MISS DERMARK'S LITERARY RAMBLES: ALL HAIL PRINCESS TWILIGHT!

THE LONG AWAITED EPISODE XIII (THIRTEEN),

IN WHICH THE DARK PRINCESS (TWILIGHT) APPEARS

AS HER COLD TONE IS PLAYED

A lovely albino pointy-eared maiden...

...dressed in scarlet and black...

...playing the violin on a green hill as the sun sets...

...a sorrowful and ominous melody...

This maiden, sublime, noble, and beautiful... full of refinement, majesty, and elegance... (Kedakaku. Tootoku. Uruwashiku.)

They say her name is Twilight...

that she is the usurper Dyspear's daughter and princess of the Dysdarks...

Shut is still brooding over Close, when suddenly...

As soon as Shut saw her enter the throne room, he was unexpectedly smitten.

SHUT: So beautiful! I simply MUST adore her! I simply MUST give her a token of my affection!

LOCK: Weren't you supposed to be, like, queer?

TWILIGHT: SHUT UP!

(She burns the rose into ashes with a blue flame from the palm of her hand).

SHUT & LOCK: What the...???

She burned the rose??? She called Dyspear "Mother"???

Which means she is a... DYSDARK PRINCESS...

TWILIGHT: The Dysdark Princess.

That unrequited and unexpected Shutlight pairing... the dark magical girl and the token queer...
So Shut is bisexual... even though TvTropes says he is het...
Camp Straight: He is very effeminate but he fell in love with Twilight the exact moment he saw her.
I refuse to believe what the tropers say! In my headcanon, Shut is bisexual!

SHUT: "The daughter of the Great Sorceress Dyspear,

the true heir to Hope Kingdom,

Her Highness Princess Twilight!"

Though she'd rather prefer Shut to Shut up and leave her in peace...

The victim of the week was, as I expected, the old master luthier and violinist Mr. Nishikido

(Minami's violin teacher).

The first adult victim in the series!

Hitherto, the Dysdarks had only attacked teenagers.

Now that a Twilight-empowered Shut targets an adult, it means that things will get even more serious...

Twilight appears pretty cool and smug, more like the average dark magical girl than

spoiled, childish Regina.

Yet she is far cooler and more confident than I expected, aside from detached...

I think I've got a new favourite Dysdark...

For she is smart, she is artistic, and she is confident...

Cold and haughty, on the other hand, but who cares?

Like her own motto says: "Sublime, noble, and beautiful."

Or "Proud, honourable, and beautiful." (as it has otherwise been translated).

A third translation reads: "With refinement, majesty, and elegance."

In original Japanese, the motto is "Kedakaku. Tootoku. Uruwashiku."

She inserts her key into Shut's heart padlock,

making him feel both racked with pain and elated

(it looks, with that squeal and that smile, like he's having an orgasm)

SQUEEE!
Does anyone else see this as a metaphor for orgasm? Or simply for intoxicating power?

Then, Shut was filled with great power that manifested as a purple aura...

SHUT: Power... Power surging within me!

This is Shut on power.
Not a mere intoxication... but still more harmless than Joffrey.

The Desporg made from the old luthier's Shut dream, the Despair Door,

and the padlock Shut threw at him,

were crimson, being Twilight-empowered.

This Desporg was also stronger than any one before.

Was there any innuendo of gender-flipped coitus in Twilight empowering Shut?

Twilight's blue will-o'-wisp attack.

It reminded me of Brave, sort of, with all those will-o'-wisps...

that fell on the ground and then rapidly spun around,

increasing until they became a circle of blue flame.

Twilight firebends well enough to give both Azula (from AtLA)
and Becca (from WaterFire Saga) facial scars.

It seems she was playing with Ruka all along, and Twilight is pleased with it

(sadistic, Schadenfreude, or both)?

TWILIGHT (coldly): Dreams are just illusions that pitiful people believe in.

Sublime, noble, and beautiful.

(or: Proud, honourable, and beautiful. Or: With refinement, majesty, and elegance.

Her original motto reads: Kedakaku. Tootoku. Uruwashiku.)

A real princess like me who possesses those traits does not need mere dreams.

Sublime. Noble. Beautiful.
Proud. Honourable. Beautiful.
With refinement, majesty, and elegance.
Kedakaku. Tootoku. Uruwashiku.
(Could as well have been Westeros house words...
so I'm planning to do Twilight's House Crest
in scarlet on black field, with the Dark Key for a crest.
Three versions, one in Japanese and one for each translation)

Twilight says that she locks her heart away to play the violin,

and gives Ruka the same advice...

"You can only play the violin after you lock away your heart.

Sublime, noble, and beautiful."

(alt. "Proud, honourable, and beautiful."

alt: "With refinement, majesty, and elegance."

Kedakaku. Tootoku. Uruwashiku.)

TWILIGHT (coldly): Dreams are just illusions that pitiful people believe in.

Sublime, noble, and beautiful.

(or: Proud, honourable, and beautiful.

or: With refinement, majesty, and elegance.

Kedakaku. Tootoku. Uruwashiku.)

A real princess like me who possesses those traits does not need mere dreams.

TWILIGHT (To Princess Cures, coldly): (Noblewoman's laugh): How rude. Disappear.

So, in the end, post-defeat, Twilight coolly outflew Shut, who hastened after her.

In the end, in the throne room, Shut was still eyeing his dark princess, as Lock looked skeptically on.

SHUT: She's really beautiful...

Does this mean Shut shares something with Gustavus Adolphus and Oberyn Martell?

(I'm speaking of their sexual orientation, btw.)

My precious...

And then, on her own, Twilight sounded Shakespearean once more:

TWILIGHT: Just like the day ultimately becomes the dark,

the dusk will eventually cover the skies.

This black key and I will cover the world in despair.

TWILIGHT: Just like the day ultimately becomes the dark,

the dusk will eventually cover the skies.

This black key and I will cover the world in despair.

Sublime, noble, and beautiful.

(or: Proud, honourable, and beautiful.)

We also learned that Mr. Nishikido taught Minami to play the violin,

A reunion between an old master and his best disciple

which she does obviously excellently,

and so did Mme. Shamour to Kanata.

And that Kirara can play the violin as well.

Anyone else expected she could?

Shut is now brooding over Close (like Loras over Renly), when suddenly Twilight steps in.

Unexpected crush ensues...

Add that Twilight is Dyspear's daughter (who's her dad?) and owns

a "Dress-Up Key" in her signature colours

(this would make seven Keys so far, if Twilight's were an official DUK, which it is NOT)

which happen to be Sith/Bolton/Harkonnen/Fire Nation colours:

no good omen...

(Though Enjolras's song is a different, more positive, story!)

PS. There is a theory of Twilight and Kanata being siblings... can they be?

Are these two brother and sister, like the fandom claims?

Let's see... Both appear to be the same age and size.

Both share some features, like almond-shaped tsurime eyes and a heart-shaped face.

Twilight is an albino, while Kanata is darker of features.

Kanata's ears are hidden in the locks on his temples: one can't see if they are really pointy.

So, for now, it's just a theory, like the possibility that my favourite imp may be a Targaryen.

Alternatively, Twilight and Kanata may be fiancés.

In this headcanon, their marriage was arranged to establish relations between

the Hope Kingdom and the Dysdarks,

but something came in between, then an invasion and a usurpation ensued...

and now they're enemies. Sworn enemies, for life and death.

The rightful heir and the usurper's daughter.

What's more, there's a third hypothesis of my own devise,

one that hearkens back to Dokidoki Precure:

This third hypothesis states that, just like Aguri and Regina in Dokidoki Precure,

Kanata and Twilight may be the light and darkness of one and the same person,

who has been literally split apart.

Not far-fetched, but considering the case of Aguri and Regina

(certain similarity, contrasting personalities and colour schemes),

it might as well be true.

So, do you go for this hypothesis, the fiancés one, or the siblings one?

What a fantastic introduction to Twilight... ***** and Shut's unexpected crush, and the melody she plays on her violin, make it even better. Now I am REALLY hooked on Go Princess Precure!

And her motto, which sounds like Westerosi house words (Kedakaku. Tootoku. Uruwashiku)... a reviewer states that: the Dark Princess’s slogan revolves more around the social status and the outstanding individual who is above others.

Twilight is epic. Totally epic. More than just looking like the bastard child of Aerys II and Azula or Galadriel.

I mean, if she is the first Dysdark to target an adult,

if she is so cool and confident,
and has such a motto about the outstanding individual, which sounds like Westerosi house words...
and if Shut and Lock cower before her... and if Shut has fallen for her...

she has become my favourite Dysdark, relegating Shut to a second place!