absolutely love that Edmund’s featured on the “sleeping their way to the top” page of TVTropes

not the best description overall but I love that my beloved blorbo gets a shout out

gonerilgirleril:

edettethegreat:

absolutely love that Edmund’s featured on the “sleeping their way to the top” page of TVTropes

not the best description overall but I love that my beloved blorbo gets a shout out

Edmund “sleeping his way to the top”, Bastard son then Earl of Gloucester.

good for him!! 👏👏👏

sudden awful realization that alexander hamilton (from the musical, as opposed to the real guy) fits the same tropes as edmund my beloved blorbo from king lear, who are both infamously bastards who are romantically involved with two sisters at once, have some experience with infidelity, and also some experience fighting a war involving a british king