#ravonna my beloved you will always be my favourite storm

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One thing that I really want to talk about is ship symbolism in 'Wherever you go, there you are'.

Miraak and Ravonna are the main ship, and I've been thinking a lot about their symbolism, and for the longest time, I thought they were a sun/moon ship, but that never really seemed right to me. In a way, I could never say that it is truly a sun/moon ship, because while Miraak is definitely the sun, the gentle healer sunshine boy who brings life within the souls of all who spend time with him, I think Ravonna is a bit too cheery, loud and jolly to be the moon. But I've figured it all out now and I've been dying to talk about it!!!

They're sun/storm!!! I don't even know if this ship dynamic exists, but it makes so much sense to me!! I've always said that Ravonna is a storm. For some people, storms are scary and terrifying, and she can definitely be scary and terrifying, especially as a master destruction mage! The things she can so with magic are crazy. Others, may find storms a nuisance, something bad, an inconvenience. I'm aware that Ravonna may not be everyone's cup of tea: she is loud, sings sea shanties waay too much and she is impulsive and preposterous, not to mention how tight she holds on to her grudges, but really, under that charming and funny persona, there is someone who is also hurting, grieving, feeling deeply, falling in love etc. She has her own internal struggles. And while storms may be bad in some people's eyes, they are the most beautiful thing mother nature can do in others' eyes. I'm saying this as a person whose favourite weather is definitely a good summer thunderstorm :))).

The thing is, storms are beautiful. There's beauty in chaos, there's patterns, there's peace, there's melody all within a single storm. And storms bring growth, for how can growth occur without it? How can the grass grow and the flowers bloom without rain? That's her to everyone she cared about, and especially to Miraak. She is both his savior and his enemy. She hurts him, but she also nurtures him.

Even the way they look and their aesthetics fit withn the sun/storm! We have Miraak, who is a blond Atmoran with warm, gentle, honey brown eyes and a smile so bright it alomst hurts and we have Ravonna, the pale nord with long black hair who almost always dresses in big purple mage robes. Her eyes are of emerald green, just as the colour of moss, a thing that grows where there is humidity.

And I'll add just one more thing because this is turning into a big essay, but yes, sometimes the sun makes the storm go away and yes, sometimes the storm eclipses the sun, but it is a rare moment when they both occur at the same time, and it is truly beautiful to see the sun shining through a storm. They seem to be completing each other, even if it is unlikely. As unlikely as is the whole miraak/ldb ship, because what were the chances of the first and the last to fall in love and get together?