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Post by Timberwere on Aug 26, 2024 7:09:15 GMT
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 26, 2024 7:13:36 GMT
Hopefully she's still doing something somewhere.
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Post by aggadahGothic on Aug 26, 2024 7:21:47 GMT
How odd that we have apparently lost our ether-viewing privileges this chapter. This purple-haired fairy is not present on either of the Foley House character guides, though she may have appeared elsewhere in the chapters. ( 1001, 1695) (One girl in the first guide looks rather similar, but she has a distinctive face marking, and so it cannot be her.) |
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Post by yellowb on Aug 26, 2024 7:54:40 GMT
Reminds me of Idra. But how? Why?
Zimmy? But how? Why?
Omega? But how?
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Post by OGRuddawg on Aug 26, 2024 8:40:02 GMT
How odd that we have apparently lost our ether-viewing privileges this chapter. This purple-haired fairy is not present on either of the Foley House character guides, though she may have appeared elsewhere in the chapters. ( 1001, 1695) (One girl in the first guide looks rather similar, but she has a distinctive face marking, and so it cannot be her.) None of these Foley students looks to be from either character guide, so is this possibly a different class of Foley students entirely? |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 26, 2024 9:45:27 GMT
I'd think that Antimony would go to the same class as she visited before. We still don't know that much about the Foley kids. Maybe they grow out of the marks. Maybe the marks were something they were applying rather than something permanent. They could've changed their hairstyles if they've been socializing with kids from other houses, especially after they saw Red do so. Or: Maybe they're just being drawn simplified since we've only seen a couple from close up.
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Post by pyradonis on Aug 26, 2024 10:12:42 GMT
Yeah, I still think that in panel 2, Annie is trying to give an answer that sounds natural and makes sense to both Kat and Omega, while not telling anything about what she actually discussed in the Ether (and possibly about what Renard is doing there right now?). She's probably also hoping that Kat will stop asking questions. With no way of communicating anything to Kat that Omega can't eavesdrop on, Annie is sort of forced to hide her thoughts from Kat as well. I'd think that Antimony would go to the same class as she visited before. Maybe she simply went to the class room she remembered, where another class than the two she has met so far (the one with Red and Ayilu, and the one with <Snuffle's>* friend), is sitting right now. *pronounced correctly |
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Post by exquisitecorpus on Aug 26, 2024 10:58:39 GMT
An imposter?
... Dead?
Annie is Very Shaken.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 26, 2024 12:19:07 GMT
I'm trying not to read too much into Lavender's skin tone. I don't think we've seen that in the Foleys before. Her face looks like she's concentrating so I'm going with that. She's ethereally-travelled somewhere else; she's been working hard and she overdid it, probably. |
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Post by blahzor on Aug 26, 2024 12:30:49 GMT
*wild spec* that girl is...dun dun dun Annie
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Post by rabbit on Aug 26, 2024 12:32:24 GMT
No one can tell me about her, did she just die?
And if that's what just happened, GC fans will cry
But it's too late to catch Omega
She'll bwip your friends right out of there
Please don't bother tryin' to find her
She's not there
Well, let me tell you 'bout the way she looked
Her pallid skin and the color of her hair
She sits there oh so quiet
Her eyes are closed real tight
And she's not there
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Post by aline on Aug 26, 2024 13:15:25 GMT
An imposter? ... Dead? Annie is Very Shaken. Empty? We know the fairies are empty shells until they die and come to the Court, and when Annie asked why Coyote said the Court wanted it that way. The Court engineers them and uses them. It's not a stretch to assume they leave them empty when they're done. They need huge amounts of ether for their little project, and the ether is made from the soul of the dead. Maybe purple fairy died the same way Annie's mom did. Her etheric being was drained into another vessel until only her body was left. That would be similar to the state Renard's body was in after he jumped into somebody else, only Renard's self was still whole into his next body. I'm not so optimistic about the soul of purple fairy. |
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Post by ctso74 on Aug 26, 2024 13:38:42 GMT
An imposter? ... Dead? Annie is Very Shaken. Empty? We know the fairies are empty shells until they die and come to the Court, and when Annie asked why Coyote said the Court wanted it that way. The Court engineers them and uses them. It's not a stretch to assume they leave them empty when they're done. They need huge amounts of ether for their little project, and the ether is made from the soul of the dead. Maybe purple fairy died the same way Annie's mom did. Her etheric being was drained into another vessel until only her body was left. That would be similar to the state Renard's body was in after he jumped into somebody else, only Renard's self was still whole into his next body. I'm not so optimistic about the soul of purple fairy. That was my first thought. The streamers being battery terminals. |
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Post by Igniz on Aug 26, 2024 14:51:11 GMT
It could be that those "vines" are what enables the Foley jerks kids to leave their bodies on autopilot, being the anomaly's representation of some sort of signal or frequency, invisible to the eye under normal circumstances. Furthermore, they could also be connected or attuned to Omega or some other Court system or machine, either allowing immediate feedback of what the kids are learning and working on (as if they were living workstations), power supply/energy transfer (to sustain their current bodies and/or their etheric abilities while inhabiting such), a kill switch function if deemed necessary by the Court's goals and standards, or any combination of these.  |
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Post by Gemminie on Aug 26, 2024 14:59:44 GMT
After surmising that the Court might have used the Foley students' math for the star ocean, Kat next asks whether they're OK. Annie says they seem tired, but they're more active in the Ether; they leave their bodies behind.
But then Kat points out one purple-haired girl (meaning she was a fairy) who isn't attached to any tendrils. Annie checks on her and finds out to her shock and worry that she doesn't appear in the Ether. The final frame focuses on the purple-haired ex-fairy's face, eyes closed.
Uh-oh. Is she alive? Are the Foley students neglecting their bodies? Is the Court not making sure they get food and water, and is that why they "seem tired?" Or is what's going on more ethereal; is the Court draining them of Ether completely or taking their ethereal selves away somewhere else?
It makes sense that Kat would have been the first one to notice, as Annie was looking in the Ether; it's harder to notice when someone isn't there than it is to notice one who has no tendrils on them.
So ... what should they do about this? Maybe they don't know enough yet. If what's going on is technological (but disguised as plants by the distortion), maybe Kat can figure it out. If what's going on is etheric, maybe Annie and Renard can figure it out. If it's both, maybe they can all figure it out together. We do have the three main characters together in one place. But it may be that the tendrils are a bad thing and they need to detach them. Can they do that without harming the students? If this is something the Court needs for the star ocean (rather than, say, if the Court's just abandoned them since the calculations are already done), will there be some kind of reaction or backlash if they try to free them? Too much is unknown.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Aug 26, 2024 16:00:01 GMT
She's an imposter!
("I was in electrical, fixing the wires")
No, I mean she's not a fairy. She's (* insert one of several wild guesses, most likely involving Meg or Zimmy, since we probably need both to solve this mystery *)
( BTW, if you "unplugged" the fairies, what happens? Does the Star Ocean ship sink? )
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Post by atteSmythe on Aug 26, 2024 16:20:13 GMT
*wild spec* that girl is...dun dun dun Annie It turns out that "No...I understand" is simply because Annie knows that the other her checked into Foley House. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Aug 26, 2024 18:00:59 GMT
An imposter? ... Dead? Annie is Very Shaken. Empty? We know the fairies are empty shells until they die and come to the Court, and when Annie asked why Coyote said the Court wanted it that way. The Court engineers them and uses them. It's not a stretch to assume they leave them empty when they're done. They need huge amounts of ether for their little project, and the ether is made from the soul of the dead. Maybe purple fairy died the same way Annie's mom did. Her etheric being was drained into another vessel until only her body was left. That would be similar to the state Renard's body was in after he jumped into somebody else, only Renard's self was still whole into his next body. I'm not so optimistic about the soul of purple fairy. This was my thought as well - specifically, that the tendrils are draining the students somehow, and the reason Lavender has no tendrils on her is because they got everything they could out of her and slithered off afterwards. |
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Post by Hatredman on Aug 26, 2024 18:20:12 GMT
*wild spec* that girl is...dun dun dun Annie It turns out that "No...I understand" is simply because Annie knows that the other her checked into Foley House. Oh, God! |
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Post by drmemory on Aug 26, 2024 19:08:12 GMT
Well if the tendrils are feeding off of the etheric energy in the Foley students, I'd say that one is probably exhausted. Like a dead battery. The latest discovery is causing me to lean more towards "energy siphon" than towards "control mechanism".
Also, as a reminder, the female Foleys are all fairies. The males are all animals. According to what the odd-looking Cardiff tech told us once upon a time.
I'm not sure if it would be easy to find out, but I'd encourage our Scooby gang to check up on the rest of the Foleys. There should be more than one room full, and at least one teacher (Bugsy). Tracking down Bugsy might be a good next step, actually.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 26, 2024 20:46:13 GMT
realistically it will probably end up being that they can't return from the ether and not know it yet. the body withers and they need a immediately solution which will force Kat to do drastic measures and Zimmy's worry comes true. if Zimmy dies this is truly endgame of the comic
til Gunnerikrigg Court the College Years and Kelly Kapowski comes back
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 27, 2024 4:00:20 GMT
On reflection, I wonder if Lavender's in this state from slowly bleeding into the Star Ocean. They must have been relocated much closer to it for security. However, if that's true you'd think that someone somewhere in the Court would think of that safety issue, though... (j/k, it wouldn't surprise me at all if nobody thought of it, the Foley kids had been forgotten, and there's nobody specifically responsible for their welfare)
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Post by blahzor on Aug 27, 2024 5:05:14 GMT
On reflection, I wonder if Lavender's in this state from slowly bleeding into the Star Ocean. They must have been relocated much closer to it for security. However, if that's true you'd think that someone somewhere in the Court would think of that safety issue, though... (j/k, it wouldn't surprise me at all if nobody thought of it, the Foley kids had been forgotten, and there's nobody specifically responsible for their welfare) If that's true then whoopsie. Court you got a former creature on your new planet |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Aug 27, 2024 9:45:01 GMT
On reflection, I wonder if Lavender's in this state from slowly bleeding into the Star Ocean. They must have been relocated much closer to it for security. However, if that's true you'd think that someone somewhere in the Court would think of that safety issue, though... (j/k, it wouldn't surprise me at all if nobody thought of it, the Foley kids had been forgotten, and there's nobody specifically responsible for their welfare) Which would parallel the RotD forgetting about Mort. |
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 27, 2024 16:27:58 GMT
Kat is more observant. Possibly in part because it’s an unfamiliar environment for her.
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Post by Geekette on Aug 27, 2024 21:41:30 GMT
We've seen empty bodies before. We've seen Reynold's original fox body. We've seen Annie react to seeing that. We've been shown that 'empty' and 'not there' are not the same thing.
So; I'm guessing that when Annie is looking through the ether, the body is simply not there at all either, not that the fairy's spirit in question is AWOL. She is looking at a space that is both empty and not empty, ala schrodinger's cat is confused too.
I don't know why, because its not like there's an obvious connection, but that makes me start wondering where Jones is in all of this.
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Post by Eily on Aug 27, 2024 23:02:28 GMT
It looks to me like she's about to open her eyes, and reveal she's been listening to their conversation all along.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn she's actually Zimmy either.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 28, 2024 3:00:26 GMT
I wonder if Kat uses her new powers to watch TV shows very quickly by just downloading it in her brain
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Post by novia on Aug 28, 2024 21:22:18 GMT
Look at the background of panel 3.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 29, 2024 5:19:24 GMT
Look at the background of panel 3. Into the skull! Matrix style |
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