my review of most taako art is people dont draw him wearing nearly enough layers in my opinion. i feel like taako should just pile on as much clothes as he possibly can.
more clothes = more pockets = more places for pudding
someone: where is angus
taako:
[image description: a two panel comic of taako, an elf with brown skin and curly black hair wearing a green wizard hat, large purple coat, and layered of green clothing. in the first panel he is holding a finger in front of his mouth and holding his coat shut, in the second he has put his finger down and opened one side of his coat, revealing angus hiding at his side underneath.]
Perhaps in the margins of darkness, I could create a son who is not missing; who lives beyond even my own imagination and invention; whose lusts, stupidities, and strengths carry him farther than even he or I can anticipate; who sees the world for what it is; and consequently bears the burden of everyone’s tomorrow with unprecedented wisdom and honor because he is one of the very few who has successfully interrogated his own nature. His shields are instantly available though seldom used. And those who value him shall prosper while those who would destroy him shall perish. He will fulfill a promise I made years ago but failed to keep.
– House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
I knew there was a network of ancient queens! I knew Albia was on it!
Embi’s “great devil goddess” probably is too.
The Dyne Goddess, probably, too. Which makes the Skifandrian and Heterodyne lines really interesting because they’re part… whatever Albia is. Heterodynes are weird because they’re literally semi-divine. But so are Gil and Zeetha.
Well, I guess that explains the sketch thing—Albia can apparently control more than just her size! And after her brief mourning for Luheia, she looks terribly Skifandrian.
So far her eyes seem to stay the same—not sure if that’s meant to be important or if she just hasn’t bothered to change them yet.
Seems like Zeetha’s speech bubbles in panel 6 might’ve gotten swapped around—they make more sense in reversed order, I think.
The “grey witch” that Luheia protected Skifander from sounds awfully geister-y, to me. Their own goddess-queen, perhaps? (Who may or may not be Lucrezia, or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Lucrezia may or may not be the original goddess…)
And I do wonder what Albia is alarmed about in that last panel. A mirror existing, a mirror functioning, a mirror in Mechanicsburg, a Heterodyne going through a mirror…
I think Albia dressed as a Skifandrian queen in honor of her guest and / or her lost sister queen.
I agree that grey witch sounds awfully suspicious.
Albia’s surprise is probably at a functioning mirror. It sounds like it was a huge loss of a super useful technology when they “went dark” for whatever reason, and not even Albia, with all her resources, could repair them or make new ones. So a working one is a big deal.
I wonder who did get that working?
If the Dyne goddess was an eternal god-queen then Albia presumably knew what happened to her (and will hopefully tell the rest of us) because Mechanicsburg isn’t that far away. But then she’d know about the mirror and presumably try to use it to get in touch with any god-queens they couldn’t find other ways. So, it went dark like the rest of them.
H’trok’din was using some kind of space warping to move around, which may have involved the portal, but he overlapped with the Dyne goddess and may have predated the mirrors going dark.
Actually, if he did predate the mirrors going dark, I’m thinking it might be the Heterodynes’ fault. Especially when the Dyne might have powered the portals – something absorbs its energy even when the Castle isn’t working and they never figure out what.
…I wonder if identical twins who took the jaegerbrau would get the same mutations.
More morbidly, would identical twins who took the jaegerbrau both survive/die or is it really down to chance and not anything to do with genetics?
…that was mean, iztarshi. XDD
I think it must, considering Heterodynes all seem to have the same reaction to the Dyne. And considering Mechanicsburgers were more or less bred to be the perfect minions for Heterodynes, a genetic predisposition to not die would maybe explain why so many of the jaegers seem to have similar mutations (hairier, green skin, claws, shark teeth, pointy ears…). A lot of them are likely at least distantly related.
That makes sense.
Actually the death rate seems to be related to mutations, really extreme or unsustainable ones straight off is probably what kills them. So I guess a genetic predisposition to mutations you can survive goes with a genetic predisposition to specific ones.
Oh that’s true! It does make more sense in that direction.
Well in that case, you are almost guaranteed that identical twins will both a) survive and b) have similar mutations, the exception being if the minor differences result in one of them growing spikes on his/her shoulders and the other growing spikes through his/her neck.
Good, because twin Jägers is a really cool concept 😀
(Especially if they got slightly less usual mutations or colours. Green furry twins wouldn’t really stand out. Turquoise spikey ones would be a neat matched pair.)
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*
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.
Can I also point out that Maxim and Oggie are really good at the Jaeger banter? Like I know that’s been mentioned in…
I think the thing with Oggie is that he has traits that would be useful in a spy – the banter is totally on purpose, he’s good at being underestimated, and he’s surprisingly empathic which is useful when you want someone to understand where the other side is coming from – but he. cannot. keep. a. secret. unless someone punches him. It’s not even horsing around, he’ll try to spill secrets (like who Agatha is) that they genuinely want to keep. It does seem to only be to people he trusts, but he’s willing to go totally on instinct.
Maxim’s got more sense of when to shut up. Also more respect for the chain of command (although sometimes that goes too far the other way and he doesn’t want to act if he’s unsure of approval). And he’d have fun dressing up.
(I took Dimo’s comment about Oggie the other way – Oggie would tease him about something like this while Maxim’s interested enough that he wouldn’t find it funny.)
I’m just wondering if Oggie thinks that Dimo suffers from some sort of horrible affliction where his stubble grows right back after he shaves it, and if he ever found out that Dimo could clean up so nice, he’d be constantly nagged by Oggie about how he should work harder on dressing nicer.
A million times agreed. Oggie also happens to be, as well as in posession of a big mouth, a Horrible Liar (syned, a brik) and Dimo’s done done all the lying for them that I recall (though I have a poor memory).
I wonder if Jenka is the type to let this valuable information slip
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