#i will not shut up about how Chloe blurs the lines between julius caesar and antony and cleopatra

[typingwithmyhandstied]

My favorite way to mess with Immortal Longings is thinking of it as a Julius Caesar retelling even though it really isn't. Like the implications it would have. The roles everyone would play. The most obvious way to mess with it in this way is Kasa as Julius Caesar and August and Calla as both some word mixtures of Cassius and Brutus. This would pretty much leave Anton as role-less in this idea.

It just occurred to me though that you could also view it through the lens of August as Cassius, Calla as Brutus, and Anton as Caesar. The arena scene? Calla stabbing him in the back? August manipulating her to get him to that point? Calla did it not because she didn't love Anton but because she loved Talin mor---- *gets trampled by a herd of sheep*