#the misunderstanding

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Albert Camus, from a play titled "Misunderstanding," featured in Caligula & Three Other Plays

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Jan: They received me without a word. [...] I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen. Everything was more difficult than I’d expected.

Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding (Paris: 1944), Act 1.

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If The Misunderstanding was in Limbus, Martha would probably be the sinner. I could see maybe Jan, but him being the sinner without Maria until his canto would be super weird? Martha without her mother is also weird, because the play is about the bonds between people and how they're not equal to both sides (Maria is so devoted to Jan, meanwhile he is mentioned to grow tired of her here or there while still loving her, his feeling of responsibility towards his mother and sister, while his sister is starkly indifferent at best towards him, and hateful at worse, and his mother doesn't recognize him at all, despite later being show to love him (more as the idea of loving a son than as his own person but shhh) enough to share the same fate, Martha's love for her mother while also feeling that her mother has a responsibility to give her a better life, and her mother outright saying that whatever sense of responsibility she has isn't stronger than the sorrow of killing her own son), but I feel like we could do a post-canon kind of story where Martha is recruited to limbus AFTER both her mother and brother are dead and BEFORE she joins them, and she'd be super depressive and honestly kind of a buzz killer lol, until her canto where she regains some of the hope and excitement she had? Either that or her canto helps her realize the same thing Meursault did while in the prison? Although that doesn't seem to fit the way Limbus is doing character development very much, and I don't mind veering away from the absurdism with it all post-canon.

I have no idea what her canto would be about though. Maria would definitely be in it. I dunno if I should say that they should work on their grief together, considering Martha is the one who killed him, but I think it would be interesting to see a canto where the sinner themselves is the "bad guy" of the situation, the one who is the perpetrator of the violence and tragedy in their life, and how they cope with it and end up changing for the better, without disregarding the people they've hurt along the way. It would be interesting to see Martha grow past her mentality of "work towards my goal and destroy anything that gets in my way", without, yknow, completely breaking and giving up like she does in the actual play.

Also speaking of that mentality. She'd be super strong btw. Outis/Ryoshu level AT LEAST. Maybe her and her mother run a fixer office that scams and kills their clients, instead of a boarding house? OOH maybe their office could specialize on explorations in the outskirts??? (This is totally 100% just cuz I wanna see more outskirts content. Maybe 90%. It'd be easier to get away with it outside of the city) so they take their clients out to the outskirts saying that theyre gonna protect em and then say "whoops, sorry Hana, accident happened ;P", so their reputation is kind of TRASH, but there aren't a lot of Offices that go to the outskirts anyway, and they're at least a little bit affordable. And they haven't gotten EVERY client killed... only the weak ones, ofc.

Jan lives in a fancy nest, ofc. Married a nestborn, and really couldn't be happier. When he left home, they hadn't entered the fixer business yet, so he barely knows anything about it, but at least the office is where their home used to be. Martha desperately wants to move to a nest, while her mother is just tired of everything. Martha promises her that once they manage to move to a nest, they'll get her mother some new prosthetics and anything she needs, so they just need to scam one more client, then they'll be able to apply for a nest residency... ofc, this is all told through flashbacks.

I'm changing Maria btw. She's still a hopeless romantic obsessed with Jan, but while Jan doesn't know anything about fighting, Maria is almost as strong as Martha, but she works for the corp of whatever nest she's from. Here, her belief in god is replaced with her belief in the corporation she grew up under. She's gonna be one of the main difficult fights of the canto btw. Not sure is she's gonna be the main one/last one, but at least on the level of the Jia Qiu fight. And she's gonna make true what she says in the final scene that, after her tears dry, she was going to kill Martha. Well, she'll try.

I'm not doing anything with the Old Man. Idk anything about the Old Man. Did I mention the Old Man? Theres a character called the Old Man who barely says anything, he just helps around the boarding house. I really don't know what to do with him. Maybe He's supposed to represent the uncaring universe? Bc he Does Not Care about anything. He picks up Jan's passport when they're trying to lift him out of the bed before anyone can see though, and if someone DID see, they would've recognized him. And I think he was there and maybe heard Jan talk about how he's related to the family? Idk. There's probably something cool to do with him, maybe he can be like an Indigo Elder type character.

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The intimacy of being understood