Black Hat Brigade: Episode 6
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wingedbeastSetting: Conference room. The white walls are decorated with various posters. Behind Susan Pevensie, the poster displays a black and white Yin-Yang symbol. The caption reads "You can always find the grey."
Susan Pevensie: Thank you, all, for joining me here. Scenes of breaking into the fictions of others can become repetitive, even when not testing authorial imagination.
Cordelia wears a flowing toga:I see not need for meta-fiction jokes.
You have made offer we find of high risk.
Regan wears a wide-brimmed Elizabethan dress: Should we scoff upon our great certainty?
Our Shakespearean Immortality?
Edmund wears colonial era military uniform: Villains we may be, our villainy is
villainy everlasting memory.
Susan: Shakespearean immortality, indeed. That is quite the length to be remembered for being evil for evil's sake. Oh, sure, Edmund, you will, every so often, with sympathetic Director or intent actor, be displayed to be wronged by your father's treatment of your class, but is does that truly soothe?
Edmund: Maybe that it does, maybe it does not.
I at least am made glorious villain.
Should I be wounded to not be hero?
Susan: No, but you should be offended that you are so often an example of the ill-bred being evil for the sheer sake of being ill bred.
Edmund slaps the table: Nay, I am to give to the stars
that which is my responsibility.
I chose to be the wicked, treacherous.
That I do have and I will not give up.
Regan: And we have place as scheming mistresses
We should not wish to be made lesser so
that modern liberal audiences
may have some moral about feminism.
Cordelia: Should we be feminist, we should but win,
not ply sad tail of parental abuse,
cheap story for Lifetime Movie Network.
Susan: I've no intention of taking any of your choices from you. But, you exist in a tragic play and I would see that tragedy more fully fleshed out. None of you need be victims of anything but that which is already fully established in the play, which is quite enough for all of you.
Cordelia: We may have twisted father's mind, but we
will not have him made into a villain
We do have that love for him that tragedy
need not be compounded to villainy.
Susan: He is already villain enough to his own tale by what is shown in the play. William Shakespeare may not have intended it, but this is not a play of a man trusting the wrong, but a society denying all other options but to be wrong.
Edmund: One great virtue of my villainy
is that I take responsibility.
By star or by society, I
will not be made a plaything of the fates.
Susan: That, right there, is self-determination, and that, right there, is the heart of this tragedy.
Regan: I do think I see what trail you make to tread.
Yet, I see too much my father made monster.
For even monster of society is
monster made my beloved father be.
Susan: That is inevitable. Your father wronged you by making your official place to be that of a thing he gives away with power. And, yours, Edmund, by making your official place to be the eternal lesser to two brothers who's only achievement was to be born, as opposed to you who were born.
In short, the words I want you to take in are "Anti-Hero".
Susan Pevensie: Thank you, all, for joining me here. Scenes of breaking into the fictions of others can become repetitive, even when not testing authorial imagination.
Cordelia wears a flowing toga:I see not need for meta-fiction jokes.
You have made offer we find of high risk.
Regan wears a wide-brimmed Elizabethan dress: Should we scoff upon our great certainty?
Our Shakespearean Immortality?
Edmund wears colonial era military uniform: Villains we may be, our villainy is
villainy everlasting memory.
Susan: Shakespearean immortality, indeed. That is quite the length to be remembered for being evil for evil's sake. Oh, sure, Edmund, you will, every so often, with sympathetic Director or intent actor, be displayed to be wronged by your father's treatment of your class, but is does that truly soothe?
Edmund: Maybe that it does, maybe it does not.
I at least am made glorious villain.
Should I be wounded to not be hero?
Susan: No, but you should be offended that you are so often an example of the ill-bred being evil for the sheer sake of being ill bred.
Edmund slaps the table: Nay, I am to give to the stars
that which is my responsibility.
I chose to be the wicked, treacherous.
That I do have and I will not give up.
Regan: And we have place as scheming mistresses
We should not wish to be made lesser so
that modern liberal audiences
may have some moral about feminism.
Cordelia: Should we be feminist, we should but win,
not ply sad tail of parental abuse,
cheap story for Lifetime Movie Network.
Susan: I've no intention of taking any of your choices from you. But, you exist in a tragic play and I would see that tragedy more fully fleshed out. None of you need be victims of anything but that which is already fully established in the play, which is quite enough for all of you.
Cordelia: We may have twisted father's mind, but we
will not have him made into a villain
We do have that love for him that tragedy
need not be compounded to villainy.
Susan: He is already villain enough to his own tale by what is shown in the play. William Shakespeare may not have intended it, but this is not a play of a man trusting the wrong, but a society denying all other options but to be wrong.
Edmund: One great virtue of my villainy
is that I take responsibility.
By star or by society, I
will not be made a plaything of the fates.
Susan: That, right there, is self-determination, and that, right there, is the heart of this tragedy.
Regan: I do think I see what trail you make to tread.
Yet, I see too much my father made monster.
For even monster of society is
monster made my beloved father be.
Susan: That is inevitable. Your father wronged you by making your official place to be that of a thing he gives away with power. And, yours, Edmund, by making your official place to be the eternal lesser to two brothers who's only achievement was to be born, as opposed to you who were born.
In short, the words I want you to take in are "Anti-Hero".
