ΠΑΝΤΑ ΡΕΙ

Miki my beloved...You deserve the world.

pre-agot/agot theon, robb and jon

(The opera proper starts around 12:15)

PLOT SO FAR: (with possible errors from translating on the fly)

The sultan Dario has called princely suitors to the palace to find a husband for his wayward, adventurous, swaggering sister, Benamor. There's just one problem: Princess Benamor's secretly a man. No wait, actually there are two problems: Sultan Dario is also secretly a woman.

You see, due to convoluted inheritance laws in Ye Olde Orientalist Opera Persia, the law dictates that either an eldest daughter or a second son of the sultana must be put to death. So, many years ago, when the dowager sultana had an eldest daughter...and then a son after...well you can figure the rest out. The dowager sultana never told, anyone, including either of her children, so Dario has no idea she's trying to marry off her brother, not her sister.

(It's unclear to me at atm whether they know themselves that they were gender-swapped; it seems possible they never received any sex ed and both believe that they're cisgendered representatives of their apparent sex. Surely this will be clear to me in time.)

Benamor's suitors include a Fancy Lad, a Butch Military Dude, and a sexy Spaniard who claims to just be a messenger.

Sultan Dario is immediately into the Spanish dude, Juan de Leon, and is trying to get Princess Benamor to take an interest. Benamor is not interested. Benamor wants to practice sword fighting and sing songs for the pretty harem ladies who came to see Dario and ask why the sultan never visits them.

So obviously the only thing to do is for Dario to woo Juan de Leon herself. On her sister's behalf. Naturally.

(With my best attempts at translation; sorry for the inevitable errors)

Both: I'm going to be so happy!

Benamor: A man, a man! What a joy! A man, a man! What luck!

Benamor: What a delight! What madness! I'm a man!

Dario: A woman, a woman! What a joy! This longing I've dreamed of,

Benamor to Nitetis, with no preamble whatsoever:

(The opera proper starts around 12:15)

PLOT SO FAR: (with possible errors from translating on the fly)

The sultan Dario has called princely suitors to the palace to find a husband for his wayward, adventurous, swaggering sister, Benamor. There's just one problem: Princess Benamor's secretly a man. No wait, actually there are two problems: Sultan Dario is also secretly a woman.

You see, due to convoluted inheritance laws in Ye Olde Orientalist Opera Persia, the law dictates that either an eldest daughter or a second son of the sultana must be put to death. So, many years ago, when the dowager sultana had an eldest daughter...and then a son after...well you can figure the rest out. The dowager sultana never told, anyone, including either of her children, so Dario has no idea she's trying to marry off her brother, not her sister.

(It's unclear to me at atm whether they know themselves that they were gender-swapped; it seems possible they never received any sex ed and both believe that they're cisgendered representatives of their apparent sex. Surely this will be clear to me in time.)

Benamor's suitors include a Fancy Lad, a Butch Military Dude, and a sexy Spaniard who claims to just be a messenger.

Sultan Dario is immediately into the Spanish dude, Juan de Leon, and is trying to get Princess Benamor to take an interest. Benamor is not interested. Benamor wants to practice sword fighting and sing songs for the pretty harem ladies who came to see Dario and ask why the sultan never visits them.

So obviously the only thing to do is for Dario to woo Juan de Leon herself. On her sister's behalf. Naturally.

(With my best attempts at translation; sorry for the inevitable errors)

Both: I'm going to be so happy!

Benamor: A man, a man! What a joy! A man, a man! What luck!

Benamor: What a delight! What madness! I'm a man!

Dario: A woman, a woman! What a joy! This longing I've dreamed of,

(The opera proper starts around 12:15)

PLOT SO FAR: (with possible errors from translating on the fly)

The sultan Dario has called princely suitors to the palace to find a husband for his wayward, adventurous, swaggering sister, Benamor. There's just one problem: Princess Benamor's secretly a man. No wait, actually there are two problems: Sultan Dario is also secretly a woman.

You see, due to convoluted inheritance laws in Ye Olde Orientalist Opera Persia, the law dictates that either an eldest daughter or a second son of the sultana must be put to death. So, many years ago, when the dowager sultana had an eldest daughter...and then a son after...well you can figure the rest out. The dowager sultana never told, anyone, including either of her children, so Dario has no idea she's trying to marry off her brother, not her sister.

(It's unclear to me at atm whether they know themselves that they were gender-swapped; it seems possible they never received any sex ed and both believe that they're cisgendered representatives of their apparent sex. Surely this will be clear to me in time.)

Benamor's suitors include a Fancy Lad, a Butch Military Dude, and a sexy Spaniard who claims to just be a messenger.

Sultan Dario is immediately into the Spanish dude, Juan de Leon, and is trying to get Princess Benamor to take an interest. Benamor is not interested. Benamor wants to practice sword fighting and sing songs for the pretty harem ladies who came to see Dario and ask why the sultan never visits them.

So obviously the only thing to do is for Dario to woo Juan de Leon herself. On her sister's behalf. Naturally.

(The opera proper starts around 12:15)

PLOT SO FAR: (with possible errors from translating on the fly)

The sultan Dario has called princely suitors to the palace to find a husband for his wayward, adventurous, swaggering sister, Benamor. There's just one problem: Princess Benamor's secretly a man. No wait, actually there are two problems: Sultan Dario is also secretly a woman.

You see, due to convoluted inheritance laws in Ye Olde Orientalist Opera Persia, the law dictates that either an eldest daughter or a second son of the sultana must be put to death. So, many years ago, when the dowager sultana had an eldest daughter...and then a son after...well you can figure the rest out. The dowager sultana never told, anyone, including either of her children, so Dario has no idea she's trying to marry off her brother, not her sister.

(It's unclear to me at atm whether they know themselves that they were gender-swapped; it seems possible they never received any sex ed and both believe that they're cisgendered representatives of their apparent sex. Surely this will be clear to me in time.)

Benamor's suitors include a Fancy Lad, a Butch Military Dude, and a sexy Spaniard who claims to just be a messenger.

Sultan Dario is immediately into the Spanish dude, Juan de Leon, and is trying to get Princess Benamor to take an interest. Benamor is not interested. Benamor wants to practice sword fighting and sing songs for the pretty harem ladies who came to see Dario and ask why the sultan never visits them.

So obviously the only thing to do is for Dario to woo Juan de Leon herself. On her sister's behalf. Naturally.