There is a roadway, muddy and foxgloved
Never I'd had life enough
My heart is screaming out
And in a few days I would be there, love
Whatever here that's left of me is yours just as it was
Just as it was, baby
Before the otherness came
And I knew its name
The love, the dark, the light, the flame
The eyes at the heights of my baby
Let's hope at the fight of my baby
The lights were as bright as my baby
But your love was unmoved
And tell me if somehow some of it remained
How long you would wait for me?
How long I've been away?
The shape that I'm in now is shaping the doorway
Make your good love known to me
Just tell me about your day
Just as it was, baby
Before the otherness came
And I knew its name
The drugs, the dark, the light, the shame
Eyes at the hights of my baby
And this hope at the fight of my baby
And the lights were as bright as my baby
But your love was unmoved
And the sights were as stark as my baby
And the cold was as sharp as my baby
And the nights were as dark as my baby
Half as beautiful too
Scar and Janna! I thought that Hozier's bittersweet song was a good fit for them for reasons that will soon become blindingly obvious.
I headcanon that they had a teen fling when Janna’s mother died and she took over diplomatic duties for her father, who couldn’t do it all. When she came to the Pridelands for the summer, the young prince Askari was “attracted to her.” (Spoiler alert, he’s a narc and doesn’t feel attraction, he just sees opportunities to have someone either A) make him look good B) be his loyal drone or C) both). In this case, he sees that Janna would make him look good because his brother is too shy to have even begun to court Sarabi yet (even though Muffy is BETROTHED to this woman) and Janna is heir to the most powerful kingdom out there. Additionally, she is beautiful, poised, drily witty, and elegant beyond belief. After a few weeks of playful insults, Janna falls for him despite the fact that she has a betrothed waiting for her back home. It ends when she realizes how narcissistic he is as she’s about to go back home, and she makes the most difficult decision of her young life to let him go. Even though she still adores him, and would’ve moved heaven and earth to be with him (damn the betrothal and the consequences), she acknowledges that she can’t fight for someone who won’t support that fight–and Scar’s petulant narcissism makes it impossible to fight for him. Thus, she goes home with a broken heart and a new iron dedication to duty that will serve her well through the long hard years–through giving up her daughters from Scar to avoid a civil war, through the plagues and attacks that weakened the Night Pride until they were almost extinct, through the deaths of her daughter and son-in-law, and through the final years of ruling through illness to see her granddaughter finally able to take the throne. When Kion returns, Janna feels that Scar has in some way returned to her–and that it’s finally time to go. Despite the good times in her life, she spends some melancholy times wishing for what could’ve been–if only Scar had been wise enough to appreciate what he had when he had it.
