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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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Originally Posted by
137ben
It's totally going to be Brinnie!
Been a while since we saw her, eh? She's ripe for a comeback!
Well, Kat's mom was the right answer! Interesting that we can see she has aged.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
No, it can't be Kat's mom! I already bet my life saving that it would be Jones, who is also Brinnie and Gamma's mother!
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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137ben
No, it can't be Kat's mom! I already bet my life saving that it would be Jones, who is also Brinnie and Gamma's mother!
It's so obvious when hear someone say it.
I think the story was more than deliberately vague about Kat's mom. The singular "they" is supposed to be used for persons who prefer "they" or persons whose gender is unknown (usually, that means someone whose identity is unknown. In Gunnerkrigg, there are probably a fair number of characters where no one knows [or they do know but the answer is a bit difficult to put in human terms]). Using it for Kat's mom was deliberate concealment--unless she's also been split into two or more people (lab accident. Happens all the time. Just ask Mr. Hyde or any clone).
Or the Annie who said they was thinking of both Kat's parents and didn't notice the other Annie wasn't having exactly the same thought as her after all.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
I'm going to go with "neither Annie knew for certain what the other was thinking, so just to be safe, they was used".
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Hmm, will Anjia believe them when they tell her the truth?
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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137ben
Hmm, will Anjia believe them when they tell her the truth?
She's a scientist. With proofs and evidence, she'll believe.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Kat's expression in the last panel seems kind of...bored?
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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137ben
Kat's expression in the last panel seems kind of...bored?
No? Puzzled, not bored.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
I was going to say that I was surprised, but then I remembered that I am reading Gunnerkrigg Court.
What Anja says next might be really interesting.
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Kat: I discovered time travel. ANGST.
Kat's Mom: You discovered time travel. That's my girl!
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Alright, so that leaves open a whole slew of things which need to be addressed.
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Why has time travel not been used to solve X, Y, or Z.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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Willie the Duck
Alright, so that leaves open a whole slew of things which need to be addressed.
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Why has time travel not been used to solve X, Y, or Z.
I suspect it's because
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time-travel can only be used when there's a stable time-loop in place. Which is kinda like saying 'time travel only works when it works' but somehow I suspect that in the big ball of timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly it actually checks out.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
That convenient box of spare robot parts than Annie finds in the library in the first chapter... will we find out that Kat put it there for her?
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Oh Coyote, we seem to be moving towards the exact thing I was hoping WOULDN'T Spoiler
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happen:The protagonists having easy access to time travel.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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137ben
Oh Coyote, we seem to be moving towards the exact thing I was hoping WOULDN'T
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happen:The protagonists having easy access to time travel.
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Well, I'm going to wager that there ends up being a big difference between easy and practical.
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PhantomFox
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Well, I'm going to wager that there ends up being a big difference between easy and practical.
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I mean step 1 might be "First, find a situation in which you know time travel has already happened, and then just figure out what you were already going to have done!
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Looks like Brunhilde will finally get to play a role.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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137ben
It's totally going to be Brinnie!
Have yourself an internet cookie.
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Wow, it really is Brinnie. I am finally excited about Gunnerkrigg Court again.
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She's grown up well. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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eee
She's grown up well. :smallbiggrin:
Next page, this woman steps aside and Brinnie's there, still the same age. "What? I'm immortal. I age slowly".
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"Remain cool."
"Remain cool."
"Remain coo.... ANJA!"
Lovely art shift again. From serene and stately to cartoonish "YAY!"
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Reading over old chapters, I found this page, which I think may be the only reference to anybody outside the Court knowing about the supernatural (unless the Court runs The Russian Academy of Sciences in this universe).
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Today's comic, in which Kat remembers, "Oh, I'm Gay" :smallbiggrin:
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Today's page, in which I remember "oh, yea, there are some people who think it is appropriate to aggressively hug someone you just met without asking them just because you know one of their relatives.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
To be fair, Brinnie does just sort of seem like the person who's naturally a hugger.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
Other than a few school flashbacks, do we really know anything about Brinnie? Was there like a bonus book or comic that I missed?
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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Haruspex_Pariah
Other than a few school flashbacks, do we really know anything about Brinnie? Was there like a bonus book or comic that I missed?
AFAIK, no. She has just been Chekhov's Valkyrie since that short appearance.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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Iruka
AFAIK, no. She has just been Chekhov's Valkyrie since that short appearance.
I can't find that first appearance.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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Max_Killjoy
I can't find that first appearance.
Here up until the Valknut 4 pages later.
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup
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memnarch
Here up until the Valknut 4 pages later.
Thanks -- I remembered it involved when they were students, but couldn't recall the timing in the comic's publication history.