#king harrow

[typebeanie]

The writers really ate when they made both Callum and Harrow insecure about their relationship. Prince “I’m just his stepson” Callum and King “I know I’m not your birth father” Harrow your tragic relationship will always be famous to me. 

[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

[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

[r4yllumism]

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

[artaline]

remember when we were such fools

[fanbeanie]

[hadesisqueer]

I really liked how nuanced The Dragon Prince was as a show.

It starts with the Moonshadow assassins ready to kill King Harrow; you think that's sorta justified in your mind because Harrow killed Avizandum, the King of Dragons, so he kinda started it. Then you find out that Avizandum killed Queen Sarai, Harrow's wife, and Aanya's moms, so of course Harrow was furious at Avizandum and wanted revenge as well, it makes sense. Avizandum did it defending the borders and after they killed that titan, but you also know that they only crossed the border and killed the titan because it was either that or letting 100k people starve to death.

And it goes way back before that. They tell you that they kicked humans away of Xadia because of the use of Dark Magic (Dark Magic is horrifying). Then again, you see how some creatures like Sol Regem, the King of Dragons thought of humans: as lesser beings. Can you truly blame the humans for wishing to even the gap between them and the elves or dragons who saw them, again, as lesser beings? I can't, really. Do I think that Dark Magic is still horrifying, that it corrupts the mage and shouldn't be used? Yeah. Do I think that a few humans using Dark Magic justified Sol Regem wanting to basically commit genocide against the humans? Definitely not.

It's a cycle, a cycle of violence and hate where no one is fully right or wrong. That cycle didn't start with Harrow killing Avizandum, or with Avizandum killing Sarai. It didn't start with the humans being driven away from Xadia, or even with the humans starting to use Dark Magic. It didn't even start when Aaravos gave them Dark Magic either. No, he's to blame for many things and he continued the cycle, but he's not the one that started it, either. That cycle truly started when Sol Regem and the Startouch Elves decided to punish Leola simply because she gave Primal Magic to some of her human friends. They decided to kill a little girl because they said she broke their 'cosmic order'. That's when the cycle started, that's when the beginning of the end started, but not because she gave humans magic like they said. It was because they angered an inmensely powerful and vengeful father by cruelly killing his daughter in front of him. They started it, Aaravos continued it, and it's been like that eversince.

[mhacentral]

I see myself in you. I'm proud of you. And I love you unconditionally