There is a special problem within Blood Mutiny that I don't believe has happened with any other version of Romeo and Juliet.
A lot of times, someone would change the names to suit the setting. Not me. I'm trying to be faithful to the heart of the script, but I'm also trying to be faithful to the names of the characters.
The twist is Romeo just happens to be a vampire in Blood Mutiny.
There's a reason for this. I've read stories and seen movies of romance between vampires and werewolves and the guy is always and I do mean always the werewolf. I wanted to stand out from that mish-mosh of standardized ideals, so Romeo is now a vampire. Montague, lets face it, just does not make a good vampire name. Capulet, with obvious connections to the word capillary, a sort of blood vessel, does.
So Romeo is now a Capulet and Juliet is a Montague.
This is going to butcher Juliet's balcony monologue like nothing else. But the plot is going to hold up.
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