#something rotten!

😨i mean LOGICALLY they'd be musicians from the renaissance era but i assume you do mean modern

nick - ok. you gotta hear me out here. he's a musician. he's good with music. he doesn't do great lyrics, but he can appreciate them. he'd probably listen to stuff that does well with their instruments and such. and he's also kinda angry allll the time. i think he'd listen to metal

nigel - fuck it. mitski

will - probably himself

bea - lady gaga because she's woke like that

portia - conan girlie

shylock - asked our shylock:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

nick is musically talented

nigel is autistic

nigel is anxious

therefore when they were kids living alone and nigel was fretting about food and shelter and money while nick had to go out and make it, he'd soothe them both to sleep with SONGS

he's not great with lyrics though. just plays his lute + maybe hums

they're both kinda daydreamers

they also both need a hug i think

nick being young in the troupe would force him to play the female roles

something rotten is written by them..

nick's probably also very disordered

you're not dad, nick, and you're not mom neither! so stop trying to be!

i imagine their mother was growing distant and they were surviving as though she wasn't there a while before she died so it wasn't hard to ease into the lifestyle despite how difficult it was otherwise SORRY

nick was in the troupe as a kid and not nigel because nigel can't act. he's just sooo true to himself that he can't even pretend to be anyone else

nigel fidgets

nick can't cook but nigel can and that's what he did staying home (other than worrying himself to death) while nick was out

HAJBSNGFJ i love you btw

to be FAIR i don't think modern totally works with the plot what with major points having to do with the fact it's set in the renaissance (shakespeare, sexism, puritans, musicals, etcetc)

but like. ye.yea i can. i can stir something up for u ssure thing

i'm completely in love with the idea of will being a tiktok celebrity shoutout to that one fic

and like, by that logic, nick on it as well, but far less well-known and making callout posts that get maybe 200 views

will's clever disguise as toby belch could be a secret account that glazes nick in the comments of his stuff

or they're competing filmmakers

OR. hear me out. songwriters

nick nigel bea with a tiny apartment who dream of the same cottage in the woods as canon

both nick and will unfortunately use ai. i think will would keep it behind closed doors because he knows the internet would attack him for it; nick on the other hand. nostradamus is chatgpt

i think portia and nigel might lowkey be tumblr mutuals

portia who gets her phone taken away and nigel who's always worried sick about her

they're on shakespeare tumblr LOOKS AROUND VIOLENTLY

nigel writes and posts script ideas that nick's rejected, or his own little stories, or like??? comic strips/storyboards hear me out?? and portia found him through that 💞

bea. bea bea bea you do drag for fun and your husband hates it

wants to go out and do shows and get paid for it AND SHE COULD but nick won't let her he doesn't want her name with his like that