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Post by novia on May 8, 2024 7:06:54 GMT
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Post by philman on May 8, 2024 7:28:27 GMT
A symbol in the bottom right corner, the end of the flashback perhaps?
I am assuming this is the girl that was perhaps split in order to form both Omega and Zimmy, Removing all the unstable aspects to form Zimmy and leave all the stable aspects as Omega. Perhaps Gamma is also split from the crows. We haven't got a name for the firl yet, if we are going by greek letters maybe delta? The Delta symbol is often used as a symbol for change in mathematics
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Post by blahzor on May 8, 2024 7:33:54 GMT
Tom, Valentine's Day was months ago
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Post by blahzor on May 8, 2024 7:34:44 GMT
A symbol in the bottom right corner, the end of the flashback perhaps? I am assuming this is the girl that was perhaps split in order to form both Omega and Zimmy, Removing all the unstable aspects to form Zimmy and leave all the stable aspects as Omega. Perhaps Gamma is also split from the crows. We haven't got a name for the firl yet, if we are going by greek letters maybe delta? The Delta symbol is often used as a symbol for change in mathematics That symbol was also there a few pages back. It might signal time jump is about to start |
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Post by Angry Individual on May 8, 2024 7:39:20 GMT
I might be reading into it a bit much, but this almost feels tragic in the way it's being told.
What started as both research into the ether was also an attempt at helping a woman who wasn't understood and ostracized, being treated like a human being possibly for the first time (their expressions are both caring and grateful) eventually warped into experimentation known as Omega and Zeta. Makes me wonder if this was the original intention, or people simply grew more curious at how far they could bend what the ether offers, and the sacrifices along the way no longer mattered.
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Post by exquisitecorpus on May 8, 2024 8:00:06 GMT
Makes me wonder if this was the original intention, or people simply grew more curious at how far they could bend what the ether offers, and the sacrifices along the way no longer mattered. They do say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. What began as compassion could easily have warped into obsession. Whatever he—or the Court—did to Omega, it's guaranteed her immortality, but at a terrible cost. Also interesting choice of words from the good doc here—"fog," "storm"—evoking the weather when talking about the ether. That's one more time the ether's been shown to be tied to weather, or conceptualized as weather (rain as vessel for ether, the "weather stations" dotted around the Court, the machinery that Omega seems to be hooked up to—someone mentioned a few threads back that they look suspiciously similar to weather equipment). |
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Post by arcuna on May 8, 2024 8:06:23 GMT
Also interesting choice of words from the good doc here—"fog," "storm"—evoking the weather when talking about the ether. That's one more time the ether's been shown to be tied to weather, or conceptualized as weather (rain as vessel for ether, the "weather stations" dotted around the Court, the machinery that Omega seems to be hooked up to—someone mentioned a few threads back that they look suspiciously similar to weather equipment). I immediately had to think of Zimmy's level 6 etheric distortion and Kat's brief transformation in the same chapter. |
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Post by caber on May 8, 2024 8:07:43 GMT
Kinda feels a little like Tony and Surma. Both men of science, both trying to treat a patient whose health is negatively impacted by a connection to the ether, and both seemingly sure that they have enough time to develop a cure. I wonder if our mystery man will also hit a wall and run out of time.
Or I'm just hallucinating patterns.
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Post by philman on May 8, 2024 8:24:35 GMT
A symbol in the bottom right corner, the end of the flashback perhaps? I am assuming this is the girl that was perhaps split in order to form both Omega and Zimmy, Removing all the unstable aspects to form Zimmy and leave all the stable aspects as Omega. Perhaps Gamma is also split from the crows. We haven't got a name for the firl yet, if we are going by greek letters maybe delta? The Delta symbol is often used as a symbol for change in mathematics That symbol was also there a few pages back. It might signal time jump is about to start Ah you are right, I had missed it back then. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on May 8, 2024 8:59:09 GMT
Sci-fi Doctor looking after etheric patient.
WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS BEFORE MM?
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Post by guntherkrieg on May 8, 2024 8:59:55 GMT
Siddell seems to love his "frail magical girl" trope, eh?
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Post by arcuna on May 8, 2024 9:09:49 GMT
Slightly off topic and maybe wild speculation, but this page is starting to make so much more sense to me. We know Zimmy sees the future sometimes (as Omega can), and she seemed to think that Kat and Paz broke up before they actually did. Whether this was just her misinterpretation of their fight or her knowing something would happen is of course unclear. And then we have this business with Zimmy understanding Annie being split. Could this be related to what happened to Zimmy, Gamma and Omega? |
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Post by pylgrimm on May 8, 2024 9:40:20 GMT
Siddell seems to love his "frail magical girl" trope, eh? Huh? I have trouble thinking of another "frail" female character in GK, magical or otherwise. Annie Kat Paz Jones Zimmy Parley Anja Surma Jeanne Jenny Janet The fairies Are all women who in one or another way could kick our asses to the wrong side of tomorrow in a multitude of ways. Even Gamma, who is soft-spoken and passive has been shown to be incredibly resilient. |
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Post by Corvo on May 8, 2024 11:04:31 GMT
Guy: "Oh man, I only left those shields alone for like 5 minutes, and this happens! ...I'll call her Gamma, the Baby Shield." (the people at the register office only let him keep the first name)
And this was Gamma's origin story!
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Post by Cori on May 8, 2024 12:48:51 GMT
Huh? I have trouble thinking of another "frail" female character in GK, magical or otherwise. Annie Kat Paz Jones Zimmy Parley Anja Surma Jeanne Jenny Janet The fairies Are all women who in one or another way could kick our asses to the wrong side of tomorrow in a multitude of ways. Even Gamma, who is soft-spoken and passive has been shown to be incredibly resilient. Surma did spend 80% of her screentime dying in a hospital. >.> |
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Post by pylgrimm on May 8, 2024 13:05:22 GMT
Huh? I have trouble thinking of another "frail" female character in GK, magical or otherwise. Annie Kat Paz Jones Zimmy Parley Anja Surma Jeanne Jenny Janet The fairies Are all women who in one or another way could kick our asses to the wrong side of tomorrow in a multitude of ways. Even Gamma, who is soft-spoken and passive has been shown to be incredibly resilient. Surma did spend 80% of her screentime dying in a hospital. >.> Well, fair, I guess. But that was only after a life of being powerful and cunning and desired by many. |
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Post by Cori on May 8, 2024 13:08:41 GMT
Well, fair, I guess. But that was only after a life of being powerful and cunning and desired by many. A character be strong and willful in their youth and still become a frail magical girl. We got a taste of Surma's personality before she had Annie and began growing weaker but she's been frail and sick and dying for most of her appearances. |
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Post by ctso74 on May 8, 2024 13:43:48 GMT
Scene Director: "Now, show me sweet and creepy at the same time... Perfect!"
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Post by Sky Schemer on May 8, 2024 14:14:54 GMT
Surma did spend 80% of her screentime dying in a hospital. >.> Only because she and Tony chose to have a child, knowing full well what the consequences of that would be. Its not like her whole life was in that state. Quite the opposite, really. |
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Post by Sky Schemer on May 8, 2024 14:21:28 GMT
Huh? I have trouble thinking of another "frail" female character in GK, magical or otherwise. Annie Kat Paz Jones Zimmy Parley Anja Surma Jeanne Jenny Janet The fairies Don't forget Brinnie. Do we have evidence that Jeanne was magical? Prior to becoming an undead ghostly horror, that is. |
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Post by Gemminie on May 8, 2024 16:01:12 GMT
After speaking about the nature of her connection with what we've been calling the Ether, on this page the bow-tied scientist speculates that the girl's mind must be what he likens to various meteorological phenomena, first a fog and then a lightning storm. Then he says that the devices he's surrounded her with are meant to shield her from the ill effects she's been experiencing, but according to his calculations they're not nearly strong enough for full relief – they should help a bit, though.
Then there's a pause. He's completed his thought, and she doesn't respond. So he turns to go, and she reaches out and touches his arm. When he turns to look at her, she's smiling tiredly up at him, her eyes visibly red (like the crow's, when she inhabited it). He holds her hand, smiles kindly back, and says "our" work is just beginning. And then there's the end-of-flashback scrollwork again. This flashback sequence is over; what will the next page bring?
"Our" work ... the way he says it to her, he probably means to include her in it; he seems to consider her a collaborator in the project. And she does seem happier with this shield in operation; perhaps her etheric connection is a terrible burden, but this has decreased the pain from a 10 to a 9. That's something, at least. I don't know whether Zimmy would want her etheric connection gone if there was a way, but this girl seems to want that. Having an etheric ability in the Gunnerverse seems to be a bit of a crapshoot; you can get something relatively non-disruptive to your life like Paz or Smitty, or you can get something terribly disruptive, like Zimmy, this girl, or Annie (it will be, eventually). And then there's Aata, who gained an etheric connection by nearing enlightenment (though perhaps he had a natural connection as well; it's unclear) but rejected it.
Well, enough of my blather.
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Post by silicondream on May 8, 2024 19:25:12 GMT
Huh? I have trouble thinking of another "frail" female character in GK, magical or otherwise. Annie Kat Paz Jones Zimmy Parley Anja Surma Jeanne Jenny Janet The fairies Are all women who in one or another way could kick our asses to the wrong side of tomorrow in a multitude of ways. Even Gamma, who is soft-spoken and passive has been shown to be incredibly resilient. Surma did spend 80% of her screentime dying in a hospital. >.> Only in the earliest chapters, because that's how Annie remembered her. By now we've had several flashbacks to the rest of Surma's life--"S1," "Ties," "Fire Spike," "Quicksilver", "Get Lost"--and so she's been healthy and active for most of her total screentime. A character be strong and willful in their youth and still become a frail magical girl. Well sure, most people become frail when they're sick or dying. That's not so much a GC trope as ordinary human biology. Tony was a shadow of his former self when he returned to the Court, and he's still nowhere near as healthy as he was in his youth. Actually, the character with the most emphasis on their increasing frailty is Robot. |
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Post by blahzor on May 8, 2024 21:26:13 GMT
Huh? I have trouble thinking of another "frail" female character in GK, magical or otherwise. Annie Kat Paz Jones Zimmy Parley Anja Surma Jeanne Jenny Janet The fairies Are all women who in one or another way could kick our asses to the wrong side of tomorrow in a multitude of ways. Even Gamma, who is soft-spoken and passive has been shown to be incredibly resilient. Surma did spend 80% of her screentime dying in a hospital. >.> but when she was not shown in the hospital she was shown to be a rebellious thrill seeker type |
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Post by morrahadesigns on May 8, 2024 23:50:16 GMT
I want to like this because he has given relief to someone who is clearly suffering, but I just can't
All I see is manipulation.
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Post by jda on May 9, 2024 5:29:16 GMT
Plot twist: Zimmy predates the Court. In fact, the goal of the Court is not "God's endeavor" (that was just marketing) but to help Zimmy get rid of the Ether static and Zimmyngham.
Oh, how have they laughed!
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Post by pyradonis on May 9, 2024 19:49:05 GMT
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Post by Hatredman on May 10, 2024 3:48:08 GMT
The guy looks like a Victorian Shaggy.  |
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