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Cat Mattress posted:She will lose her weird firespirit soul and become a normal human and will be doomed to die of old age, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. How sad. My read was that they simply want her to die naturally, not necessarily lose her powers.
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Whatever it was, it was something a young teen girl did not want to do but was pressured into doing by beings who were holding her friend's life hostage, so it is bad.
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Lurdiak posted:Whatever it was, it was something a young teen girl did not want to do but was pressured into doing by beings who were holding her friend's life hostage, so it is bad. She'll have to study and pass her exams and become an excellent student. Secretly, Tony is the person leading the Psychopomps to improve his daughter's awful nature as a student.
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Blaze Dragon posted:She'll have to study and pass her exams and become an excellent student. I thiink the idea of Tony as a benevolent mastermind was debunked pretty hard in the chapter where it was revealed he's a big dumb dummy.
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Lurdiak posted:Whatever it was, it was something a young teen girl did not want to do but was pressured into doing by beings who were holding her friend's life hostage, so it is bad. The heart of the matter really.
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Lurdiak posted:I thiink the idea of Tony as a benevolent mastermind was debunked pretty hard in the chapter where it was revealed he's a big dumb dummy. ah, unless that's just what he WANTS you to think
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Lurdiak posted:Whatever it was, it was something a young teen girl did not want to do but was pressured into doing by beings who were holding her friend's life hostage, so it is bad. Heck, the psychopomps don't have any other reason to be there; Annie already sent the souls on and all. They're there because they want something. They only came so they could make this deal with Annie and get even more from her, after she already dealt with a major problem they've had.
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Lurdiak posted:The landfill. No, they like soul food.
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pik_d posted:No, they like soul food. That's a pretty ghastly pun.
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Lurdiak posted:I thiink the idea of Tony as a benevolent mastermind was debunked pretty hard in the chapter where it was revealed he's a big dumb dummy. 
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berenzen posted:That's a pretty ghastly pun. Just let it rest in peace.
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Death must be allowed to occur naturally except when we need something to blackmail you with lol
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At least they're doing Smitty's laundry for him. Bloodstains that big are normally an absolute bitch to get out, so I hear.
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Hremsfeld posted:At least they're doing Smitty's laundry for him. Bloodstains that big are normally an absolute bitch to get out, so I hear. That's actually all they're fixing. Since clothing isn't alive, they have full power over it. His wound, however, well... Annie should've been more clear.
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Whatever they want, it must not have been related to the Fire Elemental business. Annie's been pissed at them since before the comic began, and mostly avoided speaking to them, so I doubt they came to her with a big ethereal bargain offscreen at some point in the last year. They do seem interested in getting her to help them in situations like the one back in the hospital with the Moddey-Dhoo. Ankou mentioned Annie working for the Psychopomps when they were in the Rotd. It seems like Surma served them as a medium and they want Annie to do that, too. I think she doesn't want to be involved in their discompassionate attitude on life and death, and particularly doesn't want to be reminded of losing her mother.
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Annie will have to go back to the Psychopomps' Scrabble and Bingo Sessions every Thursday, and she hates it because she's always bored out of her minds at these things.
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Surma was not a psychopomp (which themselves are mythical beings). Surma was an afterlife guide, and the ROTD sees Annie as one. We know however, that Annie does not want to be an afterlife guide in any sort of official capacity. It stands to reason that the deal that was struck here was Annie accepting her official role as an afterlife guide.
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Cat Mattress posted:Annie will have to go back to the Psychopomps' Scrabble and Bingo Sessions every Thursday, and she hates it because she's always bored out of her minds at these things. I hear they are wickedly competitive about it, like its life or death
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After all these years, Annie made some actual friends, who want to hang out with her. 
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Lurdiak posted:
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Lurdiak posted:
Oh definitely not, everything is fine, things are all good 
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This is actually a pretty common occurrence in occult circles, so I mean very realistic but shows a lack of creativity IMO
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Doctor Tog posted:Surma was not a psychopomp (which themselves are mythical beings). Surma was an afterlife guide, and the ROTD sees Annie as one. We know however, that Annie does not want to be an afterlife guide in any sort of official capacity. It stands to reason that the deal that was struck here was Annie accepting her official role as an afterlife guide. But aren't ROTD competing departments with psychopomps? So the pomp crew wouldn't be recruiting her to work for ROTD, that'd be dadpire's job, yeah?
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Going to be a weird comic now when he abandons the entire plot up to this point to go on Annie's Psychopomp Adventures
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CrashCat posted:Going to be a weird comic now when he abandons the entire plot up to this point to go on Annie's Psychopomp Adventures Alternatively, she decides to emulate them and say now that she's gotten what she wants from them they can get hosed, and sets them on fire if they object.
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This makes some sense, I think. I do not believe the Psychopomps ever cared that much about Jeanne. She was dangerous, unwilling to be escorted away, a troublesome ghost that would just have to be left alone for now. But Muut has always been invested in training Annie in the arts of escorting the dead to their rest, and she herself has an aptitude for it. This has been a goal for a long time for both of them, but Annie's taken on other interests and Muut hasn't. Muut's been pushing her towards this, and now that she's demonstrated she's got the skill to accomplish a task as difficult as this one, he's closing the trap. This will be interesting, how it may affect Annie. She may no longer be able to be Forest Medium.
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