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Title: Black Black Heart
Vidders: astolat and thuviaptarth
Fandom: The Revengers Tragedy
Music: David Usher
Summary: A man who were for evil only good.

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Entirely Optional Notes
eta note on source: The Revengers Tragedy is a Jacobean revenge tragedy adapted into a grungy, sumptuous dystopian science fiction movie starring Christopher Eccleston, and featuring Eddie Izzard, Derek Jacobi, and many other people vaguely familiar to me from other British TV and movies.

Since it's called The Revengers Tragedy, I do not feel it constitutes a spoiler to warn you that ( this thing I am going to spoiler-cut anyway happens ).

The original play was once attributed to Cyril Tourneur, who produced nothing else but a truly awful play called The Atheist's Tragedy, and is now commonly believed to have been written by Thomas Middleton, although I have my doubts, since The Changlelings and Women Beware Women are just as misogynistic as The Revenger's Tragedy but have much rounder characterization. My favorite speech from The Revenger's Tragedy is pretty characteristic, both in language and attitude:

VINDICI to THE SKULL OF HIS MURDERED WIFE:
Thou sallow picture of my poisoned love,
My study's ornament, thou shell of death,
Once the bright face of my betrothed lady,
When life and beauty naturally fill'd out
These ragged imperfections,
When two heaven-pointed diamonds were set
In those unsightly rings: then 'twas a face
So far beyond the artificial shine
Of any woman's bought complexion
That the uprightest man, if such there be,
That sin but seven times a day, broke custom
And made up eight with looking after her.

You know, I so seldom have the opportunity to press random Jacobean quotes on people! Have another, to Vindici from his mother:

I'll give you this, that one I never knew
Plead better for and 'gainst the devil than you.