"... Okay, my turn for depressing. The female characters all lose their children and families. And - the play sort of implied Margaret had some kind of ability to curse and create prophecies and then she passed that on to the other women who have lost things. But that still rings kind of hollow to me. Elizabeth tried to keep her son safe by claiming sanctuary and staying in a church, and it didn't work, not because she failed, but because the people that were supposed to protect them gave her son up. She's treated as one of his main antagonists, but unlike the others he doesn't bother to kill her because she's no longer a threat. The Duchess was the first person to make Richard flinch, but all of the warnings of doom in the world don't make up for not - she didn't really have a hand in finally killing him? Okay, congrats, you called down curses on his name, but cursing until you're blue in the face doesn't actually - fix anything.
"I - am not sure where I'm going with this, actually. It's like - there's a silent potential horror story that hangs in the back of my head. It actually kind of goes something like this. The lives of every child I helped bring into the world, extinguished, my - the person I married and presumably love, dead, everything I try to do to stop something terrible, useless, and then I am bitter and powerless and there's nothing I can do but curse at the world."
She shrugs, and looks away. "It's a shitty, shitty fate. I don't know if we want to include it, but - it sticks out in my head."
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"... Okay, my turn for depressing. The female characters all lose their children and families. And - the play sort of implied Margaret had some kind of ability to curse and create prophecies and then she passed that on to the other women who have lost things. But that still rings kind of hollow to me. Elizabeth tried to keep her son safe by claiming sanctuary and staying in a church, and it didn't work, not because she failed, but because the people that were supposed to protect them gave her son up. She's treated as one of his main antagonists, but unlike the others he doesn't bother to kill her because she's no longer a threat. The Duchess was the first person to make Richard flinch, but all of the warnings of doom in the world don't make up for not - she didn't really have a hand in finally killing him? Okay, congrats, you called down curses on his name, but cursing until you're blue in the face doesn't actually - fix anything.
"I - am not sure where I'm going with this, actually. It's like - there's a silent potential horror story that hangs in the back of my head. It actually kind of goes something like this. The lives of every child I helped bring into the world, extinguished, my - the person I married and presumably love, dead, everything I try to do to stop something terrible, useless, and then I am bitter and powerless and there's nothing I can do but curse at the world."
She shrugs, and looks away. "It's a shitty, shitty fate. I don't know if we want to include it, but - it sticks out in my head."