#primal eldar

[lovesick-on-the-loose]

Guess who I made on Tomodachi Life 👀

[mira-prays-to-the-moon]

@lovesick-on-the-loose i always imagined that the slave raid eldar and his father returned from was eldar's first, a sort of (morally reprehensible, of course) coming-of-age ritual. i can't imagine what it'd be like for your first adult "mission," maybe your first extended time away from home, to end with your whole village and the rest of your family slaughtered 😔

[unfortunatelyuncreative]

Saw someone in a youtube comment section asking why the reincarnated(?) viking chief was taking so long to catch up to spear & co and it just put the funniest image in my mind of what he must be going through

Like, by virtue of being a vengeful spirit or whatever he can FEEL wherever Spear & Fang go, but every time he starts to catch up to them, their damn boat changes direction

Hes just . . . still there, methodically slogging along across the ocean floor for months

[mira-prays-to-the-moon]

how old do you guys think the human characters (spear, mira, queen ima, eldar, amara, etc.) are?

[lovesick-on-the-loose]

what would your ideal eldar (from primal) fic be about?

Hiya! Thank you so much for the question! I've actually been thinking about it for quite some time now, and if I were to read a fanfic (or even write one myself) starring Eldar, it would definitely mess with canon a bit 😅

I'm big on the idea that he could return as an antagonist in the future after his father killed Spear. I think I talked about this before, but I theorise that Eldar's father was given a chance not only to avenge him, but to grant him a second chance at life if he succeeded in his quest to kill Spear (which he technically did? Sort of-) Anyways! My ideal fanfic would involve the mysterious norse deity/ruler of the underworld returning Eldar to the world of the living so that he may earn his place in the Valhalla after living a long, fulfilling life. Eldar is still hunted by the memory of his clan being slaughtered, however, and thus seeks revenge. He would either join a clan or start his own as the new chieftain and then go looking for Spear, Mira, and Fang around the time Spear and Mira's daughter is older. He embarks on this quest to avenge his family as well as his former clan, arriving in Mira's village with the intent to strike (I assume he'd remember where it is located since that's where his father got the slaves from)

I'm not quite sure if he'd want to take it out on everyone or if he'd target the trio specifically, maybe he'd even try targeting Spear and Mira's daughter to get back at them, but at the end of the day I would want a happy ending. One where either Spear or Mira choose to spare him or even save him. Something that would make Eldar realize they're not some blood thirsty killers but humans who, in order to survive, had to resort to carnage. At the end of the day his clan was the one kidnapping and enslaving all those people, so they couldn't really be blamed for fighting for their freedom. Eldar is conflicted at first, though. He would not be okay with everything and forget all about it straight away. Maybe in order to at least begin to trust them Mira would offer to take care of his injuries and he'd slowly but surely come around, albeit being all pouty about being looked after

Summing up, I would love the "finding a common ground and forgiving each other" approach! That's the essence of Primal, after all. Everyone is just trying to survive in their own way, and that sometimes involves taking drastic and even cruel measures... Overall I would looove some character development for Eldar. He has so much potential!

[mira-prays-to-the-moon]

@lovesick-on-the-loose i subconsciously associate primal with the land before time because uhh dinosaurs. i always imagined this to be eldar's theme

[mira-prays-to-the-moon]

@lovesick-on-the-loose sort of a random/weird question but do you think eldar and mira had any interaction prior to “vidarr,” like when mira was re-enslaved after her introductory episode? we don’t exactly know how much time passed between mira’s recapture and spear and fang’s rescue, so it’s possible that eldar was around the viking settlement for a bit before sailing off on that fateful slave raid with his father. i think it’s interesting to think that mira and eldar might have interacted in some capacity beforehand, especially since they could arguably be considered foils to each other—both firstborn children of their village chiefs, skilled with a bow and arrow, devoted to justice (mira wanting spear to rescue the other slaves in “son of man,” eldar being so dedicated to avenging his family’s deaths that he jumps onto a wild prehistoric bird, to his battle-weary and experienced father’s shock). 🤔