Sera Myu 30 Day Meme
Day nine- Who is your favorite only musical character?
Loof Merrow (specifically Hikari’s version) is one of my favorite characters in anything ever, so of course she’s my favorite invention of the myu. Everything about her is so heartbreaking for me. She survived 5,000 years alone, fighting as a pirate so that she’d be ready if Coatl came back. She’s rough, she’s guarded, but the moment a real human being shows her compassion, she falls in love. The way Hikari plays the love pain scene is one of my favorite things in the world. It’s easy to make that sort of thing seem a bit pathetic (which is how it came across for me in SKSD), but she makes it serious. This is a woman whose only companions have been androids for so long that she’s forgotten what human love is like. It hurts and she can’t place the feeling right away because she’s so used to being alone. And I love so much that falling in love doesn’t make her lose her rough edges. She stays a fighter to the very end.
Then it gets even more painful because she’d never ask Endymion to love her back. She barely even reacts when she hears he has a daughter (and therefore likely has a wife or lover). I don’t think she had enough of an expectation that he’d love her to get very surprised or jealous. And even though she doesn’t ask him for anything, she’s willing to give so much. Her final sacrifice is of course for the good of the entire planet, but it’s also for him– she says straight out that she wants to protect the future that he comes from.
The final blow for me is when she comes back in the end. She’s every bit the elegant and refined princess, and that means she never lost that part of herself. She spent five thousand years as a pirate and never forgot how to be a princess. That’s pretty amazing.
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