was not long after when he was holding Annie's barrette and handed it to her.
He was long dead and his skeleton was in the water. His... soul? was trapped by the arrow. Jeanne loved him and basically ended up joining him, or at least ended up standing guard over his body. I think she stayed because he was there and she couldn't let go. Didn't want to let go, at least. Or, she may have also been trapped by the arrow - that was never clear to me. It seems like Diego caused this on purpose - he had the arrow dude shoot the elf just as Jeanne was meeting him so they could leave together, and somehow knew she wouldn't be able to leave if he was dead, pinned by the arrow. I mean, it was intentional - Jeanne herself said her body was ensnared by the green light and discarded over time. Sad.
Annie got caught up in this when she plummeted from the bridge. Jeanne scarred her with her sword. The psychopomps were all over this. So was Coyote. The psychopomps set her up - they got Annie entangled with Jeanne's situation. They ended up claiming they owed her nothing, to force her to work for them. They are not nice entities. I don't know if good and evil applies here but if it does... I don't think they are on the side of good.
Still, Coyote is the schemer. I believe he took advantage of the situation to ultimately put Annie in position for the benefit of HIS plans. He knew all about the psychopomps and that Annie knew them. He certainly knew about Jeanne and the plan Diego used to set up the barrier.
Ultimately, I believe the whole thing - Annie, psychopomps, Jeanne, the arrow, Ysengrin Zimmy, Loup, etc. - are part of one big Coyote plan. He needs a guide of death to kill him. All the rest is part of this plan, including the whole Loup thing. Only Annie would be willing to do so - the rest of the psychopomps are old and wily and not so easily manipulated. The rest of what's been going on, like Kat being what she is and the NP and so on, is pretty much incidental - Coyote steers things so that HIS plans work out and leaves the rest alone. So one of these incidental things could still stick a fork in his axle.
As for the zombie elf and the barrette, I'm still not sure which Annie it came from and how he got it exactly, but I think it's really incidental to the big plot stuff going on. The elf just returned it to be a nice guy.
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 30, 2023 16:51:29 GMT
Lots of interesting thoughts here! By the way I have to correct myself, the page I linked where Annie finds the skeleton only ever shows its left hand (I misinterpreted the second picture), so it could after all be holding the barrette in its right hand.
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