I do think that with more time we could have finessed it a bit more so that it was a little more subtle of a miscalculation -- like, instead of Heinrich going on about how many mistakes Fritz made, just bringing up AW at the wrong time... but Fritz using that to double down on criticizing AW. But I know you (mildred) also wanted to show him as darker than our universe, so there were some competing things going on there.
"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.
I think you (selenak) can see how this got to be 30k! Mildred also debated putting in Louise to be nicer to Amalie:
as much as Louise would be perfect Watsonianly, I'm not sure a fic as tight as this can take another character. I'm not dead set against it
and I mercilessly squelched this idea too: I am dead set against Louise, I don't have the time to alpha-and-beta integrating her in :PP
But I don't even feel sorry, because a) neither of us DID have the time b) her idea to put in Amalie's Mental Health Day was brilliant and I'm really glad to have it :)
Re: The Adventure of the Time-Traveling Valet - and Heinrich/Grind
"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.
I think you (selenak) can see how this got to be 30k! Mildred also debated putting in Louise to be nicer to Amalie:
as much as Louise would be perfect Watsonianly, I'm not sure a fic as tight as this can take another character. I'm not dead set against it
and I mercilessly squelched this idea too: I am dead set against Louise, I don't have the time to alpha-and-beta integrating her in :PP
But I don't even feel sorry, because a) neither of us DID have the time b) her idea to put in Amalie's Mental Health Day was brilliant and I'm really glad to have it :)