In the inspection of the Long Fellows scene from Der Thronfolger, this happens:
FW: *pleased at one particularly tall guy* Your name, fellow?
Soldier: Claude Martin.
FW: Ah, a Huguenot. Don't worry, in my country you're safe to practice your religion. And you get to serve your King! Aren't you happy?
CM: No.
FW: Don't be impudent. What more can you want?
CM: My freedom. *stretches out arms so we can see his wrists bear the marks of iron cuffs* I was kidnapped and dragged here against my will.
FW: *frowns* Report to the army physician to get a balm for that. Fritz, this is why a King must always talk to his soldiers... Fritz?!?
F (has almost managed to sneak away, as the Giant inspection was boring him)
FW: *explodes*
CM: *might get a balm, but is still in the regiment against his will*
Mind you, gangpress soldiers was something all most of the kings and princes did in that century. (Hence the famous scene in Kabale und Liebe.) How the legalities of kidnapping were, God knows.
Here's a premise for a crackfic: During his undercover time working at a shipyard, Peter the not yet Great but definitely Tall gets kidnapped by FW's people. He reveals his true identity, but is not believed and instead ends up in Berlin. Does he a) successfully escape, b) murder FW, c) have an affair with SD, d) have an affair with teenage Fritz instead, or d) all of the above?
Re: Katte
FW: *pleased at one particularly tall guy* Your name, fellow?
Soldier: Claude Martin.
FW: Ah, a Huguenot. Don't worry, in my country you're safe to practice your religion. And you get to serve your King! Aren't you happy?
CM: No.
FW: Don't be impudent. What more can you want?
CM: My freedom. *stretches out arms so we can see his wrists bear the marks of iron cuffs* I was kidnapped and dragged here against my will.
FW: *frowns* Report to the army physician to get a balm for that. Fritz, this is why a King must always talk to his soldiers... Fritz?!?
F (has almost managed to sneak away, as the Giant inspection was boring him)
FW: *explodes*
CM: *might get a balm, but is still in the regiment against his will*
Mind you, gangpress soldiers was something all most of the kings and princes did in that century. (Hence the famous scene in Kabale und Liebe.) How the legalities of kidnapping were, God knows.
Here's a premise for a crackfic: During his undercover time working at a shipyard, Peter the not yet Great but definitely Tall gets kidnapped by FW's people. He reveals his true identity, but is not believed and instead ends up in Berlin. Does he a) successfully escape, b) murder FW, c) have an affair with SD, d) have an affair with teenage Fritz instead, or d) all of the above?