#Bangladesh DuPree

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Bangladesh Dupree+The Wulfenbachs Meta

I always headcanoned her to be close in age to Gil mostly because this adds a really interesting element to Klaus’ tolerance of her specifically being overly familiar and insubordinate while talking to him.

Just the idea that Klaus looked at this young woman who is about his son’s age, absolutely terrifying and way too enthusiastic about a challenging fight and he can’t help but imagine (not all that incorrectly from the interactions we see between her and Zeetha) that his daughter might have grown up to be a bit like her.

And maybe on a subconscious level that’s part of why he has a tendency to pair them off together, in Paris for example. In the novels they’re described as being noted as a particularly good, if reluctant, team so they must work together a decent amount.

She’s a loose canon that he’s preparing his heir to learn to work with, an incredibly dangerous warrior that he thinks could help Gil become stronger and a little part of him can’t help but enjoy watching the way they bicker and tease and thinking about what could have been.

Bang’s relationship with Klaus is also interesting from her perspective because the first novel says that she depends on him to be a constant which, though this may be reaching, could be something considering her father left. It’s a theme with all of Klaus’ subordinates and many others to be horrified at the prospect of him not being untouchable anymore because they recognise how needed he is but Bangladesh doesn’t really seem likely to care about the stability of Europa like the rest of them.

She’s a homicidal maniac, war is not going to worry her but she, not an especially soft and emotional person I would say, is the only person we see actually shed tears at Klaus’ supposed death and how she couldn’t save him.

And it’s definitely something that Gil is the one to hold her as she cries for his father because everyone who’s affected by the news is worried about the empire and what comes next while the two of them might well be the only people in Europa who are personally grieving his death.

And it’s also something that no matter how much she accidentally ended up caring about Klaus the moment she suspected he’d done something to Gil she’s absolutely furious and tries to convince Gil that he should be too.

She’s so unquestionably on Gil’s side above everything else whether she actually still serves the empire or not and their interactions are absolutely giving sibling energy.

So yeah, it could just be a coincidence, but I’m hung up on the theory that Klaus looked at Bang, saw the daughter he hasn’t seen since infancy in her and immediately decided that he’s ordering her to stay with Gil for the foreseeable future.

Because that it is exactly the flavour of denial and unresolved issues made everyone else’s problem that I would expect from him.

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How Old is Bang DuPree? Timeline Speculation

Bangladesh DuPree is a character we’ve got a decent amount of background info about. She is the daughter of a deposed and now dead pirate queen who was out on a solo trip when her group’s attempt to keep Zeetha captive and sell her as a slave went lethally wrong. Afterwards she signed up with Klaus as the right monster for the right job, and has been having a good time despite the Empire not giving her any more information on who destroyed her fortress. Klaus assigned her to spend some time with Gil in Paris, they became friendly, and the last bit of pre-canon info we have is that she is the one who destroyed Moloch’s squad.

One thing we don’t know is how old she is. I think that’s fine: the timeline has a lot of moving parts and nailing things down without thinking them through carefully can have awkward results. But I like to guess.

Zeetha has been wandering for three years at the start of canon. Tarvek took Tinka from the Circus three years precanon. Book 2 states that Bang has been working for Klaus for three years. This makes Klaus sending Bang to Paris with Gil one of the very first things he ever ordered her to do.

Secret Blueprints is supplemental material that isn’t necessarily accurate, but it states that Bang led the pirates for two years, and it’s the only statement we have about this.

This isn’t quite enough information to tell Bang’s age, but we do have some other information: her family! She actually has a named brother, Deathwish DuPree and an unnamed but onscreen father. Deathwish is her older brother, but he’s not visibly aged. And her father left her mother ten years ago (2.5 years after canon starts): the way that Bang is upset about it, it feels like she was a kid when that happened. And her mother seemed to still be in control of her country at the time, since he refers to the pressure of monarchy to explain why he left.

I’ll set the minimum age as 22 at the start of canon, since there’s in-universe speculation about whether Gil and DuPree banged or not and that’s Gil’s age in the books.

This makes her personal timeline at the youngest look like:

14 years old = Bang’s father abandons her and her mother.

1? years old: Deathwish leaves his family behind, possibly because of amnesia.

1? years old: The people of Bang’s island city rebel, deposing them. Her and her mother begin gathering resources to retake the throne.

17 years old: Bang’s mother dies. Bang becomes leader of her pirate crew.

19 years old: Bang returns from a solitary trip to find her fortress completely destroyed.

19 years old: Bang meets Gil in Paris and hangs out with him for an undisclosed amount of time

22 years old: Bang kills most of Moloch’s squad under the Baron’s flag. She also sees the time windows and informs Klaus of this. Canon happens.

23-25 years old: Mechanicsburg is timestopped. Bang sticks close to Gil through his early years of Baroning,

25 years old: Bang is informed that Zeetha is the one who destroyed her fortress. She quits working for Gil temporarily and leads Agatha’s expedition to Rat Island. She seems to have rejoined the Empire after Rat Island.

I always felt like Bang was a little older than Gil, but looking at when her father left, I think her being the same age works. It does make her a young pirate queen, but Europa seems to look at competence more than age when it comes to these things.

If anyone has any relevant info from the radio show they’d like to share, I am very curious to hear it!

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I love this new trend of bang being the voice of reason to all the sparks

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Link to the "most problematic" poll

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Ok here we go

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"Isn't that always the way? Management thinking it knows what works in the field?"

Girl Genius

by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio

Airship

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Ruined

Fandom: Girl Genius Pairing: Bangladesh Dupree/Vole (discussed), Agatha/Gil (background) Summary: Bang has seen Vole's new look, but only now learns that the man she fell for has changed on the inside, too.

It's clearly all Gil's fault.

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“You ruined him!”

Gil ducks the knife automatically, but is caught enough off guard that Dupree’s foot actually manages to make contact with his jaw. He hits the ground and rolls as another knife pings off the stone floor. With an inelegant but effective twist, he’s on his feet again, but the tears in Dupree’s eyes stop him short.

“He was perfect!” Dupree wails, clutching her knife to her chest. “He was perfect and you ruined him!”

“What are you talking about?” he demands. The next knife barely misses him, and Gil is honestly not sure if Dupree is not putting her all into trying to kill him, or if her aim is affected by her crying.

It’s rather horrifying.

“Wait—Wait, are you…do you mean Vole? That was almost a year ago, why are you mad at me now?”

“Because I didn’t know until now! You made him an even bigger monster than before, but only on the outside!

"Wh—Hang on—"

“I’ve been looking all over for him! And when I finally found him, and I asked him out, do you know what he said? Do you know what he said?”

Gil silently shakes his head, mystified.

“He said he doesn’t like to kill things for fun anymore!” Dupree sobs.

Gil bursts out laughing from sheer surprise, and then immediately takes off running as Dupree hurls herself at him. He serpentines down the hallway, knives zipping past him.

Where does she keep them all? He thinks, wildly.

“Castle! Maybe you’d like to do something about the attempted murder of your lady’s consort?” he shouts at the ceiling.

‘You must know I do not.’

Gil swings around a corner, jumps up, lands on the wall, pushes off, flips over Dupree’s head and takes off back the way he came. Behind him he hears Dupree collide with and be toppled over by something metallic and heavy , but he knows it’ll only stall her.

“Agatha will be really upset.”

‘I think the young lady has a legitimate grievance against you,’ the castle says, primly.

“Oh of course you do!”

Gil makes it as far as the stairs before something hits the back of his head, hard, with a crash of breaking pottery. He goes tumbling halfway down before he manages to grab hold of the banister and stop his fall. Sprawled on the stairs, Gil looks up. Dupree stands at the top of the stairway, glaring down at him, eyes blazing through tears. She looks like she walked off the set of a particularly melodramatic penny opera.

“He was the only man I ever loved,” she says, sounding as histrionic as she looks, “and you ruined him.”

“You knew him for five minutes,” Gil points out. “You didn’t even have a conversation with him, you just listened to him rant about how much he wanted to set Europa on fire!”

“That was all I needed," she snarls.

“What is going on out here?”

Agatha and Zeetha have appeared at the bottom of the stairs. Agatha has her hands on her hips, her brow furrowed. Zeetha is finding great amusement in Gil's difficulties, but what else is new.

“Dupree is mad at me because Vole is no longer a ruthless homicidal maniac.”

“Vole?” Zeetha repeats.

Agatha gasps, her hand flying to her mouth. She looks up at Dupree, wide eyed.

“You two would be perfect for each other!” she says.

“Not now! Not after Wulfenbach got done with him!” Dupree cries. “He doesn’t even want to set anything on fire anymore! He said he was tired of fighting!”

Gil watches in open mouthed astonishment as both women walk straight past him to fuss over Dupree. Agatha pulls her into a hug and Dupree sobs against her chest.

“You poor thing,” Zeetha says, with all signs of genuine compassion.

“It’s not fair!” Dupree bawls. Agatha shoots Gil a disapproving look.

“All I did was pull him out of the time stop!” Gil cries in protest. “It’s not my fault that the process put him through a personalized metaphorical hell that caused introspection leading to a changed outlook on life!”   

No one is listening.

“Come on,” Zeetha says, gently. “Let’s get some chocolate in you.”

“He’s not the only bloodthirsty, amoral monster you’ll ever meet,” Agatha reassures Dupree as they guide her down the hallway.

Gil sits up, puts his elbows on his knees, and his chin on his fists, glowering at the far wall.

“I didn’t hear anyone complaining when we used what I learned to get Tarvek out,” he grumbles.

‘I think you should be a little more sympathetic,’ the castle says. Gil chokes.

“Are you serious?”

‘I knew Vole of old,’ the castle says, and adds, mournfully, ‘Their wedding would have been a bloodbath.’

“Oh, shut up.”

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Bangladesh Dupree from girl genius

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Girl Genius event week day 4: Fighting Girls Tea and Cake Society, Costumes

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Don't look so grumpy, Gil, Bang's just trying to help you make time with Agatha.

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Round 3

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i think zeetha and bang should kiss immediately

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It is frankly a crime that I haven't seen this crossover yet. They'd get along so well!

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Link to the "least problematic" poll

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Fighting Girls Tea & Cake Society in Halloween costumes! Suggested ages ago by @thisarenotarealblog haha