#elora danon

[sunshineraccoon]

I realized that Elora/Graydon gave me Kim Possible/Ron Stoppable vibes, so I made this. 

[knight-princess]

Did Graydon really ask Elora how her day had gone in the middle of everyone fighting trolls at the end of episode six or am I misremembering that

[bizzybee429]

[hersterical]

The sports different Willow characters would be into in modern au (imo):

Jade: All around athlete, is crazy good at pretty much any sport she tries. Her favorites are soccer (football), fencing, and MMA, though she did play soft/baseball in highschool and still sometimes hits the batting cages when she’s stressed and needs a break from the sports she takes more seriously.

Kit: Passable at pretty much any sport but her favorites are soccer, fencing and kickboxing. (She did try MMA and it just didn’t click). She also enjoyed watching her school’s women’s soft/baseball team in highschool.

Boorman: He has two extremes and there is no in between. He either plays the sports that allows him to gracelessly full-body tackle people at full speed (American football, rugby, hockey, etc), or he is the most graceful person ever (dancing, especially ballet, cheerleading, gymnastics, ice dancing, etc). Might occasionally take part in boxing when he feels like it. His most consistently paying job is being a yoga instructor.

Graydon: Ultimate frisbee and mini-golf. He also enjoys the statistical side of baseball. Willing to play other sports with his friends but is quick to bow out when Kit takes it too far.

Elora: Mostly just tennis and volleyball, but will play other sports with her friends. Is often the reason Kit takes things too far, especially when they were younger.

Airk: Grew up playing on the same soccer team and taking the same fencing classes as Kit, and still enjoys them in non-competitive situations, but mostly gravitates towards basketball and swimming when he gets older. The only time he takes a sport seriously is when he’s either playing against, or on the same team as Kit.

Willow: Strangely good at shooting clay pigeons and enjoys swing/square dancing but not as much as when he was younger. He also likes to go fishing.

Scorpia: Mostly she’s into any full-contact sport though she makes an exception for soccer which is only partial-contact. She also owns a rival yoga studio to Boorman’s.

They are all on the same recreational bowling team. Elora made shirts and everything.

[teekaa-two]

Day 3: TV Show (Specific Episode)

The Whispers of Nockmaar

As always, Willow the series has a lot of great episodes. In terms of storytelling, and just generally being beautiful to watch. It's a tough call but I think I would like this one for a couple of reasons. It's a great combination of exposition, callbacks to the movie, and good amounts of humor. This is also coming from someone who didn't see the movie but really appreciated the references to it.

It delves into pretty much everyone's problems and what they are secretly battling. Which is honestly a lot. I was expecting Jade's issues after the unfortunate run in with her father figure. Then tying it back to feeling inadequate for not protecting those she loved was an interesting parallel. But seeing Boorman bug out, initially thinking it might just be strange drunkenness. But he seemed to be having an acute break over a perceived theft.

I like Elora's path of learning she was born here and a little about her past. It was great to see her be so assertive but at the same time vulnerable. That and seeing cooking skills possibly come in handy with potion making, who knew right? Also learning more about Graydon. He'd been so timid and just non-reactive. It was good to see what's going through his brain but really sad at the same time. He's got so many demons and you really feel for the guy.

The most straightforward one was Kit but I thought that was the least surprising issue to find. I mean your grandmother was evil and a great evil power that was overthrown, I'd worry daily that I could become evil too. But it was still handled very well.

[kenneth-the-mudmander]

This video by Wit and Folly is soooo good. It explains the Alchemical symbolism within Willow in such a succinct and easy to understand way.

Definitely a much watch if youre interested in Willow symbolism and need inspiration for your fanfics/art.

[vetiverriver]

I was thinking about how Elora didn’t master divination but she did! When they were in Skellin and she heard Kit yelling at her that hadn’t happened yet. I didn’t notice on my first couple of watches until I had the subtitles on.

That’s also probably why she was spinning out in the mine. We see Willow is physically affected by his visions so it makes sense Elora would as well

[wigster07]

Did you all know that we are getting Willow action figures? They can be pre-ordered now through Entertainment Earth. We have options for Elora, Willow, Kit, Jade, and Scourge. $20 each. 

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/s/willow/action-figures/tp

I love collecting things for things I love so I’m going to get these ordered. I think its so freaking cool and its a way to show support for the show when merchandising does well or better than expected. Plus, if it does well we might get more merch when they see opportunities for it. 

[psalm40speakstome]

The small but elusive we’ve kissed but also haven’t club:

Just noticing both are a blonde and her dark haired loyal heart eyes boyfriend 👀

[re-bee-key]

They should bring a unicorn in as a test or a guide in Season 2. Maybe near the end, when Graydon is reunited with the party.

I have this wonderful scene in my head, where Graydon is suddenly introduced to the unicorn. And he is scared because he knows they can sense purity and abhor evil.

Hes not so much scared of the unicorn killing him, as he is of the confirmation that hes truely gone and corrupted. That he cannot be redeemed. And hes as evil and bad as his father always accused him of being. Even Elora fearing him when she saw what he had done.

But, as he stands there frozen. Cowering in on himself. Trying to avoid eye contact. The unicorn slowly and purposely approaches him. When it comes close enough to impale him and lowers its head, he flinches and closes his eyes. But instead of pain he hears the most melodic and angelic voice speak to him.

"I sense much conflict and darkness in your heart, Grayond Hastur. But," its voice goes soft and gentle, "it is not in the way you think. The darkness comes from fear and self loathing. There is so much goodness in you. And its being held back. Let go of the shackles youve put around your heart, and then you will find peace."

He sinks to his knees, tears streaming down his face. And as he looks up at her, eyes big and full of doubt and hope. She leans down and kisses his forhead. A flash of pinkish light shines and when she pulls back, there is a purple star on his forhead.

Elora and the others had watched it all. Silence and awe thick in the air. Graydon looked over to her, and face lit up in a smile as he sees her for the first time in months. The morning sun rising behind her, her hair glowing like a halo.

And she looked at him as the sun light illuminated his smile and felt whole for the first time in so long. She had found Arik and had already started uniting the armies behind her. But her heart has been clouded ever since Graydon died. She felt guilty at not realizing before what she now knew to be true.

She ran to him and before he could react tackled him into a big hug. And after a few quiet sniffles only he could hear she whispered into his neck

"I love you too."

[sunshineraccoon]

middle of a battle

Kit: Is it just me, or is Jade a straight-up hottie right now?

Elora: How are you this close to being dragged to the Thirteenth Realm and still horny?

Kit: I don't know

[badger-bear]

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[hersterical]

Anyone have a good way to pirate the Willow series? I NEED it to stay in my life

[sunf10wer67]

It's so fun to dissect a character and why they do what they do etc, etc, and I was just thinking about the difference between Jade and Elora, and I just think it's so interesting, because both of them are (or were) in love with members of the royal family (Elora with Airk and Jade with Kit), but they both reacted to it so differently. They're both orphans, with no real place to call home other than the home/job that Sorsha gave them, and so they would both understand their rank and where they should stand in regards to the royals.

Jade keeps it to herself, tells herself that she can never have Kit because Kit's a princess and Jade's just, well, Jade is nobody. She never makes the first move, never initiates physical contact, and constantly holds herself back from her true feelings.

But Elora, despite calling herself a nobody when Graydon asks her if she really is Elora Danon, does not treat herself as a nobody. She genuinely believes that love is the strongest power in the universe. She seems to believe that her love for Airk, a royal, is stronger than any rules or expectations. She not only initiates physical contact, but she also does it in public. She's the one who tells Airk she loves him. Jade doesn't even say anything about being in love with Kit until after Kit says something.

And yes, Kit is expected to marry to strengthen the throne and nothing is really expected of Airk, and I'm sure that affects the way that Jade and Elora feel about their loves, but still.

I just think it's interesting

[vetiverriver]

Why did Sorsha have to name Elora Brunhilde to protect her? Why did she do our girl so dirty????

[cantsayidont]

Hateration holleration, fantasy edition:

WILLOW (1988): Uneven Lucasfilm fantasy adventure (directed by Ron Howard), allegedly conceived before STAR WARS, starring Warwick Davis as a Nelwyn (little person) farmer who must protect a magical baby called Elora Danon from the evil Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) with the help of valiant but hapless adventurer Madmartigan (Val Kilmer) and eventually Bavmorda's combative daughter Sorsha (Joanne Whaley). Davis, Kilmer, and Whaley are all great, but the straightforward story is burdened with a lot of unfunny shtick (the treatment of the other Nelwyns, who are clearly intended as off-brand Hobbits, is particularly uncomfortable), clumsy worldbuilding, and a distasteful crassness that tends to undermine any sense of wonder. One of the properties absorbed by the Mouse in its acquisition of Lucasfilm, it was revived in 2022 as a short-lived streaming series (q.v.), set about 25 years after the original movie. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Nope. VERDICT: Fun main characters — it'd be hard not to like Sorsha, and Davis's stubborn dignity as Willow is appealing — but the terrible script nearly sinks it even as dumb popcorn fare.

WILLOW (2022): Belated, unnecessary episodic sequel to the 1988 Lucasfilm fantasy adventure film, released and subsequently buried by the Mouse in a fit of streaming service cost-cutting mania, returns Warwick Davis as would-be sorcerer Willow Ufgood and Joanne Whalley as Sorsha, now the queen, whose gay daughter Kit (Ruby Cruz) and her would-be knight-protector Jade (Erin Kellyman) set out on a quest to rescue Kit's handsome but hapless twin brother Airk (Dempsey Bryk) with the help of a pretty kitchen maid (Ellie Bamber) with an unlikely secret. Not as bad as some critics made out, particularly compared to more recent Disney+ offerings (which have been genuinely dire), the eight-episode series has an appealing cast and some fun moments, but the story is all over the place, with hazy dramatic stakes and too many awkward shifts in tone and direction. Perhaps the show's biggest misstep is its failure to make sense of the movie's slipshod worldbuilding, mistakenly treating the 1988 film as a Revered Fantasy Icon rather than a lazy collection of high fantasy clichés that was barely cohesive enough to sustain the movie's significantly simpler plot. CONTAINS LESBIANS: Aye, verily, or some other such fantasy utterance. VERDICT: Intermittently charming, and a modest improvement on the original, but way too sloppy.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022): Predictably but dishearteningly awful Amazon Prime Video series is in some ways the opposite of the WILLOW show: a charmless pseudo-prequel to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, doomed from inception by a series of disastrous legal constraints. Forbidden to directly reference the Peter Jackson films and unwilling to pay the Tolkien estate for the rights to use material in THE SILMARILLION and UNFINISHED TALES, Amazon Studios instead contrived their own truncated, severely condensed version of Tolkien's Second Age, based solely on references in THE LORD OF THE RINGS to the forging of the Rings of Power and the fall of Númenor. The resulting eight episodes are ponderous, dour, and disconcertingly cheap-looking despite their enormous budget, offering neither the mythological sweep of the source material nor the indulgent pay-cable sex and violence of A GAME OF THRONES, and Morfydd Clark (as a young and sour-faced Galadriel) and Robert Aramayo (as a young and sour-faced Elrond) are poor substitutes for Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving. Worse, if you're not intimately familiar with Tolkien's legendarium (including the parts the show isn't allowed to mention), you'll likely have no idea what's going on, much less why you should care — and if you are familiar with that mythos, the show's clumsy, tone-deaf treatment of it will drive you mad. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: So bad it's borderline unwatchable — much worse than Peter Jackson's already dire HOBBIT trilogy. Don't say you weren't warned.