Gunnerkrigg Court

So basically, Kat just naturally sees back stage. Annie and Mort might have seen a giant monster, but that's not what he was. I suppose the difference between Dracula and Ankou is that Ankou really does look like that. I'm not sure why it's different for the ROTD and psychopomps, but still.

I think the psychopomps, certain fire head girls excepted, were never human. They're not disguised as freaky deathy things, they've been actual freaky deathy things since their genesis.

Oh, true. I guess the ether doesn't really change things, but only adds to them. Sort of like how Coyote probably wouldn't have ever been an actual coyote, but only the perception of one given form.

edited 14th Apr '14 12:16:17 AM by Arha

'Tain't what a horse coyote looks like. It's what a horse coyote be.

It makes sense: Kat is a pattern analysing specialist. Her hind brain has a right to throw up the "eh: this isn't what it looks like, but I can't put my finger on it" card and filtering out the obviously tacked-on drama (as far as it is concerned), while keeping the cheese to try getting the message to the frontal cortex.

edited 14th Apr '14 1:26:06 AM by Euodiachloris

That, or Kat can't see much of the Ether, so she just sees the smoke-and-mirrors stuff.

I guess this means that he is literally just wearing a halloween costume here.
Also, I have no way of proving this so feel free to not believe me, but I met Tom Siddell last Tuesday at a bubble tea shop in Manhattan for a "Gunnerkrigg Spooky Time Meetup" . It was awesome, yes. Anyway someone asked him about the ROTD arc and who was seeing the real ROTD, Kat or Annie, and Tom said they both were. He also said Jones would see something similar to Kat's view.

Coyote wasn't the concept or the animal, Coyote was the man who saw the animal.

Coyote is the ghost of the man who died and was eaten by the animal.

edited 14th Apr '14 8:58:16 AM by hcobb

Coyote is Man's Concept of the Animal?

You lucky son of a...

Of course you called it, Tom! You're writing the damn thing!

Coyote is the ghost of the man who died and was eaten by the animal.

Ah, that makes more sense.

Hey, some people don't get to call it very often.

No, Coyote is not some dude's ghost. He is nothing more than a perception of animal given form by someone who was dying and attributed abilities and power to it that a coyote just doesn't have. That's why he says he doesn't really exist: He's basically the delusion of a ton of people dying in the desert while scavengers waited for them to hurry up and die.

edited 14th Apr '14 6:17:09 PM by Arha

The memetic personification of "coyote-ness" Turned Up To Eleven

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The arrow and the damage done.

Man, that Diego. Tsk tsk.

...And, Kat has a symbol linked to him floating over her head. Hmmm.

What one can do, the other can pick apart and undo? Maybe?

edited 16th Apr '14 12:22:32 AM by Euodiachloris

Kat is Babbage to Diego's Turing, sure they can speak vaguely the same language (in terms of computers), but Diego way ahead. Give it another decade or two maybe.

Kat is the same kind of genius that Diego was. Worst case scenario Bad Powers, Good People.

Is the symbol they share linked to him personally, or to his abilities/way of seeing the world?

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Bound.

Okay, as if there wasn't already enough reasons to rescue Jeanne...

Once she's been broken free I wonder if there'll be a jurisdictional fight over who gets her.

I think the guides are at the point that they don't care who takes her, as long as someone does. I'm betting Annie ends up doing it.