I see! Yes, selenak's idea is greaaaat. Especially combined with her previous ideas about Suhm.
Aww, now I have images of Fredersdorf learning that alchemy -> time travel might be a thing, and devoting his life to getting Fritz back. He doesn't have a million jobs now that Fritz is gone, so he can focus on his alchemy, meet other alchemists, and generally be more successful at it. And then he tells his younger self that alchemy is the way and the truth and it works! But revised-timeline self never devotes his life to it, and never meets St. Germain, so he only gets the mercury poisoning.
Fredersdorf: This is still the fixed timeline!
Btw, the internet tells me mercury poisoning was figured out around 1810-1820, more than half a century too late for Fredersdorf. :( Who, let's be real, whatever he died of, the mercury can't have *helped*.
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Re: Me, Myself and I: The Time Travel Edition
Date: 2020-04-22 05:11 am (UTC)Aww, now I have images of Fredersdorf learning that alchemy -> time travel might be a thing, and devoting his life to getting Fritz back. He doesn't have a million jobs now that Fritz is gone, so he can focus on his alchemy, meet other alchemists, and generally be more successful at it. And then he tells his younger self that alchemy is the way and the truth and it works! But revised-timeline self never devotes his life to it, and never meets St. Germain, so he only gets the mercury poisoning.
Fredersdorf: This is still the fixed timeline!
Btw, the internet tells me mercury poisoning was figured out around 1810-1820, more than half a century too late for Fredersdorf. :( Who, let's be real, whatever he died of, the mercury can't have *helped*.