User:Kahuna Burger

Sorry to jump into the board with an article, but I was looking for somewhere to get this theory out of my head and "in writing" as it were, and this page was suggested.

I was thinking about the scene in the crypt and something very simple but significant occurred to me : Just because Klaus Barry couldn't be the Baron's child doesn't mean he was William's. We know Lucrezia was not a model of fidelity - she celebrated her engagement by frolicking with (one of?) her other boyfriend(s?). The heir who everyone knows about might not have truely been a Heterodyne.

And suddenly there was a whole other set of possibilities for the night the Other attacked Castle Heterodyne.

Klaus Barry was "with us only 407 days" - in other words he was a little over 13 months when he died. Old enough to be walking and saying some words and interacting with the Castle. The masters were away and a new seneschal was watching over things. Perhaps they were practicing for some sort of presentation ceremony, perhaps little Klaus just crawled up into the throne and for the first time someone officially told the Castle "this is your newest master". But we know two things about the Castle. One, it can identify true Heterodynes by some combination of voice, scent and possibly blood; and two, it was designed to serve the needs of generations of sociopathic madboys. What is such a "being" to do when a false heir is placed on its throne? Denounce him and his cheating mother to all present and smite the pretender, regardless of age or innocence.

The Castle kills Klaus Barry, and the seneschal who tries to correct his mistake and save the child. Lucrezia, quite understandably, loses it. She's tried so hard (yes with some lapses, but did you see that ambassador's arms, and it's not like she ever LOVED anyone but William). What is a semi-reformed madgirl to do when some overblown construct murders her son and prepares to destroy her husband's love for her by broadcasting her infidelity? Kill it. She destroys the castle's intelligence as fully as she can, with no thought for collateral damage, and flees, abandoning her attempt at a new life, destroying the research she had tried to work on within the confines of William's "philosophy" (it was all tainted and useless and weak anyway) and sets out to destroy the Heterodyne legacy - but as the Other. Some part of her doesn't want William to know the truth, even as another part hates him for his murdering family castle.

At some point, she realizes that she was pregnant again when she left the Castle, and after some dramaticly madgirl ultrasound stand in, begins working on the Strumvoraus with an eye to body hopping immortality. I can't find reference to exactly how long the fight with the Other lasted, but Klaus said he was "only gone for a few years", and the dates on Klaus Barry put 3 1/2 of those before the Other appeared. So we'll say for the sake of argument that 8 months after her campaign of terror begins, Lucrezia is slowed down by labor pains and the Heterodyne boys catch up with her in one of her lairs. She tries to set a self destruct device and flee, but is injured and laboring and is still there when William and Barry arrive. The boys deliver Agatha as the lair collapses around them, and Lucrezia, not wanting to die with William hating her, spins a lie about Klaus having kidnapped her and destroyed the Heterodyne legacy out of mad jealousy. (He was letting her keep the baby so that he could have a puppet Heterodyne ruler for his new empire.)

Cue dramatic flight scene from the exploding lair, William with Lucrezia in his arms, Barry with the newborn babe in his. Only Barry makes it. He places the baby with Punch and Judy and continues his fight against the Other/Klaus, with occasional visits. a couple of decades later, our comic begins.

Category : Fan Theories