Connections
Mar. 17th, 2006 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootInteresting parallels between Otome and Hime.
One, of course, is the Crystal Hime. In MH, the Crystal Hime was the winner and the sacrifice. She entered the Otherworld and became its power source, the ordering principle in the chaos, and thus closed off the Otherworld from her own world.
In Otome we have Fumi and Rena who are sacrificed and turned into the source of Otome crystals. And Otome are, in this world, the source of order, and are themselves the sacrifices who must fight each other.
We also have the aspect of the wish. The Crystal Hime has the power to make her wishes true. So, apparently, does the Harmonium.
There's also the extra. And extra Hime, which was, in the end, absolutely vital to the plot. The extra heir/otome, in the trio of Arika, Mashiro and Nina.
Given that the end of MH dispersed evil into something individuals had to each deal with for themselves, rather than one conglomeration that required the Hime power and sacrifice to contain, I wonder whether the end of MO won't be the dismantling of the Otome to let the nations once again hash out their affairs without using that power and sacrifice.
One, of course, is the Crystal Hime. In MH, the Crystal Hime was the winner and the sacrifice. She entered the Otherworld and became its power source, the ordering principle in the chaos, and thus closed off the Otherworld from her own world.
In Otome we have Fumi and Rena who are sacrificed and turned into the source of Otome crystals. And Otome are, in this world, the source of order, and are themselves the sacrifices who must fight each other.
We also have the aspect of the wish. The Crystal Hime has the power to make her wishes true. So, apparently, does the Harmonium.
There's also the extra. And extra Hime, which was, in the end, absolutely vital to the plot. The extra heir/otome, in the trio of Arika, Mashiro and Nina.
Given that the end of MH dispersed evil into something individuals had to each deal with for themselves, rather than one conglomeration that required the Hime power and sacrifice to contain, I wonder whether the end of MO won't be the dismantling of the Otome to let the nations once again hash out their affairs without using that power and sacrifice.
