#source: tarvek-sturmvoraus

[akallabeth-joie]

Girl Genius Pre-Canon Timeline

I just binge-read through the archives again, and decided to finally sort though all the time cues we get for the 20-odd years before the story starts. Years are based on the date on Klaus Barry Heterodyne's memorial, in conjunction with Agatha's age, and a lot of "it's been X years" remarks made during flashbacks. I'm only using information from the webcomic, since I don't have the novels on hand.

Late 1869- mid 1870: Lucrezia Mongfish accepts Bill Heterodyne's proposal; disappearance of Klaus Wulfenbach

?1870?: Birth of Gilgamesh Wulfenbach*

?1871?: Birth of Tarvek Sturmvoraus*

1872: Birth of Bill and Lucrezia's eldest child, Klaus Barry Heterodyne (2 years 3 months after Klaus Wulfenbach's disappearance)

Before 1873: Birth of Theopholous DuMedd, son of Serpentina Mongfish. His aunt Lucrezia attended his christening, which therefore must have taken place sometime before her disappearance.

1873 (or January 1874): The Other attacks Castle Heterodyne, killing Klaus Barry (age 407 days / 13 months) and 63 castle staff including Carson Von Mekkan's son (and possibly also Dr. Mongfish**). Disappearance of Lucrezia. Bill and Barry Heterodyne leave Mechanicsburg to fight the Other. Beginning of continent-wide warfare and chaos.

1874: Birth of Agatha Heterodyne (<9 months after attack on Castle Heterodyne, probably at least 4- 5 months after, since Lucrezia was apparently not showing at the time of her disappearance).

c.1874-1875: “A few years” after the destruction of Castle Heterodyne (per Carson), and “about 18 years” before the main story starts (per the authors in the now-defunct list of all characters appearing in the story), Bill & Barry Heterodyne disappear.

c.1875-77: Attacks from the Other stop shortly after the Heterodyne Boys disappear. Klaus Wulfenbach returns to Europa, builds the airship Castle Wulfenbach and ends the wars, making an empire in the process. At some point, he starts a school for the children of rulers and powerful sparks.

1877/8: TPU expedition to Castle Heterodyne, which lasts 6 months; during that time, Klaus Wulfenbach takes over Mechanicsburg

1878: Klaus Wulfenbach begins imprisoning troublesome sparks in Castle Heterodyne

?1878?: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach breaks through as a spark at age 8. Tarvek is sent home from Castle Wulfenbach at some point before this.

??At some point before 1879 (and probably after 1875) Barry returns with Agatha; they are constantly moving, and Barry keeps their identities a secret, even from his old friends.

1879: Agatha, age 5, begins to break through as a spark.

1881: Barry Heterodyne disappears again, leaving Agatha in the care of Adam & Lilith Clay in Beetleburg.

1889: Tarvek takes Tinka from Master Payne's circus and reverse-engineers her to make a clank body for his mortally-wounded sister Anevka.

1892: The Story Begins... (spring/summer 1892)

1894-5: The Story Resumes (deep winter, after a 2.5 year time-skip).

*I think the novelization mentions Gil being 22 when the story starts (which is the age listed on the fan wiki, no source cited), but it's been years since I read it, so here I'm sticking to the information in the comic itself. This is a rough estimate, since we don't have a ton to go on: we know that Gil was born during his father's exile and accompanied him back to Europa, which puts his birth year at no earlier than 1870 and no later than 1875. Gil is finished with college by time the story starts, suggesting that he is older than Agatha (who is 18 and still a student at that point), but he also appears to have returned to Castle Wulfenbach relatively recently (having run into none of his old friends, who also haven't noticed that a certain empty laboratory is now his flight lab). Around age 8, Gil was friends with Tarvek, which suggests they are probably of a similar age. If taken literally, Tarvek's remark about being ~3 years old when his father was collaborating with the Other (c.1874 and before) puts his birth year around 1871. Like Gil, Tarvek has finished college before the story starts, and was apparently back in Sturmhalten at least three years before the story.

**The lengthy but defunct character list has Dr. Mongfish dying in an attack on Castle Heterodyne. We only know of one such attack, though it's possible this refers to a separate, earlier event. However, his grandson Theo Dumedd's (fictional) story of the Heterodynes' disappearance puts Dr. Mongfish as alive up to that point--and while many parts of the timeline don't fit this fictional story, I think it's weak evidence that Dr. Mongfish didn't die or disappear conspicuously earlier.

#girl genius #applying the forbidden magic of math #I've been following this story for at least 15 years #and it holds up

[zarnzarn]

Blitz: [rolling over and accidentally kneeing Stolas in the ribs]

Stolas: Shit- Blitz, you kneed me!

Blitz, sleepily: Yeah, I do need you.

Stolas, voice cracking: Okay.

#ft. my two mutuals' galaxy brain takes that stolas is pining while blitz is completely sure abt the relationship #stolitz #blitz #stolas #blitzo #helluva boss #incorrect quotes #source: tarvek-sturmvoraus #on tumblr

[itsfirelordazula]

katara: [rolls over and knees zuko in the ribs]

zuko: ow! you kneed me.

katara, sleepily: yeah, i do need you

zuko: [voice cracking] ok

#source: tarvek-sturmvoraus #katara #atla #zuko #zutara #avatar the last airbender #incorrect quotes #zutara quotes #anti kataang #zutara incorrect quotes #atla quotes #incorrect zutara quotes

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Klaus:   Anything you say in the next 30 seconds is free. Starting right now. Tarvek:   I think you’re cocky, arrogant, bossy, and pushy. You also have a god complex and don’t think of anybody but your damn self. Klaus:   But I– Tarvek:   But what? I still have 22 seconds and I’m not done.

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #klaus wulfenbach #submission #Source: Grey’s Anatomy #phoenixyfriend

[ao3feed-themagnusarchives]

The Promotion

by SpookyTarot

with the wake of Terebithia Von Blitzengaard's, head Archivist of the Mangus Institute, disappearance her duties and position fall to Tarvek Sturmvoraus. But things are never as they seem in The Magnus Institute.

Words: 1256, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Girl Genius (Webcomic), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Tarvek Sturmvoraus, Violetta Mondarev, Boris Dolokhov

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/27995736

#the magnus archives #ao3feed #fanfiction

[spark-exchange]

2018 Spark Exchange Wrap-Up

Thanks to everyone who participated, either as a creator or reviewer. I would encourage everyone to please leave a comment or message for all the fanworks they enjoyed. I’m currently working my way through the fics, as I’ve been pretty busy until this week. 

Fanmix

The Prettiest Monster by allthisandtea - A Maxim-themed fanmix!

Fanfic

At least there’s Mamma Gkika’s by Sociopathbrony - Teen - Gkika tries to not focus on the seemingly inevitable existence that the Heterodynes aren’t coming back and everything else is terrible too by focussing on how annoying the tourists are.

Aaronev Sucks in Every AU by fandomss-girl-genius - General - In all of Tarvek’s life, he had never had a birthday party. His father was never at home, and his sister was unresponsive in the ER, only kept alive by life support.

Archetype by Azzandra - Gen - Krosp finds himself planning for the future. And that future is… kittens. 

Bearishness by gg-prompted-fics - T - Jenka gets ready for winter. 

Dancing with the Muses by shavynel - G - Contasia has unlost herself, and Tinka wastes no time getting her sister to play a musician in a plan to ensnare Agatha, Violetta, and Zeetha in dance!

In Which Bang Visits Transylvania Polygnostic University by Stellawind - Gen - In another reality, when Agatha is thrown out of Dr. Merlot’s lecture, her parents have a conversation with Dr. Beetle who commands she is to be let sit in on any class she likes. In this world, she meets Bangladesh DuPree.

Party of Two Centuries by firecoloredwater/Para - G - It is December 30th, 1899.  The Other was defeated and Mechanicsburg unfrozen some months ago.  Now Europa is trying to sort out a precarious if hopeful balance between the overlapping networks and allegiances to the Storm King and the Wulfenbach Empire. More importantly, Grandma Terebithia still has claim to having hosted the best party of the century.  And that’s a thing that Tarvek and Violetta absolutely can’t allow to stand.

Tarvek and Violetta Save the Library by phoenixyfriend - General - Martellus brings a Sparkhound to the Library. It sees one of the giant cats and gives chase. It’s up to Violetta and Tarvek to handle this! Unfortunately.

the tides of war by gisho - Not Rated - An unexpected mission sends Axel, loyal guardsman of the Emperor of the Romans, to the strange town at the source of the Dyne - and more unexpectedly, to a place that feels like home.

Time Hung Balance by DawnAraic - Explicit - Desperate, Agatha creates a chance to correct what she can, and save all that she loves.

Trial and Error by Scribe Protra - Mature - Instead of stopping time, the Take Five bomb sends Baron Klaus Wulfenbach into repeating the whole thing again starting from that day in Beetleburg. It is going to take a while to work out how to undo this: mostly as he is stuck with sheer mind-numbing trial and error to work out the requirements.

Fanart

Child’s Play by 2percentmint - General - The Sturmvoraus/ von Blitzengaard players were kids once – Anevka lets it slide that Tarvek borrowed her personal tools. Martellus conducts his choir of little singing bears.

Dress-Up Games by Atagotiak - General - Kids dressed up as girl genius characters! First as a series of portraits, then a scene. ‘Tarvek’ has been kidnapped. ‘Agatha’ and ‘Gil’ are fighting ‘Martellus’.

fastball special by dirigibird - G - sometimes u just gotta throw your friends at a problem

A Holiday Celebration - magictavern -General - A small holiday celebration between some of the Jaegers!

Let the Man Sleep by Darlighl / Mercurialvoid - Gen - Gil naps.

No Choirs by Xenart - Gen - llustrated music, from a snippet of No Choir by Florence and the Machine

Mother-Daughter Bonding by purreve - G - Lu and Agatha

Sabotage by bethany-sensei- General - Krosp and chemical enhancement

#wrap up #spark-exchange #girl genius

[overlord-off-record]

Someday I shall sleep like a human. Until then, I will continue producing ficlets from a haze of exhaustion. Another in the Poison series. I’ve lost count.

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Gil never saw Tarvek in the public labs unless some professor had cruelly assigned a group project. When that sneak sidled in on a busy Wednesday afternoon with no disgruntled group to meet, Gil sensed trouble. Tarvek confirmed his suspicions by immediately drifting in the direction of his workstation. Damn.

"What are you doing here?" Gil pretended he had never looked up from his notes.

Tarvek did not answer, opting instead to examine a box of bonbons open on the workbench. He picked one up, and Gil snatched it from his hand.

"Don't eat those. Amatotoxin." He continued his work as though unaware of Tarvek's horrified stare.

"Someone must hate you more than I do." He gestured toward the empty space in the box. "Tell me you didn't eat one."

Gil scoffed. "You must think I'm really stupid." He might have tasted one. A little.

"I don't think you're stupid, you idiot. I think you're suicidal."

Gil took one of the chocolates and dropped it into a flask, which he heated gently over a low flame. "Does it matter?" Perhaps he could tease out Tarvek's purpose here. Perhaps he could get Tarvek to reveal why it bothered him so much when Gil expressed a cavalier attitude toward toxins. Perhaps this conversation would just end in another fight.

"Yes. No. I don't know." Tarvek made a small sound of frustration. "Do you think Colette wouldn't revivify you just to call you names if you managed to succeed at dying?"

Gil shrugged. "I'm not going to die."

"Really? You could have fooled me." Tarvek glanced over his shoulder, then prodded at the bonbons. "Amatotoxin. Which tests did you run?"

Gil made a noise of exasperation in the back of his nose. "You seriously don't trust me not to run a chemical analysis on mystery confections that arrive from an anonymous source?"

"You don't want an honest answer, do you?"

The door to the lab opened again, and three men skulked in. They had a shifty look about them, and none of them carried any school supplies. Tarvek saw them, and immediately pretended he had not. He opened a drawer and began rummaging about.

"What mess have you gotten yourself into now?"

"Oh, you're one to talk," Tarvek retorted, still rummaging. Gil bristled.

"I don't get into messes," he lied, more by reflex than intent.

Tarvek came up with a small scalpel and a bit of an evil glint in his eyes. "Sorry," he said. "I need an exit."

Then he stabbed Gil.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Gil bellowed, drawing a crowd of curious students. Tarvek ducked around him, out of sight of the three intruders. He took a step backward, clearly intending to lose himself in the crush of onlookers. Gil scowled. "Oho, no! You're coming with me!"

Tarvek submitted altogether too meekly, making a token resistance when Gil collared him and dragged him from the lab. He flailed just enough to knock the poisoned chocolates from the workbench. They spilled all over the floor and ended in a mess beneath the feet of eager students.

Gil marched Tarvek to the nearest faculty office. Professor Otten looked up from his papers with an expression of long suffering. Full of righteous indignation, Gil gestured at the bloody hole in his waistcoat and made his accusation, demanding that Tarvek receive official reprimand for his misappropriation of school property. Tarvek nodded along, unusually compliant.

"Yes," he said when Gil paused for breath. "I deserve to be delivered to the Master for censure. At once."

Professor Otten's raised eyebrow echoed Gil's deep suspicion. "Very well," he said, rising from his chair, "we'll all go."

Gil kept a grip on Tarvek the entire way, though the duplicitous weasel made no attempt to escape. Instead, he slanted a glance at Gil and inquired after his wound. Of all the nerve. Gil made no reply but to give him a brief shake. When the Master of Paris glared down on all three of them, Tarvek stepped brazenly forward.

"I stabbed Holzfäller with school equipment," he volunteered. Gil and Professor Otten both stared at him.

"Did you indeed?" Master Voltaire scrutinized Tarvek as though seeing through every layer of civilized veneer to the murky, sneaky depths of his heart. "Herr Holzfäller? What do you have to say on this matter?"

Gil hedged. "Sturmvoraus is clearly involved in something nefarious. He seemed to be on the run from three shifty individuals who did not belong in the labs. Yes, he did stab me. With a scalpel."

"And the damage?"

Frowning, Gil looked down at his bloodied waistcoat. "Superficial," he admitted, begrudging every syllable.

Master Voltaire pinned him with that famously piercing stare of his. "And your search for the source of those chocolates?"

"Ongoing."

Tarvek nudged him. "Seriously, you didn't eat one?"

"No, I did not!" Gil lied. Master Voltaire glared at them both. He then dismissed Gil and Professor Otten, detaining Tarvek for what Gil assumed would be further questioning. Possibly disciplinary action. Hopefully.

Outside the door, Gil slowed his steps in an attempt at eavesdropping. "—not rational," he heard Tarvek insisting, "but urgency demanded action."

Gil pretended to stop to examine his wound, but he still missed the Master's reply.

"That has nothing to do with it!" Tarvek yelped, sounding oddly flustered, and Master Voltaire chuckled. Then Tarvek lowered his voice. He spoke rapidly and earnestly, but Gil could no longer catch the words.

"You'd best finish your lab work before evening classes," Professor Otten said. Gil hedged.

"I'll just wait and find out if Sturmvoraus is about to end up as spare parts, I think."

"Suit yourself." As Professor Otten walked away, he shook his head and he muttered something that sounded a lot like: "Not friends, sure, and I don't have a collection of intensely flammable spores."

Gil wanted to object. He wanted to say that as the recipient of the stabbing, he wanted to see what punishment Tarvek received. He hated that Otten was right. In reality, it sounded as though Tarvek had managed to get himself into some fairly serious danger, and Gil absolutely resented the twinge of worry that stirred within him.

He waited outside for half an hour before Tarvek bothered to meander out the door. He hardly looked worse for the experience, which made Gil a bit surly. Tarvek's eyes widened, then narrowed in suspicion.

"What are you doing here? Oh—" Waving a dismissive hand, Tarvek continued walking. "Of course I'll pay for the waistcoat. Would you like my tailor's address?"

"Does that mean I'd have to dress like you?"

Tarvek gave him a withering glance. "I doubt you're capable."

Gil fell into step beside him too easily. "What have you gone and mixed yourself up in?" he hissed through his teeth. "Who were those goons in the lab? Why did you stab me to get away from them?" He tried to sound angry, and judging from the look on Tarvek's face, he may have succeeded.

"That's not your concern," he snapped. "As though a libertine who wallows in the gutter could even understand the delicate politics at play here."

Gil may have imagined hurt underlying Tarvek's sharp words, but he responded to it anyway. "You won't let me try," he said softly.

Tarvek shook his head. "Must you walk with me? It's like you want to get mistaken for someone important."

Gil snapped his mouth shut on a wave of outrage. His fists clenched, and he swore to himself that one day he would make Tarvek regret those words.

Well, fine. He would just have to investigate this matter on his own.

That, and the chocolates.

#Girl Genius #fanfic #Paris hijinks #that poison series #these two idiots I swear

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Hey, I said I’d be a better person, I’m still not a good person.

Tarvek Sturmvoraus

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #submission #source: The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals #sexyshoelessgodofwar

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Tarvek:   I know nobody asked for my advice- Gil:   Yet you’re talking. Tarvek:   -but I agree with Gil. Gil:   Let’s hear him out.

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #gilgamesh wulfenbach #submission #Source: Modern Family #phoenixyfriend

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Violetta: You haven’t even been here.

Tarvek: That’s not fair! Sometimes I was kidnapped!

#girl genius #violetta mondarev #tarvek sturmvoraus #source: the magnus archives #submission #thankchaosforspellcheck #(note from mod space: i started wheezing when i read this good job)

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Tarvek: Do you wanna play a game?

Violetta: Sure. I spy with my little eye someone who needs to shut the hell up.

Tarvek: Is it me?

Violetta: It’s always you.

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #violetta mondarev #source: bojack horseman #submission #phoenixyfriend

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Tarvek: Why do people believe I’m incapable of doing anything nice?

Gil: Experience.

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #gilgamesh wulfenbach #source: house #submission #phoenixyfriend

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Tarvek: Really? You’d do that for me?

Violetta: No, I’m doing it for me. Because I just–honestly, I just don’t want to deal with you anymore.

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #violetta mondarev #source: republic of doyle #submission #phoenixyfriend

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Tarvek: ‘Careful’ is my middle name. Right after 'Suave’ and 'Daring’.

Gil: Do you even know what you’re saying half the time?

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #gilgamesh wulfenbach #source: winter #submission #phoenixyfriend

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Gil: Why would you do that?!

Tarvek: Why would you do that?

Gil: You know why I did that!

Tarvek: Then you know why I did that.

#girl genius #gilgamesh wulfenbach #tarvek sturmvoraus #source: critical role #submission #spookysk4ryskeletons

[incorrectgirlgeniusquotes]

Tarvek: Just letting everyone know that I am still alive after last night.

Tarvek: On a related note, this is the 15th “I’m not dead!” mass text I’ve sent. You’ve got to celebrate the little things.

#girl genius #tarvek sturmvoraus #source: texts from last night #submission #phoenixyfriend