#tdp opeli

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

#the dragon prince #tdp callum #tdp rayla #tdp ezran #tdp claudia #tdp terry #clauderry #tdp janai #tdp amaya #tdp opeli #tdp viren #tdp finnegrin #tdp kim'dael #my edit

[starscay]

Viren's Twin Peaks Nightmare

#the best part is I dont even watch twin peaks I only recognized this thanks to my friends who do #also yes I left the [jazz music playing] on purpose I thought it added to it #tdp season 5 spoilers #tdp season 5 #dragon prince season five spoilers #the dragon prince #tdp #tdp season five #tdp s5 #sir sparklepuff #tdp opeli #cay gifs #flashing gif #cw flashing

[sunfire-shield]

Opeli: she was hiding a weapon

Callum: yeah you know that is literally not a noteworthy observation about Rayla

#the fact the line is literally #so what she always is! #oh Callum #I love them #the dragon prince #tdp spoilers #the dragon prince spoilers #tdp opeli #Callum #tdp callum #rayla #rayllum

[amys-books27]

Rayla teaching Ezran to do silly and not-so-king-likely stuff is an absolute yes for Soren and I, and a no for Opeli

#tdp ezran #tdp rayla #the dragon prince #tdp s5 #tdp soren #tdp opeli #ezran and rayla

[chocolatecake47]

The Dragang found family is like:

Soren carrying Ezran up to bed when he falls asleep somewhere else, Callum braiding Rayla’s hair when she’s had a bad day (even when she’s too shy to ask), Rayla tearing up when Ezran is finally taller than her and she has to look up to talk to him, Callum tucking Ezran into bed and waiting for him to fall asleep sometimes rubbing his back or arms if he’s stressed out, Soren and Rayla eventually tearfully opening up to each other about all the abusive behaviors and screwed up things that happened in their upbringing and bonding over mutual understanding, Callum and Rayla comforting each other when they wake up screaming and crying from nightmares, Callum constantly drawing Rayla and his breath catching in his throat in awe a little when he sees her in a dress for the first time, Rayla making little flower crowns for Ezran and him wearing them just because, Ezran stealing jelly tarts from the kitchen and Soren going along with him just for the fun of it, Rayla and Soren brutally roasting each other and flipping each other off while Opeli stares gasping in shock at this “improper behavior” but everyone else around is trying to hide their laughter, Rayla sleeping curled against Callum’s chest some nights, Callum and Rayla doing the stupidest harmless best friend shit for no reason and Opeli just rolling her eyes, Callum telling Ezran about the memories he has of their mother, having little picnics in the gardens outside the palace on some warm days, Callum wiping his thumbs lovingly over Rayla’s markings, Ezran crawling into their bed after he has a bad nightmare and promptly falling asleep cuddled in between them, Rayla and Soren sparring together routinely, Callum and Rayla running their fingers through each others hair and sometimes running their fingers through Ezran’s curls, Rayla and Ezran teasing Callum about something “inappropriate” and watch him get bright red and start sputtering which sends them off into peels of laughter at his awkwardness, Rayla doing the girlfriend pout (not that she would even need to do this, lets be so real right now 😅) and Callum giving her the last bite of his food, Callum and Ezran just randomly crying together sometimes over their father passing, Rayla telling Ezran stories about the Silver-grove trying not to let her voice crack but Ezran noticing anyway, giving Soren random hugs when he feels lonely or misses Claudia, Callum closing his eyes and turning away sometimes as Ezran gets older and pretending for a moment that his dad is still there, Ezran sitting behind a pillar in the ballroom and watching Callum and Rayla slow-dance and pretending for a minute he’s watching his mom and dad, sitting around the fire enjoying each others company, Callum and Rayla immediately knowing when something is wrong with the other person and learning communication together, Soren giving Ezran unsolicited first kiss/first date advice, Soren light-heartedly teasing Callum about his disastrous first kiss, Callum taking Ezran’s crown off on hard days and kissing the top of his head where it rests, everybody laughing uncontrollably about something that is not funny at all in the middle of horrendous stress and sleep-deprivation and that only makes it more funny. Shooting looks to kill anyone who’s crossed lines and hurt one of them. That fierce protective streak they all carry for each other. Holding each other while they sob not caring about the tears falling all over them. Sending each other pointed glances and smirks from across tables full of fancy dignitaries. Finding pretty flowers and giving them to each other just because.

 Impulsive hugs. Forehead kisses. Draping blankets over each other. Curling up on each others laps. Leaning heads on each others shoulders. Late night whispers. Tearing up with joy at milestones..

Everybody reaching for each others hands in tough moments and gently squeezing as reminders of their presences, and sometimes just doing for no reason other than closeness and security and comfort and to just, hold each others hands.

I love you’s. Lots of them. Heartfelt and sincere and emotional and naturally and full of unconditional love. After bad days, after good days, after heavy conversations, after fun times, just random I love you’s so nobody forgets how loved they are despite all they’ve lost.

This is found family ❤️.

“The stakes are high, the water’s rough, but this love is ours” - Ours

“The best people in life are free” - New Romantics

“It was letting go of everything but you” - The Band And I

“Wherever we’re together, that’s my home” - You’re My Home

#the dragon prince #tdp callum #tdp ezran #tdp rayla #tdp soren #tdp opeli #rayllum #found family #unconditional love #the little things and gestures #arc 2 #tdp #Tdp dragang #the obsession will never end #ours #new romantics #the band and i #you’re my home

[froggydrawz]

I shall call her

Opelisa.

#Tdp #the dragon prince #tdp opeli #opeli #Froggydrawz #Mona lisa

[maurafranklin]

Now do you understand, Opeli? Viren shouted. Now do you see why we cannot let our enemy’s cruelty go unanswered, why we must move forward with strength?

#the dragon prince #tdp opeli #tdp viren

[ac0531]

“She’s not the elf. She’s Rayla!”

Will forever love this moment

#tdp #the dragon prince #rayllum #rayla tdp #callum tdp #tdp opeli #tdp season 5

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

so I know everyone is really into the Soren and Corvus dynamic rn, which, valid; romantic or platonic, they're hilarious

but I feel like people are forgetting the gem that was the Corvus & Opeli dynamic

Ezran fucks off to the mountains for an adventure with zero prior planning. Corvus pats Opeli on the shoulder as she stares at the letter

Opeli disses the hell out of a foreign diplomat and Corvus stands there nodding along like "yeah. tell them, Opeli." (or, sometimes: standing there, brain empty, but still supporting her.)

Corvus and Opeli often share an exasperated look when the rest (especially Soren) decide to do something vaguely stupid, because unfortunately they're supposed to be the responsible ones here

and of course, they're the Ezran protection duo™.

#tdp corvus #tdp soren #tdp opeli #tdp sorvus #tdp corpeli #not really ship tbh #tdp #the dragon prince #the dragon prince corvus #the dragon prince opeli #tdp ezran #corpeli #corvus #opeli #soren

[imitation-dorothy-gale]

I know we like to talk about the exchange in the Bookery, but Callum citing “The tides are true as the ocean is deep” as his reasoning as to why he trusts Rayla to Opeli makes me lose my ever-loving mind.

#the dragon prince season five spoilers #tdp season five spoilers #the dragon prince #rayllum #tdp callum #tdp rayla #tdp opeli

[favficbirthdays]

Happy Birthday

Opeli (18th October)

The Dragon Prince

#the dragon prince #tdp #the dragon prince opeli #opeli the dragon prince #tdp opeli #opeli tdp #opeli #fictional birthday #october #october 18th

[ok12857]

#tdp #the dragon prince #Tdp rayla #Tdp soren #Tdp opeli #tdp zubeia #Sorayla #sorbeia #Sorpeli #Tdp Corvus #sorvus

[jelzorz]

lady justice and Vestal Virgins: religion on the human side of the border

Hoping to keep this relatively short BC I'm like 90% certain I'm the only one who cares

We don't get a lot about religion in the show, particularly on the human side? The most obvious reference we have to any known religion is the royal family being pretty heavily Jewish coded but whether that's Judaism in terms of religion or culture or both is unclear. How far it extends in-universe is something different, and the only religious figure we actually get is Lady Justice, but again, how far she extends into the religion of Katolis is to be seen.

Some things we (I) have had to assume include:

That Lady Justice is a religious figure

That she's supposed guide morality and decision making

That she is served by her clerics

That Opeli and her torchbearers are the Katolis equivalent of nuns

However there are some things in canon we have observed that we can make note of including:

The role of fire in their religious rites (specifically funeral rites)

That fallen kings are supposed to be mourned for 7 days before a funeral

That Opeli, as high cleric, is the one who performs these rites (coronation and cremation)

That there are (minimum) five clerics (Opeli + the four torchbearers at Harrow's funeral)

I lied this got long

This meta has no point except that I've been listening to a podcast called The Ancients and there was a whole episode dedicated to the Vestal Virgins and also worldbuilding is fun, but there are some real-world practises we can note here.

I mentioned above that the royal family is pretty heavily Jewish coded which is inclusive of the the tradition to mourn for seven sunsets after someone's death, but Judaism, generally speaking, doesn't have an equivalent for nuns. Women in Judiasm don't have particularly large roles outside of the family (I think??? I did do a pretty good google before I wrote this but I'm not Jewish, so please correct me if I'm wrong), so it's probably safe to say that the coding doesn't extend that much into Opeli et al in their religious roles, HOWEVER, I do want to bring your attention to another group of women who bear some similarities: allow me to introduce the Vestal Virgins.

Vesta (Greek equivalent Hestia, at least probably) is the Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and family in ancient Roman religion. She is a virgin goddess but rarely depicted in human form, and more often represented by the fire in her temple. Sources say that her worship predates the Roman Empire (Kingdom, even!), and her temple (before it was moved by Augustus) stood in the very heart of Rome, a literal hearth of the city. She was served by six virgin priestesses who tended to her fire and guarded her sacred hearth, whose attire is described on Wikipedia as:

a long linen palla over a white woolen stola, a rectangular female citizen's wrap, equivalent to the male citizen's semi-circular toga.[69] A Vestal's hair was bound into a white, priestly infula (head-covering or fillet) with red and white ribbons, usually tied together behind the head and hanging loosely over the shoulders.

So, like. We don't actually know if Opeli and her girls made vows of celibacy, it's just something we assumed? But like, if she has, then yeah, it would track. The Vestals also held some political power: they were personnae sui iuris, or sovereign over themselves for one, which was a pretty exclusive right for Roman women, and they represented the State of Rome themselves, and so could give testimony in trials without swearing the customary oath to the State, pardon the condemned by touching them, and were the only women able/allowed to address the Senate directly.

So like. There's stuff there. Vestals were powerful, politically involved priestesses who performed religious rites for the State of Rome. We should note too that Opeli and her torchbearers are women. We've never seen a male cleric, so we can only assume that this role is exclusive to women, and if we run with the idea that they serve Lady Justice, a female religious figure, then this would track also. It's not uncommon for female deities to only be served by female clerics/priestesses/what have you. The role the Vestals had in the politics and justice, in trials, in addressing the senate, and in the pardoning of the condemned, feels pretty relevant to Lady Justice also.

I did also also briefly mention the role of fire in Katolis' religious rites, specifically their funerary rites. Once again, we've only ever seen this scene in regards to their other ceremonies, but something else to be noted is how the novelisation refers to the other clerics:

So they're not just clerics, they're also torchbearers, which may or may not just be for the ceremony but they're referred to as torchbearers twice in this scene and not even once as clerics. We can probably assume that this isn't the only time they carry torches either, and that the flame represents something sacred to them.

A quick caveat: Fire being a sacred ceremonial thing is obviously not unique. Fire's been special to us as humans forever, because it's hard to make without the right tools, and if you stole it from like, a forest fire or some other existing source, then you would 100% treat that as something you had to keep burning a la sacred flames in many cultures—but it's the combination of priestesses and flames and red and white robes that make me wonder if there was inspiration taken from the Vestals.

Then there's the circlet. Very few people in TDP are ever seen with one. There are the rulers: King Atticus, King Harrow, and then King Ezran (Viren too, I guess, but he's a jerk); their consorts: just Queen Sarai to our knowledge so far; and then, for some reason, Opeli???

This has a couple of implications: the first is that she's on a separate ladder. Opeli demonstrably has a fair amount of power over the council and the Katolis army (see: 2x09). She can't overrule anything Ezran says (which is fair, as he is the King), but she seems to be the default substitute for the Kingdom of Katolis when he's unavailable. The second is that this is likely Katolis' way of separating the State from the Church and the Judiciary (which may or may not be the same thing in Katolis). If we refer, once again, to the Vestals, this also tracks: the Vestals performed the religious rites under the the Pontifex Maximus or supreme pontiff. The guys on the Senate were purely just the senate and left the religious stuff up to the guys (and girls) in charge of religion. Idk what the go is in Katolis, but it's pretty well implied from the way Opeli does the crowning of new monarchs that ceremonial things are her jobs, while ruling is the king's.

One last Vesta thing: Vesta (or Hestia) is the goddess of the hearth and home. When everyone else has gone, when everything has gone to shit, the hearth remains. She is, as Rick Riordan likes to call her, the Last Olympian. As long as Vesta's hearth is going, Rome still stands (which is why it's such a big deal when it goes out). And when our heroes are out on their adventures, who remains?

Anyway, in case it wasn't clear, Opeli is my favourite adult and I Love Her, your Honour. This exists because I like history and meta-analysis, but also because world building is fun and people rarely worldbuild on the human side of the border. If you're wondering about other goddesses that could exist in Katolis, Rome had Iustita (Justice), who often appears in a pair with Prudentia (Virtue), Clementia (Mercy), Pax (Peace), and Ananke (Necessity), among many, many others. Happy world building! Hope you found this fun and interesting!!

#tdp opeli #wish i did this before i wrote the fruit but ok #a meta by me? its more likely than you think #worldbuilding #were also not gonna talk about incestum bc yall know who i ship opeli with while the scandal is spicy #live burial is Not #anyway

[raayllum]

i am the sea, i am the moon

summary: Let me in." —Paul Celan. Missing Rayllum scenes from Book Five: Ocean.

a/n: first chapter is set right after rayla’s arrest in 5x01, featuring callum chewing out opeli. <3

word count: 946 words

chapter one: unconditionally

Rayla bounds over to him, almost reaching for his hand, it seems, before she settles for a grateful squeeze of his shoulder. “Callum,” she says, quiet but not hiding. “Thank—”

“You have nothing to thank me for,” he says, more brusquely than he meant it. She blinks, taken aback, and he softens. He’s angry, but not at her. He keeps one hand on the bow. “Go on,” he says, offering up a tiny smile. Then, to everyone else, “High Cleric,  a word?”

It’s not a request, but it’s still rare he’s given the High Cleric orders—usually, it’s been the other way around—and rarer still he uses her title. She’s formal with them, of course, but she’s still Opeli. She nudges them to eat and makes sure Ez takes breaks and helped plan his birthday party, well-intentioned if melancholic.

She’d been willing to let him and Rayla share a room for her first brief stay at the castle, in spite of it not being very traditional.

Callum knows if Rayla had stayed, they wouldn’t be having this problem right now—two weeks is not a lot of time to get to know someone—but then again, isn’t it? But he remembers the way Opeli brought proposal letters to him from noble families, the way he caught her talking to Ezran sometimes about political marriages since he was of age soon, that it was time to move on, wasn’t it? Before Ezran could shush her, and when she hadn’t thought Callum could hear.

His jaw clenches.

read the rest on AO3

#opeli: is a normal human being & understandably wary of a moonshadow assassin callum has only actually spent 3 months with #callum: EXCUSE ME #so good #rayllum #tdp spoilers #canon compliant #fic: i am the sea i am the moon #s5 #5x01 #s5 spoilers #tdp #the dragon prince #my fic #fic #ficlet #tdp opeli #taking the rare L but i get it #short and sweet and i'm not entirely happy with it but. it will do for now #may revisit this more from an opeli pov later

[dovesndecay]

This poor woman

#original post #tdp #the dragon prince #through the moon #tdp ezran #tdp opeli

[apogean-tides]

Opeli: So what’s it like working with the Crown guard? Corvus: Imagine working with completely civilized, responsible, and mature people. Opeli: Okay Corvus: Now throw that idea out the window.

#I have only just read that tdp corvus and soren short story #I think they have a fun dynamic #can't wait to see more of them in s5 #tdp corvus #corvus #tdp soren #soren #tdp opeli #opeli #incorrect tdp quotes #tdp incorrect quotes