#brynhild

Ukagaka ghosts available to download and use as chat characters in Microsoft Comic Chat

Alice

Brynhild

Kikka

Mayura

giving love to Kratos☝️

@xioproceed I don't think I need to explain that SigBryn is a very unusual couple. Both sides of the pair love each other much more than they love themselves, and it's textually explicit that their decision to remain alive for as long as they did was for the other's sake. They're incredibly passionate about each other, but their intensity expresses itself in excessively bloody ways. They're A-grade freaks. It's a really funny dynamic out of context but as always, context matters a lot.

SigBryn is primarily a part of Gotterdamerung, and Gotterdamerung is very laser-focused on its purpose of being a story about Ophelia's inability to tell the difference between love and emotional abuse. Sakurai makes the choice of presenting this cartoonishly violent relationship there… as the story's prime example of healthy love. Neither Brynhild nor Sigurd can individually be called a healthy person, and their love language is murder attempts, but their unusual love is reciprocal, well-communicated, and fully consented. The violence makes their unfailingly positive portrayal very unintuitive, but this unintuitiveness is exactly what makes it works, especially when Ophelia's confusion is the focus of the story. Anything more straightforward would be a less effective answer. It's not that simple, and making it any simpler only makes Ophelia look worse.

i always wondered why the most popular written versions of the sleeping beauty story, namely perceforest, sun, moon, and talia, and the sleeping beauty in the wood had no dragons whatsoever, and it wasn't until your post about brynhild that something clicked for me. i guess i wonder if that was the same for the disney writers back in the 50s

I had never thought of that before, but I think you're right!

And Perceforest has the princess and her lover already acquainted and in love before she falls alseep.