Re: How (Not) To Conduct A Very Secret Affair

Date: 2020-03-22 01:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] selenak
Hahaha. What about Wilhelmine?

Charlotte: You better believe Wilhelmine was a bossy older sister. Hogging the covers and kicking me out of bed the one time we had to share one! Canonical proof, from her memoirs, during the family holiday from hell when there had been a fire in the palace which robbed me, Amalie and Ulrike of our bedrooms:

My sisters burst into my apartment greatly terrified, crying for mercy, not knowing where to lie down. I offered to share my bed with my sister Charlotte, and the two others were accommodated in that of the hereditary prince. La Montbail was obliged
to put up with a couch, at which she grumbled mightily, not between the teeth, for she had had none for many a day, with the exception of one with which she played
on the spinet. I expected every moment that we should be assailed hy this worn-out dental relic, for she could hy no means be consoled for the want of a feather-hcd to cherish her old hones on. My sister fell asleep immediately, but from being unaccustomed to sleep two in a bed she made me start up half asleep from the blows she gave me in making room. I returned them, which set us both a laughing, and we
scarcely closed our eyes before the battle was renewed; my two youngest sisters carried on the same game. When we saw that it was impossible for us to sleep, we
called the servants and ordered breakfast.


Meanwhile, all this talk of animals made me decide we need to hash out another AU, this one the Disney cartoon one where everyone is an animal. (You know, like the Disney Robin Hood where Robin is a fox.) Voltaire is definitely a cat, a stray one from the gutter who never stays anywhere for long. Fritz, FW & Heinrich as terriers are canon, while AW is a Golden Retriever. MT is a lioness, ruling the Pride after the old Lion King is dead despite everyone saying it couldn't be done. If not for his name and family coat of arms, I'd make Katte a greyhound but I suspect every Disney scenarist would jump on the pun. Speaking of puns, Federsdorf then has to be a Pomeranian. Lehndorff is one of those adorable Bolognese dogs. Algarotti, otoh, is another cat, a British shorthair (which is why he ultimately can't stay and has the urge to leave). Émilie is a Bengal cat. Suhm is neither dog nor cat: he's an owl. Grumbkow & Seckendorff are foxes. Peter Keith is a dachshund.
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