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: Saxony and the War of the Austrian Succession

[mildred_of_midgard]

Tying together three recent discussions for luzula:

British secretary Guy-Dickens: Fritz, please don't run away. We don't want you in England.

Fritz: I promise not to run away if Dad doesn't take me along when he goes on his trip, if you give me money. I have lots of debts, don't tell Dad.

Guy-Dickens: How much do you need?

*later*

Fritz: Ha! I told him double the amount I actually needed for my debts, so I could use the rest as running-away money. And I never promised not to run away if Dad did take me on the trip. Loophole FTW!

*even later*

Fritz: You may say sincerity isn't my favorite virtue, but you need to realize it started with me being afraid my father was literally going to choke me to death, and no one wanted to help.

[Peter: Me! I wanted to help! Why was I not special when I came back?

Spaen: The King has an excellent memory right up to 1730.]

Re: Saxony and the War of the Austrian Succession

[selenak]

Peter: Me! I wanted to help! Why was I not special when I came back?

Doris Ritter publically whipped all over Spandau as a whore despite being a virgin, put into the workhouse, and later getting zero acknowledgment other than Voltaire making a quip about her haggard looks and her husband getting the 18th century equivalent of a taxi driver license: MEN!

Re: Saxony and the War of the Austrian Succession

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yeah, she objectively had it worse, maybe tied with Katte. Like you said, at least Katte got treated with respect, had the comfort of knowing he loved and was loved, etc.

But Peter remains unique in that he's the only one who, as far as we know, didn't try to talk Fritz out of it, didn't need to be lied to, and put everything he had into helping Fritz escape. Admittedly, we don't know what conversations they were having in 1729. But Peter remained pretty convinced about the need to escape for at least a whole year, through at least 3 attempts!

(It's not zero-sum, they ALL had it bad. Wilhelmine, Doris, Peter, Katte, Spaen, Duhan, all of them. FW WHY)