hmmm then how about benvolio from r&j / retj? i love that good good boy
Absolutely! :D vaguely inspired by the hungarian musical production/that bit it in second french production where he just collapses during duo du désespoir my boy!!
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He’s never known silence; all his life Benvolio’s been surrounded by noise - music-voices-shouts-yells, laughter, moans, yes, and please and you stupid boy, Benvolio, come back here or I’ll-
Now there is silence. The crowd is gone now. Possibly someone is crying - he thinks it might be his aunt, or Lady Capulet, but it barely registers in Benvolio’s brain because the quiet is too sudden, too violent, and it’s killed any other sound surrounding him. Romeo’s gone. Mercutio’s gone. They were singing and laughing and shouting not even an hour ago, and suddenly they’re gone and he can’t hear them anymore.
Stupid, stupid, come back!; he chases after the sound of their voices, but they’re already running away from him and he can’t catch up, he’s too slow, too stupid, not important enough - wait for me!
(There’s a man standing over him - Friar Lawrence - and he’s talking, but Benvolio doesn’t want to listen, doesn’t want to hear him, doesn’t want to think about him because If he does he’ll stop running and he’ll never hear his friends’ voices again.)