Obviously a geriatric woman in her 30's could not possibly have a real pregnancy! *sigh*
Though this is fascinating that it's such a common trope, wow.
Fritz obsessed securing the succession and not too fussy about who gets the siring done
But didn't you guys say before (when we were talking about MT/Fritz crackfic, and MT using FS as her stud) that he probably would be picky about the siring?
Well, for starters, we knew less then than we do know about the sheer number of Fritz quotes sympathizing with women whose men cheat on them having affairs as well. Now, while both the "he told Elisabeth, wife of FW2, to pick a suitable biodad and do it discreetly, and Elisabeth replied "oh yeah? Well, if I'm to fuck on the King's command, how about you do the same and do it with me now?" to the messenger, who in the story is is George Keith, Lord Marechal, and runs away" and now this "Ferdinand, his adjutant and his wife" tale could be entirely apocryphal and untrue, if either one is correct it would support the idea of lack of fussiness.
All this said? We still don't have evidence that Fritz would have kept up a "live and let live" stance if his OWN wife - EC or in the crack fic MT - would have taken him up on this enlightened position, taken a lover and supplied an heir which he would have known without the shadow of a doubt not to be his kid. Given the double standards he had elsewhere (as in "when I'm grieving, all of Europe needs to cry with me; if you're grieving, be a philosopher and get over it!"), who knows?
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Re: Dogs and Ferdinand
Date: 2021-04-01 04:01 am (UTC)Though this is fascinating that it's such a common trope, wow.
Fritz obsessed securing the succession and not too fussy about who gets the siring done
But didn't you guys say before (when we were talking about MT/Fritz crackfic, and MT using FS as her stud) that he probably would be picky about the siring?
Re: Dogs and Ferdinand
Date: 2021-04-01 08:12 am (UTC)All this said? We still don't have evidence that Fritz would have kept up a "live and let live" stance if his OWN wife - EC or in the crack fic MT - would have taken him up on this enlightened position, taken a lover and supplied an heir which he would have known without the shadow of a doubt not to be his kid. Given the double standards he had elsewhere (as in "when I'm grieving, all of Europe needs to cry with me; if you're grieving, be a philosopher and get over it!"), who knows?