My improvised Merlin version of Hamlet. The result is full of mistakes ;D
I even managed to forget the enormously famous play in a play part.
Enjoy
Merlin: prince of FaerieSynopsis: Fae prince Merlin is in constant doubt if he should kill his hot mother. As a result everyone gets killed.
We start off with our prince who comes back from Whocareswhere.
Merlin comes home to Mab and discovers that she killed/let his birthmother die. Then a ghost/Puddles advices him to avenge his mother's death on Mab.
Merlin is in doubt because he does love his fae mother and would not want to leave the endangered faerie realm without a queen.
We add Vortigern as Mab's love interest -current 7 year stand-/ jealousy maker for young Merlin.
Now prince Merlin is betrothed to the young and pretty Ophelia/Nimue.
Also present are his two best friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They are the comical note in this play. I suggest we make them Frik and Morgan
They keep Merlin company and keep the queen informed of his actions. She is concerned about Merlin because he has been acting weird.
Puddles keeps haunting Merlin. He grows scared, nearly tries to, decides not to kill Mab. He is convinced that Vortigern is evil and in on this murder.
Merlin pretends he's gone mad to avoid his duties to the crown.
The thing with Hamlet is you don't know when he actually goes mad. But he sure as hell does go mad= Merlin
One day crazy Merlin confronts his mother, blames her for killing his birth mother and sleeping with a murderous vulgarian like Vortigern. Merlin throws her on the bed, shouting at her. *I love this scene *
Then the ghost/Puddles arrives. Merlin cowers before the ghost, Mab can not see her sister. The ghost tells how lovely the queen is. This could be a nice -sisterly love, but Mab still has to die -moment
Then!
Merlin hears a noise and suspects it is evil Vortigern come to disrupt his Mab time
He finally leaps into action and kills the person.
Hamlet-Merlin was mistaken it was not king Vortigern.
It was Ophelia-Nimue's father. Corpse in Mab's bedroom alarm.
Meanwhile Nimue feels neglected by Merlin, because he's busy scheming and being mad. She breaks up with him. - I can't remember whether this was before or after her father's death- He tells her to go to a nunnery
Perfect fit!!!
thats disturbingly like Merlin..
Merlin-Hamlet leaves/is cast out of Faerie.
Nimue goes mad of sadness.
Her brother oh damn her brother swears revenge.
*interlude*
who cares for Nimue?!
Should I write her brother out of the story? He has to duel Hamlet in the end. So it can't be Arthur. I don't think I can/want to include Arthur in this.
Mordred has no reason to defend Nimue's honour, ah but he could fight Merlin to be Mab's champion! yes,
*end interlude*
Mordred (whose father might not even be Arthur in this
) swears he will get that coward who ran from his loving queen-mother!
Mad Nimue hands out weeds to everyone at court and drowns herself because her love is gone. *I like Ophelia it is not nice to turn her into a whiny Nimue*
Nimue was Merlin’s true love. With her gone Merlin has less reason to come back to Faerie and serve Mab as he should. Merlin’s loyalty is at stake.
This makes Mordred even more angry.
Merlin lives now on his own in the forest, in a hut, but he is troubled still and returns home.
There he talks to some crazy grave diggers and finds leftovers of pagan rituals-human sacrifices. Merlin gets even more mad at Mab. He also finds the skull of the human woman who raised him: Ambrosia.
Only one explanation: Mab killed her…. for her constant defiance.
Merlin is now convinced Mab has to die. He hears a noise and hides in the bushes.
He sees the royal family, burying someone.
His true love!
He jumps out of the bushes, cries over the body.
Mordred challenges him to a duel.
*the grande finale*
So there they are in one room: Merlin, Mordred, Mab and her casual lover Vortigern.
*can't remember if the ghost turned up again* The men are all set on killing each other. Merlin and Mordred, both Mab's creations, duel.
Merlin and Mordred battling it out to win Mab
swords, magic, monsters
Merlin wins, but Mordred's sword was poisoned. So they kill each other, in a ArthurModred like fashion. There is also a poisoned cup, can't remember by who for who. The queen drinks that one and dies BUT since Mab has taken the role of the main villain, king Vortigern drinks that cup and dies.
In Hamlet the evil brother-king dies as well in the end. Histarically funny is that I have forgotten how. Probably by Hamlet?
So er Merlin dead check, Mordred dead check, Vortigern dead check,
we can let Mab live
*beside herself with joy*
For fun we’ll let Merlin’s friends, Morgan and Frik, survive as well. They get to live happily ever after. Good. *pleased with this outcome*
The ghost should have disappeared when Merlin’s revenge was complete. hmm Merlin could not kill Mab, did not avenge his birthmother. Would Puddles still be around?
Just to piss us off yes
oh I see....so at the end of this version Mab lives on.....with her fan girls. *whistles*
yes, she no longer has her champions to turn to. we would have to come to her rescue
lol I could live with that
or if neither her pets died they could continue to try and woo her
Mab needs the spoiling
We have more and better survivors than the original Hamlet. I am so happy now!
Suddenly I like those Hamlet theories which say that he in fact wants to kill the king to be with his mother –Oedipus complex.
You are a genius magaging to do so.
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He finally leaps into action and kills the person.
Perfect fit!!!