#TDP Claudia

[raayllum]

A few things because I realize without it, this amalgamation of screencaps may not make much sense but it's all I've been thinking about for like 3 days:

As the two mages of the younger generation, Callum and Claudia are caught in a loop of both competing with and furthering each other's progression in their magical goals. We see this manifest in two main ways:

Callum and Claudia giving each other knowledge they need, even if it's incomplete. Claudia gives Callum the first half of the fulminus spell (and Rayla the second); Callum figures out the riddle that lets Claudia know there's a map to be had. While Claudia offered to literally teach him dark magic, it happened solely accidentally, with Callum's acquired knowledge being her 'undoing' (on behalf of Rayla) in 2x07. This transfer of knowledge and goals means that even though Callum helped get the prison from the Sea of the Cast Out with the opposite goal of Claudia's, he will likely 'finish' her half of the spell, if you will, by being what results in Aaravos actually getting out (possession or otherwise). Likewise, this references back to Claudia giving Callum's Harrow letter after he similarly lost it, and it is that very letter that gives him his biggest piece of information (thus far) about Aaravos' key: "Why would I open it? It's for you" / "Perhaps it will be you, Callum, who discovers the key's secrets" / "Come on sad prince - let's go get your cube" (1x04).

They're both clever, and even when they're screwing each other over, it usually results in some kind of knowledge being transferred back to each other, willing or unwillingly.

We see this most directly in the initial primal stone theft, which is arguably what kicks off both their arcs in the series in a lot of ways. Callum steals and ultimately destroys/smashes Claudia's primal stone in order to free Zym (and subsequently Rayla). He repeats this pattern of (thematic? literal?) theft a few more times: he steals/uses her dark magic book in order to free the dragon in 2x07 (and subsequently Rayla); he steals and empties out her potion in 5x09, knowing that she relies on it for her magic; and as mentioned, him and the rest of the dragang successfully steal the prison from her grasp, too.

The similarity of the prison to the primal stone has likewise been reinforced. The Dragang get the prison from Claudia after Rayla has already allied with Ezran, just like in 1x03, leaving Callum to be the one to actually disempower Claudia by removing her object of power (potion, primal stone). 6x01 ties the prison to the primal stone by giving Callum a similarly staged nightmare about smashing it, which echoes his old 2x08 dreams that do have a premonition slant surrounding them. The fact that Aaravos speaks of a great shattering (Patience) and Callum compares the whole world to a primal stone only makes this potential thread of symbolism more foreboding, whether it speaks to Aaravos' desire for getting out of his prison or for taking revenge on the Startouch elves in some manner.

Last but not least, we have the basis of for why Callum smashes Claudia's stolen primal stone (future prison?) in the first place: he had a good reason. While it's clear this sentiment is important for Claudia (and Terry) as she uses it as justification for her own actions - "Everything I'm doing is for my family. It's to save my dad" - and as the basis for why she's not evil, we see in a few instances that it's important to Callum too. He is relieved when Claudia can tell he had a good reason, specifically criticizes Rayla for not having one upon her return (as she didn't even get closure about Viren in her time away), and asserts that "if she didn't tell me, she had a good reason" when he sets her free in 5x01. And Callum asserts his own justification for both doing dark magic in the past and presumably in the present: "I had to, to save [Rayla]" and Finnegrin affirms this: "Oh, how noble."

When Claudia says "I need to tell you about some things back at home, you know, good things, bad things," Callum tells her about another good and bad thing in destroying the primal stone. It hatched Zym and took off Rayla's binding, but it also left him magic-less (and in the future, vulnerable to dark magic use). Which, ironically, is also true of Rayla's return both being "kind of good, and kind of bad" in helping Callum unlock another arcanum ("To love is simply to know this: the tides are true as the ocean is deep") and simultaneously making him more vulnerable to dark magic use (the snake chains in 5x08).

All of this being a long winded way of saying I am intrigued by how Callum and Claudia may continue to circle and 'take' things from one another - Callum leaving a deceptive pearl in the castle that Claudia may mistake for the real one / Callum being responsible for achieving Claudia's goal of freeing Aaravos - in season six, because they really have one of the most interesting and thematic foil relationships in the whole series.

#callum x claudia #my rotisserie chicken #tdp #the dragon prince #pawns #multi #parallels #analysis series #analysis #mini meta #rotating them so carefully in my mind like rotisserie chicken rn #tdp meta #tdp callum #tdp claudia

[m4rs-ex3]

2x02 // 5x09

the contrast 😭

#“..ohh um okk thats a lil weird😳😬😅” -> “shut yo bitchass up🤨🤨” #is that really the same face claudia #is it #callum #callum tdp #tdp callum #tdp s5 #tdp s2 #tdp #the dragon prince #claudia #claudia tdp #tdp claudia

[sarasade]

Being favored by Viren didn't end so well for Claudia either.

#Viren's love comes with insurmountable amount of trauma it seems #the dragon prince #tdp claudia #tdp soren #tdp art #tdp fan art #the dragon prince fan art #tdp season 5 #magefam #cw: blood #alt text

[kurizeria]

how bout that trailer

#the dragon prince #tdp #the dragon prince fanart #tdp art #tdp spoilers #the dragon prince spoilers #tdp claudia #;kuri art

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

#the dragon prince #tdp rayla #tdp callum #tdp ezran #tdp claudia #tdp viren #tdp harrow #tdp runaan #my edit

[manawari]

Soren: I have divorced parents. My mom left. My sister has gone mad. My future brother-in-law is a kind tree elf who is pretty cool. My dad is dying. And oh, I have a stepfather and a creepy half-sibling!

#how soren introduces his family: #the dragon prince #tdp soren #tdp claudia #tdp viren #tdp aaravos #soren #claudia #viren #aaravos #terry #tdp terry #viravos #tdp lissa

[fujosh1dreamer]

Yoooo... The dragon prince twitter is wildin!!!!

Who runs this account!?!?

#this show is the best #tdp #the dragon prince #the dragon prince netflix #netflix the dragon prince #dragonprince #valentines day #viravos #tdp amaya #tdp rayllum #rayla x callum #rayllum #tdp terry #tdp claudia #amaya x janai #twitter #ruthari #ethari x runaan #tdp runaan

[sage-nebula]

clauderry in season 6 be like

#the dragon prince #clauderry #claudia #terry #tdp spoilers #tdp claudia #tdp terry

[bisexualenbyblueberry]

Got three absolutely-perfect-for-TDP Twitter screenshots suggested to me over the course of a few hours so I feel like Pinterest knew somehow

#the dragon prince #tdp #dragon prince #tdp terry #tdp claudia #tdp soren #soren wears socks in the shower #tdp viren #tdp harrow

[anywaysstreamfancybytwice]

Aravos showed up,possessed Callum, roasted everybody,blew a kiss and dipped in the most dramatic way possible.

Theater kid material

#rayllum fanfic #the dragon prince #rayllum #tdp spoilers #tdp #tdp callum #tdp claudia #tdp ezran #tdp rayllum #rayla #tdp season 4 #and this is coming from a theater kid myself #ive never loved an antagonist more in my life like you go star man commit those crimes manipulate everybody

[stuck-in-jelly]

Remember when none of them had attempted to kidnap/kill each other

Good times

#jelly tarts #im looking through the artbook and MAN #the dragon prince #tdp soren #tdp claudia #tdp ezran #tdp callum #tdp bait

[raayllum]

i love it when characters are unfair, actually. i love it when they’re uncouth and cranky and hypocritical, i love it when they have cognitive dissonances, i love it when they make good and bad choices for the wrong reasons. i love when they’re short to anger and hard to understand. i love it when they’ve destroyed themselves for nothing but can’t even see either part of it yet. i love it when they’re messy and selfish and bad at communicating. i love it when they get convinced of their own ego and stuck in a feedback loop regarding their own warped paranoia. i love it when characters actively make their lives unknowingly harder for themselves. i love it when characters don’t know they’re in a story. i love it when characters are like real people

#text post #the dragon prince #the gang's all here #s4 is my best friend #tragedy enjoyer #morally ambiguous fam #viren #claudia #rayla #callum #runaan #tdp viren #tdp claudia #tdp harrow #tdp runaan #tdp rayla #tdp callum #king harrow

[rayllumswift]

WHAT THE- CLAUDIA?!

#the dragon prince #tdp #thedragonprince #claudia the dragon prince #tdp claudia #claudia tdp #terry tdp #terry the dragon prince #the dragon prince season 6 spoilers #tdp spoiler #tdp s6 spoilers #tdp s6

[sarasade]

Follow everywhere I go Top of all the mountains or valley low Give you everything you've been dreamin' of

Just let me in

-Lily

#tdp claudia #the dragon prince #tdp fanart #tdp viren #lord viren #sarasadeart #the mystery of aaravos #long post #tdp art #Eyestrain #eyestrain warning #forgot to adjust the red colours! sorry about that

[ck2k18]

oh me? im just thinking about how soren spent two years knowing his dad was dead but not knowing if his sister was dead or alive. im just thinking about how much he's grown since the series started and how he keeps choosing love, keeps choosing good despite where he came from. im just thinking about how he reunited with his sister and tried to get her to see, too. to get her to choose good. im just thinking about how he thought he was finally, finally free from his fathers clutches, free to choose love without guilt. im just thinking about how his sense of security and freedom was ripped away from him because the man who controlled and manipulated him quite literally came back from the dead. im just thinking.

#tdp season 4 #tdp spoilers #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp soren #tdp claudia #tdp viren #lord viren #tdp liveblog

[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