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leletha-jann reblogged
SHUT UP SHUT UP WAIT SHUT UP
Gil has never known his father to be wrong about anything, until Agatha.
Except Klaus was also wrong about Tarvek.
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I think Ankh Morpork and Mechanicsburg would be sister cities.
- Officially, they're sister cities. Unofficially, it's a "Best Friends Each Secretly Think Of The Other As Sidekick" situation.
- The Heterodynes did actually try to invade Ankh Morpork, once or twice, but although it's easy enough to get in, it's a twisty hellish maze of a city, and the people are so artful, cunning, and surprisingly vicious. Let's just say, even the Jägers would hesitate to go down an Ankh Morpork alley alone.
- The seamstresses get along quite well with the Jägers, who are always gentlemanly and tip well. Mama and Rosy have tea, sometimes.
- (The Jägerfraulein are not seamstresses. Morporkians who make that mistake learn they are washer women, in that they will beat you against a rock while they submerge you in the river.)
- (That is not a metaphor.)
- When Van was younger, he had a poster of Vetinari in his room.
- Now he has it in his office.
- The Jägers don't like talking to Captain Carrot. They're not sure why, exactly, he just...makes them feel weird. Not even bad weird, just. Weird. Many a Jäger has woken from a daze to find himself helping people across the street, or rescuing kittens from trees, with no knowledge of how he got there, or why he's doing it. The last thing they remember was being approached by a tall, red-haired man who smelled very strongly of soap and wore a very friendly expression.
- Speaking of Jägers, they're not welcome in Biers. Not because they don't qualify - they're no less not-undead than werewolves are - but because they're just too damn cheerful. Completely ruins the mood.
- The assassins guild does not take contracts out on Heterodynes. They read the account of Don Giorello. They know better.
- Sometimes the triumvirate goes to Ankh Morpork so the two weasels can socialize--I mean, so Tarvek can have tea with Vetinari.
- Vimes would REALLY like Klaus.
- Klaus would REALLY like Vimes.
- Vetinari does NOT like Klaus because Klaus keeps trying to poach his guard captain, and is fully aware that the only reason it isn't working is because Vimes loves Ankh Morpork too much to leave.
- Klaus 🤝Vimes
- ^loving their wives who can beat them up
- Vetinari also does not like Klaus because Klaus goes roaring through the political landscape like a bull in a china shop, trampling over everyone's carefully laid plans and hurling his weight around like its going out of style, and it is extremely annoying that it keeps working.
- (yes, Vetinari is aware Vimes does the exact same thing, but that is different, it is extremely useful to Vetinari when Vimes does it, and Vimes only pisses off or annihilates one political enemy at a time except when he pisses off all of them at once, and, it's just, it's different, okay, it just is, shut up.)
- The Jägers may not like talking to Carrot, but they do like talking to Angua, because they can smell what she is, and they like that* in a girl.
- *ability to tear a man's throat out with her teeth
- Moist von Lipwig went to Mechanicsburg once, knowing it would be full of easily fooled tourists, but left fairly quickly. Mechanicsburgers know a fellow shyster when they see one, they're better at it than he is, and they're very territorial.
- (Also, their head guard is an extremely cranky ex-Jäger, and the Baron is fairly lax about torn-off arms if they're torn off the right people.)
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To be perfectly honest I think a lot of Klaus’ motivation in wanting to get Gil married at the beginning of the comics is less to do with politics and more to do with suppressed terror at who exactly Gil would find of his own volition.
Does Klaus actually care about something like a marital alliance with the nobility all that much? No, his main attitude most of the time is ‘fuck those guys’. Is he trying to do damage control on the ticking time bomb of Gil’s up until now suspiciously harmless dating life? Possibly.
Because he remembers his mother joking in her letters asking him when he’s going to bring someone home from college and him using the standing invitation to turn up at the gates with two Heterodynes and a shit-eating grin.
He remembers spending half of college and all of his twenties in weirdly charged sword fights over gaping chasms, making out with about half the more deranged sparks they came across, blatantly flirting with the Lord Heterodyne whenever he got a bit tipsy etc.
The first time he met his wife it ended with her sword on his throat. He’d fallen in love with her fairly quickly after that.
The less said about Lucrezia the better.
Usually when he got worried that Gil might turn out too like him he found reassurance in the fact that he could reasonably take after his mother. Except Zantabraxus married him so clearly her genetics are no help in this regard.
The moment he learns who exactly Gil has been mooning over the past week he realises that he was both entirely justified and too late so this is going to be his life now (somewhere beyond the veil the late Baron and Baronin are cackling).
Then he finds out that Gil is also dating a fucking politician and he gives up. Clearly he’s been cursed with Klaus’ taste in women but his taste in men is somehow worse.
He gets over it eventually (and by eventually I mean it takes several quite literally explosive attempts before you could bet that a family dinner wouldn’t cause both a diplomatic and military disaster).
I hope we get more details about the intensely dramatic love life Klaus seems to have had. A solid streak of murder attempts on his record... I wonder what Albia's looked like.
I imagine Klaus' initial reaction to Agatha Clay being something like "oh Gil DOES have a type, and that type is harmless lab assistants. Phew." and then backpedaling rapidly a few days later. I guess marrying a noble lady rather than Ms Clay would be a bit less like throwing some poor soul into the shark tank that is Europan politics. The only issue is that Agatha and Tarvek are the sharks (who only want the best for Gil, they assure you).
I want to see the eventual family dinner post-canon so bad. I have to wait, but still.
leletha-jann: #girl genius#worldbuilding#character analysis#yes excellent#say more#klaus wulfenbach#histories we desperately need#so annoying when klaus is right#but in this case he was right about what gil would do if left unsupervised#he has no idea and i cannot WAIT for him to find out#bring popcorn
Imagine if the first time Gilvek is explicitly acknowledged is because Klaus looks around, assumes they're already together, and then complains about that assumed reality to their faces.
(Yeah, they're basically already together, but I'm sure the boys haven't actually talked about the Thing between them specifically.)
Imagine the reaction panels from that.
Especially because you just know that the first thing out of Gil's mouth is going to be defensive, and that it's going to be said before his brain starts processing the implications of what Klaus said.
Gil: *snapped remark that's defensive of his ability to make his own choices and/or protective of Tarvek*
Gil: *processes that his father just claimed that he and Tarvek, specifically, are together*
Gil: *processes the fact that his response essentially confirmed that in a room full of witnesses*
Gil: *bluescreens*
I feel like Agatha's reaction is just "Oh. Okay then," if she hasn't realized the exact flavor of tension between her boys. Otherwise she's just immediately jumping in to defend them.
Meanwhile Tarvek, who was at first silent from the initial shock, is still not saying anything. Because there's now a wave of people defending this supposed relationship? One of them is Gil?
So now he's just that meme of the lady doing math, trying to figure out if he somehow missed him and Gil Officially Becoming A Thing at some point.
Tarvek: Are we actually together now? Could i just...walk up and kiss him if I wanted? At what point in all this did I start being allowed to do that? WAIT. Oh God, I unknowingly crossed into an alternate universe at some point didn't I? Okay, when would that have happened?
(While the boys are still embodying living Error Messages, several other people present have picked up arguing with Klaus. One of them is Bang, who had to watch these two dance around each other for practically the entire time she was in Paris, and is threatening serious bodily harm to everyone present if Klaus manages to fuck this up now.)
I feel like Agatha at least suspects and is waiting for them to do something about it. Because if she says she wants to keep both of them, which she does, they'll say yes just because it's her saying so. They gotta figure it out themselves, it's gotta be their idea, and she's not going to help them.
Unless they're being really stupid about it, maybe.
#girl genius#headcanons and speculations#say more#laugh#it got better#ot3#these disaster boys i swear#they're very cute#yes this sounds right#bring more popcorn#gilgamesh wulfenbach#tarvek sturmvoraus#agatha heterodyne#klaus wulfenbach#everyone around them DOES assume they're all together by now#that no one's stopped to actually ask#i think they're the only people who DON'T know at this point#bluescreen those boys real good#we believe in this
leletha-jann reblogged
To be perfectly honest I think a lot of Klaus’ motivation in wanting to get Gil married at the beginning of the comics is less to do with politics and more to do with suppressed terror at who exactly Gil would find of his own volition.
Does Klaus actually care about something like a marital alliance with the nobility all that much? No, his main attitude most of the time is ‘fuck those guys’. Is he trying to do damage control on the ticking time bomb of Gil’s up until now suspiciously harmless dating life? Possibly.
Because he remembers his mother joking in her letters asking him when he’s going to bring someone home from college and him using the standing invitation to turn up at the gates with two Heterodynes and a shit-eating grin.
He remembers spending half of college and all of his twenties in weirdly charged sword fights over gaping chasms, making out with about half the more deranged sparks they came across, blatantly flirting with the Lord Heterodyne whenever he got a bit tipsy etc.
The first time he met his wife it ended with her sword on his throat. He’d fallen in love with her fairly quickly after that.
The less said about Lucrezia the better.
Usually when he got worried that Gil might turn out too like him he found reassurance in the fact that he could reasonably take after his mother. Except Zantabraxus married him so clearly her genetics are no help in this regard.
The moment he learns who exactly Gil has been mooning over the past week he realises that he was both entirely justified and too late so this is going to be his life now (somewhere beyond the veil the late Baron and Baronin are cackling).
Then he finds out that Gil is also dating a fucking politician and he gives up. Clearly he’s been cursed with Klaus’ taste in women but his taste in men is somehow worse.
He gets over it eventually (and by eventually I mean it takes several quite literally explosive attempts before you could bet that a family dinner wouldn’t cause both a diplomatic and military disaster).
I hope we get more details about the intensely dramatic love life Klaus seems to have had. A solid streak of murder attempts on his record... I wonder what Albia's looked like.
I imagine Klaus' initial reaction to Agatha Clay being something like "oh Gil DOES have a type, and that type is harmless lab assistants. Phew." and then backpedaling rapidly a few days later. I guess marrying a noble lady rather than Ms Clay would be a bit less like throwing some poor soul into the shark tank that is Europan politics. The only issue is that Agatha and Tarvek are the sharks (who only want the best for Gil, they assure you).
I want to see the eventual family dinner post-canon so bad. I have to wait, but still.