so! things you find when doing reread thanks to all the latest tarvek/gil shippy feels. apparently gil is not the only one to gain a reputation in paris. acc to page 20171129 tarvek also gained a reputation for consorting with pirates (aka bang most certaingly) in paris! a reputation his grandma doesn’t approve of! dammit every little titbit about paris just makes things juicier don’t you think?
I’d forgotten that too, but no wonder he was annoyed with Gil.
Okay but, Bang pretty clearly tortured Tarvek (and… well, it’s not said, but I definitely get the impression they didn’t exactly interact much outside of that, they don’t really reference a time before Bang started torturing him) and Tarvek got out of it by faking his death. Presumably, neither of those exactly happened in public. Which means Bang can’t be the source of Tarvek’s “consorting with pirates” reputation.
Which means Tarvek was consorting with some other pirates.
I thought Gil, probably, because Tarvek can’t have been the only one who thought Gil was a pirate.
But consider this:
New student at Paris: Miss Voltaire?
Colette: Yes?
NS: What’s going on with Holzfaller, Sturmvoraus, and, um, that very scary woman?
C: With the skull bindi?
NS: Yes, her.
C: Dupree. Holzfaller and Sturmvoraus are being idiots and Dupree is – I think – enjoying torturing them.
NS: So they’re not dating?
C: Dupree and Holzfaller act like siblings, Sturmvoraus is not that masochistic, and Holzfaller and Sturmvoraus are stupidly hold some kind of grudge.
NS: I kind of thought they were pretending not to date, because, well, politics.
C: If they were, Sturmvoraus would be doing a better job at it. Ugh, those boys.
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