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 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2009-10-09 03:27pm 

Im waiting for more of Othar Tryggvason, Gentleman Adventurer and alot more of the Jägerkin who are the coolest guys around. I have high hopes for the future of this series but I do also want less fillers unless it involves the Jägerkin

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2009-10-09 08:25pm 

I read the exchanged look more as an "uhoh, they ARE acting like Sparks"

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 01:11am 

Wow.

The Muse of Protection. Now that's an interesting twist; I had honestly believed it was just Von Pinn with a few more screws loose.

Looking back, I wonder how many wars were instigated by this Muse...

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 09:06am 

That is a pretty big necro there, but I don't follow Girl Genius so I don't know if this would be a legitimate big reason to update or not. Comments from the people in the know? Let it live or lock?

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 09:49am 

I would let it live.
It has regular updates (three times a week), it just seemed that there was nothing worth of discussion for a while now.
But personally, i think there is enough to warrant letting this thread alive.




Where do you get the idea that the Muse of Protection instigated any wars?

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 09:50am 

I just hope that the whole "sickness" plot thing is over soon, its getting quite boring...

And yeah, I had also expected Von Pinn.

Oh, and I would just leave the thread open, then at least everything about Girl Genius is in one place.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 10:51am 

Considering the thread was created to follow the Girl Genius webcomic, it stands to reason that it might see little activity during slow periods (and I guess during the holidays people were busy otherwise), particularly if any hiatus on the webcomic's publication schedule comes up, yet discussing updates would qualify as a reason to ressurect the thread.

Just my 2 cents, although I'd bring up this issue with Lady Tevar, seeing how she's kind of the resident Girl Genius rabid fangirl main supporter

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 05:48pm 

What I'd like to know is, how the hell did that muse end up there?

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 06:54pm 

If i had to take a wild guess, someone (perhaps a Heterodyne) partially rebuilt her and kept her as a Guardian - OR she was sent by someone else to kill Lucrezia (perhaps the Baron?).

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 07:49pm 

Well then, I'm convinced. The thread stays. Thumbs...(glances at History forum)...whichever way means it lives!
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 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-22 09:32pm 

You've forgotten the Opera of the Storm King, haven't you. The same man who created the Muses fell in love with the sister of the ruling Heterodyne. Drama ensued as the heterodyne was kidnapped by the Stormking's rival.

Undoubtably, the StormKing gave the Muse of Protection to his beloved (and her descendents). Lucrecia killed/caused the death of her own son, the Heir to the Heterodynes, when she/the Other blew up Castle Heterodyne.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-23 03:30am 

oh, when will those sparks learn that telling their clanks to OBEY never works?

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-23 08:06am 

Whoops - yes, i forgot about that .

Thanks for the explanation.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-23 09:32am 

I should really pay more attention to details like the Opera, lest I keep being blindsided by these grand entrances of whose significance I have no clue.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-23 05:48pm 

As a side note: The Foglios are finally posting the MythAdventures graphic novel they did many years ago. Since Robert Asprin passed away nearly a year ago, perhaps this is a tribute to him.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-25 08:12pm 

I'm beginning to wonder if being a spark makes you exceptionally tough (scaling with the strength of your spark) or if someone devised some gas lamp fantasy trans-humanist procedure, and all the top sparks are stealing from each other in order to have the best family line.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-25 08:28pm 

Well it's always reminded me of something by Phillip Jose Farmer

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-25 10:26pm 

They have the process that turns people into Jaegers; there are probably other methods of enhancement that don't make you so obviously nonhuman.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-26 06:33am 

I'm sure there's been an appreciative comment, either by a Jaeger or by another spark, about how resilient and rapidly healing Gil is (if it was a spark, I think it was something along the lines of 'so that's how he did it!')... that, plus the scars surrounding most of both Gil and the Baron's torsos, and IIRC, something early in the comics run about how the Baron 'built' his previous heirs, as well as Gil... all that added together has been saying 'steampunk trans-humanist' to me for a while.

Of course, take all this with a heaping helping of salt, as I'm running on about three hours' sleep for the last four days and haven't read the archives in a good long while.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-26 08:54am 

Little from column A, little from column B.

Agatha has shown herself to be fairly strong when she's in the madness place, but not so much otherwise. As active sparks for longer, and as offspring of sparks, there's every likelyhood that Gil and Tarvek have upgrades.

There's also some speculation that Gil is a construct like Punch and Judy.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-26 07:05pm 

They also undergo rigorous training (Imparted by Zeetha in Agatha's case), wich most certainly helps a lot.

As for Gil being a construct, the Baron did mention his wife early in the story (while he is trying to "study" Othar), and his pointing out that Zeetha might be on a mission to kill Gil "because he (the Baron) let him live" might hint at his mother having some relationship to Skyfander.

Sparks are also too crazy to bother with being hurt anyway.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-26 11:14pm 

One of the rumors is that Gil is who/what Zeetha was sent to look for, as he is the Son of the Queen.

As for the toughness, I think that gil has been 'improved upon' by his father.

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-27 06:33am 

Or its just part of being a spark, so this would allow dramatic fights where they are thrown around without much consequences beyond those needed by the author.
I mean, think about it: how else can those sparks build super-machines?

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-28 09:08pm 

Interesting... does this imply that the Muse of Protection is part of the Castle?!

 Post subject: Re: The Girl Genius Thread

Posted: 2010-01-29 07:57am 

It seems possible that the core intelligence of the Castle was the Muse of Protection, yes. Or, at least, when the Castle was working properly, the Muse has likely been cut off from the rest by the damage inflicted by The Other. She/It certainly seems to be out of touch with modern politics.