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After he sees Viren put him in a coin
aaravos when he saw runaan half naked and chained up in front of his mirror
The Dragon Prince AMV - “Wasted Time” (Skid Row)
Hi all! So, I have been actively working on this video for about three weeks now, and wanted to release it before we got Book Three of The Dragon Prince. Skid Row is one of my favorite bands, and for the longest time I have been unable to hear “Wasted Time” without thinking of characters and scenarios from The Dragon Prince. Hope you enjoy, and I can’t wait for Book Three!
Callum won’t stop falling...
Assorted Thoughts on The Dragon Prince Book Three
Hey guys, TheHappySpaceman here. The Dragon Prince. What more do I need to say about it other than what I’ve already covered in my first two reviews? Well, a lot actually.
I was impressed with the show’s improvement from Book One to Book Two and was super excited for where it was set to go in the future. Since then, I have joined the TDP fanbase and supported the show by making memes, reactions, AMVs, oneshots, and plenty of fanart. However, when info dropped last month about Aaron Ehasz and the workplace environment at Wonderstorm potentially not being so good, I didn’t know what to make of it, and as more and more info came out, I became even more confused. Though the fanbase was becoming incredibly toxic due to the near-constant infighting, I promised myself that I would still stick around for Book Three, seeing how excited I had been for it before the controversy, but I almost wondered if it would be worth it.
So, after so many accusations and hollow words thrown around, and after nine months of anticipation… how does it hold up?
…Oh! Okay, wow, this season was a ton of fun. And yes, it’s exactly as good as I figured it would be after seeing Book Two. Everything I could have hoped for from this series really goes full-force here and it rarely if ever lets off the brakes.
The Story
After a brief intro as exposition, the plot starts immediately after the events of the Book Two finale where Callum and Rayla have entered Xadia and have to face many challenges along the way, including archdragon Sol Regem, Rayla’s hometown, and a rogueish elf thief. All the while, Ezran arrives back to Katolis and has to face the challenges of dealing with being king of a country that he finds in chaos, being pressured to enter war and be the king that Harrow was, while Soren and Claudia are confronted with the decision between helping their own father wage war against Xadia or joining their friends.
The Characters
This season introduced a number of interesting new characters. We got to meet some more dragons, for one thing, and while hearing them speak was pretty jarring at first (they talk normal English, which is strange since we’ve never heard them speak before), it turned out to be pretty awesome in establishing the characters. Most notably, we meet Sol Regem, the dragon who appeared in the opening of the series and was on many of the posters, and I’m surprised how he kind of turns out to be a major dick. Since was on so much of the promo materials for the show, I wasn’t figuring this, but he wound up being a racist jackass who was willing to kill our protagonists, including the young dragon prince Zym, all because of his hatred of humans.
He’s not the only dragon we meet. We also meet Avizandum, otherwise known as Thunder, the late King of the dragons, in flashbacks, and we get to see just how he died. As well, we get Zubeia, Zym’s mom, and Pyrrha, a dragon who Ezran had met in the prior season and befriends. My favorite one might be a nameless dragon who is unchained by Soren and nuzzles him. That’s a really cute scene.
We also meet a lot of new elves this season. Of particular note is Ethari, the Moonshadow elf blacksmith who had been seen in the end credits for Book One and had previously been given the fan name “Tinker.” There was a lot of fan speculation that Ethari was Runaan’s boyfriend and that the two of them raised Rayla together while her parents were gone. Well, this season proves that theory entirely false. No, Ethari is Runaan’s husband. Again, way to go with LGBT+ rep, Wonderstorm (especially since the episode that introduces Ethari was written by a woman in the LGBT+ community)! Ethari’s dynamic with Rayla is also very interesting and shows that he truly does care about her even after her town essentially banished her.
This season officially introduces us to Janai, the Sunfire elf that Amaya was battling in Book Two. I find it interesting how, in many ways, the two characters perfectly mirror each other: Both women are highly dedicated to their duty of their respective countries, and both of them are sisters of royalty, with Janai’s elder sister being the Sunfire Queen. This gives them an interesting dynamic with their interactions. Also of note is Kazi, Amaya’s translator this season who kind of gives off C-3PO vibes. Every scene with them is very funny.
Additionally, this season introduces us to a whole new race of elf: Skywing elves! It only makes sense, since we’ve already met Moonshadow, Sunfire, and Startouch elves; that only leaves two more to go. The two Skywing elves we meet are Ibis, a mage who works directly for the dragon queen Zubeia; and my personal favorite, Nyx, a loveable rogue type of character who our heroes meet when crossing the midnight desert. Man, I love Nyx, and yet, I feel like this season doesn’t do enough with her. I mean, they introduce her in episode four, and then she just kind of disappears after episode six. I was hoping that she’d play a bigger role, especially seeing how hyped up she was in the trailers for this season. Still, maybe she’ll appear again. She played an interesting part as an antagonist and I’d like to see her come back.
Speaking of antagonists, how about this guy? Prince Kasef. Man, the writers wanted to make a real jerk type of character and they succeeded. He’s the warmongering son of King Ahling who takes over after his dad’s injuries from last season. Outside of a cool design, there is nothing redeemable about this character. I’m not faulting the show for this, for the record. It seems like it was the writers’ intention to make him a complete asshole, very comparable to Viren in a lot of ways. Kasef is taken down in a pretty spectacular way, for the record, and it’s hard to say he’ll be missed.
But of all the new characters introduced, to me the real standout character of the season is one of the main leads from all the way back in Book One. Man… Soren is just great this season. After breaking his spine in Book Two, we get to see him go through so much character development beyond just being the dumb comic relief. He starts to question what is right, what side he should be on, and he is put through so much hell in the process, but he comes out better for it in the end. Leave it to the head writer of Avatar: The Last Airbender to make me feel sympathetic for a character like this.
The Animation
Holy crap, the animation in this season is so damn impressive! Bardel Entertainment already fixed the animation in a major way between Book One and Book Two, but this season gives us some seriously amazing moments that I never would have expected from this show after watching Book One. Everything feels so much more fluid this season, even more improved than Book Two in that respect. The backgrounds are downright stunning, too. They feel so real, like you could actually be there with the characters. One of the major gripes I did have with the first two seasons was the facial animation, and how the mouths kind of looked derpy and unexpressive, perhaps due to the CGI medium the characters were animated in. But here, everyone is so emotive and expressive that you can watch the season without audio and still understand what’s going on. There’s a particular scene with Amaya and Janai that I’ll get into later that perfectly shows this. This isn’t only in the mouths, either; we also see little details like characters’ pupils dilating, or the elves’ ears slumping down or perking up depending on the mood. These were little touches that they didn’t have to include, but the fact that they did makes it so much more of an enjoyable watch, because you notice new little details each time you watch it.
The Relationships
I don’t usually have a separate section in my previous season reviews about this, but this season was heavily based on character relationships as much as individual characters, whether they be relationships between family members, friends, comrades in battle, or romantic partners. Just a warning: This section will get into spoiler territory. If you have not watched the season before reading this, I strongly advise you to stop reading and go do that.
The first relationship I’d like to talk about returns to Soren. During the course of this season, he starts to question the morals of his father, Viren, and Soren has to struggle between his duties to his father and his duties to his country as a member of the crownguard. We get the sense that Claudia has always been Viren’s favorite, and that the abuse and gaslighting Soren has to deal with in this season is nothing new and Viren’s contempt for his son has been building up a long time. Soren’s relationship with Claudia strains in this season until, when not wanting to make his sister choose between him or Viren, Soren cuts ties with her. The scene where he says goodbye and leaves is genuinely a heartbreaking one, and in general, you can feel the emotions all the characters are going through.
With Amaya and Janai, the two form a mutual respect over the course of the season. Amaya defeats Janai at the breach, but when seeing that the Sunfire general is hanging for her life, she ultimately saves Janai from dying. As the days go on and Amaya becomes a prisoner, Janai defends her against the Sunfire queen and they soon form a friendship that hints that it might lead to something more. But the scene that really increases the characters’ development is when Aaravos straight-up murders the Sunfire Queen. This sends Janai into a rage and she runs in, willing to risk her own life to avenge the death of her sister, but Amaya tackles her to the ground and gives her a solemn look of understanding, of knowing how it feels to lose her own sister. This little exchange is very powerful. I’ve always said that a scene is effective if it manages to give you chills without any dialogue, just letting the music and animation speak on its own, and, well, this scene passes that test. (Major shout-out to Frederik Wiedmann’s score, by the way; it really shines in this entire season.)
And… well, okay, there’s no use dodging it anymore. Let’s talk about these two.
Rayla and Callum. Oh boy. So, remember in my last review how I said it was likely that Rayla and Callum were going to get together by the end of the show? Well, since this show has a planned seven-season run, I was expecting it to happen way later, like in Book Six, or more likely for them to pull the Last Minute Hookup thing where they confess their love and finally kiss at the end of the last season. That trope always frustrates me, but it’s a good way of stretching out the romantic tension for as long as possible to keep fans interested, so I figured that’s what was going to happen, right? Well…
Yeah, I went into this season expecting a slow burn, but instead we got a freaking forest fire. Holy crap, I was not expecting them to hook up this early in the show. And it didn’t happen in the last episode, either; no, they shared their first kiss in episode four, smack in the middle of the season. And you know what? I’m all for that. The writers handled their relationship really well and it felt surprisingly believable and not rushed despite happening so soon. It hasn’t been confirmed how long Callum and Rayla have known each other for, but I’ve calculated that it’s been anywhere between 20-30 days since they first met, which is more than enough time to fall in love. Part of why it works is that the dynamic didn’t really change much. They already had a beautiful friendship, and the only thing that has changed between them is that there’s now more kissing. I wouldn’t have depicted their relationship any other way if I had made it canon. This does open up the question of where they’re going to go with it in future seasons, but as usual, I trust the writers not to screw it up. I may honestly dedicate a whole post to why Rayla and Callum’s relationship works, but we’ll see if I have time for that.
Other Stuff (incl. spoilers)
For the most part, the humor in this season is on point. With the exception of an oddly-placed fart joke in episode two, I found myself laughing at most of the scenes where I was supposed to laugh. Highlights include Soren putting stacking three pieces of bread to make a “bread sandwich,” Callum seeing a boomerang and finding it “oddly familiar” (hi, Sokka), and Nyx taking the dragang (Callum, Rayla, and Zym) past a magical forcefield protecting an oasis, saying, “Anyway, here’s the wonderwall.” I had to do a double take with that because I was laughing so hard. Though I think my personal favorite may be when Ibis laughs at Callum because “humans can’t do magic” and Callum does this.
Just, the look on his face. He’s so done and it’s hilarious.
One thing I was surprised by in this season was the sheer amount of violence. This one really does feel like an all-out war. Apparently, the violence was enough to get it rated TV 13 in some countries (though it’s still listed as TV Y-7 here) and honestly, I can see why. There’s an all-out battle scene in the last episode that could be compared to the climax of Return of the King. Everyone is fighting each other; even the Baker from Book One gets a few punches in there! Not only that, but there are a huge number of onscreen deaths in this season. As previously mentioned, we get to see the Sunfire Queen be Thanos’d. Prince Kasef gets a pretty spectacular death when Queen Aanya has a Big Damn Heroes moment and shoots an arrow through his head. Not to mention that we get to see Viren die not once, but twice! Even though Claudia resurrects him using dark magic, it’s still pretty great to see because he’s a turd. (No offense to Jason Simpson, though—love ya.)
By far the hardest death scene to watch, however, is the death of Avizandum, the Dragon King. In the flashbacks, we get to see how Harrow and Viren killed him, and, well… it’s really painful. The death, by way of petrification, is shown to be slow and agonizing, and Avizandum is shown tearing off his wings in a futile attempt to survive just to make it back to Zubeia. Even Harrow is mortified, with a look of “Oh god, what have I done?” on his face. In his last moments, Avizandum sheds a tear knowing that he will never be able to see his son grow up, and we as the audience are given a grim reminder that everyone… is a person. Even our enemies have families they care about. Avizandum may have been a gigantic, powerful dragon who hated humans, but at the end of the day he was still a dad who wanted to protect his son.
My One Complaint
Okay, so I’ve talked about everything I love about this season, and how it has significantly increased the show’s potential. With all that said, why can’t I give this season my full props? Well… I’ll be honest, it’s because of the pacing. Remember how I said this season rarely if ever lets off the brakes? Yeah, that’s both a blessing and a curse. There are a lot of people online who believe that Rayla and Callum’s relationship was rushed, and I somewhat agree with them, but only to the same end that everything in this season felt rushed. Nine episodes just isn’t enough time for each season. This has been a problem I’ve had with previous seasons, too, but here, it felt especially rushed because so much happened in this season that it felt like we couldn’t dedicate enough time to everything. I’m not saying that every season needs to be twenty episodes long like Avatar—especially since, with four more proposed seasons, we’re already supposed to be getting more episodes than Avatar if all goes according to plan—but 10-13 episodes per season would probably be beneficial for future ones, especially since future arcs of the show are overall going to be shorter (only two seasons each instead of three). Or hell, maybe make the episodes longer. Of course, if that’s my biggest gripe with this season, then we still have it pretty good, let’s be honest.
Where Do We Go from Here?
So, the question remains, where does the show go from here? There are supposed to be four more seasons, but the final episode of Book Three, titled “The Final Battle,” honestly feels like a series finale in a lot of ways: There’s a big epic climax, Rayla and Callum are together, Zym is reunited with his mom, and the elves and humans have formed an alliance, if only temporary. It all seems too easy, doesn’t it? My guess is that this was meant as a pseudo-series finale just in case Netflix doesn’t renew the show for a fourth season.
However, as I’ve rewatched the season, I noticed that they still leave a lot of loose ends. Most notably, Aaravos is seeming to metamorphize and grow outside of his mirror. Judging by how Aaravos really let loose in this series, I can’t wait to see more of him as a villain and find out about his backstory. Also, Rayla was ghosted—or banished—from her hometown after failing her mission in Book One. Will she ever be able to go home again? On a related note, what did happen to her parents? Are we to assume they were trapped in coins like Runaan (and speaking of which, will Runaan ever get out)? There are also other unresolved plot points, like Claudia’s path down the road of dark magic, Viren’s ex-wife, and Callum’s dad. The last one is especially interesting to me, since it would be cool to know if Callum is secretly half-elf, which is why he knows how to do primal magic. Oh, and my question from last season about whether Harrow’s soul is in Pip’s body still remains. So it seems like they left enough open-ended so that they could continue with a new season.
I do hope to see how Rayla and Callum’s relationship develops in the future, though that may just be the shipper in me talking. But in all seriousness, this does open up some potential. As far as we know, Rayla and Callum are the first human/elf couple, so how is that received? Will they be judged by others? Will certain problems arise from this? I hope the upcoming seasons explore this and don’t just pull the usual romance clichés, though the writers have been pretty good at avoiding those so far.
I also have to wonder: When interviewed, the creators of The Dragon Prince said that there would be a time skip between Book Three and Book Four, since each of them is part of a separate story arc. How much of a time skip will it be? I can’t imagine that it will be over a year, but if it is, I hope they don’t do one of those things where since the main cast is too old now, they replace all the main characters with new ones and expect the audience to get invested in them. I highly doubt they will do that, though. It would be too jarring.
Conclusion
If you have been sleeping on The Dragon Prince, I highly urge you to check it out. Book Three is everything I had hoped the first two seasons would be, and more. With fantastic animation, likable characters that go through unique development, and a downright beautiful score (seriously, major props to Frederik Wiedmann), it wonderfully wraps up the first major arc of this series. I hope Netflix renews the show for all seven seasons, because this one has left me wanting more.
~Spaceman
What Your Favorite TDP Ship Says About You
Rayllum (Rayla/Callum): You secretly want an elf GF who can kick your ass. Also, you saw this coming long before the writers did.
Claudium (Claudia/Callum): You never truly let go of your middle school crush.
Raydia (Rayla/Claudia): You probably used to ship Katara and Azula.
Sorayla (Soren/Rayla): You believe the best romance starts as a good bromance.
Sorgren (Soren/Gren): You believe that those who grow stubble together, stay together.
Sonyx (Soren/Nyx): These two have never interacted in canon, but you like to live on the edge.
Ruthari (Runaan/Ethari): You want Runaan freed from the coin as soon as possible.
Runavos (Runaan/Aaravos): You have a type. It’s purple elf boys.
Viravos (Viren/Aaravos): You are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of taking over the world.
Virrow (Viren/Harrow): You got quite the kick out of hearing Harrow say, “On your knees.”
Janaya (Janai/Amaya): You secretly want an elf GF who can kick your ass… and you’re female.
Gremaya (Gren/Amaya): You just wanted good things for Gren, and really, who wouldn’t?
Ruthless: That’s a bad pun and you should feel bad.
Not sure if this has been done before, but here’s my take on the “What Your Favorite Ship Says About You” meme, with ships from The Dragon Prince. (Inspired by this video.) Enjoy!
Soultember Prompt 1: Red String of Fate
Fandom : The Dragon Prince
Waring: Canon Character Death
Summary: Harrow didn't need Viren to tell him his wife had been killed by Thunder, he already knew she was gone.
Queen Sairi was the love of King Harrow's life. They were bound together by fate. When they walked, hand in hand, a red string hung down slightly from their pinky fingers. No matter how difficult life was they knew they had each other.
When Viren told Harrow that there was a way to save the people of Duren and Katolis from the death that would come with the horrible winter, he felt it was the only solution. Maybe it was.
Despite Sarai's protest, a few soldiers and the leaders of the two kingdoms left to retrieve the heart of the titan.
Harrow was unsure when the fight began if they would emerge victorious. When the titan fell everything was worth it. The uninjured assessed the injured and they were ready to go.
It was a selfless mission. But sacrifices must be made to save a kingdom. A few people for tens of thousands seemed only far.
Then he appeared. The king of the dragons was angry. Why were humans on his side of the border? What did they need and what did they destroy?
When the queens of Duren fell, it felt like the whole world shook for just a moment. Then Viren tried to by them time. The head mage was a strong man but without him the sacrifice of the queens was for nothing.
Sarai was a strong women. There was no doubt in Harrow's mind that she would return to him. The string that held them together would shorten as they took hands once more. They would return home and would dance in their room, watching the string as they tried to tangle it around themselves, just to see if they could.
Harrow wanted her ride away. He looked at the tine red line that never let them play a fair game or hide and seek and smiled.
As the soldiers approached their side of the border the king felt his finger start to burn.
Snap.
Harrow felt a sharp pain in his pinky finger. The long red string that once connected him to his Queen had broken.
This couldn't be right. Any moment now Sarai would come back up the hill, back to him. She had to. Harrow wasn't sure he could do this without her. He wasn't sure how he'd live on or how he'd explain to his sons what happened to their mother.
The string tied itself into a neat bow, the excess hanging maybe an inch off of his finger. Harrow's heart felt like it stopped beating. Sarai was gone, his love was gone.
Viren walked up the hill, confirming the news. Three mothers had died that day. The mage looked at Harrow's hand, a red string now visible, "I'm so sorry."
Harrow said nothing. Tears fell silently down his face. They fell to the ground as others went to retrieve the three bodies from the field.
He fidgeted with the short tail of the string unconsciously as the three women were brought up the hill. The walk home felt shorter and longer than it had felt before. Harrow wouldn't remember most of it.
It was fate for the two to fall in love. Who knew fate could be so cruel.
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AI-less Whumptober Day 1: Disowned by family (Alt Prompt 7)
Fandom: The Dragon Prince
Summary: What if Soren's meeting with Claudia, Viren, Terry, and The Being went differently.
Soren loved his family. He had always loved his family. Even after his mother left, even after his father had told him to kill the princes, and even after Claudia blamed him for walking away.
He loved them.
Now he was facing them again; tied to the ground by vines. Claudia's hair was half white now. Viren looked the same as before. I looked like he hadn't aged a day. An elf boy stood with them as well as a terrifying butterfly looking elf child.
There was silence. The only noise was the breeze running though the trees. "Soren" Viren spoke.
"Dad?" Alarms sounded in Soren's head. This was wrong. Viren was supposed to be dead.
"I don't have a son."
Terry looked at Viren, shocked.
Soren froze. He looked over at Claudia who looked away. So this is what it feels like, being disowned by your family.
The guard had known, deep down, that this was going to happen. He knew that when he didn't return to Katolis with the news that the princes were dead, Viren would be angry. He knew nothing would be the same and after a while he realized nothing should be the same.
Claudia turning away hurt more. She had been through everything with him. She had saved his life; in more ways then one.
"Oh. Well then I don't have a father." Hurt laced every word. Soren felt so helpless to the situation. It felt like he was back at the beginning. Like he was that scared eighteen year old kid following every order from Viren.
Soren tried to fight the vines. He felt them dig into his skin, the same way Viren's words and Claudia's cold gaze did.
The dark mage walked over to Soren. "Leave him here."
"What?" Terry asked. "Isn't that going to kill him?"
"He's an enemy guard, why should I care?"
"Wow, okay" Soren mumbled.
Viren started walking. He left Soren behind. He walked away like he always did. That's when Soren really understood he had no blood family anymore.
Claudia followed. That's what she always did, follow Viren. Then The Being ran after them. Terry stayed. He loosened the vines, "I'm sorry." Then he walked away.
Soren fought through the vines until he got out. He looked towards where the others had gone. It was time to find his family, his real family.
@ailesswhumptober
So In the meantime I watched new season of the Dragon Prince.
1. Why the fuck was it earlier??? I thought I messed up the dates again.
2. Please, I neez Zubeia to be alright.
3. Love Janai and Amaya.
4. Karim and his girlfriend can go and drop dead. I had enough of them. (More than Viren)
5. About that guy. Gosh, I love the choice he made. (Not that I want him dead). I mean, he gave up dark magic. Finally!!!!!!
6. Btw, what was that about child Soren???? Was he sick? I mean, what was the reason Viren even chose that dark path?
7. I need people to stop saying it’s all Viren’s fault Claudia is messing with that dark magic stuff. Yes, he introduced it to her, but it was her choice. She had every opportunity to give it up, just Like Viren finally did. Don’t get me wrong again, I still kinda like her, but she’s even more messed up than her dad.
8. Once again dark magic. Callum, really? Ok, I get it… you want to protect your precious Rayla… no. Don’t. Don’t you ever touch that stuff again.
9. Some stuff was predictable, like Captain Villads and Nyx (ir maybe it only was me 😂)
10. I guess I need a lil but more of Kim’dael
11. Akiu was funny. I wanna see more of her
12. So, elves and dragons said that humans are evil, but they asked a human to create a jail for Aaravos? Can’t they finally decide on one thing?
13. What’s more it was a human who exposed Aaravos’ treachery. (I know it was the previous season)
14. About this freaking elf. What the heck did he do to Aditi? Swollowed her? What???
15. I love the homunculus. Don’t you dare to touch him Aar. Seriously, he may be his “child” (is he gay and has crush on Viren?😂. Please no.) but it doesn’t mean he can be its father.
16. Please, Callum, fund a way to free Rayla’s parents and Runaan. I beg you.
17. Young Viren looks almost like Soren (or maybe again it’s just me?)
18. Whi is this one guard always talking about food?
19. I can’t believe Callum was tortured, And Soren was beaten. And rayla was supposed to be a fish food.
20. Finnegrin vs Domina. Hmmm…
21. I hate that Pirate.
22. Yay, Callum has new powers!!!! Ocean magic rules.
23. Soren really worries about his new family, doesn’t he?
24. Who the fuck is Mushroom Mage???? (I couldn’t stop humming after that)
Hiya it's me again I'm you said you had nothing to write So I'm Here to help (hopefully) any way
So I have a Idea(the ship is Sarai X male reader) where the the male reader is king's harrows Older brother (by 1 year) it's fluff to angst.
Plot: Sarai Was in her and the former King (male readers) Room. She was cleaning the room and she stumbles apon a old portrait of king Y/N, Sarai their newborn child ( you can choose the baby's name and gender) the fluff part is when gets flashbacks of when King Y/N and Sarai was playing with their newborn Like Peekaboo, the angst Is also a flashback that Takes place In season 2 Ep 6 when King Y/N, Prince Harrow, Queen Sarai, General amaya, Viren, That one lesbian couple and a group of soldiers try to Get the Magma Titans heart Plot twist Sarai's death is replaced with when Y/N dying Instead Trying to save Viren *flashback end* Sarai's starts forming tears and Immediately stops when her child comes in worrying About Her. (You can add the part of when Harrow avenges his brother by killing Thunder If you want)
So that's basically it Ik it's a lot to take In so You can take ur time on this( I got school anyway unfortunately)
STOP MAKING ME CHOOSE THE NAME AND GENDER!!! I literally had my little sister pick the gender and name. She said girl and the name is Ashly. It’s also her birthday. The next time you do this I’m picking the most random name and gender I can think of. I’m eating lunch and have work in less then a hour and here I am writing this instead of getting ready for work. Why did I write this? I’m crying right now. Also if you have a nick name or a different name I can call you that would be great so I don’t have to type it out every time.
Warnings: angst, hopefully will make you cry bossdude69.
Sarai is a Queen who just lost her dear King in battle. He died protecting everyone and making sure they got out ok. Thanks to him no lives where lost on that tragic day.
It had been about a month since that night and Sarai had decided to go clean there old room. As she started to walk there she felt anxious. It had been about a month since she’s entered that room, let alone let anyone enter it. All she could do was imagine the amount of dust that has collected in the room, all over the bed, paintings, ext.
Once she got there she took a deep breath trying to hold in tears and not think about the night and the last time they left that room together. She threw open the doors to see a big painting of Y/n, the late king, Ashly, and herself. She can’t help but let a few tears roll down her face as she remembers the day that it was painted.
Y/n was holding his beautiful baby girl, while having his arm around Sarai smiling his beautiful smile, that helped bring the kingdoms together. Ashly was waving her hands in the air making cute little noises that can only be decried as random sounds mixed together. As Ashly accidentally hits him in his face, Y/n take our arm off of Sarai to hold Ashly in front of his face.
“Hey Ashly, this is no way to treat your father, the king even though you are a princess, love” Y/n laughs light heartedly, as he puts her in one of his arms to bop her nose. She only giggles in response, not understanding what her father had said.
Sarai just laughs lightly at this exchange between the people she loves the most. She gently takes Ashly from Y/n and kisses her forehead.
“Mm! Sarai I have a amazing idea! Hold Ashly like this” Y/n says as he positions them like how Simba was held in front of the animals of the safari.
“Ok? So what is this “amazing” idea you have?” Sarai questions as she holds her one month old how Y/n positioned them. She then sees him start to cover his face in front of Ashly and realizes what he is doing. “Ohh your going to play peekaboo with Ashly.”
“Yes I am love. She’s going to be laughing so much she’ll be so exhausted that she’ll be asleep so we can get the painting done faster.” Y/n says as he starts to play peekaboo with Ashly. Not even 10 minutes later Ashly is sound asleep in Sarais arms.
“Hmm that surprisingly worked really well my king” she says in a kinda surprised voice.
“Did you have no faith in my skills my lovely Queen?”
“I didn’t have any faith because when I do it she just gets more round up and then will never fall asleep.”
“I see your just jealous of my skills with our daughter.” Y/n finishes the conversation as he gently kisses Sarai.
As Sarai remembers that one moment that held so much meaning and brung her so much happiness it turns into a sad and depressing memory for her. She starts to cry lightly at first but the more she remembers memories that they’ve shared in this room and with there daughter it turn into full on sobbing while sitting on the floor curled into a ball.
Then Harrow comes in holding Ashly. As Sarai is trying to stop her tears when she sees them Ashly jumps down and and runs to her mom.
“Mommy! Mommy! Why are you crying?”
“Oh honey, it’s nothing to worry about” Sarai says while her voice breaks in the middle of the sentence. Ashly looks a bit anxious while bouncing up and down on her feet then running give her mom a hug and cuddling into her.
“Are you crying about dad..? It’s fine to cry in front of me.” Ashly says while tears start to go down her face thinking about the moment when her parents and some guards leave promising they’ll be back soon. Her dad never made it back though and she stayed up all night waiting for him to come back with her mom before she was told what happened in a less detailed version.
While this conversation happens, Harrow makes up his mind that he’s going to avenge his brother, not only for himself but for Sarai and the kingdom who lost a fantastic ruler that day. He was going to go ask Viren for help after the Queen and the Princes calm down. He is going to help clean the room before though. It’s the least he can do to help Sarai though the grieving presses even if he knows deep down she’ll never recover fully from this pain that she’s feeling.
After knowing this for quite a few years now…
I still haven’t came to terms with the fact that out of any fictional character I could share a birthday with…
It’s Viren.
And what makes it even worse is that I’m still unable to find any other characters in media that I like who have the same birthday.
Insert a very-long and dramatic sigh
ANYWAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARROW
Spoilers for Season 6 - although I already have tagged it as such
For me, this season, there were three moments that made me cry - which is the first time for any season of the show.
The first one being when Viren writes in the letter that for some reason, despite it being technically his fault, he still blamed Soren for all of it. That, that’s why Soren has been practically ignored his whole life. Why most of the time Viren only ever referred to him as Soren, why he gave so much attention to Claudia instead of him.
The second one was the scene during 608 when Soren frees his father to ask if there’s a way out of this situation and what happens after Viren answers. Originally I started crying because I thought that Soren, being Soren, was going to sacrifice himself; the scene with the dagger partially confirmed my fears so I started crying even more. Only for a minute later, Soren appears in the courtyard, alive and well with no wounds or anything like that. Which is when I made the connection and expected myself to calm down. That was until the scenes that Viren was thinking about flashed on screen as he was making his final act, his final stand. I only cried more.
The last moment that made me cry was in the last episode, during the scene between Rayla and Runaan. The waterworks had already threatened to start when he snapped out of his anger because he saw the moon opal, reminding him of Ethari - who is still all alone, without him or Rayla. Of course he then runs off, refusing to go with Rayla. And then the scene where Runaan refuses to go back because he feels like he shouldn’t deserve it due to him fighting with Rayla the last time they had seen each other face to face hit me like a bus. Within seconds they managed to make it even more emotional with Rayla claiming that she is his daughter, despite speaking to her actual parents only minutes ago. This then being followed up with Runaan saying that she is his daughter. Something about this scene was so simple, yet so effective at the same time.
from consuming butterflies' lifes to keep your good looks to -> making a living butterfly son with your own blood
From crushing butterflies to butterfly son 🦋
Viren won’t make the same mistake twice.
two nickels
if I had a nickel for every time a complicated character staggered gravely injured from King Harrow's chamber
needed assistance getting out onto the balcony
dragged themselves painfully out to the end of it
dropped a scrap of fabric that revealed a blood/death motif
knelt before a powerful force that was bringing their doom
used the last of their strength to do one last attack with a magical techy artifact
collapsed among the ruins of the fate they brought on themselves
resigned themselves to their deaths
and then fell out of frame to the left
I'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's extremely cool that it's happened twice.
edit: omg tumblr do not mess with my images like this! fixed!
Yes yes yes yes the tdp lore is deep and consistent and I love the show for it
obsessed with the long-game payoff of "Hearts of Cinder" rn tbh
like not just in a narrative mirroring/parallels way, showing in s3 how far Viren had fallen and closing that arc in s6, or with how Soren and Viren's positions reversed, but like... either they planned this for Viren literally from the beginning or it came about through a startling commitment to lore depth and consistency
because like
a) Back in s3, the "Hearts of Cinder" spell is... weird. Like not so weird that it clashes with the setting as we know it, but at the time we're only just being introduced to things like the Draconic corrupted Sun rune spells, or the role the Staff of Ziard plays in dark magic. It's got an incantation that, at the time, is kind of unusual in the context of other dark magic spells but slots in with the series' overall recurring heart motif such that it can't really be called wrong. It's not a Spiders Georg-level outlier, but it definitely feels like there's something we're missing.
b) That's because someone planned it out in deep detail: "Hearts of Cinder" is, in hindsight, the only dark magic spell we see that is clearly intended for war with Xadia. It's a spell that comes from a much more brutal era both politically and magically, when armed conflict with dragons was high and "make your army immune to dragon fire for the low, low cost of one human sacrifice" was a deal people were willing to take. We know that's intentional, because it's right in the incantation: dark magic incantations frequently reference the spell reagent, as with "Slithering Steel" or "Ash of Fallen, Rise Again." So someone knew as far back as s3 that this spell normally used a human heart for its magical power.
c) This confirms so much stuff that it's like they put it in there for me, tumblr user kradogsrats, special interest: dark magic. The on-screen exposition drop that the Sunforge Staff contains a Sun primal stone. Confirmation that you can use a primal stone as a source for dark magic. Confirmation that you can use human essence as a source for dark magic. Another consistency example of the Staff of Ziard being used to empower dark magic spells. Confirmation that there are dark magic spells built on human sacrifice.
like... that's all stuff I knew, or at least suspected and wanted to be true, but having it all right out there like "hey who wants some resolution in the lore arc of dark magic? kradogsrats again?" just has me like
I think the reason Viren’s redemption works is that he ultimately got nothing out of it. The popular idea of a villain redemption is a bad guy changing their ways and eventually being accepted by their former enemies, often becoming one of the heroes themselves. But that wasn’t the case with Viren. Soren didn’t forgive him. Ezran didn’t forgive him. He wasn’t welcomed with open arms. He was locked in the dungeon, presumedly for life. And when he atoned for his past through a heroic final act, no one except Soren even knew about it. And that still didn’t earn him forgiveness.
But that’s how we know that Viren truly changed. For seeking the right path, he received nothing but rejection and death. And he was okay with that. He understood these were the natural consequences of his actions. He accepted what he had done was wrong. His sacrifice was sincere, a servant dying for his kingdom, a father dying for his son. He wasn’t seeking forgiveness, or glory, or power.
Because he had changed.
!!!!!
Just !!!!!
I have no words.
Beautiful!!
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