Girl Genius

Except that the Lu who gatecrashed the cosmic girls' night out... looked entirely recognisably like Lucrezia Mongfish-Heterodyne. Not a daughter. Not a niece. Not some android clank built to be a Lu.

Unless she somehow gets hold of Klaus' cloning tanks and an old hairbrush, that was Lu either before Agatha was born, or soon after.

Otherwise out dear fairy queen wouldn't have recognised Lucrezia upon reviewing the memory after avoiding it for so long.

Edited by Euodiachloris on Aug 20th 2019 at 6:05:30 PM

IIRC the Summoning Engine that killed all those sparky girls had much narrower parameters and was also built incorrectly.

Lu-in-Agatha mentions that she had to adjust her summoning engine before she could use it on Zola.

Yeah, and Tarvek's dad kept fiddling with it, so who knows what he messed up.

Just because the Lu in the distant past was the Lu from the near past, that doesn't mean she's not a Lu from the future. Because time travel.

Edited by Daremo on Aug 20th 2019 at 1:12:09 AM

A possibility is more likely that the one with the Geisters finds a way to tinker and the other possibility is that it is the Lunevka after some updates and upgrades again.

If Lu somehow takes over Albia, that might explain how she was able to become powerful enough to travel into the past and assassinate all the other Queens.

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Your list of allies grows thin.

My personal guess so far... the Foglios will leave us with an Agatha without mommy dearest inside the head because that thread has gone for too long and they will cut it somewhat "climatically" just in this arc because we have the Lucrezia borg with the Geisters all around Europa to have another one mucking this up.

Immediate question, of course, is what effect the Wrath of Albia will have. And how does everything link through the time worm-hole worm-ball?

Second thought: could the Remove-Mamma-Lu machine be used against Trelawney-Albia?

Third Thought: Could fighting Geisterdamen be a noble death for Tweedle? Seffie would take it very, very hard.

Edited by GreybeardFan on Aug 20th 2019 at 1:41:48 PM

I thiink Albia will just stick to super-speedy fixing of the machine, as it perfectly lines up with her goals in the situation already.

Albia's imprint on Trelawney seems to be quite a lot more pronounced than Lu's and Klaus' imprints, so I doubt it would work as-is. Though sticking your head into a wrongly-calibrated brain-wrangler machine is still very hazardous.

Well at least now we're not to worried about Tweedle's loyalties.

This makes me wonder whether Albia just has one body, with some kind of way of projecting/teleporting herself, or if she is more like Drusus Beausoleil and his many bodies - maybe the *real* Albia is in that big stonehenge / tree thing we saw?

Albia's imprint is probably better in part because her host is a Willing Channeler.

The compression heating that burned Princess Zeetha argues for a very magical#######Sparkerific but real body.

Say, how old is Trelawney Thorpe? Given the roles she plays for Albia, training a new Spark of the Realm every fifty years or so would be a serious problem.

Edited by GreybeardFan on Aug 21st 2019 at 4:56:16 AM

Godly transformations seem to be kind of hard on clothes in the GG universe...

Fortunately for Trelawney, while Paris needs pants, she doesn't.

Edited by Nohbody on Aug 21st 2019 at 8:49:45 AM

Thing is that strong sparks are rare and some of them that take the traveler route do face more hardships that the ones that stay at home. Having a Spark willing to do all the stuff is rare so Albia considers Trelawney as a very rare resource to say the least.

Also as it was shown with the Master of Paris, not all the offspring of strong sparks do deliver a second generation spark so it limits a lot of options. Still one thing raises to the mind... just how smooth was Klaus when he was at Albia's place?

If there was any chance Trelawney was Klaus' daughter, I think the overlay would have been less happy with the idea of her hooking up with Gil.

Probably not that smooth. After all, as he said, every female Spark he's met has tried to kill him. [1]

Edited by AnotherBear on Aug 21st 2019 at 8:37:26 AM

I find Lucrezia's character pretty interesting - on the one hand, she's the Big Bad; everyone in Europe fears and hates her, she has creepy mind control technology and super warriors from another dimension, and hidden agents everywhere.

... but on the other hand, she's currently stuck inside the head of a wandering teenager and can't do anything - Sealed Evil in a Can, of sorts; these past couple panels she seemed to have no idea of what was going on, especially who those guys (clanks?) breaking in are, how to deal with Albia, etc.

There seems to be another Big Bad around, but we don't really know if it's Lunevka, Zola, or something/someone else.

this is merely one cop stuck inside. When have no clue where the original is.

Yeah, we have no idea where LuAgatha is in regards to the Other's personal timeline. All that Queen-killing could still be in her future.

Edited by Geoduck on Aug 21st 2019 at 2:05:57 AM

The Lucrezia Mongfish in Albia’s flashback looked pretty old.

It could be that it is an offshoot of "uncle tick tock" (the only Sturmvoraous that was deemed harmless because of his obsession with time) will end up becoming that his research and or himself falling into Lucrezia's army can be the trigger for the time travel shenanigans.

A bit onto how all the Lightning crown family ends up being mucked by this mess to say the least.

Edited by Mauri on Aug 21st 2019 at 3:23:48 AM

I like the Tick-Tock idea. It would have been hinted at by Tiktoffen not being worn on someone's wrist, but being the weather.

Hey whatever happened to that big robot Klaus built to keep an eye on Gil? I thought it wasn't supposed to let him out of its sight, and was a backup to the Klaus overlay.

Good question. She/it did not come along with Gil and Bang when they went chasing after Tarvek. Maybe I'm doing the Foglios a disservice, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they simply forgot about her.

Edited by Geoduck on Aug 21st 2019 at 5:41:25 AM