Princess Tutu eps 14-18
Dec. 21st, 2007 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmoore The prince has regained his heart(well, a nice chunk of it) but in doing so, his heart has been poisoned. The knight, having defied his fate and lived, now has no purpose. The princess has saved her prince, but in doing so, unintentionally cursed him. The villain, poor, lost child that she is, continues to lack resolve and seek love.
The fairy tale is over, now let's see what happens next.
Act one ended and everything seemed well. The princess saved the prince, the knight conquered fate and lived and the villain conceded defeat. Except, really, stories don't end at "happily ever after," we just stop following them then. As one of the wonderful prologues asks: did the prince REALLY love Cinderella, or did he just love the beautiful girl who could dance? Does Mytho love Ahiru, or or just the beautiful princess who saved him? Does Ahiru love Mytho, or did she just want to save the prince? And what about Fakir, the knight who has lost his path and purpose by not dying when the story told him to? Or Rue, the girl who wants nothing more than love, who loves a prince with no heart, and seeks the approval of a father who knows nothing but evil?
And, of course, there are consqequences for one's actions...Ahiru returned the ability to love to Mytho, but in doing so, she returned to him a heart shard that had been poisoned by the Raven's blood, turning him evil. And, of course, Fakir destroyed Mytho's sword so that Mytho couldn't destroy his ability to love...and also destroyed the only chance to shatter the cursed part of Mytho's heart and save him from the evil.
And Mr. Neko still threatens to make his students marry him, and HD still cackles gleefully in the background, plotting what else he can do to make his characters suffer, like all good writers.
Meanwhile, instead of catering to my fairy tale loving heart, we're catering to my "turn it all on it's head heart." We have stories that have no ending, a villain who's the most sympathetic of them all, and instead of two princes, we have a princess with a prince and a knight, realizing that, sure, the prince is the shining fantasy, but hey, the cranky knight sure does come running anytime she needs him...even if she doesn't realize she needs him.
And yes, we have more Fakir in the library, and more Fakir in black and with a sword. Plus we still have kink catering with Ahiru vounteering Fakir for club duries...and his doing it even though he will obviously hate it. This anime catering to me.
And Uzuru is darling...even if her fascination with Ahiru's transformations is going to give Fakir a stroke.
*sadly, I still haven't gone to get icons...*
ETA: And I would just like to say that more fiction should realize that, in fiction, the only thing better than a cranky boy with a sword is a cranky boy with a sword who loves his books. That is all.
The fairy tale is over, now let's see what happens next.
Act one ended and everything seemed well. The princess saved the prince, the knight conquered fate and lived and the villain conceded defeat. Except, really, stories don't end at "happily ever after," we just stop following them then. As one of the wonderful prologues asks: did the prince REALLY love Cinderella, or did he just love the beautiful girl who could dance? Does Mytho love Ahiru, or or just the beautiful princess who saved him? Does Ahiru love Mytho, or did she just want to save the prince? And what about Fakir, the knight who has lost his path and purpose by not dying when the story told him to? Or Rue, the girl who wants nothing more than love, who loves a prince with no heart, and seeks the approval of a father who knows nothing but evil?
And, of course, there are consqequences for one's actions...Ahiru returned the ability to love to Mytho, but in doing so, she returned to him a heart shard that had been poisoned by the Raven's blood, turning him evil. And, of course, Fakir destroyed Mytho's sword so that Mytho couldn't destroy his ability to love...and also destroyed the only chance to shatter the cursed part of Mytho's heart and save him from the evil.
And Mr. Neko still threatens to make his students marry him, and HD still cackles gleefully in the background, plotting what else he can do to make his characters suffer, like all good writers.
Meanwhile, instead of catering to my fairy tale loving heart, we're catering to my "turn it all on it's head heart." We have stories that have no ending, a villain who's the most sympathetic of them all, and instead of two princes, we have a princess with a prince and a knight, realizing that, sure, the prince is the shining fantasy, but hey, the cranky knight sure does come running anytime she needs him...even if she doesn't realize she needs him.
And yes, we have more Fakir in the library, and more Fakir in black and with a sword. Plus we still have kink catering with Ahiru vounteering Fakir for club duries...and his doing it even though he will obviously hate it. This anime catering to me.
And Uzuru is darling...even if her fascination with Ahiru's transformations is going to give Fakir a stroke.
*sadly, I still haven't gone to get icons...*
ETA: And I would just like to say that more fiction should realize that, in fiction, the only thing better than a cranky boy with a sword is a cranky boy with a sword who loves his books. That is all.