History Recap / ItFeelsMoreLikeAMemoryChapter20TheConstitutionalConventionIII

* AlmostKiss: Between Alexander and Aaron, before Aaron cuts them off because of Eliza, just like before.

* MeaningfulEcho: Not completely the same, but two chunks of text in chapter 3 are very similar to chunks in this chapter that is quoted below. And in both chapters, the section the first similar chunk is in is immediately followed by the section the second similar chunk is in! Text different from the chapter 3 section is bolded, and the nature of the changes are elaborated upon with notes.

* AlmostKiss: Between Alexander and Aaron again.

''Aaron’s'' Constitution is ratified.[[note]]"Aaron's" is "His precious" in chapter 3, since Alexander is the one who had a hand in writing the Constitution, and Aaron happens to disapprove of some contents of that Constitution, specifically the Three-Fifths Clause.[[/note]]\\
''And Alexander'' keeps writing like he’s running out of time.[[note]]"And Alexander" is "He" in chapter 3, since they didn't have to switch from "Aaron" to "Alexander," they were already talking about Alexander and could just use "He"[[/note]]

* MeaningfulEcho: Not completely the same, but a section of text in chapter 3 is very similar to a section in this chapter that is quoted below. Text different from the chapter 3 section is bolded, and the nature of the changes are elaborated upon with notes.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Following the convention of naming every chapter title after a ''Hamilton'' lyric, this chapter takes its title from the lyrics “Hamilton at the Constitutional Convention" and/or "I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention!" from "Non-Stop."

* MeaningfulEcho: Not completely the same, but a section of text here is very similar to one in chapter 3. Text different from the chapter 3 section is bolded, and the nature of the changes are elaborated upon with notes.

* MeaningfulEcho: Not completely the same, but a section of text here is very similar to one in chapter 3. The changed lines are marked with notes.

Then Alexander laughs. “I guess I really did get it right. You’re like poetry.”[[note]]He initially said "You're like poetry" in chapter 3. Aaron told Alexander he said that, so now he gets to reference having already said that to Aaron.[[/note]] \\
Aaron’s breath catches in his chest because how is this happening, how is this happening all over again, just like before, he can barely tell if it’s real or if it’s a memory or a vision or even a dream, maybe he’ll wake up on the couch sometime tomorrow because he was too tired to even climb the stairs, that seems more likely than all of this happening again.[[note]]Extremely similar phrasing, but in chapter 3 this paragraph was slightly shorter, with Aaron wondering "how did they flip from being at each other’s throats to…being at each other’s throats so quickly?" instead of reflecting on how this is similar to before, since that was his first lifetime with no previous memories and this is his second[[/note]]\\

“Beautiful. Indecipherable. Frustrating and impossible to understand sometimes, but the world wouldn’t be the same without you. My world wouldn’t be the same without you.”[[note]]Adds "Frustrating and impossible to understand sometimes, but," the rest is a perfect dupe of chapter 3. Probably because Alexander has had many more frustrating interactions with Aaron in this lifetime when he says this than he did in chapter 3[[/note]]\\

Alexander leans forward and Aaron closes his eyes.[[note]]"Aaron closes his eyes" is "Aaron's eyes flutter closed" in chapter 3. It seems this one is just a matter of different phrasing with no meaningful difference[[/note]]\\

“Alexander, we can’t,” Aaron says, his voice thick. “Eliza.”[[note]]This line keeps the same formatting and purpose as it did in chapter 3, but the exact words are different because Aaron is not kicking Alexander out of his house at a late hour and now Aaron is the one married to Eliza.[[/note]]\\
Alexander steps back, but his hand still cradles Aaron’s face. “What if I told you that—“[[note]]"Alexander steps back." is exactly the same, but the rest of the line diverges. Alexander accepted Aaron's ending the encounter in chapter 3, because of his wife and children. In this lifetime, Alexander does not have a wife and children he needs to be devoted to[[spoiler:, and he's in love with Aaron. The author offers the possible interpretation in the author's notes of chapter 23 that Alexander is trying to confess to Aaron he's been sleeping with Eliza and wants them all to be together, which could be why he persists instead of backing down after Aaron mentions his wife.]][[/note]]

Then Alexander laughs. “I guess I really did get it right. You’re like poetry.”[[note]]He initially said "You're like poetry" in chapter 3. Aaron told Alexander he said that, so now he gets to reference having already said that to Aaron.[[/note]]\\

* FalseReassurance: Washington suspects Aaron of leaking Conventional proceedings to the public by some means including a letter he wrote to Alexander Hamilton. That’s true. Aaron reassures him of his innocence by telling the truth that he didn't know how his letter was leaked, and didn't know until the morning of the accusation that anything had been published let alone what had been published. He came up with the idea to leak it and wrote the letter, but wasn’t involved with the publication at all.

* FalseReassurance: Washington suspects Aaron of leaking Conventional proceedings to the public by some means including a letter he wrote to Alexander Hamilton. Aaron says he didn't know how his letter was leaked, and didn't know until the morning of the accusation that anything had been published let alone what had been published. This is all true, although he did participate in a plot to leak Conventional proceedings to the public. He just stayed uninvolved with everything beyond agreeing to the plan and writing the letter, including things like figuring out what time the letter was to be taken and published and how it would happen.

* AllLowercaseLetters: Like every other chapter title of this fic, this chapter's title is in all lowercase letters.