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* OrphansOrdeal: The fic might not have a song outlining Hamilton's awful cihldhood, but he clearly still went through an ordeal in this fic thanks to his circumstances at birth, mentioning things like the hurricane, his mother's death, and his cousin's suicide that made up part of his ordeal.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Outlives his daughter, Theodosia, in the first timeline [[spoiler:and his son Philip in the second timeline.]]
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Theodosia dies at sea before her father dies [[spoiler: and Philip dies after being shot in a duel, before either of his fathers (Aaron in most senses, Alexander in the biological sense) die.]]
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Outlives his son Philip after Philip is shot in a duel [[spoiler:in all completed lifetimes so far, since Philip is his biological son with Eliza in the second timeline.]]
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* {{Irony}}: This very sickly character lives a long life in every completed timeline.
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lifetime. Instrumental in the writing and ratification of the Constitution, but has a very poor constitution himself.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Aaron's grandfather taught him he shouldn't lie because of the weight his words carry as the Seer. He takes this lesson very seriously.
-->'''Aaron:''' Every word that I say carries weight, every glance that I give, the people that I associate with, the opinions that I voice, they’re all dissected and analyzed and remembered. They have power. So I’m careful before I open my mouth.
-->'''Aaron:''' Every word that I say carries weight, every glance that I give, the people that I associate with, the opinions that I voice, they’re all dissected and analyzed and remembered. They have power. So I’m careful before I open my mouth.
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* 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.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: Downplayed with Alex. He knows his parents love him, and there’s no mention of him acting out unacceptably, but he feels overlooked on account of his status as the middle child.
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* OutnumberedSibling: There are 5 second-lifetime Burr kids. 4 are male, leaving Angie as the only female child.
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* {{Workaholic}}: In every timeline, with the addition that he throws himself into work to cope with John Laurens' death in the first timeline.
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!!UsefulNotes/JamesMadison
A major character in Aaron’s second and third lifetime.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: James Madison knows this instinct well.
-->[James] had grown up with seven younger siblings, and he understands the all-consuming urge to protect someone from the horrors of the world.
* 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).
* InSeriesNickname: Jemmy.
!!UsefulNotes/JamesMadison
A major character in Aaron’s second and third lifetime.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: James Madison knows this instinct well.
-->[James] had grown up with seven younger siblings, and he understands the all-consuming urge to protect someone from the horrors of the world.
* 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).
* InSeriesNickname: Jemmy.
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* FanCreatedOffspring: The second-lifetime Burr kids, Philip, Angelica, Alexander, Aaron Jr, and John. [[spoiler:At least, the ones that Aaron biologically fathered. The ones Alexander fathered are the same kids he had in real life, if with different personalities due to being raised in a different household, and are thus not fan-created.]]
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* FanCreatedOffspring: The second-lifetime Burr kids, Philip, Angelica, Alexander, Aaron Jr, and John.kids. [[spoiler:At least, the ones that Aaron biologically fathered. The ones Alexander fathered are the same kids he had in real life, if with different personalities due to being raised in a different household, and are thus not fan-created.]]
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* TeenGenius: Angie Burr and Theodosia Burr once they grows out of being a ChildProdigy.
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* FanCreatedOffspring: The second-lifetime Burr kids, Philip, Angelica, Alexander, Aaron Jr, and Eliza’s children.John. [[spoiler:At least, the ones that Aaron biologically fathered. The ones Alexander fathered are the same kids he had in real life, if with different personalities due to being raised in a different household, and are thus not fan-created.]]
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* InSeriesNickname:
** Alexander Burr: Alex.
** Angelica Burr: Angie.
** Theodosia Alston Burr: Theo.
** Alexander Burr: Alex.
** Angelica Burr: Angie.
** Theodosia Alston Burr: Theo.
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* FamilyEyeResemblance: Both of Aaron's daughters have his eyes: Theodosia from his first lifetime and Angie from his second.
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** Angie Burr.
** Theodosia Burr, who Aaron thinks is smarter than he is before she turns 6.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: Both of Aaron's daughters, Theodosia and Angie, have his eyes.
* FanCreatedOffspring: Aaron and Eliza’s children. [[spoiler:At least, the ones that Aaron biologically fathered. The ones Alexander fathered are the same kids he had in real life, if with different personalities due to being raised in a different household, and are thus not fan-created.]]
** Angie Burr.
** Theodosia Burr, who Aaron thinks is smarter than he is before she turns 6.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: Both of Aaron's daughters, Theodosia and Angie, have his eyes.
* FanCreatedOffspring: Aaron and Eliza’s children. [[spoiler:At least, the ones that Aaron biologically fathered. The ones Alexander fathered are the same kids he had in real life, if with different personalities due to being raised in a different household, and are thus not fan-created.]]
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Theodosia in the first lifetime; in order from oldest to youngest, Philip, Angelica, Alexander, Aaron Jr, and John in the second lifetime.
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* {{Troll}}: Aaron in his third lifetime, especially to Thomas Jefferson.
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* SonOfAWhore: At least according to a pamphlet attacking him. His real-life mother was not a prostitute, though she was imprisoned for having sex out of wedlock which was done under the charge of “prostitution.” It’s ambiguous as to whether the fic followed real life on this matter or if it has Alexander as an actual son of a whore, but either way Alexander is very sensitive to insults attacking his mother for being a prostitute.
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* TheAtoner: Aaron is wracked with guilt over killing Alexander Hamilton. Once he gets his second lifetime, he resolves to keep him from dying a premature death to make up for it. He also tries to make up for the consequences Alexander’s death at his hands imposed on Alexander’s family.
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* BastardAngst: Alexander Hamilton, born out of wedlock, takes insults about his bastard status very personally.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Or, Burr Was A Time Traveling Seer. Real historical figure, definitely did not have the power to see the future or wake up in a new timeline as a baby after dying.
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* HatesBeingTouched: Downplayed, but Aaron actively avoids touch because skin-to-skin contact with a person he hasn't had skin-to-skin contact with yet in that lifetime forces him to [[Psychometry see how the person he is touching]] will [[PortentOfDoom die]]. [[note]]This resets across lifetimes: if he has skin-to-skin contact with someone he had skin-to-skin contact with in a previous lifetime, but hasn't yet touched them skin-to-skin in the current one, he will see their death. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will not produce any more death visions until the next lifetime.[[/note]] Also Played for Drama, since touching his daughter means he'll have to see how she dies. He sidesteps the problem by wearing gloves whenever he touches her, but it's not the same to him.
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* HatesBeingTouched: Downplayed, but Aaron actively avoids touch because skin-to-skin contact with a person he hasn't had skin-to-skin contact with yet in that lifetime forces him to [[Psychometry [[{{Psychometry}} see how the person he is touching]] will [[PortentOfDoom die]]. [[note]]This resets across lifetimes: if he has skin-to-skin contact with someone he had skin-to-skin contact with in a previous lifetime, but hasn't yet touched them skin-to-skin in the current one, he will see their death. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will not produce any more death visions until the next lifetime.[[/note]] Also Played for Drama, since touching his daughter means he'll have to see how she dies. He sidesteps the problem by wearing gloves whenever he touches her, but it's not the same to him.
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* Psychometry: {{Psychometry}}: Skin-to-skin contact with a person Aaron hasn't yet had skin-to-skin contact with [[PortentOfDoom forces him to see a vision of how that person dies]]. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will not produce any more death visions. This resets across lifetimes: if he has skin-to-skin contact with someone he had skin-to-skin contact with in a previous lifetime, but hasn't yet touched them skin-to-skin in the current lifetime, he will see their death. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will, again, not produce any more death visions until the next lifetime.
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The main character of the fanfiction.
!! Tropes:
* AdaptationalBadass: Aaron confesses to being a "terrible shot" in ''Hamilton''. In this fic, he's a great shot—just like he was in RealLife, so it's no HistoricalBadassUpgrade.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The ''Hamilton'' musical version of Aaron is implied to have no political beliefs, and leaves out any mention of his real-life anti-slavery or women's rights activity. The fic gives him his anti-slavery and women's rights beliefs back. They're not always strong enough to push him to take action, but the key word is always: sometimes he does act on them in the fic, especially if it's an action the real-life Burr took. Musical Aaron is also implied to want power for its own sake, while fic Aaron has been an influential public figure from a young age thanks to being a Seer and is more concerned with ''avoiding'' abusing the power he already has than with gaining more.
* {{Asexuality}}: This fic’s version of Aaron Burr is asexual. He never 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]].
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Aaron Burr feels this and TheChainsOfCommanding to the point he [[spoiler:tries to hide his Seer status in his third lifetime to avoid this problem]]. His Seer status makes him a public figure. Like most public figures, people usually want to make use of his influence (from being able to brag about treating a famous person to dinner, to gaining political support), only see him for what he’s famous for instead of the person he is, give him special treatment he doesn't want, and everything he does is scrutinized.
-->'''Aaron:''' My life hasn’t been my own since I was confirmed as a... confirmed at the age of four.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Aaron’s Seer status makes him an authority on the future, which, to him, dwarfs all the other positions of authority he has, which themselves would usually cause this trope. During both lifetimes in which he serves in the Revolutionary War, his authority on the future, which can include future military movements[[note]]He doesn't have any visions of how the war will go in his first life, but in his second life he has his first lifetime memories[[/note]], as the Seer makes military commanders ensure his safety when other soldiers are fighting and dying, giving him tons of SurvivorGuilt. His position of authority also means he exercises caution in voicing his personal beliefs, especially political beliefs, because his position gives him tons of influence: people will think he holds those beliefs because he foresaw their explicit confirmation and side with him instead of thinking it through themselves; and nobody can contradict what he says about the future with any level of authority because he is the only known Seer alive at this time.
* CharacterFilibuster: Aaron is a lawyer in all the timelines. The audience gets to see a trial of his, in which he delivers an uninterrupted, multiple-paragraph opening statement. This is likely a regular length to speak at for a courtroom, and only comes off as a filibuster in contrast to regular dialogue in the fic, which usually does not consist of multiple paragraphs from the same character going uninterrupted.
* ChildProdigy: His language skills are extremely advanced for a 2-year-old in his second lifetime, and on the third he's writing in a code he makes for himself before he turns 4.
%%* FaintingSeer: When Aaron has visions where many deaths occur, almost doubling over and throwing up, or doing it for real, is a common reaction of his. Is this actually common? I need to check, it definitely happens at least once, but not sure if it's common. Happens in chapter 1.
* HatesBeingTouched: Downplayed, but Aaron actively avoids touch because skin-to-skin contact with a person he hasn't had skin-to-skin contact with yet in that lifetime forces him to [[Psychometry see how the person he is touching]] will [[PortentOfDoom die]]. [[note]]This resets across lifetimes: if he has skin-to-skin contact with someone he had skin-to-skin contact with in a previous lifetime, but hasn't yet touched them skin-to-skin in the current one, he will see their death. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will not produce any more death visions until the next lifetime.[[/note]] Also Played for Drama, since touching his daughter means he'll have to see how she dies. He sidesteps the problem by wearing gloves whenever he touches her, but it's not the same to him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Aaron Burr is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution and is now a known historical figure.
* InSeriesNickname: Lafayette calls him “the American Seer” or “American Jeanne D’Arc.”
* MilitaryMage: Second-lifetime Aaron knows how the war in his first lifetime went, and uses that knowledge to help the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.
* PeggySue: When Aaron dies, he starts life again as a baby, remembering everything from his previous lifetime(s).
* PortentOfDoom: Aaron's power is to produce these whenever he touches someone skin-to-skin for the first time in that particular lifetime: he sees how they die.
* PowerIncontinence: Aaron cannot turn off his power to [[PortentOfDoom see how people die]] the first time he has [[Psychometry skin-to-skin contact with them]] in that lifetime.
* PreachersKid: In the fic, Aaron is primarily raised by his real-life grandfather Jonathan Edwards, a Protestant preacher and theologian known in real life for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Though Aaron himself isn't all that religious, his upbringing means he learns a great deal about religion, and his grandfather is the reason for his [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility ethics regarding his Seer status and duties]], especially that [[WillNotTellALie Seers shouldn't lie]].
* Psychometry: Skin-to-skin contact with a person Aaron hasn't yet had skin-to-skin contact with [[PortentOfDoom forces him to see a vision of how that person dies]]. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will not produce any more death visions. This resets across lifetimes: if he has skin-to-skin contact with someone he had skin-to-skin contact with in a previous lifetime, but hasn't yet touched them skin-to-skin in the current lifetime, he will see their death. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will, again, not produce any more death visions until the next lifetime.
* RaisedByGrandparents: In every loop, Aaron's parents are both dead when he is 2, leaving him in the care of his grandparents until they are both dead, which happens when Aaron is 8.
* 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.]]
* 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. %%[[spoiler:WordOfGod says it actually keeps happening forever, and likewise for all Seers, they just don’t usually carry over memories of past lifetimes.]]
* RetroactivePrecognition: Aaron's memories of previous lifetimes allow him to know how certain events will play out, provided he didn't change anything relevant to those events.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Aaron keeps all his memories from past time loops.
* RomanticAsexual: This fic’s Aaron Burr is asexual but experiences romantic attraction, according to WordOfGod in the comments [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/440771362 here]].
* RomanticWingman: Aaron introduces James Madison to his future wife Dolley Payne Todd after Madison spends months pining after her because he’s too shy to introduce himself to her.
* {{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.]]
* TeenGenius: Aaron Burr applied to Princeton at the age of 11, gets in at 13 as a sophomore, and graduates in two years in his first, second, and third lifetime, just like in real life. In the third lifetime, 13-year-old Aaron's essays are much better than they should be for someone his age, although that's at least partially thanks to living life several times over [[spoiler:and his perfect recall of past lifetimes]], letting him [[PlagiarismInFiction lift phrases from works (both his own and those of others)]] that have not come out yet in his current lifetime.
* WillNotTellALie: A huge part of the moral code Aaron's grandfather instilled in him. The first timeline sees him become laxer on regular lies, but he still refuses to lie about the future. [[spoiler:Seems to be loosening up on that, too, given he has a few predictions he [[AccidentalTruth intended to be fake]] released after his third death.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In every lifetime after the first one, Aaron starts as a baby again. Though sometimes his apparent age shows, since the human brain physically changes as you go from baby to adult, he still has knowledge and perspectives on life you wouldn’t expect a baby, child, or teen his age to have, and knows that he should hide this trait to avoid attracting even more unwanted attention than he already has as the Seer.
!!UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton
The protagonist of the [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}}]] musical this story is a fanfiction of, and a major character in this fanfiction.
* CharacterFilibuster: In the first lifetime, Alexander becomes a lawyer and speaks for hours on end in court, and talks for six hours at the Constitutional Convention. His tendency to write and speak at length probably makes him a poster boy for this trope, and it likely carries over to all the timelines. Though those two Character Filibusters are just mentioned, the audience gets to read one of his when the story covers a court case playing out, although that filibuster is likely a regular length for a courtroom instead of unnecessarily lengthy, and only comes off as a filibuster in contrast to regular dialogue in the fic, which is usually not multiple paragraphs from the same character going uninterrupted.
* CopeByCreating: Alexander deals with the grief of John Laurens' death in Aaron's first lifetime by [[{{Workaholic}} spending all his time working]], likely penning opening speeches and arguments since he's a lawyer.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Almost everything we saw from Alexander's point of view in the musical still happens in Aaron's first lifetime, even if it gets much less focus since this fanfiction follows Aaron Burr instead of Alexander.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Alexander Hamilton 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).
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: As in the musical, Alexander punches a bursar when seeking an accelerated course of study in every completed lifetime. The real Alexander Hamilton’s quest for accelerated study never involved bursar-punching.
* InSeriesNickname: “Alex,” occasionally. Once mentioned to get nicknamed “the little lion” but the reader never sees it used.
* WindbagPolitican: Very verbose, and very much a politician.
* {{Workaholic}}: In every timeline, with the addition that he throws himself into work to cope with John Laurens' death in the first timeline.
The main character of the fanfiction.
!! Tropes:
* AdaptationalBadass: Aaron confesses to being a "terrible shot" in ''Hamilton''. In this fic, he's a great shot—just like he was in RealLife, so it's no HistoricalBadassUpgrade.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The ''Hamilton'' musical version of Aaron is implied to have no political beliefs, and leaves out any mention of his real-life anti-slavery or women's rights activity. The fic gives him his anti-slavery and women's rights beliefs back. They're not always strong enough to push him to take action, but the key word is always: sometimes he does act on them in the fic, especially if it's an action the real-life Burr took. Musical Aaron is also implied to want power for its own sake, while fic Aaron has been an influential public figure from a young age thanks to being a Seer and is more concerned with ''avoiding'' abusing the power he already has than with gaining more.
* {{Asexuality}}: This fic’s version of Aaron Burr is asexual. He never 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]].
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Aaron Burr feels this and TheChainsOfCommanding to the point he [[spoiler:tries to hide his Seer status in his third lifetime to avoid this problem]]. His Seer status makes him a public figure. Like most public figures, people usually want to make use of his influence (from being able to brag about treating a famous person to dinner, to gaining political support), only see him for what he’s famous for instead of the person he is, give him special treatment he doesn't want, and everything he does is scrutinized.
-->'''Aaron:''' My life hasn’t been my own since I was confirmed as a... confirmed at the age of four.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Aaron’s Seer status makes him an authority on the future, which, to him, dwarfs all the other positions of authority he has, which themselves would usually cause this trope. During both lifetimes in which he serves in the Revolutionary War, his authority on the future, which can include future military movements[[note]]He doesn't have any visions of how the war will go in his first life, but in his second life he has his first lifetime memories[[/note]], as the Seer makes military commanders ensure his safety when other soldiers are fighting and dying, giving him tons of SurvivorGuilt. His position of authority also means he exercises caution in voicing his personal beliefs, especially political beliefs, because his position gives him tons of influence: people will think he holds those beliefs because he foresaw their explicit confirmation and side with him instead of thinking it through themselves; and nobody can contradict what he says about the future with any level of authority because he is the only known Seer alive at this time.
* CharacterFilibuster: Aaron is a lawyer in all the timelines. The audience gets to see a trial of his, in which he delivers an uninterrupted, multiple-paragraph opening statement. This is likely a regular length to speak at for a courtroom, and only comes off as a filibuster in contrast to regular dialogue in the fic, which usually does not consist of multiple paragraphs from the same character going uninterrupted.
* ChildProdigy: His language skills are extremely advanced for a 2-year-old in his second lifetime, and on the third he's writing in a code he makes for himself before he turns 4.
%%* FaintingSeer: When Aaron has visions where many deaths occur, almost doubling over and throwing up, or doing it for real, is a common reaction of his. Is this actually common? I need to check, it definitely happens at least once, but not sure if it's common. Happens in chapter 1.
* HatesBeingTouched: Downplayed, but Aaron actively avoids touch because skin-to-skin contact with a person he hasn't had skin-to-skin contact with yet in that lifetime forces him to [[Psychometry see how the person he is touching]] will [[PortentOfDoom die]]. [[note]]This resets across lifetimes: if he has skin-to-skin contact with someone he had skin-to-skin contact with in a previous lifetime, but hasn't yet touched them skin-to-skin in the current one, he will see their death. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will not produce any more death visions until the next lifetime.[[/note]] Also Played for Drama, since touching his daughter means he'll have to see how she dies. He sidesteps the problem by wearing gloves whenever he touches her, but it's not the same to him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Aaron Burr is a real human being who was alive at the time of the American Revolution and is now a known historical figure.
* InSeriesNickname: Lafayette calls him “the American Seer” or “American Jeanne D’Arc.”
* MilitaryMage: Second-lifetime Aaron knows how the war in his first lifetime went, and uses that knowledge to help the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.
* PeggySue: When Aaron dies, he starts life again as a baby, remembering everything from his previous lifetime(s).
* PortentOfDoom: Aaron's power is to produce these whenever he touches someone skin-to-skin for the first time in that particular lifetime: he sees how they die.
* PowerIncontinence: Aaron cannot turn off his power to [[PortentOfDoom see how people die]] the first time he has [[Psychometry skin-to-skin contact with them]] in that lifetime.
* PreachersKid: In the fic, Aaron is primarily raised by his real-life grandfather Jonathan Edwards, a Protestant preacher and theologian known in real life for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Though Aaron himself isn't all that religious, his upbringing means he learns a great deal about religion, and his grandfather is the reason for his [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility ethics regarding his Seer status and duties]], especially that [[WillNotTellALie Seers shouldn't lie]].
* Psychometry: Skin-to-skin contact with a person Aaron hasn't yet had skin-to-skin contact with [[PortentOfDoom forces him to see a vision of how that person dies]]. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will not produce any more death visions. This resets across lifetimes: if he has skin-to-skin contact with someone he had skin-to-skin contact with in a previous lifetime, but hasn't yet touched them skin-to-skin in the current lifetime, he will see their death. Further skin-to-skin contact with that person will, again, not produce any more death visions until the next lifetime.
* RaisedByGrandparents: In every loop, Aaron's parents are both dead when he is 2, leaving him in the care of his grandparents until they are both dead, which happens when Aaron is 8.
* 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.]]
* 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. %%[[spoiler:WordOfGod says it actually keeps happening forever, and likewise for all Seers, they just don’t usually carry over memories of past lifetimes.]]
* RetroactivePrecognition: Aaron's memories of previous lifetimes allow him to know how certain events will play out, provided he didn't change anything relevant to those events.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Aaron keeps all his memories from past time loops.
* RomanticAsexual: This fic’s Aaron Burr is asexual but experiences romantic attraction, according to WordOfGod in the comments [[https://archiveofourown.org/comments/440771362 here]].
* RomanticWingman: Aaron introduces James Madison to his future wife Dolley Payne Todd after Madison spends months pining after her because he’s too shy to introduce himself to her.
* {{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.]]
* TeenGenius: Aaron Burr applied to Princeton at the age of 11, gets in at 13 as a sophomore, and graduates in two years in his first, second, and third lifetime, just like in real life. In the third lifetime, 13-year-old Aaron's essays are much better than they should be for someone his age, although that's at least partially thanks to living life several times over [[spoiler:and his perfect recall of past lifetimes]], letting him [[PlagiarismInFiction lift phrases from works (both his own and those of others)]] that have not come out yet in his current lifetime.
* WillNotTellALie: A huge part of the moral code Aaron's grandfather instilled in him. The first timeline sees him become laxer on regular lies, but he still refuses to lie about the future. [[spoiler:Seems to be loosening up on that, too, given he has a few predictions he [[AccidentalTruth intended to be fake]] released after his third death.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In every lifetime after the first one, Aaron starts as a baby again. Though sometimes his apparent age shows, since the human brain physically changes as you go from baby to adult, he still has knowledge and perspectives on life you wouldn’t expect a baby, child, or teen his age to have, and knows that he should hide this trait to avoid attracting even more unwanted attention than he already has as the Seer.
!!UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton
The protagonist of the [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}}]] musical this story is a fanfiction of, and a major character in this fanfiction.
* CharacterFilibuster: In the first lifetime, Alexander becomes a lawyer and speaks for hours on end in court, and talks for six hours at the Constitutional Convention. His tendency to write and speak at length probably makes him a poster boy for this trope, and it likely carries over to all the timelines. Though those two Character Filibusters are just mentioned, the audience gets to read one of his when the story covers a court case playing out, although that filibuster is likely a regular length for a courtroom instead of unnecessarily lengthy, and only comes off as a filibuster in contrast to regular dialogue in the fic, which is usually not multiple paragraphs from the same character going uninterrupted.
* CopeByCreating: Alexander deals with the grief of John Laurens' death in Aaron's first lifetime by [[{{Workaholic}} spending all his time working]], likely penning opening speeches and arguments since he's a lawyer.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Almost everything we saw from Alexander's point of view in the musical still happens in Aaron's first lifetime, even if it gets much less focus since this fanfiction follows Aaron Burr instead of Alexander.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Like almost everyone else in this fanfiction, Alexander Hamilton 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).
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: As in the musical, Alexander punches a bursar when seeking an accelerated course of study in every completed lifetime. The real Alexander Hamilton’s quest for accelerated study never involved bursar-punching.
* InSeriesNickname: “Alex,” occasionally. Once mentioned to get nicknamed “the little lion” but the reader never sees it used.
* WindbagPolitican: Very verbose, and very much a politician.
* {{Workaholic}}: In every timeline, with the addition that he throws himself into work to cope with John Laurens' death in the first timeline.
