Kalckreuth compromising Mina: that‘s because I read the Three Wives Bio which Ziebura wrote many years later before the Heinrich bio (not least because the three wives book is way shorter), and Ziebura had changed her mind about what was going on with Kalckreuth somewhat in her more in depth take on Mina. I went with the Thee Wives presentation of the event.
Cape Stallion, lol. There‘s an online article from a gay magazine on Heinrich which makes the most of that name, too.The dirty soap and warehouse combinations google translate produces are divine. I once read an Italian fanfiction by using Google Translate, and it insisted on translating all the Italian names literally - so White for Bianca, for example - which was weird and funny to read at times, but nothing as good as your example.
As to Heinrich‘s love life in general: you know, one of the amazing things is that given the constant upset from Fritz you‘d think he‘d have gone for some tranquility there as an emotional balance, but noooo, not until the Comte in the last years of his life. (And Fritz was dead and buried for years and years by then.)
Two founding brothers legends: and let‘s not forget that Fritz and Heinrich both loved that story that Rheinsberg was really Remusberg, Remus made it out of the founding of Rome alive and settled down in Brandenburg and that they had his grave on the island on that lake. To take the quintessential foundation of empire on fratricide story and give it a twist where both brothers get to live, and Remus, unslain, finds a peaceful exile by living out his days in Rheinsberg: you could not make this up that these particular two brothers fell in love with that twist of the myth. (And while AW isn‘t literally buried in Rheinsberg he certainly was for Heinrich in spirit, with the two memorials, so the role of Remus is shared even more.)
Heinrich: Let's drag this war out as long as possible in hopes of a miracle, and meanwhile do as much damage as possible with as little bloodshed as possible. Fritz: Uniting the Prussian armies for a big, possibly catastrophic, but at least fucking DECISIVE battle is so tempting... Heinrich to Ferdinand: If idiot Big Bro tries that, I'm joining you on sick leave.
This is also when Mitchell writes that report home that I‘ve been quoting from in my MItchell write up, to be paraphrased thusly:
Mitchell: Prussian generals and officials, don‘t you want to help me to reconcile your beloved king wiht your beloved prince? SEEING AS BOTH ARE QUINTENSENTIAL TO THE WAR EFFORT?!? Prussians: You first, mate, you first. Mitchell: Dear Foreign Office, the Prussian offcials were strangely intimidated at the thought.
But she could very well have held out for another year, and then who knows?
I do, because I‘ve written one fo the MT & Fritz AUs about it:)
Peter‘s dreamed eulogy: your sleeping brain coming up with such a question is amazing. Sadly, my dreams so far have refused to provide me with a full name for Marwitz, so Antony will have to do.
Re: Heinrich readthrough!
Cape Stallion, lol. There‘s an online article from a gay magazine on Heinrich which makes the most of that name, too.The dirty soap and warehouse combinations google translate produces are divine. I once read an Italian fanfiction by using Google Translate, and it insisted on translating all the Italian names literally - so White for Bianca, for example - which was weird and funny to read at times, but nothing as good as your example.
As to Heinrich‘s love life in general: you know, one of the amazing things is that given the constant upset from Fritz you‘d think he‘d have gone for some tranquility there as an emotional balance, but noooo, not until the Comte in the last years of his life. (And Fritz was dead and buried for years and years by then.)
Two founding brothers legends: and let‘s not forget that Fritz and Heinrich both loved that story that Rheinsberg was really Remusberg, Remus made it out of the founding of Rome alive and settled down in Brandenburg and that they had his grave on the island on that lake. To take the quintessential foundation of empire on fratricide story and give it a twist where both brothers get to live, and Remus, unslain, finds a peaceful exile by living out his days in Rheinsberg: you could not make this up that these particular two brothers fell in love with that twist of the myth. (And while AW isn‘t literally buried in Rheinsberg he certainly was for Heinrich in spirit, with the two memorials, so the role of Remus is shared even more.)
Heinrich: Let's drag this war out as long as possible in hopes of a miracle, and meanwhile do as much damage as possible with as little bloodshed as possible.
Fritz: Uniting the Prussian armies for a big, possibly catastrophic, but at least fucking DECISIVE battle is so tempting...
Heinrich to Ferdinand: If idiot Big Bro tries that, I'm joining you on sick leave.
This is also when Mitchell writes that report home that I‘ve been quoting from in my MItchell write up, to be paraphrased thusly:
Mitchell: Prussian generals and officials, don‘t you want to help me to reconcile your beloved king wiht your beloved prince? SEEING AS BOTH ARE QUINTENSENTIAL TO THE WAR EFFORT?!?
Prussians: You first, mate, you first.
Mitchell: Dear Foreign Office, the Prussian offcials were strangely intimidated at the thought.
But she could very well have held out for another year, and then who knows?
I do, because I‘ve written one fo the MT & Fritz AUs about it:)
Peter‘s dreamed eulogy: your sleeping brain coming up with such a question is amazing. Sadly, my dreams so far have refused to provide me with a full name for Marwitz, so Antony will have to do.