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

hamlet au where instead of hamlet’s chain of thoughts being “here’s my father’s ghost -> he wants me to avenge him -> I’ll go do that,” he goes “here’s my father’s ghost -> ghosts are real -> what other paranormal things exist in this world??’ and he goes and becomes a ghost hunter.

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