the talamasca producing a guy who is Very David Talbot (at least for me, someone who has not yet read totb) and making it clear they're doing David Talbot things with him, but not actually calling him David Talbot and thus avoiding the worst David-shaped baggage is so funny. like they really said that Marius was the franchise limit on adapted pedophiles. either that or Talamasca specifically was like "nah that's too dark for us, let's focus on our noncon breeding factory instead."