I'm fine with having different strokes from you and cahn, I just want my strokes to be consistent across fandoms, because they usually are! But Katte is my anti-ship in any other fandom (okay, the execution scene is unique and critical to the difference), and definitely Peter Keith should be a nonentity and an anti-ship for me, and yet.
BTW, one of the hopes I had when reading the "Zeithain" novel, which after all had been advertised as the first Katte-centric take (which it is), was to get a hand on who he was outside of his death context. In the hopes that I'd come to feel more for him beyond being sorry (and eternally angry on his behalf at FW).
Yeah, based on your review and what I've read (it's still on my list for when my German is slightly better!), it does seem disappointing in this regard. Alas. Thank you for your extensive research on my behalf in spite of not having deep feels! <3
Fredersdorf was a magician (this is how he could do so many jobs at the same time).
And the alchemy!
Fritz very much wanted to be a magician, but alas, he's not (though he knows how to use them).
Awww. Does he at least have a fairy servant? Magician or no, I feel like he would acquire one somehow.
Re: Loyalty gesture tropes
BTW, one of the hopes I had when reading the "Zeithain" novel, which after all had been advertised as the first Katte-centric take (which it is), was to get a hand on who he was outside of his death context. In the hopes that I'd come to feel more for him beyond being sorry (and eternally angry on his behalf at FW).
Yeah, based on your review and what I've read (it's still on my list for when my German is slightly better!), it does seem disappointing in this regard. Alas. Thank you for your extensive research on my behalf in spite of not having deep feels! <3
Fredersdorf was a magician (this is how he could do so many jobs at the same time).
And the alchemy!
Fritz very much wanted to be a magician, but alas, he's not (though he knows how to use them).
Awww. Does he at least have a fairy servant? Magician or no, I feel like he would acquire one somehow.
Voltaire and Émilie: both magicians.
YES. YES, this.