#laertes doesn’t want her to go down the same road of basically getting used by the royal family

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WOAH…HOLY HELL

This really makes you wonder. Did Polonius know? And if so, how the HELL do you think he felt about it???

Remember what Hamlet said about Polonius being a “fishmonger?” What if he was referring to LAERTES, who Polonius was essentially allowing to get pimped out……god that is SO fucked up.

The best part about Hamlet is that we can literally make them whatever tf we want. Claudius is a hot zaddy to Laertes in your AU, while mine is really more of a creepy predatory kind of asshole. And they’re BOTH canon! To me!

YEAH! yeah, it's all canon, and the more productions of hamlet you see the more interpretations you get to have of all the characters.

in 2019 i saw a production where claudius and laertes are in a sauna as they plan out the poison plot, and there's ominous red lighting and that claudius was SO creepy and predatory that he reminded me of akio from revolutionary girl utena (aka the creepiest most predatory motherfucker around) and called it the Sauna of Seduction after Akio's Car of Seduction. so yeahhh in that version they were sleeping together and it was extremely exploitive. also fun because that was later the same trapdoor where ophelia's grave was :(