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I feel like I should be able to find a connection between hamlet and the deathnote musical- probably because it slaps and I want to make an animatic but who knows

Hamlet, as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are taken to their deaths: “Did I hear correctly? Did that really happen? Was it simple done by writing done a name? Killing indirectly- pen and ink and paper- writing is the gun, I only have to aim…”

Hamlet, as he’s dying: “Is this the way it ends now? How could I not see this coming??…”

Hamlet, trying to figure out if the ghost is real: “Empty your mind of any theories, 'til all the facts are in. Start at the end of all your queries to learn where things begin. You analyze by working backwards- effects reveal their cause- for even perfect crimes have perfect flaws….”

Horatio, trying to talk some sense into Hamlet: “There are lines that can’t be crossed- there are things you shouldn’t do- for you pay too high a cost, and you lose a piece of you. You don’t justify a means in the service of an end- smashing laws to smithereens ‘til there aren’t any rules left to break or bend…”

Everyone, at every point in the play: “The truth is hard to sort out among the secrets and the lies. Familiar faces watch you, but with a perfect stranger’s eyes.”

Hamlet, Laertes, and Claudius, right before they’re all about to kill each other: “The line is quickly blurring between what’s right and what is not- I don’t care who gets hurt now, so long as I get one more shot!!”

Laertes, after Hamlet’s all like “’tis I, Hamlet the Dane!!”: “I wonder is this guy for real? I wonder is he who he claims to be? And if he is, then what’s the deal? Why would he make a point of telling me??”