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lunatic-fandom-space · 7 months ago

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Ive been thinking about this. So, there are a few productions where der Tod is supposed to only have a romantic relationship with Elisabeth, like, their relationship is "special" because hes never been in love before, whch I dont like because I always thought that hes Like That with everyone, or atleast with everyone who thinks about death and dying a lot, its just presented as special because Elisabeth is the central character. But whatever, some productions wanna make it extra amatonormative romantic so hes never felt that kind of love towards anyone before and will never feel it again after the story is done, I know thats definitely the case in the takarazuka production and I think thats also what they did for the hungarian production (i havent seen that one in a while so im not sure) and from what Ive heard about the newer austrain productions, it seems like they do it like that as well. Okay, sure, Elisabeth is der Tods one true love, why not, yay heterosexuality. But then why is doing all that shit Rudolf though

#its so funny to me #like why would he do thst #i feel like people always talk about der tod telling rudolf that he fucked his mom or whatever and never about him telling Elisabeth that he #fucked her son even though thatd way more devastating #on a more serious note the fact that they try so hard to remove the homoerotic undertones from the rudolf/tod interactions in the #austrian productions is so frustrating to me #because its like #theyre supposed to be similar and have this kindof connection even though they dont have a close relationship #and thats mostly shown through their relationships with death #i mean for fucks sake Schwarzer Prinz (first elisabeth/tod song/interaction) starts with der tod bridal carrying her to her bed #and then mama wo bist du (first rudolf/tod song) ends with der tod bridal carrying rudolf away from his bed #huh. some might say even theyre mirrors of each other #elisabeth das musical

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