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So what do you fantasize about now?
So what do you fantasize about now?


This is where Reconstruction comes in. A Reconstruction ''accepts'' the criticisms of the initial fantasy made in the previous [[Deconstruction]] and then ''modifies'' the initial fantasy into something that would not be so bad in reality. Basically, where a [[Deconstruction]] frequently shows fantasy X as being much darker than you thought it would be, a Reconstruction ''corrects'' the fantasy to have less awful results.
This is where '''Reconstruction'' comes in. A Reconstruction ''accepts'' the criticisms of the initial fantasy made in the previous [[Deconstruction]] and then ''modifies'' the initial fantasy into something that would not be so bad in reality. Basically, where a [[Deconstruction]] frequently shows fantasy X as being much darker than you thought it would be, a Reconstruction ''corrects'' the fantasy to have less awful results.


Thus, [[Princess Classic]] is not being married into a fairy-tale monarchy, but into a post-Napoleonic 19th- or 20th-century one—a constitutional monarchy in [[Ruritania]], with the scenery and regalia but without the power and corruption, so she won't end up like Marie Antoinette.
Thus, [[Princess Classic]] is not being married into a fairy-tale monarchy, but into a post-Napoleonic 19th- or 20th-century one—a constitutional monarchy in [[Ruritania]], with the scenery and regalia but without the power and corruption, so she won't end up like Marie Antoinette.