fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #1585 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1585 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Shoujo Kakumei Utena]

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[Pirates of the Caribbean]

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[Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Loom]

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[Westminster Bagcarrier]

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07. [repeat]

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[Eek! The Cat, Garfield]

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[Gintama]

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[Sassy Gay Friend]

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[Doctor Who]

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[florence and the machine]

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[Inception]

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[fakenews_fanfic]

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[Ace Attorney]

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[alex o'loughlin/the invisible]

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[G.A.B.E.]

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[The Black Cauldron]

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[Pokemon]

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[Girls Next Door by Pika-la-Cynique]

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[Cuanta Vida]

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[John Lennon]

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[Tangled/The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]

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[Inception]

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28. [SPOILERS for Puella Magi Madoka Magica]

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29. [SPOILERS for Homestuck]

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30. [SPOILERS for Super]

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31. [repeat]

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32. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]

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33. [TRIGGER WARNING for suicide]

[Doctor Who]

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34. [TRIGGER WARNING for self-harm]

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35. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape, abuse]

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #226.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - repeats ].
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Initially, you're right -- Utena was incredibly selfish in how she interacted with Anthy. She wanted to save her, but it was mostly a self-driven pursuit and not as noble as it appeared. She, like the duelists, viewed the Rose Bride as a means to an end. Similarly, while she was abused and otherwise tormented, Anthy isn't a perfect angel. She's manipulative and chooses to inflict pain on others as a way of easing her own. Utena, as well, is a means to an end for her.

But as the series progresses, both Utena and Anthy reach various breaking points. You'll have to forgive me for forgetting which episode this is, but they go through a personal rennaissance when Anthy tries killing herself and she and Utena share that tearful rooftop embrace. Utena admits she was wrong; Anthy has been confronted with her own damaging behavior. From that point forward, they no longer act in their own interests, but for each other. Even Anthy's betrayal of Utena was a deeply compassionate act, as she wanted to spare Utena from the fate of becoming her prince.

This is all my own interpretation, of course, but I believe Utena changes the world because of her true and genuine compassion. It was the missing ingredient that, for all his machinations, Akio could never create. Anthy, in turn, is transformed by that compassion and can be a whole person again.

(Not the OP)

I do agree that genuine compassion was what was missing, but I feel as if it wasn't that Anthy was transformed by that but that she was inspired by it (for lack of a better word). Because what she did at the end of the series was such a pro-active thing, a step that she made under her own power. It's a bit like Utena opened the door, but Anthy was the one and only person to decide she could step through and actually do it.

Oh, I absolutely agree; I didn't intend to gloss over Anthy's accomplishment, because it was very much a step she had to take on her own. But Utena's kindness toward her was certainly an impetus, and if Utena was really so much of a horrible monster as the secret implies, things wouldn't have worked out quite like that.

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