What the nameless prince is challenging her to do is to *know* him. Basicly, proving him wrong about her. "I understand you, I see what you are, and you are hurt from feeling exposed. Prove me wrong, by *knowing* me, then!".
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"But my secret is hidden within me; no one will know my name! No, no! On your mouth I will say it when the light shines! And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!"
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its a story about loving someone enough to want to fix their fucked up worldview, essentially. And let me tell you, if you are a twenty something who havent gone through this? You will before long, give it a couple of years, you’ll meet someone who’s terrible
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and love her – love her real bad, in a way that is bad writing and its bad really and why does he even fall in love with her? it’s so unrealistic just because shes pretty or what? Wow what shit writing. Could never happen 4 real
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the climax of the story is the princess of death couldnt figure out what his name was, and that she has come to both love and hate him, and to please just go away and leave her with the mystery because she’s scared of commitment
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and if he just leaves, this whole thing just becomes a post card, a fun story to tell her girlfriends.
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If he leaves, she can have this potential relationship forever, a fantasy relationship in her mind, that will always have the crispness and excitement of the honeymoon period; something that demands nothing of her, and that she can suckle on the memory of for the rest of her life
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A great big “what if” to nurture herself when she’s 40 and independent and still drinking alone, trying to kill the envy and hatred the feels for her “friends” who are more succesfull and independant than her, with sedatives and depressants
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The prince promptly responds: “Calaf, son of Timur!”, earning his name. Of course in the lore he had it all the time, but in the narrative sense, this is his christening. This is also giving her the opportunity to fulfill the bargain and kill him if she wants
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she doesnt, because now she’s smitten; he overpowered her, but immediately then hands her his head on a plate – seduction 101 lads, if you didnt know already. You show your strength, then an act of symbolic submission, rinse repeat. They find it flattering
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anyways I think its a great description of a pretty universal situation, I am also struck with how it works on a societal level, what with the entire notion of sex and all established societal rules being up in the air and people being prudish about being sluts and all that
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and the “I’m not getting married because women in the past had it hard” is pretty much the most spot on satirical depiction of current year+ fammel ideology
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also, the plot takes place is china and she's a wicked chinese princess and what I'm REALLY getting at here is that opera is now technically anime QED
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Vanish, o night! Fade, you stars! Fade, you stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!
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