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SHISHKABOB posted:Sometimes when Jimmy Jims is flying through the sky you can see funky purple "trail" symbol stuffs behind him and/or around him. Was just looking for that actually. And two pages later there's a purple circle on the ground when he's about to land. So yeah this is court magic.
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Blackheart posted:I just checked, and The official answer is a bit vague anyway: Apparently he "knows a few tricks". Mystery solved.
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Jun 4, 2013 08:39
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Yeah it's probably related to Anja and Donald's magical computer thing. It's not "magic" but it's not "science" either.
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Jun 4, 2013 08:44
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Carrasco posted:Apparently he "knows a few tricks". Reading that chase sequence again (of course I had to, the curse of Gunnerkrigg linking), it had a really studio Ghibli feeling to it. In my mind I could almost see the gorgeous animation of Ysengrin transforming into a monstruous body and chasing Annie, possibly sliding when making a sharp turn. Now I want a Hayao Miyazaki Gunnerkrigg Court movie.
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Jun 4, 2013 14:41
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Blackheart posted:Now I want a Hayao Miyazaki Gunnerkrigg Court movie. For the first 20 minutes or so everyone has football heads. 
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Jun 4, 2013 15:00
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Tom's said that every kid in the current Queslett class has some sort of weird etheric power - it's not too much of a stretch to imagine this stretches back to Generation Surma. He jumps by magic, mystery solved.
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Jun 4, 2013 15:20
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When Ysengrin freaked out on Annie one of the first things that popped into my head was the boar demon from the beginning of Princess Mononoke. Also yeah the jump thing was something he got from training, something he was not recruited for specifically, going by the scene in Ties with Thorn. Though maybe he was brought to the Court because of some extranormal physical potential.
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Is it ever hinted at anywhere what happened to Ysengrin's right ear? It was sort of mangy looking early on but sometime along the way he just lost it entirely. I wonder if that is an indication of something that happened, or just generally pointing out how much he's deteriorating. I'd like a Ysengrin focused story one of these days, he's probably one of the most enigmatic characters left now that we finally had a Jones chapter. Also for years I thought his name was Ysengrim. That fancy font and lack of attention on my part. Plus the mythological figure that he's based on can be spelled Ysengrim or Ysengrin or Isengrim or Ysengrimus or all kinds of ways apparently.
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Freudian posted:Tom's said that every kid in the current Queslett class has some sort of weird etheric power - it's not too much of a stretch to imagine this stretches back to Generation Surma. He jumps by magic, mystery solved. I think it's more that they have some sort of 'special skill', rather than a specifically etheric power. Kat's intuitive tech genius may not be etheric in nature, for example, but it's special enough to get her into Queslett.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Is it ever hinted at anywhere what happened to Ysengrin's right ear? It was sort of mangy looking early on but sometime along the way he just lost it entirely. I wonder if that is an indication of something that happened, or just generally pointing out how much he's deteriorating. I'd like a Ysengrin focused story one of these days, he's probably one of the most enigmatic characters left now that we finally had a Jones chapter. I think it was always supposed to be a stump and the style's just changed. Was some supposition when Annie got that little 'don't blab about the tooth' wristband and Ysengrin recognized it instantly that that was how he lost his ear, which'd explain a lot, but nothing at all to explain it in the comic nope. Tubgirl Cosplay fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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There's good evidence to believe it was one of Coyote's bindings. We'll find out eventually and the mystery will be solved. Although why would Ysengrin ever disobey Coyote and get his ear snapped? vvv or maybe it was a proof of loyalty or something? Which would be more up to Ysengrin's alley. Anyway it's just the wording for that particular comic, specifically Tom's comment about Ysengrin "having seen one of those before". Then again he does hang around with Coyote all the time so if Coyote used bindings before Ysengrin could have seen them. vvv Blackheart fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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Jun 4, 2013 17:51
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Why would Ysengrin disobey Coyote and get nothing but a single ear snapped? One-eared wolves are not exactly uncommon (they get in fights y'know), while Annie was risking her right hand. e: As in, a wolf missing an ear is not really a big deal, so it seems like a rather light punishment.
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Because there's a Court Bismuth symbol over it in one of the Treatises I'm inclined to believe it was lost in a scrap against the Court.
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Jun 4, 2013 18:35
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I'd put money on it being lost to Eglamore at some point.
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Blackheart posted:There's good evidence to believe it was one of Coyote's bindings. We'll find out eventually and the mystery will be solved. Although why would Ysengrin ever disobey Coyote and get his ear snapped? Ysengrin probably wasn't always the semi-mindless housepet he is now. How do you think he got that way?
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Jun 4, 2013 19:21
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BobTheJanitor posted:That fancy font and lack of attention on my part. It took me about 6 chapters my first time through to figure out the lowercase Ds were lowercase Ds and not fancy Ses.
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Jun 4, 2013 20:13
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dyzzy posted:I'd put money on it being lost to Eglamore at some point. I really hope it was in a card game.
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Jun 4, 2013 20:51
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I dunno, ysengrin has a pretty good poker face...
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dyzzy posted:I dunno, ysengrin has a pretty good poker face... He's only got a good poker face when he is winning, if he loses its all snarling and trying to flay you alive with living tree.
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Josef bugman posted:He's only got a good poker face when he is winning, if he loses its all snarling and trying to flay you alive with living tree. And then next time he's all, "I will personally guarantee your safety while we play poker." Maybe that's what happened to his ear. Coyote plucked it off and swallowed it. (I'll keep hold of it for you, along with the others.)
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Jun 5, 2013 00:11
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It's wolf ears all the way down.
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Okay, is this thing http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=843 a tictoc, or am I just seeing poo poo? Because I just know that cityface is going to somehow be integral to the goddamn plot.
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It's a crow. Crow's don't have patience for your sillyness. Or your crackpot theories.
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Cuchulain posted:It's a crow. Crow's don't have patience for your sillyness. Or your crackpot theories. If it is a corvid then it had better play a role in the story, I still remember that crow talking to the archer back in the splash pannel of "coward heart".
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Jun 5, 2013 00:20
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Tic tocs have humungo beakaroonis.
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Oneiros posted:I can not see that being the case. Their common parent could not be Surma, for obvious reasons, and from what we've seen of him I doubt that Anthony was involved with anyone other than Surma. I actually wouldn't be surprised if Zimmy was the result of some experiment by Anthony to create a child from his and Surma's genes without the "stealing her mother's fire" bit, and it backfiring horribly with the end result of Zimmy's powers essentially being what happens when someone has part of their soul surgically removed in utero. It's probably not very likely at all, but I'm still betting there's more of a connection between Zimmy and Antimony than what's been shown already.
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mr. stefan posted:I actually wouldn't be surprised if Zimmy was the result of some experiment by Anthony to create a child from his and Surma's genes without the "stealing her mother's fire" bit, and it backfiring horribly with the end result of Zimmy's powers essentially being what happens when someone has part of their soul surgically removed in utero. So her body harvests ether in an attempt to manufacture a soul? Or maybe to just fill the ether vacuum?
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Josef bugman posted:Because I just know that cityface is going to somehow be integral to the goddamn plot. Well City Face is canon. It's the name Kat gave that pigeon baby she found. And possibly also the pigeon that represents her thoughts in the chapter Divine, but that's debatable. Wonder if that baby pigeon is ever getting mentioned again? Maybe now that we're probably hopefully going to be seeing more of Paz?
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Maybe Gamma is the rest of her soul. (That actually makes sense; I wouldn't be shocked if there were some truth to this line of speculation).
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mr. stefan posted:I actually wouldn't be surprised if Zimmy was the result of some experiment by Anthony to create a child from his and Surma's genes without the "stealing her mother's fire" bit, and it backfiring horribly with the end result of Zimmy's powers essentially being what happens when someone has part of their soul surgically removed in utero.  (sorry, I just needed any excuse to post one of my favorite panels ever, so wild speculation will have to do)
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The Red Queen posted:So her body harvests ether in an attempt to manufacture a soul? Or maybe to just fill the ether vacuum?
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mr. stefan posted:I actually wouldn't be surprised if Zimmy was the result of some experiment by Anthony to create a child from his and Surma's genes without the "stealing her mother's fire" bit, and it backfiring horribly with the end result of Zimmy's powers essentially being what happens when someone has part of their soul surgically removed in utero. Eh, I dunno, the whole idea of Zimmy being somehow connected or related to Annie rubs me the wrong way. I think she works better as an example of the strange and occasionally terrifying etheric nonsense that sometimes crops up in the world.
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I dunno, I think Zimmy being related to Annie somehow is much too easy of a plot point for Tea-san. It just seems way too obvious to me for the "Annie nullifies the hallucinations like Gamma does, but not as well" thing to end up being "OMG long lost sister/science experiment sibling/she's your Evil Twin/a super distant cousin!". He's grown too much as a writer since the very early days of GC to do something that fanfic-y. I am very much looking forward to more on Zimmy and Gamma though, more than anything else except maybe Jones. I feel like the'll play a really, really heavy role in the story once the final stories start to form.
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Booo! I wanted Eglamore to just be able to Jump Good.  Josef bugman posted:Okay, is this thing http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=843 a tictoc, or am I just seeing poo poo? That's Coyote's good buddy Raven who came over for his centennial visit! Please let it be Raven
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Somehow I don't see those two getting along well.
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The Red Queen posted:So her body harvests ether in an attempt to manufacture a soul? Or maybe to just fill the ether vacuum? Are you saying that she is attractive* to the ether? * not in that way
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You can probably see that blush from orbit.
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