Jeanne's ghost is on the Court side of the Annan.
The TicTocs dropped Annie off on the Forest side in Ch 8.
(Ysengrin confirms that this dead Tic Toc
was on the Forest side
.) Jeanne was on the opposite shore
, and was believed to be unable to cross the river
. And after that inexplicable attempted face-cutting incident, Jeanne was shown back on the Court shore, as Kat and Annie were flying away.
My theory:
Jeanne tried to become a nonhuman to reenter the woods, but the transmigration process wasn't as refined in her time period as it was when Alastair and family did it, and she failed, trapping her on the GK side of the waters. Diego doesn't understand the spiritual side of things, and concluded that she was dead, and blamed Young, because he helped her die. Muut can't help her because she's not really dead, just waiting for a new body, and she attacked Annie because Annie was on the wrong side of the Waters, and Jeanne either
A. wanted to warn her or get her attention, B. was mad at Surma for failing to rescue her in the past. C. or otherwise, she was jealous that Annie could cross and she couldn't, and wanted to kill her.
I don't really like that last option because Jeanne doesn't seem like the jealous or cruel type, but it seems reasonable otherwise. It's hard to imagine why the Jeanne we are getting to know now would attack anyone.
We're not just men of science, we're men of TROPE!...Because living alone as a ghost for years and years and years with your goal just out of reach all that time could possibly warp a person's mind?
edited 5th Dec '09 12:51:50 PM by LizardBite
I was thinking about that. The laser cows were built by Diego, right? And the park is definitely part of the Court. So maybe after whatever happened to Jeanne, he changed his mind and embraced the goal of preserving at least some of the Court's natural beauty. That explains why he built robots to care for nature, in the form of the L Cs.
I also wonder if Jeanne's desire to keep the trees in the Court relates in some way to the Cherry Tree we saw a long time ago.
We're not just men of science, we're men of TROPE!
The cherry tree is the last remaining tree from before Coyote created the divide. Diego lobbied to preserve it after Jeanne's death, but it's so intensely magical that, all these generations later, it still isn't cleared to be moved from the decontamination chambers.
And I wonder where Sir Young fits into this particular debate, considering how he was buried in that park.
I completely forgot about this page
. So the cherry tree and all of the trees in the park come from the Gillitie Forest. But the Park's trees no longer have a link to the forest, so presumably Ysengrin can't control them and Dryads from the forest wouldn't be able to use them like Marcia can. But that implies that the Cherry Tree is not yet decontaminated of the Forest's influence. Hmmmmm...
Now that chapter seems to have a lot more significance than just a camping trip. It establishes how the Court became more than the place of technology that Diego wanted, and perhaps Jeanne's death was the cause of that.
We're not just men of science, we're men of TROPE!For anyone who have a Steam, I just crated a Gunnerkrigg steam group.
Feel free to join. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GunnerkriggCourt
Man, if I was a robot that would be awfully disturbing to watch.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI'd say it's just the light from the window and the general scratchiness of the footage.
Dang Will, your avatar looks so much like me in real life it's not even funny.
edited 7th Dec '09 12:20:25 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectSo is "he" Sir Young, away at training like Eglamore would be many generations later, or someone we haven't met yet, who ended up on the other side when the Court and the Wood were divided?

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Backstory!So now we have a definitive answer as to why the Robots all love Jeanne.
And Cambot is a good climber.
edited 4th Dec '09 12:08:35 AM by MetaFour