#the dragon prince rambles

[saltyb0ba]

im soooo normal about ezran callum sibling relationship

the little kid who had to grow up too fast, leaving stolen jelly tarts behind for clean hands on the throne and the big kid who never got a chance to play house with his younger brother before worries took the place of imagination. the kid king who seems to be handling things well, but no longer laughs at jokes with his kind of humor, and would rather get to the point than have a bit of fun with finding out the answer.

ezran luckily has a strong support system and a brother that will be there for him no matter what, putting himself in danger just to ensure ezran's safety. he's bonded with zym on a psychic and emotional level, and can talk to animals with relative ease. making the burden of the crown just a bit lighter. he knows he has people he can reach out to and lean on, and takes advantage of that when the offer is handed to him. growing up hurts, but with loved ones surrounding him, it was okay. as okay as it could be.

callum is his own support system. soren's called him step-prince for as long as he could remember, and though it was never explicitly shown, it's not hard to infer the amount of damage that can inflict on someone's mind. he already was second in line to the throne despite being the older sibling, and to just have it drilled in your head again and again that someone doesn't want you there just hurts. and it forms an unhealthy mindset that sticks with him for a while.

soren's insisted that it was a joke, but it's not wrong for callum to take it personally. especially with how many times soren's repeated it. claudia lost his respect a long time ago. callum isn't really shown to have the same amount of familiarity with the royal court as ezran does, and his office is a bit isolated from the rest of the castle. it isn't where he sleeps (though sometimes falls asleep in), but even in his own quarters he's separated from ezran. that bed's either filled by rayla or just empty moonlight at this point.

callum's always taken his own path whereas ezran followed in his father's footsteps.

that's naturally led to callum exploring a new future alone (or at least, with minimal support) vs ezran having the entire castle staff to rely upon with centuries' worth of experience in handling the rule of a king.

and proven in the series, it's caused ezran to detach from callum a bit himself. how he thought callum's upset post-possession was about rayla and not the literal puppeting that had been going on. he was never able to see through his brother the way callum could see through ezran and that's likely intentional.

bait and zym are also like parallels to their relationship in a sense; ezran had accidentally batted bait away in his sleep and bait left, upset and a little angry -- until callum saw him and invited him to hang out with him. they don't have a connection like ezran and zym have (unless you wanna get super meta, since bait's sounds are made by jack desena), but they understand each other just as much as the king and dragon prince do. before that happened, however, bait was very clingy with ezran. see the connection?

they haven't abandoned each other, far from it. they've gotten more aggressive in their love, especially with the stakes raising and callum extremely prone to becoming a weapon. ezran would prefer to talk things out, though something tells me aaravos would rather have fun with his toys instead of discussing things. maybe the way they show brotherly love is different now, but callum knows what sacrifice he would have to make to protect his family, his brother. ezran doesn't want to lose callum, and is determined to find a solution that doesn't involve the loss of his brother. his only brother.

thank you for coming to my ted talk this was a massive brain dump that i just needed to get out haha! i'm a sucker for sibling relationships and theirs draws me in like no other.

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

[kindaorangey]

dads will literally have a revelation about how poorly they've treated you and then die in a magical act of self-sacrifice just to give themselves the most complicated legacy and you the most inscrutable daddy issues in the world

[thisrobinisred]

Not sorry for the crimes and atrocities I might commit if they’re not canon by the end of the show

[n-arts-hideaway]

I wonder if Leola would even recognize her father now. She knew him as kind and gentle, and a lover of life and humans, but he’s become sly, sinister, and manipulative. He’s wreaked havoc upon the world and people Leola loved so much. Caused so much pain and death for humans, elves, and dragons alike.

I think if Leola somehow saw Aaravos again, she’d see a stranger.

[thatartiststudios]

Reblog if you'll be keeping the TDP fandom alive with me after s7 release, even if we don't get Arc 3

[citricacidprince]

Thinking about a Dungeon Meshi swap AU where Laios is eaten instead of Falin

I think everything is relatively the same in the terms of party members. Chilchuck would stay, not for Falin, but for Laios cause he and the blond are actually close and he wouldn’t say it out loud but he’s worried about him and no I won’t take criticism. Marcille would stay, definitely for Falin but she’s worried about that weird guy in her own way. Namari would still leave and wish Falin the best. The only difference is that Shuro would definitely come this time if it was Falin who asked, however he’d probably tell her to go on ahead without him so he can get a bigger team to help and meet her down there. Senshi, of course, still joins the group.

There are a lot of little things that would change but I have such a specific scene in my brain that won’t leave.

In the swap version of the scene where Chimera Falin fucks everyone up and then run off, Falin watches as her now monsterfied and wounded brother flee, tears in her eyes as she attempts to stop herself from crying but can’t. Marcille, immediately assuming that she’s crying about Laios, tries to comfort her by saying they’re going to find a way to revert this, even if at the time she’s just saying an empty promise to make Falin feel better since she has no clue on how to fix Laios either.

But that’s not why Falin is crying.

During the fight she watched her brother very closely, the way he moved, the way he analyzed each person who came close, the way his eyes softened and he gently smiled when he recognized her for just a moment before turning back into a beast. A gut wrenching realization ran through her head the more she watched him and it got even louder when he fled.

She realized that when her brother appeared as that chimera, that monster, his yellow eyes shined bright in the dark and his toothy grin could be seen for miles, and the grin barely faded even during the battle.

Falin has never seen her brother so unapologetically happy in her entire life.

It was like he was made to be a monster.

She wondered if it would be cruel to turn him human again, a horrid thought that she might be ripping him away from what was assumedly his dream come true. Who gave her the right to ruin her brothers happiness when she knows Laios would do everything in his power to make sure his little sister was happy.

She quickly shook away the thought. She had to save her brother. She had to.

But no matter how much deeper they traveled that small persistent thought stayed in her brain, trying to make her doubt the rescue and convince her that, while he wouldn’t tell her outright, Laios would grow to despise her for turning him back a tallman when being a monster was so freeing and easy.

Falin knows in her heart that her brother could never hate her and it was just her stressed and anxious thoughts getting the best of her, but it doesn’t stop those fears from manifesting in her nightmares.

Ignore me I’m running on 2 hours of sleep and I’m loosing my mind slightly

[ace7librarian]

Of course you have a weird relationship that might include a Deal™ and a lot of homoerotic tension with an eldritch being. And pronouns.

[fandomsandflyingstingrays]

All the new season 7 screenshots, which I'm super normal about

[multicolouredmonster]

Leola was sentenced to death for teaching humans the basics of Primal Magic

centuries later, Aaravos taught humans Dark Magic

using Dark Magic causes "a darkness at the center of one's soul"

that "darkness" can only be cured by filling it with the "light" of the person truth

Aaravos refered to Leola as a star, and the light in his life

Aaravos used to have a solid star symbol on his chest - after Leolas' death, the symbol is inverted and has a hollow dark void at its centre

Something, something, blah blah - in order to use magic, Aaravos ensured that humans must experience the hollow void at the center of their soul that he feels every single day since his daughters execution.

She died to give them magic, he ensured that they feel the full weight of her sacrifice just as much as he does

[sugutoad]

No matter how hard the writers try to make me hate them, they could never make me 😌

[ifmagicexists]

cannot stop thinking about the scene where the being/sir sparklepuff lands on aaravos in the middle of the fight in the last episode, and aaravos is so thrown off for a split second (iirc pretty much the only time we see him that way in that whole fight!) like. there's something there that i don't quite have the braincells to connect rn. the fact that the being was in the in-between at all, when it seems to be implied that he knew he was the sacrifice/was okay with it, and even aaravos seemed discomfited by his presence in a way that's entirely different from his demeanour in the rest of that fight. something about how casually aaravos treats the being and his sacrifice when he is also his child, whereas leola and at this point even claudia's deaths either did or would unbalance him (and he outright states this about claudia too in the same episode). like we saw the being's role in viren's arc very clearly but i'm very much wondering what place he has in aaravos's, and if/how that'll come into play

[sorinethemastermind]

It meant a lot to Soren.

“What about here?” Soren asked.

“Here?”

“The castle,” Soren said, gesturing around. “Do you like it here?”

Corvus considered. “I’m not used to it yet.”

“Do you think you could get used to it?”

“Maybe.”

“Join the Crownguard!”

“Soren, I—”

“Jooooiiiin...” Soren waved his hands, his voice singsong. “…the Crownguard!”

Corvus folded his arms over his chest. “Ezran put you up to this.”

“Yes,” Soren admitted. “And also no. I suggested it, and he told me to ask you.”

“You suggested it?”

“Yeah, when Ezran told me how much he liked you. And trusted you. And wanted you to stick around, even though you’re more at home in the forest—and the trees, and whatever. Especially after everything that’s happened, I think—I think that matters a lot to Ezran.”

Corvus gave him a long, thoughtful look. Soren blew a strand of hair out of his face and would not meet Corvus’ eyes. “It matters a lot… to Ezran.”

“To the King, yeah.”

There was a flicker in Soren’s eyes—something dark and pained and wounded, something that he kept well-hidden behind his grin and the gleam of his armor. Corvus knew that darkness had not been born in the shadow of the Storm Spire, but it had deepened there.

It occurred to Corvus that he had never asked Soren how he felt about what had happened. With his father, Lord Viren. With his sister.

With anything, really.

So much had changed, and still Soren tried to smile.

Corvus cleared his throat. “The Crownguard?”

Soren nodded.

As plainly as he could say it, Corvus said, “Alright.”

Soren’s face lit up. “Really?”

“Yes. Really.”

Excerpts from the official Dragon Prince short story "Changing of the Guard".

[raayllum]

me, barely being able to process the new season and just beginning to gather actual coherent thoughts to get barrelled over with "we have a whole third arc planned of 3 more seasons but we need to get greenlit first" like truly no one compares to you tdp

[its-leethee]

2x08 // 6x01 framing that torments mee

[n-arts-hideaway]

Runaan is going to be so confused and conflicted with the current state of things. Aside from his daughter dating the stepson of the guy he murdered, he’s going to be VERY confused about Ezran’s situation, given that he was bound to assassinate him in the name of Zubeia.

“What do you mean the human prince is alive? What do you mean he’s best friends with the dragon prince?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DRAGON QUEEN ADOPTED HIM??!!!”

*Cue existential crisis about how he perpetuated the cycle of violence while believing he was doing the right thing, and about how his teen daughter was actually the strongest among them for helping break that cycle, even at the expense of her connection with the other moonshadow elves*