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It honestly makes me wonder why this hasn't been a discussion yet. For the students that came here just to go to school, there is absolutely no point to sticking around anymore. For Kat and Annie it's different because they basically just live here/it's where their family is, but for regular students it would actually be kind of absurd to NOT go home. There's nothing in the Court left for Paz and even if she wasn't doubtful of Kat's future it wouldn't be wise to stick around for that reason. I wonder if the Court even told people's families that the program was essentially shutting down.
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Riot Bus posted:It honestly makes me wonder why this hasn't been a discussion yet. For the students that came here just to go to school, there is absolutely no point to sticking around anymore. For Kat and Annie it's different because they basically just live here/it's where their family is, but for regular students it would actually be kind of absurd to NOT go home. It's a big research institution where it seemed like a huge chunk of work centered around studying the aether, too. What happens to all those researchers who don't want to go to a new magic-free reality because they've dedicated their lives to studying magic? Or the ones who are also magical and therefore auto blocked like Kat's parents, Parley, Smitty, Jones, etc.? It's kind of been a big void in the center of the story regarding how everyone besides Kat, Rey, and Annie feel about this or what exactly is going to happen once some of the Court elite leave.
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Nuns with Guns posted:It's a big research institution where it seemed like a huge chunk of work centered around studying the aether, too. What happens to all those researchers who don't want to go to a new magic-free reality because they've dedicated their lives to studying magic? Or the ones who are also magical and therefore auto blocked like Kat's parents, Parley, Smitty, Jones, etc.? It's kind of been a big void in the center of the story regarding how everyone besides Kat, Rey, and Annie feel about this or what exactly is going to happen once some of the Court elite leave. Yeah, exactly! This is the moment to see the different philosophies of the Court's people and what direction they want to take in now that presumably a good chunk of the staff is leaving. The principal guy was invited to leave, but without his daughter, right? He might stick around or even quit altogether to live elsewhere, he was clearly tired and fed up in his position every time we saw him. This is the time to make all those shadowy figures we always saw standing next to Jones, Eglamore and the principal actual real people. Now that I think about it, other than the bitter farewells, the random mass of shadowy people leaving the Court shouldn't even change that much? Loup is still there, the forest people are still there, all that would change is who is in charge of administration I guess. Heck, this could actually be not the first time something like this happens, if people are retroactively erased and forgotten entirely in the regular world. Could explain why there are so many empty buildings decaying!
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isasphere posted:Heck, this could actually be not the first time something like this happens, if people are retroactively erased and forgotten entirely in the regular world. That would honestly be an incredible twist, right down to the people who leave rediscovering the same ether-free planet over and over again and finding it already inhabited.
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Mar 31, 2023 22:29
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It feels low stakes and impersonal and high stakes inconsequential
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Annointed posted:It feels low stakes and impersonal and high stakes inconsequential Perfect for the comic then
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Apr 1, 2023 08:30
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Paz "I'll leave so the real ship of Kat and Annie can be canon"
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Apr 3, 2023 08:31
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Good grief the drop shadow on Paz' tears is insanely distracting
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Apr 3, 2023 08:34
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Oh no, Paz! Don't trust Annie to do anything; the plot won't allow it!
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Apr 3, 2023 11:26
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flash forward 6 months to Paz on a beach in Galicia as the Reavers descend on her, "This is all Annie's fault." The end. No moral.
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Hey now, it is possible Tom took the backlash from Annie taking the blame for everything to heart and had characters accept the blame for their own choices (or maybe other two were just gaslighting her and/or actually working for the Court and uses her to track down Zimmy). I mean, it's not like he's kept doubling down on blaming her for everything.
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Where are Kat's parents
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why are they absent entirely through all of this
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Potato Salad posted:why are they absent entirely through all of this because it's a YA fantasy, parents are never around until it's plot relevant
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Potato Salad posted:why are they absent entirely through all of this They come from their holiday or whatever to find robo-god Kat. "ANNIE WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
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Potato Salad posted:Where are Kat's parents They are having dinner with Renard. He even decided to turn off the ether-phone to avoid checking on Annie ever 15 minutes. She'll be fine.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm Something's off, but I can't put my finger on it
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See? She's fine.
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Oh, hi Zimmy. How many people do we know have pitch-black eyes in this comic? I wouldn't put it past Zimmy to body jack Kat just to go "You see? poo poo like this is why you don't play with the Ether. Here's Kat's body back, BTW."
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Apr 5, 2023 13:42
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It's pretty similar to her mom's eyes
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Huh, I always thought she was just squinting all the time and it was a stylistic choice.
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I see Kat has tapped into a sufficiently powerful source of energy to truly unleash her spark and take her first step on the path to joining the ancient queens. I look forward to when she finally leaves the
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There Bias Two posted:Hmmmmmmmmmmm I take it you've never worn contact lenses. (dumb joke, I know)
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Apr 7, 2023 13:01
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Well, this is... dumb. This heel turn would be a lot more satisfying if Kat and her character development were present in the comic at any point in the past, like, three years?
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Skippy McPants posted:Well, this is... dumb. Yeah but we needed that entire chapter devoted to Loup's romance instead
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Apr 7, 2023 15:32
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Oh look comic book villain Kat.
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It just runs in the family, we're finally finding out why Anja's eyes are always all black
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wasn't she already doing this
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I thought she was doing this for years she *has* been doing this for years
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But now can levitate. Despite showing she was able to do absolutely everything she wanted and no one ever said no to her.
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Apr 7, 2023 18:28
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To be fair she already built a machine that does that. It was the anti-gravity machine she built out of paperclips or something that she used to conduct her science fair experiment.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:It just runs in the family, we're finally finding out why Anja's eyes are always all black Anja has actually been mad with power all this time.
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Snake Maze posted:Anja has actually been mad with power all this time. anja's going to come by like "oh yeah I remember the first time I transcended humanity and monologued like a supervillian, so embarassing in hindsight, they grow up so fast, don't do anything I wouldn't do kat" and that'll be that
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I don't really see this as a heel turn because she is, as it stands, not actually doing anything wrong. Her phrasing is ominous but she's just talking about remotely accessing her machinery to built stuff and then teleport it in on command. This as actually objectively rad and if we didn't have the context of the whole machine goddess thing (and Zimmy's warning) it wouldn't be explicitly villainous at all. I don't really see this as any abrupt change in morals, tbqh.
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Sure, if you ignore framing, tone, and narrative shorthand, and instead look at the scene entirely literally, this isn't a heel turn at all. But "heel turn" is a narrative concept. If this isn't a turning point for revealing some troubling moral callousness from Kat, then it's clearly meant as a fakeout for one. Which is what I actually expect, though.
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Make of that what you will.
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Ditocoaf posted:Sure, if you ignore framing, tone, and narrative shorthand, and instead look at the scene entirely literally, this isn't a heel turn at all. But "heel turn" is a narrative concept. I'm pretty sure we were supposed to pick up on moral callousness from Kat awhile back, particularly when she was excited about doing research on the new planet without any regulations in her discussion with Annie. And here where she drags her friend and partner into performing untested surgery on her, with zero appreciation for the emotional anguish she's put them through just now.
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Riot Bus posted:I don't really see this as a heel turn because she is, as it stands, not actually doing anything wrong. Her phrasing is ominous but she's just talking about remotely accessing her machinery to built stuff and then teleport it in on command. This as actually objectively rad and if we didn't have the context of the whole machine goddess thing (and Zimmy's warning) it wouldn't be explicitly villainous at all. Ditocoaf posted:Sure, if you ignore framing, tone, and narrative shorthand, and instead look at the scene entirely literally, this isn't a heel turn at all. But "heel turn" is a narrative concept. Well hey, look, it's another example of an incident in which the framing and content of a scene is discordant, leading to a lack of clarity about what is even going on! (At least there's no immigrant alley attack this time.)
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