Ridiculous Historical Alternative Scenario 1

ridiculous historical alternative scenario 1

i have seen your scottish alexander hamilton and love him deeply. may i suggest the far less plausible, actually probably impossible scenario my group chat created for the kick of it: french alexander hamilton.

we pulled a bene gesserit and went back in time to careful go through generations of genetic selection and whatnot just to insure that alexander hamilton is born in france.

his mother rachel was a huguenot french, if i'm not mistaken (or at least a descent) and i believe she was born in the west indies, her father being a physician? once again, this isn't for sure and i'll need to find a reliable source on that, but we really do lack a lot of information about her.

why this absolutely implausible scenario, you ask?

solely to imagine a world where thomas jefferson went to france and was absolutely taken by this catty frenchman - and suddenly all the things he hated about hamilton in reality are charming and vogue. he loves hamilton like he loves lafayette. hon hon hon.

and the second implausible scenario: lafayette and hamilton know each other from childhood (they weren't even in the same social sphere but this already makes no sense so shhh) and they come to america to fight together. let's just pretend hamilton is somehow from a very noble french family now. wreaking havoc onto washington's staff and waggling his eyebrows at everyone. we want to see washington squirm, a flip of the power dynamic.

imagine he meets napoleon. is he captured with lafayette? does he become a radical and agree with jefferson? whatever the hell we want, this makes no sense.

so in conclusion, this is a shitty au that has no historical basis nor is cleverly figured out. but we wanted to see alexander acting exactly like the french stereotype, flirting, drinking, dancing, wearing ridiculous clothing, taking washington by the cheek and kissing him. just chaos, to the extreme. i mean, frenchmen seemed to love him so.

this is late retribution for alexander never getting to go to france even when john laurens petitioned for him. sorry ham, you would've taken paris by storm.

it's camp.

hamilton, mister would you still love me if i was a worm

i forgot the most blatant example of hamilton being the "do you like me or like like me" boyfriend in my last post:

For god’s sake My Dear Betsey try to write me oftener and give me the picture of your heart in all its varieties of light and shade. Tell me whether it feels the same for me or did when we were together, or whether what seemed to be love was nothing more than a generous sympathy. The possibility of this frequently torments me.

this was their canon dynamic idc.

"are you going to pledge your life and allegiance to me because you're a people pleaser? tell me now betsey. "

also can i say that i love him excusing himself in the earlier lines:

If you knew my heart thoroughly you would see it so full of tenderness for you that you would not only pardon, but you would even love my weaknesses.

he's going "my heart is so weak because of you". pulling the "i'm just a girl" card.

martha manning in england:

Hamilton: *on the phone with Laurens* babe, i’m breaking up- Laurens: I'm pregnant Hamilton: I meant the call Laurens: right, sorry. I panicked

this did to washington's legacy what years of jeffersonian newspaper abuse couldn't do

hey! i would say it depends on what you're trying to get out of the experience! if you're looking for a deep dive into elizabeth hamilton's life and historical accuracy, i'd say no (spoiler: most of it focuses on the time period of her marriage, so the story concludes much earlier than her death, if you get what i mean). it falls in line with a lot of historical fiction novels, and goes through key historical events through eliza's first person pov. that's not bad, necessarily, but something to keep in mind.

i don't think it's as guilty of adding in modern sensibilities as other novels i've read. it is very admiring of hamilton (makes sense, it's his wife's pov). overall, i did find the prose was readable, and their relationship was cute. i thought it was a fun, light read :)

reading i, eliza hamilton rn and it's undoubtedly historical fiction but at least it gave us a scene where eliza shouts "that dog!" about thomas jefferson. accepting it as historical truth now, thank you.

oh wait this is really interesting and important. i thought it was true because a lot of sources i read did mention it in passing, and it's even on alexander hamilton jr.'s wikipedia page. but the citation goes back to chernow, and yeah, if he's the only one stating that it's true besides burr then there's a lot of reason to think twice about this.

thank you so much for letting me know! sometimes it still gets me how even historical "nonfiction" often has to be questioned. this is reminding me of the martha washington tomcat story that a historian discredited (?) as a popular myth he's annoyed at, if i remember it correctly.

new york in the late 18th - early 19th century must've been the smallest city in the world because wdym alexander hamilton jr. was aaron burr's wife's lawyer?