#mytho x rue

[turtiowo]

[anchovy89freya]

Mytho & Rue~<3

[wherretwords]

It’s that time of year again where I watch Princess Tutu and cry over these two.

[mizby]

these have existed in p@treon long enough lol

[candiirabbitart]

Chibi couple varieties final design and colors

[spookberry]

Princess Tutu but like, make it Ever After High

Rue

[missheavenfield1215]

I, Prince Siegfried (The knight who left his sword)

claim my Princess

from the depths of despair!!

I love that Ahiru did this, long before Fakir.

When Fakir was imprisoned by the oak tree, Ahiru brought him back by pronouncing his name... Unbeknownst to her, Ahiru claimed Fakir's heart long before she knew it. I think it's funny, that it was Ahiru who claimed the knight first.

[virtualsoup]

I hope this reaches princess tutu nation

[thefaearealwaysamongyou]

Characters will grow close to each other through the most traumatizing and deep character development thinkable and the fandom will go "Hehe, hurr durr, they're so in love" and like yeah, but can we also talk about how strong their bonds are outside of romance? Especially when they had just as deep of a connection with the other characters in the quad squad, but you brush that aside to dumb it down by shipping two and two?

Not hating or anything, and I'm not trying to say it's an inherently bad thing, I'm just saying ya'll sound like Mr. Cat sometimes.

[punkeropercyjackson]

If Percy age gap shippers aren't just misogynists and pedo/incest fetishizers,then why do they ignore Clarisse and Silena CANONICALLY being an Achilles and Patroclus parallel despite all the 'greek mythology accuracy' claims.Quickly

[alskaichou]

I return from my editing hiatus to inflict Princess Tutu upon y'all. Enjoy the Ruetho!

[juniperfoxxy]

I love this show so so much.

[rueenjoyer]

Gee Ahiru! How come Drosselmeyer lets you have THREE partners?

princess tutu polycule go crazy!! here r some messy doodles

[necrotic-scum]

just finished princess tutu. in a deep state of depression and heartache. no one talk to me unless it’s about how fakir and duck actually lived a very happy life as two humans in love

[indigomarina]

I'll be honest with you, rewatching Princess Tutu...I don't care about Mytho and Fakir. I would rather the show go how most magical girls shows go and have Duck and Rue be the main pair.

[missheavenfield1215]

When I was younger, I believed that Drosselmeyer had begun to make tragedies, believing that he was doing something good for humanity.

But at some point their motivations were twisted.

Under this theory, I began to think that each of the characters we saw in the series that occupy an entire episode, such as: Giselle, The Phantom Knight, Coppelia (I personally thought it was Edel) etc. They were people of reality that he himself knew and gave them a "lesson" after locking them up in a novel of tragedy.

But over time, he began to like it...

As we know, all of us who write stories, whether original or fanfiction, can be deliberately inspired by personal experiences or people we know.

And everything Drosselmeyer did to Ahiru, Fakir and Rue, was probably NOT the first time it happened...

Locking certain people into a story for their own delight

Most likely for the story of Mytho, Rue and Fakir, he was waiting for many years for the story to start organically... But when none of that happened, in his desperation, he introduced a little duckling into the story to make her move.

Perhaps, during all the time that Princess Tutu's story was not progressing (because no one was interested enough in the Prince), he tried to make many of his stories come true, but only managed to make them stagnate and not come out.

Until the wheels of the Princess Tutu story began to move, all those stories were unclogged like a clogged pipe for years.

For this reason, Princess Tutu had to see many of Drosselmeyer's victim characters.

But you should know that ALL of the specific victims that Ahiru and Fakir met are NOT the original victims... Most likely, they (such as Hermia, Freya, Piké, Giselle, Malen, Arikuimi, Raetsel and Femio) are only people who fulfilled certain things of the story that Drosselmeyer had written to murder someone else and they were trapped by these stories.

There is something else besides this that I would like to present to you, but I would not know if this is a Headcanon or a Hypothesis.

All this occurred to me when I was watching The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

And if we already established that Drosselmeyer knew ALL the people (or in his beginnings) that he put in his novels, then... I have a possible hypothesis about how he "met" Tutu/Ahiru.

*In the series*

He speaks affectionately to Ahiru, never disrespecting her, as if she were a daughter.

He speaks politely to her, and gives her certain clues so that the story does not stagnate again.

He even calls her "Ahiru-chan" or my "little duckling." (But in addition to that "special" or "affectionate" treatment, Drosselmeyer tries to make her deny her origins as a duck, punishing her if she were to squawk)

And there's something that baffles me a little...

And when he meets Princess Tutu, he urges her to be "selfish" because she has sacrificed everything for the Prince and tells her that she should already have the desire to marry and be happy with him...

If Drosselmeyer has all that talk with her, it is mainly to "program" her, and to prevent her from stopping thinking about the Prince's happiness and starting to think about her own happiness.

And to do so, he fills her with scenarios in which she might want to be with him (get married and be happy). But if all that is for love of the Prince and Ahiru does love the Prince...

So what does it affect Ahiru wanting to complete the Prince's heart?

If Ahiru's demise in a blaze of light is imminent... So why does Drosselmeyer want to avoid the scenario that leads to her disappearance?

In that scene, Drosselmeyer tells Ahiru that she is no longer the same duck who only cared about the Prince and that now she seeks his well-being and is forgetting about her problems, but the fact that Ahiru wants to complete Mytho's heart is in fact a good thing for him.

Thus, she forgets herself and surrenders to her fateful fate, just as he wanted it... But apparently that's not what Drosselmeyer wants.

Apparently, Drosselmeyer somehow wants Ahiru to be... Happy??

Does he want her to fight for her own happiness, even at the cost of Mytho's?

(The second image refers to the five gates that hold the fragments of Mytho's heart)

At this point I am obliged to compare Drosselmeyer a little with Coriolanus Snow.

And his little bird...

Most likely, the fact that Princess Tutu was an "unrequited love" I also consider it...

As I've said so far, the original Drosselmeyer stories were probably written for someone else, but up until the time of Fakir, Ahiru, Mytho and Rue, those stories took over other people's lives, and this probably happened with Ahiru and Princess Tutu.

Probably the fate that Drosselmeyer wrote for Princess Tutu was his venting as a "revenge" for not reciprocating his feelings.

But when he writes it and sees his ex-lover die, he knows that she will never hurt him again...

"ꜱʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ꜰʟʏ ᴀʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴅɪꜱᴛʀɪᴄᴛ 12 ᴀʟʟ ꜱʜᴇ ᴡᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ.

ʙᴜᴛ ꜱʜᴇ

ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴇʀ ᴍᴏᴄᴋɪɴɢᴊᴀʏs

ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ʜᴜʀᴛ ʜɪᴍ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ."

He knows perfectly well that Ahiru/Princess Tutu is not her and therefore wants to see her "happy".

And I truly believe that Drosselmeyer had only one "friend" that he could count on and feel really accepted and even loved...

Probably, she was the last woman to abandon him and to firmly believe that in him, there was still goodness and a "good person" worth saving.

Probably, "she" was a sister, a niece (let's all remember Clara from the Nutcracker) and we can even think of a daughter... Most likely that person forgot about herself because she was worried about him and Drosselmeyer wants to give her the happiness that his actions took away from her.

(I always believed that if Princess Tutu/Odette was subjected to such a tragic fate, it was because behind it all, Drosselmeyer was madly in love and was forever hurt by her rejection.

And perhaps it was her rejection of his feelings that plunged Drosselmeyer into the depths of despair. His pain was such that he broke it completely and crossed a line that perhaps he did not want to cross.

Or perhaps Princess Tutu/Odette's rejection only served as a catalyst for Drosselmeyer's mind, which was already at its limit and transformed him into a monster completely.

(and as I had already said in another post

(here I had no clues other than her hair color, eyes and narcissism, but here I will delve deeper into it)

If Mytho is his self-insert, that speaks of his narcissism and most likely also of his unovercome feelings that he still had for Tutu/Odette. That is why he wanted to put himself as the object of his ex's desire beloved and preparing such a horrible fate for her are just his desire for revenge and perhaps the fact that he doesn't want a happy ending for ANYONE is because very VERY deep down, he knows that even he doesn't deserve it.)

And for reasons of the time, he probably needed to marry to keep up appearances, marrying Edel and keeping her as a servant, permanently...

And perhaps, writing for his wife, he thought of "Coppelia", but since he had to sell such a book... Perhaps he changed the word "obedience" for the word "love", when talking about what the puppeteer demanded of Coppelia.

I'd really like to know what you think of this... I will be attentive to the comments 🥰😉😘

And please, IF YOU MAKE A COMPLEMENTARY THEORY TO THIS ONE, OR TALK ABOUT IT, PLEASE TAG ME!! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!