Context: Teenaged and twenty-something bookworm Fritz had to buy his own books (and art and music and such), and no sooner did he buy them than his father found out and got rid of them. (Advanced readers may know that it's more complicated, but this is the entertainment version of history.)
What collateral do you have when you're a penniless crown prince who's not in good graces with the reigning king, trying to borrow from other courts? Well, you have "When I'm king, I'll remember your country with the same gratitude that I remember every other country in Europe that I'm currently using this line on, which will primarily be called the War of the Austrian Succession and then the Seven Years' War, 'cause by then I'll have that treasury of Dad's that I've currently got my eye on, but as long as I only feed you all the first part of this sentence for now, it's all good, right?"
He used to pull this on his wife, too. "Look, I didn't ask to have you or my dad in my life, but I need books to live, and *you're* in his good graces, so *you* get your hands on some money and pass it on to me, k?"
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2019-08-22 04:51 am (UTC)Context: Teenaged and twenty-something bookworm Fritz had to buy his own books (and art and music and such), and no sooner did he buy them than his father found out and got rid of them. (Advanced readers may know that it's more complicated, but this is the entertainment version of history.)
What collateral do you have when you're a penniless crown prince who's not in good graces with the reigning king, trying to borrow from other courts? Well, you have "When I'm king, I'll remember your country with the same gratitude that I remember every other country in Europe that I'm currently using this line on, which will primarily be called the War of the Austrian Succession and then the Seven Years' War, 'cause by then I'll have that treasury of Dad's that I've currently got my eye on, but as long as I only feed you all the first part of this sentence for now, it's all good, right?"
He used to pull this on his wife, too. "Look, I didn't ask to have you or my dad in my life, but I need books to live, and *you're* in his good graces, so *you* get your hands on some money and pass it on to me, k?"