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: Katte and blame

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yeah, I was thinking of reminding everyone of that FW blaming Katte quote, but in a slightly different context: Remember that part of the reason so many people thought Katte didn't deserve to die was that he repented. That includes some of the members on the tribunal who voted for life imprisonment, and it of course includes FW.

So even when it comes to the people who blame FW for overriding the sentence, many of them are still implicitly blaming Fritz for being the root cause of the problem here.

On a more understandable note, we weren’t sure for a while whether Hans Heinrich’s statement in a letter that he’s struggling to forgive was referring to FW or Fritz, though eventually decided me most likely meant FW, not least because of some new info like the rumors Stratemann heard about Hans Heinrich offering his resignation etc.

Yep, agreed, I didn't include that one because we eventually decided on FW. Though I would be kind of surprised if he din't *also* consider Fritz the root of all evil, if not the one who overrode the sentence. But we have no direct evidence for that.

So we might agree on Fritz, even when he’s not being an 18 years old fleeing from a life long abusive situation, being not the best secret travel planner (and executer). His strategic abilities were in other eras.

This is SO TRUE. I believe he was outed in the Netherlands too, although less dramatically.