Fanfiction: Tea and Sympathy (Princess Tutu)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Drabble: Tea and Sympathy
Fandom: Princess Tutu (anime version)
Character: Lilié
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: Yet another Princess Tutu drabble. This one attacked me at a bus stop, off the realization that Lilié's rhetoric sounded unnervingly similar to another character's. I already found her disturbing as well as amusing, so ... Crossposted from nebroadwe to princesstutu and tutufic.
Dedication: Still for fmanalyst; all for you. :-)

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      She wakes each morning to the glorious certainty that man is at the mercy of the gods, his end inevitable from his beginning. Her friends, pawns of fate, are blind as Oedipus to what awaits them, and she their only comforter. Brewing tempests in teacups, she pours forth angst and sympathy in less than equal measure, the bitter whelming the sweet. All the world's a stage to her, the play a Gothic melodrama endlessly repeating its second act.

      She is Drosselmayer's true heir, did she but know it. Well for her friends (and for the world) that she does not.

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Author's Note: I would be remiss if I did not credit the American playwright Lillian Hellman for the phrases with which Lilié's "glorious certainty" is at first described. Quotation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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[Disclaimers: Princess Tutu was created by Ikuko Ito and Junichi Sato. Copyright for this property is held by HAL and GANSIS/TUTU. All rights reserved.]

Comments

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Lilie is evil !!! But in your drabble, she is in a classy way. :-)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I like to describe the kind of language I'm using here as "taking my English major out for a walk." :-) There's also some deliberate bathos in the last line. Lilie couldn't really take over the world ... um, right?