But yeah, if these guys had gotten therapy in the 18th century, we never would have heard of them. 21st century second chance for everyone to be obscure and happy
older Fredersdorf, who time travels shortly before his death, has to admit there's a war going on (and the Glasow assassination attempt also happened recently, which is one of the things he warns himself about).
Even better, we're living in the timeline where youngish Fredersdorf got warned by time-traveling older self about the *successful* Georgii assassination. Fredersdorf gets kicked out of the tent for increasingly insistently trying to warn Fritz off this new hot young thing, without being able to say what his source is.
Consigliere: *knows what he has to do*
Older Fredersdorf never believed alchemy was bad for him, though, so that didn't change. :(
(and possibly some other people dying from 18th century medicine rather than despot)
I can see that.
Older Fritz: Whatever you do, DON'T let Suhm go to St. Petersburg!
Not sure what he would do about Algarotti or Wilhelmine. :/
Voltaire: would get along swimmingly for about an hour of mutual "we're so brilliant at any age, aren't we?" admiration. Then there'd be fireworks.
There is a certain amount of "other self"ness going on with Voltaire and Fritz too.
Younger Voltaire would not accept any advice other than business tips (which companies to invest in).
Lol. Go Voltaire!
Older self Heinrich: *facepalm* And lol about the cool-aid! Don't worry, Heinrich, you may have been his other self, but you stayed true to yourself to the end. Much like a certain someone who is his father's son but also still playing the flute and patronizing the arts, ahem.
Any other ideas?
Katte: What older self?
(I couldn't help it. Poor Katte.)
Émilie: Probably gets along with her younger self? She teaches her and teaches her, so that her time-traveler-educated self is able to progress further than she was on the first iteration (and also knows not to get pregnant later in life), and then the more educated Émilie goes back to give the last one a head start, and on and on it goes. Let's be real, Émilie's the one who invented time travel in this fandom. ;)
Algarotti's younger self to his older self: You STILL haven't found that dream job? And now you're sick and stuck in Italy? I hate Italy! *grumble* At least we're famous, right? Posterity: For now!
Older Lehndorff to younger Lehndorff: Again, canon.
Older: OMG, I was such a drama queen. Calm down, younger self, Heinrich and you are still BFFs in the future! Younger: Really? Older: Yes. Enough with the hyperventilating already. But whatever you do, DON'T let the girl get away! You'll do okay, but she'll be stuck married to a man she despises and you'll be playing "what if" for the rest of your life.
Re: Me, Myself and I: The Time Travel Edition
Except for the part that's canon. :-((((
But yeah, if these guys had gotten therapy in the 18th century, we never would have heard of them.
21st century second chance for everyone to be obscure and happyolder Fredersdorf, who time travels shortly before his death, has to admit there's a war going on (and the Glasow assassination attempt also happened recently, which is one of the things he warns himself about).
Even better, we're living in the timeline where youngish Fredersdorf got warned by time-traveling older self about the *successful* Georgii assassination. Fredersdorf gets kicked out of the tent for increasingly insistently trying to warn Fritz off this new hot young thing, without being able to say what his source is.
Consigliere: *knows what he has to do*
Older Fredersdorf never believed alchemy was bad for him, though, so that didn't change. :(
(and possibly some other people dying from 18th century medicine rather than despot)
I can see that.
Older Fritz: Whatever you do, DON'T let Suhm go to St. Petersburg!
Not sure what he would do about Algarotti or Wilhelmine. :/
Voltaire: would get along swimmingly for about an hour of mutual "we're so brilliant at any age, aren't we?" admiration. Then there'd be fireworks.
There is a certain amount of "other self"ness going on with Voltaire and Fritz too.
Younger Voltaire would not accept any advice other than business tips (which companies to invest in).
Lol. Go Voltaire!
Older self Heinrich: *facepalm* And lol about the cool-aid! Don't worry, Heinrich, you may have been his other self, but you stayed true to yourself to the end. Much like a certain someone who is his father's son but also still playing the flute and patronizing the arts, ahem.
Any other ideas?
Katte: What older self?
(I couldn't help it. Poor Katte.)
Émilie: Probably gets along with her younger self? She teaches her and teaches her, so that her time-traveler-educated self is able to progress further than she was on the first iteration (and also knows not to get pregnant later in life), and then the more educated Émilie goes back to give the last one a head start, and on and on it goes. Let's be real, Émilie's the one who invented time travel in this fandom. ;)
Algarotti's younger self to his older self: You STILL haven't found that dream job? And now you're sick and stuck in Italy? I hate Italy! *grumble* At least we're famous, right?
Posterity: For now!
Older Lehndorff to younger Lehndorff: Again, canon.
Older: OMG, I was such a drama queen. Calm down, younger self, Heinrich and you are still BFFs in the future!
Younger: Really?
Older: Yes. Enough with the hyperventilating already. But whatever you do, DON'T let the girl get away! You'll do okay, but she'll be stuck married to a man she despises and you'll be playing "what if" for the rest of your life.
This is fun. :D