Yuletide tags are out: Frederician version

[cahn]

Come join us in this crazy Frederick the Great fandom and learn more about all these crazy associated people, like the star-crossed and heartbreaking romance between Maria Theresia's daughter Maria Christina and her daughter-in-law Isabella, wow.

OK, so, there are FOURTEEN characters nominated:
Anna Karolina Orzelska (Frederician RPF)
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia (Frederician RPF)
Francesco Algarotti (Frederician RPF)
François-Marie Arouet | Voltaire (Frederician RPF)
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great (Frederician RPF)
Hans Hermann Von Katte (Frederician RPF)
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (Frederician RPF)
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria (Frederician RPF)
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (Frederician RPF)
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (Frederician RPF)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (Frederician RPF)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (Frederician RPF)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) (Frederician RPF)
Yekatarina II Alekseyevna | Catherine the Great of Russia (Frederician RPF)

This means some fourth person kindly nominated Algarotti and -- I think? -- Stanislaw August Poniatowski! YAY! Thank you fourth person! Come be our friend! :D Yuletide is so great!

I am definitely requesting Maria Theresia, Wilhelmine, and Fritz (Put them in a room together. Shake. How big is the explosion?), and thinking about Elisabeth Christine, but maybe not this year.

I am also declaring this post another Frederician post, as the last one was getting out of hand. I think I'll still use that one as the overall index to these, though, to keep all the links in one place.

(seriously, every time I think the wild stories are done there is ANOTHER one)

Comments

Re: Alternate universes where everyone is at least incrementally more happy

[selenak]

Absolutely. In fact, since in this AU Katte was never found out because that letter didn't get into the wrong hands, maybe once he hears Fritz is dead he does the one thing he can be sure Fritz would want him to do, get not just himself but also Fritz' beloved sister away from FW? During the first part of the trip (Berlin - Hannover) he and Wilhelmine are still numb and shellshocked, but once in Hannover when the adrenaline from the escape has gone and the reality of Fritz' death really has time to sink in, that's when they start talking (and shouting, and crying), especially since Wilhelmine otherwise has to play nice with the Hannover cousins (or their representatives, depending who is there). Once she hits upon her vengeance idea and heads towards Vienna, she asks him to come along again (a noble woman travelling alone still needs an escort, and whether she admits it out loud or not, he's the last thing she has of her brother - and vice versa, I guess).

Re: Alternate universes where everyone is at least incrementally more happy

[mildred_of_midgard]

get not just himself but also Fritz' beloved sister away from FW

Oooooh. This is giving me *feelings*.

that's when they start talking (and shouting, and crying)

Yeah, when I imagined them hanging out immediately after Fritz's death, I imagined the situation as ripe for shouting and blaming, especially Wilhelmine -> Katte. But since this AU is already uber painful, they can have each other's backs even as they get the shouting out of their systems.

Oof.

Re: Alternate universes where everyone is at least incrementally more happy

[cahn]

I am having a TON of feelings about this too <33333

This is kind of my kryptonite, them having each other's backs. I suppose there might be some blaming, but underneath they know who's really to blame, and that they will be loyal to each other for Fritz' sake <3