#It would be the Zuko arc on steroids

[jibril-thelibraryangel]

My hot take about what they should do in the Mighty Nein animated series

They should reveal Essek is working with the Assembly AS SOON AS WE MEET HIM.

Hear me out. Everyone in the fandom knows it’s coming and everyone not in the fandom will get spoiled immediately, so just cut out the middle man.

Personally I knew the Essek twist when I saw campaign 2 and the best part of that arc was paying attention to Essek’s actions and slowly watching him fall in love with the Nein (and Caleb) while having the identity/moral crisis of the century.

Just picture it:

The Nein arrive at the dynasty and hand over the beacon, they meet the elegant and intimidating Shadow Hand and invite him over for dinner.

Next scene Essek is in a dark room talking to Ludinus who tells him that the Nein could ruin everything. Then in dramatic lighting Essek is like “Do not concern yourself Ludinus, I’ll deal with our guests”. Episode ends.

Throughout the show we can sporadically cut to him doing evil stuff and sabotaging the Nein in small ways.

Then next season we see Essek learning small talk, working on spells with Caleb, blushing at inappropriate comments from party and just having a real family for the first time.

Then in camera we can see the exact moment when he realizes “Oh shit, I love those idiots… OH SHIT I LOVE THAT WIZARD”

He then has a beauty and the beast like freak out in his laboratory and destroys it with graviturgy. It would be awesome.