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Macaluso posted:I don't mean to step all over Gravitas Shortfall's toes, but I made you a more cleaned up version Nice, thanks. Think I might go with "You cannot trust the people of this place." Unless someone can come up with something better.
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Suggestion: always consider going textless when getting an avatar. It's amazing what kind of ridiculous bullshit can seem funny or interesting for the three seconds it takes to type it in, and then never again. Nothing wrong with your idea or anything; it's just something worth thinking about, I think.
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Jan 7, 2011 02:29
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Mr. Fowl posted:Nice, thanks. Think I might go with "You cannot trust the people of this place." Unless someone can come up with something better. Personally I'd go with "Tell me which of these stories you like." ...or "Spankies!"
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"At the very least I think I would have to wear trousers." not really, that avatar should be left textless.
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I like the one you're thinking of Mr. Fowl but thisKismet posted:"Tell me which of these stories you like." is also good.
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Jan 7, 2011 03:00
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Yeah I think either "You cannot trust the people of this place" or "Tell me which of these stories you like" would work great for that.
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Jan 7, 2011 03:08
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Kismet posted:"Tell me which of these stories you like." Went with this, because I like the implications it would make for the panel it originally came from. Thanks for the help, everyone!
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You know, I like how Coyote's eye is all blurry and jittery in that close up. It really makes him seem crazy and dangerous. Not just a playful, harmless trickster.
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Jan 7, 2011 05:05
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Jones in that second-to-last panel almost looks concerned! That is probably not a good thing.
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Annie doesn't realize she will have to complete an independent study program while she's away. You'll pass double physics whether you want to or not!
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gently caress your trip that you were so excited for, Kat! I'm going Camping! 
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I knew it. I just knew it. Coyote is Palpatine and Jones is Obi Wan. Obi Jones Kenobi.
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The 19th Person posted:gently caress your trip that you were so excited for, Kat! I'm going Camping! Yeah, she's pretty much abandoning her only friend here, which is a bit of a dick move.
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Jan 7, 2011 16:37
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The 19th Person posted:gently caress your trip that you were so excited for, Kat! I'm going Camping! Gravitas Shortfall posted:Yeah, she's pretty much abandoning her only friend here, which is a bit of a dick move. To be fair that's probably not on her mind at the moment. Also Coyote didn't say she would always have to be there (although she should probably make sure that's not the case.)
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Also, she didn't actually agree to stay. Coyote made the offer, and her reply was a confirmation of the offer, not an acceptance. Coyote has chosen to misinterpret this, but she isn't for sure staying yet.
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EoRaptor posted:Also, she didn't actually agree to stay. Coyote made the offer, and her reply was a confirmation of the offer, not an acceptance. Coyote has chosen to misinterpret this, but she isn't for sure staying yet. I don't think she ever thought the offer would be made. In all her previous encounters with Coyote he has been insistent on her going back to the Court despite her obvious desire to stay in the forest and learn more from him.
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Oneiros posted:I don't think she ever thought the offer would be made. In all her previous encounters with Coyote he has been insistent on her going back to the Court despite her obvious desire to stay in the forest and learn more from him. I get the feeling Coyote is going to teach Annie a lesson about why she doesn't belong full time in the forest. 
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Heliotrope posted:To be fair that's probably not on her mind at the moment. Also Coyote didn't say she would always have to be there (although she should probably make sure that's not the case.) Oh, it makes perfect sense and is in character, and she hasn't really accepted the offer yet. That being said, it's fun for me to re-interpret characters as horribly as possible. The 19th Person fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Jan 7, 2011 |
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The 19th Person posted:Oh, it makes perfect sense and is in character, and she hasn't really accepted the offer yet. That being said, it's fun to me to re-interpret characters as horribly as possible. Plus, given that apparently everyone she knows has known this and not told her, she may well suspect Kat of being in on  the conspiracy , even if she hasn't consciously thought of that.(Also, why do people always hide Dark Secrets like this? They always come out, and they always do more damage that way...)
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She probably really does not want to be around Kat's mum right now, considering she was in on this, from her perspective. That's probably a higher priority than Kat missing her..
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FredMSloniker posted:Plus, given that apparently everyone she knows has known this and not told her, she may well suspect Kat of being in on I can't see her thinking Kat would know - why would her parents tell her? I think they were waiting until she was older to tell her. It's kind of hard to find the right moment to say "Hey by the way you're the reason your mother died and you're not quite human."
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The whole "not entirely human" thing does explain why she has pink hair, sort of. Not exactly a mystery anyone was chomping at the bit to solve but there you go.
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FredMSloniker posted:Plus, given that apparently everyone she knows has known this and not told her, she may well suspect Kat of being in on Hey, 13 year old girl. Your great-great-great-great grandma was a fire elemental! Cool huh? Oh also you're directly responsible for your mother's death. Not saying it's your fault or anything! Just, y'know, wanted you to know. I'm guessing they were holding off until she was 18 or something. That's not something you tell a child, or even a teenager.
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Benagain posted:Hey, 13 year old girl. Your great-great-great-great grandma was a fire elemental! Cool huh? Oh also you're directly responsible for your mother's death. Not saying it's your fault or anything! Just, y'know, wanted you to know.
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DaveWoo posted:It'd make for one hell of a sex-ed lesson. "And so that's how you put a condom on. Unless you're Antimony's ancestors, in which case you'll also need some flame retardant and some burn salve, because they knocked boots with a fire elemental."
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Benagain posted:Hey, 13 year old girl. Your great-great-great-great grandma was a fire elemental! Cool huh? Oh also you're directly responsible for your mother's death. Not saying it's your fault or anything! Just, y'know, wanted you to know. I'm not saying it wouldn't take some tact. For that matter, I can understand why people hide things like that in real life. It's just that, well, if they'd told her when she was younger, she'd be kind of bitter now... but she wouldn't be jumping into Coyote's arms as the only one she can trust. Plus, it's one of those things that pops up in fiction a bunch that really gets on my nerves, because it always, always goes horribly wrong. It is never ever the case that having a secret revealed doesn't lead to someone doing something rash that makes the situation worse than if they'd known the truth from the beginning. (Bonus points if, before the reveal, they do something else to make the situation worse because they don't know!)
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FredMSloniker posted:I'm not saying it wouldn't take some tact. For that matter, I can understand why people hide things like that in real life. It's just that, well, if they'd told her when she was younger, she'd be kind of bitter now... but she wouldn't be jumping into Coyote's arms as the only one she can trust. Jeanne being killed by the court was a deep dark secret that was revealed without any great negative consequence. Kat's boyfriend turning into a bird was at least a deep secret, which everyone then responded well to. Conversely, Annie freaked out at Mort because she assumed a deeper motivation where it turned out there wasn't one. I think it's just one of those tropes that people notice more in presence than in absence, since it's often used as a dramatic focus, while secrets that don't result in mass trauma generally don't end up changing the course of a plot so profoundly.
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They were probably going to tell her eventually. (Note that this chapter started with someone telling her one of those secrets.) They just wanted to wait until she settled in, and the death of her mother isn't so fresh on their mind. So that she isn't That Girl Who Isn't Human and Killed Her Mother at school.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I get the feeling Coyote is going to teach Annie a lesson about why she doesn't belong full time in the forest. If she accepts, I could see her witnessing why the Court is really afraid of him.
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So Annie gets angry once and suddenly she has a the inner temper of a fire elemental? Considering that she is a teenage girl she is, if anything, super-naturally calm.
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Psych posted:So Annie gets angry once and suddenly she has a the inner temper of a fire elemental? Considering that she is a teenage girl she is, if anything, super-naturally calm. Sure, Surma is descended from a fire elemental, but no one has mentioned yet that Anthony is descended from a beige elemental. She is supernaturally imbued with the power to make interesting situations seem mundane and boring, and also with the power to wear a lot of beige.
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Psych posted:So Annie gets angry once and suddenly she has a the inner temper of a fire elemental? Considering that she is a teenage girl she is, if anything, super-naturally calm. Well, that fit of anger did lead to her trying to murder Elgamore.
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There was also that time she flipped out on Mort because of what she thought the implication of him giving her the stone were.
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The 19th Person posted:Well, that fit of anger did lead to her trying to murder Elgamore. I don't think she was trying to harm Eglamore. More likely she was just trying to stop him from following her.
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McGravin posted:I don't think she was trying to harm Eglamore. More likely she was just trying to stop him from following her. She blasted him with a gigantic wall of fire. Even with Elgamore there is a risk of injury. That's at least manslaughter. Also, these pages suggest that she has pent up anger issues, maybe for a while if not just now.
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The 19th Person posted:She blasted him with a gigantic wall of fire. Even with Elgamore there is a risk of injury. That's at least manslaughter. It was blinker fire. Pretty sure it won't burn anything she doesn't want it to (or refrain from burning anything she DOES want it to). Annie was trying to escape, not kill.
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Guava posted:It was blinker fire. Pretty sure it won't burn anything she doesn't want it to (or refrain from burning anything she DOES want it to). Annie was trying to escape, not kill. If I remember right Tea-san said on Formspring that it could have injured/killed Eglamore if he hadn't been able to deal with it.
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Heliotrope posted:If I remember right Tea-san said on Formspring that it could have injured/killed Eglamore if he hadn't been able to deal with it. Ah, okay. I don't read the Formspring 
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The Court didn't tell her, but neither did Coyote or Ysengrin or any of them, even though they knew too. I guess since the Court serves as her home and the adults there her guardians, Annie might distrust them more for not telling her, but I don't think she sees Coyote as "the only one she can trust".
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MagnoliaPearl posted:The Court didn't tell her, but neither did Coyote or Ysengrin or any of them, even though they knew too. I guess since the Court serves as her home and the adults there her guardians, Annie might distrust them more for not telling her, but I don't think she sees Coyote as "the only one she can trust". Honestly, she's probably not thinking about any of that. She's angry at the adults in the Court, and she went to Coyote because he's the only authority figure she knows that's not part of the Court. Even though we've been discussing and speculating for weeks, it's only been like maybe 15 minutes in the comic- she's still upset and hasn't thought any of this through.
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