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Old news: lj is dead. Everyone is crazy busy, or they have other reasons not to be here. No one has time to read those huge meta posts we used to write once upon a time. But maybe we can all find ten minutes to do this:

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[tomoyoichijouji]

I don't think that Ahiru accepting Rue and Mytho being together is necessarily discrediting or dismissing her own feelings as somehow 'less real' or 'less true'. To me, it's much more that Ahiru wanted Mytho to be happy with the one he loved, whether it was herself or someone else. It makes her sad that her feelings with Mytho are ultimately unrequited, but a more universal love, that simply wishes for his wellbeing, opposes any measure of trying to supplant her happiness with Mytho's or Rue's by trying to get between them. It's a kind of love Rue found herself ill capable of during the series because she was raised to be so insecure and hurt on the inside. (I like to hope that she does learn that after being around better influences, though...)

I actually look at the dance-off results in terms of why the 'main' Mytho held his hand out to Tutu as related to the fact that Tutu is essentially a representation of his feeling of Hope. He's not 'in love' with his hope, but it is something that he needs and is drawn to, particularly when the hope is trying to hold up against being all alone and close to despair. That Tutu is someone suffering could be part of it, but then supposedly he should have seen that Tutu was suffering even before she started her solo pas de deux, which leads me to think that it's something about what the dance represents, rather than purely Tutu herself, that was what caused Mytho's response in spite of his Love shard's response.