#tutu 03

please just join me in appreciating this

She also looks up, startled, when he says Mytho felt something. They’re just having a weird custody debate over their mutual Empty Friend.

he’s only gotten two shards of feelings back but he’s using both of them to have a crush on the pretty ballet princess

Yeah, but you also don’t have to give up just because fate says it won’t work.

Yeah, he doesn’t feel physical pain either.

This is a really nice twist on the standard villain motive rant; she doesn’t know why she’s doing what she’s doing, and Ahiru has to wind it out. I was being flippant when I called it dance therapy but there’s definitely a strong aspect of helping these people interrogate their own motives.

you didn’t notice he was following you?

Also I could probably wind a whole pretentious paragraph out of it if I chose to but I’m just going to point out that her fear at the thought of her loneliness leaving her alone is... relatable. But you do have to let go.