Yuletide Reveal
Jan. 1st, 2023 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakMay 2023 be a good year for you. I celebrated with my APs, and a good tiime was had by all, though also some sadness due to various illnesses in the wider family. Now, about Yuletide: my assignment was a story for cahn. Originally, I had planned to write her another trope combined with history - body switching, to be precise, but when I plotted and pondered, the irresitable idea occured to me to do a time loop story instead. Less Groundhog Day than Russian Doll, though, starring Frederick the Great as Nadia. (The personalities completely match, trust me on this. I now propose Natasha Lyonne to follow Katharina Thalbach's footsteps and be the next female actress playing Frederick.) Incidentally, I went back and thro as ato whether to list this story as a fusion rather than an "inspired by", but ultimately went with the later, because while, Nadia/Frederick identity aside, I took another key twist from Russian Doll - to wit, after a few chapters/episodes we realize there's another person in the time loop with the main character, and their relationship is very important for the overall story - , I abandoned others, such as the fact that in the Russian Doll universe, said verse is shrinking and more people are disappearing the longer the loop goes on. As it was iimportant for my story that Frederick should be seriously tempted at one point to stay within the loop (which is more Nadia s2 than Nadia s1), this could not be the case.
Anyway, next I had to figiure out when to set my story, and since I wanted it to be more funny than not as a present, setting it during one of the wars was out. Also,cahn had wished for Frederick, Voltaire and Frederick's younger brother Heinrich/Henry to be all in the story, and without going (more?) AU about this, this meant the 1750 - 1753 era when Voltaire was actually living in Prussia was the ideal time frame. Moroever, the repeating day should be a bad one for our antihero, but not "gets his boyfriend executed in front of him by father when he's 18" level of bad. Thankfully, there were a less than thrilling couple of days in the autumn of 1753 that came to mind, what with the ongoing hilaribad trainwreck of the Frederick/Voltaire relationship at that point and, not completely unrelatedly, Frederick's long time companion Fredersdorf wanting to get married. Not a day you want to get stuck in even if you have less issues than Prussian!Nadia, err, Frederick the Great. I thus had my premise and plotted this:
Prussian Doll (12290 words) by Selena
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: 18th Century CE Frederician RPF, 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802), Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Karoline Marie Elisabeth Daum, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Voltaire (Writer)
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802), Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Karoline Marie Elisabeth Daum, Comte de Saint-Germain (d.1784), Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia, Voltaire (Writer)
Additional Tags: Time Loop, Groundhog Day, Inspired by Russian Doll (2019), Dysfunctional Family, Siblings, Character Study, Established Relationship, Queering The Tide, Yuletide, Yuletide 2022
Summary:
cahn. Originally, I had planned to write her another trope combined with history - body switching, to be precise, but when I plotted and pondered, the irresitable idea occured to me to do a time loop story instead. Less Groundhog Day than Russian Doll, though, starring Frederick the Great as Nadia. (The personalities completely match, trust me on this. I now propose Natasha Lyonne to follow Katharina Thalbach's footsteps and be the next female actress playing Frederick.) Incidentally, I went back and thro as ato whether to list this story as a fusion rather than an "inspired by", but ultimately went with the later, because while, Nadia/Frederick identity aside, I took another key twist from Russian Doll - to wit, after a few chapters/episodes we realize there's another person in the time loop with the main character, and their relationship is very important for the overall story - , I abandoned others, such as the fact that in the Russian Doll universe, said verse is shrinking and more people are disappearing the longer the loop goes on. As it was iimportant for my story that Frederick should be seriously tempted at one point to stay within the loop (which is more Nadia s2 than Nadia s1), this could not be the case. Anyway, next I had to figiure out when to set my story, and since I wanted it to be more funny than not as a present, setting it during one of the wars was out. Also,
cahn had wished for Frederick, Voltaire and Frederick's younger brother Heinrich/Henry to be all in the story, and without going (more?) AU about this, this meant the 1750 - 1753 era when Voltaire was actually living in Prussia was the ideal time frame. Moroever, the repeating day should be a bad one for our antihero, but not "gets his boyfriend executed in front of him by father when he's 18" level of bad. Thankfully, there were a less than thrilling couple of days in the autumn of 1753 that came to mind, what with the ongoing hilaribad trainwreck of the Frederick/Voltaire relationship at that point and, not completely unrelatedly, Frederick's long time companion Fredersdorf wanting to get married. Not a day you want to get stuck in even if you have less issues than Prussian!Nadia, err, Frederick the Great. I thus had my premise and plotted this: Prussian Doll (12290 words) by Selena
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: 18th Century CE Frederician RPF, 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802), Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Karoline Marie Elisabeth Daum, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Voltaire (Writer)
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802), Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Karoline Marie Elisabeth Daum, Comte de Saint-Germain (d.1784), Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia, Voltaire (Writer)
Additional Tags: Time Loop, Groundhog Day, Inspired by Russian Doll (2019), Dysfunctional Family, Siblings, Character Study, Established Relationship, Queering The Tide, Yuletide, Yuletide 2022
Summary:
His lover announces his intention to marry, his feud with his favourite writer keeps escalating, and then there's his pest of a younger brother: all in all, the 14th October 1752 isn't one of Frederick the Great's better days. And that's before it starts repeating itself....
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Date: 2023-01-04 06:40 am (UTC)