#tdp headcanons

[jupiter-dragonsong]

Thinking obsessively about what it’s gonna be like if/when Harrow gets back.

Imagine you’ve been trapped in the form of your dead pet for almost ten years. You come back home— except your house is burned down, hundreds of years of your family’s history are ashes now and you weren’t there. Everything that belonged to your wife is gone.

You come back (to the place built over your) home and to your son, who was ten years old when you last saw him and is now an adult leading a government. He’s so serious now. You remember him stealing sweets from the kitchen and now he’s lead battles. You’ve missed all of his teenage years.

Also, he’s best friends- blood brothers, really- with a dragon. A dragon who’s the spitting image of your wife’s murderer, whose father was the closest thing you had to a mortal enemy. And here they are, chatting and eating jelly tarts and ruling alongside each other and acting for all the world like siblings. Nobody sees anything strange about this.

Last time you saw your stepson he was an awkward teenager with low self-esteem and a schoolboy crush on his friend. Now he has been through hell and back, achieved feats never thought possible to humans, and committed unspeakable acts for those he loves. He’s also married to one of the assassins sent to kill you. Your entire life you’ve been taught that elves were monsters and now you have one as a daughter-in-law. But she’s also a really nice girl? You’re actually really glad he found someone like her. You weren’t there to give him advice. You weren’t there to see them married. (It would be interesting if Harrow finds out he’s going to be a grandparent… @tategaminu) You also have to see the leader of elven assassins at family functions now. Which is awkward but he seems to really care about your sons now?

Your sister-in-law is also married to an elf. A elf queen, actually. One she’d been fighting against for years before… everything. She really, really hated elves back in the day. Now she’s married to one. Whiplash.

Your best friend is dead. He went directly against your orders and that is why you are here. He tried to have your sons killed. He took over your kingdom. He awoke ancient evils. The man you knew was gone long before he died but you can’t stop yourself from mourning. His sweet, quirky daughter has gone down paths darker than you thought were possible. His son, among the most loyal of your guards, has grown out of being a bully and is now a devoted friend to your children.

Everything has changed. The world you knew, the family you knew, is completely unrecognizable. And yet… the cycle of hate is broken, just like you always wished it would be. Even if it’s going to be hard for you, this is what you wanted for your kids. A world with open borders, ruled by a narrative of love.

Also the world is ending really soon! You are finally there for your family again and they are living with the threat of death looming over their heads. You have returned to your kingdom and it may soon be destroyed. This is not what you wanted for them.

Someone write something please.

[lunastrider20]

Headcanon time!

In a modern au where Rayla and Callum meet as young kids,the thing I love to imagine most is the dynamic between their parents. I mean — guys I'm cracking up just picturing this:

Runaan and Sarai both disapproving of their kid's new friend initially because "Callum,that girl doesn't play nice,you need to be careful" and "Rayla,that boy can't fight and looks too innocent to be trusted,he might be trouble"—

And when they meet its all :

Runaan,watching baby Callum chew on his pencil while scribbling on a wall using a permanent marker,face covered in charcoal smudges and hair looking like its been dipped in a paint can: Your son is certainly rather... gifted.

Sarai,watching baby Rayla scream "gonna get you!" and laugh maniacally as she chases some poor bird across the lawn Naruto style holding a baseball bat: You sure your daughter doesn't need a toddler leash? She is six after all.

Meanwhile there's Ethari and Harrow in the background bonding over embarrassing pictures of their kids on their phones, their respective spouse's disastrous cooking attempts,woodshop. Dad jokes flying in all directions. Numbers exchanged,dinner invites given,plans for play dates for their kids already in session— do you see my vision —

[gabbysgoobers]

Rayla’s Concerns, part 1! Part 2

Ik tdp fans are frothing at the mouth abt the possibility of Rayla and Callum having kids in the future but I wondered what she’d actually feel when that time came, so this is that

[catcherwrites]

For the record, you can pry my “Sarai used to be in the Crownguard before she married Harrow” headcanon from my cold, dead hands

Amaya trained the Standing Battalion and Sarai trained the Crownguard, and their ability to work together is why Katolis had the strongest fighting force in the Pentarchy

You can also pry “Sarai and Soren were insanely close before her death” from my cold, dead hands. Maybe not even then, because I’m gripping this idea tightly, even in death

Sarai helped Soren and his family manage his illness because of her experience with Damian. And Soren was just so excited that the Head Crownguard was hanging out with him! Even when he was at his worst, he’d always perk up if he could see Sarai train the soldiers from his bedroom window, or regale him with stories of legendary battles at his bedside

After Soren got better and Sarai left the Crownguard to become Princess of Katolis, she offered to show him the basics of swordplay and strategy to help Soren with all of his pent-up energy. Even though he wouldn’t be interested in poetry until years later, Soren was introduced to the concept through Sarai, who’d recite some of Damian’s old work for him during their time together. Sarai had essentially become one of Soren’s constants after his family fell apart with Lissa leaving, Viren growing cold, and Claudia throwing herself into magic

At least until she died, heroically saving his dad

[xadianravenclaw]

i would like to think that after the battle against Aaravos, Rayla dyed a strand of her hair brown to match with Callum

[analligatorr]

Sorvus is one of the ships with the most blatant "one fell first and the other fell harder" trope, and I think that's beautiful.

Soren having a crush on Corvus to the point of scarring his own eyebrow is hilarious, but not as much as letting Corvus escape kidnapping twice and almost a third time (it would have happened if Claudia hadn't intervened). Soren clearly thinks Corvus is the coolest and most handsome guy he knows (after himself). It might just be admiration, of course, to the less attentive eye..

BUT in the short story "Changing of the Guard" it's quite evident. The story is written in a way that almost seems like a confession, I mean, Soren seems too nervous to ask Corvus to join the Crown Guard, he tries to give a rehearsed speech to convince him, it's adorable. He says all that, explaining that it means a lot to Ezran, uhum.. to Ezran.

Now Corvus..

I'm absolutely certain Corvus knows about Soren's crush on him, he always notices everything, I like to believe he finds it cute. He doesn't do or say anything about it because: 1 - Corvus thinks Soren will get over this crush quickly. 2 - He doesn't want to hurt Soren.

Yes, it took Corvus two years to fall in love, slowburn indeed. Soren definitively won him over when he allowed himself to appear vulnerable to him. Corvus emanates a very demiromantic energy, where requires 100% mutual trust for a loving bond to form, so it's quite difficult for him to truly fall in love. And wow, when he realizes he's in love with Soren, he becomes more open, more smiling, more comfortable with displays of affection. And well, that fuels Soren to fall even more in love with him, if that's even possible.

[illustriously-annie]

Headcanon that whenever a child dies (ESPECIALLY unjustly), elf or human, Leola's spirit comforts them and/or plays them until they're ready to pass on to the other side. She is why most children don't feel like they have unfinished business, therefore freeing them from the In-Between.

(I am very gently implying that if Ezran died, he'd meet Leola. Follow-up here)

[m4rs-ex3]

hc that rayla gets super intense about anyone sarai ever brings home. not for the typical overprotective parent dad-sitting-outside-the-door-with-a-shotgun reasons but because she knows sarai is way too much like her father to just let her form bonds willy nilly. from her first kindergarten playdate to her teen love rayla's just like "give her the chance and you know she would do anything for you, right? fuck around with that and find out."