👓: “Regardless of how many I loose, my arrows will not reach that star. You, who reach for the star without a care, could never understand my fury!”
👑: “I should be able to seize that star! That’s what I believed. But that was nothing short of arrogance!”
🌸: “If you cannot confront it, you may as well flee. Yes, escape was the only way out. I had no other option.”
🌱: “But I am cursed with this lamentation and regret.”
☀️: “This is nothing but unsightly jealousy. So please, tell me! What must I sacrifice in order to obtain that person for myself?
🍌: “O, and so it repeats. The cycle of despair, beneath the light of the stars.”
🦢: “Our dream was not meant to be.”
I apologize for this post taking forever but I am fascinated by this speech. First of all, we have the Goddesses from the cast list conspicuously name-dropped here: Junna says those with Natural Talent could not understand her fury, Karen chastises herself for arrogance, Kaoruko describes how she tried to escape, Futaba is cursed with regret, Mahiru admits to her jealousy, and Nana describes a cycle of despair.
Oddly, the only two who don’t speak here are Hikari and Claudine. Hikari isn’t here, obviously, since this is Last Year’s Revue, so it makes Claudine’s silence stick out all the more. She just kneels, crying, as Maya describes the both of them-- she’s one of the leads, but she’s silent. Perhaps that feeds into her feelings of desperation at being ‘second-best’.
I know this is probably a little separated from their individual narratives seeing as it’s a play and all, but there’s definitely some correlation. That’s especially obvious with Junna and Mahiru, who pretty clearly laid out what they’ve been dealing with. Kaoruko too, actually. So what fascinate me especially are Futaba and Nana’s lines.
Futaba’s line is pretty bare-bones, and comes right on the heels of Kaoruko’s. What does she lament? What does she regret? Her youth of never standing up for herself and Kaoruko never realizing she had her own wants and needs? Of never communicating properly? Or something else?
And then there’s Nana. Perhaps fittingly for someone who quit the performer class to be a writer/tech, her line is an observation from the outside, describing the situation the others are in, as though she’s writing their play.
Also, just... I know I need to cool it with the Madoka stuff but “the cycle of despair” is really making me think time loop,