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mathilde
mathilde is prima ballerina in the imperial ballet. a great many men adore her and her dressing room is always buried in bouquets. but there is only one man mathilde adores, and even loves, back - the prince himself. he brings her roses after every performance and speaks only of his love, but they know it is not to be. afterall, he must marry a princess and she is only a dancer. so mathilde dances. and she tries very hard not to notice the royal box. and she wishes, as she takes her bows and dodges flowers, that she could grow old faster if only to quit the ballet.

(ingrediants and factoids: sculpey, paint, tulle, hair, wire, etceras. also, mathilde is very loosely inspired by the real ballerina mathilde kschessinska who had many a love-tangle with the romanov family. and also, i think she may be my very favourite.)