XD I think he’s more likely to be a jaeger. We have a lot of in-comic jaegery activity from him, including the fact that he can keep up with an aging Vole and clearly has opinions on the Brau. Plus, having met the Het’rok’din in that short the Foglios did, I think Higgs secretly being him is sorta unlikely. But hey, I have been wrong before!
I’m leaning towards an ancient Heterodyne, even if he isn’t the first, just because he’s so casual about the possibility of Agatha popping when she drinks Dyne water, and commenting on the same thing happening to previous Heterodynes. Unless he’s been around so long that he’s become inured to the idea of individual Heterodynes dying, but since Bill and Barry have been missing so long you’d think he’d care to preserve her.
…a lot of my jaegerfeels lately come from the Heterodyne!Sorin fics, so it might be skewed.
Although I am very bwahaha over the idea of a Heterodyne creating the experimental draught, feeding it to Higgs, and being disappointed because he doesn’t look scary enough, so they revamp it to give people fur and spikes and change colors and oh, let’s add poison! And tails! And SWORDHANDS!*
*Swordhands quickly discontinued, turns out flesh and bone swords don’t cut very well. Easier to just hold a sword in the hand!
XDD
i’m on the jaeger side, solely because if he was a heterodyne… either he’d have taken over when bill and barry went poof, or if for some reason he’s out of the running entirely, his children would not be.
he’d have assured the interim at the very least, until either some other heterodyne could be found or some heterodyne could be *born*. if he has the blood, and the only thing between mechanicsburg and doom is him putting his hand in the castle’s mouth for like two seconds, everyone from carson to mamma gkika would have marched him there, not just shrugged and went never mind let’s keep desperately looking for something that we have no reason to believe even still exists. he has a sense of duty; even if it’s not what he wanted, he’d have done it.
and nothing is stopping him from having children now – or if he’s sterile, from having one made in a lab.
also, he’s not even a little bit a spark.
meanwhile we have mentions of a sneaky jaegergeneral who is supposed to go around in the shadows whose name has been SUPER cautiously held back from the narration, and he’s careful to get permission from agatha for things, and the generals and other jaegers treat him like a buddy, not like anyone related even tangentially to their masters.
his casual ehhhs about agatha drinkking the dyne water seemed more like a looooooong history watching heterodynes either pull off impossible feats or being impossible to stop doing shit they got into their minds to try, so he’s fatalistic about it. oh! and when he has that exchange with the castle about her relative who burst into flames while doing the same thing, he’s not talking as if the guy is also related to *him*.
Do you think Higgs is more likely to be a jaeger or the first Heterodyne? He’s obviously been close to the family for a very long time, and I could see him getting stuck close to the Baron when the Heterodyne Boys went missing.
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