Gunnerkrigg Court/Haiku

A red-haired cypher,
young scientist, fox demon:
Our protagonists.

— Meta Four

New friends, psychopomps,
demons, robots, trickster gods:
Coolest school ever.

— Meta Four

Ask around the court,
Everyone will agree.
Boxbot: Terrible.

— Janaro

Chapter One begins:
Robot 13, Shadow 2
Take It to the Bridge.

Two: We meet a myth
Living in a labyrinth.
(He has a time share.)

Three: A strange meeting.
Rogat Orjak hits the roof;
Annie hits her head.

Four: A timid ghost
Haunts the halls of Gunnerkrigg,
Not very scary.

Five: Zeta, Gamma,
Enter in the science fair.
Kat makes zero-G.

Six: Girls find cherries
Growing in a hidden room;
Memories bring tears.

Seven: On the bridge,
Robot 13 acting strange;
A disastrous fall.

Treatise Number One
Tells us, [[Pretentious Latin Motto "Pray, read, read again,
Work, and you shall find."]]

Eight: A blinker stone,
Ghosts and suicide fairies.
Kat to the rescue!

Nine: Questions are asked;
Answers just bring more questions.
Reynardine may speak.

Ten: Go, Spacemonauts!
Aliens from outer space!
Earth is saved! (For now...)

Eleven: We see
What goes on in Zimmy's mind
While she waits for rain.

Twelve: Some robots have
Antennae, and they don't lie.
Annie's skills amaze.

Thirteen: Kat's first crush;
She likes him, and he likes her,
'Til he flies away.

Fourteen: Gods visit.
Coyote has a rude nose ...
Beware the spankies!

Treatise Number Two:
Kat is dressed as Eglamore;
Annie, as Surma.

Fifteen: Red returns.
Blue will be her BFF
'Cause her hair goes up.

Sixteen: Young Annie
Can face danger, because of
What her mother said.

Seventeen: Parley,
Medium is a Large Ham
When she talks like that.

Eighteen: More robots,
Secret shrine to Jeanne. [[Meaningful Echo "She died
And we did nothing."]]

Nineteen: Late one night,
Annie and Jack find themselves
Inside Zimmy's head.

Twenty: In the woods,
Visiting with Coyote,
Annie pokes the Moon.

Twenty-One: A note,
Blinker stone and psychopomp,
Magic computer.

Twenty-Two: We learn
Who's that girl in the photo.
Jimmy punches jerk.

Treatise Number Three:
Annie has Coyote's eye.
Kat's mind on machines.

Break Time: "City Face"
Fairy must teach bird to dance,
Or the world will end!

Twenty-Three: Action!
We travel to Ganymede!
(Then to Parley's bed.)

Twenty-Four: Camping
In the misty countryside.
Laser cows are cool.

Twenty-Five: "Oh no!
A sad face! The saddest face!"
Count of angels: one.

Twenty-Six: New tricks
Taught by old dog; true faces
Seen in the ether.

Twenty-Seven: Jack
Asks Annie where Zimmy is;
Reynardine is trapped.

— Eddurd

Alas! Kat can't sleep.
She'll do work to pass the time.
Then drools on the desk.

— Nat The Writer

Twenty-Eight: Who's who?
Zimmingham full of spiders
Zimmy saves tired Jack

— Forthur

Twenty-Nine: Kat finds
An abandoned baby bird
It's very ugly.

— Pencilsoot

Thirty: Vengeful ghost
Forces Parley to confront
What is in her heart.

Thirty-One: Annie
Has her mother's fire [[Literal Metaphor (in the
Most literal sense).]]

Treatise Number Four:
Girls separate, yet are bound;
Jeanne's heart is wounded.

Now: City Face 2!
Birds eat bagels, and become
Human businessmen!

Thirty-two: New year;
Girls fight, then are friends again
(Once Annie showers).

Thirty-three: Angel
Gives life to the Court robots;
Takes it back, as well.

Thirty-four: Night out ...
Jack and Annie aren't in love;
Will and Janet, yes.

Thirty-five: Training,
Parley cuts Robot with tooth;
Shadow is 3-D.

Thirty-six: In class,
Brains and bodies disconnect;
Red now has a name.

Thirty-seven: Dad
Rendezvoused with Microsat
Five, then flew away.

— Eddurd