Apr 30, 2020
Someone: Have you ever considered that your aversion to romantic love could be a consequence of not feeling loved as a child?
Mercutio: What you think you're the first person to notice that? Bitch, you ain't special.
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Someone: Have you ever considered that your aversion to romantic love could be a consequence of not feeling loved as a child?
Mercutio: What you think you're the first person to notice that? Bitch, you ain't special.
Enter, @troubledtwins!
It was hardly his first time losing a fight. It would hardly be his last. Still, Mercutio’s pride stung just as badly as his bruised knuckles. He sat under a crooked tree, nursing wounds and ego. Eventually a shadow passed over him and he looked up.
“Come to make fun, have you? Can’t a man have even a moment of rest?”
*Mercutio voice* Why am I friends with the Montague boys? I saw Romeo drunkenly try to save a fish from drowning while Benny tried to fight someone for looking at his dog wrong and I knew right then that I had to keep them forever.
@cursedmenagerie has called upon a fellow poet!
“Some call me a cynic,” Mercutio mused into his mug, speaking to everyone and no-one in particular. The night’s revelry had long since reached its apex and lulled into a low hum of voices and soft music. Mercutio found himself somewhat more alone than he was used to, and none too happy about it. Not that that would keep him from talking, of course. Particularly when a thought caught his fancy as this one did.
“Some call me a hedonist. Now that hardly seems fair, does it? A hedonist’s purpose is to indulge in desire until there is naught left to desire, and they die empty. And a cynic? The philosophers of that school would spit in the face of any who dared lump them in with the likes of me. No, certainly not. What say you, bard? Is there an “ist” or “ism” or any such thing that calls to your sensibilities?”
For those who were not around for my midnight ramblings, I've added Mercutio to the muse list. If you're interested in interacting with him give this post a like and I'll make a starter.
for the sake of my own sanity, in my mercutio’s canon romeo is around 18 and juliet is around 16. it’s a little less icky and it’s faithful to the poem that shakespeare based the play on. basically any writing in the play that could be put down to Elizabethan People Were Really Sexist is gonna be a little canon divergent too, in as many cases as i can manage.
haven’t even officially put him on the blog yet but i’m of the firm opinion that romeo & juliet’s deaths were not just caused by their own youthful stupidity. that was only 20% of it. 50% of the cause was their parents being too caught up in being rich and hating each other to pay attention to their kids, and 30% was mercutio’s hate boner for tybalt.
When he is dying, one of Mercutio's last thoughts is that he will be entirely erased. His friends will remember only the good things about him. His enemies will remember the bad. His family will throw away anything that doesn't suit their noble image. Nobody in the world will remember who he really was.