#why CHET makes my brain go so brrr tbh

[raayllum]

something something about Callum stepping out to defend Rayla for the first time and being told that he and/or Rayla have made a terrible mistake by the same character who is the first to identify the mirror; something something about how Callum sacrificing the boat for Rayla is the emotional takeaway of 1x05 for their dynamic; how he derides the cube in 1x04 as “stupid” when he realizes it’s put her in danger and “we should’ve never come here” (“The whole dungeon and everything in it. Everything down here—it’s all horrible. I should just lock it all away, forever!”); how in 1x06 he’s the one to step toward her, by surrendering control, by offering up the egg; how he lets go of his anger and even while he’s weeping in her arms, thinks about how hard the prior day must’ve been for her in 2x03 (novelization); how he sacrifices his morals for her by doing dark magic at all in 2x07 and never defends himself, how he’s willing to sacrifice his life for her in 3x01 and then only for her in 3x09, for just the barest chance of saving her; how he sacrifices her parting gift in 3x08 in order to try to keep her here, alive (with him); how he lets go of so much of his hurt feelings in season four over and over again to support her instead, to be there for her, to love her. How a core tenet of their bond alongside “Rayla saves everyone and Callum saves her” is also that “Rayla sacrifices for everyone but Callum is the one willing to sacrifice for her” and aah