I just finished princess tutu and enjoyed it but don't really know how to feel about the ending. I get that it's meant to symbolise acceptance and hope, but I still feel a little disappointed. I don't really mind that she didn't get with Mytho since he only saw her as Princess tutu and not as duck/Ahiru but it still kinda annoyed me how easily he let go of his "love" for Tutu, yk? She literally risked her life for him, transcended her nature as a duck just to help him, but he went for rue? To be fair, I doubt he ever even loved Tutu. He did admit that the beating in his chest when he was near Tutu was hope. The necklace is literally the shard of hope, so being close to her would trigger that feeling. It'd obviously have an effect on him since he hasn't felt any emotion in so long
What I'm trying to say is that it annoyed me how easily he moved onto Rue, not the fact that he moved onto Rue. It also really irritated me how he didn't intervene when duck was getting her ass whooped (like damn at least help her) plus I would have wished that they gave rue more character development, she was really harmful to him; she DID come to terms with that but i wish that it would've taken more than a episode and and a half. Her development was done well. I just wish it was longer.
Kinda sad that she still ended up as a duck, I thought that fakir would've written a story where she regains her human form. But that's kinda what gives the ending its charm. Her returning to her original form and accepting that form, so I'm not gonna complain too much about it. I do like her paired with fakir more than her with mytho since fakir cared for her even when she was duck/ahiru not because she was tutu. (I'm kinda contradicting myself here but ig that's normal when trying to get a feel abt an ending like that)
