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Sending back people when it is not their time yet is a traditional thing though right? which would imply its within at least some of their power sets
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That's assuming there is such a thing as an objective life time for everyone, and not just a shorthand for bemoaning the death of young people.
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On that note, recall that there was friction between a psychopomp and an ROTD agent when Mortimer died.
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Potato Salad posted:On that note, recall that there was friction between a psychopomp and an ROTD agent when Mortimer died. That was basically because dadpire didn't want to piss off Jones, though.
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GlyphGryph posted:Sending back people when it is not their time yet is a traditional thing though right? which would imply its within at least some of their power sets Just because it is within their power doesn't mean their power is limitless. Remember, when a soul passes, the world continues to spin. (And not necessarily this world, but many worlds.) They can spare some souls, or at least, delay their final fate. But the power of the Psychopomps will have to be intrinsically linked with the overall etheric field. Everyone dies, in the end. I hope Smiffy lives, but even if he doesn't...his soul gained a glimpse of brilliant infinity. And when he fades to the Aether, may his essence nourish a thousand epic spells.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDMLkci9hY This retrospective includes some progress shots of the big portrait of god-Kat.
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I hope the price isn't something like what those psychopomps told her dad he'd have to pay. Were those even the same ones Annie knows?
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artichoke posted:I hope the price isn't something like what those psychopomps told her dad he'd have to pay. Were those even the same ones Annie knows? We don't know what those things were, but it's very unlikely they were psychopomps
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artichoke posted:I hope the price isn't something like what those psychopomps told her dad he'd have to pay. Were those even the same ones Annie knows? I don't care that this won't happen, I just want to see Annie with a prosthetic fire hand.
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It would give her an excuse to not do her homework, at least.
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Hremsfeld posted:It would give her an excuse to not do her homework, at least. And show to everyone that Annie would rather drop out of school than not copy Kat's homework I have a lot of questions about the psychopomp position. Salary? PTO? Vision/dental?
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And Annie disappeared into the ether. The End.
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Soooooo.....is she still allowed to interfere with the realm of the living because that could get super awkward.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:Soooooo.....is she still allowed to interfere with the realm of the living because that could get super awkward. I imagine Coyote will be kinda annoyed that these guys are poaching his employees.
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artichoke posted:I hope the price isn't something like what those psychopomps told her dad he'd have to pay. Were those even the same ones Annie knows?
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I don't think the things that messed with Tony were psychopomps. They were probably some other class of weird-rear end spiritual beings he met while probably very high on science-magic-drugs in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. EDIT: He set out looking for psychopomps originally, but even he only says "I thought I found what I was looking for". Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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You know, this is saving Smitty and all but it actually makes the psychopomps look worse; had they just said "Sorry, everything you did to help us and its consequences are on you" and left, then they'd be dicks, but at least it'd be, well, honest I guess? Pulling that and then adding "...Buuuuut we can still help you if you do even more for us" makes it clear they've just been taking advantage of Annie. There isn't some code or whatever they're following, at least as more than an excuse, they're exploiting the situation to get what they want and pretending they're not. I really wonder what she agreed to, though; just "being a psychopomp" doesn't seem right, given that she's been doing that anyway and likely would have continued doing so.
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She has to give every psychopomp a big, wet kiss! Or she has to give up her fire spirit. The end.
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She has to have a child by him. Surma/Tony mystery solved.
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Tenebrais posted:She has to have a child by him. Surma/Tony mystery solved. code:
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The page text is "Free meal." aww she's gotta take 'em to McDonalds, and it's on her!
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I assume that she's giving up whatever "power" she got from Jeanne to the other psychopomps instead of doing whatever she wanted with it.Lurdiak posted:
That only works in a left-to-right reading system, ugh, way to be so anglo-centric on the English speaking message board.
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Synthbuttrange posted:She has to give up squishing bugs.
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Cool, let's make this another mystery so the readers don't know what to feel about it.
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Called itFried Chicken posted:Maybe the big growth of this arc is annie accepting their formal job offer in exchange for healing smitty?
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Fangz posted:Cool, let's make this another mystery so the readers don't know what to feel about it. Oh no good god they're not spelling everything out on the same page it's introduced!
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Glagha posted:Oh no good god they're not spelling everything out on the same page it's introduced! INT. KANE'S BEDROOM - FAINT DAWN - A very long shot of Kane's enormous bed, silhouetted against the enormous window. DISSOLVE: INT. KANE'S BEDROOM - FAINT DAWN - SNOW SCENE. An incredible one. Big, impossible flakes of snow, a too picturesque farmhouse and a snow man. The jingling of sleigh bells in the musical score now makes an ironic reference to Indian Temple bells - the music freezes - KANE'S OLD OLD VOICE Gosh I sure do miss my sled Rosebud, and also the loss of my youthful innocence and idealism which it symbolized
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Roland Jones posted:You know, this is saving Smitty and all but it actually makes the psychopomps look worse; had they just said "Sorry, everything you did to help us and its consequences are on you" and left, then they'd be dicks, but at least it'd be, well, honest I guess? Pulling that and then adding "...Buuuuut we can still help you if you do even more for us" makes it clear they've just been taking advantage of Annie. There isn't some code or whatever they're following, at least as more than an excuse, they're exploiting the situation to get what they want and pretending they're not. A part of me wonders if this doesn't somehow have to do with the fact that her mother's soul, her soul, has been eternally escaping the Psychopomps and returning to the ether like everyone else does
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Fangz posted:Cool, let's make this another mystery so the readers don't know what to feel about it. Yeah lol I totally don't know what to feel rn on this page lol
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Besides, you know, everything that Kat is feeling "Wtf is going on, I'm worried, what is Annie talking about, these guys are bullshit"
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Captain Oblivious posted:A part of me wonders if this doesn't somehow have to do with the fact that her mother's soul, her soul, has been eternally escaping the Psychopomps and returning to the ether like everyone else does 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.
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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. Tony's reaction: "All those years watching Surma waste away, all the pain and torment, my hand... when I could have just stabbed Eglamore. drat. drat."
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Mazerunner posted:Tony's reaction: "All those years watching Surma waste away, all the pain and torment, my hand... when I could have just stabbed Eglamore. drat. drat."
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Captain Oblivious posted:A part of me wonders if this doesn't somehow have to do with the fact that her mother's soul, her soul, has been eternally escaping the Psychopomps and returning to the ether like everyone else does Surma definitely got taken into the ether, though.
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EmmyOk posted:Did she tho There was nothing left to take. It makes a bizarre sort of sense. When fire spreads, it's not becoming a new fire, it is the same fire, just bigger or in a different location. Say if a fire jumped from one campfire to the other. It appears as two separate fires, and those fires themselves could then be used to make more fires, torches or lanterns, fires that go very far away and become much smaller. But it's all the same fire still. So when a fire takes on the aspect of a human, it falls to logic that it would procreate in the same way. Human beings cannot simply expand and consume endlessly as fire can, so instead through birth and death the fire renews itself through breeding. A fire elemental would likely never grow to be very old, and would likely age faster and faster as it persists. It is the essence of the myth of the phoenix. Edit: This complicates Annie's relationship with Reynardine as well, since from his perspective, as another immortal being who sees the etheric world where humans do not, Annie and Surma are the same "person". It's just that their personalities, memories, and so on have altered significantly in certain ways. He's clearly grappled with this confusion throughout the comic, and it's clear that on some level, that's not a wrong way to interpret it. Annie and Surma are the actual same being. It is reincarnation but in as abjectly literal a sense as you could have it. You rebirth yourself, time and time again, in order to continue existing. The price for this is your memories and your ego, both things you are also thought to lose through death in Buddhist doctrine. 8-Bit Scholar fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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