I heard the word today, “Destroy!”
Destroy that circus, so detestable!
Rough-handed Slavs and Papists, too!
And men of fulsome be-e-eard …
Their accents sound so we-e-eird …
And once I heard the word “Destroy”,
I lost the thread of what my Master said …
I was not built to introspect …
The most important part,
Yes, I took to heart!
I’d love to
tear …
it …
down …
The scary thing is that this is definitive proof that the Madbloods actually breed offspring, presumably with willing mates. Or maybe not; maybe they’re into cloning like Dr. Narbon Senior.
“Vague rumor has it that Lupin’s mother was not impregnated directly by Felix, but by a rebellious evil computer of Felix’s invention; this kind of thing is exactly why even other mad scientists avoid prying into the private lives of the mad.”
Nah, the Helens Narbon are geneticists, remember. Cloning goes with the field. (They’ve been doing it for hundreds of years, actually.) Not sure WHAT roboticists would do that relates to reproduction, but I’m sure it doesn’t bear thinking about.
Generally only takes a generation or two for the descendants of immigrants to learn to loathe furriners. 🙂
I am amused by the implication that the Old War broke out not due to some deeper human-construct conflict, but because a Madblood felt The Wogs Begin at Calais.
I always thought it had begun with the rebellion of Frankenstein’s Creature, built with stolen Very Early Madblood tech… the first of Humanity’s creations to rebel, not counting drawers and folding chairs, that even now wait patiently to strike…
I’m still wrestling with the faintly Basque-looking name “Ximes”. Depending on just how anglicised the Madblood family are, it could be “Zeems”, “Simays”, “Ksemez” or about 18 other things. The best thing is, this is a sound recording. So if any of the characters ask about the name, it’ll be how to SPELL it….
It’s the second-person singular present indicative of ximir, a verb meaning “to moan” in Asturian, a language that’s still spoken in several clusters along the Northern coast of Spain.
The region where it is still spoken is surrounded by (and partially interwoven with) speakers of Leonese, Cantabrian/Montañés, Basque, Catalan Spanish, Galician/Eonavian, Portuguese, and Mirandese.
Now an Englishman may have ended up with a Countship of that name through the Napoleonic Peninsular War and the interrelated British involvement in the Spanish War of Independence, by a Spanish Conde moving to Britain, or by some other unknown or even purely made-up method.
That definitely looks like lupin
If it looks like Lupin, does that mean it’s actually the Emperor of Mars?
(That’s a looooong callback!)
Likely before his excursion to Mars as he was left stranded there with the shape-shifting Martians.
“Say…can one of you handsome devils impersonate a spaceship for me?”
Wait… does this mean that Madblood Prime is part Martian?
Also, I call dibs on “Madblood Prime” as a band name
I thought he looked like the guy from Narbonic…
Yes, Lupin. Lupin “Wolf” Madblood, the fake romantic lead in Narbonic.
Not Lupin III, who is from an entirely different universe.
Nope, not Arsène Lupin III. Nor even his grandfather. ^_^
(TUNE: “A Day In The Life”, The Beatles)
I heard the word today, “Destroy!”
Destroy that circus, so detestable!
Rough-handed Slavs and Papists, too!
And men of fulsome be-e-eard …
Their accents sound so we-e-eird …
And once I heard the word “Destroy”,
I lost the thread of what my Master said …
I was not built to introspect …
The most important part,
Yes, I took to heart!
I’d love to
tear …
it …
down …
A Madblood, by Jove!
The scary thing is that this is definitive proof that the Madbloods actually breed offspring, presumably with willing mates. Or maybe not; maybe they’re into cloning like Dr. Narbon Senior.
Have we definitively ruled out Spontaneous Generation?
Lupin had a mother, remember. So yes, they breed.
Not very quickly, mind.
“Vague rumor has it that Lupin’s mother was not impregnated directly by Felix, but by a rebellious evil computer of Felix’s invention; this kind of thing is exactly why even other mad scientists avoid prying into the private lives of the mad.”
Nah, the Helens Narbon are geneticists, remember. Cloning goes with the field. (They’ve been doing it for hundreds of years, actually.) Not sure WHAT roboticists would do that relates to reproduction, but I’m sure it doesn’t bear thinking about.
… Robot Duplicates, OBVIOUSLY.
Which makes Madblood the actually the best reproducer in the series. 😀
Amusingly enough, both Madbloods featured in Narbonic ended up at one point with an army of their duplicates. I wonder if it happened to this one too.
Well, yes, OBVIOUSLY that. Given that we were talking about offspring, though, I meant actual, biological reproduction. *shudder*
Alright, decidedly NOT French!
Generally only takes a generation or two for the descendants of immigrants to learn to loathe furriners. 🙂
I am amused by the implication that the Old War broke out not due to some deeper human-construct conflict, but because a Madblood felt The Wogs Begin at Calais.
I always thought it had begun with the rebellion of Frankenstein’s Creature, built with stolen Very Early Madblood tech… the first of Humanity’s creations to rebel, not counting drawers and folding chairs, that even now wait patiently to strike…
Wasn’t Deep Thought the computer that came up with the Ultimate Answer? If Master M *wasn’t* built for him…
I… I kind of want to ship it now.
And Deep Thought was voiced by Dame Helen Mirren in the recent-ish movie adaptation… seems a propos.
I’m still wrestling with the faintly Basque-looking name “Ximes”. Depending on just how anglicised the Madblood family are, it could be “Zeems”, “Simays”, “Ksemez” or about 18 other things. The best thing is, this is a sound recording. So if any of the characters ask about the name, it’ll be how to SPELL it….
It’s the second-person singular present indicative of ximir, a verb meaning “to moan” in Asturian, a language that’s still spoken in several clusters along the Northern coast of Spain.
The region where it is still spoken is surrounded by (and partially interwoven with) speakers of Leonese, Cantabrian/Montañés, Basque, Catalan Spanish, Galician/Eonavian, Portuguese, and Mirandese.
Now an Englishman may have ended up with a Countship of that name through the Napoleonic Peninsular War and the interrelated British involvement in the Spanish War of Independence, by a Spanish Conde moving to Britain, or by some other unknown or even purely made-up method.
How very apt!
Or it might be just a funny name