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2024-01-31, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Yep; I agree that the whole point was to have it be an "everyrobot" that died, somebody we can vaguely empathize with but who represents the New People in general rather than being a character in their own right. If, say, Robot had died, the interesting ideas in this chapter ("Kat is essentially a creator deity now", "Annie's psychopomp promise is breathing down her neck", "these New People are, indeed, true etheric souls") would have all been overshadowed by the sadness of losing a beloved major character.
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2024-02-01, 10:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
There’s also an important implication that nobody here has commented on.
If bald dude was the first robot to die…what happened to Lana?
I’m not going to say “called it” yet, because we haven’t had confirmation…but I can definitely hear a faint ringing sound in the distance.
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2024-02-01, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
The main characters themselves have remarked about that.
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2862
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2874Hark! An avatar drawn by Kate Beaton!
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2024-02-07, 06:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
I'd bet this is what Zimmy would have been if she weren't born with an etheric energy generator inside her.
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2024-02-16, 06:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
;She certainely look lie a cleaner less alway tired and possessed Zimmy, somewhat and we know Zimma can take other identities and appearances ain her mind trips (as seen when Zimmy though she was Anne way back when: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=727 And the transition was such eve we as the audience couldn't really tell.)
But it seems a bit too obvious and also I'm unsure why Anne would ask "who are you" rather than "Zimmy is that you " which seems to indicate it may be someone else (or at least that she susects someone else).
Also she looks like Zmmy but also has a bit of Jerrek in the way her face and expression looks too ? (at least that feels like this to me ? could just be a new people thing tho...) Seeing as this mess was made by Coyote spearating itself from Loup and attacking Zimmy then the two having a fight near Zimmy thus creating what may be possbly a big three way aetheric interference... could it be that a part of Zimmy fused with a part of Loup ? At least even if so temporarily and that's the eprson where seeing here ?
... Or maybe I'm widly speculating out of my arse.Last edited by smuchmuch; 2024-02-16 at 06:34 AM.
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2024-02-23, 06:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Spoiler: Current pageIs this person going to help Robot or reveal they've hurt him?
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2024-04-19, 03:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
I knew it!
SpoilerI knew that girl had to be Omega.
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2024-04-25, 01:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
That title page...
Have we heard anything from the creator on the comic's end? Could this truly be it? Would he be the kind of creator to just DROP it on the audience like this?Last edited by Ionathus; 2024-04-25 at 01:47 PM.
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2024-04-29, 06:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Spoiler: Current pageHuh? This looks quite different from the flashbacks to the founders we've seen. I wonder where and when this scene is.
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2024-04-30, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-30, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Last edited by Devlerbat; 2024-04-30 at 11:58 AM.
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2024-05-01, 07:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-02, 04:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
The word Omega is often used to denote the end or the last in a set, due to being the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Hence why another poster thought that the name for the chapter was a sign this is the last chapter (I personally don't think it is).
It would be odd for the first person in the set to be named Omega. Especially since, while we also have a Gamma and a Zeta (also Greek letters) we have yet to meet an Alpha (which is the first letter). I suspect this person is Alpha (even if it is only a code name the Court gives her after the fact).
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2024-05-03, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Wonder who this flashback woman is. She's got Zimmy's eyes, so I thik that rules out her being Omega, because Omega has gray eyes.
Last edited by WanderingMist; 2024-05-03 at 09:04 AM. Reason: Typo
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2024-05-08, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Remember that time when Annie said she thought Zimmy and Gamma were an item and Jack said "they're way more than that, you have no idea"...what if they're actually two halves of one person that's been split, and then Kat's "killing" of Zimmy is actually putting the original back together?
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2024-05-13, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
So that is Omega. Still seems like a weird name if she is the first.
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2024-05-13, 11:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-13, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-15, 08:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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2024-05-15, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Some serious Arrival vibes here.
"Like the old proverb says, if one sees something not right, one must draw out his sword to intervene"
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2024-05-17, 03:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
So, whatever the Court has been doing to her, she's been going along with it willingly. Heck, she may have tried giving them ideas herself for how to use her power.
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2024-05-17, 10:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
The Court was probably irritated Zimmy wasn't willing to go along in the same way.
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2024-05-17, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
I get the feeling we are looking at the seed bismuth
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2024-05-20, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
I think this girl is Omega.
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2024-05-21, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
....The comic already called her Omega here: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2940
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2024-05-24, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Ooh, Friday's comic has the man wearing the Shadow Men emblem. We never really hear about the founders of that organization.
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2024-05-24, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
I do find it interesting that the Court/the Shadow Men didn't create Omega to use her, as probably would have been guessed before this flashback started, but to help her and at her request. Especially when you compare that to Coyote (the governing force of the Forest) and his creating and treatment of Renardine, Ysengrin, and Loup*.
*I realize that Reynardine and Ysengrin existed before Coyote intervened, but his intervention is what made them what they are at the start of the story (just like with the Court and Omega).
Sure, Reynardine and Ysengrin may have requested their gifts, but it seems pretty clear that Coyote manipulated them as well.Last edited by Devlerbat; 2024-05-29 at 02:11 AM.
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2024-05-25, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Also Reynard did not request his "gift:" he spent a long time refusing it before eventually relenting to Coyote's pressure.
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2024-05-28, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
What Reynardine turned down was Coyote's offer to make Reynardine as powerful as he was.
But Reynardine DID request the body-swap power.May you get EXACTLY what you wish for.
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2024-05-29, 05:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
If I’m getting this straight, Omega had perfect predictions and even after ceasing to have human form continued as a computer which could see perfectly across time.
…and then Kat created the Tic-Tocs. They went back in time, invalidating Omega’s predictions that Annie would die. Annie since then has been acting as a butterfly of chaos, sending the expected timeline further and further adrift. Omega now cannot predict anything happening because the timeline has shifted sufficiently that any predictions are based on faulty data.
I wonder if this explains why Coyote was so shocked that his prediction of Ysengrin/Loup falling in love with Annie was wrong? Lana is one of the new people, created (or at least made possible) by Kat who has broken fate/the timestream. The world is changing in ways neither the Court nor the Forest foresaw.