[finds] herself wondering whether the Baron has a similar reaction to electricity as Lilith and Adam or not.

Tanarian Hiccups, or requiring a periodic recharge? I actually kind of doubt the latter -- his parents did a _really good job_ whereas that's presented as first a defect and then a Heterodyne quirk.

...Or possibly the other way around; I'd have to check the dates.

Well, we have it established (by Frankenstein and "Electric Coffin") as a common construct energy-input method; I'm sort of pondering at what stage is it needed or not.

Using my presumption that they got to the accident site in time to put everything on life support so there was no true death involved, he may have human-normal responses for the most part.

But then - how did the unusual strength get imbued?

Mm. By my reading, we have it established by those sources, and in fact repeated in reviving Tarvek and Agatha, as a method of _revival_. Or initialization, if you will.

There's no indication that any of the above besides Adam and Lilith actually need a recurring jolt. The people in "Electric Coffin" mention having health problems because they've been getting lynched and

revived repeatedly -- with a pretty impressive success rate on revival with personality intact, but apparently there's some lingering damage, and at any rate their problems are certainly not a lack of zapping.

Which is perhaps something of a tangent as you never suggested they were, but I figured it should be addressed.

We know they can still take damage, that's obvious. Perhaps the three in EC weren't getting organs and such replaced that had taken too much damage from the scamming and the zaps.

Also, it's conceivable that Klaus was never entirely dead, I guess, but I think it's more likely that he was. His parents were just 1. very good and 2. actually trying for as much of a restoration job as they

could manage.

The line between "alive" and "dead" gets downright fractal the closer you look. [/sage nod] I agree that the Wulfenbachs were that good, though.

I do kind of suspect that Adam and Lilith having to be re-zapped was an afterthought on the Foglios' part. They mentioned various other issues early on but didn't introduce that part until the first novel,

by which point I'm guessing they were coming up on wanting to zap Franz and the Castle, and might have decided they needed an additional example for Agatha to work from.

It just seems like if they'd already come up with it back when Agatha was first talking to Carson, they might have done something other than the casual mention of hiccups.

Which must have been a really annoying side effect.

The fact that they hid their genny from Agatha suggests... oh, so many things.

....Genny?

Oh, generator?

Although she actually seems to have known where all of them were kept, by the time she was an adult, it was just walking in on the recharging process as a child that she found unsettling.

Unsettling, or embarrassing?

Admittedly it's cast in similar phrasing to a child walking in on her parents having sex, but the weeks of ensuing nightmares are why I chose "unsettling".