geniustown:

(of my girl genius hadestown au check it out here)

tarvek’s bedroom in the bunker:

-walls are just covered in stuff. plans and doodles and an actual family tree because our boy is kinda a snob bless him. tarvek can’t draw well so he takes pictures of everything he thinks is cool and it goes up on his walls. there are pictures of his sister and violetta and his grandma with his mother and a picture of seffie where you can see martellus’ arm around her but the picture has been torn in half so you can’t see him and the rest of his family only appear on the family tree

-tarvek really loves things. he was raised materialistic but it kinda got mixed up in his little kid brain and instead of loving precious things he treats things that he loves as precious and that means cool rocks and interestingly broken machines and tbh if zoing didn’t clean up after him he’d totally be a hoader. so his room has a lot of stuff in it. he can’t trust people but he can trust things

gil’s bedroom:

-gil is kinda spartan but he totally has glow-in-the-dark stars stuck on his ceiling in actual constellations

their respective note-taking:

-gil keeps really really neat notes. his handwriting is terrible but everything is orderly and coherent and tarvek can actually repeat his experiments and get the same results just from his notes. this is a result of working collaboratively with people on castle orpheus. the more sensitive information is always encoded with a the same cipher, which gil made up himself and which is impossible for even tarvek to crack

-tarvek keeps terrible notes. completely stream-of-consciousness and random and interrupted by what are probably diary entries if anyone could read them. his handwriting is actually quite good but tarvek would encode his shopping lists. he makes up different ciphers for whatever he is writing about and can use 5 different codes on 1 page. sometimes he has to decode notes he’s forgotten the key to and once he spent months cracking a particularly difficult one only to find it was an innovative recipe for mimmoths-on-a-stick