aidan
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Post by aidan on Mar 1, 2007 19:23:40 GMT
Perhaps someone could clarify something that confused me? Does anyone have a clear idea about where Annie is when she meets the fairies, and muut, and shadow2 again?
She should be on the other side of the river from the school, right? Cause that's where Shadow2 is. But, the girl with the sword is supposed to be on the other side from that, Sword is on the side with the school? I'm confused.
current music: "Annan Waters", Kate Rusby
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Post by Yin on Mar 1, 2007 21:36:37 GMT
She's on the other side of the river from the school, with Shadow2 and the fairies. The girl was originally across the river. Then when she got the flicker stone and subsequently fell asleep, the girl got across the river. Some of us think she got across due to the flicker stone.
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Post by todd on Mar 1, 2007 23:26:17 GMT
So Ghost Girl with a Sword is on the same side of the Annan River as the school itself is? That's ominous. I hope that the school's protected from any visits that she might try to make.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 21, 2007 4:02:18 GMT
I think the walls of the ravine count as pretty good protection.
Hi everyone! This is my first post ever on this forum, and I just got started on this. I read the entire set of comics last night, so I'm all up to speed (more or less), and ready to get started.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 21, 2007 5:15:42 GMT
I think that the Girl With A Sword inteded to kill or at least seriously harm Annie, and that she isn't too happy with tho whole only getting away with marking her. I am curious as to why Kate's lamps dispelled her. (Maybe the light from the blinker stone was what was keeping her away, rather than it summonng her?)
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Post by La Poire on Mar 21, 2007 19:24:09 GMT
For how she got across the river, a thought that hasn't struck me 'till now is that she might have simply have come in Annie's dreams. I don't suggest this makes her less real, but it would seem a reasonable explanation as to why she's suddenly on the other side of a river she allegedly can't cross, and why the cut disappears afterwards; it's only a spitiual wound or something like that, which would also explain why Zimmy can see it (here: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=191) even though Annie apparently can't. As to how the faeries still see Ghost Lady, it could be that as magical creatures, they actually slipped into Annie'd dream, even without noticing. Kat in her anti-grav craft simply woke Annie up. |
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Post by mrw on Mar 21, 2007 19:42:28 GMT
Interesting theory, La Poire. I'm having a little trouble connecting with it though. To me, the faeries waking up to see the ghost lady, Annie appearing to wake up, and no clear indication of a dream state make it more likely that it wasn't a dream. But that could just be Tom's style with regard to dreams. Honestly, the ghost-lady is one of the mysteries I most want to see explored...
I feel the need to know where she fits into everything!
But I shall wait more or less patiently for Tom to reveal things in the proper order.
And welcome, countcasimir!
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Post by mrw on Mar 22, 2007 21:33:00 GMT
Thinking about La Poire's theory some more. The blinker stone theories don't explain how the girl with a sword got back across the Annan Waters after Kat arrived. And perhaps the scene where the blinker stone fire goes out (which is where Annie fell asleep) was intended to be a dream sequence indicator.
It's making more sense to me now.
If the girl with a sword attacked Annie in a dream, then yes, Zimmy was actually able to see something that happened in Annie's dream. That strikes me as quite profound for some reason. Maybe it's old hat to the rest of you, though.
The distinction between dreams and reality is blurring...
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Post by owl on Mar 22, 2007 21:48:14 GMT
La Poire voiced a theory that was in my head but wasn't fully formed yet. My first instinct is to agree - which means that my brain is now avidly searching for reasons that the theory DOESN'T work.
The faeries thing is a bit of a stretch, it seems to me. I'm much more willing to believe that Zimmy can see something that Annie dreamt than I am to believe that the faeires slipped into her dreams by mistake. However, it's possible that Ghost Girl could have used Annie's dreams as a way to travel, getting her not-so-physical form across waters that she should not have been able to. Perhaps as a Guide that may not dream himself, Muut may have forgotten that humans do dream, or perhaps he assumed that Annie didn't - after all, she spent most nights with him at the hospital and the others, or at least part of them.
It's also always possible that because she's "outside of their influence", the Guides don't know everything there is to know about Ghost Girl. Perhaps they didn't know that she could travel through human dreams - or perhaps they figured Annie could take care of herself.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 25, 2007 5:08:02 GMT
Right before I looked at this, it had 666 views. Just thought I'd share.
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smewhen
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Post by smewhen on Mar 27, 2007 1:12:05 GMT
Im thinking, that since her dreams turned to the girl with the sword, it allowed her to cross. Once she was over, Annie probably didnt think to just imagine the girl not being there, only that the girl was there, allowing the girl to stay. Once Kat showed up, it disrupted Annie's concentration, causing the girl to return to the other side.
these are my thoughts
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