The Engineer's Thumb: Colonel Lysander Stark

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Engineer's Thumb
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G




Colonel Lysander Stark
Likes to keep a man in the dark.
“Don’t speak to anyone. Nor write, I must stress too.
And it has to be tonight: I’m going to have to press you.”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Very neat double meaning for your last line. Unpleasant man.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I was pleased with that touch of dark humour ^^ And Stark does seem to be a man with no redeeming qualities at all.

[debriswoman]

No pun left unexploited, I perceive...

*gets lawyer to hand over small posy after disclaimer signed*

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I do not exploit puns! They all get a fair wage and a half-day off each week!

Thank you ^^ *curtseys low*

[debriswoman]

Relieved to hear so:-)

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Good 60, with a fitting bit of cold business from the villain.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^^ It does indeed take a cold personality to calmly talk to a man, while knowing you're going to murder him later.

re: Colonel Lysander Stark

[vaysh]

Very neat play on words, and such darkly foreshadowing double entendre.

I admit I was wholly confused by the name of Colonel Lysander stark. "Lysander" is by no means a common German name, and then Elise calls him "Fritz" in English, but Fritz would be Fred in English. Stark could well be a German name, though. *confused*

Re: Colonel Lysander Stark

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

(Don't think Lysander is a common name anywhere ^_^) I'm guessing "Colonel Lysander Stark" is a pseudonym. His English accomplice is introduced to Hatherley as "Mr. Ferguson" but at the end, the station-master says that the Englishman is called "Dr. Becher". So that man's using at least one false name. I assume Stark would not want to use his real name either - even if he is planning on killing Hatherley.

I wonder what languages Elise speaks. "Elise" could be French or German I suppose? However, though Hatherley recognises Stark's accent as German, he refers to the language that Elise uses to first talk to Stark as merely a "foreign tongue". Which suggests to me that it isn't German (or French either) as Hatherley would have recognised it as such, even if he couldn't understand what was being said.

And it's odd that Elise uses English (a language she doesn't speak well) to beg Stark not to kill Hatherley. It's a highly stressful situation - you would think she would automatically use her native language or use German as it's Stark's. So perhaps Stark only speaks a little of Elise's language, and she doesn't speak German at all - perhaps they generally use English to communicate with each other (and the Englishman too, of course).

And I can only assume Elise calls Stark "Fritz" no matter what language she's speaking.