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muse_prompts. Do you people realise how many jesters and fools I've fallen in love with over the years? But I always did have a soft spot for this one. Danny Kaye is awesome as Hubert.Title: Jester's Chief Employment
Rating: PG
Fandom: The Court Jester (1955)
Characters/Pairings: Hubert Hawkins, mention of Hubert/Jean
Summary: "And I found out soon that to be a buffoon is a serious thing as a rule. For a jester's chief employment is to kill himself for your enjoyment, and a jester unemployed is nobody's fool." Hubert decides maybe that wasn't the wisest thing he's ever said ...
Wordcount: 322
Disclaimer: Not mine, though I wish they were.
Jester's Chief Employment
'To kill himself for your enjoyment', eh? Well, he'd said it. In front of the King, Ravenhurst, the Princess ... just about everyone who'd subsequently tried to kill him or get him killed. Possibly it was only fair. He had said it, after all.
He'd rather been hoping it wouldn't be taken quite so literally, though.
Damned dangerous business, this being a jester. How the hell did Giacomo manage it? Jester of kings. Hubert had only been jester to one king, and already he'd been almost killed at least five times! If that was the kind of rate a jester could expect ... he'd take the carnival any day. He was a coward. He was very good at being a coward. It paid better in life expectancy.
Which was all very well, except ... Jean wanted him to be the Court Jester. Now that the real king was on the throne, and with the country and the court in such uproar ... she said she wanted to young king to have a real friend at his side. Not that the Fox and Griswold didn't count, they did, and no more loyal men in all the kingdom were there, but ... and then she'd put on that loving, hopeful, admiring expression of hers, and what was he supposed to do? He'd already walked into death more than once for that expression on her face (admittedly without realising it most of the time), could he do less now? He couldn't. He couldn't say no to her. And besides. He'd gotten rather fond of the little tyke.
So. Jester once more, eh? So be it. But he was having a stern talk with the Fox, and the king when he was old enough, about this 'kill himself for your enjoyment' clause. He wasn't going to be put off, or swayed, and if they thought him a coward, so be it!
Even jesters have their limits, after all.
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You rule the world for writing this!!!!!
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We had it on VHS for years, but then it got partially taped over by accident, and I haven't been able to find a DVD copy. *pouts* On the upside, it's on youtube now. *grins*
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