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The IC Anon Questions Meme

The IC Anon Questions Meme!

How this works.

✪Post with your Character! Name and series go in the header.

✪Go find another character! Go anon and ask them questions. They can be as ridiculous, serious or random as you want.

✪Go answer the ones people have left for you!

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Edited 2013-06-17 03:08 (UTC)

If you really want to avenge you're father's death, why didn't you just use the simple method of staring an armed rebellion to overthrow you're uncle and take back the throne for yourself instead of some convoluted plan pretending to be mad? Any other prince in your circumstances would have done that.

God in heaven, you have it! The mere raising of an army, the sacrifice of a soul - assuming, perhaps prematurely, that we hold any such thing - and all might have been swiftly mended! There is no easier route, and I must be deemed a fool for having overlooked such stark simplicity.

Of course. of course.

To be fair, if truth be told, I am a fool, and one of the worst sort; I may well be called a fool possessed of reason.

Why exactly do you allow your father to tell you what to do, even in death?

My father will speak as he may, and I interpret as I must.

You have a way of simplifying matters to absurdity. Is obeisance to one's elders not to be lauded? Does respect count for nothing?

What is more, you may be certain that I did note take his words lightly or adhere without deliberation.

Respect does. I suppose it was more a question of why and how you came to the conclusion it would be better to follow his mandate than to live your own life?

The pursuit of my life - poor though it may be counted - included fulfillment of my father's wishes. That this fulfillment overwhelmed what I had been and what I became, I cannot deny. Nor do I claim that I mastered my pursuit with especial skill.

On returning to Elsinore, I found that death is not so momentous a matter to most of the world. It is rote, it is familiar, and so to die is to be quickly forgotten, your life the whispering of a memory that cannot linger long. What, then, is the value of engagement? Why maintain such struggles when they come so soon to naught? Aside from my father's mandate, there was no solidity to be found, and there was nothing left to craft life for.

How did you pick that as the pursuit of your life?

It was given to me. As, perhaps, it falls upon each of us. Choice is not so free as we might like.

Such shocking news as I received could hardly have been brushed aside, and it seemed unwise to dismiss the pleas of a familiar ghost. If nothing else, I owed my father the duty of investigation; from there, the seedling simply grew.

And you must understand that consuming though it became, this was not the only venture that constituted my existence. I counted myself a son and a student (among other roles) before I became a man of schemes and murder.

So...you stuck it to Ophelia, right? I mean, before she went batty?

[Lord, what trolls these mortals be. It isn't as if he's been the most discreet of individuals, and it isn't as if he has some right to be stung terribly by the question, but Hamlet allows several moments to pass before responding.]

You must ask the lady, yourself; a gentleman never speaks of such matters. It is not my place.

And I know your ways. If I agree, you will celebrate the conquest with raucous laughter. If I deny the accusation, you will construe my meaning into assent. I tell you, you must ask Ophelia.

Take her flowers, when you go.

Why did you stick with the passive-aggressive approach for so long? Are you a coward? Were you scared of how people would've reacted to you? What Claudius would have done?

Consider the questions that must rise: those you have given, those that must follow. It is no small matter to kill either king or kin, however wretched this kin may seem or be, and we are not creatures of impulse merely. The faculty of thought that distinguishes us also forces consideration of time and impact, asking that we recognize all that may resonate beyond the act.

Nor was I so slack as you imagine. Observation and close planning are not preparations to be overlooked, nor can they be enacted without some span of time. The infinite being may act beyond time; we are not so gifted.

Am I a coward? Perhaps. Doubtless. The concerns you've so deftly noted all entered my mind, but none spoke its full governance. There is never one answer, never any simple summarizing of events.

Do you even know which one is Rosencrantz and which one is Guildenstern?

Do they?

Fundamentally, they differ but in shades. They might just as well be called Rosenstern and Guildencrantz, or vice versa.

Edited 2013-06-17 19:20 (UTC)

One hopes their mothers knew.

I suspect their mothers sent joint birthday cards, in case they were mistaken.

*laughter*

Sad to be a man whose friends are practically unnamed and interchangable. Not fully trusting them as even they do not know who they are. One might start talking to daggers and seeing treachery in every eye.

Fairly said.

I did believe better of them, once. be that to my credit or my shame.

Credit I'd like to believe. Shame for not inquiring.

An oddity, isn't it? But there are as many pitfalls in seeking too far as in failing to examine closely enough. Moderation is no more than a happy dream, and we are in all directions damned.

Thank you. I appreciate the insight and shall trouble no more this evening. Should you wander from your castle, perhaps we shall meet again.

Should you find me abstracted, I pray, do not hesitate to shake me from my thinking. I have not found this talk unwelcome.

so... after you pretty much got everyone killed...

any regrets?

Do you ask in earnest?

The end in no way met my expectations.

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hamlet is pleased to have occasion to speak, aheh.