Prologue
"One upon a time, there was a young man with a beautiful face. The people loved the handsome young man, but he never showed the slightest interest in loving anyone. This was because all he loved was himself. When the young man who neglected to love and sought only to be loved found someone for whom he truly cared, he realized that he had lost even the words to express those feelings…"
Once upon another time, there was a young man with a love for fairy tales. The young man had a face so beautiful that he became convinced that he could rival even the princes from the stories he held so dear, and was thus a prince as well. Although the people loved to look at the handsome young man, they weren't able to make him realize that he wasn't a true prince, and he retreated further and further into his fantasy. Soon, the people found him unapproachable, and even when the young man tried to seek someone to care for he was unable to get close to anyone. Instead, the handsome boy surrendered to his own vanity and narcissism…
Obligatory disclaimer time! I don't own Princess Tutu or any of it's characters. I most likely won't be inserting any original characters, any and all characters that you don't recognize by name and/or appearance will simply be characters from the anime that were never named or made an appearance as an animal and never shown otherwise. Naturally, this is subject to change, as I am a very moody teenage girl and don't like to set my plans.
Anyway, yes, short prologue is short. I was attempting to base it off of the format of the narration at the beginning of the episodes. The first paragraph (in quotes) is a direct quote from the prologue in the anime (you know, the "Once Upon a Time" sequence that nobody really likes listening to), and the real prologue (the second paragraph) was meant to be a play on that. If you didn't get it, it's from episode seventeen in the series, also known as the episode featuring the holier-than-thou Femio who can't decide if he's of Spanish or French descent.
FYI, this fanfiction is aimed to have both romantic and comedic elements, but overall I'm going to attempt to take a more realistic, down-to-earth, and fairly serious direction with this story, because let's face it: Femio needs more "believability." It's going to be his way of figuring out who he really is and who he really wants to be, so the romance will (most likely) be on the back burners for a while. Naturally, Femio flirts with everyone, their Mom, and their Mom's (female) dog, so I guess you can say that there will always be some level of harmless romance throughout the course of the fanfiction. I do plan on setting him up with my own personal OTP for him, but as I don't want to give it away (but trust me, I'm not so crafty that you won't be able to quess), for now just assume that the intended love interest is Femio x Everyone.
After all, to quote directly from Femio at the end of episode seventeen: "...loving one woman is something of which I'm incapable!"
