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"Can't wait to see krypto again 😍"

do they know chat

they know, even through layers and layers of delusion, that these characters they love wouldn't like them

one of the best recent stories is called superman smashes the klan

most of the work that comes out of there is tradicomedy, like most of it is a very silly comedic show under a pretence of sadness - with sibling dinner being 3 very weird and cooky brothers have to meet up so they can stay in the will. got lots of highlights in there personally but the main one is Jan's Frame Scene

the idea was that after the introduction each "act" is interrupted by a "Papa Brain Scene" - a duolouge between one sibling (who is holding an ornate picture frame) and who THEY perceive their father to be; the goal to give the audience an entertaining, silly entertaining entry point into the characters mind, to break up the long ensemble scenes with something weirder and to recontexulise that characters behavior. (For context, Brett sees his father as an evil, pathetic old man & Demitri sees his father as an overbearing Military officer.)

specifically for my character Jan, the youngest and the favourite, his Papa Brain Scene is a sitcom, with his father being very sweet and caring, with him constantly reminding a young impressionable Jan that "he is the most important thing in the world, more important than wives or taxes" - the way Papa (or SITCOM DAD in the script) acts is so contradictory to the way the rest of the show displays him, to the point where even the audience knows that Jan creates his own history and believes it's true.

the crux of this scene showing Jan and his weird Brain father sharing a kiss as a thank you for a christmas present; both a moment to jolt the audience & shock them, and to show how unstable and ultimately, wrong Jan's perception of the world is compared to his siblings. Even compassion and care, in Jan's eyes, is transactional.

It's a moment that has played super well on stage; a moment where the audience sees that Jan is the most unstable of the three & once Jan crumbles at the end of the show, gives context to who Jan really sees himself as: a loner with a fake life.