#pining!rayla

[raayllum]

"Don't leave" Rayllum <3

Plus send me a number with a ship and i’ll write it (accepted ships are tdp canon ships + rarepairs (claudiez, sopreli, corvus/terry, sorvus)

He gets nightmares on the way to the Starscraper.

Callum won't say so, but Rayla knows. She's taken to always waiting at night to hear his soft adorable little snores before she lets herself drift off, too, and with every night that passes since they've left the castle, it takes longer and longer for him to fall asleep. He wakes up close to noon with bags under his eyes, blankets tangled up along legs from thrashing in the night.

The first time she wakes him up, he whimpers and pushes her away, and won't—for the first time—accept her comfort. It hurts more than any cold shoulder ever did upon her return.

The second time, his eyes are wild, staring like they don't recognize her at first. Then the terror fades, warmth amid the clammy quality to his skin seeping back into his eyes, even if he still shies away from her touch and twice as much from her words.

"It's nothing you can help with," he mumbles regarding the hell in his head.

Her heart squeezes painfully. Something she can't protect him from.

Maybe that's why he never lets her comfort him back to sleep, lie with him on the mattress, nor hold his hand to ward off the monsters that hurt him so. He doesn't want her close, and she can't understand why, but... Rayla is the last person to question wanting space or to demand closeness.

She doesn't tell him that she lies awake on her mattress after each terror, watching over him while he sleeps, because that's something she can do.

It's their last night in the creaking boat before they reach the shoreline. Before it will just be a long, snowy trek to the Starscraper.

Tonight, when he thrashes, she shakes him away as her name escapes her lips, his desperate cry twisting her heart painfully, and when his eyes fly open, they look at her with only teary-eyed relief. "Rayla—"

"It's okay." She kneels by the side of the bed, taking his face in her hands. Brushing away his tears best she can. "We're okay."

His breathing slowly calms, helped by a few small sky incantations, before he removes her hands from his cheeks and they fall to her sides again. She wants to hold him. She wants to help him. But if he—

"Do you want to talk about it?" she offers, even as she has her suspicions: Aaravos, a puppetmaster. And whatever Finnegrin had done to him on that cursed ship. Not for the first time, she wishes she could kill Aaravos herself, just to put him at ease; that Finnegrin being in the belly of a sea leviathan was enough to calm the roiling storms in her best friend's mind.

He shakes his head. "No."

She straightens, pursing her lips, turning to leave—because ever since coming back, she still can't quite stay, because the world is still in danger, and because it will take more time for the distance he's enforced to dwindle and that's fine, really, it is—

He snags her wrist. "Wait," Callum croaks, and Rayla turns back around. Waiting. Watching. His thumb strokes over the place her binding used to rest. "Don't leave."

She inhales sharply,

Believe me, I want to go down there with you... You've got to stay with me... Really, that's it, just — goodbye? You're going to stay here and die out of... But would it be alright, maybe, if I stay?

He's never asked before. Not like this.

She steps closer. "Callum—"

"I want you to stay," he states, looking up at her. A beat. "Please."

Rayla crawls into the bed beside him and wraps him up in her arms. He settles, forehead pressed to her neck—faintly listening to her heart, she thinks, as she holds him tight.

If he wants her to... if he wants her, then—

Rayla kisses his forehead. "I'll never leave again," she promises.

She'll keep it this time.

#rayllum #requests #my fic #fic #ficlet #s6 #post season five #arc 2 #tdp #the dragon prince #if/when callum asks HER to actually stay. i will Cry #pining!rayla #constantly chasing after you #motif wise anyway #technically

[blutopaz15]

start

a pining, edge-frazzled rayla ficlet based on this comic from @thedragonprince

Honestly, she’s not sure where to start.

She spends the sunset crouched in the shadows of a parapet, speculating to Stella over where he’ll be—if it’s early enough for him and Ez to still be in the dining hall, if it’s late enough for him to have headed back to his room, if he’s even here at the castle at all—but then the sun goes down and the moon goes up, and—

She has to start somewhere.

“Okay,” Rayla whispers, scooping Stella off her shoulder and into her pouch. “We’re going to try our—”

Stella squeaks at the silence…and Rayla swallows down the lump in her throat.

“—his old room first.”

It’s a long shot, she thinks. It’d be too good to be true—to find him there in the room they’d shared, waiting for her like nothing had ever changed—and she knows that, even if she hopes differently. Never mind what she knows, though, her pulse still pounds as she maps out her downclimb to the window, as she peeks her head into the dark room, as she slips silently to the floor, as she stays hidden despite how obviously alone she and Stella are.

This isn’t the moment, and as much as she wishes it were…she’s glad for the chance to collect herself.

Rayla leans back against the cool stone castle wall, her rushed heartbeat calming with the slow breath she knows he’d tell her to take. Callum’s not there…but his stuff is, she realizes, stomach fluttering at knowing that their room is still his room, smiling with relief that her hopes hadn’t been that crazy.

He’s not here, but…he will be.

Stella chirps from her hip, tilting her head and then climbing atop Rayla’s knee.

“No Callum,” she sighs, smoothing back hair that’d fallen into her eyes mid-climb. “That’s okay, though. He’ll be back, and hopefully I can get myself a little less edge-frazzled before then.”

Rayla chuckles as Stella climbs to her shoulder, clinging on as if to pull her to her feet.

“No, no, we’re not going to just go find him, Stella. Callum and I…we need to talk first, before we go traipsing all over the castle,” Rayla explains, pulling a moonberry from a pocket in apology. “Then, I promise, you’ll get to meet Ez and Bait too.”

The moonberry is quickly gone, but Stella still nibbles at her collar.

“Okay, okay,” she sighs again, doing Stella’s bidding by heading to her side of the room…or, the side that had been hers, at least.

“This…”

Rayla stops before she starts, hesitating at calling the plain, made-up bed hers—even if that’s the same stack of pajamas Callum had left for her every night, even that’s the same cut her blades had left in the headboard, even if that’s the same pillow she’d cried into—

“...is where I used to sleep.”

Maybe she would again, she thinks, chest tight with the thought that it’d no doubt be hers if she would’ve just—

Stella trades nibbling for nudging, urging Rayla to turn.

…and the weight on her heart lifts almost instantly, regret overwhelmed by fondness.

That’s definitely Callum’s bed.

“That’s Callum’s. He’s…a little messy, obviously.” Rayla breathes a laugh, her bottom lip tucked between her teeth as she scans over his rumpled sheets, his scattered clothes, his overflowing nightstand, his cluttered desk. She makes her way a little closer to look at the spines of the books at his bedside. “I bet—yep, these are all books about magic, it looks like, and ooh, look, Stella! He drew this, for sure.”

She takes the drawing at the top of the pile—of King Bait, she tells Stella—to the desk, sure she’ll find more…and, of course, she does. There are more of Bait, of course, and tons of Ez—who looks so grown up, she could cry—and Soren is there with Corvus, and Opeli, and—

Her.

“He’s an artist,” Rayla explains, not trusting her shuddering voice for more than a hushed volume, and stacks that sketch of herself at the top of the pile, hardly recognizing herself at fifteen, “and a mage, and—”

Stella jumps down onto an open scroll on the other side of his desk, and in shooing her off of the paper, Rayla sits for a closer look at the familiar signature she’d caught a glimpse of.

“Oh, apparently the high mage now,” she says, running her fingers overtop of his name with a swell of pride that Stella answers with a chitter. She ignores the rest of the ink-splattered draft, though, curious about the uneven lump beneath—

His scarf.

She can’t help but hold it up to her nose, breathing in the castle soap scent it’d had those couple of weeks here in Katolis along with the rest of that comforting Callum smell—paper and charcoal and just…Callum.

Rayla can’t help but let the scarf muffle her words and catch her watery eyes, unwilling to part with any of these pieces of him she could only remember for all this time.

“He’s…kind of dorky and really talented,” she gushes on, smiling and teary-eyed while Stella listens, “but dumb and sweet and so kind, and…well, you know. I’ve told you. That’s why we had to come here.”

This is already better than she’s felt in years, tears included, Rayla thinks, looking around the room, amazed at how nice just this alone is: just being here with all of his things after so long, nevermind the anticipation of seeing him—actually seeing Callum—again.

“I need…I need to fix this, Stella. I love him, and I miss him, and…” she gasps, catching her breath with the tears now free-flowing, with Stella nuzzled in close at her neck. “He’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me, and—”

“—and, ugh, I’m rambling. Callum does that too.” Rayla stops herself, forcing a choked laugh through a sob when Stella backs away and looks at her wonderingly again.. “I’m sure he’s coming back here to his room soon. Guess I need to figure out what to say…I don’t think crying all over him is going to work out.”

Rayla wipes at her eyes one last time with the scarf before hanging it on the wardrobe with a sigh, and Stella is standing pointedly atop the pile of blank paper Callum’s scarf had been covering when she turns back.

“You want me to…write it down?” she asks, tilting her head, sitting again in his chair. Stella scurries to the inkwell this time with an insistent chitter, and Rayla picks up the quill, but…

Honestly, she’s not sure where to start.

—

“Hey.”

She has to start somewhere.

#rayllum #the dragon prince #tdp #rayla #stella #callum #pining!rayla

[raylasgf]

i would just like to say!

#THE WAY HE’S LOOKING AT HER?? #BABYGIRL NOT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE IT #he is very much smitten! #let them be happy forever! #let them BEEeeeE #let them kiss! #pining!callum #anyways #enough of my bullshit #tdp #rayllum #callum #rayla #the dragon prince #tdp s5 #100

[thesharktist]

What's up gang, it's me with. Blorbos. So many blorbos

You should totally RB with the blorbos you have in common. I know a Lot of you who will have a certain character on here

All the characters are in the tags ofc ofc

#favorite characters #favorite character bingo #vanessa afton #mike schmidt #abby schmidt #adaine abernant #kristen applebees #riz gukgak #beth tezuka #catbug #mabel pines #dipper pines #mabel mora #willowjean 'will' parker #tdp callum #tdp rayla #tmnt donatello #louise belcher #bob animal crossing #oshawott #wallow #violet baudelaire #connie maheswaran #reagan ridley #glitter breeze #lagoona blue

[mandaloriandragontrainer]

She’s right and she should say it.

#people looking an adorable healthy m/f relationship: that’s SeXiSm #you’re not being feminist #and rayla was pining after him before he was even over claudia #she scored a smart handsome young mage who absolutely adores her and you know what good for her #the dragon prince #callum #rayla #rayllum #callum x rayla #mando ramblo

[venator-signum]

okay yall have ships that aren't canon but have you had a ship that took three seasons to get together and then one left on a quest for revenge so they haven't seen each other for 2 years and now they're together again and both clearly love each other but the one who got left is hurt so now there's mutual pining but it'll potentially be another three seasons before they're properly in love again I can't deal with this shit

#rosi shitposts #the dragon prince #istg 9 20min episodes is not enough content per season #rayllum #tdp season 4 #tdp callum #tdp rayla #rayllum in their mutual pining exes arc

[zuppizup]

Gimme super conflicted Callum this season please.

Conflicted about Rayla.

About how he wants to get past everything but doesn't think he should.

I want to see him struggling not to laugh at her dumb jokes or be awed by her speed and agility.

I want to see him sketching her, taking care to get her hair right or watching her subtly so he can perfect her new clothing.

And I want Rayla to miss all this, because she's trying to give him the space she thinks he needs, distracting herself with Stella or scouting or anything to take her mind of him.

And I want him to realise that he should have given in to how he felt about her, rather than what he thought he should have done or how he should have acted.

But it's too late...

#gimme the angst #and the pining #and the PAIN! #the dragon prince #tdp #rayllum #rayla #callum #tdp spoilers #tdp speculation

[raayllum]

She is!! In Love with him!!

#rayllum #pining!rayla #dragons liveblogs #5x07

[blutopaz15]

comfortable (or spoons, explicit edition)

rated e, 4.2k

canon s4/s5 ages...don’t like, don’t read!

“Are you, uh…comfortable getting more comfortable?” he asks, finding some words at least as he pulls at his gloves and cuffs, his eyes wandering: to the dirt, to the fire, to the sky…to her. “With me?”

Read on AO3

#rayllum #rayllum fanfic #Rayllum week 2023 #Rayllum’s bad vibes rodeo #kinda the reconciliation prompt i guess XD #canon s4/s5 ages #i repeat: #dont like dont read!!! #oh look it's another rayllum first time by yours truly!! #alternate titles include: #pining!rayla finally gets some #rayla knows what she wants and she's gonna get it godammit #bait and stella are sleeping shhhhh #and #no big feelings just sweet silly sandwiches #enjoy friends!!!!!!!

[schrodingers-chat]

Happy New Year! While we wait in Season 6 purgatory, I'm desperate for more Rayllum content so started writing what has now become a multi-chapter fic...

#dragon prince #tdp #rayla and callum #rayllum #mutual pining #these two are so hopeless #we love shy rayla

[manawari]

Concept:

We finally witnessed Rayla with her hair down, she was combing it after having a nice bath, Callum walked in and suddenly stopped on his feet. His breath hitched and his heart thrummed against his ribcage. He found himself staring at Rayla's back, noticing how her silver-white hair dangled on her waistline, he realized how long it had grown within three years.

He wondered what would it be if he ran his fingers through those luscious locks.

Oh, how beautiful she had become.

Callum kept his distance as Rayla began to knot a tendril of her hair into a braid, he remembered the old braid she had before it was cut off due to the encounter they had with his aunt. It was nice seeing her in that style again. Rayla hadn't turned her head yet, but he hoped she wouldn't — he had no idea what he would do if she caught him staring at her.

You still love her, don't you? Ezran's voice rang in his thoughts.

Yes. Was the unspoken answer. Every day.

Things were okay now between them. But Callum still didn't have the courage to sit down with her and talk about everything just like she wanted. What they both wanted.

Now, here he was. . . Admiring her secretly, silently, and longingly.

#random snippet hehe #pining!callum in s5 pls #the dragon prince #tdp callum #tdp rayla #callum #rayla #rayllum #rayllum fanfic #.reigne

[highmageyeetus]

Rayla: That scarf… I want it around my neck again…

Callum: “So you’re telling me N’than that Earthblood Elves say trees to meet you?!” Points to Rayla “Ha! I knew it! I was correct the whole time!”

Rayla not listening: Mmm scarf boy…

#scarf boy #pining Rayla #Simp Rayla #callum the dragon prince #rayla the dragon prince #rayllum #the dragon prince #callum #rayla #tdp rayllum

[haaam-guuuurl]

Gonna start manifesting a Rayla Alone flashback episode in S5 right now

#the dragon prince #tdp #rayla #tdp s4 #tdp season 4 #tdp s5 #tdp season 5 #my posts #i loved season 4 but rayla and rayllum were soooo anti climactic #i am ITCHING for more on what the hell happened to her in those two years that informs how she's acting now #i needed a cathartic explanation for the past two years #like a fight or an open conversation #or even just more consistent resentment/pining vibes #so i really really need an explanation for why there want an explanation #and rayla alone would be so badass and amazing just like the zuko and korra episodes in atla and lok #chefs kiss #claudia alone would be awesome too

[10pm-cafe-lattes]

okay. rayla. callum. you two are hopeless.

please make up already i'm begging you this is season 3 but WORSE

(you can really tell who my two favourites are)

#no literally please i'm begging you two #tdp thoughts #tdp #tdp spoilers #i did not wait three years for pining and sad #please. #the dragon prince #tdp s4 spoilers #tdp rayla #tdp callum #rayla #callum #rayllum

[mandaloriandragontrainer]

I can’t say for sure exactly when Callum fell in love with Rayla, but I know for a fact it was either during or before “Fire and Fury.” Lovingly sketching Rayla before dropping his book, the pages flipping back to reveal that he once drew Claudia in the same manner? Poetic cinema.

#rayla still fell first #but they were was mutual pining well before season 3 #I hope you’ve all enjoyed this transforming into a rayllum blog because it’s going to stay that way well into 2023 #the dragon prince #callum #rayla #rayllum #callum x rayla #claudia #mando ramblo