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Post by eyemyself on Jul 8, 2024 18:57:54 GMT
Another thing I think is important to interpreting the events playing out right now is that we are in an unknown iteration of a very long time loop that first opened when Annie fell off the bridge. We know Kat without Annie went down "a very dark path" and presumably been resetting the time loop over and over again in order to get a more favorable timeline. And according to the Norns, her friendship with Annie is the key to that - and will transform the world. The timeline Omega is familiar with is the one where Annie dies, and, going out on a limb, Kat's very dark path is part of how the court gets what they want. I'm guessing that's where Omega's confidence stems from. She knows Annie is a source of chaos, but she's underestimated how Annie's influence changes Kat's behavior. It's possible Kat killing Zimmy using Omega is the crux of that "very dark path" and the events unfolding right now will lead to a timeline where Annie sways Kat onto an alternate course that disrupts the court's plans, leaves Zimmy alive, and thus changes the world. While I disagree with the "time loop reset" part--I think that was just Kat's hypothesis about the twin Annies based off what Clippy said, and it turned out to be unnecessary because the whole thing was actually a causal loop--I think this does help to explain Zimmy's paranoia toward Kat. Annie getting doubled wasn't the inciting event for what I'm referring to as the "time loop" though. I'm referring to the time variance that began when Kat saved Annie after she fell of the bridge. On page 2343 Belldandy explains that Kat has visited them many times and Anja tells Annie "For any of this to be possible, it must have already happened!"  On page 2345 Urd goes into more detail.  |
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Post by silicondream on Jul 11, 2024 7:37:25 GMT
While I disagree with the "time loop reset" part--I think that was just Kat's hypothesis about the twin Annies based off what Clippy said, and it turned out to be unnecessary because the whole thing was actually a causal loop--I think this does help to explain Zimmy's paranoia toward Kat. Annie getting doubled wasn't the inciting event for what I'm referring to as the "time loop" though. I'm referring to the time variance that began when Kat saved Annie after she fell of the bridge. On page 2343 Belldandy explains that Kat has visited them many times and Anja tells Annie "For any of this to be possible, it must have already happened!" Well, I take the Norns to mean that Kat visits them many times during this timeline, presumably for other temporal shenanigans. (This would make their statement that Kat's "a little younger than usual" a slight underestimate, since this should be the youngest Kat they'll ever meet. But as the Norns find linear time "unimportant," it's not surprising if they're careless about her exact age.) As for Anja, I think she was just saying that the first part of the causal loop already happened--Annie was rescued by the Tic-Tocs--so Kat's current effort to master time travel is guaranteed to succeed. There was no need for Annie to be saved by a bereaved "dark Kat" from another timeline, because our Kat did the job herself. Your interpretation works too, of course, but I don't think the story requires it. |
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