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[Character Name] Rue
[Canon] Princess Tutu
[Point Taken from Canon] end of episode 24
[Age] 14
[Gender] Female
[Sexual Orientation] Hetero, possibly bi-curious
[Eye Color] Red
[Hair Color] Black
[Height] 5'1"
[Other] nothing
[Clothing]
(Just the gray uniform; ignore the one on the right)
[Background] Rue is a grand example of someone with a mistaken identity. She is a human girl living in Gold Crown Town, but she was kidnapped when she was very young by the Raven. This evil bird is the primary villain in Drosselmeyer’s story “The Prince and the Raven”. Drosselmeyer never finished the book, so the Raven got bored and left the book’s pages in favor of Gold Crown Town. The story’s Prince followed, to the delight of Drosselmeyer’s spirit. Because of this, Gold Crown Town became engulfed in Drosselmeyer’s story.
Rue is a case of mistaken identity because of her upbringing. The Raven kidnapped her and raised her to believe that she was a crow. (This really isn’t as farfetched as it may sound. The main character of the series, Ahiru, is a duck. She’s able to take on human form and from there become Princess Tutu via an amulet that was given to her by Drosselmeyer). Believing that she was a crow and the Raven was her father, Rue lived a harsh life. Her “father” taught her that she was ugly and unlovable because she was a crow, and the only way she could achieve happiness was to serve him.
The one bright spot in Rue’s life was Mytho, the story’s Prince. When Rue was young, she was attacked by crows, but was protected by Mytho. From there, a beautiful friendship developed. It had always been a bit of an awkward relationship, considering Mytho possessed literally no emotions up until Princess Tutu began returning them to him; Mytho was forced to shatter his heart in order to seal away the Raven. While the Raven is still capable of causing trouble in Gold Crown Town, his full power cannot be used, and he cannot leave Gold Crown Town (I believe he managed to kidnap Rue by sending out underling crows to do the job). Even without emotion, Mytho is still very kind to Rue, which helped her deal with the abuse from her “father”. Eventually, she fell in love with him.
The real trouble began when Princess Tutu started showing her face. Due to the incessant abuse from her father, along with the fact that the other girls in the school were either jealous of her for “dating” Mytho, or just thought she was stuck up, Rue had very little confidence in herself. This made her believe that the only way Mytho would stay by her side was if he had no emotions. While she knew deep down that her relationship with Mytho wasn’t real love on his side, but merely indifference, she was terrified that him regaining his emotions would lead to him leaving her and thus her losing the one shred of hope she had in her dark world. To protect the relationship with Mytho that she already had, she went to her “father” to ask for help, and he lent her the power to become Princess Kraehe. As Princess Kraehe, she fought against Princess Tutu’s efforts to return Mytho’s heart to him.
The most successful attempt to prevent Princess Tutu from returning Mytho’s heart to him that Princess Kraehe put up was when she was able to get a hold of the shard of love. She managed to dye the shard in the Raven’s blood before Princess Tutu returned it to Mytho. This caused Mytho’s emotion of love, and thus all of the emotions he had, to become twisted in a way that Kraehe/Rue thought would be in her favor. The Raven also told her to have Mytho bring a pure heart to him in order to free him from his confines. He promised Rue that, in return, Mytho would love her and only her. Of course, this is a lie, and Mytho temporarily becomes a wicked soul, and verbally abuses Rue about as much as the Raven does. Not to mention Princess Tutu continues to return heart shards to Mytho, regardless of the Raven’s blood issue.
When it’s time for Princess Tutu to bring the story of The Prince and the Raven to a close with the help of Fakir, another student that Rue doesn’t particularly get along with despite them having the same goal of keeping Mytho from regaining his memories, Rue struggles against multiple obstacles, the two major ones being her attempt to prevent Princess Tutu from returning the final heart shards to Mytho, and the issue of her own identity. Along the way, it is discovered that Rue is not Princess Kraehe, nor is she a crow. She is, as was mentioned in the first paragraph, a human girl. This causes her to break down, as the life she’d known was a lie.
She begs Princess Tutu not to give the final shards of Mytho’s heart back to him, until she comes to realize that, if she truly loves Mytho, she will respect his will. However, the curse of the Raven’s blood that Rue had previously dyed Mytho’s heart with has caused Mytho to become a raven himself. When he isn’t dancing, he suffers great emotional pain, and Rue feels horrible to have caused him that fate. Five of the last six shards were the pieces holding the Raven prisoner. Knowing that it will resurrect the Raven, Rue and Princess Tutu agree to return these last shards to Mytho. As she does so, the fifth shard warns Princess Tutu that, if its return to Mytho does not break the Raven’s curse, she should not give the final shard, the pendant that allows her to become human and become Princess Tutu, back to Mytho until another way to break the curse is found.
Unfortunately, the five shards did not break the curse of the Raven’s blood, and the Raven had awakened. He tells Rue to bring Prince Mytho to him, but she steadfastly refuses, stating that her father was no raven and that she was happiest as Rue and not Kraehe. The Raven then calls Mytho to come to him of his own accord so that he may eat the Prince’s heart. Due to the cursed blood, Mytho responds, flying to the Raven. Rue tries to hold him back, as does Tutu, but to no avail. Rue then breaks down sobbing on the street, begging Mytho not to go because she loves him, she always loved him, from the day they met when she was just a child, and she always will love him. This confession breaks the curse, and Mytho is saved, but at what price? Furious, the Raven abducts Rue once more with the aid of underling crows and swallows her up into an unending despair. However, Rue goes unconscious as she is being carried away by crows. At this point of unconsciousness is where Rue will be coming into Somarium.
[Personality] As a girl who was never treated with respect as she deserved, Rue tends to be distant and aloof to her peers, since she fears that they won’t like her. That is, after all, what she was taught by the Raven. Rue is often cold to others, and sometimes downright bitchy. However, she does have a good heart, and when she makes a friend, she’ll try her hardest to be there for them and to protect them if need be. Deep down she’s sweet and loving, but she shields herself from the potential heartache of getting too attached. At the point in her canon that Rue has been taken from, she bears the burden of deep regret, and due to how easily Princess Tutu and Mytho forgave her for her wrongdoings, she has a firm belief in the fact that she should not hold grudges. She is thankful for being given another chance and, even though her situation before being pulled from her canon was desperate, she has a strong fighting spirit and great hope for the future still. Rue is the type of person that won’t give up, even when the odds are against her. Rue also takes pride in her accomplishments, since her prowess in ballet, along with her seemingly unrequited love for Mytho, was all she thought she had. It took her a while to realize that she had a friend in Ahiru/Princess Tutu, but even then she’s proud of her skills. She worked long and hard at dance to gain such ability, and it is something that is truly hers no matter what.
[Specialties/Abilities] She's an incredible ballerina <3
[Affection] I'm open, but keep in mind she loves Mytho, so getting anything more than friendship out of her will be extremely difficult.
[Fighting] Fighting/injuring is fine, but if it's going to be a major injury or a death blow to Rue, check with me over IM first, please?
[Other Facts] I've got nothing