A Von Trapp Family of Arthur's Kids (Part 1 of 2)

The following is an excerpt from a 14 September 2014 email exchange between Art and Will.

Art: 

As for Arthur's legitimate children, I just see them wandering around together en masse following Agnieszka as she tackles and beats Arthur up at a concert. This, of course, would have to be an earlier concert, but I think it could be a humorous, regular feature at some point. But we'll have to hurry up with that one, since that would be a fairly young Arthur. They could still wander around that way as adults, without any sort of differentiation, almost an appendage of Agnieszka's, backing her up in confrontations with Arthur and Will. I'm not sure I can come up with individual personalities for all of them...maybe that's a spin off, like A Different World. 

But we could develop the oldest legitimate son or daughter as a foil for Augustine. Of course, Augustine would already be a natural enemy of Will's, who would never give the green light to "An Evening with A. White." I see Augustine getting the rights to perform his father's songs in some shrewd, possibly fraudulent way. 

Maybe he comes into the room after his father has been zapped and gets him to sign away the rights.

Will:

I was thinking about the rights to perform. Really, that would have to come through the cult. An illegitimate son from a Japanese cult member would have an in with the cult. So it could be that we've got a parallel between the fake Farthington and the fake Arthur. But it could also be possible that Will somehow wins back the rights for the songs written by A. White (maybe Arthur just has terrible handwriting) and Augustine claims the ownership and successfully copyrights his father's work himself. Arthur and even Will would not be in any sort of shape for a long, drawn-out legal battle, and the cult could easily fund one. 

If we have a legitmate son fighting for the rights, he could be Aquinas White or something like that. Sean and Julian. 

I also just see a mob of kids and an angry Agnieszka. I never thought about the angry mob led by Agnieszka, but I have thought of the idea that Agnieszka just cuts Arthur off from the kids completely. You have a song about that. What the details are behind that story, I don't know. One idea is that Arthur joins the cult and cuts ties and she never forgives him and the kids are too young to really bond too much with him before he leaves anyway. Another is that she doesn't want to deal with "crazy" Arthur...maybe she doesn't see him as good for the kids. 

Incidentally, I don't think this is a real saintly power, but the idea that Arthur has the power of getting women pregnant through his music has struck me once or twice before. That would also explain how he could have so many kids and no connection to them.

There could be a Von Trapp family of Arthur's children.