OMG. I was going to ask *you* if you had any idea what was going on. Never mind inside Fritz, I can't even tell what the external facts outside Fritz are. I can't tell if Marwitz actually had gonorrhea and Fritz was trying to protect a Heinrich who wouldn't listen*, or if Fritz was giving Heinrich a hard time and making complaints up out of wholecloth, either out of sour grapes or to try to get Heinrich to give up Marwitz...omg, I can't even tell. No matter what, though, I can say that laying the sarcasm on that thick is NOT HELPING, Fritz.
* As we've seen, he had his occasional moments of emotional insight, e.g. "Don't take that family trip down memory lane in Wusterhausen," or "Mara might be bad news as a husband."
Because that's not FW roleplay, for starters.
Not in the homophobia and attitude toward casual sex, no--haha--but it's very possibly a power play. I'd have a much better idea what was going on if I had any idea of the actual facts. Like, were these letters before or after Marwitz was dismissed and brought back? How active or passive was Marwitz's role in all this--did he prefer Heinrich over Fritz, or what? Did he start out Fritz's and end up Heinrich's or vice versa? Like I said, I've seen it both way in secondary sources. This is why I've been desperate all this time for a reliable accounting of the sober facts as we have them, from which I could try to draw conclusions. Right now, I have nothing but a chaotic muddle of very confusing facts.
The only thing I'm getting out of this episode is speculation based on the timing that I mentioned earlier: Fritz is riding high* on his recent Silesian victory and accompanying acclaim, and maybe a little bit more interested in--if not sex, at least sexually charged encounters--than usual. (I wonder what Fredersdorf thought of all this. I personally read them as queerplatonic, but that's a fanon, not a headcanon--it could just as easily have been a long-term sexual and/or romantic relationship.)
* He was also somewhat chastened, in that it turned out to be much harder than he thought, and like AW, his attitude toward war shifted more toward the negative after having experienced it firsthand, but none of that is incompatible with a general "fuck yeah!" attitude toward winning, especially since the more difficult it was, the more invested he became. And also he had a *lot* to prove.
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Re: Two Brothers, One Marwitz
Date: 2019-11-28 05:26 pm (UTC)* As we've seen, he had his occasional moments of emotional insight, e.g. "Don't take that family trip down memory lane in Wusterhausen," or "Mara might be bad news as a husband."
Because that's not FW roleplay, for starters.
Not in the homophobia and attitude toward casual sex, no--haha--but it's very possibly a power play. I'd have a much better idea what was going on if I had any idea of the actual facts. Like, were these letters before or after Marwitz was dismissed and brought back? How active or passive was Marwitz's role in all this--did he prefer Heinrich over Fritz, or what? Did he start out Fritz's and end up Heinrich's or vice versa? Like I said, I've seen it both way in secondary sources. This is why I've been desperate all this time for a reliable accounting of the sober facts as we have them, from which I could try to draw conclusions. Right now, I have nothing but a chaotic muddle of very confusing facts.
The only thing I'm getting out of this episode is speculation based on the timing that I mentioned earlier: Fritz is riding high* on his recent Silesian victory and accompanying acclaim, and maybe a little bit more interested in--if not sex, at least sexually charged encounters--than usual. (I wonder what Fredersdorf thought of all this. I personally read them as queerplatonic, but that's a fanon, not a headcanon--it could just as easily have been a long-term sexual and/or romantic relationship.)
* He was also somewhat chastened, in that it turned out to be much harder than he thought, and like AW, his attitude toward war shifted more toward the negative after having experienced it firsthand, but none of that is incompatible with a general "fuck yeah!" attitude toward winning, especially since the more difficult it was, the more invested he became. And also he had a *lot* to prove.