thinking about the thematic implications of cinderella!hiyori bc i've always wondered why they chose that theme for hiyo when there were like, dozens of other princesses. well, aside from the obvious parallels between lipxlip being the stepsisters, etc. then i remembered how they portrayed hiyori's cinderella with her glass slippers off. so i thought, hiyori dreams to keep on running. but glass slippers will stop that dream because they'll break and shatter, or fall off like the tale itself. but the glass slippers were the most magical part of cinderella's story, it was what made her cinderella, what made her the heroine. but if hiyori takes off her glass slippers to run towards her dream, does that mean she can't be the heroine anymore?
which is why hiyori portrays her own version of cinderella, her story isn't perfect and it's no fairytale. the stepsisters of her story cared about her more than she thought, and the big bad villain of the story was the same as her, someone who wanted to be the heroine. and while her version may be different, she might take off the glass slippers every once in a while to run towards her dream, it never made her any less of a heroine, it never made her any less of a cinderella.
