Girl Genius

And who is the woman Voltaire is comforting?

I'm guessing Queen Alba of England.

Voltaire explicitly said he's the last survivor, so if that was the Iron Sheik, he's been replaced one way or the other.

I will be very surprised if it turned out that was Albia.

edited 27th Feb '17 10:43:15 AM by Geoduck

It's possible he meant "last one in Europa," since he doesn't appear to be counting Albia. Or maybe that woman isn't Albia, and she wasn't involved in the final battle against Andronicus.

Chances are we are talking about a descendant of Andronicus, a daughter or granddaughter, or if you recall there is a joke around the 50 wives or something when they had storyteller Phil talking to Klaus. Or heck even one of those aforementioned wives whom had to deliver said blow.

Didn't Tarvek or someone say that if all the accounts were true, half of Europe would be descended from the Storm King?

Gil said it to Zola while in Castle Heterodyne, when she was detailing the fake Heterodyne/new Storm King plan.

It's probably the fictional equivalent of the real life phenomenon of a promiscuous ruler combined with a number of pretenders (which of course tend to multiply in the instance of a promiscuous ruler, since royal bastards-in-the-literal-sense are easier to believe when you know a bunch are about), followed by all of those claimants having further offspring.

According to the novels, when Andronicus Valois was young, he read about how a king may be seen as a fertility symbol and took it a little too literally. So yes, he has a lot of descendants.

Basically, like Charlemagne or Genghis Khan. Not too surprising.

@Geoduck: oh, thanks!

For some reason my mind goes to Charles II...

Comic for Wednesday, March 1, 2017: sneaky gate permalink

Well, this is a place holder panel.

I was wondering if the woman in front of Voltaire on the previous page is Euphrosynia. I could see legends about her being stolen away from Andronicus could be twisting the story of her fighting to help contain him.

Andronicus looks quite impressive. He's not so mad that he can't evaluate data, that's hopeful.

edited due to brain name mix-up

edited 28th Feb '17 9:24:48 PM by Lightningnettle

Thinking...

(a dangerous pastime, I know)

I wonder if, despite the problems involved in the whole situation, Eurosyphnia did care for Andronicus. It wouldn't be the first romance screwed over by politics.

Andronicus looks very Jaegerish, doesn't he?

Thinking is dangerous, that is why several politicians and power groups try to stamp it out.

And personally, thinking is important for it demonstrates we are alive and kicking.

Also when you mentioned the whole situation of Euphrosinia might recall me as having to deal with a husband as it was with (pardon the Spanish) Juana la Loca (Juana the Mad) after a lot of stuff they turned her grade A crazy/mad with her life) and had to deal with Felipe el hermoso (Philip the handsome) whom frankly spent a lot of time womanizing with other women rather than return to his wife.

Edit: Almost forgot to add this: He could also not be Jagerish unless he got horribly drunk and drank enough Dyne water (or JägerDraught) as a sobering up method. There is a chance that in some moment he asked for a special type of revivification as in the idea of keeping the Immortal Emperor idea; and by the reaction he had against Van Rijn it wasn't something Van Rijn had done well or that Andronicus asked when sober. So there is a chance we are dealing with a proto-revivification (with the armor itself being what is keeping the body going) or zombification process.

edited 1st Mar '17 5:00:11 AM by Mauri

Ah, yes, Philip and Juana -aka the ancestors of the Hapsburgs (the clan whose family tree looks like a box).

The thinking line is from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

You'd think in a world where Sparks exists, any request for anything while drunk would be on the automatic 'do not comply' list. Or at least 'only comply as much as is needed to stay alive'.

With Andronicus that would probably be 'give him anything he wants'!

What I'm waiting for ... when he is going to notice that Agatha is not really dressed like a minion and everybody calls her Lady Heterodyne.

Oh dear...

I really hope it won't be a case of Identical Grandson. That can get annoying.

Who would be the grandson in this case? Agatha? Because Andronicus has already met her and didn't mistake her for Euphrosynia or anything.

Agatha was classified as a minion and not an identical granddaughter of Eu but Tweedle on the other hand might be looking like a young Andronicus... lack of sleep and zero morale on identifiers though the family resemblance cand o something and hell might even make Andronicus pause to just wonder what is going on. So the party is going to be talked for decades to say the least.

Even if the party is going to be known as the "party which decimated several family members."

Remembering which family we are talking about, wouldn't that be a cause for celebration across Europa?

Possibly.

With Andronicus all Sparked/Dyned/zombied/whatevered up, it's hard to tell what he originally looked like, especially since he probably had a decade (two?) on both Tweedle and Tarvek.

I also wonder exactly how Andronicus' senses are perceiving the environment...

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