#magdalena wieck

[caspia-writes]

Valentine's Writing Tag (in... June?)

For reasons I still do not entirely understand, I have decided to stay up until almost 6 in the morning answering something from almost four months ago. Because that is a very good and normal use of time. Luckily I don't have anything else to do today, or I'd be screwed at this rate....

I was tagged by @sleepy-night-child for this! I would tag other people, but I don't know who the heck I'm going to tag for this normally, much less almost four months after the fact. If anyone else is similarly bored though, I won't rat you out for saying I tagged you.

Anyway, here are some romantic details for the story Verräter!

1. Which of your characters have some romantic chemistry?

Look, I wouldn’t recognize romantic chemistry if it fell out of the sky and fractured my skull on its way down. But based on my essentially non-existent understanding of this sort of thing…

Helmina and Theodor

Ernst and Lina

Sophie and Hans (???)

2. Which of your characters do you think readers will ship?

Ahh… well. There’s always going to be ships. But romance is still not really my thing, so I’ll take some wild guesses. Since almost all of my characters are already in established relationships (and I’m only getting around to answering this during pride month), I guess I’ll assume we’re mostly doing non-official LGBTQ+ ships now.

Otto and Johannes

Otto and Ernst

Otto and Paul

Theodor and Hans

Ernst and Hans (gotta get that enemies-to-lovers dynamic in somewhere)

Löhlein and Hans

Johannes and Hans

Johannes and Dr. Drittich

And, knowing shippers, literally every other permutation, some of which will probably involve Jaeger somehow. Regrettably. (But seriously, please don’t ship the dachshund….)

3. Which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

Ernst and Lina, for now. Most of the others are paired off already, and I’m not enough of a romantic to bother with the minor characters’ love lives.

4. Are there any established relationships in your WIPs? If so, how did they meet?

Yep, there are several!

1. Johannes and Magdalena

Johannes finally managed to seize political control of Großsachsen, but the rest of his Party (let’s be honest, it was like 95% Otto) thought he needed a wife to be ‘relatable’ and to have someone to consult for matters requiring a ‘feminine touch’. Magdalena was suggested for being a well-bred woman with the correct political views, and a meeting was arranged at a local coffeehouse.

2. Otto and Josephine

Otto hosts a lot of parties. Like, a lot. Theodor used to attend them, and eventually started bringing his then-girlfriend sometimes. Eventually Otto decided to inquire about this new woman, and then they at least knew the other existed.

3. Theodor and Helmina

Theodor got completely drunk off his ass one fine night. So drunk, in fact, that he ended up knocking on the door to the townhouse his grandmother used to live in and essentially shoving his way in, ignoring that Helmina was quite clearly not his grandmother. And then he proceeded to blather about how terrible his love life was going for the next two hours or so.

Eventually, out of desperation to get the random sobbing drunk out of her home, Helmina “agreed” to go on a date with him on the condition that he went and sobered up somewhere else. For better or worse, Theodor was still just sober enough to scrawl it out in his diary, so Helmina ended up going on that date.

4. Hans and Sophie

Hans went to a bakery intending to purchase some bread. But then he saw pretty girl and, being a testosterone-fueled 20-something, naturally decided he rather liked pretty girl. After several minutes of flirting, he finally bothered asking her name. She… was not initially terribly impressed with him, obviously, and wanted his name to try to ignore him. Unfortunately, Hans is a very, very common Großsächsisch name, so that didn’t help much.

5. What’s your dream love confession scene between your characters?

Not sure how applicable this is for me, but I came up with a scene that I may or may not be semi-planning on using, possibly.

A and B have been lightly dating for some time. Neither side has quite gotten to saying the magic words, but things seem to be going fairly well anyway. A has every intention of saying it, but they just haven’t quite worked up the nerve to spit it out yet. Perhaps there are some moderately elaborate plans, or lots of practicing in the mirror, but anyway A just can’t quite say it yet.

However, B thinks A doesn’t actually like them. Maybe just not romantically, maybe not at all, but at any rate B thinks that A just doesn’t have the heart to break things off and is hoping the relationship will just sort of whither up and die on its own. After thinking a few hours longer, B goes to A and decides to end things, admonishing A for being too cowardly to just tell them if it wasn’t working.

Cue A panicking and finally managing to spit it out. Profusely. While very much trying not to cry, and only almost succeeding, because... what does B mean, B doesn’t think they love them?!

[servalpunch]

‘Let’s draw some pretty boys’ challenge

(May not be pretty but meh..) (From top left)

(Classic) Dimitri Shostakovich / (Cold) Hugo Wolf / (Cutie) Franz Schubert / (straight A’s) Antonio Salieri / (arrogant?) Hector Berlioz

(mentioned as good-looking) Franz Liszt / (fragile) Hans Rott / (Cool) J.S. Bach / (calm) Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / (me pick) Maurice Ravel

Female figures

(I know many of their hair/eye colour/appearance doesn’t match) (from left)

Fanny Mendelssohn / Clara Schumann (neé Wieck) / ‘Coco’ Chanel (Once lover of stravinski) / Maria Wodsinski (once engaged to Chopin) / Cosima Wagner (neé Liszt) / Harriet Smithson (later married to Berlioz) / Lucille Aurore Dupin (George Sand) / Princess Carolyne (last lover of Liszt) / Anna Magdalena Bach / Constanze Mozart / Marie D’agoult

[caspia-writes]

for the ask my ocs post, 1 and 23 for magdalena wieck

btw your writing is really fantastic, from what I've seen so far :)

Thanks for the ask, @thesecretscribe! I'm glad to hear that you like my writing thus far--hopefully one of these days I'll finish writing something enough that I can actually post a whole chapter on here!

1. How many different places have they lived?

Magdalena has moved around a fair bit in life. She lived in Hasselsdorf until she was seventeen, then moved to Schildau in hopes of becoming a teacher. That didn't work out, but she met Johannes, fell in love, and married him, which resulted in her moving to Altenstadt for a while. They now own three different houses across Großsachsen (including their ususal Altenstadt residence), and she's lived in each for at least a few months at one point or another. This gives her a total of five different residences over the years, though she's never lived outside of Großsachsen.

23. Are they indoorsy or outdoorsy?

Magdalena is more the outdoors sort. If the weather isn't awful, she likes to sit outside and read or bird-watch. She also tends to a small flower garden. Even when it's raining, she tends to want to open a few windows for fresh air.