Girl Genius/Characters: Difference between revisions

** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200513 The old lady in this comic] is Night Mistress Madwa Korel, perhaps the single deadliest Smoke Knight alive and a renegade who's spent over a decade surviving a death mark put out on her by ''the entire Order of Smoke Knights''. And ''she's'' giving Violetta a professional compliment... when Violetta's on the enemy team, no less. At this point Miss "I'm not a very good Smoke Knight" is clearly talking just from an inferiority complex.

** In an earlier arc, [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160603 Violetta blasted the MacGuffin out of Madwa's hand] while two other Smoke Knights, who Violetta had just described as 'better than her', were entirely unable to get a shot off. ''Definitely'' an inferiority complex.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]

{{quote|'''Smoke Knight''': Your Grace, with all ''respect'', von Blitzengard is ''good'' at this sort of thing. Better than ''any of us''. It's one of the reasons he was able to make ''his'' claim to the title ''stick''. }}

** To underline the above, Tarvek survived a childhood marked by most of his extended family trying to kill him by frantically playing [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] and abusing [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. Martellus survived it by simply ''butchering every assassin they sent''. The 'Fortress of Storms' sequence in particular (where the above quote is from) is noteworthy; Martellus gets teleported into an isolated mountain redoubt full of Smoke Knights and relatives who all want him dead, and three days later all the survivors are bending the knee to him because he's still been ''winning''. The guy might be a clumsy planner sometimes and he still can't beat absolute top-tier opponents like Gilgamesh, but he's a legitimately grade-A killing machine.

{{quote|'''Agatha:''' (with barely-contained hostility) ''Fine.'' I don't trust you, but I'll believe you.

'''Martellus:''' Hah! You see, Seffie? Our children will be ''magnificent!''

'''Seffie:''' ARRRRGGGH! ''This'' is why ''YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK TO MY FRIENDS!''}}

* [[Not So Different]]: Not that he's aware of it, but there's [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140411 a scene] when he's wondering whether Euphrosynia Heterodyne had any genuine affection for the Storm King, and his wistful expression is '''very''' much like the one Tarvek shows at sentimental moments.

{{quote|'''Oggie:''' Hyu is a real pain in de neck, but hyu gots de schtuff to be a king. No qvestion.}}

 

* [[Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: Despite being madly in love with Gilgamesh Seffie has managed to keep him utterly unaware of the fact via her considerable talents as an actress, and has managed to seamlessly disguise her dogged pursuit of him over the years as merely being pragmatic power politics. (Which to be fair it actually would be). She does this due to having been raised in a [[Deadly Decadent Court]] where exposing one's true feelings and vulnerabilities was, to put it mildly, strongly discouraged and because she's already aware Gilgamesh's heart belongs to Agatha so she apparently believes she can only hope to hook him via his intellect. The irony is of course that Seffie simply ''admitting she actually likes Gilgamesh for himself'' and not just because he's the Wulfenbach heir would almost certainly work far better than anything else she's tried, because that's how Agatha hooked Gilgamesh in the first place.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Virtually ''everyone'' calls her "Seffie", even on formal occasions. Only total strangers ever use her real name 'Xersephnia', and sometimes not even then.

** Seffie's ability to be liked has even crossed the fourth wall. Several discussion threads in various forums have contained multiple comments along the lines of 'I like Seffie and want her to win - even when I ''shouldn't!!'''.

* [[Master Actress]]: She makes Zola look like a clumsy amateur trying too hard.