it's also that he'd been in no way prepared for this kind of relentless emotional eviscaration, since FW had always had a positive relationship with him, and so, for that matter, had Fritz.
*nods* :( And those letters from Fritz are heartbreaking, like, they really are sweet and paternal, and to think about how AW must have felt, emotionally, when Fritz turned on him :(
(Current headcanon: that visit Heinrich paid to a dying Wilhelmine made a difference. He didn't tell her about AW's death, granted, but she knew about the disgrace and had tried to mediate, so maybe she talked about Fritz and tried to explain and/or made Heinrich promise not to get himself into an argument with him as well.)
...You're going to write this, right? Because in the department of Things I Didn't Know I Needed But Totally Do is the highly dysfunctional near-deathbed scene where Heinrich has lost AW and realizes he's about to lose Wilehlmine too, and he hates her because Fritz loves her and because AW is dead but he loves her too, and Wilhelmine doesn't know AW is dead but she sure knows the situation has gone toxic (and regardless of what Fredersdorf may have thought, Wilhelmine must have known, having gone through it herself, that Fritz, how does it go, "is very sensitive") and that Heinrich is this close to snapping, and makes him promise not to, and Heinrich is both totally resentful and secretly relieved that Wilhelmine is emotionally blackmailing him with her death.
(And, OK, I also want the meeting between Heinrich and Fritz, but I find myself much less able to imagine all the tensions running through that one, wow.)
Re: Brotherly Conduct III: The Aftermath
*nods* :( And those letters from Fritz are heartbreaking, like, they really are sweet and paternal, and to think about how AW must have felt, emotionally, when Fritz turned on him :(
(Current headcanon: that visit Heinrich paid to a dying Wilhelmine made a difference. He didn't tell her about AW's death, granted, but she knew about the disgrace and had tried to mediate, so maybe she talked about Fritz and tried to explain and/or made Heinrich promise not to get himself into an argument with him as well.)
...You're going to write this, right? Because in the department of Things I Didn't Know I Needed But Totally Do is the highly dysfunctional near-deathbed scene where Heinrich has lost AW and realizes he's about to lose Wilehlmine too, and he hates her because Fritz loves her and because AW is dead but he loves her too, and Wilhelmine doesn't know AW is dead but she sure knows the situation has gone toxic (and regardless of what Fredersdorf may have thought, Wilhelmine must have known, having gone through it herself, that Fritz, how does it go, "is very sensitive") and that Heinrich is this close to snapping, and makes him promise not to, and Heinrich is both totally resentful and secretly relieved that Wilhelmine is emotionally blackmailing him with her death.
(And, OK, I also want the meeting between Heinrich and Fritz, but I find myself much less able to imagine all the tensions running through that one, wow.)