[FICATHON] Thou Cam'st On Earth To Make the Earth My Hell, for the_alchemist

[angevin2]

Title: Thou cam'st on earth to make the earth my hell.
Author: casablancagirl
Play: Richard III
Recipient: the_alchemist
Pairings: None. Well, there's a slight hint of Oedipus-complex!Richard, but no actual pairings. And there’s a mention of Richard/Anne, but that’s…only in passing, and it’s canon, anyway. Characters include Richard, his mother, his brothers, and sundry

Comments

[assimbya]

Oh, what wondrous, eloquent bitterness! I love the way the Richard envies different things in each of his brothers (but, somehow, to me, it seemed that the greatest part of his resentment at them was bound up with George, which made it so perfect that he was the one who died at his order), and, oh, his not caring about the people in the dream...I loved this story.

[gileonnen]

This was almost physically painful--poor Richard. Poor kid.

Very well done.

[lareinenoire]

Oh, this aches.

I could definitely see this emerging from the play; Richard's stunted, painful love for the mother who can't see him without hating him. The focus on George was particularly interesting, since they don't interact all that much before he's about to kill him, but it makes perfect sense. George makes all sorts of mistakes, and still his mother weeps for him when he dies, and curses Richard all the while.

[a_t_rain]

Ouch. And ohgoshthat'sperfect -- it feels absolutely right for Richard, and for what we see of Cicely.

[elviaprose]

Ooh, I love this! It's so heartbreaking and such an interesting take on Richard. I never thought of the oedipal implications of wanting to marry a woman after killing her husband-- this explanation for Richard's attraction to Anne makes a terrible Freudian kind of sense, and you've written it so that it feels like canon.