It's always nice when someone appreciates one of my nerdy history-based jokes! :-D
I think I put this in just for the pun, but luckily it turns out that the Loire and its adjunct canals provide enough eras of water that chasing a mermaid in Orleans actually would make sense...
Babette was probably there with her own university's cryptozoology team.
(Which is a retcon, because I didn't come up with them yet when I drew this page here. ;-) )
Her headgear thus evolved from stereotypically French to stereotypically... steampunk! ;-)
(I have done some study into Joan of Arc, and incidentally Gilles de Rais. Interesting pair, those two...)
I think I put this in just for the pun, but luckily it turns out that the Loire and its adjunct canals provide enough eras of water that chasing a mermaid in Orleans actually would make sense...
Babette was probably there with her own university's cryptozoology team.
(Which is a retcon, because I didn't come up with them yet when I drew this page here. ;-) )