I say to myself, "Self, what feelings are we having about Girl Genius this weekend?"
Self:
Mechanicsburg had two generations (let's say fifty years) of consorts who hated them. And then Agatha came home, and she brought Gil and Tarvek with her. And.
And Teodora was there against her will, and she raised her sons to reject Mechanicsburg's monsters so badly that one of the first things they did was burn down the Guildhall. And Mechanicsburg's people trusted them so little that according to the novels, they considered, for one of the few times in the town's history, rebellion.
And Bill married Lucrezia, and Lucrezia scorned them. Treated them as pawns and servants and furniture, and alienated the Jägers so badly they were determinedly marking time until she was gone, because time would get her if something didn't. Despised them so regularly that Piotr knows her from a few words and nothing more.
And then the family was gone. And consorts aren't the Heterodynes, but they are part of the family.
...
And then Agatha comes home.
And Gil walks out before the gate and calls down lightning to defend their Lady's town. And comes back out of the Castle fighting, blazing war through the skies in her name, even against his own people.
And Tarvek falls in with the Jägers and fights beside them. And is on the ground with all of them throughout the siege, up on the wall with the Lady, running laughing and working through the streets with her.
Agatha comes home. And she brings her boys with her. And for the first time in half a century, the Heterodyne has consorts who are willing to be part of Mechanicsburg.
