#tdp harrow

[dragon-susceptible]

Do you think that because Ezran can talk to animals, he would be able to tell that Pip wasn't a normal bird and had a human soul?

Fam. Fam you may have just rescued me from the plot hole I wrote myself into where nobody knows that Harrow's in the bird except Viren, who's not telling. I can't believe I didn't think of that. Now I just need to make sure these idiots don't lose the bird before Ezran finds him and realizes Pip isn't himself.

In general though, yes. Callum's spellbook has a section Ezran wrote in it where he explains how he talks to animals. Animals don't think in words the way humans do, so Ezran basically is just empathizing with them and thinking from their perspective to understand what they mean, and then translating those thoughts into words. It's different with dragons because that's also how they communicate with other animals, as only Archdragons have the lip movement required to speak like humans and elves do, so that's why it's more nuanced with them. Still not sure what's going on with the telepathic connection with Zym specifically that spans continents, but yk.

[catcherwrites]

The Mage : The Warrior

"In history, nothing happens that has not happened before." - Thomas Mann

[raayllum]

There are centuries of history, generations of wrongs and crimes, on both sides. I am responsible for some of those wrongs.

1x02 / 7x09

[thegurlwhoisntthere]

Okay, so this isn’t really related to the larger parts of the season, but-

Can I just say I absolutely love how they introduced Callum’s dad?

Like, there are so many theories about him, that he was an elf, that he was a warrior who died, that he just up and left them, but in actuality? He was a poet. He was a poet with a sickness from birth and he died from that when Callum was young. He was kind and Sarai loved him. Harrow even respected him and I genuinely love that.

It also makes more sense that it would’ve been harder for Callum to connect with Harrow in the face of that. His dad wasn’t some warrior who died before he knew him, he wasn’t some elf that he never knew, or some deadbeat who left his mom. He was a kind heart poet who was born with a sickness that couldn’t be cured.

That’s extraordinarily tragic, but I love it.

[knuffi516]

Both Sarai and Amaya liking dark skin:

[jellydrawsposts]

I need to see how their adventure goes trying to find Parrow you have no idea

[r4yllumism]

They somehow managed gaslit an entire fandom into giving up on a theory only to go "SIKE YOU WERE RIGHT"

[stuck-in-jelly]

The Hunt for Parrow but now there’s two of them Corvus has to keep track of

[no-cinnamon-for-synonym]

IMAGINE being the most competent assassin in the realm, on a suicide mission to kill the king, being all hot and badass, thinking about how you just tried to kill your daughter and your husband is going to mourn your death... aND YOUR TARGET JUST SQUAWKS AT YOU

[0luna123]

King Harrow moodboard

!!!Aesthetic Warning!!!

[poppyseed-art]

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

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

In hindsight this is really frickin funny

[jupiter-dragonsong]

Thinking obsessively about what it’s gonna be like if/when Harrow gets back.

Imagine you’ve been trapped in the form of your dead pet for almost ten years. You come back home— except your house is burned down, hundreds of years of your family’s history are ashes now and you weren’t there. Everything that belonged to your wife is gone.

You come back (to the place built over your) home and to your son, who was ten years old when you last saw him and is now an adult leading a government. He’s so serious now. You remember him stealing sweets from the kitchen and now he’s lead battles. You’ve missed all of his teenage years.

Also, he’s best friends- blood brothers, really- with a dragon. A dragon who’s the spitting image of your wife’s murderer, whose father was the closest thing you had to a mortal enemy. And here they are, chatting and eating jelly tarts and ruling alongside each other and acting for all the world like siblings. Nobody sees anything strange about this.

Last time you saw your stepson he was an awkward teenager with low self-esteem and a schoolboy crush on his friend. Now he has been through hell and back, achieved feats never thought possible to humans, and committed unspeakable acts for those he loves. He’s also married to one of the assassins sent to kill you. Your entire life you’ve been taught that elves were monsters and now you have one as a daughter-in-law. But she’s also a really nice girl? You’re actually really glad he found someone like her. You weren’t there to give him advice. You weren’t there to see them married. (It would be interesting if Harrow finds out he’s going to be a grandparent… @tategaminu) You also have to see the leader of elven assassins at family functions now. Which is awkward but he seems to really care about your sons now?

Your sister-in-law is also married to an elf. A elf queen, actually. One she’d been fighting against for years before… everything. She really, really hated elves back in the day. Now she’s married to one. Whiplash.

Your best friend is dead. He went directly against your orders and that is why you are here. He tried to have your sons killed. He took over your kingdom. He awoke ancient evils. The man you knew was gone long before he died but you can’t stop yourself from mourning. His sweet, quirky daughter has gone down paths darker than you thought were possible. His son, among the most loyal of your guards, has grown out of being a bully and is now a devoted friend to your children.

Everything has changed. The world you knew, the family you knew, is completely unrecognizable. And yet… the cycle of hate is broken, just like you always wished it would be. Even if it’s going to be hard for you, this is what you wanted for your kids. A world with open borders, ruled by a narrative of love.

Also the world is ending really soon! You are finally there for your family again and they are living with the threat of death looming over their heads. You have returned to your kingdom and it may soon be destroyed. This is not what you wanted for them.

Someone write something please.

[raayllum]

i love it when characters are unfair, actually. i love it when they’re uncouth and cranky and hypocritical, i love it when they have cognitive dissonances, i love it when they make good and bad choices for the wrong reasons. i love when they’re short to anger and hard to understand. i love it when they’ve destroyed themselves for nothing but can’t even see either part of it yet. i love it when they’re messy and selfish and bad at communicating. i love it when they get convinced of their own ego and stuck in a feedback loop regarding their own warped paranoia. i love it when characters actively make their lives unknowingly harder for themselves. i love it when characters don’t know they’re in a story. i love it when characters are like real people

[aria-bun]

Callum progressively going from calling Harrow "King" to "Dad" vs Soren progressively going from calling Viren "Dad" to "Viren"

[hiccupshypotheticalleftsock]

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