Here's another irony - I think FW might have gotten along better with Alexej (religious, conservative) provided that in this scenario, Alexeji wouldn't have threatened to undo all his father's work, or would have drunk far too much. And Fritz may have wondered how he'd have fared with Europe's most famous (and infamous) micro Managing reforming Monarch pre him as a Father - would he have died, or would they have gotten along?
I'm not sure any one of the four was the type to get along with any one of the others at close range, lol, but if I manage to brush up on my Russian history, I'll see what I think about the AU father/son pairs.
Personally, the man I always find myself wistfully imagining raising Fritz and doing a better job than FW was Eugene of Savoy. Not so much because he was the better general (I actually think that borders on irrelevant), or even because he was probably gay (although I like to imagine him being supportive of my ship :-P), but because from the one encounter between Eugene and young Fritz, plus Eugene's interest in the arts and in learning, I got the impression Eugene would have taken a more hands-off and positive reinforcement approach. And as I've mentioned, I think that was all you really needed to get an eventual general-king Friedrich, and in fact a better general than the traumatized one who could never listen to any of his advisors, take his enemies seriously, or admit when he was wrong. NOT, mind you, that I'm saying that Fritz's expansionist wars were awesome and I'd like to see him with even more conquests to his name. I'm just sick of FW's parenting style getting the fucking credit in everything I read.
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Date: 2019-09-20 11:56 pm (UTC)I'm not sure any one of the four was the type to get along with any one of the others at close range, lol, but if I manage to brush up on my Russian history, I'll see what I think about the AU father/son pairs.
Personally, the man I always find myself wistfully imagining raising Fritz and doing a better job than FW was Eugene of Savoy. Not so much because he was the better general (I actually think that borders on irrelevant), or even because he was probably gay (although I like to imagine him being supportive of my ship :-P), but because from the one encounter between Eugene and young Fritz, plus Eugene's interest in the arts and in learning, I got the impression Eugene would have taken a more hands-off and positive reinforcement approach. And as I've mentioned, I think that was all you really needed to get an eventual general-king Friedrich, and in fact a better general than the traumatized one who could never listen to any of his advisors, take his enemies seriously, or admit when he was wrong. NOT, mind you, that I'm saying that Fritz's expansionist wars were awesome and I'd like to see him with even more conquests to his name. I'm just sick of FW's parenting style getting the fucking credit in everything I read.