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Even Death can feel a little lonely. A rather infamous artistic motif that came into prominence during the Renaissance and continues to the modern day, Death and the Maiden has been popular in mediums ranging from visual art to plays, music, and even film. The details are simple: feature the personification of Death with a beautiful, nubile human woman. Easy peasy. How this formula differs depends on the medium. Death is often presented as a skeleton with wings or a cloak and scythe or maybe just a wilting corpse. The woman is often nude or at least partially so. Their interactions vary as well, the maiden reacting with fear or arousal at Death's touch, while Death caresses, kills, and/or whatever else the woman in question. It is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. This motif is commonly seen as an erotic one, two lovers making a connection in a way that even the viewer can only have limited comprehension of. Others can see it as a symbolic one, Death representing mortality and... well... you know, while the woman represents life and how the two dance in a delicate balance, being equal and opposite to one another. It is generally used in one of two ways. Either this represents the threat of and grief surrounding childhood illness: the maiden Too Good for This Sinful Earth taken before she can produce children. The other possibility is as an image of feminist resistance: the woman who commits suicide rather than enter an Arranged Marriage. A common variant of the Beast and Beauty trope. See also Touch of the Monster and Pietà Plagiarism. |
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Gender-Flipped in the song She Was So Beautiful by the Russian rock-band Splean, in which the narrator (supposedly male) meets a personification of Death who happens to be the very beautiful woman. Narrator wants to date her, but she says to him who she really is, and then leaves, saying "see you later" and "until the better days". note In Slavic culture, Death is female due to grammar gender. | |
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In the Updated Re Release of Persona 3, Ryoji is immediately smitten with the female protagonist, and he’s the only male character that isn’t a party member to be Promoted to Love Interest. Not only do his feelings come from the crush on her he developed while under the identity of Death Social Link Pharos, but he’s also an avatar for Nyx, the embodiment of death itself. His Social Link also implies a gay version of this trope, as he tells the female protagonist that he’d fall in love with her even if she was a boy, heavily implying he also had feelings for the male protagonist despite his lack of a Social Link in the male route. | |
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The English-language Ur-Example may be Romeo and Juliet when the titular Juliet begs the priest for a poison so that if she cannot marry Romeo, she can marry Death: i.e. commit suicide. She fakes her death, and when her family discovers her her father comments that death has married his daughter and is now his heir. | |
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