As Feste watched Duke, Viola, Olivia, Sebastian, and the others walk away, he grimaced. Not because of jealousy, but out of guilt. He knew that they would live out their lives in a content matter , settling down, having children, and passing away on their deathbeds. Or at least, that’s what a normal man would think. But Feste knew the truth. He saw the Duke’s lurking diseases and Sebastian’s abusive behavior. He saw their slow descent into madness as their lives slowly rotted away. The first noticeable signs were at the wedding, with Sebastian’s rough manner, and Olivia’s forced smile. Much later, at their twentieth anniversary, you could see Olivia’s deprived state and Sebastian’s anger. And it was also noticeable that Olivia was alone. She said he was sick in bed, and just…show more content… Orsino had developed Schizophrenia, of course, back in that day, they didn’t know that. Schizophrenia wasn’t officially discovered until later in human history. Feste also knew there wasn’t a cure for it yet, which meant that soon Duke would not longer be a Duke. Feste knew all this because he had heard the tales in a distant past, and also saw it occur in the present, or what will be the past. As age was just a toy for Feste, as he belonged to no age, he simply wandered. His job was to make sure the stories played out as they should and that no-one was able to cheat fate. Right now his current job, or his past job was to make sure the Duke’s life played out as it should. Even if it meant hurting others, something he deeply regrets doing in his line of work, and something he wished he could change. Every job he thought, maybe if I changed just one thing, would it make a difference. Maybe if he hadn’t made Malvolio look mad, or maybe if he had stopped Sebastian, maybe things would have worked out even better. But he could never follow through. Not because it might lose him his job, but because it might cost him his life. It might even cost him the entire
