Editing Othello (section)

==Trivia==
*Derives his name from the Shakespearean [[Wikipedia:Othello|tragedy of the same name]]. Which Shakespeare adapted from Cinthio's short story ''[http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/sites/all/files/Cinthio's%20Tale.pdf Un Capitano Moro]''.
**In the play Othello is a Moorish (read: dark-skinned) general of Venice betrayed by his junior officer Iago, who is light-skinned. Iago spends much of the story sneaking around behind the scenes, gather information and causing trouble between the other characters.
*His costume also suggests a nod to the Othello variant of the ''go''-like game [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi Reversi] (named for the play). The game involves capturing lines of two-sided pieces by flanking them with a pair of one's own pieces, at which point they are flipped to one's own color, with skilled players being able to execute chain reactions in which newly captured pieces capture additional pieces themselves. This echoes the mechanics of Othello's power in which his two aspects rapidly flank and swap to subvert, confuse, and outmaneuver foes.

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