| This page is about the character, for the chapter of the same name, see Chapter 59: Jeanne |
Jeanne, also known as The Ghost of Annan Waters, was a deceased woman of some stature who was affiliated with the Court. Her silent ghost haunted the craggy spurts of rock that jut out at the foot of the Annan Bridge, surrounded by the icy water, for a long time after her death.
Jeanne's portrait.
Beneath the school in a side warehouse lies an amphitheater, which houses a painting and a shrine built to Jeanne. It is presumed that this was created by Diego, who admired her from afar.
It seems that every robot in the Court other than the Tic-tocs, who Diego did not create and can't (as far as we know) speak, are programmed upon hearing her name to say, "She died and we did nothing". Both Robot and Sky Watcher do this.
As a living person, Jeanne is always seen wearing a red choker around her neck (except for the time just before her death). In her appearance as a ghost, the choker is gone.
History[]
Nothing is known about Jeanne's life before she came to the court, although she seems to be French.
Life at the Court[]
Jeanne contemplating her role in the Court, while others look upon her with their own designs in mind.Art by Tom Siddell?
A soldier and excellent swordsman, Jeanne lived at the court before it was separated from the forest (this might be around the 1800s or so). Around this time, she fell in love with a tree elf of the forest, and the two pursued a relationship, while Diego developed an obsession with her.
After the Court and Forest were separated by Coyote, Jeanne became depressed, partly because she did not like the direction the society of the Court was going in, but mostly because she was not allowed to see her elf lover.
The elf not being present anymore, Diego believed he had a shot now, and decided to give her many robots instructed to love her. When he tried to talk to her about the elf, however, she became furious and made it very clear that she had no interest in him by destroying most of his gifts in a rage after he speaks to her callously.
Perhaps jealous that he could not win her affection himself, Diego crafted a plan along with the other Court officials that involved the sacrifice of Jeanne.
When Jeanne was informed of her job she did not want any part of it, but was still forced to have her lover meet her in the gorge one night.
Jeanne's skeleton at the bottom of the ravine.
When her lover came from across the waters to meet her, Steadman used a specially designed arrow to murder the tree elf. Her heart was broken, the device trapped and eventually discarded her body, and the furious remains of her spirit haunted the waters, presumably by the Court's intention.
Post Life[]
Through her history of inhabiting the gorge she's killed many creatures, mostly of Gillitie Wood, but she even managed to kill a psychopomp known as Lamet.
In her first appearance, in Chapter 8: Broken Glass and Other Things, she's seen as nothing but a bright light in the distance. Later, in the same chapter, she lightly cut Antimony Carver on the face with her sword. The wound only appears whenever she enters the Etheric realm, but has done so completely consistently ever since. Despite Muut, Mort and the Fairies' stated belief that her ghost would be unable to cross the waters, she was nonetheless able to appear on the opposite bank.
Over one in-comic year later, in Chapter 30: The Coward Heart, Katerina Donlan tries to spy on her through the Blinker stone, but Jeanne steals the stone, trapping the stone’s owner (who happened to be Annie Carver) and George Parley in the ether with her. She then shows them a brief synopsis of her life, explaining her rage, before she tries to kill them both, annoyed that Annie did not heed her previous warning to leave and feeling taunted by Parley’s visible love for Andrew Smith. Fortunately she fails as Parley kicks the stone out of her hand.
Roughly one more year later, Annie and Kat tried throwing some cameras down into her area, but she would always destroy them before they even hit the water.
Final Fate[]
In Chapter 59: Jeanne and Chapter 60: The Other Shore, Annie, Kat, Parley, Andrew, Red and Blue finally face Jeanne by using Blue’s illusion powers to make her believe that Parley is an old friend whom she is talking to while planning to send her on through Annie’s powers, but Jeanne breaks through from the illusion and lashes out at the group. After Andrew is nearly killed by Jeanne, Annie succeeds and helps her reunite with her lover and sends them both into the ether. Before they leave, Jeanne wipes the cut off of Antimony’s etheric self.
Trivia[]
- In her flashback during Chapter 30, Jeanne is seen wearing the same symbol on her fencing uniform that Aata an his team have (two orange dots under a straight line)
Appearances[]
- First appears as a mysterious bright light on the opposite shore in Chapter 8, Page 6.
- Appears as a ghost in Chapter 8, Page 19.
- A painting of her appears in Chapter 18, Page 35.
- Appears in painting form and in a video record flashback in Chapter 25, Page 13
- Plays a major part in Chapter 30, Page 7.
- shown in a recording on Chapter 46, Page 3.