Talk:Marc Antony/@comment-35141042-20181220223418/@comment-3452092-20181220234413

Not sure I'm the person to answer since I only fit some of that, but I, too, like the Choices version of him. I absolutely am not romancing him to kill him (or at all). It does bother me that he is a real person that they chose to make as a love interest. I would have preferred that they stuck closer to his real story. If they wanted to make a love interest based off their favorite qualities of him and chosen a different name, that would have been different. I think part of my problem is more the deliberate misrepresentation of him (and Cassius). He was an interesting, if creepy, person. I have a big enough problem with deliberate misrepresentation of history. You mess with the real people that lived in that time period, make them into things they definitely were not, and my problems increase. I don't mind real people in my stories I read. I don't mind them filling in the blanks of their day to day lives as long as they stick to what is known when those things come up. It's when they start altering what is known that I have problems.

Part of this may be my own interest in history and genealogy. I have some, presumed, ancestors who are known to history thanks to a poet who wrote about their courtship. If there was ever a Choices story about them (which there won't be, because they were Pilgrims and there is definitely not enough clothing options for Pixelberry) I could see Pixelberry making one of them into a love interest after doing this. They are some of the more well known people there and that would just creep me out a thousand times more than this. And although not on the same level, I think the realness factor that lies with both is related to my own reactions as well.