I get why people are wary lf the princess, what with her/his (their? They feel kind of genderfuild in here?) Immortality and having previous lovers but honestly, the Knight girlie kind of ticks me off more. The way she is so entrenched in her identity as a knight that she's blind to all the ways her 'protection' is useless to the Princess of today. The Knight girly doesn't even seem aware of her body in a sense, when she's not able to ascertain whether she can pick a fight without getting injured- as a knight, being aware of your body seems like the most basic training? I feel like she's clinging to her past simply because she found purpose in her previous life, and the purpose of her present life became to chase what she had before. She could've easily adapted to her surroundings, could've 'served' the princess in some other useful manner, but she didn't- was she even aware of her own failings? And tbh, I get the princess taking lovers in the time it took for the Knight to recognise her. They had been alive long enough, maybe they hadn't even planned on telling the knight that they were the princess, maybe they knew the knight would start fixating on 'protecting' them and get hurt in the attempt. And the stalker girly and the princess seemed have had a meaningful relationship too. It can't be healthy to just fixate on one person your entire life and obsess over them, over their absence until you meet them. Meaningful, healthy relarionships cannot be skipped even if you keep loving someone for hundreds of years- like, no Edward Cullen, that's just plain unhealthy.
I get why people are wary lf the princess, what with her/his (their? They feel kind of genderfuild in here?) Immortality and having previous lovers but honestly, the Knight girlie kind of ticks me off more. The way she is so entrenched in her identity as a knight that she's blind to all the ways her 'protection' is useless to the Princess of today. The Knight girly doesn't even seem aware of her body in a sense, when she's not able to ascertain whether she can pick a fight without getting injured- as a knight, being aware of your body seems like the most basic training? I feel like she's clinging to her past simply because she found purpose in her previous life, and the purpose of her present life became to chase what she had before. She could've easily adapted to her surroundings, could've 'served' the princess in some other useful manner, but she didn't- was she even aware of her own failings?
And tbh, I get the princess taking lovers in the time it took for the Knight to recognise her. They had been alive long enough, maybe they hadn't even planned on telling the knight that they were the princess, maybe they knew the knight would start fixating on 'protecting' them and get hurt in the attempt. And the stalker girly and the princess seemed have had a meaningful relationship too. It can't be healthy to just fixate on one person your entire life and obsess over them, over their absence until you meet them. Meaningful, healthy relarionships cannot be skipped even if you keep loving someone for hundreds of years- like, no Edward Cullen, that's just plain unhealthy.