#i am just very into MCU Historical AUs. it's my jam. my jam of questionable historical accuracy.

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I have to hear about "headed straight for the castle (ottoman succession race)"

that is an AU Thor & Loki thing where they battle for the throne under rules broadly based on a period of the ottoman empire where the succession involved all the reigning sultan's sons all being given provinces of the empire to govern and then when he dies they all race to constantinople, murdering rivals brothers along the way, and the winner is whoever gets there first and convinces the imperial court to listen to them. and then the remaining brothers get murdered. because i felt like upping the fratricide levels between those two.

they have different mothers in it, who are also ruthlessly ambitious because i love a good "ruling via your son" queen mother story.

what i have of it so far is a bit too full of exposition and i am trying not to get orientalist in it (especially since there is so much of that in how this fandom writes jotuns). i posted a snippet from it a while back, which is here, if anyone is into that sort of thing.

#wip game #fic related #meme answers #fratricide #i am just very into MCU Historical AUs. it's my jam. my jam of questionable historical accuracy. #and sometimes i feel like primogeniture takes some of the fun out of the thor v loki rivalry. let the boys fight for it! with swords! #in the real world the ottomans eventually decided this method was too bloody and just locked up the spare brothers for life instead. #and of course now it's istanbul not constantinople. (why did constantinople get the works? that's nobody's business but the turks.)