Apr. 2nd, 2013

skygiants: Princess Tutu, facing darkness with a green light in the distance (mulan feminism)
[personal profile] innerbrat gave me the first volume of Princeless specifically so I would write it up, and I read it and thought it was adorable and then totally forgot to do so. BUT I'M DOING IT NOW.

So this is the protagonist of Princeless:



She's Princess Adrienne, and she's going to take her dragon and go on an adventure and rescue all her sister princesses from towers! If she can find some suitable armor, of course.



As you can see, Princeless is not exactly subtle; it is engaging with the fantasy canon in some VERY SPECIFIC ways and it wants to make very sure you understand them! So this is the kind of work where worldbuilding takes a backseat to beating cliches over the head with an angry mallet, and that's okay. Because some cliches need to get beaten.

Secondary characters include Adrienne's adorable poetry-loving twin brother Devin and her new sidekick, half-dwarf teenaged lady blacksmith Bedelia. Also, the dragon. They are all pretty great. But mostly, I'm really interested to see what's going to happen with Adrienne and her sisters and her family -- to my understanding each volume is going to focus on one sister-rescue-mission, and, uh, obviously I love complicated sister dynamics, so I am pretty excited about that!

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