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Girl Genius --Volume Seven Cast
Warning: Contains Spoilers

This is just a list of the characters involved in the current storyline. For a more complete list of the GG characters that have appeared in the story so far, you should look at the spoiler-ific Girl Genius List of Absolutely Everybody. It's big!

Main Characters

Our favorites!

The Spark
The mysterious quality that makes Mad Scientists what they are. Also used as another term for a Mad Scientist— so you would say that someone is a Spark if they have the Spark.

Agatha Clay / Agatha Heterodyne
The Girl Genius of the title, Agatha was recently revealed to the world as the last of the heroic Heterodyne family. Agatha is only now coming to realize her full potential as a Spark, and is finding that both her talent and her family make her a target in the eyes of the powerful. Because of some unfortunate events in a recent adventure, Agatha is currently sharing her mind with that of an evil mad scientist/goddess queen, (even more embarrassing, it's also her mom) and must wear an amulet to suppress the invader.

She is now in Mechanicsburg, in the process of proving herself to the World.

Baron Klaus Wulfenbach
Probably the most powerful Spark around. Rules a large part of Europe from his vast airship Castle Wulfenbach. Even though he traveled with the Heterodyne Boys in his younger days, and therefore has some claim to "hero" cred, he is now considered a despot. He's the first to admit that he is a despot, but he doesn't enjoy it. The Baron tried his best to capture Agatha because he believes her to be The Other, a malevolent Spark who almost destroyed Europe nineteen years ago. This idea was bolstered when Agatha, who was being possessed by The Other at the time, infected Klaus with a new form of slaver wasp, unleashed monsters upon the city of Sturmhalten, beat back his army, and dropped a chicken house on him. (Actually, Agatha wasn't possessed when she dropped the chicken house on the Baron, that was all her own doing. But he'd got her mad.) He is currently recuperating at the Great Hospital in Mechanicsburg.

Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
The Baron's son and heir presumptive to the Wulfenbach Empire, Gil was raised in secret and only recently revealed to the World at large. Said World is less than thrilled. Gil would very much like to marry Agatha, and, as a top-notch Spark himself, has a reasonable chance of keeping up with her. Unfortunately, his father is dead set against it, what with the whole "possibly crazed person responsible for the last twenty years of war and assorted atrocities" thing. Gil wants nothing more than to find Agatha and sort all this out, but is currently busy protecting his father from would-be assassins.

Krosp I--Emperor of all Cats
A failed experiment designed to rule over all Catkind. Sadly, Cats are too ineffective to be good for much. Krosp escaped from Castle Wulfenbach with Agatha and considers her his first and only subject, even though she isn't technically a cat. Krosp is the cynical voice of reason and practicality, and thus is usually ignored.

Zeetha, Daughter of Chump
A Princess of the Lost City of Skifander, Zeetha doesn't remember how she got to Europe, so she's lost as well. She met Agatha while performing martial-arts tricks with Master Payne's Circus. Agatha was the first person who'd even heard of Skifander, in a story told by her uncle, Barry Heterodyne. Zeetha has now joined Agatha, with the idea of helping find Barry. She has also taken Agatha on as 'Kolee-dok-zumil', and is teaching her self defense, martial arts, and how to act like a princess. (It apparently involves swords and rescuing princes and such.)

Ardsley Wooster
Every British citizen is required to travel and see a bit of the world. Wooster met Gilgamesh when they were both students in Paris. Gil had yet to be revealed as the Baron's son, and the two hit it off and spent many a jovial evening in the City of Light. Wooster asked if Gil could secure him a position as a manservant aboard Castle Wulfenbach. Gil did so, and Wooster was astonished to discover that his new master was actually the here-to-for unknown heir to the Baron. The two worked well together until Gil revealed that he had been aware all along that Wooster was actually a secret agent for British Intelligence. He has been sent to protect Agatha and convey her to England to keep her safe from the Baron. Unfortunately for Wooster, Agatha has a mind of her own and she went to Mechanicsburg instead. Wooster doesn't even want to imagine what will happen if she gets hurt on his watch.

Bangladesh DuPree
Our favorite bloodthirsty maniac. A dethroned pirate queen currently working for Baron Wulfenbach.

Dingbot Prime
Agatha's first Dingbot. It is a small, autonomous clank. Capable of semi-independent thought, it manages to follow Agatha throughout the story, which has come in handy on occasion. Whenever it has a free moment, it starts constructing other dingbots, which proceed to build other dingbots, and so on. These swarms quickly become capable of performing alarming feats of engineering. Fortunately, subsequent generations tend to wear out quickly.

The Flashback Characters and their Fictional Counterparts

Heterodyne Shows
The Heterodynes aren't really around anymore, but they still have a big impact. Heterodyne Shows are popular commedia-style stage plays featuring well-known adventures of the Heterodyne Boys and other popular folk heroes. Shows of this type can be found all over Europe. Although some of them may have roots in actual historical events, most are simply entertainments created and added to by innumerable theatre troops for the entertainment of a public which has no interest in anything so boring as facts.

Bill and Barry: The Heterodyne Boys
A generation Bill and Barry Heterodyne renounce their family's tradition of evil, and traveled the World righting wrongs, helping the helpless, and having fantastic adventures. They gathered together a group of like-minded individuals and changed the face of Europe. But after Bill's wife Lucrezia was kidnapped and his son killed in a mysterious attack on Castle Heterodyne, they began a long war with the mysterious Other, which culminated in their disappearance. The peace they worked for fell into ruin, paving the way for the far less patient Baron Wulfenbach. Today, close to twenty years later, they are still great favorites in song and story. Many say that they will someday return, bringing about the fall of Wulfenbach and free beer for all.

The Evil Dr. Mongfish (later reformed)
A frequent opponent of the Heterodyne Boys in the early days. Later reformed when, after a series of exciting adventures, his daughter Lucrezia married Bill Heterodyne. Died in an attack on Castle Heterodyne.

Lucrezia Mongfish
The Beautiful Daughter of one of the Heterodyne Boys most persistent foes, Lucifer Mongfish. She is/was worshipped as a Goddess (for reasons that her family always found a bit confusing) by a lost civilization of ghost-white amazons living near her father's secret base/summer home. After a series of futile clashes with the Heterodynes, she eventually married Bill and joined the Forces of Good. This lasted until Castle Heterodyne was attacked while the Heterodyne Boys were off on a mission. That was the last anyone in Europe ever heard of Lucrezia, and she was presumed to have been kidnapped by the mysterious person who came to be known as "the Other." In reality, as Agtha has recently discovered, Lucrezia herself is the Other. Her purposes are, as yet, unexplained.

The Other
Big Nasty Mysterious Spark of unknown origin. Made a real mess of Europe before the Heterodynes went off to put a stop the whole business. They must have succeeded, because the Other's attacks stopped right around the time they disappeared. That's all most people know. Recently, Agatha has discovered that the Other was actually her own Mother, (Lucrezia Mongfish) backed by Geisterdamen priestesses and an as-yet unnamed order of knights that she apparently subverted for her own purposes.

The High Priestess
A stock character in the Heterodyne stories. Not played as a consistent character, "The High Priestess" can be written as the queen or priestess of whatever lost city to which the adventure takes the heroes, or, more rarely, simply as the latest villain's beautiful-but-misguided assistant. The character of Bill always winds up with Lucrezia, and Barry always ends up with "the High Priestess," whomever she may be this week. Most stories favor exotic characterizations and attire for this role.

Jägermonsters

The Jägermonsters
Enthusiastic construct soldiers created in the days when the Heterodyne ancestors were somewhat less than heroic. They are tough, crazed and possibly immortal. In the absence of their original masters, they have hired on as mercenaries to the Baron, but never gave up hope that the Heterodynes would return.

Oggie, Dimo & Maxim
When the Jägermonsters signed on with the House of Wulfenbach, a amall number of them were sent out into the world to search for the Heterodynes: forever, if need be. These Jägers do not work for Wulfenbach, and are considered "wild" Jägers. Oggie, Dimo & Maxim are some of these, and are the ones who actually found Agatha. They are very proud of themselvves, and have been protecting her ever since. They are all amazing fighters, and unsettlingly smarter than they look; but then they'd have to be, wouldn't they?

Ognian "Oggie"
One of a group of "wild" Jagermonsters who travel the wastelands searching for an heir to the Heterodyne family. Oggie is the most care-free of the group. He still keeps track of his Mechanicsburg descendants, and nags them about continuing the family line.

Dimo
One of a group of "wild" Jägermonsters who travel the wastelands searching for an heir to the Heterodyne family. Dimo is the oldest, and arguably the smartest of the three. He is the one who usually comes up with "the plan." He is as world-weary as a Jäger can get, which isn't saying much.

Maxim
One of a group of "wild" Jagermonsters who travel the wastelands searching for an heir to the Heterodyne family. An ex-cavalry officer, Maxim is the most resigned of the group.

Jenka and Füst
Jenka is one of a group of "wild" Jagermonsters who travel the wastelands searching for an heir to the Heterodyne family. Now that her little band has found Agatha, Jenka has gone off to report to some unknown person, and set Ognian, Maxim and Dimo to keep Agatha alive. Füst is Jenka's bear.

Captain Vole
A Jäger who is considered (by all the Jägers including himself) an Ex-Jägermonster. Most non-Jägers are puzzled by this assertion, but it works for them. So, Vole was thrown out of the club, for reasons that are as yet unclear. While the rest of the Jägers are forbidden to enter Mechanicsburg until a new Heterodyne returns, he has been confined there for the last fifteen years. He has a great deal of hate for the Heterodynes, and tried to kill Agatha.

Wulfenbach Troops

The Unstoppable Higgs
Machinist Mate third Class Higgs has quietly served aboard various Wulfenbach airships for ten years without distinction. Recently he survived a airship crash and succeeded in rescuing the Baron while he was at it. Everyone was very impressed.

The Black Squad
Wulfenbach troops who appear to have some sort of spacial-displacement ability. Not to be tangled with...usually.

Sergeant Scorp
An old soldier. One of the Wulfenbach soldiers who specializes in dealing with slaver wasps and revenants. Scorp is one of the few Wulfenbach soldiers who got a good look at Agatha back in Sturmhalten, and is now in Mechanicsburg helping to search for her.

The Circus

Master Payne's Circus of Adventure!
The Circus' big attraction is their Heterodyne Show-- popular commedia-style stage plays featuring well-known adventures. Shows of this type can be found all over Europe.

Master Payne
Of the International Brotherhood of Evil Magicians. A showman and minor Spark, his traveling Heterodyne Show travels the wastelands, entertaining, scavenging, and rescuing other minor Sparks from their home towns. It's his circus, and what he says, goes. Currently the show is embarking upon an extended tour of England.

Mechanicsburg

The Town of Mechanicsburg
The Ancestral Hometown of the Heterodyne Family. One can say many, many, many derogatory things about the state of the Heterodyne family's sanity, but, first and foremost, they were cunning. The townspeople were, as they say, "In on the take." While the Heterodynes rampaged over the land, the folks back home were left reasonably unmolested. In return for their loyalty, they served as minions, guards, troops and fencers of stolen goods; as opposed to everyone else, who served as experimental subjects, victims, sources of wealth and decoration. Under the Heterodyne Boys, the town changed its modus operandi, but not its underlying purpose. Today Mechanicsburg is a magnificently-crafted machine designed to separate tourists and the gullible from their money. It is also the center of several thriving black markets and smuggling operations. Still, many of the older people fondly remember the Glory Days, when "Made in Mechanicsburg" brought terror to the world at large.

Arella
Keeps von Mekkhan's house, and brings home rumors from the marketplace. Is she his daughter-in-law, grand-daughter or something else? It has yet to be explained.

Carson von Mekkahn
(alias: Carson Heliotrope)
The retired seneschal of Castle Heterodyne. He knows all the secrets of the Castle and the town, and was the voice of the Heterodyne family to the general populace. After the Other's initial attack, he faked his death and allowed The Baron to believe that the family had gone extinct. He continues to pull Mechanicsburg's strings from the shadows.

Vanamonde von Mekkahn
(alias: Vanamonde Heliotrope)
Carson's grandson. Ostensibly the current seneschal, though he obviously has not been confirmed either by a Heterodyne or by the Castle. He has a different management style than his grandfather, preferring to let people come to him, rather than visa-versa. Old-timers might grouse about the touristy claptrap, but Mechanicsburg has never been more profitable.

Castle Heterodyne
The home of the Heterodynes. Several hundred years ago, Faustus Heterodyne modified it, turning it into a gigantic, self regulating A.I. It's been broken for years, but the stories say that when new it could repair itself, re-arrange itself, and defend itself and possibly even the town. It has the personality of old Faustus, who was an evil, bloodthirsty, megalomaniacal schemer. It is insanely loyal to the Heterodyne family, and it spends a great deal of time and effort making sure that there will be another generation of Heterodynes to carry on the trouble. Young Heterodynes learn very quickly not to bring home dates.

Faustus Heterodyne
One of the old Heterodynes, which means a dangerous madman of the first water. Faustus was responsible for "awakening" Castle Heterodyne, endowing it with his own charming personality. HISTORICAL

Zola "Heterodyne"
A young woman who claims to be the Heterodyne girl who beat Baron Wulfenbach. (Of course, we all know she's not, that was Agatha...) She has backers who have yet to reveal their agenda.

Zola's Minions
A bunch of guys in funny hats who appear to be along to carry the equipment and get killed.

Duke Strinbeck
One of the people behind the false Heterodyne. Currently lurking above the city in a pink airship.

Baron Oublenmach
One of the people behind the false Heterodyne. Currently lurking above the city in a pink airship.

Un-named Airship Captain
Captain of the ship currently hovering over Mechanicsburg. Isn't too thrilled with his current employers, job, or ship.

Kraddok
Wheelman of the ship currently hovering over Mechanicsburg. An old airshipman who knows enough to be nervous about flying over Mechanicsburg.

Assistant
Agatha's new secretary, although Agatha doesn't yet know it.

Wilhelm Diamant
The outside man in charge of the Castle Heterodyne prisoners. He transports and supplies them and reports to the Baron.

The Great Hospital at Mechanicsburg

Dr. Sun Jen-djieh
The Spark in charge of the Great Hospital of Mechanicsburg. A friend and traveling companion of Baron Wulfenbach in his youth, and one of the few people who feels free to contradict Klaus on a wide variety of subjects. He rules the Hospital with an iron hand, and aside from a tendency to indulge in unorthodox experiments (which usually yield surprisingly beneficial results), has made it a model of efficiency, hygiene and advanced medicine. His grand-daughter is being educated on Castle Wulfenbach.

The Coffee House in Mechanicsburg

Café Waitress 01
Serves coffee in Van's Café.

Café Waitress 02
Serves coffee in Van's Café.

Café Waitress 03
Serves coffee in Van's Café.

Herr Mitrant
A master artificer who was in the Café trying to fix the coffee maker when Agatha happened to it. One of the first to take to Agatha as the new Heterodyne.

The Graverobber Kid
His (her?) family has served the Heterodynes for a hundred years. Wanting to get in on the act, this one has brought Agatha a dead rat, because that's all he (she?) could find. A loyal minion, indeed!

Inside Castle Heterodyne

Professor Hristo Tiktoffen
A senior prisoner within Castle Heterodyne. He is an "old timer," meaning he's been there for longer than three months. In charge of figuring out the layout of the defenses, wiring and such, and also one of the people who keep track of how many points prisoners earn. When someone is sentenced to work in Castle Heterodyne, they are sentenced not in years, but in points. They have to complete X number of points of service in order to be released. Go-getters, while they accumulate points quickly, also tend to take on more dangerous assignments and thus die. Some slackers have survived for years by doing nothing. Hristo is actually part of the conspiracy to install a false Heterodyne.

Sanaa Wilhelm
A prisoner within Castle Heterodyne.

"Snapper" Boikov
A prisoner within Castle Heterodyne.

The Authors

Professors Foglio and Foglio
Of the TPU dept. of Almost Certainly True History. "We make our textbooks fun!" Professor Phil Foglio has recently made an appearance in the story: being released from a dungeon in Sturmhalten when the heroes wandered through. It appears that Prof. Foglio is one of Ognian's descendants, which explains a lot. He has promised to get married and start a family when the Jägers find a Heterodyne. (i.e. "Never.") He is now hiding, but that won't save him.

Winslow
HI! He's everywhere. All hail.

Girl Genius --Volume Seven Cast Warning: Contains Spoilers

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Girl Genius --Volume Seven Cast
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