Duck (Princess Tutu)

Duck (in Japanese: あひる, Ahiru) is the main protagonist of the anime Princess Tutu. She is a friendly, kind-hearted duck who was given a magic pendant, which turns her into a teenage girl. This pendant also allows Duck to turn into her alter-ego, the wise and graceful Princess Tutu (プリンセスチュチュ, Purinsesu Chuchu). She is inspired from Odette from and Ugly Duckling.
She is voiced by Nanae Katou in the Japanese version and Luci Christian in the English version.
==Personality==
As both a duck and girl, Duck is rather clumsy and excitable, often reacting to situations very dramatically, which causes her to be prone to injuring herself in comical ways. However, she is also extremely kind, friendly, straightforward, well-meaning and selfless, to the point of being willing to go to great lengths to help others, especially Mytho. This is part of why Drosselmeyer gave her the pendant to turn into both a girl and Princess Tutu to begin with; she had a desire to help him be able to smile, and more importantly, love again, that transcended her own feelings for him. 
Otherwise, her outgoing and friendly personality, more often that not, proves to be quite a good quality since it allows her to quickly win over and befriend others, including those who aren't initially friendly to her, like Fakir and Rue. Though she occasionally gets extremely irritated by Fakir's rudeness, bluntness, and occasional threatening behavior, to the point of initially starting to think he's a bad guy with sinister intentions towards Mytho, once she finds out he's just trying to protect him in his own, somewhat misguided way, she's quick to try convincing him that they should team up and help him together. In Rue's case, while Rue initially denies that they're friends, she eventually admits that she's opening up to and having conversations with her that she doesn't have with anyone else, which shows that she's able to reach out and connect with others who are more withdrawn in ways that few others can. 
As Princess Tutu, she retains all her virtuous qualities, but is also much more calm, mature, elegant and wise. She's quickly able to deduce what is troubling other characters and often not only convinces them that the negative feelings they're experiencing are not really theirs, but rather, the shards of Mytho's heart possessing them, but is able to convince them what they need to do to address the problems that made them feel those negative emotions and attracted the heart shards to them in the first place. 
==Appearance==
In whatever form she's in, one of Duck's most distinguishing traits are her large bright blue eyes, which emphasize her innocent, kind and pure personality. Otherwise, in her true form, she's a pretty ordinary yellow-colored duck with one feather that sticks up at the top of her head. As a girl, she has bright orange hair, which is styled in a really long, thin braid, as well as has one particular hair that sticks straight up like an antennae in a way that resembles the feather she has that sticks up on her head when she's a duck. Her skin is quite fair and light, and she's fairly short, albeit about the same height as many of her other fellow classmates who are also ballet beginners. Clothes-wise, she mostly wears the school uniform, which is grey with blue stripes and a while blouse, apart from when she's dancing, during which she wears the same plain white leotard with a blue waist that most of the other students wear. As Princess Tutu, she mostly just wears a very white ballerina dress with pink frills at the bottom, as well as a tiny crown. Her hair is another noticeable difference, as it becomes a much shorter bob-length, and while still orange at the top, is white from the forehead down, and looks almost identical to swan feathers.
==Abilities==
===As Ahiru===
*Dance: Although she loves the idea of ​​learning ballet to become a ballerina. She can't dance very well on her own, but with the help of Rue, Fakir, or Mytho, she dances well. Akiru does his best and remains optimistic to progress, in any case his clumsiness and lack of discipleship does not help much.
*Human Morphing (limited): Through her pendant from Drosselmeyer, Ahiru could transform from a duck into a human girl. However, if she loses her pendant, or were to be separated from it, or said or did anything resembling a duck, then she would be transformed back into a duck. Another ability she derived from this province is:
** Heroine Mode (limited):
*Emotion Detection (limited): Through her pendant, Ahiru could sense the presence of Mytho's emotions (heart shards).
*Hope Embodiment: Even without her pendant and as a duck, Ahiru had the ability to become the embodiment of hope.
===As Princess Tutu===
*Excellent dancer: Tutu is a very graceful and elegant ballerina whose dances relieve people of the turmoil in their hearts.
**Agility:
*Empathy: 
*Magic:
**Astral Projection:
**Divine Powers:
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