hehehehehehe
But they think the Heterodynes smell nice, and if he hadn’t been raised by Jägers, Tarvek wouldn’t have known why, and just thought he’d fallen in love, and it was Fate or some shit.
Lucrezia thinks she’s special.
I love that AU!
In the version @scribeprotra and I are (theoretically, we got distracted) working on, the Jägers make sure Gil apologizes to Tarvek and they stay in touch, but they don’t actually kidnap him and take him to secret Mechanicsburg places. He’s a Sturmhalter, the future Prince of Sturmhalten.
Letting him have access there requires Heterodyne consent.
Which they do – eventually – get.