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dark_therapy

My Beautiful Beast (PT, Mytho/Rue)

Aug 27, 2010 06:34

Title: My Beautiful Beast
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Pairing: Mytho/Rue
Summary: Some curses can be broken in a flash of heavenly light. Other curses stain deeper, and need both time and love.
Rating: T
Warning[s]: Shameless fluff and mild allusion to sex.
Disclaimer: I don't own Princess Tutu or the characters. Ikuko Itoh does. ^_^
Notes: Set after the series ( Read more... )

mytho/rue, fanfiction, princess tutu

Comments 15

insaneladybug August 27 2010, 06:24:08 UTC

Beautiful, as always, and so filled with emotion and heart ( ... )

(Part 1) dark_therapy August 27 2010, 17:17:19 UTC

Thank you! Again, I'm so happy you enjoyed it, and very grateful for the extensive and detailed feedback! *twirls*

I really love how you compare Mytho's transformation to Rue's, and how Rue's will take much more time to overcome. (I've definitely read fics where Mytho is not fully cured and the Raven's blood surfaces to torment them some more, but I far prefer the happier version.)Thanks! I did try to imply that Mytho isn't totally unscathed by his experience, and that the Raven's blood is still inside him and has changed him (though the changes - like a little selfishness, and being able to love one person more than everyone else - aren't all bad, though they might come with a price), but that out of the two of them, it's Rue who's scars are going to take longer to heal. And I do genuinely believe that. Rue has so much insecurity, loss of identity, and a terrible past to deal with as well as wow the way the Raven's blood might magnify those torments, and she's only human ( ... )

Re: (Part 1) insaneladybug August 27 2010, 17:34:36 UTC

**nodnod.** Yeah, I like how you showed that Mytho didn't come away completely unscathed from the Raven's blood, even though his physical transformation was instantaneous. It's good for him to get a taste of those other emotions sometimes and have them still present within him ( ... )

Re: (Part 1) dark_therapy August 27 2010, 21:08:25 UTC

I have come to feel a great deal better about Rue in some of my recent episode rewatches. There are some interesting subtleties in how she's portrayed that I hadn't stopped to notice before, such as how, once she knows Mytho wants to regain his heart, the next thing she tries is having that wedding thinking that will bind him to her and she won't have to worry even if his heart gets fully restored. Then some of her other actions frustrate me again, but I always try to keep her horrifying past in mind. It's amazing she managed to emerge as strong as she did.

Yeah, it's definitely easier to appreciate Rue on the rewatch! And it's very odd how often the wedding episode is overlooked (maybe because Duck and Fakir absorb all attention in that particular ep, so Kraehe's threat seems almost incidental). But you're right that her actions were very telling.

You're right, I really do love that about Rue also, that she fully accepted the blame for what she did. I try to bring that element to the characters when they make some terrible mistakes ( ... )

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dark_therapy August 27 2010, 16:07:01 UTC

Wow, thank you! Your comment was so sincere and touching, and I'm thrilled to know you enjoyed my 'fic so much. And also that my stories stand out to you! I'm glad you like them so much! <3

I've actually been writing fanfics for nearly ten years now (wow...it just hit me how much time it's really been! o_0), but I promise that if you were to go to my FF.Net profile and read the stuff I wrote when I was a young teen starting out, you'd be amazed at the difference in quality. XD It definitely took a lot of time and continuous writing to get where I am now, but it was absolutely worth it, and a lot of fun. So just keep writing! The more you work at it, the easier it becomes! I wish you all the best! ^_^

Oooh, and is that Cloud and Aeris in your icon? *fangirls*

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dark_therapy August 27 2010, 16:35:31 UTC

Ah, silly me! *blush* It looked like it could be a fanart of them, so I thought I'd ask. XD

demihime August 27 2010, 13:26:50 UTC

Absolutely beautiful! Everything that you write about these two is so touching, so perfectly written!

dark_therapy August 27 2010, 15:48:55 UTC

Aiiiiiiee, you're way too kind! *blush* Thank you! I'm really happy you liked it so much. :D

moonshadowmagic August 27 2010, 18:01:12 UTC

*Spot- on.* I've always thought the ending was appropriate because Rue and Mytho understand what it is to live with raven's blood, and Tutu/ Duck does not... Then again, I will maintain that I had a Rue for a roommate in college, and so found Rue/Kraehe impossible to dislike (if easy to disagree with.)

Irrelevant: I've always wondered if Rue's eyes are really red, or some other color underneath, like Mytho's. More relevant: Most fanfic seems to portray the fairytale as a boring, sappy, stifling place to live. (I gotta work on that.) In a few short lines, though, you did a lot to present a logical alternative.

Very well done!

dark_therapy August 27 2010, 21:55:22 UTC

Thank you very much, and I'm so glad you enjoyed my story! :D

I completely agree with you about how appropriate the ending was - by the finale, Mytho and Rue were deeply connected in a way that he and Duck/Tutu simply weren't.

I've always wondered if Rue's eyes are really red, or some other color underneath, like Mytho's.

That's really interesting, because in one scene featuring Rue as a child (when the Raven first tells that Mytho is destined to marry her) her eyes are red, but in others (like this one), her eyes are clearly brown. I absolutely love the idea of her eyes having been stained permanently red from years of drinking the Raven's blood, so in my view (and the canon in my head), her eyes were brown as a child, but were turned red over time. *_*

Most fanfic seems to portray the fairytale as a boring, sappy, stifling place to live. (I gotta work on that.) In a few short lines, though, you did a lot to present a logical alternative.Thank you! I'd definitely love to write a more detailed post-series story about Mytho and Rue ( ... )

moonshadowmagic August 27 2010, 23:38:23 UTC

Maybe Rue's eyes will go back to being brown someday... [Irrelevant!]although I wondered if maybe light gray, kind of a Jennifer Connolley look... But if brown is canon, that's good! Gray might be hard to animate, it'd wash out.

There's a quote from Terry Pratchett's "Wyrd Sisters", by Death (voiced by Christopher Lee in the cartoon adaptations- woo hoo!) about humans thinking that Art is an escape, but it isn't-- it draws the audience further *in* to the very things they want to leave behind. In the PT epic- thingy I'm really not writing, the only way I could think of to present life in a fairytale is exactly like real life, just maybe with more magic, and enough room and time for lots of things to happen. If nothing else, I've already got most of an epilogue written-- how would a fairytale kingdom confuse a Really- Not- from- National- Geographic(c) journalist?

I mean, look at Anne McCaffrey's Pern. The dragons are why you plow through the politics, interesting as they can be.

dark_therapy August 29 2010, 01:33:04 UTC

Maybe Rue's eyes will go back to being brown someday... [Irrelevant!]although I wondered if maybe light gray, kind of a Jennifer Connolley look... But if brown is canon, that's good! Gray might be hard to animate, it'd wash out.

I wonder about that too, though I tend to think the answer is no, and that after so many years drinking the Raven's blood, her eyes can never go back to normal. :( Beautiful, grey Jennifer Connolley-esque eyes are a lovely choice imho (and the canon is such a minor - and not totally consistent - detail anyway), but I think I prefer brown because it's so...natural and ordinary, and really represents to me the normal human life she could have (should have) had, if she hadn't been stolen by the Raven.

There's a quote from Terry Pratchett's "Wyrd Sisters", by Death (voiced by Christopher Lee in the cartoon adaptations- woo hoo!) about humans thinking that Art is an escape, but it isn't-- it draws the audience further *in* to the very things they want to leave behind.I've never read "Wyrd Sisters" or seen the ( ... )