#staring at the order still not confident if I should shuffle them a bit...which unforch is the nature of the assignment

[ardenrosegarden]

Since I had to answer this, I'm making you answer this: rank the Lancasterlings in order of your interest. 😈

oh nooo you can't do this to me 😭 it's hard 😭

Probably Humphrey lmao. He's got so many fun things going on with him: survivor's guilt, younger sibling idolizing his one of his older brothers only to unhealthily project that onto said brothers' son, super divorced™, tragic ending on and on and etc. It's fun to compare the way I was introduced to him (via Shakespeare plays) where he was mostly sweet and well-meaning verses irl Home Fry who is, to borrow academic language, kind of a messy bitch. It's a fun contradiction that's fun to play around with, honestly! Also, given my own interest area, I think he deserves props for being a last standing youngest brother royal uncle who didn't give into the darkness and disappear his nephew.

John. He's been somewhat a pet of mine since I first saw my first production of Henry IV. I just think he's neat :) I feel like you can also have a lot of fun with the irl guy, (which we often do 😂 ) There's also some accusations of him being kind of cringefail from the French perspective which is fun

Philippa! She makes me wish I was more acquainted with Sweden's situation in the 1400's, since it seems like she left behind a good amount of documentation to learn more about her :')

Blanche. I wish we knew more about her... I also wish she could've killed Ludwig with hammers.

Thomas. There's such open expanse when it comes to him, but I feel like there's quite of bit of ...not really knowing what to do with him I guess? Even with Billy Shakes, he shows up to say a few lines in Henry 4 and then dip 😭 But I think he's a fun additional mirror to hold up to Hal to examine how they're similar and different :')

Henry V. Legitimately interesting! Dad issues, guilt complexes up to here, surrogate dad/eldest daughter-son. I feel though, given his status as an English king, it doesn't really matter if I contribute to any interest in him myself, even though I do think he's a fun squeaky toy, given that generally he'll always be first to get it anyway ¯_(ツ)_/¯