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Please consider: pirate AU. I don’t have any particular ideas, but. Girl Genius with everyone as pirates and maybe half a shirt to be found across the entire male cast. Really nice hats. Jaeger pirates (in really nice hats). Breeches. Agatha as long-lost heir to a fabulous pirate fortune/stronghold.

was Bang part of the Royal Navy before she fell on hard times and had to hire on with pirate!Klaus?

Bang is a privateer. Gil is probably a Navy captain. Poor Klaus is the local admiral who has to a) deal with pirates (including the one his son has a crush on, Gil PLZ) and b) keep Bang at least somewhat in check.

…Zeetha is Agatha’s first mate. Tarvek is a rival pirate.

EDIT: lol oops you edited while I was replying and OH GOD I could see it too

oh, I was interpreting it as EVERYONE is pirates, or at least all the protagonists, with who tries to follow laws and who doesn’t completely reversed from canon. Though actually Lu trying to take over and rule absolutely totally fits the narrative of, say, the British Navy (and East India Trading Co.) in Pirates of the Caribbean. 

…please stop me from visualizing that as a crossover

please

BUT YES. And Lucrezia is just like I Will Rule All The Seven Seas And Surrounding Lands, Muahahaha. I get the feeling that Klaus definitely mistakes Agatha for her whether or not she winds up possessed in this AU, though. And even when he finds out it’s definitely not her he’s like gIL PLEASE DO NOT (and Gil does. Oh god Gil turning to piracy)

…pause for a moment, though, and really let your mind linger on Pirate Tarvek. *fans self*

Gil turning to piracy, you say? bonus image w/ pirate babe (it went less well for Tarvek.)

uummmm the ideal pirate!Tarvek would be a Tarvek who has the whole Storm King thing, or something equivalent, and instead of throwing his heart into the dream and selling his soul for it, he just decides “fuck it” and takes off to do whatever the fuck he wants, i.e. pirating. still a manipulative, game-playing weasel, but only when he wants to be. much less of the studious image-upkeep but all the imperial bossiness, ego, and grandiose flair. mmm

While not a full blown Pirate AU, I did write this where the not-really-gone-into backstory is that Gil and Tarvek made friends again in Paris and actually did decide to chuck it all in and turn to piracy.

They were feeling very fed up with their families.