![]() ![]() The clash between humankind and the environment is at the heart of the animated fantasy epic Princess Mononoke - but it’s also the world we live in today amid the climate crisis. Despite this, she eventually comes to accept Ashitaka, who was the first to see her humanity.Humans ruin the Earth, and nature returns the favor with unparalleled fury. At first, San rejects her own humanity and seems to be quite misanthropic, also thinking of herself only as a wolf. She is stubborn, short-tempered, courageous, and protective, her primary concern being to protect the forest and animals she lives with. When Ashitaka's bullet wound was healed by the Forest Spirit San recognized that he was not an enemy of the forest and defended him from the Boars. This is initially a quality she only exhibits towards the inhabitants of the forest (animals, gods, and other beings), but as later shown throughout the movie, by the slow and gradual, but real progress of hers and Ashitaka's bond, she is also able to accept and develop admiration, and even affection for a fellow human - a process that also helps her accept her own humanity. However, despite her (justified) coldness towards humans, she is highly capable of compassion. Being adopted by the wolf goddess Moro when she was but an infant, the "Wolf Girl", as expected, develops a wild personality. The mask is red with ears and white wavy lines and three sunshine yellow holes for a mouth and eyes.Īlbeit a literal warrior-princess, San is fundamentally defined by her appreciation of nature. She wears a mask which is her iconic feature. She is also very agile, fast, fairly strong and appears to be really good at using daggers and spears. She wears long, dangling, oval shaped earrings during the whole film. She has a medium necklace with three fangs tied across her neck. She also bears short, straight, light brown hair and has dark blue eyes with bangs slightly parted in the middle. ![]() She wears a head necklace with a single small gem in her front. San is a beautiful young woman of average build who wears ragged clothing and a cape made of a wolf's fur, and has what appears to be amaranth red war paint on her face. San reciprocates his declarations and leaves. Before separating, Ashitaka promises that he will always be near and he will visit her in the forest whenever he can. San returns to the forest while Ashitaka remains in Irontown. However, she cannot forgive the human race for what they have done to the forest and will continue to live apart from them. It is only by Ashitaka's affection to her that she slowly comes to acknowledge her human side as well.Īfter the battle for the Forest Spirit's head, San tells Ashitaka that he is very dear to her. She has suicidal thoughts and attempts to assassinate Lady Eboshi of Irontown many times, as San believes that Eboshi's death will result in the end of Irontown and human growth into the surrounding, untouched forest. San rejects her own humanity and even thinks of herself as a wolf. San's primary concern is protecting the forest and the animals she lives with. Moro raised San as her own daughter, and in turn San treats Moro as her mother and Moro's two natural pups as her siblings. Her parents threw San to her feet and ran away. When San was a baby, the wolf goddess Moro attacked her parents, who were found damaging the forest. ![]()
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