Ruetho

Ruetho is the het ship between Rue/Princess Kraehe and Mytho/Prince Sigfried from the Princess Tutu fandom.

Canon
Prince Siegfried was to prince of a tale "The Prince and The Raven". He lived to protect the weak and the needy. In order to seal an evil Raven he shattered his heart which make him lose his memory and his emotions. After that Mytho end up in Gold Crown Town (a town of the real world) and is latter found by a boy named Fakir who gave him the name of Mytho (because he didn't knew the prince's true name). Rue was a girl stolen by a group of crows as a baby and raised by The Raven whom she believed was her true father and who named her Kraehe. Kraehe was mistreated by crows. When she was a child Kraehe was saved from crows who were harassing her by Mytho who kept his need to protect the weak. Since Mytho was the first person to show kindness to Rue she fall for him.

Many years later Fakir went to the Gold Crown Academy to study ballet with Mytho who has not changed (he didn't aged). Kraehe was told by the Raven to 'pretend' to be a human girl and make Mytho fall in love with her. After slipping up and calling him Prince, she sealed away the memories of being Kraehe and took the name 'Rue' and went to the Gold Crown Academy. Rue became the best dancer of the academy. Rue asked Mytho to be her boyfriend and he accepted, but since his heart was not restored he was unable to manifest any feelings.

Fanon
Ruetho is the second most popular ship in the Princess Tutu fandom behind Fakiru. The popularity of Ruetho can be explained by it's canonicity and the fact that both characters are shown to have strong feelings for the other. The ship is liked because it's rare for characters like Rue to get an happy ending. They are often shipped alongside Fakiru. Most fanarts shown them with their prince and princess outfit seen in the last episode, some others use their school uniform or Rue as Princess Kraehe and more rarley with Mytho in his raven form. Fanworks that change their role are not uncommon, sometime swapping them with each other, sometime with Fakir and Ahiru. Modern AU are also quite popular.

However Rue's relationship with Mytho got some critics. The most common critic is that Rue is abusive to Mytho in season 1 and that she "don't deserve him". Most of the critics came from Mytho/Ahiru shippers but most of them prefer to pair Rue with other character. The other main rival ships are Mytho/Fakir and Rue/Ahiru.

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