Shen Yuan nods, then remembers Laertes can't see him without turning his head, which Shen Yuan has forbidden him from doing. "Yeah," he says instead. "He used to be fictional, to me. The protagonist of a novel I was reading when I died.1 Actually—" this, apologetically, "—most people here used to be fictional, to me. Including you. I wasn't sure what Shakespeare play you were from, when I arrived; I only figured it out once I placed Claudius, and then realized the two of you were from the same world." Even now he's not really sure what Laertes does, in Hamlet (probably because he's not in either the Lion King or any famous paintings). He reworks the shape of Laertes' jaw and hopes it's more than 'be sad about his sister'.
1 Wow, not even specifying hate-reading. This IS personal growth.
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Date: 2023-11-27 05:18 pm (UTC)1 Wow, not even specifying hate-reading. This IS personal growth.