And then when they disappear post-Hogwarts Klaus doesn’t join anyone – instead he demonstrates that Justice and Hard Work can also be scary traits all on their own.
Back when I first joined the fandom and it was even smaller I was desperate enough for Jäger fic to browse people RPing them. There was actually one game that took place at Hogwarts and, while it was adapted for the world – the Jägers were a family who interbred with a lot of officially “beast” people, so they had various heritages and some werewolves – it did have Jägers attending Hogwarts.
(There was one incident where Maxim was haunted by a “ghost lizard of guilt” – a ghostly chameleon intent on making him feel bad, which hardly anyone else believed in.)
(This must also have been before I was into Homestuck because Maxim was friends with Gamzee and I had no idea who that was.)
He’s really, really defined by Justice as his natural inclination, I think, and not necessarily in a good way.
Klaus does not actually avoid manipulation in governing – for one thing he cribbed half his policies off Valois because he has a lot of respect for what has been shown to work – but a lot of the time when he does what feels right to him he gives people what he thinks they deserve. When he says “no second chances” he doesn’t live up to that – but a lot of the people he gives second chances are the ones he might reasonably see as not having had a first chance. The soldiers who signed on for a way to make a living, the constructs made to serve his enemies.
He killed more readily than the Heterodyne Boys when travelling with them because he believed “some things had to be cleansed by fire” (he and Lucrezia teamed up to burn to death a Spark who had been doing really bad things to their subjects). He gives Merlot power as a punishment. He seems to refuse to use “gentle” tactics on the Fifty Families becuase he sees them as not deserving them. Elsewhere he does use propoganda and has a hell of a knack among his own employees for letting them do what they want (as long as it happens to be what he wants). The Spark who released the crab clank that nearly killed Agatha did it to make things interesting. Klaus made his life very interesting before he died.
He’s very arrogant – no one set you up as judge, jury and executioner, Klaus – but… it may actually be mercy more than justice that he sees as compromising his morals.
@azzandra, I don’t think you’re on the Discord, so you probably haven’t seen the reaction to the new It Takes A Village bits, there. You should. We were shouting.
I’m in the middle of listening to last week’s TAZ episode & I’m DYING I CAN’T READ & LISTEN AT THE SAME TIME……..
tanoraqui-Last Monday at 1:36 PM
Dead serious comment not on this chapter but the fic in general: Ducky’s efficient and absolute beheading of Sturmhalten is one of those scenes/plotlines that has stuck with me for years “Because he was a threat to the Lady Heterodyne”, like, goddamn. Goddamn.
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 1:38 PM
Wait how up to date was the ao3 version Was there more on the kinkmeme I wasn’t aware of?
brawltogethernow-Last Monday at 1:43 PM
The AO3 chapters are a compilation of batches of smaller updates that go up first on the kinkmeme.
Timmie-Last Monday at 1:47 PM
!!!I didn’t know there was more somewhere else excuse me while I stop doing anything productive for a bit(edited)
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 1:53 PM
ITS HIGGSOur secret boiiiiii
tanoraqui-Last Monday at 1:54 PM
This is a Sign. I was already thinking about it recently, but this has to be real, now. I’m gonna pick up a Girl Genius WIP or two
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 1:54 PM
Oh God. I just realized something awful.In Cannon, how long has zika been with the circus? ZewthaFuck speech to text
Lavender-Last Monday at 1:56 PM
It’s alright, you’ve got this.
Yeet Yeet, Bitch-Last Monday at 1:56 PM
Three years, I think
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 1:56 PM
In it takes a village, she’s been with the circus longer. Without Agatha to tell her that she’s not lying.Do you think she’s finally convinced herself that she made it all up?
Lavender-Last Monday at 1:57 PM
How dare you
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 1:57 PM
I said it was awful
Lavender-Last Monday at 1:57 PM
How DARE
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 1:59 PM
Of course, this is a big alternate universe anyway. Maybe she landed in England and found Emma. I mean lady spider hands
Timmie-Last Monday at 2:01 PM
how dare
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 2:10 PM
Steelgarter, that was her name
Yeet Yeet, Bitch-Last Monday at 3:23 PM
So I only just started reading It Takes a Village and uh…UH…(edited)
DocMatoi-Last Monday at 3:24 PM
It’s relevant don’t worry
brawltogethernow-Last Monday at 3:45 PM
I think that’s WHY the worry.
tanoraqui-Last Monday at 3:46 PM
It’s BEAUTIFUL It’s artwork. P.s. spoiler for update: I’m so glad Ducky is bringing Agatha BOTH boys I mean she already got Gil but she doesn’t HAVE him Ducky knows what’s up Except, apparently, with Higgs, which is fair
Yeet Yeet, Bitch-Last Monday at 3:53 PM
I’m just like OH HEY A SERB and he has like zero lines but he exists and (in what I’ve read so far) isn’t a bad guy which is honestly my minimum bar.
Can I just say, before I read this: I’m looking forward to Ducky showing up with Gil, who by that point will have been suitably baffled by her, and Tarvek being all smug and pretending that he has even a shadow of a handle on what’s become of his own lifeJuly 4, 2018
Kite [🗡: 1 /⚡: 1]-Last Wednesday at 6:11 PM
!! it takes a village update!! sadfghj ive been waiting for this for like 2 years like everyone else
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