Frederick the Great, discussion post 14

[cahn]

Check out the opera clips at Rheinsberg!

(both the real-life place, which selenak found out hosts a festival for young opera singers! and the community rheinsberg)

Also! our fandom has been producing lovely fic at a rapid clip (okay, well, selenak has):

Sibling dysfunction: Promises to Keep and My Brother Narcissus

Sibling dysfunction PLUS sibling M/M love triangle: The moon flies face to face with me

VOLTAIRE! Between the hour and the age

Comments

Re: Me, Myself and I: The Time Travel Edition

[mildred_of_midgard]

...maybe Georgii-assassination-timeline!Fredersdorf never lived long enough to find out alchemy was bad for him :P

What I meant was that canonical, our-timeline Fredersdorf, never had reason to believe that mercury poisoning was a thing, *if* he ever had it in the first place, which is just a guess on our part.

But what did you mean, that Fredersdorf died because Fritz did? I was thinking at first defending him (awww), but he has to live long enough to time travel, so...broken heart? :(

Re: Me, Myself and I: The Time Travel Edition

[cahn]

This was before selenak decided Georgii didn't act as part of a conspiracy, so I figured whoever was behind Georgii might eventually decide Fredersdor knew too much or might figure out too much and so got rid of him too, but he was able to time travel right before that. Or osmething. But what you guys came up with is much better :)

Re: Me, Myself and I: The Time Travel Edition

[mildred_of_midgard]

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*.