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Blue Lions - Shakespeare Headcanons

I know that Leicester has the most King Lear references but I can’t help but get Shakespearean tragedy vibes from BL. So here are my Shakespearean headcanons for my kids. Dimitri’s stuff will be mixed with the legend of Blaiddyd. 

The Blue Lion King: the Tragedy of Hamlet Dimitri Prince of Denmark Faerghus

When your uncle kills your dad for the throne

The childhood friends know each other because their fathers worked for the King’s guard or as advisors.

Other than the fact that Gautier, Fraldarius and Galatea are all nearest to Blaiddyd

"His greatness weighed, his will is not his own, for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself, for on his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state." I love Laertes

Dimitri’s father was murdered 4+ years ago and his uncle now sits the throne. Or his mother. 

Whatever, there’s a regent on the throne until Dimitri is old enough to ascend.

He never does ascend as he is somehow banished from the throne. He and his fellow Blue Lions flee… maybe to Sreng. (See: the Blue Lions tweet that Nintendo deleted)

Or exiled somehow like in the legend of Blaiddyd

They return 5 years later to restore the rightful king

King Lear 

In the play, the physically blind sees more than the ones with vision.

Dimitri’s eye is hollow, but he sees more now than he ever had before. He has gone mad, he knows, but he can still hear the cries of the dead at night, crying for vengeance, crying for solace. Sometimes the screaming dead become too much to handle and he himself would scream into the night. Howls of pain echoing in the dark.

Read: Greasy wolfman howls at moon

(Well that suddenly turned into a paragraph.)

Also:

Features two brothers

One is jealous because of the other one’s ‘legitimacy’

Edgar Sylvain future Earl of Gloucester Gautier

When your brother grows jealous of your legitimate claim to the inheritance and works to destroy three factions

Honestly, Golden Deer is really tempting for me right now because King Lear is my favourite play by Shakespeare. King Leir, who is thought to be where Shakespeare based his character from, was the son of Bladud (Blaiddyd) and the founder of Leicester you can Google that. This simply implies that the Leicester alliance was formed last out of the three nations (confirmed) and possibly split from Faerghus (unconfirmed) though some of its nobles might also hail from Adrestia. Ingrid and Lysithea both have a crest from the other nation. 

I was wondering why they chose ‘Regan’ instead of the kinder ‘Cordelia’, until I read that Regan means ‘little king’. This makes sense as Claude hails from a place where there is no ruling monarch but there is still a leading noble, thus making him a ‘little king’. 

Romeo and Juliet 

I’m not ready to announce this one just yet… but it exists and I’m frantically typing

Im just gonna wait and see if they can at least A-support

Fragile

Prerelease Childhood Friends Scenario. No spoilers

Sylvain in the sitting room poring over a piece of paper and Ingrid walks in. Being Ingrid, she quickly notices his dour mood.

I: What is it?

Sylvain huffs

S: It’s a letter from my brother. He wants to congratulate me for my luck in being born with a crest… he says I don’t deserve it.

Sylvain is angry, because of course he is. He just wants his big brother back. He still smiles anyway

S: If he wants my stupid inheritance, he can have it.

He notices her clutching a similar letter in hand.  

S: And yours?

Sylvain is trying to light up the mood, she won’t let his efforts go in vain and tries to perk up

I: I have good news from my mother… She’s found another suitor for me. Perhaps if I marry him, then we’ll be able to pay off our debts…

The smile she gives him is broken. Her laughter is strained. 

I: She’s been selling father’s possessions… All his horses.

Sylvain remembers the horses in the Galatea stables. Knew them all by name.

She doesn’t want to think about it and turns away to put her letter down. 

I: Why do people want this so badly? To have all these possessions...to have all these… ephemeral things, these-

She walks around the room full of teacups and decorative plates and caresses one so gently. Hiding the anger she knows so well.

I: These extravagant, breakable, expensive, useless!

She throws the teacup smashing it on the wall.

She gasps.

D: Dimitri had just walked in, the cup smashing just beside his head.

His eyes are wide, heart beating fast. He hears the glass breaking over and over and over.

I: Your highness… Dimitri, I -

D: I’m fine

Finally, he starts to breathe.

D: I’m fine. They all break eventually, it’s to be expected.

Dimitri tries to walk tall but shakily sits down on the nearest chair.

He looks around but Felix isn’t there. He didn’t show up again.

great timing your highness

One step forward, two steps back. The three young lords and their professor reflect on their lives at different moments in time. 

Looking at all the prerelease fics made me want to do my own.  I quickly whipped this up today, it’s based on a thing I did back in June (that you can read here if you want) and is my attempt at expanding the original prose.

I don’t have an AO3... :(