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

[mangaka-chan.livejournal.com]

Wow, bull's eye for Lilie's character. Somehow you've made her seem innocent (she's only doing what fate's already decreeded...) but evil at the same time (...by accentuating other people's angst). In terms of her love for conflict and tragedy, she really is Drosselmeyer's true successor. Very nice job. :)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have no idea why this particular sketch decided to leap screaming onto me at the bus stop, but it was pretty easy to pull together once I found the Hellman quotation to start it off. "Brewing tempests in teacups" and the final lines were what kept rolling around in my head on the bus ride home. :-)

[mangaka-chan.livejournal.com]

Completely understandable. ^^ I'd be dead tired, getting ready to go to sleep but fanfic or fanart ideas would plague me and keep me awake. Often times I don't even know what triggered the deluge of ideas, but it's as if the "off" button for my brain was broken and I simply can't stop thinking about it. :p