Girl Genius

"Fabulously wealthy" always makes me think of snooty guys and gals dripping with furs and with too much jewelry.

But considering the Heterodynes apparently have a cooler version of Scrooge's money bin, it does seem to apply.

Well Franz has seen the Heterodynes go full on Mac Duck to even warrant the question of wanting to swim in the gold.

They say that the TRULY wealthy upper-class people have enough money to not need to look or act wealthy or upper-class.

It's an odd paradox.

Right! Go visit an ancestral British country estate and look around. The guy in the really tattered, disreputable tweed coat,driving the muddy banged up Land Rover is his lordship.

Well before we get the page we are getting to the point we are nearing the Chew Chew Train again. What are the chances it went and self modified itself?

How will it react to Agatha once she shows she is a member of her family?

How intelligent is the Chew Chew Train?

Will we keep on Tweedle and co or will we switch to Gil?

We will know that in the nearer GG time in the same GG channel.

Just realized we have a time-line clue here! The cook mentions his roast being done. The roast is almost certainly meat, so it must be at some point after December 25. (During the Nativity Fast, eating meat is forbidden unless you have a medical condition that makes abstaining from meat impossible or you live on the north pole and literally have no food that doesn't come from an animal)

So on the one hand, no touching canon Christmas special, but on the other hand, no forced and boring Christmas special.

edited 24th Nov '14 1:18:09 PM by ElfKid2.0

When does the nativity fast begin?

(it's like in Gremlins: When does "after midnight" end?)

edited 24th Nov '14 1:33:03 PM by Medinoc

November 15, in the Orthodox Christian Church. I can't speak for any other denominations.

Roman Catholic doesn't observe a Nativity Fast at all.

We're talking about a Church riven by Schism so who knows whatever branch the Corbetites follow has to say on the matter.

The Corbettites observe only one fast, and that's the "Goes Fast".

Page!

*laughing* Oh, oh my. This is, not forgetting how awful he can be, one of Tweedle's better pages. He's mad at Brother Vadraxxus — which is actually understandable — but does control his temper, acknowledge the merits of someone else's plan... and, um, then identify the alarmingly obvious problem with it once he has the information. And a lack of physical courage has never been one of his faults, although Sparky curiosity just might be. [lol

edited 24th Nov '14 5:11:05 PM by Schefflera

I could actually see some of our heroes reacting almost exactly the same way.

This page actually helps build Tweedle as an effective Villain. Yes, he's evil, but that doesn't mean that he's stupid. He can behave reasonably, cede to the authority and expertise of others, and even demonstrate courage in the face of adversity. Therefore, we must be forced to grant him grudging respect as well as hate, and we are forced to assume that (on and encounter-by-encounter scale) the heroes are not guaranteed resounding victory against him.

In short- Good page! Maybe the Beast (whom Tweedle knows next to nothing about) will eat the bastard!

One can only hope!

Nah, his army will probably end up severely depleted before this is over, but he'll personally survive a while yet.

I wonder if Tweedle's been reading the crib notes version of the Evil Overlord lists.

(Tarvek and Klaus probably have annotated copies, since whether you're planning to be an EO or not, they do have some very good advice for leaders in general.)

On an unrelated note: That's the Corbettite's kitchen? It looks like the command center of a submarine.

It's a kitchen designed by Sparks, what do you expect?

Ha! I love this page! I like this Tweedle. He's fun to watch.

The more I stare at it, the more I am getting almost Baron-like vibes from Martellus on this page. (Almost. Not exactly.) It makes me wonder... is Martellus taking on bits of the role Evil!Gil was originally meant to play? The Foglios seem to be working their way back to their older ideas, so perhaps they're reviving some of that never-saw-the-page character, too, and simply applying him to Martellus.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned getting Gil-ish vibes from him way back when, likely accentuated by the way he doesn't fit the mold we'd expect of Tarvek's kin.

The feeling I get from Evil Gil (from the sketches) is that he was far more of an irresponsible Spark in, actually, more the mould of the Old Heterodynes. Things like him asking to borrow a war stomper to destroy the village of a girl he likes.

I dunno. Tweedle sometimes strikes me as Tarvek's attitude without Tarvek's social skills. Although the "I'm going to take a look at it" is more Gil-like. And Tarvek and Klaus are both up there when it comes to "most exasperated character", something Tweedle's been competing for lately

...So, from Chew-Chew Train to Gravy Train? Is that where we're going?

Chew Chew Train gets gravy to keep on chewing.

Well most individuals in the GG verse have seen enough downfalls in their real life that they do have their lists to be genre savvy. The ones who read it might vary though.

For example, I wouldn't be surprised if Agatha had read the Evil Empress list, but Ferritina the Weasel Queen (for example) had not.

In the GG world, the most genre-savvy characters rise to the top. All others just try to survive.

And don't always succeed.