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Post by bellerophon on Jan 23, 2009 16:41:04 GMT
I don't recall any evidence of Anja's retrieving Annie's stone; she always has asked Annie if she has it, rather than catching it herself. This could simply be politeness, but I always got the feeling of a direct connection. The stone she retrieves for herself for demonstration is her own: she notes that she left it at home in her jewelry box, so that she can demonstrate the retrieval feature. She retrieves Annie's after she borrows it at the start of The Fangs of Summertime. That said, it may have qualified as being passed into her possession when Annie lent it to her. Of course, since we've seen you can retrieve them in an instant, it begs the question why she went to the trouble of borrowing Annie's.
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Post by Rasselas on Jan 23, 2009 16:49:19 GMT
They weren't previously aware that rey could take inanimate objects with eyes. Blast, that's true. I love all of the speculation in this thread.
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Post by stroth on Jan 23, 2009 19:20:25 GMT
Speaking of symbols and eyes, can someone with better photoshop-fu than me maybe get a zoom in of Reynardine's eye please? it's really subtle, but It looks to me like there as symbol on his eye.
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Post by theoldwolf on Jan 23, 2009 20:53:46 GMT
Will this serve?
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Jan 23, 2009 22:19:18 GMT
Is...is that a face I see? It's really faint, but I'm positive there is some sort of face in his eye, I see two eyes, and a big nose, that's about it. Good eye Stroth!
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Post by Miri on Jan 23, 2009 22:35:38 GMT
They weren't previously aware that rey could take inanimate objects with eyes. That just makes me think that Reynardine could have wandered around as a robot and they wouldn't have known. Very dangerous, that one. Also, I think Anja just asked to borrow Annie's blinker stone to be polite. Seems like the kind of thing she'd do. The ownership debate is getting interesting though. (I have to think of it as ownership, because "possession" brings up Reynardine's wicked body-snatching abilities.) I'm such a fan of panel six, though. Laser-focus wolf-vision for the win. And panel 2 is vintage Gunnerkrigg "Huh?". I love it.
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Post by Per on Jan 23, 2009 22:35:53 GMT
It's an Ur-Quan.
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Post by todd on Jan 23, 2009 23:35:09 GMT
I think (based on Tom's remark earlier this week) that Anja asked to borrow Annie's blinker stone, rather than using her own, because she wanted Annie to take lessons from her on how to use it. If she just used her own, it would look as if it was merely that stone's property. If she used Annie's, that would make it clear that it could do more than just conjuring up a campfire, and that might impel Annie into accepting lessons from her. (Note Anja's words "I assume you didn't know it could do that?")
As for why Anja wanted Annie to take those lessons, she was evidently aware of Annie's etheric talents, talents that stand in need of training to the benefit of the Court. (And maybe also she figures that while Annie's taking those extra classes, she's not wandering about the school prying into things better left alone, as she did in her first year.)
Incidentally, after mentioning Annie's constant watchfulness earlier today, I wondered if that might be one reason why eyes play so large a role in the story - to echo one of Annie's core traits.
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Post by warrl on Jan 24, 2009 9:59:34 GMT
I think that Anja borrowed Antimony's stone to raise the sigil so that it would be Annie's sigil, not Anja's, that was raised.
There were reasons - and apparently the girls talk to Anja, so she would have known of them - to suspect that the visit was in some way about Annie in the first place.
And also, as a new medium, Annie would eventually be formally introduced to the Wood. As a new medium with a blinker, it might as well be now.
Whereas Anja is not a medium, and probably hasn't had dealings with the Wood since before Kat was born. Why would SHE answer the call, other than nobody else with a stone being available?
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Post by penguinfactory on Jan 24, 2009 16:19:54 GMT
Anja fingers her necklace and says, "We could ask..." Ask whom? The eye seems to be the symbol of entities of a higher order... Speaking of which, the chapter listing for this chapter is up on the main page. The image seems to be showing something quite dramatic- Anja and Donald standing in front of a giant glowing eye symbol, one that looks quite similar to the "Great Spirit" that we saw in Coyote's story. Maybe when he said the Court was man's attempt to become God he wasn't kidding
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Post by vryko on Jan 25, 2009 1:16:16 GMT
I increased the contrast of the image of Reynardine's eye in the sixth panel, and as far as I can tell, it's just a red spot in the middle with red lines going outward from it. I think it's just blood vessels added for effect.
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Post by reiver on Jan 25, 2009 5:54:34 GMT
I eyed the symbol on the necklace, and something lept at me: The blinker stone symbols. Annie's has the alchemical symbol in it at the top. The forests symbol... anyone think the central/bottom bit looks a bit like a necklace *without* a cross through it? www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=480It could just be a co-incidence of patterns, of course, but this is also Gunnerkrigg Court. (Oh, first post. hi. )
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Post by Per on Jan 25, 2009 14:21:57 GMT
Well, they're both eyes?
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