#hamlore

//The Hamlet you all interact with is the Hamlet(?) on the diagram

//Hmmm... childhood comfort objects? Mhm. One is a llama plushy named "Mop." (There's a funny story behind this. In the Altbus RP chat, I accidently typed "Swinging his llama back and forth" instead of "swinging his legs back and forth" and thus Mop was born! I honestly do not remember why it's named Mop.) Hamlet has many, many plushies, but Mop is his favorite. The Mop he has in Limbus is a replica though- it's from his room on the bus. Essentially, his mental state has manifested Mop in his room. The real Mop... I fear what Claudius might've done to it after Hamlet was dragged to M Corp's Backstreets.

//It's a little bit hard to determine what is from Hamlet's childhood and what's from his adulthood because they sorta blend together. Hmm... do sugary snacks count as a comfort object? He's always carrying around those.

//What does Hamlet want written on his gravestone?/What does he want to be remembered for?

My adorable son will be remembered for having been the most loyal and obedient child in the City.

...I don't want to die. I don't even want to think about it...

Friend.

//What's something Hamlet would burn down the world to protect?

Hamlets wishes.

My bestest friends.

//Hamlet Sr. was someone who constantly wore a gentle smile except for when he considered a mild frown necessary- to the point that Claudius often accused him of lacking emotion entirely.

//Wound he'll never fully recover from? Hmm...

//It's kinda funny, but it's not his dad's death- it's his trauma growing up, I think. It's a lot of little things and big things all adding up. His mother never understood his interests because she was too deluded to see her son grow into an individual and his father would act interested, but it wouldn't be genuine. And it really kind of stung to never be able to tell his mom his age on his birthday's because she'd have a meltdown before doubling down on her delusions.

//I'm not entirely certain what an "I've killed for less" trigger is, but something that will cause him to kill someone at the drop of a hat is if he decides someone is a "murderer". If someone nonchalantly mentions killing someone else to get ahead in life, their head's gonna roll.

//TW: Domestic Abuse and Exploitation but I’m pretty sure I kept it PG-13 enough it shouldn’t be triggering.

- Hamlet’s the heir of a private Syndicate called “Quicksilver” Hamlet’s father was the head of the Syndicate

- Hamlet’s mother was formerly a Feather. Hamlet’s father “rescued” her in the Backstreets from some rats who planned to gut her and then he coerced her into marrying him by threatening her. Hamlet does not know this.

- Hamlet’s mother was extremely depressed (golly I wonder why) until Hamlet’s birth, at which point she raised him like he was a Nest child. But due to having to live a life that was horrifying to her outside of caring for this little child caused her to become deluded as Hamlet grew older, still believing him to be a little kid because accepting the fact he was a Syndicate member with blood on his hands since the age of like, twelve (Pops was big on getting his kiddo’s career started early) was too much for her to emotionally bear.

- When Hamlet tried telling his dad that he thought something was wrong with his mother, Hamlet’s dad told his son to keep going along with what his mother wanted because it was the only thing that made her happy.

- Even though Hamlet often got tired of having to do tea parties with his mother and having to play dolls with her, he abandoned the notion of ever being treated his age by his mother because if what his dad said was true, (and of course Hamlet believed what his father said HAD to be true) then this was the only way his mother could be happy.

- Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle) was NOT happy with how his brother’s son was being raised and also unhappy with how Hamlet’s mother (Gertrude) was being treated by his brother. (In fact Claudius finds the circumstances of Gertrude’s engagement and subsequent marriage disgusting because despite being evil, he has standards for “Bro. Don’t treat women like that you absolute scumbag”). Hamlet was annoying to Claudius because he could easily kill invaders on Quicksilver’s territory and was good at that, but for some reason had qualms with dismembering people for “protection”money. Claudius thought Hamlet’s entire family was broken and needed fixing. The death of Hamlet’s father gave Claudius a chance to step in and run the family HIS way.

- Claudius did NOT kill Hamlet’s dad (Hamlet Sr. ) no matter what Hamlet thinks. Hamlet Sr. died in accident saving Hamlet’s life while exploring an abandoned L-Corp Branch with Hamlet and the other members of Quicksilver. Hamlet doesn’t remember this and nobody else knows how his father died either.

- The last thing Hamlet Sr. gave his son was the L-Corp Branch’s golden bough, so Hamlet clung onto that thing 24/7 after his father’s death.

- Hamlet was debilitatingly depressed after his father’s death, refusing to wear anything but funeral clothes and was unable to enjoy anything he previously liked. His depression was made far worse by his mother, whom he was extremely close to, remarrying with his Uncle Claudius.

- Hamlet was like this for two entire months with no end of his depressive episode in sight. Eventually, Claudius gets fed up and ropes Gertrude into talking to Hamlet along with him and they scold Hamlet for being “childish”.

- Hamlet’s “wishes” (see chart in #hamlore ) resonate with his golden bough, causing a “ghost” that looks exactly like Hamlet’s father to appear in front of some of the other Quicksilver members while they’re on patrol.

- The other members get the brilliant idea to try to get Hamlet to talk to the ghost. They end up losing both Hamlet and the ghost in a rainstorm and Hamlet comes back acting just like a little kid.

- Hamlet keeps the fact he let the ghost inside him a secret and also doesn’t tell anyone the ghost told him to kill Claudius for murdering Hamlet Sr. (Again, Claudius had nothing to do with Hamlet Sr.’s death. The golden bough wish-granting shenanigans were giving Hamlet someone to blame due to him wanting desperately to have something to pin his father’s death on for closure).

- Hamlet does a bunch of stuff that’s not really that relevant but it happens in the play yadda yadda. He spends a significant amount of time acting out plays in playbooks using stuffed animals in his room. He tries to get his mother to play with him but she refuses, as Claudius has told her the only way Hamlet can truly be happy again is if she sucks it up and treats Hamlet his age.

- Hamlet doesn’t understand and interprets his mother’s refusal to play as a betrayal. He plays with his lover, Ophelia instead until she gets sick of it and leaves him.

- Tension mounts over the course of things that happen similarly to the original play until it all comes to a head when Hamlet confronts his mother in her room for what he believes is betrayal of his father and himself.

- Gertrude is genuinely scared Hamlet is going to kill her at this point but attempts to explain that she remarried so no other Quicksilver members would persue her and that she started treating Hamlet differently because Claudius told her it would help Hamlet get better.

- Hamlet is completely consumed by delusions at this point and starts demanding his mother tells him “what Claudius did to her.” And demands to know if he hurt her. (Claudius never harmed her in any intentional way btw, and definitely NOT physically. He married her purely because he wanted to fix his brother’s mess and he even sleeps in a separate bed because the marriage literally only functioned as part of his “clean up after my disgusting brother” plan. Claudius is in no way a “good guy” character but he’s an “even evil has standards” type of guy.

- Hamlet gets more and more worked up and unstable the longer he speaks with his mother, and starts screaming at her. Eventually she becomes terrified that Hamlet could become violent and screams, “Don’t hurt me!!!”

- And that’s when Hamlet notices there’s someone behind the bedroom curtain who’s been listening in to the entire conversation. And Hamlet’s mind is twisted to the point that he thinks his mother’s cry was directed at the figure and not him.

- Hamlet pierces the person’s heart through the curtain with his weapon, believing that the hidden person MUST be Claudius and so Hamlet just starts madly slashing and stabbing the corpse even after it’s definitely dead. Then Hamlet realizes it’s not Claudius at all, but Ophelia’s father, who was supposed to step in and stop Hamlet if he became violent towards his own mother.

- The “ghost” quickly steps in and absolutely convinces Hamlet that he killed a rat behind the curtain, not Ophelia’s father. Hamlet genuinely doesn’t know how the human corpse got there and starts freaking out.

- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, childhood friends of Hamlet’s, step in and restrain Hamlet, taking him on a long trip to M-Corp so they can hopefully find a cure for whatever is plaguing Hamlet’s mind.

- They get jumped by (Insert special interest group here) and only Hamlet gets away, still in possession of his golden bough.

- Hamlet just so happens to run into Limbus’s recruiters immediately after escaping, and gives them the golden bough because “Daddy says you can keep it safe).

[Without sheep, one can only dream of rams]

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