ficlet project: "To His Image Did I Devotion" (Twelfth Night)

[kindkit]

Title: To His Image Did I Devotion
Fandom: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Pairing: Antonio/Sebastian
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None needed
Word count: 1000
Summary: "His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint, / All his in dedication"
Notes: Written for flo_nelja, who asked for Antonio/Sebastian after the end of the play.

Comments

[flo_nelja]

It's wonderful!
The language is beautiful, and the thoughts sound right for the period too. It works very, very well.
Oh, this ending, so beautiful, so sad! But I quite love sadness in fic.
Thank you very, very much!

[kindkit]

I'm glad you liked it. I've been wanting to write Twelfth Night fic for a long time, and your prompt gave me the incentive I needed.

[highfantastical]

Oh, I really love this. It feels extremely 'them', and the dialogue is great. (I know that you, like myself, are not a fan of fic in blank verse - this is far FAR better than when people attempt that, and captures the feel much more.)

The whole thing is - poignant, I'd say. And your imagery - which I always like - is absolutely up to the usual high standard. :)

[kindkit]

Thank you! I had fun mixing vaguely Shakespearean language with modern language.

Someday, though, I have to write the fic where Antonio and Sebastian run away together and live happily ever after.

Antonio

[heliophile_oxon]

Good work with the language, I think - a fine balance, and you get it right; the right period feel, without making it cod-Shakespeare.

Poor Antonio, he deserves so much better than Shakespeare gives him - you can just imagine how a director could emphasise that with stage business! I'll look forward to your fic where his love is requited.

Re: Antonio

[kindkit]

Thank you!

I've read about a production where the main characters forget about poor Antonio entirely after the Viola-Sebastian revelation, and at the end we see him being led off by guards, presumably to be executed. *weeps*