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Lucky Day is the intellectual property of Doomed-Orange-Parka.

Ohai! As predicted, I'm not so quick and clever with these shorty fics. I keep typing and suddenly I have four pages. I'll get the hang of it eventually, or maybe it'll always be difficult and not something I want to revisit.

Enough about that. I played fast and loose with the featured sin in this ficcy. I came up with about five or six different scenarios, and this is the only one that amused me.

For those of you who've read Othello, seen the play or a movie - please ignore the next rambling paragraph.

For those of you unfamiliar with the plot of Othello, I recommend you read it someday. It's pretty wicked altogether. Otherwise: Othello is a great general, and rather than promote his wingman Iago, he chooses a less experienced soldier called Cassio. Iago is embittered by Cassio's new promotion and the favor shown him by Othello. Iago and this total idiot called Rodrigo, through various complicated plot meanderings, waste Cassio. All the while Iago has been suggesting to Othello that Desdemona, Othello's wife, has been cheating on him with Cassio. (Total lie.) In short, Othello finally flips it and smothers Desdemona who protests her innocence until the end. Iago's wife busts in and implicates her husband and, of course, Desdemona died wrongly accused. It's one of Shakespeare's biggest 'oh shit' moments. Good times.

And now:

The second installment of "Seven Deadly Sins: South Park Style!" – Envy

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Othello

Dramatis Personae

Clyde Donovan….Othello the Moor

Lucky Day….Desdemona, wife to Othello

Kenny McCormick.…Iago, a villain and third in command to Othello

Kyle Broflovski….Cassio, Othello's lieutenant

Eric Cartman….Rodrigo, former suitor to Desdemona

Bebe Stevens….Emilia, Iago's suspicious wife

Wendy Testaburger….Bianca, a prostitute patronized by Cassio

Clyde Donovan waited in the dark. He could hear her breathing beside him. They both watched the action on stage. Watched Iago and Rodrigo plot their destruction. From somewhere behind him, Wendy Testaburger huffed impatiently, anxious for her small role to begin. Kyle Broflovski kept repeating "letting go safely by the divine Desdemona…" under his breath, an ode to stage fright.

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Iago's eyes were twin cores of ice, but his silver tongue warmed to his subject - the faithless Desdemona. Othello despised him. He channeled that deep loathing as he stared forward, eyes skidding over the hushed audience of parents, teachers and classmates.

He watched players come and go, Cassio, Emilia, Bianca - but whenever she was there, his wife, he saw only her. Her green eyes sparked beneath the feathers of her lashes. The divine Desdemona.

His guts churned as he stood over the bed. She protested. He persisted. He could feel her breath warm on his hand and the thrill of her heart even as she died.

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A bubbling of applause became a storm as they bowed. Lucky's hand rested lightly in his. When Kenny came downstage, the storm became a roar. Clyde was deaf to it. All he heard was Wendy's voice.

"Didn't you know Clyde?" he heard her whisper in his brain. "Lucky is totally into Kenny McCormick." Wendy had given him a look of such pity that Clyde had instantly seen himself the way that she did, the way Lucky must. Pathetic.

The shushing of the curtain shielded them from the audience and they all spilled into each other, embracing. Clyde dropped Lucky's hand and sought his rival.

Kenny McCormick never saw the punch coming.

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Bad Wendy! I reckon she was a bit upset about getting passed over for the role of Desdemona, and decided to go rogue – Iago style. I'm sure Lucky is very fond of Clyde indeed. Envy is very dangerous stuff.

I couldn't freaking resist casting Wendy as a prostitute. Just cos!