Ppl didn't give centaurworld a fair chance. that's fine. but the scene where elktaur tries to drown himself alive was so hardcore and don't let them tell you otherwise.
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just watched centaurworld and you cannot tell me there wasn't conflict in the writer's room about horse x rider
(screenshots below including the finale so spoilers)
so in S2E4 Horse says this refering to Becky Apples
and then later that very same episode she says this to wamawink comparing the situation between her and jeffica to horse and becky apple's situation
what are these mixed messages I'm being given
then in the series finale the nowhere king compares himself to horse
in regards to the situation between them and their "humans"
the situation between the nowhere king and his "human" being very much romantic
and then there's how sensual they made all of these scenes
and there's many times where it looks like they almost kiss
and the whole U-Haul lesbian thing in regards to this
but then there's all this
so in conclusion I think there was conflict in the writer's room about this so there's multiple things pointing both ways and to be clear I don't condone this ship I just wanted to publish my thoughts on what happened to make this how it is, and if you're trying to think of a reason why this could have happened in canon then perhaps the centaurworld's anthropomorphism of Horse it turned horse's bond to rider into a romantic one because the bond between a horse and their rider isn't really something that exists between two anthropomorphic beings
he dedicates his WHOLE LIFE to this. He has all these rides and games and he spends all his time trying to turn centaurs away and distract them. Imagine every day- seeing centaur after centaur turn up, and trying so hard to distract them, but no matter what they choose to die anyway. He can't do anything, even though he really wants to. He's really set it up. He's trying so hard.
And you can SEE how empty and abandoned his park is. No one goes there! But in one day! We can see there are surely hundreds of centaurs that chose to 'ride the whaletaur'. So clearly lots of centaurs come each day, but they don't listen to sunfish. So many centaurs. And they just want to die. Imagine seeing that! Imagine seeing how many centaurs each day, of every condition, all with a LIFE!! Just seeing how many of them choose to die each day. We can see how many different centaurs are in there when Wammawink goes in. There are LITTLE CHILDREN IN THERE. adjugdjusgjusgku This poor guy
Am I the only one who likes that Mystery doesn't have a *open* backstory. All we know is that she was the princess who married Elktaur's human half for a decade, then found out about his lies & spent many more years exiled in Centaurworld.
We also know she was so engrossed with CW's magic her hair turned purple, but her appearance was still very realistic. It was until after decades of living in centaurworld her face became a little cartoony but not too much because of her cynicism. I feel like that gives us the audience a chance to create our own interpretations of what she was up to during that time. We're given just enough important details to piece together the story but also room to develop our own conclusions.
That said I think it was cool for the show allowing her to kill Elktaur. As much as I love the Elktaur Lives AUs, he was too far gone to be saved. But also Mystery needed her revenge/justice and wasn't punished by the story doing so. After feeling guilt & regret for so long she finally had enough and say "no this is YOUR fault and YOUR FAULT ALONE". She took back her agency from the abusive love triangle she didn't ask for, and I think that's such a wonderful lesson for everyone.