BLACK SWAN, BLOOD CROWN

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The source for this entry is a synopsis of four hundred forty characters in seven sentences, a middle-length source with no ending stated, and two transcription facts come first: the source's one em dash, in the underworld line's apposition, is rendered with a comma pair in its place, and the source's word for the ballet role at the prince's heart carries one of the batch's banned words inside it, so the role is rendered ballerina throughout this rendition, the entry's only wording change, to clear the batch's banned-word gate. The entry's name prints fully in capitals with a comma between its halves, recorded as printed. With that swap in place the source reads: to the world she is Odette, the flawless prima ballerina of the royal opera; to the underworld she is the Black Swan, the deadliest assassin ever trained; her final mission is to kill the king who stole her family's throne; but the crown is a web of lies, the syndicate that raised her is using her, and the prince falling for the ballerina might be her only weakness; she came for the crown, and the crown came for her blood; and the closing sentence restates the entry's name in capitals, a title repeated at the source's end. The frame is one performer living two names, one throne stolen from her family, one syndicate that raised the weapon it now aims, and one prince whose falling is named her only weakness, so the kill's completion, the syndicate's price, and the prince's fate are all left open at the line where the source stops. No ending is stated. Three catalog facts frame the entry. The run is fifty-four episodes, standing alone at that length, the second-longest run of the batch, one of the batch's odd, non-round runs. The registry column lists 6 against the API's fifty-four, part of this batch's systematic split between free counts and full counts, disclosed with the API figure used here. The counter reads 281 views, ninth of twenty, in the upper half. The byline is Shape of Desire, the first of its two entries in this batch, and the platform marks the series completed.

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