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[rawreeee]

Fuck it. The Vampire Hamlet AU 🎭🎻

for the Three (3) people who reblogged this <3

Hamlet de Lioncourt 🎭

Son of the Marquis

Family lost all their power and money when King Fortinbras took over France, but they still have nobility and are highly respected in Auvergne

Problem son & they all let him know that!

Anger issues, outbursts, feels too deeply, annoyingly sarcastic, his family hates it & he hates his family

Their pompous attitude about their nobility pisses Hamlet off, he never felt like one of them, feels more comfortable among the commoners of the village

Well-liked by the people bc he can be very fun and charming when his family isn’t on his ass

He thinks that he’s the worst but also thinks he’s better than all of them

Low ego bc of family but the stubborn dreamer in him lives on

He wants to be an actorrr ✨

Hunts, and is really good at it, but it’s just a chore/obligation to him

Wants to live in Paris and study the arts/theater

Same lore of him trying to escape multiple times and being dragged back

“Auvergne is a prison”

Dad #sucks and is making him stay and help the family rather than go off to school

Becoming a vampire sucked all the hope and drive and passion out of him and left only the angry vengeful parts

Hates killing as a vamp and it makes him feel even worse about himself

Slowly accepts the bitter angry monstrous part of himself that always lived inside him, now that’s it’s all he can be as a vampire

But he’s never really (nor ever will) get over that part of him that loves humanity, will always deep down hate himself for being a monster and yearn for the connection he once had w mortals

Horatio de Lenfant 🎻

Commoner, but decently well-off family

Went to school in Paris for a bit before dropping out and coming back to Auvergne for mysterious reasons

Saw Hamlet a lot growing up but they were never really friends until their early 20s when Horatio came back from Paris and gave Hamlet the wolfkiller cloak

He had always been dazzled by Hamlet’s radiance, and learning the deeper more painful parts of his personality just made him like him more

His family idolizes the Lioncourts bc they’re nobility, they were always trying to get Horatio to be his friend so they could gain favor

Family is cold and has high expectations and it’s given him crazy depression

Hamlet brings out the rebel in him even though Horatio attempts to rein it in

Trying to be grounding for Hamlet since he’s such an impulsive and firey person, but he brings out Horatio’s passions that he has pushed down for years

Plays the violin ofc :) but it’s a secret :) it’s a hobby that’s frowned upon by his family so he has to hide it, and not to mention his stage fright, but Hamlet encourages him and helps him open up and pursue this passion of his

Wants to be logical and do right by his family but he feels like there’s something Wrong and Different inside him, another thing he and Hamlet relate on

Seems shy at first, but is just depressed and friendless, plus raised to be quiet and well-mannered, but after opening up to Hamlet it turns out he’s super witty and likes to tease, gets worked up about the things he’s passionate about, deeply empathetic

does Anyone want to talk about how Lestat de Lioncourt and Hamlet of Denmark are similar in several ways. or how Lestat is the perfect example of a classic romantic hero, a character type that was heavily inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Or how Nicki and Lestat are character foils and how that makes them quite similar to Horatio and Hamlet. Please

[secretly-a-catamount]

autistic person x autistic person is the only ship to ever exist actually

[behestofheaven]

Horatio should call hamlet “sweet prince” more often. Why is it only just once. Mr shakesqueer why. why.

[lemondonutsfromcirclek]

oh my god. if the “your hearing is the last sense to go out before death” thing is true then that means that there’s a chance the last thing hamlet heard was “goodnight, sweet prince,” from horatio and then his hearing went out probably

[sneakertin]

hamlet and horatio being in love for six minutes straight

[ilredeiladri]

What if the play 'Hamlet' ist the story as Horatio told it after Hamlet bid him to.

What if Horatio made up the first encounters between Hamlet senior's ghost and the guards, to convince people that Hamlet wasn't hallucinating. That the ghost was real and Hamlet wasn't mad. Even if in reality nobody except for Hamlet ever saw the ghost.

What if Horatio did it, because he couldn't stand the idea that people remember Hamlet as someone who lost his mind.

What if that wasn't how Horatio himself wanted to remember him.

What if.

[countingyellow-cars]

I like a very specific kind of character

They need to be sad and suicidal, insanely smart, misunderstood by all people, fuckin dRAMATIC, and have this very close homoerotic relationship with their one (1) and only friend, who is calm and appears ordinary

...alright I just like Hamlet and Sherlock Holmes.

[hamlet-the-dane-official]

people are shipping you and horatio

to where?!

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

hello everyone

[wheretobuygoodurl]

Horatio and/or Ophelia about Hamlet:

[lavenderapollo]

more things from my production of hamlet that permanently altered my brain chemistry

getting to pick out my own costume, wearing an old peacoat that i eventually took with me to college

all of the tiny details of my costume that nobody but myself noticed

horatio wearing a tiny heart locket because of the whole “heart’s core” thing

horatio fiddling with the necklace while watching the play within a play, while watching the fencing match

our director cut the script to create a deeper relationship between horatio and gertrude while hamlet is away getting captured by pirates

the letter scene

hamlet and horatio reading hamlet’s letter in sync, except hamlet reads “horatio” alone in the beginning and horatio reading “hamlet” alone at the end of the letter

horatio going straight from the letter scene into a conversation with gertrude about ophelia’s health

horatio being in ophelia’s mad scenes, watching her break down and cry, assisting with her wheelchair

gertrude relying on horatio for the truth about hamlet’s whereabouts

horatio staying with gertrude as she dies, then attending to laertes, then finally, to hamlet

our director remind our hamlet to “die center!!!”

hearing the bows music for the first time (the other side by david gray)

wittenberg crew making each other friendship bracelets (r&g had matching “rosie” and “guildy” bracelets, ho&ham had bracelets that read “good night” and “sweet prince” respectively)

making myself a bracelet that said “L + horatio”

THE GRAVEDIGGER SCENE

wearing my peacoat in the final scene, then tearing it off to give to laertes as he’s dying

hamlet holding claudius’ head, forcing him to drink the poison, then finishing him off with a small little nick to the ear, giving claudius a taste of his own medicine

ophelia having one fleeting moment of clarity when she sees laertes, running to hug him

polonia taking an awkward family photo with her kids, chastising them for not smiling enough

(accidentally photobombing those photos during rehearsals)

i mentioned yorick hot potato in the last post, but i didn’t mention that i pulled out a bottle of hand sanitizer after tossing the skull away

the lighting, the set

having to carefully fumble my way offstage once the lights went down, the three times i almost tripped over a foil

and the one time where i actually did

after that they put glow tape on the stage

our set designer crafted an entirely original crest for the hamlet family, using nordic, danish, and even some tolkien characters for inspiration

seeing the set for the first time

our first time staging the death scene

there’s a photo of me in my lil spot by hamlet, surrounded by dead bodies and bathed in red light just kinda going like 😁👍👍

crushing the other teams at shakespeare trivia during our closing night cast party

[secretly-a-catamount]

Would you still love me if I killed them all?

[helen-cooper-fan-account]

If Horatio has 100 fans I’m one of them, if Horatio has 50 fans I’m one of them, if Horatio has 10 fans I’m one of them, if Horatio has 1 fan it’s me, and if Horatio has zero fans then I’m dead but I’m about to come back like king hamlet to talk about how much I love Horatio

[lychnvs]

ophelia act III scene 5 & pre- tragedy hamlet and horatio. still working on how to draw these characters the way they appear in my head.

[heyitsspaceace]

i want you all to know that for my COLLEGE FINAL PAPER FOR MY DRAMA THEATER AND THEORY CLASS i wrote a seven (7) page paper on hamlet, and 3 (three) of those seven pages were dedicated to a queer interpretation of hamlet and what you gain from reading hamlet and horatio as gay and in love

[madebypointlesswords]

If I had a penny for every time a bisexual prince died homoerotically in the arms of his faithful gay lover, saying their last words to them, and the lover wailing over their beloved's death in pure agony as everyone around them is dead, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.