18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 38

[cahn]

Gonna go ahead and make this post even though Yuletide is coming...

But in the meantime, there has been some fic in the fandom posted!

Holding His Space (2503 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Characters: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Additional Tags: Protectiveness, Domestic, Character Study
Summary:

Five times Fredersdorf has to stay behind - and one time Friedrich doesn't leave.

Using People (3392 words) by prinzsorgenfrei
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Hans Hermann von Katte
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Hans Hermann von Katte
Additional Tags: Fluff, Idiots in Love, reading plays aloud while gazing into each others eyes
Summary:

Friedrich had started to talk to him because he had thought of him as a bit of a ditz.
And now here he was. Here he was months later, bundled up in this very same man’s blankets with a cup of hot coffee in front of him, its scent mixing with that of Katte’s French perfume.
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Fluffy One Shot about one traitorous Crown Prince and the sycophant he accidentally fell for.

Comments

Re: Tiny Terror FW: The Sequel

[luzula]

Besides, his student declared in all sincerity that he would cut his teacher's head off after his ascension to the throne.

OMG. It is so weird to me with children who have that much power, or at least know that they will have such power when they are adults. Like, children are literally so immature! It's not like adults can actually be trusted with that kind of power, either, but children... It's a scary thought.

Re: Tiny Terror FW: The Sequel

[selenak]

Indeed it is. Like I said, I bet many a child in that era and others had an idle "I hate my school lessons, I wish I could kill my teacher!" thought, but if this thought comes paired with someone who will indeed in a few years have that power, it's incredibly disturbing.

This said, being a royal child was no guarantee of being free of abuse (and I don't just mean by the parents). Wilhelmine's first governess, Madame Leti, was so brutal to her that her brother's governess told Queen Sophia Dorothea that if Leti wasn't replaced, Wilhelmine would be crippled for life (and thus not marriagable anymore). A while ago Mildred & self read a book about servant/aristocrat 18th century relationships, which while focused on France probably applied to the rest of Europe as well, and there was often a vicious circle going on where the servants, especially the female ones, were abused by the adult masters and mistresses and then took their revenge by brutalizing the aristocratic children, who in turn...