omg of course!! thank you so much for the ask! i love him!!!
favorite thing about them: good ol’ larry! i love his hypocrisy! he warns ophelia against hamlet while presumably dallying with others. what a guy! i like how much he cares for his family and would do anything for them, even if he could take like half a page from hamlet’s book and stop and think for just a second.
least favorite thing about them: he’s in france for most of the play :c
favorite line: this is so hard because i have several! i think i will go with: I tell thee, churlish priest, a ministering angel shall my sister be, when thou liest howling!
brOTP: hamlet and laertes! i love them as friends! i know a lot of people see them as rivals and i think there’s validity in that but i think it’s more of a friendly rivalry, personally! i think it makes their deaths at each other’s hands cut deeper.
OTP: osric and laertes have known one another intimately i’m sure of it. i don’t think osric was acting whenever he was talking about how great laertes is. i am out of my mind for this, perhaps
nOTP: laertes and horatio. i personally do not see it. maybe i’m crazy.
random headcanon: while laertes is loyal to his family to a fault, he is glad for his freedom in france. he doesn’t envy people like hamlet who have their lives determined for them. his time at university is spent at his studies and fencing but he does have a love of partying and this has led him to attend lectures with a pounding headache.
unpopular opinion: i don’t really agree that laertes and hamlet had a romantic/sexual relationship. i can see why people do think that but it doesn’t fit in with the narrative in my head which we all know is gospel /j
song i associate with them: dirty imbecile by the happy fits! i also have this on my hamlet playlist
favorite picture of them: i don’t have many pics of him but i love luke treadaway as laertes ;_; he’s pictured here with kirsty rider as ophelia!
WOOOO Thank you for your laertes opinions!!
I love laertes a totally reasonable amount and I love how much thought you’ve given his character–
now I’d love to read a full length fanfic of what laertes was doing in france
