Welp, you're never too experienced to not make dumb-ass mistakes occasionally. Yes, yes, Bang has a trilobite on her hat instead of a Wulfenbach sigil. This can be "fixed in post"– but I'm not happy about it.
Why Girl Genius, for me (3/?)
Because this page:
I read a lot of YA fantasy. ...a lot, a lot.
"oh no which boy will I choose" and "oh no I like the wrong boy" are MAJOR tropes (and timewasters) for far too many YA novels with (straight) female protagonists.
Kids and kittens, be told: it is boring.
Having a main character skip the whole trope because everything is on fire and she's busy and doesn't have time for this nonsense, declare as much, and then continue getting work done... I have been waiting YEARS, probably DECADES, to see that. Such perfect delight has few equals.
I think my comment to myself at this point was simply, "FINALLY."
(I also appreciate that this promise to Violetta was eventually kept. Good continuity, excellent work.)
