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>>153549971>i'd have gotten here sooner but kat wouldn't let me leave the bed>also i only got a few hours of sleep>i'm so sore
>>153550062Hope is the last thing to die.
>>153549971The oooooorb. Also, Jack being fucking useless. Remember when he was the first villain to cause a serious threat? To the point of being the subject of the comic's first two-parter? I do. >>153550062Kat is in the distortion with the others, so unfortunately, she was not feasting on goth pussy just now. She will though. I hope,
>>153550899Kat will be walking around in god form, but everyone will be acting like she is normal.
>>153551006That would be pretty funny.
>>153551080Tom won't draw god Kat for a full chapter, potentially several. She is way too detailed.
>tfw bestie is a terrifying god abomination>>153551408I was going to argue that, but no, he couldn't even keep that up for more than two pages. The rest of the ether scenes take place in her perspective, cause everything looks literal to her.
>Man, why don't I ever get to see the cool stuff? Cause it's hard to draw, Kat. Also, because your divine ass interacting with too much of the etheric shenanigans would probably break the plot in half.
>>153551474Kat is propably wondering why all the trees are badly painted cardboard cutouts right now.
>>153551006I can only imagine it'd go down something like pic related
>>153549971>Jack?>There's women out there... Kissing each other... This wasn't a part of God's plan
>>153551449>>153551474random thought: kat's ether is literally just the backrooms in both senses
>>153551603... Does Fundie Jack not realize that his girlfriend is a bisexual witch who is just as much of a Zimmy simp as he is?
>>153551717Have you seen her style update? He can fix her.
>>153552286If anything, going trad made her even worse about it.
>>153552724Yeah, dropping the Zimmy cosplay ahe used to rope Jack in was a test to see if he was now committed enough to here that she can slowly drip out more of her true self/intentions.Well, except for anything relating to having possibly more nefarious interest in Zimmy. She knows that will always be a hard line for Jack.But the bisexual simping, sure. They both know the other's less into them than in it to Zim it.
people dressed like mimes should be legally barred from speaking aloud.
Has Annie fucked herself yet?
I can't get over how ridiculously sudden Jenny's turn into full blown psycho supervillain was.
>>153554119She didn't turn though, she was secretly super evil the whole time.
>>153555140That's really the only way to square this shit. This unassuming little chipmunk lookin' ass nerd was secretly a raging psycho yandere.
>>153555293Or devout court loyalist, tasked by them with the nefarious shit during her Zimmy research, or due to it.
>>153555922Those aren't mutually exclusive.
>>153555922>during her Zimmy research, or due to itor maybe even before, and really lucked out. more likely to have been assigned to check on whatever was going on with jackyou remember his dad went to school with surma, anjie, donald, jimmy, and brinnie, and tony called the ether users freaks and got punched by jim?though jack told annie that his dad told him surma was nice. his dad was working on a research project there. presumably he cared about jack going crazy
>creepily obsessed with Zimmy>still ships her with GammaJenny will never beat the cuck allegations.
>>153556299>Jack's court-assigned girlfriendJones claimed they couldn't locate Jack while he was doing his crazy shit (during Spring-Heeled Pt. 2) and while Jenny met him before that (>>153555293), she didn't court him until after he was "cured". She must have reported the spider from that interaction though, right? So not only would they know this meeting occurred, they'd no doubt they'd be interested in its effects on him, the additional intelligence and what not. Jack, the spiders, Zimmy, she was a good "in" for all that.
>>153556483I liked Jenny when she looked like this
>>153556680You're not alone. Jenny the cute goth was nice, but I will say that Jenny the psycho trad cuck is far more entertaining. Bitch is hilarious.
>>153556736I also wanted to say her housewife look is also nice but you are right.
>>153556680>>153556794I liked the nerd look, myself.
>>153556969That's fair
>>153549971Careful, Sandow has orders to kill her if she uses the Orb.
>>153557024Jenny in this chapter was great cause she was just blatantly corrupting Noa like a goddamn Sith lord.
>>153557087yeah I was kinda expecting Aata to be a more serious antagonist after he was introduced, but I'm very happy with how Jenny and all seem to make up an "evil" counterpart to Annie's friend group. Noa's flashback was particularly good, I'm looking forward to seeing more about how Zara, Silvie, and Rosa's backstories
>>153557087That's what's makes Jenny's character worked as a psycho, manipulative villainess so well, she love been in control.
>>153556661I don't think Jenny is working for the Court, she seems to have her own motivations for using Zimmy's power. Going back through the archives, I forgot Jack hacked into the school's network and looked up all the students. Neat the Foley and Chester houses are excluded though, so he wouldn't know anything confidential about Jenny and Zara and them.
>>153557383jack kills a bot here with no hesitation, I forgot about this too. 20 years later he's still killin
>>153557209It's funny how so far, none of the mysterious and "sinister" Shadow Men have actively villainous nor a direct threat to our heroes. >>153557228Seriously, girl is a natural at it. Look at this shit!
Real talk, there's definitely a sexual vibe here, right?
>>153557427>So what? Omega's just a dumb robot.It's interesting Jack's plan to get to Zimmy actually worked. Even saved him from the whiteleg. Though if the whiteleg was controlling/influencing him, why did it bring him to her (or allow him to bring it)? Zimmy said they're always trying to catch a ride OUT. Was it going to try to help the others escape too, or what? Good thing Jones knew what to do, with returning the ether to the water before the rain.
>>153557806Not really. More like a junkie begging a dealer for a free hit.
>>153557818Speaking of Jack, was this cope, or was he just wrong about Zimmy and Gamma being a couple?
Speaking of cope, the more I think of it, the more I think Kat might be Annie's secret crush. Remember, this bit happens during a sequence that emphasizes couples and also directly follows scenes about their respective romantic troubles. And then they do this. I will laugh so hard if Gunnerkrigg Court was secretly a friends-to-lovers yuri comic this whole time.
>>153557383The Zimmy-as-a-power-source the Court is using for the star ocean voyage has got to be based on her thesis (>>153557785), right? And I had assumed Noa's help she secured in >>153557806 was part of this, but it could have been for her own reasons.Personally, I'd be surprised if her initially reaching out to Jack wasn't suggested by the court, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have other, secret, non-Court-aligned motivations and plans, especially at this point.
>>153557986At the time, I had my list on her "secret crush">Kat>Reynardine>YsengrinYes, I know Jones isn't on it, I still think people misinterpreted that bit, but either way, Jones, Kamlen, and Jack would not be "secret". Plus the latter two she seemed to already get over.With Daddysengrin, I assume he's officially out. I had previously thought Reynardine had moved on from his crush-on-Surma-proxy, and not just because Tom made him stop perving on young girls. But schoolboy Renard might hint otherwise, I guess.Kat's always seemed like the strongest contender to me, unless her crush is supposed to be an actual surprise.
Get you a girl who looks at you the way Annie looks at Kat.
Real talk, fucking imagine the reactions if it turned out Annie has been in love with Kat since the tree. Speaking as one of the most vocal Double Annie lovers, I would probably get over it real quick. At least it would sort of make Tom's assertion about the ending make sense. >>153558312I was thinking about that, actually. There's no actual reason why Annie would be secretive or embarrassed about having it bad for Jones.
>>153558392i know kat has openly crushed on eglamore in front of her, but annie might be a little more reserved with that kind of thing even with her.
>>153558392Psh, like Kat would have a problem with twin girlfriends.
>>153558910I was gonna say. God, Down That Road and The Thousand Eyes were such yuri-licious chapters.
>>153557943Gamma's a heat sink.Zimmy kind of comes across more "machine god" in this 4th panel than Kat's etheric form does.
>>153553206>legallyThis is gunnerkrigg, you mean Ethericly
>>153560259Yes, but they are, in fact, a couple.
I have the dumb.Can one of you gentleman explain why Kat is a god? Or Zimmy?With Coyote or Wandering Eye, or even the Budda knock off, its a bit clearer, as they are born out of fiction and thier bodies defy human limits. But Kat and Zimmy seem just regular ass girls. We've met Kats boring ass parents.Hell, Annies fire elemental heritage is far more magic than Kat. And zimmies backstory is basicaly non-existant.Omega was effectivly omniscient and she was just a regular ass human, twice, AND died. I really don't understand what a "God" is in this setting.Kat didn't really do much to earn it in anyway, an aptitude for robots isn't really detiy status earning, when being Omniscient isn't. She was a god before she transformed the robots.
>>153560412The ether is imagination and belief. The robots/new people worship Kat and genuinely believe she is their deity, and so she retroactively is. It's really not that complicated.
>>153560443Ok so what group believes in zimmy? Or Jones?
>>153560412I believe leading theory for Kat is that the new people's belief in her will turn her into a god. Coyote claimed that people's beliefs become part of the ether when they die, and this can create gods, and it can even make things happen in the past.See "The Great Secret" for Coyote's great secret. Which the post >>153529367 in the last thread made me think of when discussing Zimmy's big secret and how it may be underwhelming ("I DO NOT EXIST").But for Zimmy? My stupid random guess is she represents a "Ragnarok" of sorts. An ending to the old world and beginning of the new (I like to think the interludes with Tea take place in a bad timeline like this). The court wants to go make a non-ether world. But they may not be the only ones with such plans...Interestingly, in that chapter when Coyote discusses his big secret, he calls human intellect and its influence on the ether, their need to find or fabricate explanations, a disease.Also, he then suggests he already knows Ysengrin is going to attack Annie. Even though Ysengrin doesn't know he will, and seems confused as to why he did after. Then when Coyote eats his little glowing memory ball, he's ready to do just what Coyote says again.He's been "helping" Zimmy (the girl who is somehow similar to him with similar powers) a similar way in the distortion, right?
>>153560752>RagnarokKeep in mind that Kat's saving Annie from her death, that was supposed to happen, fucking with Omega's predictions, was with the Norns. Y'know, those, past-present-future fate gods?It might be literal world-ending (or just world-splitting) stakes that make Kat "kill" Zimmy. I still think she's at least slightly wrong about this and Omega (Annie fucked up her predictions, remember?), and Kat will instead stop the Court's plans to drain the world's ether trying to create a "dead world" as Loup would call it.And I wouldn't be surprised if Annie ultimately ends up killing Coyote instead of Loup (also remember Kat fucked up his prediction with regards to Annie vs. Lana) to stop his plans of creating an ether-only world or something.The pure division of ether vs technology, woods vs. court, happened after the court's founding as a shared effort, and has since been enforced by Coyote and Court's powers-that-be. Annie and Kat will end this and restore the balance. Like the end of Frozen 2 but doesn't suck and they actually fuck (okay this part was a joke, sorry). Jones's words were that the Bismuth symbol>serves as a reminder that the Court was founded on a union between technological and etheric designand it literally grew from the Seed Bismuth....what kind of seed was it, I wonder?
>>153561027Maybe this is why Tom was so dead-set on his exact ending and the two Annies, and why the Norn chapter felt weird to everyone.I'm not quiiiiiite autistic/schizo enough to try to work the alchemical treatise style pages into this. But I have ranted enough. I will shut up now.
