[Marco kind of falls over at that and stifles a laugh on his knuckles.]
That's one of my favorite books actually. [Slight blush because wow embarrassing.]
It's supposed to be a satire though so she's that annoying on purpose. To illustrate how idiotic so many romance and fairy tale princesses are. [Oh wait. Robin probably knows that. Is this her being satirical? You know for a deadpan liar, he's really bad at satire.] Because of all the fairy tales where the princess is completely pointless, just might as well be stuck off in another castle because she's just the vehicle they use to explain why the guy is there having adventures. As if adventures for adventures' sake weren't good enough.
But even starting off with the list of the "most beautiful women in the world" who wrote this list? Why? Did they really think it would solve anything? How did they know those girls were more beautiful than each other or not? How can that even be objective? Was it a poll? I mean, you've got everyone talking about Boa Hancock being the most beautiful, but how did so many people agree on this that it's just accepted as universal truth? In the Princess Bride though, it's all just a play off from stories like the Illiad where they went to war over a woman, just wanting her because she's beautiful. I kind of thought it was brilliant that Humperdink only wanted her to cause a war because she's beautiful. Best flip on it.
And Westley... [Laughs.] For a guy strong enough to ditch her to go be a pirate, he spends the whole time outdoing the whole world in languages, building up poison tolerance, becoming one of the top-notch swordsman all just in case she might like those things, not because he thinks he has actual use for them. And what does he do in return? Stops being wild and the way he loved her before he left and takes up interest in trying to be beautiful for him. He's not even there to see her so what does it matter?
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That's one of my favorite books actually. [Slight blush because wow embarrassing.]
It's supposed to be a satire though so she's that annoying on purpose. To illustrate how idiotic so many romance and fairy tale princesses are. [Oh wait. Robin probably knows that. Is this her being satirical? You know for a deadpan liar, he's really bad at satire.] Because of all the fairy tales where the princess is completely pointless, just might as well be stuck off in another castle because she's just the vehicle they use to explain why the guy is there having adventures. As if adventures for adventures' sake weren't good enough.
But even starting off with the list of the "most beautiful women in the world" who wrote this list? Why? Did they really think it would solve anything? How did they know those girls were more beautiful than each other or not? How can that even be objective? Was it a poll? I mean, you've got everyone talking about Boa Hancock being the most beautiful, but how did so many people agree on this that it's just accepted as universal truth? In the Princess Bride though, it's all just a play off from stories like the Illiad where they went to war over a woman, just wanting her because she's beautiful. I kind of thought it was brilliant that Humperdink only wanted her to cause a war because she's beautiful. Best flip on it.
And Westley... [Laughs.] For a guy strong enough to ditch her to go be a pirate, he spends the whole time outdoing the whole world in languages, building up poison tolerance, becoming one of the top-notch swordsman all just in case she might like those things, not because he thinks he has actual use for them. And what does he do in return? Stops being wild and the way he loved her before he left and takes up interest in trying to be beautiful for him. He's not even there to see her so what does it matter?