And yes, as mildred says, I flagged that bit as well as something where I had to suspend disbelief :)
As noted, I wrote myself into *several* corners with this fic. I didn't want to include this bit at all! The premise was supposed to be "dark!Heinrich kills Fritz" in something like our universe. As you know, I couldn't make this work, so I went for making him a slightly less dark (but still not our Heinrich) version with more pressure on him. But I wasn't thrilled with that.
Then I wanted to show his conflicting feelings about and loyalty to Fritz, because I know that's what you're there for, and I got as far as expressing my frustration to cahn that my fic had made that basically impossible by making Fritz DEAD by the time Heinrich shows up, and she said, quite correctly, "You can't! It doesn't fit and we don't have time and Selena's already done that--it just has to be a dark AU." And she was right, but please know that I tried.
Several points during the writing, I had to argue with my internal editor that 1) you would understand the time crunch I was writing under, and 2) the strengths of the fic were just going to have to carry the story in spite of the weak points, and that there were enough strengths to carry the weaknesses I couldn't eliminate. I kept wanting to push back the beginning of the story to show Heinrich handling Fritz and how that was far less Heinrich's screw-up than Fritz's ability to twist anything around into criticism of himself when under enough stress (see also my opinion on the Albert condolence letter), but in lieu of enough time to develop that plot line, you got a "this Heinrich screwed up, moving on" in the first scene.
We'll just say Heinrich in this universe has less tolerance for Fritz's BS than canonically, and that leads to both the initial misjudgment and the willingness to authorize murder, and next time I'll try to write you the Heinrich of our universe. (The bug just bit me on this AU, and then I fenced myself into corner after corner in fleshing it out.)
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Re: The Adventure of the Time-Traveling Valet - and Heinrich/Grind
Date: 2021-01-15 11:45 pm (UTC)As noted, I wrote myself into *several* corners with this fic. I didn't want to include this bit at all! The premise was supposed to be "dark!Heinrich kills Fritz" in something like our universe. As you know, I couldn't make this work, so I went for making him a slightly less dark (but still not our Heinrich) version with more pressure on him. But I wasn't thrilled with that.
Then I wanted to show his conflicting feelings about and loyalty to Fritz, because I know that's what you're there for, and I got as far as expressing my frustration to
Several points during the writing, I had to argue with my internal editor that 1) you would understand the time crunch I was writing under, and 2) the strengths of the fic were just going to have to carry the story in spite of the weak points, and that there were enough strengths to carry the weaknesses I couldn't eliminate. I kept wanting to push back the beginning of the story to show Heinrich handling Fritz and how that was far less Heinrich's screw-up than Fritz's ability to twist anything around into criticism of himself when under enough stress (see also my opinion on the Albert condolence letter), but in lieu of enough time to develop that plot line, you got a "this Heinrich screwed up, moving on" in the first scene.
We'll just say Heinrich in this universe has less tolerance for Fritz's BS than canonically, and that leads to both the initial misjudgment and the willingness to authorize murder, and next time I'll try to write you the Heinrich of our universe. (The bug just bit me on this AU, and then I fenced myself into corner after corner in fleshing it out.)