autoluminescence:

laissezferre:

a little something i thought of during breakfast: when hamilton introduces himself to angelica, he doesn’t follow the melody of the song and instead uses the one in “my shot”. “my name is angelica schuyler / alexander hamilton” he’s in his own pace and expects others to keep up. but then angelica keeps up and uses his melody in her next question–where’s your family from?–and that is basically the melodic equivalent of what angelica describes in the next verse as “matching wits with someone at your level”.

OK OK OK yes but what is really vitally important is that something similar but also REALLY DIFFERENT happens again in non-stop:

alexander/i have to go/alexander!/look around, look around/HELPLESS

in which alex uses the sisters’ thematic line for the first time (i think?), but, goddammit alex, he’s got the wrong one: he know he should be trying to speak her language, but he’s on the schuyler sisters and she’s on helpless, and they’re so close but still not quite together.

but then in take a break, we again get the glorious giggly “angelica!/ELIIIZA” and now alex fills in the end at the right place!! (the schuyler sistersss) and THEN.

angelica sings “alexanderrrr” in the line of the schuyler sisters. his name isn’t said in the my shot style (staccato, alex-ander-hamil-ton), but is instead a higher schulyer sisters ELIIIZA (alexaaaaander. [hi]). angelica brings him into the schuyler fold and forces him to keep up with her.

which is really really fortunate, because that’s exactly what alex needs to be able to reconcile with eliza in it’s quiet uptown: speaking her melodic language of “it would be enough” - for the first time, really, truly, connecting with her at a fundamental level in her language.

alex is a schuyler as much as eliza is a hamilton and angelica doesn’t have to change her language to match wits: literally the current thesis statement of my life.