Klaus Barry Heterodyne
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| Klaus Barry Heterodyne | |
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| Name | |
| Age | 13 months at death |
| Occupation | |
| Residence | interred in the Heterodyne family crypt |
| First Appearance | |
| Death | Attack on Castle Heterodyne |
| Parents | William Heterodyne, Lucrezia Mongfish Heterodyne |
| Relatives | Barry Heterodyne (uncle), Agatha Heterodyne (sister), Dr. Mongfish (grandfather), Theo DuMedd (cousin) |
| Children | |
| Marital Status | |
Klaus Barry Heterodyne was born in "1_72"[1] to Lucrezia Mongfish Heterodyne and Bill Heterodyne. He was named after: first, his father's best friend Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, who had disappeared two years and three months before the child's birth[2]; and second, his uncle, Barry Heterodyne.
He was killed by debris fall[3] when he was only 407 days old[4] during an attack on Castle Heterodyne, at which time his mother also vanished mysteriously.
Being the only Heterodyne heir born to Bill (or, indeed, to either of the Heterodynes) in Mechanicsburg, and known to citizens of city before the fatal attack,[5] but due evidently to the fact of his death being suppressed (possibly to keep the city from sinking into despair, or simply to limit the amount of information available to outsiders, to protect both Carson von Mekkhan and, more importantly, the remaining potential Heterodyne Heir with which Lucrezia is presumed to have been pregnant at the time), and due to the presumed chastity[6] of the heroic Heterodyne Boys, but perhaps especially due to the fact that Heterodynes rarely father girls[7], there was no expectation that the hoped-for returning Heterodyne heir would be female.
Lady Lucrezia evidently created Von Pinn as Klaus Barry's "nursemaid"[8]; she went mad at his death.
His younger sister would be Agatha Heterodyne, although she did not find this out until she was eighteen — just as were many who knew Klaus Barry in turn unaware of her.
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References
- ↑ either 1872 or 1972, based on other dates in the narrative. We see his tombstone, but Agatha's foot is covering the bottom part of the digits in the century.
- ↑ Ibid. Note that the length of time obviates any question of paternity with respect to his primary eponym.
- ↑ Vol. VII p. 73
- ↑ op cit
- ↑ well, at least one soldier's mother was his midwife, and something about the Doom Bell
- ↑ Khrizhan: "a by-blow? Dem?"
- ↑ der Kessel says this (Vol. VII p. 84)
- ↑ op cit, again...
