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Happy Deepavali😊

May you experience more joy, more love and more light✨

दिवाळीच्या आजपासून ते भाऊबीज पर्यंत, साजरा होत असलेल्या आनंदमयी, उत्साही, मंगलमय पर्वानिमित्त आपणास व आपल्या परिवारास मनःपूर्वक हार्दिक शुभेच्छा...!

[highonstarlight]

Trapped like a butterfly who can see the outer world through the glass but is forbidden to trespass the boundaries because it’s view of the situation is limited to it’s eyes.

So it struggles to break the logic and pass through the glass not realizing that the loophole exists not in the logic but in it’s panorama.

- the reincarnated

[feusus]

About Rian (2.0)

I already wrote something about him a while ago but I did another ‘essay’ for a Trial By Stone podcast episode centered on him. Of course, I did some modifications because it was before the cancellation. The interviews I mention on the text are obviously the ones in the podcast. 

Rian is a bit overlooked as a character sometimes, often seen as the least interesting of our protagonists or just the pretty boy with beautiful hair and eyes (he sure does, but that’s not my point !) I’ve been a bit surprised by those statements because I’ve been really touched by his character watching the show, and I wasn’t even fond of his design at first ! 

Being a lifelong animation fan and a hobbyist animator, I got a hard time adjusting again to puppetry in AOR. But after watching a lot of stage puppet shows, I did ! And Neil Sterenberg’s performance on Rian was the one that struck me the most. At first I felt more familiar with Deet or Brea because their facial expressions felt more like animation. Rian expresses himself by his body, and for me, it’s the expression of puppetry in it’s purest form. Obviously, he has almost all the action packed scenes with choreographies pushing forward the art of puppetry. Now, as a puppet nerd, I would give everything to see unedited cuts of these scenes with that full body Rian performed by those three perfectly synched puppeteers. But that’s not what impresses me the most in his performance. Neil talked in his interview about “stillness without being still” and all those tiny movements we humans do even if we don’t notice it. It fascinates me how Rian’s emotions can be portrayed by those simple movements, like a tilt of a head, a breath, a gasp, a head lowering, awkward steps, a weight nervously shifting leg to leg... It was hard to convince me that he doesn’t have feet ! I can comfortably say that it’s the best physicality I saw in a hand-rod puppet ! I watched some of his scenes multiple times as inspiration, mainly because I’m currently learning to perform human-like characters. I have rarely seen that sense of rhythm, breath, balance and most of all : weight.

Because when you think about it, Rian’s character is all about weight. The weight of his father’s reputation, the weight of truth, the weight of responsibility and the weight of loss, grief, symbolized by the essence vial he keeps carrying. As Alice Dinnean said in her interview, he starts off as a spoiled kid. He was at the core of society, but unlike Brea, he didn't question anything. He took everything for granted. But he got the biggest slap on the face ever, and he grew up very quickly afterwards. Even if he still takes dumb decisions and is very very flawed, I love how he has a very mature mindset after being listed as a fugitive. He is a victim of his people's fear and ignorance, but what is truly inspiring is how he forgives and kind of understands them, he is more sad than angry about it all. It seems like seing his loved ones dying opened his eyes about Gelfling’s vulnerability and, deep down, his own. The truth can easily die with him. I had the pleasure to have a chat with Neil at the Great Con Junction (Dark Crystal’s first convention), and he said that he portrayed Rian as a character who has more growth in his heart than in his fighting strength. And it shows ! He gains more empathy and humility. We can see his movements getting slower and heavier like all this weight is literally accumulating on his shoulders, and at the same time these movements are gentler, more careful. I don’t know if it’s only Neil getting better at his portrayal or if it was made on purpose, but as he said we can easily project things on puppets.

(There was a poll) As my favorite Rian moment, I chose the group dreamfast scene in episode 4 because even if it happens a bit fast, it encapsulates that evolution the best. Rian convinced Kylan, Tavra and Naia to dreamfast with him, thanks to his sincerity and explaining calmly the truth. Dreamfasting is for me the ultimate form of empathy. A communication without any words, only memories and feelings. Reliving Mira’s death over and over again is seen as a torture for Rian by some viewers, but I saw it as a chance to heal. For the first time after dreamfasting with Gurjin, a weight is lifted from his heart and shared. He has his father with him, and new allies, he is able to cry and they are all crying with him. Rian is still very young. He is deep down a frightened Gelfling in a twisted world, running for his life. He lost practically everything and is searching for new foundations. He needs help, he needs others and he knows it. He found what he wanted in Brea and Deet. He rely on them but is overprotective and extremely worried if something happens to them, because the weight of his losses is still there. He acts this way mainly with Deet. I know that it’s pretty controversial, but I love their relationship. Deet is not Mira, and they are not officially a couple yet ! For me when they are together, they’re in a bubble of solace. They can be themselves, Deet can put down her happy face and show her sorrow and homesickness, and Rian can put down his brave face and show his doubts and vulnerability. One lifts the other up, and they give each other that precious hope powering the resistance. Now that he lost her too, all that weight is falling on him again. Will he go after her and not run away again ? Or would it be the time to properly mourn his losses ?

Rian is the fire of resistance, the « Deatea » in the song of Thra (I don’t know if that’s correct ! I haven’t read the books) But a fire can’t be ignited alone and needs to be constantly fueled. He is not the quirkiest character, even if his sarcasm in the opera scene makes me chuckle. He is a tragic character, he is my favorite character, and whatever form season 2 will take, I look forward to know how he will go on and if the slow fall of his entire species will be another weight for him to carry. 

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