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.

in the heights' blackout slaps. makes me feel emotions when they go "we are powerless" god i love good musicals

i saw a screenshot of that on a different site so it's satisfying to find the real thing! thanks for pointing it out, not likely at all but the angst is too good

Second Ides of March post! Do y'all ever think about how during/after the Battle of Yorktown, McHenry rushed to Laurens and said:

"Here is Caesar but where is Alexander?"

To which Laurens replied "He is safe."

in regards to hamilton being a drama queen and telling jefferson that caesar was the greatest man, i saw someone speculate that he might've been thinking of john (if we assume they jokingly called him caesar more than once). not sure how likely it is but it still breaks my heart.

my boys. my dead gay sons. obsessed with their classical references of course.

eliza my beloved

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.

ides of march is closing out and i am once again begging writers and artists to consider utilizing classical themes or parallels and/or roman mythology in amrev projects. y'all are so talented it's insane.

art of them wearing togas? the founding fathers' wet dream. these men didn't stop thinking about the roman empire. literally their roman empire.

fanfic of them with heavy parallels to classical heroes or duos? once again, canon. they went around calling each other "caesar", "colossus", "cattaline" and writing under roman pseudonyms for christ's sake.

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.