#listen i'm actually not technically sure this counts as a fallacy

[littledoggy-girlcollar]

hi i’m not done i can’t decide if it’s better or worse if the princesses are operating under the “how can i prove that anyone around me is actually sentient and not an npc” fallacy or not. either way they are acting with a grand amount of self-importance but if they are operating under that fallacy i think they’re coming from a place like, “i know for a fact that my story was written with me as the main character, therefore i am the driving force/the true sentient part of my story and since we’re taking control the rest of it is mine to do with what i wish,” which is horrid but does make a certain amount of logical sense.

if they AREN’T operating under that fallacy, though, then they have decided that their knowledge of the “true nature of their world” gives them the power and legitimacy to....decide everything for everyone in the world. with the argument being that because no one else knows the true nature they aren’t qualified to be making these decisions.

and once again i think the biggest wrench here is the stepmother. operating under the fallacy, then from the princesses' perspective the stepmother either BECAME sentient, and therefore other characters have that capacity as well which complicated the morality of “can we just kill all the npcs” (which is already extremely dubiously moral to begin with), OR the stepmother’s actions actively prove the princesses WRONG, since she’s always had exactly as much agency as them and therefore so does everyone else in the story.

if they AREN’T operating under the fallacy, then the princesses (and cinderella in particular) have to deal with the fact that knowing the truth doesn’t automatically make them right. as far as we know cinderella is kind of the only one that knows abt the stepmother at this point, and she doesn’t even know the whole capacity of it i don’t think, but she didn’t look comfortable with what pinnochio was describing the stepmother as doing. which is very interesting, because as others have pointed out what the princesses want to do ISN’T really that much different beyond intent (and this is not arguing whether or not intent is worthless, that’s just something i’ve seen around)

the stepmother is and has been obviously doing things for selfish reasons. the princesses’ cause seems to be more altruistic, but at the heart of it....they really aren’t that much different. their reasons for ending the stories are almost entirely self-serving, even if they aren’t TECHNICALLY going for a literal power-grab.