Crossovers That Should Not Be XIII: The Horrors, The Horrors...

[azunth]

Ah, but the Equestrian use of "Princess" is a synonym for "Queen": to borrow the Narnian terms, they are High Queen Celestia and Queen Luna. (My impression of) the SKU definition of "prince" is something along the lines of "knight errant exemplary", a righter of wrongs and rescuer of imperilled individuals. Celestia and Luna can't go gallivanting about like that; they have a country to run and a sky to manage.

Of course, my primary exposure to SKU is from Undocumented Features, where it's blended quite seamlessly with Cephiro (the setting of Magic Knights Rayearth). But didn't Utena make a train wreck of the whole Prince/Bride/Witch thing by her very presence too? There were other female duelists, but Utena was the only one to take the whole "Prince" thing seriously.

 A Prince rules too; Machivelli's treatise on politics wasn't called The Prince for nothing.  The idea of two very different character archetypes (Princess-as-cheerleader/trophy and Princess-as-ruler) both using the same name, and thus getting confabulated all to hell was sorta the point  In Pinkie's mind, a Princess is a High Queen.  The people in Revolutionary Girl Utena think of a Princess as someone almost utterly passive.  Utena steadily took apart the Prince-Princess-Witch roles piece by piece, but started the series wanting to be a prince, and she played into the roles for a long while.  Pinkie will believe the Rose Bride is the one running the show, and act accordingly until someone clues her in otherwise.  Given Pinkie's personality, that will take some time, and until the miscommunication is resolved, there will be a great deal of chaos on what it means to be a Princess.