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ways_back_room2015-08-24 08:04 am
inanhour) wrote in ways_back_room2015-08-24 08:04 am
Twins: A Public Service Announcement
Hello! This is TL (Viola/Cesario-mun) and Lark (Sebastian/Roderigo-mun)
... wait. Reverse that. ANYWAY WE ARE HERE TO DISCUSS IDENTITY CONFUSION.
Viola and Sebastian are from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night relies on suspension of disbelief to convince us that when Viola is dressed as a man, she is identical to Sebastian. This goes so far as (spoilers!) the man who nursed Sebastian back to health mistaking Viola for him, and the woman who loves Viola marrying Sebastian thinking he is she -- and then mistaking Viola for him.
* Feel free to have your characters confuse Viola and Sebastian! In fact, we’d prefer that you do.
* If your character already knows/suspects that Viola is a woman in disguise, still feel free to think that Sebastian is her.
* Please don’t explain anything! If your character loves Shakespeare/has supernatural powers/sorts things out at some point along the line, please don’t let them explain what’s going on to the twins or anyone else. We’re hoping to keep this going for a while. If it seems impossible that they wouldn’t do so, maybe just have them only ever meet one twin.
* If there’s some reason you think your character would absolutely be able to tell them apart but you still want them to meet, please just talk to us first!
*We apologize in general for the relentless gender binary, it’s how the characters conceive of themselves and their circumstances. Feel free to have your character interpret their dress/self expression in any other way, just as long as they don’t give away the game or learn to tell the twins apart without chatting to us first!
... wait. Reverse that. ANYWAY WE ARE HERE TO DISCUSS IDENTITY CONFUSION.
Viola and Sebastian are from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night relies on suspension of disbelief to convince us that when Viola is dressed as a man, she is identical to Sebastian. This goes so far as (spoilers!) the man who nursed Sebastian back to health mistaking Viola for him, and the woman who loves Viola marrying Sebastian thinking he is she -- and then mistaking Viola for him.
* Feel free to have your characters confuse Viola and Sebastian! In fact, we’d prefer that you do.
* If your character already knows/suspects that Viola is a woman in disguise, still feel free to think that Sebastian is her.
* Please don’t explain anything! If your character loves Shakespeare/has supernatural powers/sorts things out at some point along the line, please don’t let them explain what’s going on to the twins or anyone else. We’re hoping to keep this going for a while. If it seems impossible that they wouldn’t do so, maybe just have them only ever meet one twin.
* If there’s some reason you think your character would absolutely be able to tell them apart but you still want them to meet, please just talk to us first!
*We apologize in general for the relentless gender binary, it’s how the characters conceive of themselves and their circumstances. Feel free to have your character interpret their dress/self expression in any other way, just as long as they don’t give away the game or learn to tell the twins apart without chatting to us first!