can we talk about othello from cassio’s pov

how everything is normal and he’s doing his job. and losing his job (for reasonable reasons, to be fair), and trying to get his job back

and then some guy attacks him, but he’s a soldier and he holds his own pretty well. He gets injured but it’s fine, it’s not fatal.

and then he finds out that the whole thing was a deliberate plot to kill him, arranged by his two close friends

one of which he was hanging out with very frequently and just had a whole conversation with about his personal love life a few hours ago