Let's face it, though - it's
harlequin makeup, which is by far older than the Shadowrun character. (Interestingly enough, 'harlequin'' parallels 'erlking' ... makes me wonder whether or not Jim Butcher is aware of that. I know I wasn't.) Whether (in Shadowrun) the makeup is done that way because that specific individual popularized it in French passion plays or just that he adopted it afterwards is a matter of conjecture; the character in Cleopatra 2525 MAY owe something to the SR character, but the SR character owes much of itself to the stock character, so you really can't say that Cleopatra 2525 took it from SR.
