Dragon Prince Theory: Gren was taught Sign language by the Queen to replace her when she got married.
So this was a thought that came to me the other day. We know Amaya and Gren have been together for a while, but we don’t know how long he’s been her interpreter. Given their relationship we know that they have a close friendship, and given Callum and Ezren’s age’s we can assume that Queen Sarai had been living with her husband for a while before her passing.
So that started to get me thinking on how long has Gren been with Amaya, clearly they’re about roughly the same age,or he’s a bit younger, so he couldn’t have been interpreting for her when she was a child. This got me to think about the relationship between the two women.
When Amaya goes to see her sister’s grave she, according to those who interpret ASL, she says “Hello sister, you were my hero, perfect, strong and unbreakable. Kind and loyal. I’m sorry, older sister I failed you. Your children were safe and I let them slip away.”
This is important as it shows that Sarai is someone that Amaya looked up to and still admires as a person. A hero, perfect, strong and unbreakable, and kind and loyal. We also learn that she’s the younger sister, so her feelings are connected to that of someone who feels protected.
It is not that hard to assume then that when they were growing up Sarai was Amaya’s voice, someone who could express what her sister was feeling to others and probably played an important role in helping her grow as a person. Now the thing is that I assume Callum’s father wasn’t someone who was a noble due to the way Callum views things. While Ezren dresses in red like his father, and wears the family crest/seal/whatever the thing is on his belt which I think are ruins, Callum only wear’s red on the scarf he has and clearly his outfit is less expensive looking that Ezren’s.
So if we go by that thought, it’s easy to see Sarai staying close to her sister for a while even after giving birth to her eldest son and probably still being her voice. However I think that probably changed around the time that Callum’s father died and Sarai met Harrow. Due to the fact that she was going to be Queen, I think Sarai realized that she couldn’t stay by her sister’s side and needed to find a suitable replacement that could get Amaya’s personality and understand her just as clearly as she could.
Enter Gren. We can see that Amaya is the warrior of these two, and I have a feeling that Gren probably wasn’t a strong battle officer, seeing as we didn’t see him fight off his captors when they took him in.
Another important aspect is that his character has no sword nor weapon, telling me that he’s more of a voice for Amaya and probably helps her with diplomacy than with actual battle.
So it’s probably that factor that caught Sarai’s attention. Amaya is very much a Knock down the door ask questions later, type of person, and I think that Sarai tempered her in that sense. She was someone who, while a warrior, was also someone who was kind and compassionate and merciful. Sarai would have needed someone who was also calm and gentle and kind and loyal to work with Amaya.
My honest guess is that she probably spotted Gren in the ranks, maybe early on in his career as an officer in their army (whomever they represent via Kingdom) and saw in him a lot of herself and possibly that Amaya liked him as a person. Sarai more than likely approached his commanding officer and gave them an offer to take the less than Battle Ready Gren off their hands, and -given Gren’s personality -he probably thought he was in trouble or going to be dismissed, only to find out that Sarai was going to take him under her wing (as it were) and teach him to be the voice for her sister.
It would fit right in with the way this story has been going and how Amaya and Viren both commented on Sarai being as a person. Kind and Loyal, Perfect and a hero. To Gren this probably was a wonderful chance, as he too probably felt some sort of honor working with and learning from the future Queen.
My honest thoughts, unlike most situations where you would have had Amaya possibly rejecting him, I think she probably at first thought he was a bit weird of a choice but, after some talking and Sarai giving her the perverbial thumbs up, these two became close friends and Gren did as good a job as Sarai did understanding and interpreting what Amaya said, giving the proper tone when need be based on what she signed and whom she was addressing.
And I think that’s rather important. As an older sister I can tell you I would not trust just anyone with my younger sister’s well being, and I don’t doubt that Sarai was the same with Amaya. So I honestly think that Sarai hand selected Gren and probably taught him to sign so that when she left she knew that Amaya was in capable hands, and with someone that could give her a powerful and honest voice.