#the last lullaby

[weky-woof]

watched centaurworld with a friend.... (spoilers in tags- just a heads-up!)

#weky draws #centaurworld #centaurworld horse #nowhere king #elktaur #the last lullaby #shitpost

[corrupted-ciphers]

Watched all of Centaurworld while recovering from having emergency appendix removal, and honestly the show was weird enough that I had to google characters after I was off pain meds to make sure the show wasn't a product of said pain meds.

But I loved the show, and the villain was fantastic. 10/10

Both a version with text plus a slight color shift effect, and without either.

#centaurworld #centaurworld mysterious woman #elktaur #nowhere king #the last lullaby #centaurworld fanart #centaurworld elktaur #he can have a nose as a treat

[squirrilous]

#centaurworld #elktaur #mysterious woman #the last lullaby

[might-be-entropy]

Finally coloured the thing I said I was gonna colour

#centaurworld #art #have at my lazyass colouring #the mysterious woman #nowhere king #the nowhere king #elktaur #centaur world #illustration #Netflix #is anyone even into centaurworld anymore am I too late #season 2 #centaurworld s2 #the last lullaby #fan art #art? moi? never!

[ekholocationn]

CENTAURWORLD SPOILER WARNING

" you can't keep the ghosts out when you're the one who's the haunted house. "

#ekhoartworks #my art #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #centaurworld #centaurworld fanart #centaurworld spoilers #nowhere king #elktaur #the last lullaby #fanart #netflix cartoon #tv series #i'm incredibly normal about elktaur

[battlekidx2]

Best of Animation 2021 - The Last Lullaby (Centaurworld)

Centaurworld is a deceptively deep show*. From the marketing it received the show felt jarring and disjointed almost as if two incompatible worlds had been thrown together haphazardly but the moment you boot it up and start watching it is obvious this is far from the case. 

Centaurworld is about grief, loss, depression, and learning to heal. It uses its vastly different tones and visual styles to elevate these aspects of the story. 

It’s a fantastic and fun ride and I believe its finale “The Last Lullaby” is the best example of how it uses all these seemingly contradictory parts to get all these themes across, especially with the music.

Centaurworld is a musical that has a lot of songs that I have fun with but I would say it is usually “all bops and no bangers” (credit where credit is due. I heard this from Sarcastic Chorus). 

The one place I really love their music and think it makes itself stand out is in its reprises. The way it brings songs from earlier on back and completely changes the meaning through the context of the scene. 

This episode does the same thing with Rider’s Lullaby and The Nowhere King’s lullaby. These songs are closely associated with the protagonist and antagonist of the show respectively and the way they are brought back in this finale really brings their arcs full circle. 

I especially love how the Nowhere King’s lullaby is brought back because it really accentuates the tragedy of his character and his relationship with the purple haired woman. I wish this relationship was explored in greater depth throughout this season but what we did see of these two characters was hauntingly beautiful in a way that you wouldn’t expect from what is essentially a single episode exploring their relationship. 

The Nowhere King’s death didn’t feel triumphant or glorious like you would have expected after his introduction in the two part finale of season 1. It’s quiet and personal. He returns to his original form one final time before the woman he loves ends his life once and for all.

The purple haired woman hesitated to go through with this before this point but she’s resigned herself to the fact that she must be the one to bring this nightmare to an end. Despite the love between the two their story doesn’t have a happy ending. It’s very tragic and the last lullaby the purple haired woman sings gets across the emotions of the scene between the two characters accentuates this.

The backstory of the elktaur chronicles the slow self-destruction and mutilation of someone who feels trapped on the outside looking in due to his internalized self-hatred. It becomes a tragedy about someone who felt undeserving of love to the point where their internal war with themselves became external. 

“They’re the same being locked in this everlasting fight with himself.”

This is an interesting exploration of morality that accepts that people are steeped in shades of gray. It’s like what the Nowhere King says to horse “we all have good and bad”. 

This episode shines brightest when it takes a microscope to all these characters and forces us to look at them for all they are. 

The Nowhere King is a horrible monster that has caused so much suffering but he is also a victim. 

The general is a monster wearing the mask of a hero that perpetuates a conflict he will never end because he ultimately holds his own self interest and preservation of utmost importance. 

The purple haired woman was blinded by her love and awe of the elktaur and centaurworld and it is ultimately her love that prevented her from ending this conflict when she had the chance. (She isn’t evil. I’m not blaming her. She understandably struggled to end the life of someone she loved.)

That being said I do have a few issues.

My issues with this episode don’t stem from the content within the episode itself but rather the lack of screen time and build up to certain important aspects of this finale. 

I think there should have been more of the general before this moment because the twist that he’s part of the nowhere king is meant to completely flip the kindly, righteous leader visage on his head but since we didn’t spend enough time with him it doesn’t hit as hard as it could have. The general’s betrayal of Rider would have been even more of an emotional gut punch if we trusted him like Rider did, which could only be built up if there was more time allotted to him. 

I think the purple haired woman should have had more screen time because it’s the tragedy of her life and love of the nowhere king that is a driving factor in the entire story. In fact it’s her ending with the nowhere king that is what I would argue to be the emotional climax of the episode and by extension the series so I wish more time was given to them.

Everything that happened in the episode was great and it hit all the beats it was aiming for but like I said above I feel like some of them could have been strengthened if the series had given the characters involved more focus.

For example Rider being stabbed by the general is comparable to Marcy being stabbed by Andrias and yet I would argue that Marcy being stabbed is much more of a gut punch due to the amount of time their relationship was afforded within the show. We see how much Marcy trusts Andrias and we know why. Even if we knew he was up to no good we got to see how well Marcy and Andrias clicked and how much they had in common. 

Marcy is also given more screen time herself which allows us to grow attached to her in a way we couldn’t with Rider. So when the moment of truth happens and Andrias makes the decision to stab Marcy in the back it is a complete gut punch. We care about Marcy, we know how this relationship made her feel seen, we understand the full depth of the betrayal. 

I’m not saying this to hold one show up on a pedestal above the other, I’m using it as an example to explain why I think this certain plot point would have benefitted from extra attention earlier in the series.

That being said, I believe the way the general’s betrayal played out was very effective coming from Rider’s perspective (just not as much when it comes to the general and their relationship). The show has done a good job up to this point portraying Rider’s unwavering belief in the general. She is a child soldier that has dedicated her life to this cause that the general leads and yet he never meant to actually end the war or his people’s suffering. 

It also leads into a very touching reprise of Rider’s Lullaby. 

This was the first song we heard in the series and it was the defining song of Rider and Horse’s relationship. Having the song come back around with Horse being the one to sing it to comfort Rider in an inverse from the pilot would have been a fantastic bookend to their relationship.

This is why I’m mixed on how they chose to have this scene play out.

I’ve never been a big fan of fake out deaths and this one still has me conflicted. This is purely a personal preference thing. I’ve just never been big on these types of scenes. 

This leads me to the episode’s ending.

Centaurworld is a story of two wildly different worlds and tones that come together to elevate each other rather than detract. On the one hand the show can cover the bleak reality or war, loneliness, and loss and on the other it triumphs family, love, and connections. This episode is a nice blend of the two with the finale showing the clash of the tragedy of the past (the elktaur and the purple haired woman’s story) and the hope of the future (the ending with horse and her herd).

This decision holds true to the series to this point.

This episode was a fantastic ride from start to finish. There were some aspects of the episode I was mixed on but I ultimately love the end result and find myself revisiting the tale in my thoughts and on rewatch. 

I am interested to see what Megan Nicole Dong does next!

*The marketing for this show wasn’t great. I know many people that were turned off from the show because of the trailers they had seen which is disappointing. But I’ve seen a lot of fairly big youtubers cover the show and help give it the attention it deserves.

Extra Thoughts

I thought almost all of the comedy hit, especially all the gags with Stabby. “I have unquantifiable corpses on my conscience.” is one of the funniest lines in the entire show. I really wasn’t a fan of the fart joke with horse in the elktaur’s mind and thought it really fell flat.

#centaurworld #the last lullaby #nowhere king #elktaur #purple haired woman #horse #wammawink #rider #general

[sammielikessstuff]

Andrias's end kinda gave me a little deja vu...

#amphibia #amphibia spoilers #centaurworld #king andrias #the nowhere king #the elktaur #all in #all in (amphibia) #the hardest thing #the hardest thing (amphibia) #the last lullaby #the last lullaby (centaurworld)

[lionblaze03-2]

Hey guys. The fact that Ched makes an egg with a skeletal human means that any creature of any gender can make a baby in centaurworld. Cheer up, okay?

#Which means gender is even moreso just about self expression and not ‘the baby making one’ and ‘the guy one’ to anybody yknow. #It’s just like. Everyone gets it from the start. Gender is optional anyway! #Centaurworld #Centaurworld headcanons #centaurworld season 2 #centaurworld #centaurworld headcanons #centaurworld finale #the last lullaby #spoilers #ched #gary

[britcision]

The last lullaby was just the song version of “this could have been an email” and I love it

#centaurworld #just #the biggest ‘DID YOU CONSIDER ASKING’ energy #the last lullaby

[glubbyvirgo]

I just watched the centaur world finale and oh my god did I cry

#centaurworld #nowhere king #elktaur #once shattered now whole #the last lullaby

[agostonsfilmodysseyofficial]

Episode 5 is about the 2008 thriller neo noir The Last Lullaby starring the late Tom Sizemore

#agostonsfilmodyssey #film #filmanalysispodcast #the last lullaby #asmr #literary adaptation #max allan collins #tom sizemore #sasha alexander #thriller #the quarry #Spotify

[demaparbat-hp]

Little Zuzu for an incoming project 🔥

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #atla zuko #zutara #avatar #prince zuko #zuko fanart #atla fanart #atla art #zuko art #I'm... kinda new here so I don't know the tags #Anyways you guessed it (it's a comic) #You may blame our only true God Hozier for making me do this #I never asked for the perfect Zuko song and yet I still received Arsonist's Lullaby #Amazing #Anyways he's literally the love of my life #Best. Character. Ever. #And I know I say this about... pretty much all my favorite characters but I MEAN IT this time #Also look at the pretty fire 🔥 #I've got a page that's literally just Dragon Fire so... I guess this was practice for Ran and Shaw????? #Gotta draw Zuzu here firebending in colors

[dzelonis]

Carin Gerhardsen - The Last Lullaby (Hammarbyserien #3)

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Izdevniecība: Penguin Books Manas pārdomas Imigrante no Filipīnām un viņas divi Zviedrijā dzimušie bērni, vien divus un četrus gadus veci, tiek atrasti kopā nežēlīgi noslepkavoti. No nozieguma vietas ir skaidrs, ka māte nogalināta pirmā un bērni tajā brīdī bijuši aizmiguši, izslēdzot varbūtību, ka viņi būtu notikušā liecinieki, pēc kā var secināt, ka uzbrukums…

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#Carin Gerhardsen #Crime #Hammarbyserien #Mystery Thriller #Penguin Books #The Last Lullaby

[squirrilous]

#centaurworld #mysterious woman #elktaur #the last lullaby #centaurworld season 2 #a gary cake! #Instagram

[emkini]

Guileless son, I'll shape your belief And you'll always know that your father's a thief And you won't understand the cause of your grief But you'll always follow the voices beneath

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko and azula #zuko #azula #fire siblings #atla fanart #illustration #chinese dragon #-slaps roof of Them- these babies can fit so much toxicity inside #if anyone tags this as a ship I will start committing crimes by the way don't be weird on my post #lyrics from mordred's lullaby #em draws

[stravacious]

gary’s twin sister, nadine!!

i’m a sucker for the bonnie & neddy episode :’)

#stravacious #i imagine gary dyed his hair pink bc it’s her favorite and then she wanted it done too #they’d interact with each other a bit more in this world #in at canon bonnie kinda just locks him in a basement bc that’s all she can do but like. nadine needs to eat #i picture it more like he is her only safe person #she freaks out about other people so gary doesn’t bring anyone over #she might be a tablet girlie #sorry if this is too ‘miku binder jefferson’ to ppl out of the at canon loop #their gum lullaby is just some rlly cute song their mom used to sing before she died #in my last at post i mentioned that they lived w their shitty aunt georgia (uncle gumbald) before gary moved them out #maybe she’s the reason nadine hates other ppl so much #adventure time #fionna and cake #gary prince