Drosselmeyer

Drosselmeyer is introduced in the first scene of episode one.  He materializes before the duck Ahiru on the lake where she is watching Mytho dance. After overhearing of her desire of bringing a smile back to the prince, he offers her a proposition: Drosselmeyer will turn the duck Ahiru into the girl Ahiru and grant her the power to become Princess Tutu if she will return the prince's heart without desiring a return reward for herself. 

Drosselmeyer is the author of The Prince and the Raven, the fairytale story that  was only half finished before Drosselmeyer's untimely death in the very town where Princess Tutu takes place, the town that is now mixed up with his fairytale since the prince and the raven escaped the story.  Exactly what Drosselmeyer has become after death is unclear, but he has the capability of observing events and of interacting with his characters between when time has stopped.  

Drosselmeyer watches the story unfold with a knowing anticipation, gleefully rejoicing in his character's successes and even more so in their failures.  Although not everything in the living version of his story is exactly the way it was in his book, he knows the roles of his characters intimately, and seems to enjoy the occasional deviations.

As the story progresses, we might ponder:  What is the power of Drosselmeyer exactly?  How did he die and why does he continue writing from the grave?  To what extent does he control the people who are his characters, and does he care what happens to them when their reality shapes itself to the telling of his story?