shakesankle:

Okay can we talk about Mercutio and Benvolio for a minute please?

Mercutio does not actually die on-stage. He is stabbed by Tybalt, makes a few puns and the odd dick joke (as one would), and then asks Benvolio to help him “into some house”. They go off-stage and Benvolio re-enters a few lines later (suspiciously few, in fact) to report Mercutio’s death.

Benvolio himself then promptly disappears from the play at the end of the scene.

Headcanon that Mercutio’s death was faked and that he and Benvolio are sitting happily on some tropical island together, sipping cocktails and making out.