Mille Plagas, Mille Mortes Adducite Vos is a Fanfiction of Verdi's opera Il trovatore by Thomas Of Tolloller. It can be read here
on Archive of Our Own.
This story contains examples of:
- Adminisphere: Downplayed. Ferrando's office is an old loosebox and he and Di Luna are quite involved with the actual day-to-day running of the army.
- Anachronism Stew: Very much downplayed. Di Luna has had an abdominal hysterectomy, a technique that wouldn't be invented until the early 19th century. However, hysterectomies did exist as far back as 50BC, so this isn't too blatant.
- Artistic License – History: A few examples.
- As mentioned above, Di Luna having had an abdominal hysterectomy, but more generally the attitude of (most of) the other characters towards his transition isn't too historically accurate.
- Ferrando being a menial but still able to read and write.
- Based on a True Story: Ferdinand of Aragon really did exist, and Frederick Di Luna really was his cousin, and a contender for the throne of Sicily.
- Big Fancy Castle: Aljafería is this both in-universe and in real life.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Di Luna's, on all sides.
- During the War: Specifically the Castilian-Aragonese War.
- Historical Domain Character: Most of them are, excepting Ferrando, Ines, Azucena, Ruiz, and Leonora.
- Ferdinand is Ferdinand the Honest of Aragon.
- Eleanor is Ferdinand's wife Eleanor of Alburquerque.
- Di Luna is Frederic, Count of Luna.
- Manrico is Violante of Aragon, Countess of Niebla, but Transgender in keeping with Manrico's gender in the opera.
- Ferdinand is Ferdinand the Honest of Aragon
- Improbable Infant Survival: Played straight with Manrico, but unfortunately averted with Azucena's real son.
- Kissing Cousins: Averted. Di Luna and Leonora aren't related, and neither are Di Luna and Ferrando.
- Locked in the Dungeon: Di Luna threatens Manrico with this.
- Lighter and Softer: Than the original opera.
- Non-Heteronormative Society: Extremely downplayed. Di Luna's gender appears not to be a problem and Ferrando occasionally references the men in the army sometimes turning to one another.
- Non Violent Initial Confrontation: The first encounter between Manrico and Di Luna. Unfortunately, it goes downhill very fast.
- The Marvelous Deer: Di Luna has constructed an (ahistorical) deer park on the grounds of Aljafería.
- The Middle Ages: Specifically The Late Middle Ages. It's set in the early 1400s.
- One-Steve Limit: Subverted. Leonora and Eleanor technically have the same name, albeit in different dialects, and Ferrando and Ferdinand are also technically the same name.
- Shown Their Work: For the most part historicism is either because the timeline of the opera simply isn't possible to match up with real life (such as Di Luna's age — Verdi says that Trovatore is set in 1409 when Di Luna was born in either 1400 or 1401) or for convenience.
- Although some things, such as Di Luna's deer park, are just for Rule of Cool.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Di Luna and Ferdinand's conversation about John II of Castille and Álvaro de Luna, which really only exists to set up the actual historical attitudes towards homosexuality.
- Standard Royal Court
- Succession Crisis: Di Luna's father had no legitimate children, only him and Manrico, meaning that the Kingdom of Sicily, which Di Luna thinks is rightfully his, went to one of Di Luna's cousins.
- Situational Sexuality: Ferrando's theory about some other soldiers he's encountered, and "encountered".
