#nimona herself is such an obvious queer allegory!!

[sophclouds]

just finished watching nimona, i may or may not have sobbed

[dr-docktor]

OK IM MORE AWAKE NOW SO LET ME SPEAK MY TRUTH

First up I want to say that if y’all do decide to watch Nimona after this PLEASE do not let the hype about Curtwen but knights and also happy ending overshadow Nimona herself. She’s genuinely the best part of the entire movie (aside from the BANGER soundtrack) and she gets soooo overshadowed by the gay couple in the fandom it’s insane.

WITH THAT ASIDE

Ballister and Ambrosius are EXTREMELY reminiscent of Curtwen just under different circumstances that lets them reconcile in the end.

In the first scene Ballister is framed for murdering the Queen because the weapon is in his hands, Ambrosius’ immediate instinct is to LITERALLY DISARM him and the two are separated by this tragedy, with Ballister going on the run.

SOUND FAMILIAR????

The two of them spend the movie going through the shitty ideals that the Institute put into their brains from birth. Balister believes Ambrosius was justified in cutting off his arm and Ambrosius doesn’t even start questioning stuff till halfway through the movie when Balister is like “hey bestie, I didn’t kill anyone. You know that right?”

There’s also something to be said about similarities between Owen and Nimona herself. Basically how Nimona has embraced villainy because she’s a ‘monster’ (very very obvious trans and queer allegory) and because no one will see her as anything else, why BE anything else. Which I know isn’t why Owen embraced Chimera but I think there’s definitely something there about how his own homosexuality influenced his actions post-fall, and I think someone could definitely interpret Nimona’s world-view as part of Owen’s motivation.

They both also have some of the most hard-hitting lines in their respective media (the entire staircase scene and “Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I'm the monster? I don't know what's scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart... or that sometimes, I just wanna let 'em.”)

Also please watch it to see Balister’s big sad wet cat eyes the entire movie

I just started watching Nimona and I am getting serious Curtwen vibes. Or what they could have been, I guess.