My favorite detail from the third Girl Genius novel is that one of the things that passes through Tarvek’s mind when he thinks he’s about to meet gruesome robot-cat death is regret that he’s wearing a tattered bedsheet and not the outfit he planned to be wearing when he dies.
1) Of course he picked out an outfit for that.
2) He had to have been working off the assumption that he’s not going to live long enough for it to have gone out of fashion.
3) Like. He’s devoted some thought to this? “He had always planned to die while ranting atop a tower or something – he had a very nice outfit all designed for the occasion and everything – and now all that effort would be wasted.” He’s not suicidal, he just. Assumes that he has an early-ish expiration date, and has planned accordingly. Being perpetually unsafe is just a basic fact of life for him.
4) Tarvek is remarkably stable for someone whose life is a boundless cornucopia of horror, is what I’m getting at.
This post is wrong bc it assumes that Tarvek doesn’t constantly redesign his planned death outfit to keep up with emerging fashion trends
Ooh, good point. He probably has an entire portfolio by now, with different variations depending on which season he gets assassinated in.
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