Mod edit to add this convenience link to Girl Genius. Original OP below:
Last thread vanished with the crash...
So, the Weasel Queen interlude is over. Is this Storm King opera another one?
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Feb 19th 2025 at 1:51:41 PM
Tweedle's had screaming warning signs flashing in his face from the start, and he has ignored them. And this is totally in-character for him.
Tweedle's skill as a Spark is degraded by his arrogance.
I think Tweedle's run-in with pre-bot Chewie pretty much sums up how dumb he can be in the face of something blatantly and obviously trouble.
Tweedle must be really hard to kill. Even more so than we've seen. It's the only thing I can think of that explains why his own arrogance hasn't been used to bait him into a trap.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett^ He's certain that he HAS done a service by killing off relatives, no "might" about it.
edited 29th Oct '15 12:23:00 AM by Nohbody
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And I bet Gil knows what Steffie's been up to. And after the inhabitants of Mechanicsburg found out about Klaus' plans so, so easily by intercepting messages to the troops, I suspect Seffie doesn't know as much as she thinks she does.
And you don't treat good china like that. Or a good servant like that.
I don't expect she makes a habit of either treatment, or Grandmama wouldn't let her use the good china and Crispin wouldn't feel comfortable questioning the wisdom of her hobbies.
Dear, dear, Gil. When the Heterodyne is the reasonable one out of your suitors I do fear you've inherited your father's luck with women.
Agatha's the nice Heterodyne, kind to children, small animals, and constructs.
Just don't tick her off.
Edit: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I just realized... what didn't Steffie see in that purloined stack of Gil's mail!?!
Didn't Hobbs tell Gil to write Agatha a letter? I don't see Stef staying quiet about that!
edited 29th Oct '15 11:10:38 PM by Candi
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettI suspect that Higgs will carry that letter himself. Meanwhile, Seffie's crush isn't just new politics. (It might be old politics).
And Seffie blames anyone but herself. She's more clever than her brother, but no less Dumb.
If Gil is anything like his father, he knows about the interception.
And Seffie has a huminoid cat (or feline human?) to serve her tea. No wonder she calls Tweedle's Sparkhunds 'filthy dogs'.
And that gives us Seffie's real attitude towards her brother, as if we didn't know.
edited 30th Oct '15 1:00:05 AM by GreybeardFan
Yeah, I'm definitely getting a genuine um, attachment here.
This page is actually a huge relief...
I'd been feeling kind of bad for her, since she seemed sane enough and her crush on Gil was pretty surely doomed. Not so much, anymore... :D
I'm also relieved that she finally revealed her brand of crazy. I was expecting her to stay an unknown for a lot longer. How refreshingly unambiguous!
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I'm not getting where it shows Seffie's attitude towards her brother - although it is definitely in her interest to see Agatha attached to Tweedle and out of the way, so she's likely to genuinely support him in that.
Now I wonder what her position is vis a vis Zola, who was always underfoot getting rescued by Gil.
Speaking of Zola, I'm putting my Moxana chips on her being "Queen of the Dawn" having infiltrated the Giesters via her ability to impersonate Lu well enough to fool Lunevka. I'm putting her in one of the party clown cars.
Oh dear. All this time I've been blaming Klaus for intercepting the mail from Theo et al.; now it seems more likely to have been Seffie. I never fully understood why Klaus would do that, and defaulted to isolating Gil to make him stronger; but Seffie would have much more motivation, wanting him to turn to her. There may also be some backstory there that explains why Gil seemed more friendly with her when they were together on the ship than I expected.
Candi, I think it's the wide swing from intense anger to silliness to blaming someone else for her misdeeds. Though, I have been around people with serious anger problems and it's quite true that they don't remember what they do when in the throes of anger. Still, she should have gotten a clue from it being in her own hand.

Agatha may not be telling Madame how the tracing can be done, but she has told her that it can be done. Knowing something can be done is often all a good inventor needs even without the Spark. It's one step up from "sci-fi thought that up? Challenge accepted."
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett