#cyrano

[warriorxena]

CYRANO (2021) dir. Joe Wright + blue

[velvet4510]

How Cyrano de Bergerac Haunts Everything About Byler and the Conclusion of Stranger Things

The Byler fandom rightfully discusses how the painting is the Cyrano trope - but there are two specific details within the plot of the actual Cyrano de Bergerac play, and its many film adaptations, that relate so completely to the WillElMike triangle that they must specifically be pointed out, because it is utterly impossible for this level of similarity to be a coincidence.

Also spoilers for a 100+ year old play, I guess.

Firstly, in the play, Roxane thinks the heartfelt letters she receives are from her lover Christian. She has no idea they’re actually from Cyrano, confessing his own deep love for her through the guise of Christian since he has no hope that Roxane will ever reciprocate if he tells her directly. Roxane spends the entire play under the wrong assumption, obsessed with Christian and swearing her undying love for him because she’s in love with the way those letters make her feel. They speak her language, they move her to her very soul, and she loves the beautiful mind that created these works of art for her, yet she has been misled as to whose mind it truly is. (Sound familiar???) It’s only in the last ten minutes of the play that she finally learns the truth - and she does a complete 180. The discovery that it was Cyrano’s feelings the whole time immediately makes her realize that it’s Cyrano whom she’s really loved this whole time, and her last lines are telling Cyrano she loves him. Never will you find a review of this play complaining that it is “unrealistic” for Roxane to have a 180 like that, or that it’s “rushed” or “has no buildup” or “makes no sense.” The narrative is structured so that the entire audience is on the edge of their seats, waiting and rooting for Roxane to find out the truth, and when she does, it’s absolute catharsis. The play cannot possibly end until she realizes. If it ended without her ever finding out, the entire narrative would collapse.

Secondly, Christian dies toward the end of the play, and Roxane spends several heartbroken years mourning him, thinking he’s her lost soulmate and she’ll never love again. (Again, sound familiar???) It’s only after his death, when she thinks Cyrano is reading “Christian’s last unsent letter” aloud to her until she notices the depth of passion and truth in his voice as he reads, that it finally clicks for her.

Need I say who and what each of the Stranger Things counterparts to this story are? That’s right. Mike is Roxane, El is Christian, Will is Cyrano, and the painting is the letters. This is why a reveal of the painting’s true origin at some point in Season 5 was all it would take for Mike to finally understand his own heart, just like Roxane, and thus all it would take for a general audience to be on board with Mike ending up with Will.

This also means that post-canon Byler truthers still really have something to go off since El is “dead.” It’s the same situation as the final act of Cyrano de Bergerac! Mike is struggling to grieve and move on from El because he’s madly in love with how the painting makes him feel - he has it on his wall, just as Roxane kept all of “Christian’s” letters - and he still thinks it’s from her, just as Roxane still thought hers were from Christian. As soon as the last domino collapses from whatever catalyst to unveil that painting’s true origin someday, the stars will align and Byler will get together.

[ponury-grajek]

Sketches of Cyrano, Christian and Roxane from my favourite play "Cyrano de Bergerac"

[hazlehoff]

i don’t think the duffer brothers realise that by never speaking of the painting in s5, they’re eventually going down the benverly route from IT with the cyrano trope. mike has to find out the truth about the painting one day or the other, even if it takes 5 years, 10, or 27. even without trying, they’ve given us a long-form accidental byler endgame, and i think that’s beautiful

[whitelisis]

I don't know how to exactly explain myself, but I love movies that are visually stunning. I love the visuals, the camera shots, the costumes, the props, the scenography, the aesthetics, the poses. I just love to see, and be visually amazed. I love shots that look like paintings. I love stillframes that makes the characters look epic. I'm in love with cinema.

[icaruss-fall]

Roles I think Gerard Way would EAT playing on Broadway:

- Emcee from Cabaret (needs NO explanation)

- Sally Bowles from Cabaret (can you imagine what they would do with that song!!??)

- Roland from Constellations (if you don’t know this show plez go read it it’s all about alternate universes and the butterfly effect)

- Audry 2 from Little Shop (BUT 👆not the normal deep voiced Audry I’d want them to do the gravely screaming voice they do I think that’d be SUCH a take)

- Moritz from Spring Awakening (again I feel like this needs no explication)

- Ilse from Spring Awakening

- Lady Macbeth from Macbeth (out damned spot- do we see the vision here?)

- Macbeth from Macbeth (the dagger monologue)

- Cyrano from Cyrano de Bergerac (I think the vibe of I’m-very-famous-but-can’t-handle-day-to-day-life would be very fun to watch them do)

- Amadeus from Amadeus (full out CRAZY energy)

- Blanch from A Street Car Named Desire

- Stanley from A Street Car Named Desire

- Medea from Medea (the Euripides version exclusively I do NOT fuck with any other version)

Also like a hundred more but this is just off the top of my head

[asraeas]

Cyrano and Christian + physical touch "Is there a version of life where two men can live as one person?" National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac (2020)

[himbopunk]

i've managed to fuse cyrano with tamlen angst because i love to put my little guys in the torment nexus. sorry verano. and cyril.

anyways, based on the idea that that 1. the origins crew is probably way more careful handling darkspawn than we see on screen 2. the fact that most cultures in thedas practice cremation probably is very handy in the blight to avoid it spreading more than it has to 3. the fact that in companion au, as a non-warden verano probably wouldn't be able to safely handle tamlen's body much at all when he's been that ghoul'd up. he has to watch cyril and alistair do it instead

oh almost forgot to add, cyril tabris belongs to saturjaysunjay on tiktok/twitter/bsky