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Silverbolt & Padmé: Star-Crossed Love

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:37 pm
by GoktimusPrime
Adapted from William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet". The House of Capulet are now the House of Star Wars, and the House of Montague are the House of Cybertron. Other toys represent characters who are of neither House.

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Act 1. Prologue

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In Toy Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their masters' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their masters' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.


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(1) "Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour."
(2) "I'll lay fourteen of my gears,--
And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--
She is not fourteen. How long is it now
To Boonta-eve?"

(3) "Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Boonta-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Arfour Pee-Seventeen and she--Force rest all Astromech droids!--
Were of an age: well, Arfour is one with the Force;
She was too good for me: but, as I said,
On Boonta-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--
Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;
My lord and you were then at Dantooine:--
Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
To bid me trudge:
And since that time it is eleven years;
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about;
For even the day before, she broke her brow:
And then Captain Antilles--Force be with his soul!
A' was a merry man--took up the droid:
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Artoo?' and, by my holidame,
The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
I warrant, an I should function a thousand years,
I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Artoo?' quoth he;
And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'"

(4) "Yes, master: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'
And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;
A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:
'Yea,' quoth my Captain,'fall'st upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;
Wilt thou not, Artoo?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'"

(5) "Peace, I have done. Force mark thee to its grace!
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:
An I might function to see thee married once,
I have my wish."

(6) "An honour! were not I thine only Astromech..."

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(1) "I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat."
(2) "A man, young lady! lady, such a man
As all the world--why, he's a man of plastic."

(3) "Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower."
(4) "No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men."

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*"Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days."

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*"Madam, Master Windu craves a word with you."

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*"Marry, bachelor,
Her master is the Lord of the house,
And a Jedi Master, and a wise and virtuous
I nursed the young lady, that you talk'd withal;
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
Shall have the chinks."


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(1) "I know not."
(2) "His name is Silverbolt, and a Transformer; A Maximal of your great enemy."

Act 2. Prologue
Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
With tender Padmé match'd, is now not fair.
Now Silverbolt is beloved and loves again,
Alike betwitched by the charm of looks,
But to his foe supposed he must complain,
And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:
Being held a foe, he may not have access
To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;
And she as much in love, her means much less
To meet her new-beloved any where:
But passion lends them power, time means, to meet
Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.


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*"Madam!"

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To Be Continued...

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EDIT: Prologues and translations for Artoo-Detoo added.

Re: Silverbolt & Padmé: Star-Crossed Love

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:57 pm
by Blazemane
I've made it through scene 1 so far- even adjusted for Transformers and Star Wars, Shakespeare is heavy reading.

This is awesome. I love a ton of the poses for these characters (especially Silverbolt when he's talking to Bumblebee- for example "Well, in that hit you miss..."). And I'm getting a kick out of seeing all the different characters in the group scenes.

I intend to keep reading...