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I say both are fake.

The rest of the chapter is Fake!Annie having an existential crisis.

I mean, they could still be half an Annie each, but I kind of want to see a Fake!Annie's reaction.

It’s kinda hard to tell at first whether it’s Kat or court-Annie speaking about wondering where Jones was, but the speech balloon has Annie’s coloring. And that seems like a very odd thing for her to say so calmly, given that she saw Jones get flung into the sky before the split.

True. I figured that just because she have seem she being thrown away, it didn't meant she knew Jones was in orbit. But you are right, it is a bit weird she said it so calmly.

Also the "Loup and I have been talking" line comes from Court-Annie, when it should probably have been Forest-Annie.

Ah, thanks. It's a little inconsistent in its appearances.

Edited by Geoduck on Nov 16th 2018 at 10:10:37 AM

No, it is forest-Annie. No makeup. They both have identical hair clips.

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I don't quite get how to interpret that expression in second-to-last panel. Filial jealousy? "See, I was right, I'm real after all"?

A spot of jealousy I'd say. And Antony is not having his daughters throwing angered accusations at each other.

They're both real, but the Wibbly Wobbly time of the forest meant that two possible scenarios happened (Loup had a talk and Loup didn't) resulting in a parallel Annie leaving early.

Yeah, this is a pretty valid option.

Alternatively it could be the Farscape method where neither knows if they are the clone or not.

@Jaabi: If it really is timeline splitting that caused this, then we'll know who's the xerox Annie when one of them can't write normally and starts bleeding from her ear.

Edited by MetaFour on Nov 19th 2018 at 8:05:32 AM

x4 Ooh, I like that idea.

Edit: I don't know if it would be considered "Loup's trick," per the chapter title, were that the case, however.

Edited by HeraldAlberich on Nov 19th 2018 at 1:27:54 PM

Yeah that's the only problem - the title implies Loup actively doing something. Something timey-wimey is more of a passive side-effect.

Short-haired Annie being a fake seems too clean an answer though.

Edited by Jaabi on Nov 21st 2018 at 12:02:18 AM

I read that more as Loup abused the time disruption to create/pull in an Alternate Annie, rather than it just happening.

Leaving us with two real Annies and possibly a timeline where Annie just disappeared. Which do you return? Can she be returned?

After doing what I laughingly call sleeping, I realised that there doesn't have to be a timeline where Annie disappears, because Loup can apply Hilbert's Infinite Hotel in reverse.

What if it's not timey-wimey things, but an illusion? We've seen Ayluu create one for Jeanne, it's possible that Loup, too, has such powers.

An "illusion" would have to be fooling all etheric and physical sense, so it's essentially the same as having a flesh and blood copy running around.

It fooled Jeanne for quite some time. And Loup is much more powerful than that faerie girl.

EDIT: Also, it's not quite the same. Flesh-and-blood copy would have to fool everyone. Illusion only needs to fool Annie.

MOAR EDIT: Illusion also was foreshadowed, all that talk about parallel universes and time-splitting is multiplying the entities.

Edited by Millership on Nov 20th 2018 at 11:49:01 PM

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Filling in.

I'm still expecting the concept of self-induced amnesia for role-playing purposes from the dead goose story to come back somehow.

I like how Tom goes more abstract cartoony with the faces sometimes, like Tony's lack of face in panel 2, or the dot eyes in the last panel.

Uh oh, what if they show Forest!Annie the Coyote stuff and she suddenly remembers she is a spy and yoinks them?

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Those guys.

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