geeking out on shakespeare's histories

Title: Unmasked
Author: gileonnen
Play: Richard II/1 Henry IV
Recipient: gehayi
Characters / Pairings: Falstaff, Hal, Poins, Francis, Mistress Quickly, Richard II, Henry IV
Warnings: Profanity, drunkenness, fat-shaming language, mentions of the Vietnam War, alternate universe/alternate reality with superheroes
Rating: T
Summary: Falstaff wants to be a superhero. Hal isn't so sure that's a good idea.

( Unmasked )

Title: Fail Trying
Author: gileonnen
Play: 1 and 2 Henry IV, Merry Wives of Windsor
Recipient: gehayi
Characters: Falstaff, Doll Tearsheet, Mistress Quickly, Hal, Poins, Mistress and Master Page, Fenton, brief mentions of Hotspur, Kate, and Shallow
Warnings: Foul language, references to prostitution and sex droids, characters expressing misogynistic and fat-bashing attitudes and using ableist language
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Jack Falstaff is a space pirate--but not a particularly good one.
Notes: I have taken some liberties with the prompt in order to keep the worldbuilding internally consistent; I hope that this will be acceptable.

( Fail Trying )

Title: I Shall Find Time
Author: gileonnen
Play: Richard II, Julius Caesar; would benefit from a knowledge of 1 Henry IV
Recipient: elviaprose
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Hotspur and Brutus; mentions of Hotspur/Kate and Brutus/Portia; much discussion of Cassius, Caesar, Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), and Richard II.
Warnings: Strong language, vague violence.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Two men consider the merits of civil war, political coups, and Manchester United. Spy AU.
Notes: Many thanks to lareinenoire, who was kind enough to beta-read this fic.

( They start taking lunch together sometime after the Woodstock Affair. )

Title: Slovenly Unhandsome
Author: gileonnen
Play: Richard II and 1 Henry IV
Recipient: lite_bright
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Hotspur, Kate, Hal
Warnings: Historical AU
Rating: PG-13
Notes: lite_bright's prompt was enticingly nonspecific, so I took a few ideas from it (student AU, unpleasant Hal, Percy Sr.) and ran away laughing. Hope that works for the recipient!
Summary: War is Hell; reconstruction is purgatory. Hotspur recuperates from World War II.

( After the war, Hotspur doesn't trot off to school like what mates he had could afford it--smacks to him of middle-class pretensions, and he's one to call a spade a spade. While everybody's lucky charm Prince Harry is nancing about in Cambridge or Oxford or wherever the fuck he went, Hotspur's helping to rebuild fucking Germany. )