#fidelity.kat

In November of 1776, the Continental Army is captured by the British in New York City. In a damp cell, Alfred Kirkland must decide the best way to spin his association with the rebels that will keep him in the good graces of his father and the Crown. It's all for America. Every lie he tells, he tells for the good of America. At least, that's what he's telling himself.

Hello Russian anon!!!!! Love seeing new faces. Fidelity fans will be pleased to hear that I am once again working on that fic. The whole thing does fill you with despair doesn’t it? Especially fidelity himself and the guilt he feels for lying, for failing America, for so many things. And the relationship between himself and his father is so interesting because fidelity KNOWS that his father would stop loving him if he stepped out of line. He’s KNOWS it’s transactional and that’s just how things are. Fidelity is actually very critical of Arthur in a way that my other Alfred’s aren’t in some ways. He acknowledges straight up that what Arthur did to Matthew and Francis was really fucked up.

And then stick the situation with Matthew—Matt is being held captive as well. He’d been allowed to live alone in Canada and freely correspond with Francis because of that freedom, and now that’s been taken away. It is absolutely no wonder that Matthew did not like Alfred at first (and their relationship continues to be complicated and not perfect). Alfred was THERE when the transfer happened. It was his first time in mainland Europe and his first time “meeting” Francis and Matt, and stood there and watched while Matthew was removed from his father’s care. They hardly know each other, only see each other maybe three times between then and 1776, and Matthew thinks that Alfred blindly follows Arthur. But the Thing here is that Alfred mentions that he had sent letters to Matt containing some material that could be seen as seditious before everything happened.

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ooooaoaaahhhhggghghhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is such a tough question. because in my heart i want to believe that francis would fix the situation but i dont think he would. like if we dropped any other version of francis into this situation (doni, ld, anyone), i think they would help. but fidelity francis is a hardened person because hes been dealing with this version of arthur for so long. key thing to remember here is that the theft of canada in this situation was really messy and bad, and if francis saw an opportunity for revenge, he would take it. and i think he knows that alfred doesn't hold real power, and might would try to snake his way in to charm alfred, would end up manipulating him to steal him from arthur for that revenge, and it would ruin everything in a crazy way. because by this point, the possibility of a successful american revolution is unlikely, so even if he respects alfred for wanting away, hes not going to do anything to help him achieve that. i think this situation would supersede Nation politics just because francis wants to get arthur back so badly and hes found an easy way to do it.

francis would be supportive yes but he would be playing his own game, and at the end of that game, he's still the person who needs to come out on top, and it would eventually lead to a betrayal of alfred in some way. because francis does not know alfred at all--his hatred of arthur is going to overpower any affection he has for this random kid after maybe a few years. he hates arthur, would kill him if he could. and also? alfred still has a crazy loyalty to arthur out of fear, revolution or not, and francis wouldnt be able to totally look past that. alfred still stood there and watched while matthew was ripped away from him, years before the revolution, and did not intervene.

thats my pessimistic view of it. IF francis were a good dude and fully fully supportive, it would be so amazing for alfred, and alfred would come to view him as a father, and alfred would learn that love is actually not like taxes, love should never be like taxes. would totally turn his worldview upside down. but i think even in that reality, it would come crashing down eventually, because as you said, the secret is very dangerous and very hard to hide, esp if another person were to know. a person with a big heart who would want to intervene and not leave it alone.

Omg you’re so right I’ve never thought about that I mean obviously there isn’t I just didn’t. Think about it. Bro Washington DC isn’t even a city. And I will say last night I was thinking about how some places might still exist, but they would have different name names. Like Washington state. Though I think in the map I drew, a lot of Washington state belonged to Canada now. But there are so many towns and cities that might still form, but they would be called different things. And one that I do think of is all of the places named after Lafayette (or sometimes, just Fayette) none of those would exist either.

I did start work on it last night and I’m very excited about it. It’s gonna take me a hot minute because like I said I do expect all of the chapters to be at least 10,000 words. But I can tell you that we are at least 1/10th of the way there.

siri play made in japan by buck owens

for Fidelity, meeting Kiku is his version of freedom. near the mid 1800s, the British swap diplomats with the Japanese, and Fidelity is the one allowed to go on his own--it's his father putting a bit of trust in him after nearly 80 years of watching him closely following the failed revolution. so Fidelity is allowed to go, meets Kiku (who is really the first Nation he meets after the revolution who isn't family, unless he meets some other europeans in brief passing between the rev and the japan visit), and just--imagine being him. being stuck under the watchful eye of your father who you have this super transactional relationship with, with only your brother for company (who you have an equally complicated relationship with) and then you get to go to beautiful japan, and meet this person who doesn't have any preconceived notions about the type of person you are. Fidelity doesn't have to pretend with Kiku. he can start over, almost, being himself, not having to hide any more than the fact that he supported a failed revolution last century.

so for him, Kiku is freedom and independence and a person he does not have to play for. Kiku doesn't know that he has this black stain on his soul, and he likely would not care if he ever found out.

You make a good point and are correct—being that he has an English father and Canadian brother (and that they live with their father a lot) he should be saying soft drink. But I am an American and that word is not used here at all really except in very specific cases in the word soda is broadly becoming the most common word used here. Previously it was the word most commonly used in New England.