Chapter 77: Page 17
gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2338Posted Jul 31, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC
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Can't wait to see how Tom is gonna depict the Norns!
Also, anyone else realize that it is extremely unlikely that viking waifu Brinnie has looked at Kat in the ether yet? I wonder if the Norns will.
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I was under the impression it took an extra, extra-perceptive being or special circumstances to see Kat's nightmarish form, not just any ether-peering being. Like Zimmy sees it but not Renard, right? And Annie looks into the ether all the time and she never saw Kat that way until they were meddling with the Arrow.
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Yeah, it seems like Kat only looks like that when the ether is disrupted which both Zimmy and the Arrow do. I'm curious about the why, given that ether and time have a strange relationship, I'd expect Kat to always appear in her nightmare form. Hopefully the Norns can clear it up for me.
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I think the catch is that you have to see Kat without her body to see eldritch horror godkat. Annie only sees her like that in the Arrow because it's the first (and only) time Kat enters the ether with her mind and not her body.
Every other time Kat has been in the ether? Like in the RotD or in Zimmingham on the boat? She's gone there physically, so we see her body.
And FWIW, idk that anyone other than Zimmy has looked at Kat etherically (and even then, Zimmy only because she can't control it). Tom has been very careful to keep her apart from Coyote, Ys, and Loup, who have similar bullshit-piercing sight as Zimmy, and I don't think Renard has ever really had a reason to scrutinize her close enough to get a glimpse of it. Jeanne might have been able to see it if she looked close enough, but she was busy at the time.
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I think that Loup actually noticed her here: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2221
Notice that Kat was right next to Renard at the time: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2235
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I was about to write a post, but then I scrolled down and saw you said what I was trying to say, only better. I was phrasing it as "Annie wasn't in the ether with Kat."
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Do we know Renard doesn't see it? Or does he just not mention it?
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Renard is a good friend and a good friend would tell you if you were a eldritch being beyond mortal comprehension.
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A good friend would take it in stride and not let it become a thing.
Annie was raised outside the court though. She might be a little more... Traditional.
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"Pardon me, Katerina."
"What's up, Rey?"
"Your eyelash-tube-spine-sinews are stretching through the living room and poking me at the window."
"Sorry Rey, I'll turn around."
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I'm interested in how the Norns look to Kat.
Will the meeting take place in an etheric place like the RotD? Will the Norn look like nosy little grandmas in a knitting circle to Kat but great mystic oracles to Annie?
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I think they’d be normal like how Brinnie, gods, and psychopomps are.
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☝️ Asking the real questions here
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It's possible she hasn't thought of looking at Kat in the ether. So far she hasn't been given a reason to.
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Given how everyone freaked Out when they saw her Ether Form, she Most definitely hasnt
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She doesn’t look strange in the ether normally. It’d only be special circumstances that make her strange form visible.
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I would love another Kat's eye view, honestly. Maybe with some very quick sprinkles of how things appear to others.
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Anja looks just pleased as punch.
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What are the odds Anja has already figured out Kat is going to ascend, which is why she's confident the future-seeing Norns will want to see her?
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I just think she knows it's important to fate. Annie was fated to live, meaning that Kat was fated to send [the tiktok] back. They'll want to deal with it.
Either that, or as was suggested back when she gave Kat the key to the lab, she knows there's something special about her daughter in general. Like maybe her godhood status.
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Dang her breast are huge
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They're the Norns. She already has an appointment.