Princess Tutu fic: Le Canard et le Chevalier
Title: Le Canard et le Chevalier
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Size: 814 words
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own Princess Tutu or any of the elements I've worked into this fic... unless stated otherwise somewhere.
Notes: Ahahaha. Wrote this back June 23rd after I watched Princess Tutu and cried like the little girl that I am. Go me. Anyway, dunno if I'll ever get around to writing thing, but I've been getting little niggles of ideas, so... it might be a while, but at least it's something, right?
Also, m0ny? Consider whatever comes from this fic an answer to that drabble request you made ages ago.
Once upon a time, there was a man who died. This man was a writer of stories, a creator of worlds which exist only on pen and paper. However, the characters and events from this man's stories came to life. At first, it was a celebrated ability which many nobles used to their advantage. Until things went wrong.
When this advantage turned was turned against them, the nobles claimed to want to protect the worlds by keeping the stories from being finished, from gaining a life of their own. They destroyed the conclusions to all of the man's stories before cutting off his hands to keep him from writing any other worlds into existence.
Unable to write, a story the man had been in the process of writing was left unfinished.
This story was the tale of a prince who fought against a montrous raven. Unable to progress forward without their master's hands writing their actions, the prince and the raven left the pages of the story and continued to fight. The black raven escaped the prince until the prince pierced his own heart with his blade and scattered it, using this magic to bind the raven.
Neither the prince nor the raven died but merely existed until their story could be finished. Even when their master should have been dead, the man had written himself into the story by using the blood spilt from his wrists where his hands were once attached. Before he died, he ensured a way in which the story would be finished--on paper or in reality.
Years later, the story began again, actions put into motion by a character that had not been in the story before.
The man who'd begun the story once before could not continue the story on his own and brought in a duck. Charmed by the prince and wishing to heal the look of sadness and loneliness in his eyes, the young fowl agreed to the role of a character who had not lasted even half of the story--the role of Princess Tutu, the graceful swan who would help the prince regain his lost heart before confessing her feelings and disappearing forever.
Her fate, as well as the fate of everyone else in the story--the prince's, the villainous princess's, the worthless knight's--was changed, however. Instead of ending in the manner that their creator had planned, an endless cycle that would see the process occur over and over again, the worthless knight stepped forward and prevented the dancing swan from confessing her feelings for the prince. In doing so, he'd changed the story... but it had continued all the same.
The prince's heart fell to darkness as the blood of the raven which had infiltrated his blood pierced it with sharp talons, and no matter the worthless knight or dancing swan attempted to save the prince, even returning the rest of his heart could not save him from this wicked spell.
It was because of this change in the story that the villainous princess discovered her doubts in the reasons why she kept hold of the prince, that the worthless knight found his true purpose in the pen rather than the sword, that the dancing swan realized and accepted that her end would always be the same. It was because of these changes in the story that they were able to break free of their creator's control and ended the story how they believed it should be.
In the end, the prince destroyed the raven and found his princess in the supposed villaines, the worthless knight had his words to bring life to worlds the same way his ancestor was able, and the dancing swan... returned to being a simple duck.
Their story ended, their creator left them to their new lives, and went to other stories--hoping to influence and change and end them with a more tragic finale than this story ended. And so they lived on, satisfied at least in knowing the story would no longer be repeated.
The prince and princess lived happily ever after.
The worthless knight wrote of their adventures, providing the conclusion to that story which was never finished before continuing with his own writings, his own creations.
The dancing swan remained with the worthless knight as a duck, always near just as he had promised her when she once feared this fate.
So this story ended.
But as everyone knows, one story's end is another's beginning.
Where shall this story go now? Will it be a comedy? A tragedy? Will it have a happy ending? Or will there be some other darkness in the worlds that would prevent these characters their hoped-for endings?
"My, my. It certainly will be interesting, won't it? And I had thought that the story was over. How mistaken. How mistaken. I will love to see how this story that's never been written will turn out. Oh, little duck, how will the fate of you and yours end this time?"
-tbc...-
No idea where this will be going, like I said. Well, maybe I have a small inkling of an idea, but not much more than that.
And yeah. I'm lame at picking out titles. Shurrup. I spent a whole 45 minutes deliberating on it. If you have a better title idea for it, please do speak up. Oh, and French people? Is there a female form for the word "duck"? Like la canarde? Or something? Because I looked everywhere and it kept giving me masculine... I know I fail at French. So sue me. Except, don't. I'm still pretty poor.
Anyway. *pauses* Yeeeeah.
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Fandom: Princess Tutu
Size: 814 words
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own Princess Tutu or any of the elements I've worked into this fic... unless stated otherwise somewhere.
Notes: Ahahaha. Wrote this back June 23rd after I watched Princess Tutu and cried like the little girl that I am. Go me. Anyway, dunno if I'll ever get around to writing thing, but I've been getting little niggles of ideas, so... it might be a while, but at least it's something, right?
Also, m0ny? Consider whatever comes from this fic an answer to that drabble request you made ages ago.
Once upon a time, there was a man who died. This man was a writer of stories, a creator of worlds which exist only on pen and paper. However, the characters and events from this man's stories came to life. At first, it was a celebrated ability which many nobles used to their advantage. Until things went wrong.
When this advantage turned was turned against them, the nobles claimed to want to protect the worlds by keeping the stories from being finished, from gaining a life of their own. They destroyed the conclusions to all of the man's stories before cutting off his hands to keep him from writing any other worlds into existence.
Unable to write, a story the man had been in the process of writing was left unfinished.
This story was the tale of a prince who fought against a montrous raven. Unable to progress forward without their master's hands writing their actions, the prince and the raven left the pages of the story and continued to fight. The black raven escaped the prince until the prince pierced his own heart with his blade and scattered it, using this magic to bind the raven.
Neither the prince nor the raven died but merely existed until their story could be finished. Even when their master should have been dead, the man had written himself into the story by using the blood spilt from his wrists where his hands were once attached. Before he died, he ensured a way in which the story would be finished--on paper or in reality.
Years later, the story began again, actions put into motion by a character that had not been in the story before.
The man who'd begun the story once before could not continue the story on his own and brought in a duck. Charmed by the prince and wishing to heal the look of sadness and loneliness in his eyes, the young fowl agreed to the role of a character who had not lasted even half of the story--the role of Princess Tutu, the graceful swan who would help the prince regain his lost heart before confessing her feelings and disappearing forever.
Her fate, as well as the fate of everyone else in the story--the prince's, the villainous princess's, the worthless knight's--was changed, however. Instead of ending in the manner that their creator had planned, an endless cycle that would see the process occur over and over again, the worthless knight stepped forward and prevented the dancing swan from confessing her feelings for the prince. In doing so, he'd changed the story... but it had continued all the same.
The prince's heart fell to darkness as the blood of the raven which had infiltrated his blood pierced it with sharp talons, and no matter the worthless knight or dancing swan attempted to save the prince, even returning the rest of his heart could not save him from this wicked spell.
It was because of this change in the story that the villainous princess discovered her doubts in the reasons why she kept hold of the prince, that the worthless knight found his true purpose in the pen rather than the sword, that the dancing swan realized and accepted that her end would always be the same. It was because of these changes in the story that they were able to break free of their creator's control and ended the story how they believed it should be.
In the end, the prince destroyed the raven and found his princess in the supposed villaines, the worthless knight had his words to bring life to worlds the same way his ancestor was able, and the dancing swan... returned to being a simple duck.
Their story ended, their creator left them to their new lives, and went to other stories--hoping to influence and change and end them with a more tragic finale than this story ended. And so they lived on, satisfied at least in knowing the story would no longer be repeated.
The prince and princess lived happily ever after.
The worthless knight wrote of their adventures, providing the conclusion to that story which was never finished before continuing with his own writings, his own creations.
The dancing swan remained with the worthless knight as a duck, always near just as he had promised her when she once feared this fate.
So this story ended.
But as everyone knows, one story's end is another's beginning.
Where shall this story go now? Will it be a comedy? A tragedy? Will it have a happy ending? Or will there be some other darkness in the worlds that would prevent these characters their hoped-for endings?
"My, my. It certainly will be interesting, won't it? And I had thought that the story was over. How mistaken. How mistaken. I will love to see how this story that's never been written will turn out. Oh, little duck, how will the fate of you and yours end this time?"
-tbc...-
No idea where this will be going, like I said. Well, maybe I have a small inkling of an idea, but not much more than that.
And yeah. I'm lame at picking out titles. Shurrup. I spent a whole 45 minutes deliberating on it. If you have a better title idea for it, please do speak up. Oh, and French people? Is there a female form for the word "duck"? Like la canarde? Or something? Because I looked everywhere and it kept giving me masculine... I know I fail at French. So sue me. Except, don't. I'm still pretty poor.
Anyway. *pauses* Yeeeeah.
.