LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>Mercutio's been magnetic since he was a baby.</blockquote> ➤ another Romeo + Juliet vid, this one focusing on Mercutio ➤ it's about how magnetic a character and a person Mercutio is and like. YUP. AGREED. ➤ 0:58 in length. Music only, no added sounds/dialogue. Subtitles are available.

<blockquote>"It's Carthage and there hasn't even been a proper fight, only a whole lot of droning on about honor. If I wanted that I'd ask my father; at least he doesn't do it in verse." Tybalt and Mercutio meet at a very bad play. Words are said, eyelashes batted, and no one gets stabbed (that way...or the other way...yet).</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is entirely Miss M's fault. We were discussing how sleazy proshot Paris in the Hungarian musical would be exactly the kind of person to keep a book ranking all his sexual partners on prowess. That one time I wrote Mercutio Does Verona. This is sort of Paris Does Verona. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Paris asks his cousin Mercutio (God knows why) for romantic advice.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For Mercutio, discovering Verona is a long and idle process that demands the dismissal of any assiduous occupation.</blockquote> ➤ on the beginning of Mercutio's friendship with Romeo

<blockquote>Five times Mercutio denied his feelings and one time he didn't.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Okay, madame-madeleine, deeply questionable historicity ahoy and let’s not even talk about Roman names or my total lack of knowledge of this (vague but definitely Republican BC) period of Roman history. Also let us not question why Tybalt let himself get dragged to a questionably historical bacchanal in the first place. Um. Also this turned into a fic about Tybalt having a seizure, so…content warning for epilepsy, and as always I tried to be a bit vague about the exact nature of his illness, since canon is so stage-y to start with. ALSO IT’S SUPER DEPRESSING, SORRY. Rómeó és Júlia, Tybalt & Mercutio, T/PG.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Everyone knows that the Prince’s older nephew and heir never leaves the palace, has not been seen for a score of years. Some say he is sickly, some whisper he is mad, and at last all eyes turn appraisingly on his brother. If Escalus is to die childless, will he be a good ruler? Mercutio seems spirited enough, and able-bodied, to be sure. But wise? Just? Far-seeing?</blockquote> ➤ yaaaay! everyone lives (except Valentine) in this dystopian-future au

<blockquote>There is no simple word like beloved for what he feels for Tybalt's face, that tightening in his chest of mingled hatred and reluctant fondness, the rush of excitement whenever they cross blades or words. Mercutio has always won, before, the better fighter on both battlefields. Mercutio opens his eyes after the duel.</blockquote> ➤ Death creeping on one of my faves!

<blockquote>You're going to die in your best friend's arms. And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know. - "Planet of Love," Richard Siken What if Mercutio sees the future? (Based on the 2013 Italian musical version, Romeo e Giulietta - Ama e Cambia il Mondo.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tybalt and Mercutio at each other's throats forever and always and especially for Yuletide Madness.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Prompt is: "Mercutio meets Tybalt in a bar during Carnival" -- and literally that is it plus a bewildered bartender trying not to get knifed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Do you suppose it’s poison?” Mercutio whispers, close and conspiratorial. Benvolio blinks and is ready to ask what he means when his friend is on his feet again, nearly stumbling as he oversteps himself in half-drunk enthusiasm. “Poison on her lips—Our friend is mad!” It's not a storm just yet.</blockquote>