11 Works in Cadswitch Gotch

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    Maxwell just tuned out the conversations instead, glancing around the street. It was dark, and unlike home, where the street lamps took up entire avenues, and the light pollution was so strong you could barely make out the clouds, here, the stars were scattered on full display. Not that Maxwell liked stargazing. He didn't. But he couldn't help his mind from straying, and his legs, too, as he glanced around the street and felt himself drawn towards the patches of voices outside of the bars and those establishments his dad would call rowdy-

    "Where are you going?"

    Maxwell turned around quickly, expecting his father's stern expression or Samwell's weary one, but instead just found himself facing the wide-eyed girl - Olethra - from before.

    ***

    When Olethra's parents pass tragically, Comfrey isn't approved instantly for custody. Instead, Olethra is taken in by a rather different family - but the Gotches stay on the ground, and Olethra... adamantly refuses to.

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    4/?
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    83
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    A small vignette about the Gotch's mother and that fighting spirit that some of her sons inherit

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    Every family has their roots, trees, branches, and leaves. Every family has their knots. This is the Gotch family's. The boys childhood was average, for a wealthy family that funded adventurers. The boys themselves were not, as it would seem.
    (An anachronistic look at Maxwell and his brothers over the years, until the start of the series.)

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    “Yes, Zood will be facilitating the treaties themselves,” answered Longspot, “But if we were to wait until the treaties were over to have a working relationship with Zern, then we would lose out on many innovations and insights from them. We need to ensure your grandfather’s legacy. The quickest legal connection we could make that would allow us to have the necessary relationship would be for you to marry a prominent figure from Zern”.

    Maxwell’s mind stalled. “I need to marry someone from Zern? Aren’t they primarily Automata?”

    Longspot squeezed Maxwell’s shoulder. “Maxwell. It would only be until we have a signed treaty, at which point you can annul the marriage and marry a proper girl from Gath. I can’t ask any of your older brothers to do this, Maxwell. Only you understand how important Gath’s relations with Zood and Zern were to your grandfather”.

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    Snippets of Maxwell's life growing up in the Gotch household as the seventh son, with six mostly disastrous brothers.

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    400
    Chapters:
    1/?
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    3
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    "Maxwell!" He startles in the doorway and finds his grandmother waving him towards her. "Longspots youngest you know." She says lightly to the man and woman she is sharing a tea-table with. Maxwell is acutely aware of the eyes of every one of Convivia's friends and acquaintances on him as he crosses the floor to her chair but she seems entirely oblivious to them after her introductory remark.

    A vignette of Convivia Gotch sending her husband and grandson out to the launch of the Zephyr from the POV of young Maxwell.

    Been thinking about the Gotch women and this 700 words sprang to life unbidden.

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    1/1
    Comments:
    6
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    35
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    2
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    Doomed from the start and born a problem… Maxwell Gotch never stood a chance.

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    Maxwell obviously has daddy issues, but one can only assume he's got mommy issues too. A brief story of Maxwell's mother, who died when he was born.

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    1/1
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    34
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    6
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    After Cadswitch Gotch dies, a freshly 14 year old Maxwell is excused temporarily from school to attend the funeral, causing unavoidable friction with the opinions and beliefs of his father, leading to Samwell needing to step in to attempt to be reasonable.

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    4
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    59
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    2
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    226
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    Comfrey MacLeod had big dreams that could not be contained within the 2500 acres of her family's farm. She couldn't imagine living her entire life as her parents had, not knowing anything beyond Pilby's rust-colored canyons. The canyons were stunning, of course, but they had been there for millions of years and would remain there for millions more. If she were lucky, she might have close to 100 years to live, and she intended to spend them exploring all twenty-eight of Gath's continents and whatever else lay beyond that. She longed to feel the burn of sand beneath her toes, the stickiness of tree sap between her fingers, and the sting of subzero winds on her cheeks.

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    How Comfrey MacLeod became an adventurer, invented friodynamic lift, and assembled a crew to fly the first normal air balloon.

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    As Maxwell continues his adventure, it becomes painfully clear why his grandfather had always insisted they stay on the ground.

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    1/1
    Comments:
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    45
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    Maxwell thought that he would be able to get away from the demands of his father and the crushing weight of his family’s legacy when he decided to take the Zephyr. And meeting Olethra, finding the secret radio code, gathering the rest of the original crew of the Zephyr—he thought that he had finally hit his lucky break. He felt more alive than he had in a while during the fight with Mordecestershire, felt an actual challenge, felt his blood rushing in a way it never had before. His desire to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps was stronger than ever now that he actually had a visible goal. No longer was he going to be the black sheep of the family. He was going to bring back the spirit that Cadswitch Gotch originally strived for.

    Language:
    English
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    2,650
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    6
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    111
    Bookmarks:
    8
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    515

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