I. . . have to admit, while this is awesome I can't help but find the whole 'Swan Lake' theme terribly amusing. Mostly because the way I found the Roommates 'Verse was through a crossover fanfic someone wrote with Princess Tutu. . . now I need to hunt that fic down again and see if they wrote it before or after you wrote this arc. . .
There is a lot of "tragic endings" of this ballet, but I guess the better one is when Odette and her prince (Siegfred, isn't it? Can't remember) die and are seen flying to Heaven together... It is tragic, but also somewhat "happy".
There is also a perfectly happy one where the prince defeats the evil sorcerer and lives happily ever after with Odette... currently (or as far as I know) we think that this was meant to be the original, but such stories just didn't go well with the ideals of romanticism so it was changed and the Darker And Edgier version stuck.
Well, I know this ending, but I mean that out of all the tragic endings (The prince stays with Odile or he follows Odette and sees her dying) the "better" one is the one where they both die and go to heaven together... It is somewhat happy, in a Romeo and Juliet ending kind of way
(For me the ending of Romeo and Juliet didn't even reach bittersweet, it was a downer... two deaths through sheer stupidity. Maybe I'm just not romantic enough to appreciate. My favorite version (the movie "Romeo + Juliet", it's so Bad it's Good) at least had enough self-aware irony to make it bearable.)
You and the rest of the buildingverse are pushing me to try drawing comic strips. I can't see them turning out as well as yours, though.
Love your work.
SQUEEEEEE! You've got heart beat up with excitement!!!!!!!
(For me the ending of Romeo and Juliet didn't even reach bittersweet, it was a downer... two deaths through sheer stupidity. Maybe I'm just not romantic enough to appreciate. My favorite version (the movie "Romeo + Juliet", it's so Bad it's Good) at least had enough self-aware irony to make it bearable.)