First Impressions

My dad recently got a dvd of The Mikado. This particular performance stars Eric Idle, and it's the version I grew up with, so in my mind it's the real Mikado and all other performances are just shallow imitations.

So anyway, my mum and I sat down yesterday and watched the dvd's special features, which included footage of the actors rehearsing. In their normal everyday clothes. And I turned to Mum, and commented how weird it was seeing them when they weren't "wearing japanese clothing".

Except...
This particular Eric-Idle-starring Mikado? It's not your standard variety. The women are either wearing pinafores, or those puffy marshmallowy ballgowns. The men are wearing suits and tophats (or occasionally boaters).
THEY DON'T LOOK JAPANESE.

But somehow, despite that being the whole point of the thing, my little-girl brain, seeing this for the first time, apparently thought of them as "japanese" outfits - and I still kind of think of them that way.

Inside my head, Japanese people have curly red hair, and speak with Sloane accents...

Final Instructions

This was written for the Dead Letter Challenge.

The basic premise?
Kill a character. And then write one letter from them, after their death.

Here's mine:


( several important things… )