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That last panel. "We all float here."
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You know, it's a bit weird. I'm positive that Coyote knew Ysengrin would tear him apart since that's how the Forest does things, but I'm not sure if he was specifically aiming to be shredded to mess with Annie or if he's hoping that Ysengrin will go on to break more things. And I'm not really sure what it means for him to 'die' here since I think he'd want to watch the fun.
Odds Coyote planned this are down, but I'm still expecting him to put himself back together when all is said and done with a "well, that sucked."
edited 23rd Feb '18 3:05:47 AM by Elfive
it's a living
This one's for all the marbles.
And yeah, this would be an awfully abrupt way for Coyote to exit the story, so I'm inclined to doubt it'll go that far. Not sure what's going to happen with Ys, though, or what exactly that red stripe represents. Knowledge?
The red stripe is Coyote's strength, isn't it? He transferred it from himself to Ysengrin. Or did you mean a different red stripe?
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Yes, but what is Coyote's strength? His madness? I wouldn't put that past him, actually.
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it's a living
Yeah, I was expecting it to be something more metaphorical than just raw physical strength.
Ysengrin is barely containing his rage, even in the best of times. He has also stated that he follows and obeys Coyote because he is the strongest. It's entirely possible that now that Coyote relinquished his "strength", Ysengrin sees no reason to continue obeying him and wants to get revenge for all of the pain and humiliation he has been put through.
Coyote knows this. After all, he has been selectively excising memories from Ysengrin for years. He has been grooming Ysengrin to believe that if he can become stronger than Coyote, then he has a chance to finally be rid of him.
The way I see it, this can go one of a couple of ways:
1)- Whatever Coyote gifted Ys with wasn't "strength" and is in fact some cursed attribute that will cause further harm.
2)- The red stripe is indeed a representation of his raw physical strength and Coyote is planning on causing Ysengrin to go berserk and potentially attack the court.
3)- The red stripe represents Coyote's ability to retroactively manipulate time and Ysengrin will use his new ability to send Jones back into the distant past after a climactic battle thus creating a Stable Time Loop (No I will never stop trying to find ways to tie everything back to Chapter 40: "The Stone".)
Get heckin crabbed
ANNIE WHY ARE YOU STILL THERE.
I have a bad feeling that when Ysengrin gets his memories back, the wolf Annie knows will be gone.
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Agreed...not a stretch to think that he's going to completely snap when he realizes how much Coyote's Mind Raped him.
edited 24th Feb '18 8:18:17 PM by Willbyr
I doubt Yse is going to see it that way. In fact I suspect it'll calm him down as he finally learns from his experiences.
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I'm assuming that he already has which is why he's tearing Coyote into gobby bits.
Pretty sure those are his eaten memories leaving Coyote's corpse in the latest strip, so I'd say no, he didn't know until now.
He knew what Coyote was doing to him. He just didn't know what memories were stolen.
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Huh, didn't notice he's out of his tree armor.
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Get heckin crabbed
I'm so worried the next page is going to be him one-shotting Smitty. The boy needs a break.
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I had that same thought.
I dunno. Ysengrin was pretty vicious there, but against someone that he explicitly hates (and loves, but he lost that feeling the moment Coyote became weaker than him) and who has wronged him terribly for years. And he knows it. And he didn't just kill him, he seemingly attacked him to get his memories back.
You're making a pretty big assumption with that last statement.
It also could be that getting his memories back actually calms him down. It's possible reliving the memories of himself making the same mistake again and again and again in a short span of time teaches him something.
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Gee, those lights look familiar.
The big question: Is Ysengrin getting back all the memories Coyote took from him? Or is Coyote playing dead and only giving back the memories that he wants Y to have?