it’s very unlikely that more is ever going to come of this au, if only because Barry would probably do very different things if Klaus wasn’t conquering Europa, so here, have the chat:
tanoraqui i’m still a little mentally stuck on this
tanoraqui what if…idk, i guess if Klaus got killed? close enough into Europa that he was nearly there, but before he got home? and Gil just ends up adopted into the Knights of Jove somehow?
do the Smoke Knights take in random orphans answer yes, because I just Decided
Seffie: It’s in my best interest for you to woo the Lady Heterodyne away from Wulfenbach. Therefore, I’m sending you to England to meet up with her alone.
Gil: (Pulling up next to Tarvek halfway across the Channel, blaring a novelty car horn) Sup, buddy? Do you need a ride?
I’d forgotten that too, but no wonder he was annoyed with Gil.
Okay but, Bang pretty clearly tortured Tarvek (and… well, it’s not said, but I definitely get the impression they didn’t exactly interact much outside of that, they don’t really reference a time before Bang started torturing him) and Tarvek got out of it by faking his death. Presumably, neither of those exactly happened in public. Which means Bang can’t be the source of Tarvek’s “consorting with pirates” reputation.
Which means Tarvek was consorting with some other pirates.
I thought Gil, probably, because Tarvek can’t have been the only one who thought Gil was a pirate.
But consider this:
New student at Paris: Miss Voltaire?
Colette: Yes?
NS: What’s going on with Holzfaller, Sturmvoraus, and, um, that very scary woman?
C: With the skull bindi?
NS: Yes, her.
C: Dupree. Holzfaller and Sturmvoraus are being idiots and Dupree is – I think – enjoying torturing them.
NS: So they’re not dating?
C: Dupree and Holzfaller act like siblings, Sturmvoraus is not that masochistic, and Holzfaller and Sturmvoraus are stupidly hold some kind of grudge.
NS: I kind of thought they were pretending not to date, because, well, politics.
C: If they were, Sturmvoraus would be doing a better job at it. Ugh, those boys.
When Gil’s staff find out that Tarvek can get him to sleep, they will never let him leave.
Tarvek is Gil’s security blanket- Confirmed
imagine:
Tarvek trying to sneak away again and it’s going well.
no one has noticed him and he’s almost to the door-
and Borlaika pops out of nowhere
“Excuse me, Prince Sturmavorous, but please return to your room.”
Tarvek scowls at her. “I’m trying to get to Agatha. I’ve been here for weeks! You won’t let me help Gil with his actual problem, I’ve already told him everything he would be able to use against the Other, and he fell asleep on my bed, again.”
“I know, Prince Sturmavorous. For those reasons, please return to your room.”
<grin>
There’s no way Gil’s not going to let him help with the actual problems, though. He’s already updated him on everything.
I figure that the whole Klaus-no-what-did-you-do, the actual problem, is off limits though.
and I don’t doubt for a second that Tarvek’s going to be dramatic when he finds out about that though
Oh! Yeah, I was thinking of running the Empire and fighting Lucretia as Gil’s problem. I can see Tarvek being mad if Gil won’t let him solve head-Klaus, although he can hardly compleain about being asked to rule things.
Gil might be hoping Tarvek can figure out and get rid of head-Klaus, but I don’t know if he can tell him about it.
He told Bang…
Oh, yeah! So apparently there’s nothing stopping him. He should really mention that then.
I’m still sour that so many people came out of the woodwork to remind me that Gil speaks fluent French when I called his attempt to disguise his voice a bad French accent. I was perfectly cognizant of this at the time, but he is 100% Poirot-ing it up anyway. I know what I said. Don’t come into my house. Gil’s fake accent was terrible.
Yes. Yes it was. As evidenced by the sentence “the flow of time… she is stopped, yes?” when both flow and time are “male” words in French. And it’s only one of the reasons why this turn of phrase doesn’t make sense in either English or French. He might be fluent in French, but he’s terrible at pretending he’s a French speaking bad English.
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