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self-spaghettification · 9 months

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tdp overarching themes (redemption etc)

What will happen when Ezran/Harrow’s narrative of love and Aaravos/Viren’s narrative strength meet, who wins?

Will it be possible for Ezran to win the dark mages over to let go of pain and end the cycle of violence? Or is death the only way to protect the world and his loved ones? Will Ezran have to learn to become stronger himself?

is it even possible to kill a startouch elf? oor to convince him to maybe not, like, conquer xadia?

i don’t have these answers but i diiiid compile a bunch of relevant shit

I kind of went through Harrow’s letter to Callum and added related quotes or moments that seemed relevant to the overarching themes discussed and how they stand on opposing sides

orange is harrow’s letter, read in 1x06

red is ezran’s speech, given in 4x03

these are the main voices but there’s also

pink is ibis in 4x03

black is zubeia in 4x04

purple is various aaravos quotes

pink is various viren quotes

both from 2x09, 3x05, 3x07, and 4x04

green is soren, janai, amaya and rayla briefly (4x03 & 4x08 & tdp trailer respectively)

“Soon you will both face a lie. The great lie of history.

“His name was Aaravos, and yes, he was a star. One of the great ones, respected and loved by all. Until we uncovered a long hidden treachery.”

Advisors and scholars will tell you that history is a narrative of strength.

“Search your heart. There’s something that you want very badly. But something or someone stands in your way.”

They will recount stories of the rise and fall of nations and empires. They will be stories of armies, battles and decisive victories.

“And this bright future will require us to conquer Xadia?”

But this isn't true strength. It's merely power.

“I can destroy them all! I have all the power I need!”

“If you want to say something to the Dragon Queen, you should say it to her face. her real face, that can bite you in two!”

“It hurts! I feel pain about this and I am angry!”

I now believe true strength is found in vulnerability...in forgiveness, in love.

“We all want peace and we all want love. But violence tests us!

In a twisted way it converts us to their cause.”

“You tried to win them over with loyalty and friendship but they ignored you. those who fail tests of love are simple creatures who deserve to be motivated by fear.”

“Because pain and loss feel so terrible inside. You want to hate. You want to hurt someone else. so what do we do?”

So, what is the plan? To fulfill your wishes, of course. Is your wish to rule Xadia? I wish for humanity to flourish. And it cannot flourish with a knife forever at its throat.

There is a beautiful upside down truth, which is that….

These moments of purest strength appear as weakness to those who don't know better.

“These are the champions you’ve gathered to try to stop me? They’re nothing but pathetic children!”

“How can we stop this cycle?”

Violence.

Loss.

Pain.

For a long time, I didn't know better.

“In the name of love, you may perform acts so unforgivable that you may never forgive yourself.”

Violence,

“You must take down the Dragon Queen and capture the baby dragon. Then you will have the attention of all the world, and the power to do what you want.”

“Bring terror to Del Bar, to Neolandia, to Evenere, and to Duren!”

Loss,

As I write this, the sun is setting while Moonshadow assassins prepare to end my life. A few months ago, I took my revenge on Xadia. Tonight, it is their turn.

“I am going to destroy it, before it can be used to do any more harm!”

Pain,

“Every great crisis the world faced seemed the work of some ingenious and powerful leader, but in each case, it was secretly Aaravos, whispering in their ear.”

“Aaravos. A startouch elf responsible for more pain, death, and suffering than anyone else in history.”

“I am not a killer.

But if you seek to return that staff to its true owner, you pose a greater danger to this world than I can allow.”

You must die.”

stop! i just want to yell stop. but that’s not enough. it won’t work.”

“I do not mean to be cruel. But we must be ready to sacrifice. Even the things we love.”

“Well played. She will be a valuable asset.”“She is not an asset. She is my daughter.”

I ask you and your brother to reject history as a narrative of strength and instead have faith that it can be a narrative of love.

“I think about a positive vision. a faith we can all share, that we might build a future together in hope. a future where we can be safe with each other. but… it’s not that easy. or simple.”

“Everything I do, and everything I ask of you, is for the future of humanity.”

“The whining child king, in over his head and he knows it.”

because people are still hurting and they are still angry. we can’t ignore that, or pretend it will go away.

“Oh, my time is inevitable.”

somehow, we have to hold it all in our hearts at the same time. we have to acknowledge the weight of the pain and loss, but open our eyes and allow ourselves to hope and maybe forgive and love again.

“You cannot have your cake and eat it too.”

We have to give today’s children a chance to inherit a future filled with peace.

“I've tried to be selfless as a king, but as a father, I have a selfish wish. And that is for you and Ezran to be...free. Reject the chains of history. Do not let the past define your future, as I did. Free yourself from the past. Learn from it, understand it, then let it go. Create a brighter future from your own hearts and imagination.”

Destiny is a book you write yourself.

To give them that, we have to hold pain and love in our hearts at the same time.

“There is an aching pain mixed with love that you feel in these moments.”

“Just have two cakes.”

“This is called A Song of Love and Loss.”

I'm proud of you. And I love you unconditionally.

“If the fallen star is a danger the whole world will face, this is a chance to solve our problems together.”

“How do you kill a startouch elf?”

idk man. what if aaravos doesn’t have to die? what if it’s not too late for him to be redeemed? this is kind of a guilty pleasure hope of mine but still. the dragon prince is a story of letting go of generational trauma and past pain, of letting go of pain and differences, most importantly, of letting go of a narrative of strength, of a strong katolis, a strong lux aurea, a strong empire over xadia, and believing in a story of love and hope. if there’s anything that could drastically change things its the guy with a lot of power and a lot of ambition and pain ready to cause a whole cycle of pain all over again. if there’s anything that would drastically change things it would be changing his heart. and if theres anyone who can change it, it’s the kid who feels the most for him.

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lunanightriderofthecove · 4 months

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In theory, wouldn't it be possible to cross into Xadia by running as fast as you can? The stones sink just slow enough to make contact for a second or two, that's all you really need 🤔

#tdp #the dragon prince #tdp s2 #book 2 sky #tdp 2x09 #breathe #lunas tdp rewatch commentary

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raayllum · 15 days

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I love you 6x05 and 6x06 I love you so much (meta here)

#s6 spoilers #tdp #rayllum #tdp spoilers #the dragon prince #light and darkness motif #FOR ME??#cube hostage exchange theory #WE'RE GETTING A VARIANT!!#mutual salvation theory #she's either threatened or making risky decisions so he lays himself down in her stead with her parents #but like. those are the two options tbh #would also be so funny if 'moment of truth' refers to callum's journey with magic again (like in 2x09)#am i becoming a #moon arcanum callum truther #again? PERHAPS #whether it'll be for the cube specifically. who Knows #but listen i'm getting my plot structure / relationship & characterization beats the specifics can be Whatever (love u 5x08)#it's my favourite meme i've ever made ok

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tdpgifs · 8 months

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callum drawing runes through arc 1

#tdp #the dragon prince #tdp gif #tdp callum #callum #callum gif #1x03 #1x05 #2x09 #3x07 #3x08 #arc 1 #gifset

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imminent-danger-came · 1 year

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Hey guys they let me into the s5 writers room

#I PLAY WITH MY FAVORITE SHOWS LIKE DOLLS #it. okay so the audio/dialogue isn't like 100% perfect but that's not the POINT #THE POINT IS I HAD FUN #AND ALSO. FATE VS FREEWILL #anyways #worked on this for like #a week straight #Honestly I've been chipping away at 3 animatics at the same time #this is the shortest of them since the other two are to like. songs #oh wait should I explain the ''plot'' of this?#ummmm think 2x08 and 2x09 #think of this as like. Callum's inner ''mindscape'' so to speak #me @ the end: NEWS FLASH. IT WAS RAYLLUM THE WHOLE TIME #felt wrong to not include rayla in some way #she's like how callum is gonna break free from mind control in the show #God this is the MOST self indulgent thing I've made in a while #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp callum #tdp rayla #tdp ezran #tdp art #tdp fanart #tdp animatic #the dragon prince art #art #my art #tw flashing #cw flashing #teehee I sit in my silly little corner and point out MK and Callum parallels.

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atesan · 5 years

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The Moonstone Path! Oh, I get it.

#tdpedit #dragonprinceedit #the dragon prince #tdp #mine #2x09

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theredhairedmonkey · 4 years

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The thing I most hate about TDP is how it starts off portraying Dark Magic as this morally ambiguous form of magic and sparking debate about whether it should be used. And then by s3 ends up saying "nope, Dark Magic is just evil magic."

Anon, the premise of your question is entirely in reverse; if anything, Dark Magic is portrayed as unambiguously evil early in s1 and then layers of nuance and moral ambiguity get thrown into the mix.

Here is our very first impression of Dark Magic:

Aaravos: It used the essence within magical creatures themselves to unleash dark power. Horrified by what they saw, the elves and the dragons put a stop to the madness.

So, not exactly a flattering depiction. Heck, Dark Magic is so unpopular that even other humans seem to hate it!

Harrow: I already told you the problem. It’s Dark Magic.

Viren: Yes, it is. It’s clever. It’s brilliant. It’s practical. It will save your life and many, many others.

Harrow: It’s a shortcut. We may not pay now, but we will pay the blood price eventually.

Add to that is the fact that we don’t yet know why humans turned to Dark Magic to begin with. When Rayla describes to Callum how mages use Primal Magic, she never once suggests there’s anything that prevents him, a human, from using magic the way elves do.

Rayla: To cast a spell, a mage needs Primal Energy. So that wind breath spell you did? You’d usually need a storm or at least a strong breeze. But with that stone, you have all the power of the Sky, any time.

The implication is that, while Callum might need the Primal Stone to cast spells on the regular, he can actually use Sky Magic whenever there is sufficient Primal Energy. So why on Earth did humans begin using Dark Magic?

We don’t get an answer in s1. All we’re left is a presumption that, everything was all fine and dandy until humans went and upset the status quo by inventing a malicious form of magic that relies on sacrificing creatures. For no reason, apparently.

Then, in s2, we do get a reason.

So, it turns out that, without an uber-rare Primal Stone, neither Callum nor any human can use magic at all. Dark Magic, so it would seem, is the only recourse that humans have for the kind of power that every other creature is naturally born with.

On top of that, whereas before Dark Magic was used for arguably neutral or downright malevolent purposes, in s2 we see it used for genuinely good ends.

Viren uses it to end a terrible famine.

Callum uses it to save Pyrrah and Rayla.

Claudia uses it to cure Soren’s paralysis.

Sure, it’s still morally questionable how these mages obtained the power they used, but we now see Dark Magic’s potential for noble purposes.

The prologue for s3 then recontextualizes our first impression for Dark Magic. Rather than being a power-hungry mage who seized the life force from magical creatures for himself, Ziard turns out to have been trying to pull a last-ditch gambit to save the people of Elarion. But not before making a forceful case for why mages should continue using Dark Magic.

Sol Regem: You and all your followers must give up Dark Magic, immediately and forever. It is humanity’s only path forward.

Ziard: It’s a path backward. You just expect humans to go back to the way things were before we had magic? When humans starved and struggled, helpless and pathetic? Back to a time when we were lesser beings?

In addition, the brazen hypocrisy of Sol Regem is on full display in this scene. The sun king is outraged by the practice of using innocent creatures for magic, yet doesn’t think twice about wiping out a city of hundreds of thousands.

While it’s true that, we see Dark Magic used to do terrible things, by s3 we have also seen Primal Magic used for equally nefarious purposes.

Starting with 2x09, we see Viren lay waste to the guards sent to arrest him, show that Primal Magic can be just as destructive as Dark Magic.

And in s3, we see Primal Magic used to cause pain and suffering at least as often as Dark Magic.

There’s certainly still a bad side to Dark Magic, mainly in how it must be acquired (usually through some form of destruction and consumption, as well as a cost to the user as well). But just as important is the way that magic is used; we see the good things that Dark Magic has done, as well as the bad things that Primal Magic has done.

That gives Dark Magic significantly more nuance and moral ambiguity than it had in s1.

#dark magic #harrow #viren #rayla #callum #rayllum #lujanne #aaravos #claudia #soren #ziard #sol regem #primal magic #s1 #s2 #s3 #tdp #the dragon prince

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mimosaeyes · 4 years

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TDP timeline

aka I skimmed the (first) three TDP seasons, counting the days, so you don’t have to. Not that you would.

Here’s the TLDR:

Season 1 takes place over 5 days

2 days pass offscreen, between 1x09 and 2x01

Season 2 takes place over 8 days

3x01 picks up right after 2x09

Season 3 takes place over 7 days

So from 1x01 to 3x09, it’s been just 22 days

‘But the moon looks full in 1x01 and in 3x09!’ I hear you protest. ‘Shouldn’t it be a full month?’

Explanation, details, evidence, ambiguities, and milestone events under the cut. My count is based on the colour of the sky, specific time references (thanks Callum), and phases of the moon.

Harrow was King of Katolis for 9 years. Viren gives us the exact time reference in 2x05.

That checks out, because look how small Ezran and Callum are when posing for the official portrait, a few days after Harrow’s coronation.

It’s unclear exactly how long Harrow serves as King before Sarai is killed by Thunder. We know it’s not very long, though, because kid Callum’s character model is the same. (I focus on that, because young adults Harrow and Amaya will look the same for longer than a child who’s still growing.)

Yes, this could be a budget thing. But I still wouldn’t put the period between Harrow’s coronation and Sarai’s death beyond, off the top of my head, two years. It may be even shorter than that.

Harrow doesn’t take revenge for Sarai’s death until years pass. He and Viren kill Thunder just four months before 1x01.

And now, to count the days.

Day 1 spans 1x01, 1x02, and 1x03. From dawn to night. Note the full moon on Day 1, in 1x03. It’ll become important later when I scrutinise lunar phases.

1x04 is Day 2. And 1x05 is Day 3.

Now, 1x05 ends in the evening of Day 3, and when 1x06 opens, it’s morning. Since there’s no time skip in the rest of season 1, it’s probably just one night’s difference.

That’s a bit weird, though, since Rayla’s wrist ribbon tightens a lot in that time.

I’ll come back to this question of whether 1x06 starts the day after 1x05, in a moment.

1x06 spans Day 4.

Day 4, at nighttime, carries on in 1x07, then Day 5 starts.

1x08 continues Day 5, into the night. That same night continues into 1x09.

So: season 1 takes place over just 5 days, assuming the time between 1x05 and 1x06 is just one night.

Where do we get confirmation that this is the case? In 2x01, Callum says that they’ve spent 2 days with Lujanne, and that it’s been a week (7 days) since they left home.

We also know it’s been a week because it’s a full moon in 1x03, and a half moon in 2x02.

2x01 spans Day 8.

The night of Day 8 goes on into 2x02, and then Day 9 begins in that episode.

2x03 is the night of Day 9, into Day 10.

2x04 spans Day 11, and begins Day 12.

Day 12 continues into 2x05. A lot of 2x05 and 2x06 is flashbacks, so Day 12 actually lasts through both episodes.

Then we have our first significant time skip within a season! 2x06 ends with a dragon sighting while it’s still light out on Day 12. Then 2x07 opens at night in a cave, and Callum says:

So we know that the rest of Day 12, and all the sunlit hours of Day 13, pass offscreen between 2x06 and 2x07.

2x07 therefore opens on the night of Day 13. Then it goes on to Day 14.

The nighttime of Day 14, continues in 2x08. Day 15 begins in that episode.

Day 15 continues into 2x09. And finally, the sun rises on Day 16 while Callum, Rayla, and Zym are crossing into Xadia.

(I’ve made sure not to double-count Day 16. I count it as part of the season 3 time span, since most of it is in 3x01, not 2x09.)

3x01 picks up right where 2x09 left off. We know this because they still have to get past Sol Regem. So 3x01 takes place on Day 16.

Day 17 begins in 3x02, and continues into 3x03 for evening and nighttime.

3x04 opens on Day 18. This is explicitly timestamped, as Callum refers to the events of 3x03 as happening yesterday.

Day 18 spans the whole of 3x04, and then some of 3x05. Then Day 19 starts during 3x05, and goes into nighttime within that same episode. Thus we end 3x05 on a moon shot:

That’s a waxing crescent moon in 3x05, on Day 19, which checks out. I’m pretty sure. I stared at charts for a while.

3x06 opens on the morning of Day 20. And Day 20 continues into 3x07, going into the night.

3x08 continues the night of Day 20, and goes on to Day 21.

3x09 spans the entirety of Day 22, into night.

Now for the thing I anticipated above the cut: doesn’t season 3 end on a full moon, like how season 1 begins on a full moon?

Well, no.

Here is the moon on Day 20:

...on Day 21:

...and on Day 22:

They look deceptively full, don’t they? But they aren’t. They’re waxing gibbous moons. That basically means they’re getting fuller, but aren’t quite there yet.

Gibbous moons can look full. My source is Neil deGrasse Tyson himself:

That’s page 28 of his book, Merlin’s Tour of the Universe: A Skywatcher’s Guide to Everything from Mars and Quasars to Comets, Planets, Blue Moons, and Werewolves.

So, final bit of evidence to the contrary refuted, and now I can rest easy knowing I have no life.

#the dragon prince

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notanathleteslungs · 4 years

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The Dragon Prince and Siblings

As a little sister, I’m really happy, but probably have no special reason to be, with how many siblings are featured in the show. They’re showing all aspects of siblings, not just Tumblr’s favorite--you know, the ‘I can beat on my sibling but if you do you go through the seven levels of hell’ relationships. This got pretty long, so if you’re interested in how I see sibling dynamics in TDP, click the Read More.

TLDR; the sibling dynamics in The Dragon Prince are amazing and I’m living for them.

Thick-As-Thieves Siblings

I’ll organize this a bit more from the original rant. The first pair we’ll go over is Amaya and Sarai. Yes, we only saw one episode of interaction, but that one episode was enough for me to see parallels between Amaya and Sarai and me and my older sister.

Amaya and Sarai probably had Tumblr’s favorite dynamic as kids. They seem close enough in age that they probably ran rampant around the house fighting. They were probably like Sour Patch Kids to each other--throwing fists and insults one minute and the next they’re hugging and playing together like nothing ever happened. This probably developed into an incredibly close relationship where they’re almost one person, able to read each other super well. There are probably little to no barriers between the sisters, if the signed conversation between them is anything to go by in 2x06 and 2x07 with the Magma Titan.

This is the kind of relationship I have with my sister now. We snipe and snap at each other, yes, but those snipes and snaps are outweighed by comfortable silences and cuddles on the couch. We talk and we laugh and we quote movies at each other. We talk about what books to read and what books to buy and what band we’re going to see live. We are super close despite, or maybe because of, our fights when we were younger.

Holier-Than-Thou Older Sibling

Next we’ll tackle Janai and her sister, Queen Khessa. Khessa seems to me to have a holier-than-thou attitude toward her little sister. She seems to think that, because she is queen and Janai is a soldier, Khessa is better than Janai, like she’s on a higher level. I get the feeling that Janai might be sick of this attitude, but she still loves her sister anyway. The knee-jerk reaction to go fight Aaravos when he kills Khessa speaks to this undying love, along with her agonized wails when Amaya stops her.

This is another dynamic I’m familiar with. When we were little, my sister went through this phase where she didn’t really want anything to do with me. Younger than that, she would tell me to walk single file on the walk to school and insist that she walk in front of me. My sister is four years older than me. She knows a little of what it’s like to be an only child, but also can barely remember that. There’s a bit of that only child feeling lingering in the back of her mind, but she is a sister, so that only child feeling translated to a holier-than-thou attitude when we were young. But we still love each other so much we’d want to do something if the other got hurt or bullied or something.

I remember one day I came home from school and I just started bawling. My sister grabbed my favorite stuffed animal and put on my favorite movie at the time, Zeus and Roxanne. She did everything she could to get me to stop crying. I remember another time where I just got my license. I was a senior in high school and for some reason the car had to go to the shop. We just got it back and I went to park the car so I could run in the pharmacy. I ended up ramming the passenger headlight into a phone pole. I called my mom, frantic, and said I just wrecked the car. She comes and gets me, calls the car to be towed, and takes me home where my sister’s waiting. I’m just on the edge of tears and my sister says, “I think I have something to cheer you up. I never thought you’d one-up me,” talking about how she put the same car in the ditch on my grandparents’ road (and spawning a perpetual paranoia of driving with her on that road but that’s not the point). I broke down and she didn’t let me go until my breathing steadied. One last example is when my mom and sis were dropping me off for my first move-in weekend of college. I’d never been so far away from home before for any extended length of time on my own without anyone I knew. We walked up the hill (not so fondly nicknamed Cardiac) to the parking lot and I started crying on Mom and sister’s shoulders. This time, they let me cry, but stayed there the whole time until they had to leave.

My sister may act better than me sometimes, but I know she loves me and I love her just as much. If something happened to either of us, we’d act just like Janai.

We’re Not Close But I Still Love You So Much And Don’t Want To Hurt You

Soren and Claudia’s relationship is one I’m not as familiar with, but I still appreciate TDP showing because it’s a very real relationship that I can see in my roommate and her brother.

Soren and Claudia are not as close as Sarai and Amaya, or even Khessa and Janai. They aren’t very alike in attitudes, senses of humor, or even interests. Soren is a fighter, willing to protect what he loves with his fists. That’s why he’s a soldier. He also makes bad jokes that people get but no one appreciates. He has an idea of right and wrong. Claudia is not as strong. You can tell she’s not a physical fighter. She’s more intellectual, choosing to read books instead of play fighting dragons. Dark magic is perfectly suited to this. She is quirkier, not getting her brother’s jokes really at all and makes jokes that no one seems to understand. Because of the dark magic, her idea of right and wrong are a little fuzzier. You can tell that Viren has also played a part in Soren and Claudia’s relationship as he seems to favor Claudia over Soren. He has more patience for Claudia, who practices dark magic like him, and less for Soren, who is more focused on physical appearance (mentioning he likes the workout from jogging up to high meeting places) and serving the king (asking what to do if he finds the princes alive).

It’s easy to see that these siblings aren’t as close in season 1; but season 2 does a lot to expand on their relationship, showing that although they may not be close, they do love each other a lot. Claudia mentions in 2x08 or 2x09 that their mother gave her the choice of staying with Soren and Viren or leaving with her to go back to Del Bar. She then takes back that choice at the obvious grief it’s putting Claudia through. She takes back that choice because Claudia can’t bear to choose in her family. In season 3, we see the clear differences between Soren and Claudia’s thinking. Soren is a soldier, honor and duty bound to serve the king. He also has a conscience and knows that what Viren is doing is wrong. So he leaves. Claudia sees him leave and wonders why. She doesn’t see what Viren is doing as explicitly wrong; she’s a dark mage, she knows that dark magic can do things that would horrify others. She still loves her father and is probably a little blinded to his darker side by that love. So when Soren sees what his offer of leaving is doing to Claudia, he takes it back just like their mother. They may not be as close as even Khessa and Janai, but he still doesn’t want to hurt his sister, and making her choose between him or Viren would hurt her. This is a dynamic that is all too real along with hating your siblings or just feeling ambivalent toward them, and it’s one that I can appreciate TDP showing.

Pride and Protection

Callum has a fierce protective streak when it comes to his brother and he’s also super proud of him, probably for his maturity and also his abilities.

I actually had to look up the ages between Callum and Ezran because Callum acts like he’s so much older than Ezran. Callum is only fourteen (and three quarters) and he is protective of his brother like Ezran is younger than ten years old. This fierce protectiveness is something I’d expect from someone at least seven years older than their sibling. However, it might have something to do with the fact that Callum is common-born while Ezran is born a prince. Callum is more aware of his brother’s position than Ezran, so he knows that he needs to protect him. Exhibit A: he claims to be Ezran when Rayla comes to assassinate him. Callum knows that in the eyes of the kingdom, Ezran’s life is more valuable than his own, so when someone threaten’s Ezran’s life, it’s Callum’s job, as his older brother and as not-really-a-prince, to make sure Ezran grows up to be king. Exhibit B: at some point, Ezran and Callum are separated and when they’re reunited, Callum asks if he’s okay and does a check similar to a parent looking over their kid for open wounds and broken bones. This kind of care is something I’d expect from a large age gap, not less than five years. My own sister (four years older) didn’t really act like this with me. Now she might, but now when we were fifteen and eleven. When we were eleven and fifteen, my sister would push me to the inside of the sidewalk so she was closer to the road. She was self-sacrificing, yes, but not parental.

Callum is also extremely proud of his brother. I think, despite the circumstances, he’s proud that Ezran was able to make the choice to go back to Katolis and take the throne, giving up on the exciting adventure of journeying across the continent into a different country to take care of their people. This shows a maturity many ten year olds don’t have. The fact that Ezran, at ten years old, was able to make this decision has to be a point of pride for Callum. It may have been a joke, but in 3x08 when Ezran goes off with the dragon to find more reptilian backup, Callum says, “Look at my brother, all grown up and riding dragons.” It probably was a joke, but you know he’s immensely proud of his brother and what he can do. Ezran is willing to cross a tentative and tense peace and act together with magical creatures that could kill him in an instant to protect Xadia, Zym, and the dragon queen. Again, for a ten year old, that is bravery beyond imagination. Callum is almost bursting with pride for his brother. My sister has told me, only once but that was enough, how proud, but also jealous, she is that I’m going off and getting my degree. She didn’t bother getting a degree because she’s an animal groomer. My cousin got her degree, two technically, in business management and culinary; however she stayed at home and went to a local school. I’m a hundred and twenty-five miles away from home getting a degree in my passion. My sister is jealous that I was technically the first to leave home but also proud of me for having the courage and determination to do that. She has the same pride in me that Callum has in Ezran.

In Conclusion the sibling relationships in The Dragon Prince are something I have a huge admiration for in how they’re portrayed and how each one is a slightly different side of real siblings that I can relate to. I can’t wait to see how this plays out in the future.

#tdp #the dragon prince #sibling dynamics #I just noticed this today and can't quite get over it yet #I love it #it's perfect

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