Ohhhhh, good question. On the one hand, we don't know that he had a problem with, say, Algarotti, and might have been able to file this under "the two of us cover different parts of Fritz' life". (Whereas handsome husars drafted to personal service might be competetion.) Otoh, this is Katte, and I've recently written a story where Fredersdorf does go "if he wants to kiss anyone, it's surely Katte", and as we've said this is the year where everyone's relationships with Fritz shift and have to be reestablished, and Fredersdorf is most insecure. As opposed to some stranger named or not named Grigorij, he wouldn't be able to tell himself Katte is bad for Fritz and/or suspicious.
...at the very least he'd have a very angsty time of it, I think, wondering whether Fritz is going to treat him now as valet only and wants him to step back into the servant role, and/or whether Zernikow is meant as a gracious pay off the way mistresses to Kings are usually paid off when their time is over.
(Maybe AU Fredersdorf has a drink with equally returning Peter?)
Now, if the whole husar story wasn't idle gossip the Saxon ambassador heard, Fredersdorf in rl was willing to fight for Fritz, but again, that wasn't with someone who had an undeniable and gigantic claim to his affection. Hmmm. Maybe... well, we don't know how ten years in prison would have affected Katte, of course. But before going to prison, he wasn't exactly good at money management. So maybe Fredersdorf while being at his most angsty ready to step back and become a private land owner in Zernikow thinks, but wait, what if Katte, no matter how loving and loyal, still is no good at keeping secrets or organisation or money, so clearly Fritz still needs me to keep an eye on things, and who knows, once Katte isn't a loved and missed martyr in prison anymore but someone he sees every day and who will inevitably have good and bad hours, it'll turn out he still needs me emotionally as well and Katte alone won't do, because we've already passed that test of time, whereas Katte and he had at most a year?
...and then the oldest of the Katte half brothers, figuring this is clearly the opportunity to get loaded, comes to court after Hans Heinrich dies (still at the same time) and tries to exploit being the favorite's brother for all that's worth, at which point Consiglieri Mike springs into action!
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Re: Learning Frederick
Date: 2020-08-17 10:30 am (UTC)...at the very least he'd have a very angsty time of it, I think, wondering whether Fritz is going to treat him now as valet only and wants him to step back into the servant role, and/or whether Zernikow is meant as a gracious pay off the way mistresses to Kings are usually paid off when their time is over.
(Maybe AU Fredersdorf has a drink with equally returning Peter?)
Now, if the whole husar story wasn't idle gossip the Saxon ambassador heard, Fredersdorf in rl was willing to fight for Fritz, but again, that wasn't with someone who had an undeniable and gigantic claim to his affection. Hmmm. Maybe... well, we don't know how ten years in prison would have affected Katte, of course. But before going to prison, he wasn't exactly good at money management. So maybe Fredersdorf while being at his most angsty ready to step back and become a private land owner in Zernikow thinks, but wait, what if Katte, no matter how loving and loyal, still is no good at keeping secrets or organisation or money, so clearly Fritz still needs me to keep an eye on things, and who knows, once Katte isn't a loved and missed martyr in prison anymore but someone he sees every day and who will inevitably have good and bad hours, it'll turn out he still needs me emotionally as well and Katte alone won't do, because we've already passed that test of time, whereas Katte and he had at most a year?
...and then the oldest of the Katte half brothers, figuring this is clearly the opportunity to get loaded, comes to court after Hans Heinrich dies (still at the same time) and tries to exploit being the favorite's brother for all that's worth, at which point Consiglieri Mike springs into action!