i refuse to vanish!

Low-activity indie RP blog for Duck from Princess Tutu, spun by Dusty!

[justaduck]

“They also teach ballet!”

[bluedotted]

@justaduck​   //   ❝ academia? like the nut? ❞   —   welcome to dumbass central.

“yeah, like—just like the nut. ass chew, mall cop, academia.”

[justaduck]

“Hey, ‘ass chew’ isn’t the name of a nut!”

[justaduck]

what kind of sky are you?

bubblegum sky

a lover, a dreamer. you see the world thought pink tinted glasses, don't you? romanticizing little things, picking flowers on your way home, buying colorful stationery and glittery pens to decorate your journal with. you remind me of myself, honestly; we're such hopeless romantics, and even if our hearts get shattered on the floor, they keep on beating- doesn't that make us braver than any soldier? i think we are, friend. it's okay to want a fairytale, to daydream of all those nice things that make butterflies fly their way up to your throat. i'm with you. you remind me of rose lemonade and soft, lilac bedsheets.

tagged by: @bluedotted

tagging: anyone who wants to do it! :D

[justaduck]

headcanon dump! these are ones that are long-established parts of my personal interpretation of duck and princess tutu in general, so i may as well throw a bunch out at once!

🦆 duck has combined type adhd! i wrote a whole thing a few years ago on my personal about how important this is to me, but to summarize: her behavior is really accurate to my experience with adhd, both the positive and negative aspects. she struggles with hyperactivity and lack of focus, and she’s allowed to lean into the inherent funniness of adhd while still being a serious character. her traits are endearing but not overly simplistic, and this is intentional; she often plays it up to be funny or cute instead of just annoying. she also has severe rejection sensitivity dysphoria, which contributes to her low self-esteem and constant self-deprecation. she says stupid shit impulsively and school is hard for her and she’s hyperactive to the point where she actively hurts herself and she’ll spend all afternoon walking around town trying to find the best tasting water for someone because they deserve good-tasting water. so yeah. her adhd is very important to my portrayal of her. :D

🦆 gold crown town is located in germany. this is implied in the show, with most of the text being in german, but i just want to clarify that it is canon on my blog. gold crown was cut off from the outside world while it was inside the story, so they’re technologically asynchronous with the rest of the world. this means that there is no set time period, and i can rp my post-canon verses with muses in many different time periods, including modern muses!

🦆 duck isn’t actually bad at dancing. drosselmeyer was preventing her from dancing the way she naturally would in order to keep her self-esteem low for the sake of angst and being able to control her more easily. her specialty is still her ability to convey emotion through dance and bring her own unique spin to it, but she’s far from a bad dancer.

🦆 princess tutu is a (mostly) separate entity from duck. she is a character in her own right, but when duck transforms into her, she takes on her appearance and some of her personality, so the tutu we see in the show is a mix between duck and the princess tutu from “the prince and the raven.” when she was in the story, tutu looked the way she did in the illustration from the book, more birdlike and with wings for arms.

[justaduck]

“Happy Tutu Tuesday, everyone!”

[frost-strix17]

Ballerina, surreal painting try out.

First time I paint like this.

[tokyowilderness-inactive-deacti]

@justaduck​: 

toss her some bread and run while she’s eating

COMMIT BREAD Y E E T.

[justaduck]

Oh? She is considering!

She is eating!

[justaduck]

@tokyowilderness you better watch out, you better watch out, you better watch out--

[justaduck]

truly the face of a god-killer

[justaduck]

hey, it’s dusty! this is my blog for duck from princess tutu! the pt rpc seems to be pretty tiny at the moment so i’m going to be doing mostly aus and crossovers and want to see who’s interested! i currently have verses for twewy and pokemon, and her post-canon verses can work for modern muses!

if you’re interested in interacting with her, please give this a like or reblog! :D

[justaduck]

@mystical-strawberry-sheep​​

Duck was lost.

It was to be expected. She’d never been outside of Gold Crown Town before, and Shibuya was nothing like she was used to. There were so many people and the buildings were huge, even bigger than the gates back home, and as she spun around, craning her neck to look up at them, the stream of people jostled her along, so when she finally looked back down she was somewhere completely different.

Exploring was fun. She didn’t have a purpose for being here, really, other than the simple fact that she could. Fakir had everything under control back home so she was essentially on vacation. Still, she would have preferred to have some kind of direction so she could see the things she wanted to, rather than just wandering aimlessly the whole time.

Duck looked around for someone to ask for directions. Everyone looked so busy, moving like they had somewhere to be, and she would hate to interrupt them. Oh, but she’d passed a lot of shops on the way here, hadn’t she? Surely someone in there would be willing to help her!

She turned around with renewed determination, but someone else caught her eye: a woman, slightly removed from the crowed, walking more slowly and carrying a sketchbook. Perfect! Duck would ask her! That way, she wouldn’t even have to worry about trying to find one of the shops again. So she marched on over and tapped the woman’s shoulder.

“Um, excuse me?” she said. “Hi, um, sorry to bother you, but...” She sighed. “Yeah, so I’m new here and I kinda sorta lost my map so I’ve been wandering around for like an hour and now I don’t know where I am. Not that I really knew to begin with, haha.”

Duck waved a hand. “Anyway. Again, sorry for bothering you, I’ll leave you alone soon, you just kinda looked like you knew where you’re going, but you’re not, like, in a rush or anything, so--wait, oh my gosh, you aren’t actually in a rush, right? I’m not gonna make you late for something, am I? I was just kind of hoping you could tell me where I am, but it’s totally okay if you have to go, I can find someone else!”

[justaduck]

shows duck dancetok videos on her phone.

"Oh, wow, it's all so different from ballet! But, um, not in like a bad way or anything!" she quickly clarifies. “Haha, I’ve just never seen anything like it before, you know? Um, maybe Femio's dancing was kinda close-er, but even that was, like, a totally different style. I guess he really was ahead of his time, huh!” She laughs awkwardly.

Honestly, some of the videos Karen's been showing her remind her of how she used to dance, more flailing about than clean choreography. But they all seem to be having so much fun that Duck can't help but smile, too.

She leans closer to the screen. "I think it’s really cool that anyone can show off their dancing like this! Ooh, maybe I should make an account! You said app was TickTock, right? Like a clock?”

[justaduck]

tag dump!

[justaduck]

i’ve never made icons that don’t come from sprites before, and this is going to be fun. she’s so expressive as both a girl and a duck.