#its not even that they're revealing bc like . slay

[egyptianking]

God Nicole and Matilda have the worst dress sense I have ever seen dear lord

[chichiaki]

Finished with the chapter 2 investigation, and I have to say that starting with the post-ch1 bonus videos, the writing improves by A LOT!! Which makes sense considering there's a couple (?) years between chapter 1 and chapter 2

Chapter 2 has so many interesting character interactions, and while part of that is the motive (actually HAVING a proper motive is good for conflict) I think ultimately it shows the character's personalities MUCH better even in the little thing. In my previous post I wasn't very into most characters other than Teruko, but as of right now I like almost all of them? Stuff like changing Ace's personality (He was. Annoying to me in chapter 1.), revealing more about the characters, and establishing more conflicting dynamics really helps.

Spoilers and theories below cut

The one thing I WILL criticize is that as soon as Arei's backstory came out it was like. Ohhhh she's fucking dying this chapter. Ah shit. HOWEVER. Her backstory made me cry a little, it was such a good way to focus on the REASONS she's the way she is rather than just her being terrible... The secret motive really worked for her :') Though she never "redeemed" herself, dying without being able to is its own tragedy.

(Before that scene my main theory was that Aruto would die and J would be suspected. Clearly not.)

ALSO. NICO. I love them, I wish there was more focus on their attempt to murder Ace. It's a fun conflict! Nonbinary slay... But I do understand that Nico and Ace both didn't talk to anyone about what happened, Teruko doesn't really care, and everyone else CARES but doesn't really know what to do about it.

AND THE GOOD THING IS. THERE ARE SO MANY SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS RN.

Nico is suspicious bc they already attempted murder. Eden is suspicious because she had conflict with Arei. David is suspicious not really because I think he'd kill Arei, but because he's obviously doing some lying about his motive secret.

Characters who I don't think are the culprit: J (I got spoiled that she's still alive..........), Charles and Whit and Levi and probably Hu Jing? (they're around but I don't think they've been given enough focus this chapter for them to be satisfying culprits), Aruto (I feel like if J lives, Aruto also has to live. I feel like he'd die chapter 3 rather than chapter 2), Nico (their murder attempt will be important in the trial, for sure, but I think that it's TOO obvious)

So, suspects: Eden, David, Ace, Veronika, Rose. If it's Rose I will Die I love her so much you cannot kill her DO NOT KILL ROSE I WON'T ALLOW THIS

I feel like Veronika and Rose are Unlikely just from a story standpoint, but still. Possible. I might be biased though...??? Since I like both of them??? But Rose's conflict about not wanting to be in the room with the body makes her feel more Not Killer Coded (similar to Charles) so I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Uhhh so my biggest suspect is Eden and my second biggest suspect is David. There you go. I'll be sad whichever of those two goes...

Today I started Despair Time since I saw someone say it's good. This person is someone I have sometimes VERY different tastes to so we'll see whether I like it or not, I've only watched the prologue so far

[justbreachedcuntainment]

The dragon prince season 4 rant(spoilers from like line one)

There's a lot of ppl complaining rn about aaravos only getting one scene but I think this was very well done for two reasons. One is fandoms love puzzles. Finding all the pieces, seeing what goes together and figuring out what the final picture is. But once they're done with the puzzle they move right onto the next thing to solve. They'll either not appreciate the work the crew puts in after solving the puzzle(I've done this in the past with shows like gravity falls- trust me I know) or just treat it as another show and move on to the next hyped up thing. There's also fans who's reviews/ reactions I've seen on yt and LITERALLY IN SEASON 2 they said "this guy's cool but once you know the mystery and big reveal he's kinda boring" IN SEASON 2!!!! SO YEAH NO WONDER TDP CREW ARE ONLY GIVING HIM SO FEW LINES.

Secondly the show is titled "mystery of aaravos" not "discovering aaravos" or "all about aaravos". "Mystery of aaravos". What kind of mystery reveals itself at the start of a new chapter in the show? And yeah yeah it's season 4 but season 3 wasn't "mystery of arravos" it was the dragon prince. We didn't get most of tdp clues until the end of season 3 / during the hiatus excluding maybe things like the elarion poem? Idk when that came in could've been season 1/2 as that was when we first saw the ancient book I believe right? Correct me if I'm wrong I need to rewatch the show. Also side note the show is definitely not a long show. I work full time 10-6 night shifts Mon to Fri and I still binged it all in 8 hours the Sunday after guy Fawkes night. So yeah even if aaravos only gets one scene so what? It's not like we're sitting through 40/50 min eps to get a crumb of hot elf man.

Oh right yeah tdp is made by a lot of atla crew so they know what they're doing when they only keep the big bad in one major scene (which he slayed in btw) it's not just fanservice

As fun as the fanservice is Aaravos' tiny scene is a great display of his power(which we've seen little regarding the extent it can go btw esp with a non consenting host) and raises many questions for us to theorise on(like is Aaravos' a monster fucker?/j... Unless). The crew knows how to stir the fandom and indeed were probably predicting this dissapointed response when they made Aaravos' scene. Yet they kept it this way bc that's how you reel in the old fans and even viewers. With puzzles and mysteries and hidden clues. It's also a good way to keep casual viewers who may miss the hidden clues on their toes. Even if most of the hints and clues fly over their heads they'll still think "why is this guy fallen?" "What does he gain from manipulating people this way?"(which is a whole debate of its own after elarion's poem).

So tldr: the breadcrumbs we get of aaravos are intentional and a lot of people don't get that