#and its partially bc of that she'd die for him. she needs him to b okay even if shes not there. mix of that loathing like

[writer-room]

Honestly Rayla is equally 100% ride or die for Callum too.

That's so true I almost mentioned it in that post. They're so ridiculously feral for each other it's hilarious to watch. Callum's the legitimate "we ride AND die together" whereas Rayla is the "I will ride and die FOR you" sort of deal yknow?

Could be literally any situation, no matter how dangerous, and she's already decided she will die here. Does it ensure Callum lives? Then batter-up buckeroo we're going in swords blazing! Everyone cheer and clap for her human or she'll blow this whole place up. Kinda person who says "even if you hate me I'd still lose everything if it meant you were okay". She thinks they're in a tragic love story where she's always at risk of losing him but that's okay as long as it keeps him safe and happy like y'know Viren parallels, she'd risk losing her very self for him over and over. Except Callum would wait until the end of the world itself, and even beyond, and she wouldn't even have to ask.

The difference between them, really, is that Rayla will die for Callum on any given day. Callum will kill for Rayla on any given day. Something something matching sets

[raayllum]

#someone in the tags of that post said 'raylas self loathing works hard but callums devotion works even harder' and they own that post now#its theirs. they summed it up beautifully. they own it#'yes hes cringe but hes MY cringefail loserboy!!!!! get your OWN'#everyone else would say the 'hes a 10 but--' except for rayla. shes just 'hes a 10. hes just a 10 striaght-up'#he is not. he is so not a 10 i love him but hes not a 10 shes just so ill for him#so insane that the girl who has issues abt not being or being wanted by anyone or not good enough for ppl to stay/want her#proceeds to find maybe the 1 guy in the entire world who will choose her no matter WHAT#and even when SHE was the one who left & he was pissed he was still 100% sticking by her. hes staying#oops she showed him affection. now hes stuck forever! shame. welp guess thats how it goes!#and its partially bc of that she'd die for him. she needs him to b okay even if shes not there. mix of that loathing like#'he could still b happy without me so i need to ensure he lives so he can STAY happy at my own detriment. he means more than me'#girl if you died he would literally crumple into dust. fold in like cardboard in the rain. lay face-down in the sand & just die there#same w callum hes like 'i can hurt myself over & over for her if shes alive. if the danger is dead then she can live longer. i will live bu#tear myself apart so long she is safe'#bestie. if you reach the point of no return she will sacrifice herself to get the old you back WHAT THEN

i was the person with those tags but ur tags are also glorious and like callum and rayla are so funny, because like rayla holds herself to such a high standard where she's constantly catapulting between doing the worst shit bc she refuses to 'burden' anyone else with her bullshit (and ends up doing so anyway by accident) vs her thinking she has to constantly sacrifice herself for the boys / any particular stranger but esp the boys because they're so much better, than her, right? so much stronger and kinder and good and she's not any of those because she's rayla (even when she's all of those things also because she's rayla)

and then you have her rigidness about moral shit most of the time, right, like not killing someone who's done nothing to her and hating dark magic, but when it comes to callum those things are also dead in a ditch because like dark magic is unforgiveable and evil and only used by Dark Scary Mages -- "but oh no callum baby you can do whatever you want dark magic is fine when you use it <3 i'm just worried about You now" she's been willing to turn against and fight her own people for him specifically since hour one ("say the word and i'll go back into that tower with you") because she thinks he's so good and that he'll always ultimately end up doing the Right Thing, he's her source of inspiration of being better, and then if/whenever he doesn't she's like mad for two (2) minutes or doesn't bat an eye, like

callum will commit the worst crimes that would have her trying to kill basically anyone else but so long as it's her Special Little Man and he's motivated by love (which is baseline understandable to her even if she'll ruin claudia's life over the same thing) she'll let him get away with it every time and. they need to be quarantined together for the good of general society and ezran's sanity, i think

Honestly Rayla is equally 100% ride or die for Callum too.

That's so true I almost mentioned it in that post. They're so ridiculously feral for each other it's hilarious to watch. Callum's the legitimate "we ride AND die together" whereas Rayla is the "I will ride and die FOR you" sort of deal yknow?

Could be literally any situation, no matter how dangerous, and she's already decided she will die here. Does it ensure Callum lives? Then batter-up buckeroo we're going in swords blazing! Everyone cheer and clap for her human or she'll blow this whole place up. Kinda person who says "even if you hate me I'd still lose everything if it meant you were okay". She thinks they're in a tragic love story where she's always at risk of losing him but that's okay as long as it keeps him safe and happy like y'know Viren parallels, she'd risk losing her very self for him over and over. Except Callum would wait until the end of the world itself, and even beyond, and she wouldn't even have to ask.

The difference between them, really, is that Rayla will die for Callum on any given day. Callum will kill for Rayla on any given day. Something something matching sets