Reasons Why Hamlet Is Going On Zukos Kinlist:

reasons why Hamlet is going on Zuko’s kinlist:

He’s a sweet and sensitive boy with a passion for the theatre whose life was ruined by the politics of being his nation’s royalty and crown prince. He’s losing himself in the self-destructive and tunnel-visioned pursuit of a goal given to him by his father, whom he holds in a higher regard than he probably should. He doesn’t know how to handle the sudden emotional unavailability of his mother, but deep down he still loves her and is a bit of a mama’s boy if anything. It’s also a miracle he stays alive for as long as he does, what with the constant attempts on his life and whatnot. He’s in constant emotional turmoil and so many of his actions can be read as a cry for help, as his inner sense of morality conflicts with his sense of duty and he spends a lot of his time in two halves, stuck on how to deal with it all. He’s supposed to be the heir of the throne, but his throne was usurped by a second youngest sibling while he was still alive, who he then goes on to defeat during a final climatic fight involving his choice weapon of proficiency, but taking a fatal blow in the process. He’s also very good with swords.

reasons why Hamlet is going on Azula’s kinlist:

Both of them are volatile and dangerous, being willing to kill multiple people directly in an attempt to please their father going so far as to suffering a full psychotic break that ends up destroying them. They both see apparitions of their parents that no one else can, they yell at their mothers and are torn apart at their betrayals, they become increasingly paranoid that everyone and anyone close to them is out to get them. Their closest friends betray them and sell them out, and so both arrange to have them dealt with. Both are cruel to those who are supposed to be their friends, sometimes unintentionally and sometimes purposefully. Both are largely broken people who are a result of the incredibly toxic environment/system they grew up in, whose ability to escape the situation they’re put in and become better people are topics largely debating by their respective fandoms.

reasons why Hamlet is going on both of theirs:

Their story largely begins when the current ruler of their nation is fatally poisoned in order to pass the crown and throne down from the eldest sibling in line to the second eldest, a generation above their own. Royalty, daddy issues, mommy issues, all have trouble with spirits. My Chemical Romance could’ve saved them.

rip fire hazard siblings you would have both either loved and resonated with Hamlet or found the play uncomfortably familiar and not been able to read through it a second time but either way you both would’ve been putting Hamlet on the kinlist for different but valid reasons

personal reminder to listen to this tomorrow

made a playlist that's just songs that mention anything related to hamlet...i probably missed a LOT so please let me know what i've missed. i've lost my mind

hamlet: overthinking and doing nothing hasn’t been working for me. what can i do instead

hamlet: not thinking whatsoever and simply acting. surely this will yield results

polonius, muffled from behind an arras: now hang on a moment. this would be a really bad time to suddenly and violently change tactics. perhaps a middle ground between the two where you think out your actions but don’t let the fear of taking the wrong ones paralyse you entirely would serve you better than extreme action/inaction one way or the other?

hamlet, startled:

how now, a rat? dead for a ducat, dead

hello me and my friend need a third opinion to settle a debate between us and I saw quite a lot of hamratio tags in your blog

in your opinion, what would be the exact reason horatio fell/might’ve fallen for hamlet? traits, etc.

hello!!

his big, beautiful eyes...

no, but in all seriousness, this is a wonderful question! i love speculating on what hamlet was like before the death of his father and thankfully the text gives us a few clues as to this saying he was loved by all.

so, when i think of horatio falling for hamlet i like to think that the first thing he saw in him was his kindness and gentleness even. i imagine he treated him as an equal and horatio loved listening to him for his intelligence and wit but also loved that hamlet was willing to listen to him in turn. i like imagining them staying up late debating for hours and coming away from it near to tears from laughter at the end of it at 4am. i think horatio would really appreciate hamlet's willingness to learn as well as his earnestness.

horatio, in my opinion, sees in hamlet everything a great man should be. kind, thoughtful, passionate, honest, intelligent. emotionally intelligent, even. but i like to imagine that hamlet has always been in touch with his emotions, even before the death of his father.

i think, before elsinore, horatio would be hard pressed to find a trait in hamlet he didn't like and that he put him on a pedestal and said, if i can be at his side, i'll be content. of course the rug is pulled out from under him later but he still loves hamlet and is willing to do anything for him. including calling him out if need be.

i hope this helps!

lrt been thinking again about a Hamlet Swap AU, this time about the logistics of Laertes and Ophelia sharing the Hamlet and Horatio roles of the original play. Slightly more emphasis on an Ophelia/Hamlet parallel, but both get to play the part.

Haven’t really worked things out, but the basic gist is that it’s likelier to be set in a more modern era, with both having lost their mother at a young age and having varying relationships with Polonius. But one day, Polonius dies of seemingly natural causes, and both are left in shock and grief.

Ophelia finds out, somehow, and quite probably in a non-ghost more actual-evidence manner that Polonius’s death was murder, more specifically murder via Claudius (that might have actually been an attempt to murder Hamlet Sr that went wrong). However, the evidence she finds is possibly coincidental and not conclusive enough to immediately jump to capital vengeance, so after telling Laertes of her discovery, the two agree that they must find some way to properly prove it.

Ophelia hasn’t been in a particularly good state of mind after the death of her father, but she decides she’s going to pretend to be perfectly fine and that she doesn’t need help in order to get people off her back so she can explore her theories further.

All the while, Ophelia’s boyfriend Hamlet notices that she’s putting up an emotional wall and tries to talk to her. His dad’s alive and well, and besides the fact that his girlfriend’s been in a spot of misery lately and he’s only just gotten back from Wittenberg to be able to comfort her, he’s doing otherwise just fine. He’d come prepared, having asked his good friend Horatio for advice on how to empathise with those who’d lost loved ones, and Horatio had warned him that she might act different and could counter-intuitively, possibly need space. Also Horatio is totally in love with Hamlet. So Hamlet does give her some space eventually, but he’s really concerned.

Gertrude also tries to talk to Ophelia, but she brushes her off. Laertes, who’s been less present in the story so far because he’s been off trying to figure out how to gather evidence, comes back with news of something new that might help them.

This is where I start to have less details figured out.

Hamlet eventually confronts Ophelia, desperate to try and help her, and she’s alllllmost contemplating telling him the truth and asking for his help when she realises they’re being watched, by she assumes either Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet Sr, or some combination, and so she decides not to. Instead, she yells at him, accusing him of being a terrible person and not being there for her and then not leaving her alone when she asks, for only wanting to get in her pants (i’ll totally explore her objectification in this one too and this will be relevant even if it’s not really true I prommy), and almost insinuating that she’s seeing someone else in order to break his heart and get him to move on, hopefully leave, because she knows things are about to get messy. It looks like it might work, and he’s super sad about it.

Blah blah blah, equivalent of the Mousetrap, Ophelia and someone else (possibly Laertes, probably Hamlet, possibly someone else from around the castle) talk, and Hamlet Sr, hiding in the curtains, gets stabbed. Hamlet finds the body (if he wasn’t the one to talk to Ophelia in the previous scene) with Ophelia, freaks out, goes to find someone to tell them about it and walks in on his mother and his uncles totes having an affair (yikes). It’s no wonder he goes mad.

Ophelia is sent away, and Hamlet is forced to stay. He does sort of lose his marbles a little bit, but instead of singing and giving out flowers like Ophelia, he rambles about death and talks nonsensically to himself in the court. And by ‘talks nonsensically’, I mean reverts to speaking in only direct quotes from the original Shakespearean play in this modern adaptation. see Gertrude or someone remarking on how he’s clearly lost his mind and is speaking nonsense all while Hamlet is clearly and obviously reciting the ‘to be or not to be’ speech to himself.

Horatio comes quickly from England, but the very night he gets there, he’s pulled aside by Marcellus to deal with something on the roof. That something is Hamlet, shivering and wide-eyed, talking about the ghost of his father. Horatio can’t stop the prince as he follows, slips, and falls off to his death.

Meanwhile Ophelia doesn’t have a Royal Sigil on her, but she does have a brother, and Laertes comes and helps bust her out during her transport, takes care of the messengers, and brings her back to the castle. The two seal their fates together, and vow revenge.

That’s pretty much where I’ve thought up to (there WILL be a fistfight in the grave between Horatio and Ophelia about who loved Hamlet more) but yeah it’s just for the sillies

the VERY first time I watched ATLA i had mixed feelings about Jin and Zuko being an item. but the ship has very quickly grown on me over time and it’s now in contention for my favourite Zuko ship ‼️ and top 3 easily. they’re invading my dreams. non-figuratively.

and by that i mean i had an actual dream while in bed asleep about them last night. that Jin was waiting in line at the coffee shop and when she got to the front of the line and Zuko asked for her order, she told him she’d waited in line just to see his face. which made him blush and then he went behind the counter and got a cup of tea that had already been waiting because he’d seen her standing in line and had prepared her favourite flavour which was her usual order. and then he gave it to her on the house.

maybe if i cross my fingers very hard and wish upon a star i can pretend they get back together post-canon further in the future. while writing this i have come to the realisation that they’re literally the coffeeshop au ship of the fandom. except again it’s canon.