#lizardrosen

I’m soooo glad no one gives me shit for my 100% dislike for Gohda. Nasty, nasty man. I have no idea what Ryukishi07 was cooking when creating this character because he seems to be the character with the most shallow personality and no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Also spoilers for my latest liveblog adventures since you haven’t gotten that far yet, but George is in the doghouse at the moment (I got to the Maria’s garden scene and his actions there). I have zero hopes of him getting any better 😔😔

of course!!! not sure how much more i can offer about edgar and edmund because i wrote up most of those thoughts in these posts which i know you’ve seen dfkhdsfjdsbfs but i just think it maps so well onto the two of their stories. edmund being so so sure of himself and who he is but trapped in a society that makes him an outcast for reasons he can’t control. edgar being the “legitimate son” but having no idea who he really is... it’s trans free real estate it just IS (plus the idea of both of them figuring it out because of each other. edmund wanting to be more like edgar and then edgar wondering if he, perhaps, is like edmund in this way... your fic lives rent free in my head. these two destroy me)

i also think trans edmund (or honestly... any lgbt edmund. shoutout to my dear friend @lesbianedmund for writing - guess what - lesbian edmund fic. lives in my brain) makes it more poignant if goneril and regan are lgbt too!! like!! if the lear sisters are sapphic, if edmund can connect to them on that point of being othered in this society, about fighting tooth and nail in a world that will never accept you, because even if they’re princesses and he’s a bastard what the three of them really are is unloved -- i think it adds to that sense of it being Them Against The World. like, no wonder goneril’s willing to kill her husband over the first person who’s ever made her feel this understood, you know?

(god, this play makes me insane.)

edgar in my Vision TM is always amab, raised gloucester’s Proper Son, but like. he’s nonbinary. he is nonbinary he just IS. edgar i nothing am. edgar leaning into the shedding of all of his identities, “maleness” among them, and becoming someone who is maybe still gloucester’s child but definitely not his legitimate son anymore. and i also think the fool is nonbinary!! because it goes with the whole thing about no one else being able to make sense of them, and the way they straddle various identities without really being a knight or a royal or a servant entirely. and like... we talk about the way the fool and edgar connect out on the heath in terms of madness, feigned or real, and so the idea of them having a moment of connection about gender as well would just be so. it would be so. ;-; (every shakespearean fool is trans prove me wrong. you can’t. feste. touchstone. lear’s fool. all trans)

AND YES my cordelia is trans as well!! not just in my retelling but in the version of king lear that lives in my head. consider: um if cordelia isn’t trans why did lear describe her voice as “soft, gentle, and low” (yes i know low can mean quiet. i know. shh)

ANYWAY this is just me once again pointing the transgenderification beam at every character i like, but i think it really fits in terms of how it could affect

1. her family relationships -- how long did lear raise her thinking he was raising a son? is that part of why he’s so used to depending on her, and why he had the highest hopes for her? did goneril and regan grow up thinking cordelia was separate from them for that reason, because she was a “brother” and a “son” and not One Of Them? is that part of why she seems excluded from their solidarity? (i’m really obsessed with the idea of a lear who got way too attached to his “son”/heir and then once she came out just... didn’t stop favoring her. maybe goneril and regan THOUGHT that now she was their sister it would be different. but it wasn’t! and so they have to wonder if maybe it’s not her gender but just something about her that makes her inherently more lovable than them...)

2. her character, because cordelia’s Main Thing is that she stands up for what she believes and says what she thinks, no matter what she’s Supposed to do. & that transfers (no pun intended) really well into the same kind of self-determination that makes Edmund Trans so powerful imo: it’s the act of standing up and saying, “actually, no matter what you said i was, i’ve made myself into something that is different, and i won’t back down.” (plus... maybe lear handled her coming out all right, and maybe she thought this meant he clearly wouldn’t be mad if she kept telling him the unexpected. and he wasn’t until he was.)

3. the way she and edmund are foils; re: that note of societal resistance and sticking closely to their beliefs despite what the rest of the world says, NOW plus the added point of the two of them transitioning in different directions, and acting, in a way, as mirrors of each other. and that can make it even clearer that edmund, in a lot of ways, is the anticordelia -- unloved and unaccepted, making his way in the world through lies, where she’s beloved until she damns herself with truth. AND of course it can add another note of tension if edmund’s still an outcast and cordelia isn’t. (in my retelling, both the cordelia character and the edmund character are out, but her family accepts her where his father doesn’t, so it’s. messy. very “well of course the golden girl can do what she wants but somehow i’m still a mistake”)

HAH okay fun!  I’m assuming you mean D&D classes specifically?  Note that I’m working more off the spirit and rough general proficiency  for all the classes here, rather than looking for exact feats and stats (if anyone tries to bring Math into this I will pretend I did not see it) and going from Les Mis canon setting and info– in a high-fantasy D&Desque setting I think there’d be some tweaking, but this is what we’ve got here! (and I fully expect and invite Debate, especially from people who play a lot of D&D):

3. Do you prefer canonverse or AUs?

Hmm, it kind of depends on the fandom! For writing, at least, I tend toward AUs with works like Danganronpa... but for Pathologic I’ve written only two AUs...neither of them published, haha.

5. What’s a crackship you love?

We seem to have gotten away from the actual definition of crackship and started calling any rarepair a crackship... I don’t think that I have any true crackships, tbh. I think the last one I had wasn’t even romantic, it was just wanting Sans from Undertale to be friends with Wilson from Don’t Starve.

This was like, five years ago. Don’t even ask.

17. Describe a fic that is still in the ‘ideas’ stage.

Simon & Isidor as mischievous old men who want to remake the town into something better, so Isidor sends for his son to come home and Simon sends for Daniil (who in this AU, is like, a second cousin or something) because they’re trying to set them up. Daniil & Artemy are not amused and go through all sorts of fic tropes trying to fight what Simon & Isidor have decided is fate, but they fall in love anyway.

Canon divergent AU where Fantine decides to pull a heist on Tholomyes to get some deeply deserved child support money. The Tholomyes family fancy themselves patrons of the arts, despite having frankly no idea what An Art even is, so Fantine plans to infiltrate the circle of annoying dandy-esque poets writing insipidly bland poetry that Madame Tholomyes pretends to like. She comes up with a fake identity and disguises herself as a dude, because it’s an all male group and also more cover from her real identity.

Meanwhile, a young Bahorel has also “infiltrated” this group. By which I mean someone saw his slightly long hair (he was trying to grow it out), assumed he was meant to be there, and he stayed for the free finger sandwiches and future parody material.

36. death on two legs - queen