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* NotSoDifferent: Hotspur and Hal are night and day from each other on a surface level, with Hotspur being aggressive, cocky, and macho while Hal is perceived by others as weak and feminine. However, it's eventually demonstrated that they're both [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Son Guys]] who [[ArmoredClosetGay hide their queerness]] (Hotspur being a trans woman and Hal being gay) out of fear of disappointing their fathers.
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* SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler: King Henry and Northumberland are played by the same actor: when the characters fully break out of their roles near the play's end, there's a moment of confusion as he, Hotspur, and Hal try to figure out which of their fathers he actually is before he decides to act as both.]]
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* SourOutsideSadInside: Hotspur is aggressive, hot-blooded, and misogynistic, but this is the result of overcompensation for trying to fit the role of a man despite being a trans woman: as the play goes on, it becomes more and more apparent that forcing herself to do this is making her ''utterly miserable''. [[spoiler: It makes her TookALevelInCheerfulness upon reaching the real world and getting to live as a woman all the more cathartic.]]
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* TrappedInTVLand: A theater example: Sam and Jen are real people trapped in a multiverse where each world is a Shakespearean play, and their motivation is to escape back to the real world.
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* OffTheRails: Jen's well-meaning advice to the characters (and connecting with them physically, which causes them to slowly develop MediumAwareness) causes the play to go awry, as characters are not where they're supposed to be...which is a problem, since the portal to the real world will only open near the end of the play provided it goes the way it's supposed to. [[spoiler:The play eventually breaks entirely, throwing the characters into an entirely separate play (Hamlet) and setting back Sam and Jen's escape plan considerably.]]
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* WhenSheSmiles: Hotspur rarely smiles, and when she does, it's usually a cocky grin or a sneer. It makes her genuine smile when [[spoiler: out in the real world and living as a woman]] so much brighter.
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* WhenSheSmiles: Hotspur rarely smiles, and when she does, it's usually a cocky grin or a sneer. It makes her genuine smile when [[spoiler: out in the real world and living as a woman]] so much brighter.brighter.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: King Henry clearly feels this way towards Hotspur in favor of his actual son, Hal, which breeds a great deal of resentment and approval-seeking in Hal.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: King Henry clearly feels this way towards Hotspur in favor of his actual son, Hal, which breeds a great deal of resentment and approval-seeking in Hal.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Sam initially refers to the characters in the play besides herself and Jen as "antibodies", essentially receptacles for the role they fill and not being properly human. However, Jen eventually comes to disagree with this, noting that the characters are able to hold conversations outside of the lines of their play and are clearly struggling with their own personal issues and argues that, while not from the real world initially, they're just as sentient outside their roles as her and Sam, and should be allowed to escape as well.
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* AddressingTheAudience: Hotspur becoming aware of the audience's presence and talking to them is the first sign that she's genuinely beginning to break out of her role in the play. [[spoiler:When the portal opens and the [[NoFourthWall fourth wall vanishes completely]], the other characters not only become aware of the audience's presence, Sam goes so far as to introduce herself to a member of the audience before gleefully leaving for the real world.]]
* NoFourthWall: [[spoiler: While the fourth wall is shaky from the start due to the meta nature of the play, with the characters seeing the audience and even talking to them at points, the opening of the portal causes it to shatter entirely, to the point that Sam introduces herself to one of the audience members before gleefully leaving for the real world.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: Hotspur falling into modern speech patterns and AddressingTheAudience, revealing that she's truly beginning to break out of her role in the play.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: Hotspur falling into modern speech patterns and AddressingTheAudience, talking to the audience, revealing that she's truly beginning to break out of her role in the play.]]
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* AddressingTheAudience: Hotspur becoming aware of the audience's presence and talking to them is the first sign that she's genuinely beginning to break out of her role in the play. [[spoiler:When the portal opens and the [[NoFourthWall fourth wall vanishes completely]], the other characters not only become aware of the audience's presence, Sam goes so far as to introduce herself to a member of the audience before gleefully leaving for the real world.]]
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* TookALevelInCheerfulness: By the end of the play, Hotspur has done this, the direct result of [[spoiler:escaping to the real world and being allowed to live as a woman.]]
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* SheCleansUpNicely: While Hotspur doesn't look ''bad'' exactly, presenting as a man (which doesn't suit her) combined with her bad attitude is somewhat off-putting. By contrast, after [[spoiler: escaping to the real world and presenting with a feminine style]], the change is ''astonishing''.
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--> '''Hotspur''': [[spoiler: (to an audience member) Who the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] are you?]]
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--> '''Hotspur''': [[spoiler: (to an audience member) Who the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] are you?]]you?]]
* WhenSheSmiles: Hotspur rarely smiles, and when she does, it's usually a cocky grin or a sneer. It makes her genuine smile when [[spoiler: out in the real world and living as a woman]] so much brighter.
* WhenSheSmiles: Hotspur rarely smiles, and when she does, it's usually a cocky grin or a sneer. It makes her genuine smile when [[spoiler: out in the real world and living as a woman]] so much brighter.
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* NotSoDifferent: Hotspur and Hal are night and day from each other on a surface level, with Hotspur being aggressive, cocky, and macho while Hal is perceived by others as weak and feminine. However, it's eventually demonstrated that they're both WellDoneSonGuys who [[ArmoredClosetGay hide their queerness]] (Hotspur being a trans woman and Hal being gay) out of fear of disappointing their fathers.
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* NotSoDifferent: Hotspur and Hal are night and day from each other on a surface level, with Hotspur being aggressive, cocky, and macho while Hal is perceived by others as weak and feminine. However, it's eventually demonstrated that they're both WellDoneSonGuys [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Son Guys]] who [[ArmoredClosetGay hide their queerness]] (Hotspur being a trans woman and Hal being gay) out of fear of disappointing their fathers.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: This is eventually revealed to be an aspect of Sam's character: she has self-worth issues and envies Jen for being young and pretty, as well as more comfortable in her own skin. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:she spent an indeterminate but apparently ''very'' long time as a BitCharacter in the play she was in, speaking one short line and being so frustrated that she broke out of her role through a sheer desire to be more important.]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: An unusual case: characters in the play notice that Jen has a strange way of speaking and unusual values (since she's a woman from the modern era and [[Theatre/HenryIV Henry IV]] takes place in the 1400s), but her decidedly modern outfit doesn't raise any eyebrows.
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* BrutalHonesty: Jen has a tendency to cut to the heart of a problem: when talking with Kate and Hal over their problems, she's rather blunt in her encouragement, with her advice to Hal being essentially "you're gay, so what?". Notably, both Hal and Kate are grateful for her directness, with both thanking her for it.
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* FemaleMisogynist: Hotspur, a trans woman, is very dismissive of feminine qualities and the people who possess them, and is distant towards her wife Kate. Justified since she's [[ArmoredClosetGay deeply closeted]] and likely overcompensating.
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* LostInCharacter: This was the case for both Sam and Jen, with both being people from the real world having been somehow pulled into the play multiverse and being transplanted into a role, believing themselves to genuinely be their character. Them breaking out of it and trying to escape is where the play begins.
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* MediumAwareness: A central mechanic in the play: the characters are initially unaware that they're in a play, but as Jen's interference begins to affect them, they gradually become more aware of the artificial nature of their world.
* NiceGirl: Flightiness and impulsivity aside, Jen is a friendly, pleasant, and kind person who sits with the characters in the play and tries to help them with their issues.
* NiceGirl: Flightiness and impulsivity aside, Jen is a friendly, pleasant, and kind person who sits with the characters in the play and tries to help them with their issues.
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* SatelliteCharacter: Kate is one for Hotspur: as she notes later in the play, she really only exists to help Hotspur's character develop and has no real internal complexity on her own. Her CharacterDevelopment over the course of the play involves breaking out of this and becoming more independent and complex.
