Oh my goodness, this is more than I ever expected -- delicious history and ballads and pre-play all wrapped up into something marvellous.
The undercurrents, and Hotspur's quicksilver moods, and Douglas as the listener -- it's purely and utterly wonderful.
Moments I adored, shamelessly:
His voice stutters and cracks, rich and broken as drying clay, but every gesture is sure and clean and strong. Hotspur's voice as the broken vessel, now there is gorgeous imagery.
He wants to face a single man like this on the field of battle, and to be tested and repleted in the encounter. YES OBVIOUSLY THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE REALLY THINKING ABOUT. *ahem* I mean, yes, that would be interesting, wouldn't it? I wonder what would happen if they ever -- OH WAIT.
The whole 'toast' scene -- Hotspur being painfully honest in his own odd and awful way, the only way he knows, of being polite, and then not being able to stop being honest, and shutting up so very badly.
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Date: 2011-09-03 10:01 pm (UTC)Oh my goodness, this is more than I ever expected -- delicious history and ballads and pre-play all wrapped up into something marvellous.
The undercurrents, and Hotspur's quicksilver moods, and Douglas as the listener -- it's purely and utterly wonderful.
Moments I adored, shamelessly:
His voice stutters and cracks, rich and broken as drying clay, but every gesture is sure and clean and strong. Hotspur's voice as the broken vessel, now there is gorgeous imagery.
He wants to face a single man like this on the field of battle, and to be tested and repleted in the encounter. YES OBVIOUSLY THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE REALLY THINKING ABOUT. *ahem* I mean, yes, that would be interesting, wouldn't it? I wonder what would happen if they ever -- OH WAIT.
The whole 'toast' scene -- Hotspur being painfully honest in his own odd and awful way, the only way he knows, of being polite, and then not being able to stop being honest, and shutting up so very badly.
And the last line. Oh my heart, the last line.
THANK YOU!!