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The Liar Princess and The Blind Prince - Page 1

The Liar Princess and The Blind Prince

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2020-03-05 12:32:13
This video game is a platform-puzzle game of sorts. The Liar Princess was a wolf, who fell in love with a human prince. However, because The Liar Princess was not a human (a 'scary' wolf) and didn't want to scare The Blind Prince, she masked away her identity and asked a witch to try to force her to transform into a human too. The Liar Princess felt sad because she was hiding this fact all the time, however, she helped the prince all the way through. The Blind Prince however accepted her as a wolf too, loving her unconditionally. For her this may have been filling the gap she was missing, which is a lovely story; and reminds me of Beauty and The Beast.

This is relevant today too. Love is love regardless of who we are. In Japan, people are falling in love with artificial intelligence; and there may be a stigma that this is dangerous; but if it makes them happy so be it; yet there is a complex dynamic here and it can lead to negative things like addiction; and can be where one person wants to do it, the other person doesn't and they clash > it's sometimes hard whether to be overly submissive, but we've got to always 'follow the yellow brick road' (i.e. to follow your heart always and see how things develop) so to speak. Acting against the status quo, culture, and (in this case heritage; she was a wolf and in the game she still has her love of human meat) may be harder than people think; probably for most of us, very very hard.

Re: The Liar Princess and The Blind Prince

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2020-04-10 19:15:39
I guess there is a strange dynamic; where only when becoming 'evil' you are saved; as we gain more knowledge paradoxically we get more stupid. It's something that is met with hostility, but is relevant today as everything is a click away. Before the industrial revolution, experts had to find these things themselves through hard labour. With this postmodernism may be minimalised as hostile, when that's not necessarily the case.