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Other Adamandi details that fuck me up

•Repeated lines about becoming one within A Little More in Love, this will come back to bite both of them in the ass

•Beatrix stating that students love the prize section and that if you can’t get permission ask for forgiveness. Vincent is obsessive over getting noticed, is very happy about being called out for murder on the front page, Portia is explicitly told not to say anything about Vincent’s murders, and later on Beatrix ends up on fighting Vincent while trying to apologize to them.

•Vincent’s slow progression into becoming Ambrose. First it’s the cardigan, then calling Beatrix Ms. Reporter, his tie is tied when he shows Quincy the article which he had never done up until that point, putting Ambrose’s jacket on, skinning his face and wearing it, and Ambrose’s ghost speaking in sync with them.

•Portia cuts one of Beatrix’s strings and Beatrix proceeds to forget about how many Phaethon nominees are left alive and let’s it slip to Portia

•Beatrix being a space cadet throughout the entire show, not even sure if that was intentional, just find it funny. Spacing out during I Me Myself and not hearing what Portia said, not noticing Portia trying to cut a string off till the scissors are in front of their face, being forgetful and needing the strings or they’ll fuck up. Their mind is not in the building lol

•Beatrix keeping their reporter hat in The Other Side Of Failure but swapping out the Ardess jacket for a regular green one. She was able to find a middle ground between being a reporter and not being obsessive over it.

•The choreography in Word To The Wise keeping Vincent out of sync with the ensemble, visually showing his separation from the group.

•Vincent losing respect for Beatrix as he becomes more like Ambrose, going from being friends and calling them by their name to calling them Ms. Reporter and being self obsessed in the same way Ambrose was. In their initial interactions Vincent and Beatrix were having an actual conversation, making jokes, being friendly. At the end Vincent is talking over her the same way Ambrose did during his interview.

•The visual story telling in how the red strings clash against blue strings on Beatrix’s gloves, and that whenever the lie it’s associated with gets brought up she starts fiddling with the string nervously.

•Quincy freaking out about someone being on Studdon hall when they can’t find Vincent after it being repeatedly implied that they were going to jump off when they met Vincent, making their mind go to the worst case scenario and rushing to the top.

•The fact you can see some of the saints in the wings of the theater before they fully come on stage.

•Saint Jude being silent, Quincy not being able to hear him and not hear any hope for hopeless causes.

•The absolute fuckery that is Vincent giving Ambrose hope for life then killing him, damn just rubbing salt in that wound.

•Vincent not having a part in Me Myself and I initially due to not being selfish like the others, then taking over Ambrose’s part when they kill him, the start of them becoming like Ambrose.

•Read All About it implying that Ardess has a suicide problem among its students and that’s why everyone’s so confused why it’s being made note of in the paper, and explaining why Quincy never seeked help for depression, Ardess having a very disapproving view on mental health struggles. It also explains why Beatrix was able to get help in the past for their issues, they would’ve been in high school during their mental health scare.

•Beatrix’s ghost writing coming back towards the end when they’re able to use Portia’s position as apart of Local News to ghost write an article under Portia’s name, their access to the records of previous winners combing it with Portia’s position. They succeed via working together, a stark contrast to Ardess’ mentality of doing it all on your own.

•The visual story telling of Beatrix having the key to the Prize Section around their neck, a constant reminder for the audience that they’re the only person who can get into it.

•Vincent’s time traveling Ronald Reagan patch. I like to think that they met one time and Vincent hated this random twenty something so much that he made the patch and sewed it on out of pure spite.

•The trolly car problem coming up in the beginning, later on each character being in some sort of trolly car problem. Vincent chooses to let more people die for selfish reasons, Quincy can’t make the self sacrificing choice in stopping Vincent, Beatrix justifies letting Vincent continue the killings with the fact they can help more people by winning and getting a higher position sacrificing the few for the sake of the many, and Portia believing that no matter what good could come out of Beatrix potentially winning that Vincent killing people is still wrong.

•Beatrix’s constant moral dilemma within the show, repeatedly second guessing herself, and the ways they do mental gymnastics to keep themself going. They are so good at lying and creating stories that they create one in their own mind to justify their actions, this being made note of during their section of Me Myself and I.

•Beatrix shown to respect their grandmother a lot, and complimenting Portia by saying that their grandmother would like her, and Portia in the end helping Beatrix realign their moral compass because she has her priorities straight.

•Something I find funny, Beatrix always being quick on their feet for a lie to keep their plan steady but their mental processing slows to that of a floppy disk when romance gets brought up cause she’s been so married to her work that they haven’t even processed that they like girls yet lol

•Vincent being able to relate to Ambrose due to both being trans, Vincent allowing themself to be non traditionally masculine, while Ambrose is obsessed with the idea of it.

•Beatrix being the one to announce Ambrose’s suicide, presumably having been the one to ghost write the article, but not actually singing with the ensemble cause they know/suspect that Vincent was the killer.

•The admin interacting with Beatrix directly to give them things to read out, a visual show that they’re being manipulated by the admin.

•Ambrose’s makeup in the second act being a visualization of Vincent having made him geometric, later on cutting the lines to slice Ambrose’s face off. Originally may have been for Ambrose to chisel the points to smoothness, instead used for Vincent’s own motivations.

•The mis-en-scène having marble sculptures placed atop the center archway as foreshadowing to Ambrose’s fate.

•The repeated eye motifs in the background to emphasize the feeling of constant watching, that no matter where someone is or what they’re doing, they’re always being watched.

•The drawings on the chalk boards having some nice details, it’s fun trying to figure out who would’ve drawn each of them within the context of the story. A lot of them probably were Vincent, the saint was most likely Quincy, and that one about pulling strings feels like Beatrix being petty.

•Towards the end of Oh, Ms Reporter! Vincent says he wants to douse it in gasoline, later creating an entire fucking pyre

•Beatrix smoking when they’re at their worst, changing their personality for Ardess, tricking Vincent, trying to convince Portia to let the murders go. They’re also smoking with Vincent, symbolically passing on their worst attributes to him and poisoning them.

•Beatrix putting their cigarette out on their desk during Ghost Writer when they reveal that they want to do good and that’s what they’ve been using to justify their actions, along with putting it out when they’re questioning if they should trick Vincent. The cigarette goes out when her better attributes start showing.

•The fun bit of costume design used to achieved Beatrix’s strings and Quincy’s bandages, both using gloves to prevent them from falling off. It’s so simple but cleaver.

•Repeated halo imagery used for Quincy and their steady descent into religious fanaticism.

•Ambrose handing Vincent a table leg to swing at Beatrix during their fight, making sure that the blow would be fatal, unlike how a scalpel swing would just maim.

•Beatrix worrying that Vincent might kill someone or die in an awful fight during Me Myself and I, Vincent does both.

•The show of how each of the main trio’s morality shift through the show with how, in the end, Vincent and Quincy still want the prize while Beatrix rejects it outright.

•Quincy repeatedly using sunlight as a metaphor for happiness, but Portia and Beatrix being the ones who get to wake up next to each other under sunlight, while Vincent and Quincy lose that.

•Vincent not having any jacket when their ghost comes on stage during The Other Side of Failure, returning to how they started the show, finding peace even if it’s just the memory Quincy has of him. The good parts of Vincent, not tainted by Ardess. Quincy and Vincent’s relationship is at its best during that moment, neither having their Ardess jackets.

•Vincent throws away the wax Quincy is holding during The Other Side of Failure, just like how the real Vincent would’ve wanted it.

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