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    hamlet but it's modern and 'mmmm, whatcha say' plays every time a character dies

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    What would happen if a mediocre writer threw a whole bunch of cursing into a Shakespeare play? This shit!

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    Hamlet shudders in Horatio's arms, his low cry a blessing. The unseen linden-leaves shake, wild with wanting.

    “Are you afraid?” Horatio gasps, his fingers fanned like wings in Hamlet's dark hair.

    Hamlet nods, smile disarmed, pressing their foreheads together. “But what of that?”

    It's then that Horatio knows his faith is branch and nest enough, whatever horrors may yet come to haunt them.

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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Renaissance gentlemen, from their young days brought up together at the Danish royal court with the crown prince of Denmark. Now students, they’re enjoying themselves immensely at Wittenberg University – perhaps a little too much, their contemporaries might argue. Carefree bordering on careless. Indulging in food, drink, and – behind closed doors – each other.
    Unfortunately, they will be summoned back to Elsinore, where the walls have ears and secrets can be fatal.

    This fic is about the characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but I’m also drawing from their extended characterization and dynamic in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. So these are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who have to navigate court intrigue, not timeloop amnesia, but they still play questions.

    Fair warning that these characters remain in their historic setting and will not have the vocabulary we have today to describe their actions and feelings.

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    Horatio’s story, from before the beginning until the very end.

    A medium-velocity-burn journey through the fluff-to-angst pipeline with a loyal, nerdy, prickly, laconic, and gentle person as a guide.

    Expect complex backstories, wild canon divergences, sexually charged character development, and classics as a coping mechanism.

    I always wondered how exactly someone seemingly so well-adjusted and self-sufficient as Horatio becomes so blindly devoted to someone like Hamlet?

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    It was November 26, the time was 11:38 p.m., and Hamlet Dane I was dead of a heart attack at fifty.

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    Or: this is a love story.

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    Все мы подчиняемся законам, которые ведут нас по истории. Законам пьесы, в которой играем. Нашей — или чьей-то еще…

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    After his father's wars and before his father's death there did exist a time and place when Prince Hamlet was happy.

    [Amid a Hamlet discussion the question of "who was Hamlet fucking when?" was raised and I said "LET ME SHOW YOU MY HEADCANON. This is that. There's a lot of sex. What else are headcanons for?]

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    A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern poem

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    "That place ain’t for amateurs,” he warned. It should have been sealed off years ago, if you asked him. “It’s an unforgiving, muddy pit. It’ll swallow ya whole if ya underestimate it.”

    “Speak for yourself, old man,” her boyfriend said around a belch, slamming his half-empty bottle onto the counter.

    “Hamlet!”

    “Oh, calm down, Ophelia. Don’t let some superstitious redneck scare you, I have everything under control.”

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    A Clydephee Caving Misadventure

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    "I reached for instinct, certain that it would be there, and it wasn't. Do you understand?"

    It starts like this:

    A sudden burst of pent up frustration, false confidence, and sheer desperation—a bold attempt to be bold and attempt—and a violent course correction, involving a startled horse.

    It continues like this:

    Two Elizabethans, scuffed and muddied, trudging across a courtyard at Elsinore. One of them is limping.

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    A Wittenberg story.

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    He didn’t let go of Guildenstern’s hand though.

     

    It was like when they were kids again...before they were friends with the Crown Prince of Denmark, and therefore easy targets for those who liked to throw their status and power around.

     

    Rosencrantz was an especially easy target.

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    They were trapped, weren't they? They must be. It made sense. Didn't it? If they could just remember where they were last, and why that might be important.

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    To Hamlet, Wittenberg is heaven on earth. It all works out rather well for him and he finds himself thinking that perhaps these will be the most carefree years of his life. Except then there is another thing, and it happens to Hamlet unexpectedly and mercilessly - that thing is namely: falling in love with Horatio.

    Hamlet's POV of In Fair Wittenberg

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    1938, Chicago. The Mayor is dead and a ghost is haunting the halls of the Elsinores' house. The daughter of the Vice Mayor, Ophelia Polonius, has hired Horatio Witten, a private investigator and her fiance's best friend from college, to investigate who or what is terrorizing her fiance Hamlet. But the problem is, ghosts don't exist. Unless...

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    Rosencrantz made himself the most beautiful garden outside their modest home, but he doesn't care about that.

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    Takes place in Wittenburg when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were schoolmates with Hamlet.
    Kind of meta (first part takes place in a non-existent Hamlet/Horatio story). Italics indicate the text takes place in the fake Hamlet/Horatio fic.

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    Gregor Samsa has a lot on his plate. He's trying to acclimate to the life of a civilized insect, stay on his mafia boss's good side, and hide the fact that he blew up the most important institution to the land of bureaucratic bugs. To make things worse, now he's accidentally re-befriended his former lover under the alias "Dac". At least his friend Leni believes it's possible to become human again.

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