Planetary Guardian Escapades

Disclaimer: I don't own Princess Tutu

I feel like Raven needs more love seeing as I'm aiming to finish writing Angel of Silence first so here's a few snippets and spoilers for Raven x Fakir in My Name is Raven

Naïve

Trusting

Ditzy

All adjectives that were used to describe Raven once long ago when she was a duck girl named Ahiru dancing for her life. But she knows better now she tells the knight with a smile as cold as ice. The ice that forms at the edges of the lake behind the academy every year – the slightest touch will shatter it pieces.

The self-mockery that seeps into her voice is savage and her laugh is bitter like betrayal.

'Promises are lies that can be broken so easily' she accuses him with ice blue eyes filled with unshed tears thinking of long past memories of a bubbly girl with pink hair that danced a pas de deux with a knight so long ago.

'I believe in fairy tales' she tells him once as they sit side by side feeding the birds that gather at the lake remembering the story of the prince and the raven.

'Really?' he asks in surprise considering the cynical side that she only showed in private hidden under a mask of smiles and giggles.

Yes Raven believes in fairy tales. The original ones not the Disney movies. Her favourite is the story of the little mermaid which she relates to the most. The story of a young naïve girl that loved a man so much that she gave up everything for him. A girl that stood over the sleeping forms of her love and his lover and decided to spare them and gave her life in return for theirs. A girl who willingly walked into the cold ocean waters that had once been her home and became part of it once more as sea foam. Raven believes in fairy tales but she doesn't believe in most happy endings.

'Although I don't believe in knights in shining armour coming to save the day' she says mockingly to hide the hurt memory of a time when she did believe in them 'and I certainly don't believe in prince charmings that save the day with a single kiss.'

'What's your biggest fear?' he once asked in a game of twenty questions.

'Being alone again' she says in a voice that is as quiet as the grave 'that this is all a dream and I'll wake up by myself along and forgotten again.'

Fakir grabs her hand with a soft smile that if she was still a naïve trusting girl would have returned immediately.

She still doesn't trust people like she did once but she's getting there she thinks as she looks out at the lake that she had once called home.

'Hey Fakir have you heard of the story of Princess Tutu?' she begins as she breaks the comfortable silence.

Raven may believe in fairy tales but she chose not to be like the little mermaid. She decided not to wither but to walk on knives for the rest of her life the day she took Hotaru's hand. She may not have found a prince charming in Mytho but that's ok he and Rue belonged together.

She chose to make her own story and no matter the pain she wouldn't have it any other way.

'Once upon a time there was a duck….'

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