2025-09-16 22:13:52 ¶ ●

# similarities between tma and hamlet

– catalyst of the story is the death of someone and the person filling their job position

– conflict at least partially revolves around confirming the suspicions over who killed the person who died before the story began

– protagonist is an academic of sorts

– protagonist goes on a paranoia spiral

–themes of not knowing who to trust, suspect everyone, search for answers

– HEAVY themes of self sacrifice

– ghosts

– intervention/ intervention-esque confrontations where people ask the protagonist to stop harassing everyone around them

– nearly all of the protagonist’s friends end up dead by the end

– antagonist is very interested in a crown of some sort

– story ends with protagonist successfully killing antagonist, but in a way where he sacrifices himself right in front of his boyfriend/‘best friend’

–boyfriend/'best friend’ reacts to that with 'well then I’ll gladly die too!’

–protagonist would rather that boyfriend didn’t die.

–sad sad tragic tragic cry forever ending

2025-09-30 16:05:26 ¶ ●

btw THIS Is what I mean when I say elias has such strong claudius vibes

ik I said in the tags of that other post that elias treats jon the way claudius treats laertes but it’s so.

it’s just- the way they encourage and gently guide them to lean into their impulses to make increasingly destructive decisions