A Midsummer Night's Dream AU

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## *A Midsummer Night's Dream AU*

### Genre

Romantic Comedy
Supernatural

### Based on

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The **A Midsummer Night's Dream AU** storyline is a Project SEKAI Alternate Universe AU created by Epic girl 12345. As the title suggests, all the characters (except for VIRTUAL SINGERS) are placed into the story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

## Story

### Act 1

#### Scene 1

A beautiful young woman named Airi is in love with Shizuku and wishes to marry her. However, she is supposed to marry An, who her father picked out for her. When Airi refuses to obey, stating she is in love with Shizuku, An invokes before Duchess Ichika of Athens an ancient Athenian law that states a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or face death. Ichika offers her another choice—to live a life of chastity as a nun and worship the goddess Diana.

#### Scene 2

Meanwhile, Akiyama Mizuki and their fellow players gather to produce a stage play about the cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe in honor of the Duchess and her upcoming marriage to Shiho. Mizuki reads the names of characters and assigns them to the players. Tenma Tsukasa, who is playing the main role of Pyramus, is over-enthusiastic and suggests himself for the characters of Thisbe, the Lion, and Pyramus at the same time despite the fact that Akito was cast as Thisbe and Kanade was cast as the Lion. He also prefers being a tyrant and recites some lines of Ercles. Mizuki ends the meeting instructing their players to meet in the woods later that night.

### Act 2

#### Scene 1

In the forest outside Athens, Rui, the king of the fairies, and Nene his queen, are having an argument. Nene tells Rui that she plans to stay there to attend the wedding of Duchess Ichika and Shiho. Rui and Nene are estranged: She refuses to give her Indian changeling to Rui for use as his knight because the child's mother was one of Nene's worshippers. Wanting to punish Nene's disobedience, Rui instructs his mischievous court jester Emu to retrieve a flower called "love-in-idleness". Originally a white flower, it turns purple when struck by Cupid's bow. When someone applies the magical love potion to a sleeping person's eyelids, it makes the victim fall in love with the first living creature seen upon awakening.

#### Scene 2

Nene falls asleep after being sung to sleep by her fairies. Rui comes across her and applies the love potion to her eyes. He intends to make Nene fall in love with the first creature she sees when waking up, which he is sure will be an animal of the forest. Rui's intent is to shame Nene into giving up the little Indian changeling.

Meanwhile, Airi and Shizuku have escaped to the same forest in hopes of marrying in secret. An, who is also in love with Airi, pursues them into the forest. She is followed by Haruka, who is desperate to reclaim An's love. Haruka continues to make advances toward An, promising to love her more than Airi, but she rebuffs her with cruel insults. When Rui sees this, he orders Emu to spread some of the love potion on the eyelids of An. When Emu later discovers the sleeping Shizuku, she mistakes him for An—not having seen either before—and administers the love potion to the sleeping Shizuku.

During the night, Haruka comes across the sleeping Shizuku and wakes her up while attempting to determine whether she is dead or asleep. When she lays eyes on her, Shizuku immediately falls in love with Haruka.

### Act 3

#### Scene 1

Meanwhile, Mizuki and their actors are rehearsing their play in the forest. Tsukasa ends up suggesting lots of changes so that the ladies will not be offended thus leading to Toya being cast as the wall and Ena being cast as the moon. the mischievous Emu turns Tsukasa's head into a donkey. When Nene wakes up and lays eyes on Tsukasa as a donkey, she falls in love with him. Rui finds the abandoned changeling and takes him away.

#### Scene 2

When Rui sees An still following Airi, he instructs Emu to bring Haruka to him while he applies the love potion to the sleeping An' eyes. Upon waking up, An sees Haruka, and now both Shizuku and An are in love with Haruka, who is convinced that her two suitors are simply mocking her. When Airi encounters Haruka with her two suitors, she accuses Haruka of stealing Shizuku away from her. The four quarrel with each other until Shizuku and An become so enraged that they seek a place to duel each other to prove whose love for Haruka is the greatest. Rui orders Emu to keep Shizuku and An from catching up with one another and to remove the charm from Shizuku. After Emu applies the potion to the sleeping Shizuku's eyes, she returns to loving Airi, while An continues to love Haruka. And Nene is still in love with the donkey-headed Tsukasa.

### Act 4

#### Scene 1

Rui leads all the fairies away with the changeling at his side. Having achieved his goals, Rui releases Nene from her spell and they leave together in love once again. Following Rui's instructions, Emu removes the donkey's head from Tsukasa, and arranges everything so that Airi, Shizuku, An, and Haruka all believe that they have been dreaming when they awaken. Together they return from the forest to attend the wedding of Duchess Ichika and Shiho. When Ichika sees Airi and realizes that An does not love Airi any more, Ichika decides to no longer enforce the ancient law arranges a group weddinge—Airi to marry Shizuku, and Haruka to marry An. The lovers decide that the previous night's events must have been a dream.

#### Scene 2

Tsukasa meets up with his fellow players and tells them that he had a strange dream last night and that he will get Mizuki to write a ballad of his dream.

### Act 5

That night at the wedding, they all watch Tsukasa and his fellow players perform *Pyramus and Thisbe*. Unprepared as they are, the performers are so terrible playing their roles that the guests laugh as if it were meant to be a comedy. Before the encore, the guests sneak away and retire to bed. Afterwards, Rui, Nene, Emu, and the other fairies enter, and bless the house and its occupants with good fortune. After everyone leaves, Emu suggests to the audience that what they just experienced might be nothing but a dream.

## Characters

* Momoi Airi as Hermia
* Kiritani Haruka as Helena
* Hinomori Shizuku as Lysander
* Shiraishi An as Demetrius
* Hoshino Ichika as Theseus
* Hinomori Shiho as Hippolyta
* Tenma Tsukasa as Nick Bottom
* Shinonome Akito as Francis Flute
* Shinonome Ena as Robin Starveling
* Aoyagi Toya as Tom Snout
* Yoisaki Kanade as Snug
* Akiyama Mizuki as Peter Quince
* Kamishiro Rui as Oberon
* Kusanagi Nene as Titania
* Otori Emu as Robin "Puck" Goodfellow
* Hanasato Minori as First Fairy
* Tenma Saki as Peaseblossom
* Asahina Mafuyu as Cobweb
* Azusawa Kohane as Moth
* Mochizuki Honami as Mustardseed

## Trivia

* The opening to the story plays out differently due to Egeus not being shown in this version. It is instead Demetrius (An) who brings out the ancient law instead. Philostrate and Second Fairy also do not appear in this version with the latter's lines given to the First Fairy (Minori).
* Ruinene and Nenekasa are the only straight ships to appear in this AU with the latter being the result of a love spell. (Coincidentally both ships are WxS related)