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[RedKing]

Uhh...anybody else get the feeling that Coyote's "utter, manipulative Xanatos bastard" side is about to reveal itself?

[miauw62]

It's been pretty obvious that Coyote is a manipulative bastard from the start, imo.

[penguinofhonor]

Every time I laugh at his antics, I remember him ripping a begging Ysengrin's memories out of his mind. I am mentally prepared for this.

[Arx]

Anyone know who the brown-haired girl is offhand? I don't recognise her, but I feel like there's backstory here. Unless she's the rabbit?

[My Name is Immaterial]

I'm pretty sure she's the Jackalope.

[Arx]

I'm pretty sure she's the Jackalope.

Cool, consistent with what I thought. I tend to stop reading for a few weeks at a time and then catch up, so I forget the details sometimes.

[hops]

I think it's a he. Not-snake guy said that animal people are male to complement all-female fairy people, I think. Also, looking back at him and this guy, it seems to me that animal people tend to look androgynous. Huh. I bet it's something to do with the Court choosing their gender for them.

[Haspen]

Wasn't there some lore bit in earlier comics that 'animals always turn to boys and fairies into girls' to maintain a specific ratio or something?

[hops]

That's what I'm saying though. :u

[Shinziril]

Yes, that's all correct.  The jackalope was female originally, but animals that become human always end up as boys (she was aware of this, and didn't mind).  The latter is because the Court demands (gender) balance, and the fairies always end up female.  The page after that one also has a partial shot of the jackalope's new body in its growth tank. 

This does raise the question of what pronouns are appropriate.  I would assume that the mind remains the same, but the jackalope didn't mind that she would end up in a male body, so presumably she also wouldn't mind being referred to as male now? (shrug)

The other animalboys we met in Chapter 36 mostly acted like boys, insofar as it's possible to tell at all. 

[penguinofhonor]

Damn it Ysengrin. You're supposed to compliment her new haircut even if you don't think it looks that good. This guy has no manners.

[RedKing]

Ysengrin, Fashion Critic.

[Arx]

It seems to be the week* for screwing Annie's independence in favour of your personal opinion of what she should do.

*In-comic. Assuming it's a week. Doesn't seem like it's been too long.

[penguinofhonor]

People do tend to treat high schoolers that way.

[Culise]

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So, hey, releasing a very, very angry fire elemental in the middle of a forest through a person who was so unable or unwilling to keep it in check that she simply cut her connection to it down to the bare minimum possible.  Can't possibly go wrong, right?

That said, repression isn't really the answer any more than catharsis is.  I just think that this is spectacularly able to backfire...pun not intended.

EDIT: Actually, thinking about it, I wonder if this will cause the fire elemental half to snap back into Annie or if it'll just snap the connection between the two...