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reallyaduckDuck is - well - a duck, with all the usual duckly limitations. She's a great swimmer and an excellent quacker, but she can't talk and she certainly can't dance (and she has a great deal of difficulty getting people to take her seriously). She's a very sweet duck, though! She is also a duck with a giant crush on a human prince - which is what leads to her accepting a magical pendant that allows her to transform into both the girl named Duck, and the story-figure Princess Tutu.
In the bar, Duck will spend most of her time in her human identity as a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in the beginner ballet class. She still sounds and walks a little bit like a duck, and, unfortunately, dances like one too, but she always tries her best (except when she's lost in daydreams of her handsome prince.) Duck's clumsy and a perennial bumbler, easily confused and very easily flustered, but say a kind word to her and she's your loyal friend for life - though this is sometimes something of a mixed blessing. She believes the best of almost everyone, and really, earnestly, fervently believes that people should accept their emotions and that everyone should get a happy ending.
When in times of great crisis, Duck can also transform into Princess Tutu, who is, essentially, a magical ballet superheroine. Princess Tutu's role in the story is predetermined; she is a tragic heroine doomed to love the prince hopelessly, and vanish into a speck of light if she ever confesses her love. However, as a magical archetype, Princess Tutu can also dance beautifully en pointe without ever getting tired, fly through the air with sparkly ballet leaps, and command the flower armies to come help her out, so there are compensations. Princess Tutu is not recognizable as Duck - she looks older and a whole lot prettier, always moves in graceful dance steps, and communicates as much in ballet mime as speech. Princess Tutu's special power is helping people get in touch with their real feelings, which comes in handy for helping people who have been possessed or have inconveniently had their hearts displaced from their bodies. She also has COMBAT BALLET SKILLS, for which she uses a fan that is apparently made of iron, but she really prefers to fix bad guys with hugs. Sometimes she appears to observers like a tremendous white swan.
Quacking turns Duck back into a duck, and water re-transforms her into a girl, so long as she wears the pendant, though the rest of her clothes don't come along for the ride. What triggers the Tutu transformation is a lot more fuzzy and meta, and is mostly determined by 'what the story needs at the time'. In canon, this is 'whenever it's fun for the narrator Drosselmeyer,' so I will happily interpret this to mean 'whenever it's fun for me!'
I love the character of Duck, in all her manifestations, and I love Princess Tutu's canon, with all its wild meta - Duck is a story character, and interacts often with her story's narrator, eventually reaching the point of being able to fight against the shape of the predetermined story and act as her real self rather than as a plot device. I will be bringing her in early on in the story, and working through her growth in canon. I am really excited to play with all the meta and beauty that is the Princess Tutu story - but really I am most excited just to play Duck, in all her bumbling, babbling, super-determined glory.
In the bar, Duck will spend most of her time in her human identity as a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in the beginner ballet class. She still sounds and walks a little bit like a duck, and, unfortunately, dances like one too, but she always tries her best (except when she's lost in daydreams of her handsome prince.) Duck's clumsy and a perennial bumbler, easily confused and very easily flustered, but say a kind word to her and she's your loyal friend for life - though this is sometimes something of a mixed blessing. She believes the best of almost everyone, and really, earnestly, fervently believes that people should accept their emotions and that everyone should get a happy ending.
When in times of great crisis, Duck can also transform into Princess Tutu, who is, essentially, a magical ballet superheroine. Princess Tutu's role in the story is predetermined; she is a tragic heroine doomed to love the prince hopelessly, and vanish into a speck of light if she ever confesses her love. However, as a magical archetype, Princess Tutu can also dance beautifully en pointe without ever getting tired, fly through the air with sparkly ballet leaps, and command the flower armies to come help her out, so there are compensations. Princess Tutu is not recognizable as Duck - she looks older and a whole lot prettier, always moves in graceful dance steps, and communicates as much in ballet mime as speech. Princess Tutu's special power is helping people get in touch with their real feelings, which comes in handy for helping people who have been possessed or have inconveniently had their hearts displaced from their bodies. She also has COMBAT BALLET SKILLS, for which she uses a fan that is apparently made of iron, but she really prefers to fix bad guys with hugs. Sometimes she appears to observers like a tremendous white swan.
Quacking turns Duck back into a duck, and water re-transforms her into a girl, so long as she wears the pendant, though the rest of her clothes don't come along for the ride. What triggers the Tutu transformation is a lot more fuzzy and meta, and is mostly determined by 'what the story needs at the time'. In canon, this is 'whenever it's fun for the narrator Drosselmeyer,' so I will happily interpret this to mean 'whenever it's fun for me!'
I love the character of Duck, in all her manifestations, and I love Princess Tutu's canon, with all its wild meta - Duck is a story character, and interacts often with her story's narrator, eventually reaching the point of being able to fight against the shape of the predetermined story and act as her real self rather than as a plot device. I will be bringing her in early on in the story, and working through her growth in canon. I am really excited to play with all the meta and beauty that is the Princess Tutu story - but really I am most excited just to play Duck, in all her bumbling, babbling, super-determined glory.
