[drabbles] for gileonnen

[angevin2]

This is in fact not, as the word count reveals, a drabble at all. Also, I think it is the purplest piece of prose I have ever written.

Title: Scarlet Indignation
Fandom: Shakespeare Richard II
Character(s)/Pairing(s): King Richard, solus
Rating: PG
Word Count: 458
Warnings: self-injury, theorizing about kingship, anachronistic heraldry, excessive

Comments

[highfantastical]

This is awesome (naturally, everything you do for RII is great!). I love its very definite Shakespeare-verse elements, they're so well-used. It's gorgeous.

Also I have a secret (well, until now) love for SI fic, which is way too rare. So yet another reason to love this. Which I do. ♥

[angevin2]

Richard-in-my-head has a bit of a morbid fascination for making himself bleed: hand him something pointy and he will fondle it. Actually I figured that out by writing this fic.

[highfantastical]

That's brilliant. I also love the way so many facets of your!Richard[s] can be traced back to real details, e.g. you mention the re-interments above.

Oh help, I cannot say even vaguely intelligent things tonight. Basically I just love this fic. Richard SO WOULD fondle pointy things.

HE SO WOULD.

[angevin2]

It sounds so filthy when you put it that way.

I APPROVE.

[highfantastical]

ALL FILTHINESS TOTALLY INTENTIONAL, OF COURSE.

[angevin2]

I FIGURED.

...actually before the structure of this fic worked itself out there were some references to Richard being insomniac and needing either potent sleeping draughts or groups of attractive minions to wear him out if he wanted to get any sleep, but I took that out because it stopped fitting.

[highfantastical]

Awwwww, sleeping draughts. I find that very cute. Henry was IRL too, wasn't he, not just in Shakespeare? Or am I wrong about that...

It's slightly hilarious (& also a bit sad) to imagine the sleep-deprived insomniac Plantagenets, careering round England with shadows under their eyes and some sort of apothecary to mix the sleeping draughts. And the minions for... more interesting methods. Of course.

Oh, poor insomniac Richard. He would totally have insomnia at that point, wouldn't he? Plus it's not like they had nice comfortable beds. *remembers the Creton/straw-in-hair fic*

[angevin2]

I actually did research on that and then I went "Don't be stupid, self, Iago rattles off a long list of pre-modern sleep-inducing plants, PAY SOME DAMN ATTENTION TO YOUR OWN FIELD." I did regret losing the chance to post a fic that warned for "references to group sex and anachronistic heraldry."

Henry was IRL too, wasn't he, not just in Shakespeare? Or am I wrong about that...

I don't know, but it seems a reasonable assumption, all things considered!

Oh, poor insomniac Richard. He would totally have insomnia at that point, wouldn't he? Plus it's not like they had nice comfortable beds. *remembers the Creton/straw-in-hair fic*

Conwy Castle was, at the time Richard and his remaining supporters holed up there, pretty much unfurnished, as far as I can recall, so it was a particularly crappy lodging. But, yeah. Actually in my fic universe he develops insomnia after the purge of the appellants and is afraid to sleep because then he'll see the ghost of Arundel telling him "YOU'RE GOING DOWN, BITCH" (that is mentioned in one of the

[highfantastical]

the ghost of Arundel telling him "YOU'RE GOING DOWN, BITCH"

OH YES.

Arundel is scary. No, the appellants are scary. HISTORY is scary.

...But especially when it contains a ghost-of-Arundel.

No, it's great. They will all be converted to Ricardian Funtimes.

[angevin2]

Oh man, Arundel was the biggest jerk in the English aristocracy, and THAT'S NOT EASY. And according to -- one of the chroniclers, probably Walsingham or Usk, but I can never keep them straight -- there were rumors that his head would reattach to his body ten days after he was executed, and Richard was so unnerved that he had people DIG HIM UP. JUST TO MAKE SURE. And then he had the gravestone removed.

I am now seriously considering retitling my lj "Ricardian Funtimes.

[highfantastical]

Well, I'd dare you to do it, but that would just be MEAN.

*refrains from throwing gage upon virtual floor*

[angevin2]

I need to finish it! I keep getting hung up in places where Richard expects Creton to say something, because then Creton just kind of stands there going "..."

[angevin2]

Apparently it's also mine! ;)

[highfantastical]

IT WAS IT WAS.