#damien tdp

[atlas7seo]

Mild tdp season 6 spoilers

Random thought. So like Damian, Callum's dad had like a breathing sickness. And we also learn that Soren had a breathing sickness when he was born. Same sickness? Two characters with the same thing? It's probably not that deep but like ??? Dragon prince writers??? Whatcha doing?

Is there something more going on?

[cxbin-pxrsephone]

Something something about Callum’s father having issues with his breathing and lungs, causing his early death, and something something about Claudia sucking the air out of his lungs when trying to stop him

[otter-and-terrier]

silver hearts

they say the stars outlast us all eternal sentinels on high but I have sought their silver hearts and wonder if perhaps they die

perhaps they gasp the cold of dawn a final breath of the living night then newborn sparks born of the dark breathe in the dusk and breathe out light

(in case you didn't know, damien is callum's birth father, who was a poet who died of a breathing difficulty. this poem was written by him before he died and was recited by callum in s6 e3 "the frozen ship". i don't know if it has a title, so i made one up lol :D)

[chocolatecake47]

I realized at 1am laying there in the dark that in the mage fight in Titan and The King Claudia was physically drawing Callum’s breath out of his lungs.

Viren started dark magic because Soren couldn’t breathe/had a breathing sickness. Claudia stopped strangling/attempting to kill Soren because he started wheezing. Callum unlocked his first arcanum after struggling to get air and being told to “just breathe” by his mom. His bio dad died because “he lived with this terrible breathing sickness his whole life. [He said] it made him appreciate every breath and every moment.” 

Damien was a poet. Soren wanted to be a poet after becoming paralyzed/has always wanted to be one. Callum had a book of ocean poems and recited poetry to Rayla + unlocked his second arcanum through a poem. 

Callum started the show having a crush on Claudia. She figuratively took his breath away. And now their (current) last one-on-one moment fight and Claudia is literally taking Callum’s breath away.  

Every damn thing in this show is interconnected and it makes me insane. 

[blondegeekerella]

i keep thinking about how callum’s mom was a soldier/warrior and his dad a poet and how their relationship reflects callum (an artist) and rayla’s (assassin/warrior) and how callum probably thinks of his parents when he thinks of rayla and is probably inspired by their relationship with how he shows affection towards rayla

[baatarthefirst]

The Frozen Ship End Credit Images

[fandomsandflyingstingrays]

It took Callum a minute to pinpoint what woke him. The ache in his chest, while acute, was no stronger than it had been when he’d slipped into sleep. The wind rustled the trees outside, but in a way that was gentle and static. A way that made the sharp, shuddering sounds coming from beside him all the more obvious in comparison.

“Rayla? Are you crying?”

He fully expected to push him away, to deny it. 

“Yeah,” she said instead. 

He sat up, and she did too, allowing him to wrap his arms around her from behind and hold her while the sobs wracked her body until her breathing evened and she leaned limply against him.

There was no point in asking why she was crying. But in Callum’s long experience with grief, he’d come to realize that waves were often brought on by different triggers, came to surface in different ways. It wasn’t always a bludgeon that knocked you flat with the overwhelming reality of absence. Too often, it was a million knives, each uniquely sharpened by a different memory or missed experience, all of them ready to cut you in a different way than the last. 

“What are you thinking about?” he asked softly.

“My mom’s moonberry surprise. You can get it at any café in the Silvergrove, and Ethari always made it for my birthday, but no one made it quite like her.” A wet, mirthless laugh tore from her throat. “Isn’t that stupid? She and my dad are gone forever, and I’m thinking about food. I mean— I had years to get over all this after they were banished. I’ve been getting along without them all this time. I don’t know why it’s all hitting me all over again.”

Callum bit his lip, trying to call on the part of him that had been born from a poet, trying to call on the words that would make her feel not only understood but heard. 

“My first memory of my dad is also my last one,” he said softly.

Rayla stiffened in his arms, turning around to look at him.

“It’s actually my first memory ever. Mom told me Dad was holding me, and she was holding him, so we were all together in a knot. It’s really hazy, but I can feel… arms around me, this sense of warmth. This wet breathing— my dad, probably, or maybe my mom crying. And then… stillness.” Callum sighed. “My only memory of my dad was of him dying. I shouldn’t miss him, right? I’ve lived my whole life without him, practically, and I had Harrow to fill in the gaps he left. But there are… times when I want to be held, but no one does it quite right. Foods that my mom says I’ve loved all my life, things he made, that just don’t taste as good as they should. Conversations I have with him when I can’t sleep, even though I have no idea how he’d reply.”

He paused, waiting for Rayla to step on the bridge he’d built between them, to offer her own feelings on the difference between her birth parents and her adoptive ones, the ways grief had crept into her own life. Instead, her response came from an entirely different quarter. 

“Your very first memory,” she rasped, “is of being left.” She closed her eyes tightly. “I told myself I was being so noble, so sacrificing, and I left you. Just like our parents did to us.”

Callum cupped her face and gently brought it to his, pressing a quick, soft kiss against her lips. “No, you didn’t,” he whispered, resting his forehead against hers. “You’re right here.”

Feeling her brow wrinkle in confusion, he pulled back and took her hand, tugging her to her feet. “Come on. Let’s go for a walk.”

They slipped out of the Nexus’s guest bedroom and into the garden, wrapping their arms around each other as a defense against the chill in the wind. Rayla followed him silently down a stone stairwell, coming to a stop with him when they reached the metal bench at its base. 

“Do you remember this place?” Callum asked.

She nodded. “It’s where we really talked for the first time about what happened to the king.”

“That’s right.” Callum drew her down to sit on the bench, facing him, in the exact position they’d been in two years before. “That day… it was the worst day I’ve ever had, aside from when I found out about my mom. Even worse than the day I read your letter. Because being left by someone is awful, but there’s nothing worse than knowing for certain they’re never coming back. Of course you’re grieving your parents, Rayla. It’s a different kind of loss.

“I was so angry with you when you first came back, because as the years had gone by, I’d begun to believe you were the second kind of gone, and it was almost too much to bear. I thought, if I pushed you away, I wouldn’t have to deal with that kind of pain again. But the day I got the news about Harrow, when I felt like the emptiness inside me was going to eat me alive, do you know the only thing that made me feel better? It was your arms around me. It was knowing that no matter how much pain I was in, I would still have a champion to fall back on, someone brave and kind and devoted who would always be there to help me carry the weight if it got to be too much.” He leaned forwards and kissed her forehead. “And I was right.”

Rayla had started to cry again, and he gently wiped the tears away. “You were always intending to come back, and you did. I never should have pushed you away, and I’m so glad you never let me. I’m so glad you’re still here. And Rayla, I’m going to be here too. Dealing with this, knowing your parents are really gone for good, it’s not going to be easy. It’s always going to hurt. But I’m going to do everything I can to help you bear it, and I’m going to build a life with you around it. As long as we’re together, we’ll find a way through.”

“And we will be together.”

Rayla’s tears had dried, and her voice was fierce. She took his hand tightly in both of hers and pressed a firm kiss against it. 

“No more losses,” she vowed. 

“Been there, done that,” he agreed, and she actually managed a tiny smile.

“I’m scared,” she admitted. “I don’t know what comes next. But no matter what it is, I’m going to be right by your side. I promise.”

The corners of Callum’s lips turned up too. “It’s a deal.”

She wrapped her arms around him, and he held her tightly, catching her as she’d caught him, as he knew with a glowing certainty they would do for each other as long as they were able. And they stayed there, fortified against the cold, against the ache of lost souls and the terror of distant smoke, until the first rays of a sunrise blanketed them with their warmth.

[evecallum]

Anyways if the tdp writers aren’t cowards they’ll let Callum see Damien’s face

[xxking-glitcherxx]

I don't think any of my favorite male characters have anything in common

[swans-chirping-in-the-distance]

I wonder if Soren and Damian had the same sickness

[weebssecretattic]

The way I'm on the floor crying rn

Someone pointed out that Callum’s three parents are a soldier, poet, king trio and I had to draw it

[disappointingcabbage]

TDP Season 6 Episode 3 live reaction, spoilers under the cut

Oh shit I forgot Callum did dark magic last season, looks like that’s having some repercussions right about now

Wait maybe that’s why he’s having Aaravos dreams at a seemingly higher rate than everyone else who’s having them

“Are you sure it’ll hold us?” “Nope :D”

oh thank fuck Callum saved it, if that shadowpaw had died I would have been so sad

Oh yay ethari gets his friend back!!

Way to demonstrate the very real dangers of black ice I guess

Terry actually waited for Claudia (not surprising :( ) and Claudia actually came back???? (Very surprising, also :( because he deserves better)

Ough icy ghost ship

Callum and Rayla are The Autism Couple, I think

God damn it the number of times Callum is using the word “ship” in this monologue makes me think it’s gonna be a metaphor for fandom shipping

Oh damn Claudia is experiencing the Big Sad

Callum hearing Rayla crying and immediately assuming danger when she’s really crying over a book is amazing actually

Okay Claudia being nonverbal and needing Terry to do everything for her rn is giving autistic shutdown energy and I feel that on a spiritual level. I hope that her breakdown and subsequent shutdown leads to her deciding to tell aaravos to go fuck himself but for plot reasons I know that isn’t happening

Callum really said “no blanket sharing before marriage”

Harrow was a poet?

WAIT CALLUM BIO DAD LORE DROP????

Omg he has a name (Damien) and he was chronically ill and probably died of said illness (Callum didn’t explicitly say he was dead but I’m assuming)

lmao Rayla is the only person on this quest with common sense

Oh my god the animal companions embarked on a side quest to get them to cuddle that’s hilarious and adorable

Way to ruin the moment, Callum

Well, at least he’s being honest about his use of dark magic on the ship last season

Wait why is Claudia’s new haircut actually adorable

TERRY MADE HER A PROSTHETIC!! sir she does not deserve you

Awww Rayla’s more concerned for Callum’s safety than dark magic being wrong

“Choose not doing dark magic over saving me” *immediately gets into a situation in which this declaration might become horrifyingly relevant* good job, Rayla

It’s fine she’s ok

“If aaravos controls me again you have to kill me” Callum didn’t we have this conversation last season?

Rayla agreeing to it is kind of sad but not unexplected

Bro stop talking to Ezran like you’re praying to a god

YES EZRAN TELL HIM

I wonder when my recommended tags will stop being Magnus Protocol and start being tdp

[your-gay-emo-cousin]

guys today has been WILD you don't understand I binged s6 of tdp with my friend and I'm screaming

Spoilers below

sorvus is implied, raylum is canon (RAY OF ILLUMINATION ARE YOU KIDDING) janaya is married

LORE DROPPING LEFT AND RIGHT WHAT

Lissa and Damien and Leola it's all too much

Bonus:

My name is Damien

I am a poet

I wrote this poem just to show it

And I, died,

You can write rhymes but you can't write mine

[chocolatecake47]

Small moments in TDP to remind us of love despite the horrors

The Amaya and Corvus forehead touch

Callum sharing Harrow’s letter about history being a narrative of love with Ezran sometime during the time skip 

Soren carrying Ezran on piggyback 

Ezran deciding his big brother needs a 17th birthday party to get cheered up 

Soren caring and worrying about Zubeia’s infection 

Callum stroking Rayla’s hand with his thumb

Soren opening up to Corvus about his mom’s photo being tucked in his armor

Sarai and Amaya signing to each other and laughing

The Baitlings. Just them. 

Rayla singing Stella to sleep 

The Callum and Rayla fist bump 

Ezran running to Rayla the moment he saw she came back and making it known he wants her on the mission 

Callum copying the tickle thing Harrow used to do with him and Ezran 

Ezran teaching Zym how to fly 

Soren “giving” Aunt Amaya a punch in the arm “from him” 

Rayla being hugged in the middle of all her boys

Ezran telling Rayla he loves her in front of Sorvus and Ruthari 

Callum setting up the boat with all the little animals 

Terry kissing Claudia’s forehead

Callum being so excited Amaya was getting married he tossed his staff to rush to her and Gren had to catch it 

Amaya coming to Gren and saying for advice on how to write her vows 

Callum wishing Ezran was there because “he’d know what to do” with the star weaver spider 

Astrid asking complete strangers if they were Aunt Amaya

Stella playing with Soren’s hair when him and Rayla were hugging 

Rayla touching Callum’s face lovingly 

Amaya holding Janai after her nightmares

Callum having a drawing of Rayla in his office 

Bait. Just Bait. Their grumpy emotional-support therapy toad. 

Callum memorizing and reciting Damien’s poetry 

Soren wearing pajamas under his armor

Callum tying a bracelet of phoenix feathers around Rayla’s wrist 

Gren bring the best third wheel ever 

Zubeia laughing at Soren’s jokes 

Rayla kissing Esmeray so gently 

Callum going straight to Ezran to tell him he loves him after reading Harrow's letter

Bait patting Soren’s foot to let him know he wasn’t a “failed son”

Callum finally calling Harrow ‘Dad’ 

Corvus clapping at Soren’s jokes. 

Callum’s wing hugs. They look like the warmest safest hugs ever. 

Soren apologizing to Callum and squeezing him on the Storm Spire steps. Fastforward two years and they are holding each other.

Kazi’s “wild and crazy student years” 

Sarai proving that love knows no bounds by falling in love with a poet then a king 

Ezran holding Callum in his arms when he had passed out even though they were fighting 

Callum pushing back Rayla’s hair 

Adoraburs. Just adoraburs. 

[lazyneigh]

mirrors… amirite?!

[nestikogarana]

KEEP IT UNDER - [THE DRAGON PRINCE ANIMATIC] (genderbend) 

This animatic was created before the release of the third season! It can be considered AU~ 

Song: Keep It Under - Damien Dawn

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