listen…..i want in-universe girl genius Discourse™, set in the gg version of our time period, about how All Your Historical Faves were Problematic. p l e a s e.
#GIVE ME THE BANG DISCOURSE I DEMAND THE BANG DISCOURSE#new heterodyne story othar has a major role in the radioplays and stories but IN REALITY HE WAS A MURDEROUS SCUMBAG#says an intimidatingly lengthy textpost#cue the arguments#‘othar is a smol cinnamon role’ ‘othar could crush a man with his thighs my dude’#WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CONSENSUS ON KLAUS IS
ohhh my god
there is a NEVERENDING WAR about klaus and whether he just took his methods too far or if he was a terrible person or if he was a bad person trying to do a good thing or vice versa. everyone has a totally different opinion.
people arguing over tarvek’s constant side-switching, not helped by the romantic storyline of falling for and trying to save the heterodyne. accusations of "you’re only defending him because he was pretty!”
god…i want this too tbh. give me the present-day epilogue of history nerds and vaguely-interested non-nerds fighting it out.
Y E A H
most of the cast is made up of historically influential, objectively at least a little bit terrible but more then anything else complicated people. that’s like. the perfect storm for some really fucking epic academic brawls in the future.
…Okay but now I’m imagining Maxim stumbling into all of this debate and having Opinions.
“SHUT UP I’M RIGHT I WAS THERE”
“Pfff yeah right that was 200 years ago what do you think you are a jager”
“YES.”
I love the idea of Jägers joining the discourse. On the one hand, they were there. On the other hand their opinion and perspective is frequently bizarre to anyone who isn’t familiar with Jägers.
(And I really hope someone studies Jägers in the future. Jägers Through the Ages would be both a fascinating book and very frustrating to write. It’s not that they won’t talk about it, it’s that they mostly talk about things that are not of historical interest. Or, to put it bluntly, extremely gory and silly anecdotes.)
And Kaja thought that Agatha’s biography would be interesting to write. There would probably be a ridiculous number of gaps in any jäger history even if you did manage to keep them on topic – nothing about the draught or the workings of the Castle or Mechanicsburg’s defenses or the Heterodynes’ side of battles or-
Lots of anecdotes, not very many actual facts. Got to keep the Heterodyne secrets, after all. And lots of mysterious gaps surrounding anything to do with spying or intelligence gathering, of course.
And what about the discourse on jägers? Lots of arguments about whether their history with the old Heterodynes has made them irredeemable, or whether it’s just the jägers that fought back then that are to blame, or whether the younger jägers are to blame as well for becoming jägers and therefore condoning the actions of past jägers…
The Jägers would probably all show up to argue that they are irredeemable.
“Ve iz Heterodyne monsters. Hyu seem confused.”
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