History Characters / ItFeelsMoreLikeAMemory

* AnythingThatMoves: Gets handsy with everything that moves after he gets drunk celebrating the finalization of the Constitution.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Thomas Jefferson.

* ProperLady: Intelligent, very understanding of her husband Aaron, graceful, controlled, great at navigating high society, and very likely upper class given that fact, that the fic follows history where she had many friends in high places, and that she married the well-off Aaron Burr. Aaron calls her beautiful, but he’s her husband, but then again Wiki/TheOtherWiki says her mother’s family was noted for her beauty, giving her another quality that would make her fall under this trope.

* OutnumberedSibling: There are 5 second-lifetime Burr kids. 4 are male, leaving Angie as the only female Burr child from the second lifetime.

* RaisedCatholic: Aaron is raised Presbyterian. Although he isn't very religious himself, by the fourth lifetime he feels that...
-->though he has no particular attachment to that particular strain of Christianity, he is loathe to betray it. [[spoiler:It is the one piece of his family that he does carry with him.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: The historical and ''Hamilton'' musical version of Aaron Burr were most likely sexually attracted to women. In this fanfic, he's asexual. Downplayed, as in the fic he's a RomanticAsexual with the capacity for romantic attraction to women, and he also had romantic attraction to women in the musical and reality.

* RomanticAsexual: This fic’s Aaron Burr is asexual but experiences romantic attraction, according to WordOfGod in the comments [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/440771362 here]].

* AdaptationalSympathy: The story is now from his point of view instead of focusing on Alexander, which usually adds sympathy. He also has some [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange Adaptational Personality Changes]] and [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade Historical Hero Upgrades]] that make him more [[AdaptationalHeroism heroic]] than his musical counterpart, most notably giving him actual political beliefs that are sympathetic (antislavery ones) and making his equivocation less about a strategy to grab power and more about avoiding abusing the huge amount of power he already has.

* {{Asexuality}}: This fic’s version of Aaron Burr is asexual. He barely thinks about or initiates sex, and was surprised [[spoiler:Alexander]] would be upset with him because they weren’t having sex anymore. His asexuality is confirmed by WordOfGod in the comments [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/52690630 here]], [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/63012148 here]], and [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/440771362 here]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: Gets one in chapter 24, which is partly from her point of view; and another one in chapter 35, which is wholly from his point of view.

* {{Seer}}: He can see future events, specifically how people die. When he dies and starts a new lifetime, he also has RetroactivePrecognition for his past lifetimes. [[spoiler:He has perfect recall of those timelines, and Franklin guesses that he sometimes blurts out things that happen to be true. Upon rereading the story, many statements he makes do come true later in the story, or even in real life far after the time period the story covers.]] The first internationally confirmed and recognized Seer since Joan of Arc [[spoiler:at least in timelines where he doesn't hide his Seer status]], and the first Seer to be found at all in nearly a hundred years.

-->'''Aaron:''' I…I can never be in a position of power. I can never truly, honestly hold office. People will ''always'' give my words special meaning, people will ''always'' weigh what I say more than my opponents, because in the back of their minds they’ll think that I have [[{{Seer}} better reason]] to say those words. And…and if that alone isn’t enough, it would be ''so easy'' for me to take it a step further. I could have gone to that Convention and said that I had a vision of another war, a civil war, of more people dying than in any other war in U.S. history, of slavery tearing this country apart, and they would have written gradual emancipation into the Constitution. Both of us can agree that it would probably be an improvement, but even if it was for all the right reasons, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers what if it wasn’t? There’s no one who can stop me. No one who can contradict me.]] Don’t you see how…how ''dangerous'' I am? I can’t be…I can’t be near any of that.

* {{Seer}}: Internationally confirmed and recognized as one, and considered one of the "great seers of the past." Her particular Seer power is described as having an "extreme Catholic presentation."

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, John Adams is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution and is now a known historical figure (one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States of America).

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Joan of Arc is a real human being who lived and died. She's also considered a historical figure InUniverse.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Thomas Jefferson is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution and is now a known historical figure (one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States of America).

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Dolley Todd Madison is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution and is now a known historical figure.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, James Madison is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution and is now a known historical figure (one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States of America).

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, George Washington is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution and is now a known historical figure (one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States of America).

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Elizabeth Schuyler, later Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution.

* MentalTimeTravel: Aaron [[RippleEffectProofMemory keeps all his memories from past time loops]], but whenever he loops to a new lifetime he starts as a newborn baby. [[spoiler:Later experiments with Benjamin Franklin reveal he has perfect recall of every loop he completed before.]] Keeping all his knowledge doesn't mean he keeps all his skills: it's implied he started fires as a member of the Continental Army, but he struggles to start one in a new loop; it's implied he's gotten slower at code cracking because he hadn't done it in years; and...
-->...it always takes him a few years to pick up on reading, when he knows he should be able to but training new eyes to squint at shapes, but then suddenly it’s like riding a horse, you never forget it, and the world clicks and he can read again.

* ResurrectionDeathLoop: After Aaron dies, he’ll wake up again as a baby, although he doesn’t think this will keep happening forever and there’s a limited amount of times this will happen.

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Madison says at least two of the Burr children are Hamilton's biologically (Philip and Alex), maybe three (John).]]

* NotActuallyHisChild: [[spoiler:In Aaron's second lifetime, James Madison reveals to him that based on the kids' birthdates and when Aaron was away from his family, Philip and Alexander Burr are definitely not his biological children, but Hamilton's, and that it's possible John Burr shares the same fate.]]

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Madison says at least two of the Burr children are Hamilton's biologically (Philip and Alex), maybe three (John). WordOfGod [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/80931694 says]] all the male Burr children are Alexander’s, Angie being the only one with Aaron’s DNA.]]

* NotActuallyHisChild: [[spoiler:In Aaron's second lifetime, James Madison reveals to him that based on the kids' birthdates and when Aaron was away from his family, Philip and Alexander Burr are definitely not his biological children, but Hamilton's, and that it's possible John Burr shares the same fate.]]

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Madison says at least two of the Burr children are Hamilton's biologically (Philip and Alex), maybe three (John).]]

Aaron Burr's wife in the first lifetime.

In the first lifetime, Aaron and Theodosia Prevost Burr have a daughter who is also named Theodosia Burr, and who later becomes Theodosia Burr Alston upon her marriage to Joseph Alston.\\

Eliza and Peggy's older sister.

James Madison's wife.

Angelica’s little sister, Peggy's big sister. Alexander Hamilton’s wife in the first and third timeline, Aaron Burr’s wife and a major character in the second timeline.

In the first lifetime, Aaron and Theodosia Prevost Burr have a daughter who is also named Theodosia Burr, and who later becomes Theodosia Burr Alston.

* {{Memoir}}: Writes a personal memoir in the third timeline.

* AmbiguouslyBi/AmbiguouslyGay: He's clearly a Romantic Asexual who has romantic feelings for both men and women in the fic. But in the second timeline InUniverse[[note]]where he didn't marry Theodosia, clear proof of his capacity for attraction to women; where he did marry Eliza and wasn't quite head-over-heels for her and didn't initiate sex, likely leaving his capacity for attraction to women vague to second-lifetime historians without his inner monologue and without the knowledge of Theodosia from the first lifetime; where the reader knows he loved Alexander romantically, clear proof of his capacity for attraction to men, but it's something implied to have been kept under wraps to others[[/note]] after he's long dead and a historical figure, people debate his sexuality, mostly whether Alexander was his lover or not. It's not clear what in-universe people think about his capacity for attraction to women, or about his asexuality, let alone if that's a consensus or another debate. It's only clear that they debate his attraction to men. So at least ''one'' of Ambiguously Bi/Gay definitely applies, but it's not clear which one applies or if both apply.

* AmbiguouslyBi/AmbiguouslyGay: He clearly has romantic and sexual feelings for both men and women in the fic. But in the second timeline InUniverse[[note]]where he didn't marry Eliza, clear proof of his capacity for attraction to women; where he had an affair with her where he admits becoming attracted her but they burnt all records of it so future historians have nothing to go on for the affair beyond rumors the Burrs and Alexander denied, and DNA testing that says he fathered some of the Burr kids[[/note]], after he's long dead and a historical figure, people debate his sexuality, mostly whether Aaron was his lover or not. It's not clear what in-universe people think about his capacity for attraction to women, let alone if that's a consensus or another debate. It's only clear that they debate his attraction to men. So at least ''one'' of Ambiguously Bi/Gay definitely applies, but it's not clear which one applies or if both apply.

The main character of the fanfiction.

The protagonist of the [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} musical]] this story is a fanfiction of, and a major character in this fanfiction. Married to Elizabeth Schuyler, who becomes Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, in the first and third timelines.

* BigSisterInstinct: Very concerned with ensuring her little sister Eliza is happy, and tried to protect both her younger sisters Peggy and Eliza from the idea they'd be expected to marry rich.

* ABoyAndHisX: An Aaron Jr and his Martha the cat. The part of chapter 24 that is from his point of view is entirely about how special Martha is to him, how he misses her in New York City, and how she comes all the way from Philadelphia to be with Aaron Jr.