rozugold:
a foreign gentleness
(via painted-illusions-au)
Anonymous asked: Gg au where mechanicsburg is ancient ruins for who knows what reason
iztarshi:
- To be ancient ruins it really can’t have been around that long. Maybe a few hundred years post-Faustus and BAM. Let’s say they razed the newly established Wulfenbach and found out what can happen when a Wulfenbach takes things personally.
- The Heterodynes have been nomads since. They came from nomadic stock once, after all. The number of their minions has dwindled, but they still have the Jägers. They’re a terror of the forest, not hiding so much as lurking, striking unexpectedly to carry off food and mechanical equipment.
- They’re not as powerful as they were when they had Mechanicsburg and thus, perforce, more subtle. Dyne water is used exclusively for making more Jägers and the trip to get it is made by Jägers. To be chosen to make it is a great and often fatal honour.
- Everyone watches Mechanicsburg. There are still castles around it from the Storm King era and earlier, and later. Do you want to let the Heterodynes have a base again?
- Bill and Barry were still heroes and still Heterodynes, but they were able to leave their father’s control without murder being necessary. No Castle, no town, nothing to confine them just as much as there’s nothing to rule.
- But Agatha wants to be rooted and she needs a base. She needs somewhere to hold off Klaus, just as she does in canon, and if the Castle has been mad and broken for much, much longer it’s still hers. Everyone watches the ways in to Mechanicsburg, but the Jägers have been able to reach the Dyne before. They know the way.
- Mechanicsburg is ancient ruins, but even a phoenix dead for centuries can rise at the touch of fire.