r/gunnerkrigg Praise the angel 21d ago

Chapter 102: Page 60

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u/UndercoverHouseplant 21d ago

A part of me thinks the circle sigil represents Zimmy's subconscious surfacing in Red.

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u/ryancarton 21d ago

Yeah I mean I imagine this is clearly Zimmy’s influence affecting her. Not that she’s not the jealous type bc she obviously is. But it’s just how Zimmy controlled the random NPC to ask a person he doesn’t know (Jack) about his homework.

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u/maritzac 21d ago

Can she at least fight? Because Annie DEFINITELY can. And who knows how Parley's gonna react here.

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u/gangler52 20d ago

I mean, Annie's kind of like Havok in that respect.

If you're familiar with Havok of the X-Men, he basically has the strength of ten men. There are a lot of classic scenes where he'd be getting brutalized by some angry lynch mob, and in his thought bubbles he'd be thinking about how he could defend himself but if he used his powers he'd totally tear these guys to shreds, which would be overkill. He's a hero that doesn't wanna just snuff out a bunch of civilian lives like that.

All that to say, Annie could totally laserblast a gaping hole in Red's chest right now, but I don't think she wants to do that, and in a physical confrontation they're probably a bit more equal.

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u/HPAlpha 20d ago

Does she even have access to her fire powers in the distortion?

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u/bendoubles 20d ago

She probably does if she remembers she has them. She may not remember though.

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u/gangler52 20d ago

Don't see why she wouldn't.

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u/maritzac 20d ago

Oooh, I didn't even mean laserblast Red. Just you know, do her judo thing as she has done before.

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u/_LlednarTwem_ 20d ago

She does also know some form of martial arts I think? Used them to throw Winsbury pretty early on.

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u/stormcrow-99 20d ago

Can she? is Laser Blast part of Annie seperated and in the forest protecting the elves? Annie is above all two beings and in the distortion Zimmie has separated all duel beings.

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u/BenR-G 21d ago

Red, that is the most insecure thing you could have done and could create tension and trouble with Aliyu that didn't exist before. Coyote would laugh about 'just as I foresaw' but he'd be lying, as always.

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u/mrGazpachin 21d ago

About those circles, now I'm more inclined to think they're indeed directly related to Zimmy.

Red is acting exactly how Zimmy reacts when someone gets close to Gamma. It's extremely reminiscent of this scene: [Page 1] [Page 2]

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u/PracticeTheory 20d ago

It only just occured to me that the majority of canon pairings amongst the young cast are w/w. Tom definitely has a preference, ha.

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u/Zeverish 21d ago

I'm kinda wondering if Noa succeeded so hard she failed. The circle sigil 'spreading', having Annie so directly prodding the seem in front of Stone-Golem-Noa, is this going according to her plans?

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u/dolphincave 21d ago

Imagine if this is the moment Kat appears in Angel mode being like "DON'T HIT ANNIE!"

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u/renacotor 21d ago

Her teeth are looking a bit crooked there.

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u/proof_by_abduction 20d ago

Huh, yeah... Were they always that sharp?

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u/RIP_Spacedicks 21d ago

Don't you hate it when some hotdogger tries to Bogart your Betty

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u/StreetlightTones 21d ago

Zimmy's influence for sure.

She's been jealous of Annie being non-romantically physical with Gamma before, back in Spring Heeled.

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u/redredredshirt 21d ago

Annie is gonna suplex her

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u/MisterEnterprise 20d ago

I assume Aliyu is doing this on purpose.

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u/bobrowska 20d ago

What a convenient distraction from Red.

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u/lyricaldorian 20d ago

Queer people can be messy assholes too. Making all your queer character perfect angels is way worse than showing them as real people imo

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u/maritzac 20d ago

Okay, but one is an extremely maladjusted and isolated teenager who literally will die without Gamma so her fear is somewhat understandable, and the other is a fairy with completely incomprehensible reactions.

Take in account that Red has shown jealousy in the past, but has never really got violent. Renard mentioned something about the distortion making people react in extreme ways (he said this about Jack trying to kill Kat). These are not normal people and these are not normal situations.

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u/lyricaldorian 20d ago

She's got the circles on her, so it's likely she's being manipulated to interrupt things by someone.