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Discussion thread for Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess. Beware, Here There be SPOILERS
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This is a thread for discussing the Girl Genius novelization Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, as well as all Girl Genius in general. The subject matter is the property of Phil and Kaja Foglio.
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This is a thread for discussing the Girl Genius novelization Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, as well as all Girl Genius in general. The subject matter is the property of Phil and Kaja Foglio.
No spoilers are required in this thread. The assumption is you've read the material already. That is why this thread exists--to provide a place for people to talk without having to try to avoid giving away secrets.
I own this account. If you're rude or a jackass, I will delete your post. If you're debating in good faith and not annoying the natives, I won't. If people really can't behave, I'll delete the whole fershlugginer thread.
Have fun. Talk at will. If you don't want spoilers, run away now.
Hippogrif.
Re: European Marriage Habits
If Gil were not to end up with Agatha and Tarvek really is planning to resurrect Anevka and get Lu out of her head too, Anevka would be a politically useful alternative. She's royal and Sparky, and marrying the opposition is often a useful part of ending wars. Marrying into the recognized Storm King bloodline could only help, too. Not that I think this is in any way likely, but interesting for speculation.
Re: European Marriage Habits
On that note...
It's been part of the subtext from the very start that royals make royal matches. Yes, Klaus wanted to find Gil a wife partly to provide him with a bit of bedroom fun...but also to make a proper royal match for him. He wanted Gil to marry "the right kind of girl."
It's been made clear in a number of ways that if Agatha is the right kind in some ways, as a Heterodyne, she's also the wrong kind because she's a Heterodyne AND a dark horse.
So I've wondered if the possible intended final outcome is Agatha married to neither, and the two boys matched to "fitting" political wives. And in that context it has occurred to me that the novelization makes clear that, at least at one time, there was a Princess with a brain but no body, and also a body with no brain. I can honestly see an outcome with Tarvek married to Zulenna--a loyal vassal of House Wulfenbach under most circumstances--and Gil married to a Sturmvoraus who allows him to avoid the genetic burden of House Sturmvoraus: Anveka's brain in Olga's body. Especially as Olga was retrieved and revived under the belief she was the Heterodyne Girl.
(Shudders) Which suddenly leaves me wondering whose brain Klaus intended to put in that reanimated body, and what he then hoped to accomplish. Somehow I hope he was smart enough to know that convincing Gil to marry the body of the girl he loved without the brain to go with it would have been essentially impossible or inhuman.