The Geisterdamen were so good at hunting down female Sparks in Agatha's generation that the son of the man who rules most of the continent has never even met one until Agatha herself turns up.
Now, Trelawney is a little older than Agatha, but how good are the Geisterdamen at determining human ages anyway? And with time travel happening in the background of so many things, would they know their "Holy Child's" exact age? Or would they guess and grab anyone they could who might fit the profile?
Trelawney is from England, but we know she's been to Europa:
(this incident is a readable adventure, even! "Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm! in The Crown of the Sleeping King" is a bonus story in the print and PDF versions of Volume 2.)
(screenshot - it's not on the main Girl Genius site, but the ever-knowledgeable @williamansley has the link to the full story on Cheyenne's site, Arcane Times)
Keeping in mind that most of Tarvek's information is two and a half years out of date, this incident must have taken place before Agatha was discovered, therefore while the Geisterdamen were still on the hunt.
So I have to wonder...did the Geisterdamen find her? Did they follow her? Did they ever get close enough for her to perceive them as a threat - as Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm and several-times-running holder of the Smartest Person in the Room Medal, surely would?
A whole squad of Geisterdamen (is there a collective plural noun for Geisterdamen?) does show up in Colette's Paris, in a room where Trelawney also is:
...but we don't see Trelawney reacting to the Geisters, only to Othar suddenly deciding to be Tarvek's biggest fan (it doesn't seem to be a fun experience):
Although there is a Geister right behind her. Still, I'd be distracted by Othar too.
Trelawney is on none of the pages between these two points, and we haven't seen her in proximity to the Geisters after this that I recall. (The next page after this is a bonus art, and then a scene change.)
So I have to wonder about the past there. If the Geisterdamen hunted her. If they stalked her. If there were ever ghost-white faces at Trelawney's window that were gone when she looked again. If she ever saw them clearly, and if she guessed how much danger she was in. If she remembers them. If she saw them only in passing. If they haunted her.
How close did Trelawney ever come to being one of the victims of Sturmhalten and the summoning engine?
on the topic of seol and byeol's birthdays, there is a line in After Stories where “2, 7, 11, 16, 25!” are referred to as 'the kids’ birthdays'.
11 april is yerim, 16 Sep is gyeol, 25 dec is yoohyun (and yoobin too?), so 2 and 7 should be seol and byeol's birthday dates, right?
no idea on the month, though.
Thanks for the info, anon! That's great!
I ended up actually trying to figure out the timeline from the novel.
I think it depends on which day is considered their birthday - the day they first took human form, or the day they accepted their respective names and became completely independent from Yoojin's body. If it's the former, then the two of them have the same birthday, and the 5th number is Yoobin's birthday instead.
Ch 598: Twins is when Seol and Byeol first take on their human forms, both on the same day, but they don't have names yet, and are not independent/completely cut from Yoojin's body yet. They can (and do) go back in after. This happens after Chatterbox party, which is in November, and before Yoohyun's birthday, so either Nov or Dec.
Yoohyun and Yoojin came up with the names Seol and Byul on Yoohyun's birthday, aka 25th December in Ch 633, which was also right before the Wedding Arc, as the fake wedding was scheduled for 1st Jan.
And then I am pretty sure the entire rest of events of the novel finish within January as it finishes before Yoojin's birthday on 7th February.
So if the date of birth is considered when they first appeared as humans that makes it likely to be somewhere in December. So 2nd or 7th December for Seol and Byeol.
But if it's considered to be the date of independent existence then it would be 2nd Jan for Byeol and 7th Jan for Seol.
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