Twelfth Night: "What You Will" by baffleding

[baffledking]

Title: What you Will
Author: baffledking
Fandom: Twelfth Night (or What You Will)by William Shakespeare
Pairing/characters: Cesario/Orsino, Viola/Orsino
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: They're not mine, they're Shakespeare's. I mean no disrespect
Prompt: Twelfth Night, Viola/Orsino, Viola realizes that she was far more comfortable living as Cesario. Orsino discovers

Comments

[purple_chalk]

This is absolutely lovely. The dialogue is so delicate and daintily done that the themes behind it take on a very light, airy aesthetic, belying the intensity of the struggles with gender identity behind those pretty words. Wonderful, wonderful job!

[tree00faery]

This was so amazing! It's hard to capture the beauty of Shakespeare's language without trying to hard to replicate it, but you've done an amazing job! I always got the feeling that Viola liked being Cesario more than she let on. ^_^

[wishfulaces]

Beautiful--the language is perfect.

[kahvi]

Obviously Shakespeare meant for the ending to be ambivalent, but had he set out to make a happy ending, this would have been part of it. Beautiful - moving - brava!

[darchildre]

This is beautiful. Especially this:

“The priests decide what is natural and we’ll have none of them,” Orsino returned. “Between you and I, we need make no room for them.”

Of course not. This is Illyria.