Richard Nixon played a large roll in the creation of the Rust Belt IOTL. In this one he is about to make the right call even if its for the wrong reasons.
I wholeheartedly agree with Mathilda. Clytemnestra should have started with the Mycenaean Greek equivalent of a cheese grater and then worked her way up. or down, from there.In the case of Mathilda that had come in the form of a pair of essays she had written that had reflected how she had conducted herself over the Spring Term. The first had been a couple thousand words about how she thought that Agamemnon deserved far worse than merely being beheaded by his wife after what he had done to their daughter, Iphigenia. Mathilda had then suggested several ideas for what Clytemnestra should have done instead that involved a lot more blood, fire, and screaming. The Professor found that to be rather disturbing.
"Mycenaean Cheese Grater" . . . Thank you for the nice little nudge to my imagination this morning, SalamanderI wholeheartedly agree with Mathilda.
5 points for creativity, 5 points for burning down the cartoon theater in my mind.I wholeheartedly agree with Mathilda. Clytemnestra should have started with the Mycenaean Greek equivalent of a cheese grater and then worked her way up. or down, from there.
And up until Ilse met Kat she was an orphan. She is going to hold family she has as precious because of that.It is not hard to see how Kat's expansive definition of family has influenced Ilse as she sees Mathilda being a very integral part of her own family, and now Matilda has added Eddi to the family without saying a word.
That is true, but Ilse has trust issues from being abandoned and is very wary of letting people in.And up until Ilse met Kat she was an orphan. She is going to hold family she has as precious because of that.
Jerry! Maybe he'll avoid the Persian in this TL and live to a nice ripe old age. His work sounds like a bit of mix of OTL Kurt Vonnegut and Pete Seeger.Jerome Garcia...Science Fiction author
Except Tatiana is anything but a non-entity and, despite what she herself may believe about her change in career paths, can look forward to an exciting career in the Imperial Foreign Office Diplomatic Service. Think about it, from now on Tatiana will be travelling on a full diplomatic passport and, once the various intelligence and counter-intelligence services register that she is a von Mischner-Blackwood, any embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission to which she is attached will see significant resources assigned to follow her specifically. This will naturally be to the detriment of their surveillance efforts on other members of said embassies, consulates or diplomatic missions, because their institutional bias, prejudice and paranoia won't let them do anything else but assume that she is "up to something". Just like her mother, grandfathers and (possibly/probably) her father & younger sister.For the German Desks at the various Headquarters of the different intelligence services, they are in a bind as they want to find out what Marie Alexandra Kristina von Mischner-Blackwood is doing, but they have no way to ask as that would bring them to the attention of The Tigress.
As shown previously, Marie has made a sport of spotting any surveillance attempts on her and has easily either ditched them or exposing them in the most embarrassing way possible.
They may try to go after her non-entity of a sister Tatiana, as she may be an easier target to get close to.
There is no way that the Germans would make that assumption. That cover has been blown, with an FBI agent actually visiting her parental home (albeit reluctantly). As a result, it has been decided that Tatiana will now be a 'legal' officer of German Intelligence, which means that she uses her own name, has an actual job in an embassy/consulate or diplomatic mission and has an extremely official diplomatic passport with diplomatic immunity that comes with it. However, because the Americans ITTL have proven themselves to be less than reliable in respecting such passports, Tatiana will almost certainly have a cover or two that are unsullied. Just in case.Tatiana still has the Margaret Anne Morgan alias, and Anne Morgan is an United States citizen and with just a state issued ID can cross into the United States from Mexico without a passport at any border crossing from San Ysidro, CA to Port Arthur, TX.
This was true IOTL until the 9/11 attacks.
Remember in the preview, Anne showed a MA drivers license to a Boston PD officer that showed her address in Salem, MA.
I doubt that given the traditional rivalries that the FBI had with other governmental agencies, that the FBI has informed the US Department of Justice, the Border Patrol, and the INS to put "Margaret Anne Morgan" on a watchlist .