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Player Name: Jelle
Player LJ: nagareboshihe
Contact: Email: Jellegirl@home.nl | AIM: Lunixhime
Character: Ahiru / Princess Tutu
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Personality: Ahiru is a duck. Even when she turns human this is still clearly noticable. Ahiru is a real spazz. She isn't particularly good at dancing and constantly screws up at school, she manages to trip over her feet or cause some other accident to herself constantly, she runs her mouth too much, she's really honest and gullible and once she starts rambling about something she never stops, not even when she's getting embarassed halfway through, (A few character remark in the series that Ahiru starts to sound like a duck when she rambles, this is very true.) and she accidentally quacks in human form all the time, causing her to turn back into a duck.
All in all, Ahiru is not quite the princess from the story.
But she's not just a clumsy and awkward girl, Ahiru also has her heart in the right place. She loves making people happy and believes in people to the very end. When she becomes friends with Rue and discovers later on that Rue is Princess Kraehe, she still insists that she's friends with Rue (no matter how much Rue tries to deny it) and still believes in Rue, even when she corrupts Mytho. She doesn't hesitate to jump in if it's to help someone and she constantly thinks of other people's needs before her own. After all, she was willing to sacrifice her role in the story and her entire human life just to give Mytho the last piece of his heart back. And it's not just because she wants to be with Mytho, since she wouldn't be able to be with him anymore as a duck and she also accepts Mytho and Rue's feelings for each other eventually, becoming closer to Fakir instead. She's determined and will try things again and again until they finally work out. You can see this easily by how hard she practises for ballet, even though she keeps failing. But she's still a regular girl with insecurities; she often wonders if she's really doing the right thing and for the right reasons.
Princess Tutu is practically a more graceful version of Ahiru. The clumsiness and the awkward rambling are completely taken away and she retains her kind and determined feelings and some grace and maturity mixed in. But even though they have these different qualities they are still one and the same person and it's noticable.
History: Once upon a time - yes, as a fairytale Princess Tutu truly starts this way - there was a man. His name was Drosselmeyer and he loved to write stories. But he had a special power, all of his stories became reality the moment he wrote them. The village people got scared because of this power and cut off the man's hand to prevent him from writing more. But the man had been in the middle of a story when that had happened. A story of a prince and the raven who was after him, an useless knight who was ripped in two and died and a princess who disappeared in a flash of light the moment she confessed her love to the prince. And so the prince and the raven were left, stuck in their battle for all eternity as their story would never be finished.
But the raven, bored with the eternal battle broke out of Drosselmeyer's story and flew to the real world. The prince followed him, and to seal the monster raven away again the prince pierced his pure heart with his sword, returning to a nearly empty shell; a person without emotions, will or memories.
Then there was a duck. The small and insignificant duck saw the prince - now a boy named Mytho - dancing on the lake, and wished from the depths of her heart for a way to be able to help him regain his smile. Drosselmeyer - who had managed to write a story about himself before he died and was therefore able to still control the story - heard that wish and granted it. He gave the duck a pendant that made her human and allowed her to transform into Princess Tutu; the princess from the story. She was the one who would have to find all the shattered pieces of Mytho's heart (and usually recover them by dancing) and give them back to him one by one.
The duck became Ahiru, a clumsy girl who attended the same ballet school as Mytho. She adored Mytho and had a definite crush on him - although she could never confess her love, since that meant she would disappear just like in the story - but he already has a girlfriend, Rue. Rue noticed that Mytho's heart was slowly being returned to him. Because he seemed so obsessed about Princess Tutu Rue got jealous and transformed into the raven's daughter, Princess Kraehe. She kept fighting Princess Tutu, trying to snatch a piece of heart away from her so it couldn't be returned to Mytho and he would be forever hers. Fakir, Mytho's friend and the knight from the story, also tried to stop Tutu again and again out of fear of the story repeating (and therefore Mytho's heart being pierced and shattered again) once Mytho's heart was complete. Ahiru carried on because she believed it was the best for Mytho, but even her resolve wavered for a moment when she saw how much pain some emotions brought Mytho. But the good and the bad emotions are all a part of someone the same, so in the end she did carry on with gathering the pieces.
Rue, on the other hand, gave Mytho a corrupted piece of heart so he would be under the raven's influence and forever hers. But it didn't exactly go as planned, Mytho slowly started to twist and turn in a mean person and eventually became a raven himself.
Fakir failed his part in the story once again when he was unable to defend Mytho and was even nearly killed in a battle. But later on he discovered his own purpose in the story, he discovered he was a descendent of Drosselmeyer and therefore had the power to write stories and make them become reality all the same; he started to think that this was his role in the story the more he and Ahiru grew closer and started an alliance of sorts to get Mytho back.
But Drosselmeyer was still interfering in the story, wanting to see the perfect tragedy as an outcome. Eventually when everything was falling into despair - Mytho became a raven, Rue was kidnapped after finding out her true past and Fakir and Ahiru were practically unable to do anything - Ahiru asked Fakir to write a story, a story about her so they could save everyone from Drosselmeyer's story.
The last thing Ahiru could still do was finally returning the last piece of Mytho's heart, making it complete and making him the prince once again. But the last piece of his heart was her pendant, the pendant that allowed her to become human and Princess Tutu. Giving up her pendant would mean returning to a regular duck for eternity again. But she didn't even hesitate, she knew that this is what she had to do. Princess Tutu was about to hand over the last piece to Mytho as she was drawn into Demeleier.
Abilities: Ahiru is able to change forms between her human form, duck form and Princess Tutu. This is all done with the pendant she's always carrying. Saying 'quack' (whether it's accidentally or on purpose) in human form makes her change into a small duck (a regular duck that can't talk or do anything special) instantly, and she won't change back until she touches water of any sort. When she loses her pendant she'll be transformed into a duck as well, but without a means of going back to her human form. Transforming into Princess Tutu doesn't require anything special, Ahiru just has to think of it (although she still needs to have the pendant on her).
As a duck or human Ahiru doesn't have any special powers, other than the power to be very awkward and clumsy, even though she's in a ballet school her dancing skills are frankly horrible. But when she transforms into Princess Tutu is when she gets her powers. Princess Tutu is the girl that 'dances to guide your heart' and is a perfect ballet dancer. She's capable of transmitting feelings with her dance, but it seems that the dancing does have a certain magic capability. For example, in the first episode when Tutu dances the Flower Waltz flowers start to grow out of nowhere. Dancing is also sort of her world's version of material arts, dance offs. I don't know either.
Link to an image of the character: All three forms of Ahiru in one picture; Ahiru, Princess Tutu and her duck form.
Player LJ: nagareboshihe
Contact: Email: Jellegirl@home.nl | AIM: Lunixhime
Character: Ahiru / Princess Tutu
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Personality: Ahiru is a duck. Even when she turns human this is still clearly noticable. Ahiru is a real spazz. She isn't particularly good at dancing and constantly screws up at school, she manages to trip over her feet or cause some other accident to herself constantly, she runs her mouth too much, she's really honest and gullible and once she starts rambling about something she never stops, not even when she's getting embarassed halfway through, (A few character remark in the series that Ahiru starts to sound like a duck when she rambles, this is very true.) and she accidentally quacks in human form all the time, causing her to turn back into a duck.
All in all, Ahiru is not quite the princess from the story.
But she's not just a clumsy and awkward girl, Ahiru also has her heart in the right place. She loves making people happy and believes in people to the very end. When she becomes friends with Rue and discovers later on that Rue is Princess Kraehe, she still insists that she's friends with Rue (no matter how much Rue tries to deny it) and still believes in Rue, even when she corrupts Mytho. She doesn't hesitate to jump in if it's to help someone and she constantly thinks of other people's needs before her own. After all, she was willing to sacrifice her role in the story and her entire human life just to give Mytho the last piece of his heart back. And it's not just because she wants to be with Mytho, since she wouldn't be able to be with him anymore as a duck and she also accepts Mytho and Rue's feelings for each other eventually, becoming closer to Fakir instead. She's determined and will try things again and again until they finally work out. You can see this easily by how hard she practises for ballet, even though she keeps failing. But she's still a regular girl with insecurities; she often wonders if she's really doing the right thing and for the right reasons.
Princess Tutu is practically a more graceful version of Ahiru. The clumsiness and the awkward rambling are completely taken away and she retains her kind and determined feelings and some grace and maturity mixed in. But even though they have these different qualities they are still one and the same person and it's noticable.
History: Once upon a time - yes, as a fairytale Princess Tutu truly starts this way - there was a man. His name was Drosselmeyer and he loved to write stories. But he had a special power, all of his stories became reality the moment he wrote them. The village people got scared because of this power and cut off the man's hand to prevent him from writing more. But the man had been in the middle of a story when that had happened. A story of a prince and the raven who was after him, an useless knight who was ripped in two and died and a princess who disappeared in a flash of light the moment she confessed her love to the prince. And so the prince and the raven were left, stuck in their battle for all eternity as their story would never be finished.
But the raven, bored with the eternal battle broke out of Drosselmeyer's story and flew to the real world. The prince followed him, and to seal the monster raven away again the prince pierced his pure heart with his sword, returning to a nearly empty shell; a person without emotions, will or memories.
Then there was a duck. The small and insignificant duck saw the prince - now a boy named Mytho - dancing on the lake, and wished from the depths of her heart for a way to be able to help him regain his smile. Drosselmeyer - who had managed to write a story about himself before he died and was therefore able to still control the story - heard that wish and granted it. He gave the duck a pendant that made her human and allowed her to transform into Princess Tutu; the princess from the story. She was the one who would have to find all the shattered pieces of Mytho's heart (and usually recover them by dancing) and give them back to him one by one.
The duck became Ahiru, a clumsy girl who attended the same ballet school as Mytho. She adored Mytho and had a definite crush on him - although she could never confess her love, since that meant she would disappear just like in the story - but he already has a girlfriend, Rue. Rue noticed that Mytho's heart was slowly being returned to him. Because he seemed so obsessed about Princess Tutu Rue got jealous and transformed into the raven's daughter, Princess Kraehe. She kept fighting Princess Tutu, trying to snatch a piece of heart away from her so it couldn't be returned to Mytho and he would be forever hers. Fakir, Mytho's friend and the knight from the story, also tried to stop Tutu again and again out of fear of the story repeating (and therefore Mytho's heart being pierced and shattered again) once Mytho's heart was complete. Ahiru carried on because she believed it was the best for Mytho, but even her resolve wavered for a moment when she saw how much pain some emotions brought Mytho. But the good and the bad emotions are all a part of someone the same, so in the end she did carry on with gathering the pieces.
Rue, on the other hand, gave Mytho a corrupted piece of heart so he would be under the raven's influence and forever hers. But it didn't exactly go as planned, Mytho slowly started to twist and turn in a mean person and eventually became a raven himself.
Fakir failed his part in the story once again when he was unable to defend Mytho and was even nearly killed in a battle. But later on he discovered his own purpose in the story, he discovered he was a descendent of Drosselmeyer and therefore had the power to write stories and make them become reality all the same; he started to think that this was his role in the story the more he and Ahiru grew closer and started an alliance of sorts to get Mytho back.
But Drosselmeyer was still interfering in the story, wanting to see the perfect tragedy as an outcome. Eventually when everything was falling into despair - Mytho became a raven, Rue was kidnapped after finding out her true past and Fakir and Ahiru were practically unable to do anything - Ahiru asked Fakir to write a story, a story about her so they could save everyone from Drosselmeyer's story.
The last thing Ahiru could still do was finally returning the last piece of Mytho's heart, making it complete and making him the prince once again. But the last piece of his heart was her pendant, the pendant that allowed her to become human and Princess Tutu. Giving up her pendant would mean returning to a regular duck for eternity again. But she didn't even hesitate, she knew that this is what she had to do. Princess Tutu was about to hand over the last piece to Mytho as she was drawn into Demeleier.
Abilities: Ahiru is able to change forms between her human form, duck form and Princess Tutu. This is all done with the pendant she's always carrying. Saying 'quack' (whether it's accidentally or on purpose) in human form makes her change into a small duck (a regular duck that can't talk or do anything special) instantly, and she won't change back until she touches water of any sort. When she loses her pendant she'll be transformed into a duck as well, but without a means of going back to her human form. Transforming into Princess Tutu doesn't require anything special, Ahiru just has to think of it (although she still needs to have the pendant on her).
As a duck or human Ahiru doesn't have any special powers, other than the power to be very awkward and clumsy, even though she's in a ballet school her dancing skills are frankly horrible. But when she transforms into Princess Tutu is when she gets her powers. Princess Tutu is the girl that 'dances to guide your heart' and is a perfect ballet dancer. She's capable of transmitting feelings with her dance, but it seems that the dancing does have a certain magic capability. For example, in the first episode when Tutu dances the Flower Waltz flowers start to grow out of nowhere. Dancing is also sort of her world's version of material arts, dance offs. I don't know either.
Link to an image of the character: All three forms of Ahiru in one picture; Ahiru, Princess Tutu and her duck form.