moon_custafer | I’ve been listening to the playlists I put together, hoping for inspiration

A character in my fic has been acting weird for the past couple of chapters and I need to figure out why.

Also I keep fixating on this bit from Lear, and the switch from "you" to "thou." I suppose he must notice at the beginning that Kent and a doctor are there too, and then his focus narrows to Cordelia:

LEAR. You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave;
Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound
upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
do scald like molten lead.

Until I looked it up yesterday, I kept mis-remembering the first line as “you do me wrong to take me out of the grave alive,” even though that makes no sense (if someone’s been buried alive, they usually want out).

I think, for some reason, that my villain’s going to throw some version of this quote at our heroes, and prompt the response: “Stop trying to use Shakespeare against my colleague.” I still don’t know where my brain’s going here.

ETA — Think I figured out what’s up; now the problem is to avoid making it sound like conventional romantic/sexual jealousy, but I’m hoping I managed to dodge that narrative bullet.