Desperate Fans

“Mercutio could make light of any slight done to him, no matter how grave. — Which, in this case, it was.” Slights done to others he cares about is a different story entirely, but Benvolio has seen Mercutio laugh off the worst insults and injuries, whether it was from a random person on the street, his own father, or anyone in between. He acts like none of it stings in some attempt to brush it away sooner, but Benvolio knows his friend. He knows how deep those things can run with him, and he finds it ridiculous that someone else wouldn’t understand how big a deal this situation is. “I do not think the man who caused him to die in my arms could possibly care for him, and if, as you say, Tybalt hath been banished back to hell then we are all the better for it.”