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raayllum · 5 months

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my crack canon quartet timeline bc @jelzorz did one and it's useful bc there's a decent amount to juggle

as always said quarter is Rayllum, Corvus/Terry, as well as aged up!Soren/Opeli and aged up!Ezran/Claudia. Y'all know the drill by this point

Relevant ages:

Opeli is 11 years older than Soren

Ezran is just under 7 years younger than Claudia

There's a rough alternative in which Claudia stays working with Aaravos for likely longer than she will in canon (aka for another 3-4 years) but for the sake of canon compliancy as its own interesting route...

Post-S7

Operating under the assumption that S6/S7 is wrapped up within a year / it takes about a year for everything to be somewhat stable (and that Opeli survives S6/S7...)

Ezran is 13, Callum is just shy of 18, Rayla is shy of 19, Soren is 21, Claudia is 19, and Opeli is 32.

Claudia and Terry's relationship did not survive all the upheaval, and after a short stay where they're both at the castle as friends, Terry departs for the western Katolis border for a fresh start (and to meet other, more open-minded humans). Claudia and Soren (taking a leave) go to Del Bar to reconnect with their mother and her family; the relationship is established, if perpetually strained.

Callum stays on that year as high mage, but he and Rayla know they'll be happier long term in Xadia / he can do more good studying and teaching the arcana to others by leaving. They move to the Hollow Wood (just magic-y, human friendly, and Moonshadow-y enough for them), a bustling Moonshadow city that isn't far from the Silvergrove (which let Rayla back in, but she likewise wants a fresh start). Callum teaches/studies manual connections to arcanum, and Rayla learns physical therapy and eventually teaches it, apprenticing in the city. They also appreciate the Anonymity that comes with a life away from court/Katolis. [ 20k oneshot detailing this first year away is outlined in my head ] They make sure to visit regularly though

Having a vacant High Mage position, Claudia and Soren come back, and she tentatively takes it up, at first more informally and then in title. (She has the Sun arcanum and it suits her). She brews a lot of remedies to help her body heal from the dark magic use over the years, as well as ones for Ezran as king and Opeli (stuff to ward off carpal tunnel and sore throats from talking a lot). Also plenty of hot brown morning potion. Claudia apprentices with Mavi, the castle physician.

Soren and Corvus start dating (Soren is like 22, Corvus is 24) and Moonshadow elf reintegration at the border starts, particularly in Ellis' town thanks to the Moon Nexus. Upon invitation, she comes to live at the castle as a veterinarian and Lujanne's Moon arcanum protege. Rayla and Callum get married (aged 20 and 21 respectively). Soren asks Corvus (and Opeli) to dance at the wedding

Wanting ultimately different things from life, Corvus and Soren break up a couple years later. Soren is 24 going on 25, and begins to take more notice of Opeli, as Corvus leaves to do more inter-Pentarchy reconnaissance for Ezran at the western border of the kingdom. He flirts with her, half-jokingly, and Opeli flatly shuts him down, and they become closer friends as Barius grows older and less likely to attend council meetings, and with Corvus as a buffer (as Opeli was always closer to him and more like minded)

Ezran is around 15 and strikes up a courtship with Ellis, but it is short lived. They stay friends, he introduces her more formally to Queen Aanya, and the two girls take an interest in each other. Soren (25-26) and Opeli (36-37) become quite good friends, often addressing each other affectionately as Captain and Cleric, respectively, Soren helping her learn how to defend herself (thank you jelly for the headcanon), and sharing snippets of poetry with each other. When Opeli has to travel home after her father's death to help put her estranged family's affairs in order, Soren accompanies her for safety reasons

Ezran is 17, and begins to develop some burgeoning feelings for Claudia, who still sees him as a young friend / more little brother figure. He and Soren go on a trip round the Pentarchy for about half a year for diplomacy reasons, and then come home when he's 18 going on 19. The time away and shifts in looks/personality allows Claudia to start seeing Ezran as more of an adult, but not totally as a love option (yet consciously anyway). Soren suspects there's been a shift on Ezran's end

Terry (24-ish) and Corvus (29-ish) meet at a pub and think the other person looks Strangely Familiar. However, there are plenty of elves and humans of all sorts out here at the borders, especially since Katolis and Duren's western borders open up the rest of the Pentarchy, and more elves are returning to their abandoned Nexuses / travelling to sell wares and help remove the spaces that dark magic previously filled. They become good friends, even if Terry is far more close-lipped about his past, and are dating for a little while before realizing why/how their pasts are intertwined. After a good laugh, some questions, and even more tears, they keep on going

Soren, who is 27, begins flirting more openly with Opeli (38) again. She finds herself surprisingly flustered, although they don't court plainly, it does eventually get there emotionally to the point there's Something going on, but Opeli firmly keeps it in limbo / is convinced that Soren will lose interest (we shall come back to this theme)

Ezran is 21 and helps officiate Ellis' and Aanya's wedding. He asks Claudia to dance; she accepts (under Opeli's hypocritically judgmental eye, tbh) and Soren likewise begins to think there's something persistent there on both sides. Callum and Rayla roll back into the Pentarchy for it and stay for a few weeks afterwards at the Banther Lodge with everyone; Callum is able to be civil with Claudia. He and Rayla (26 and 27) are pregnant with their first child.

Around 22, Ezran confesses to but is turned down by Claudia, who cites that she is too old/broken/damaged for him and that it'll pass, in spite of the fact she's fairly certain she is 1) mutually in love with him and 2) this is permanent on her end, not wanting to ruin his life 'again'.

A few months after, there is an attempt on Ezran's life from a pro-human anti-reunification extremist; Claudia's remedies save his life and the distance between them dwindles further. A concerned Callum and Corvus return from the castle, although Callum is doubly stressed as Rayla is 7-8 months pregnant back at home (the freed from coins in-laws have come to lend some help as well).

It becomes apparent that Claudia and Ezran are courting, quietly, to Opeli and to Soren, although most of the rest of the staff remain oblivious. Claudia is fearful of what everyone will say, and Ezran doesn't want to scare her off, so they keep it a secret. Opeli is greatly disapproving, partially due to the age gap but mostly due to Claudia's history, but Soren steps in to defend his sister and make sure Opeli doesn't spoil their happiness. Unhappily, she backs off

Corvus, visiting in the castle for the first time in a while, notes the changes between both pairs, and also discusses his relationship with Terry to Claudia and to Soren, who are happy for them (if find it mildly weirdly awkward/hilarious that their former partners are together). While Opeli, Soren, and Ezran make a trip to Xadia to go visit Rayllum and the new baby, Claudia goes to visit Terry, and the two renew their friendship properly; she encourages him and Corvus to get married, as Terry is beginning to plan for it

Shortly thereafter, Soren (29-30) and Opeli (40-41) start a physical thing, although Soren knows that it's More than that even if Opeli won't quite say it out loud. She subsequently backs off her disapproval of Claudia and Ezran, leaving the two confused and delighted respectively, although Claudia puts the pieces and respects her brother's privacy. Opeli tries to put up some more distance, fearing she's grown too attached / being quietly jealous when Soren has another woman interested in him, she eventually fesses up and the two are fully a couple. Opeli steps down as High Cleric but remains on the Council

At 23-24, Ezran proposes to Claudia (29-30), who full on panics, and flees to her mother's home in Del Bar. Ezran follows, and Lissa is very dryly aware that the King of Katolis is on her doorstep, but gives the two time to talk and her daughter some marginally helpful advice. A letter from Terry likewise helps. Claudia gleefully, tearfully does accept the proposal and goes back home, even if she's nervous about finally telling Callum (and Rayla's had some suspicions for a while now)

Callum and Rayla comes home for Soren (31) and Opeli's (42) winter wedding and stay a few weeks with their firstborn son, Raeven, who's around 2-3 years old. Rayla is pregnant with their second child. Ezran explains that he and Claudia have been courting for just under 2 years and that he intends to marry her. Callum does not take it well, for a variety of reasons, and it's one of the biggest, if not biggest, arguments the brothers have

Rayla and Callum leave, and the brothers don't speak to each other for 4-5 months, till Rayla needles that he wouldn't want Ez to meet the birth of their baby, and Callum folds and apologizes. He's not happy about it, but it's Ezran's choice and he can't stop him

Soren (32) and Opeli (42-43) are unexpectedly pregnant with twins (Opeli being a future sister-in-law of her king is not something she ever suspected, never mind that her children would marginally be in line for the throne and cousins with said heirs). Claudia and Terry swap ideas for their weddings (because Corvus beat Terry to the proposal punch) even if she's a bit more overwhelmed by a Royal wedding and mildly amused she's still having one, it's just not to Callum the way she'd always assumed it would be when they were young

The Sorpeli twins (Briella, she/her, and Brynn, she/they) are born in spring pretty close to the second Rayllum fanbaby, Juni (she/her). The births both go smoothly. Ezran (25) and Claudia (31) are married.

Callum remains civil but still a bit colder with Claudia until she (now 32) and Ezran (26) are having their first child, and there's complications in the birth/pregnancy due to prior dark magic use. He warms up a lot, seeing first how worried Ez is and how continually loyal/devoted Claudia is to his brother, and the fact they named their baby Sarai II doesn't hurt either. A few years later Claudia and Ezran have their second and last son, Daryenn. They take trips every once in a while (alongside Soren and Opeli sometimes) to go visit Corvus and Terry and their couple of kids as well

Assuming everyone here 1) lives throughout the show and 2) an epilogue doesn't show who anyone else is married to except Rayllum (in which case for Claudia in particular I will have the time of my life writing a Clauderry divorce fic) this is my canon, this is my endgame, no one can take it away from me, Thank You Goodnight

#after the war #post season seven #canon crack quartet #headcanons #claudiez #corterry #castle kids #the gang's all here #text post #long post #mine #consider: getting married and having babies as a form of happy normalcy after all the shit you've been through #can be subversive in a world where you had to fight tooth and nail for that to even be an Option

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yurayuramiharin · 1 year

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My fics

The Dragon Prince

Do you want to build a snowelf?

(Runaan x Ethari, rated T, completed)

Runaan is a lone assassin who has left Silvergrove nearly a decade ago. Now, as Winter Solstice is approaching, he decides to return back home and reconsider his past. On top of everything, he meets Ethari, his long lost love. It's time for a winter miracle~

A heart is a heavy burden

(Runaan x Ethari, rated M, completed)

After fighting the Bloodmoon Huntress, Ethari has to wrap his mind around Rayla's decision and face the hardships of parenting. Thankfully, his husband is there to comfort him.

Tales by the table

(Runaan x Ethari, Lain x Tiadrin, rated T, completed)

One snowy evening, Runaan and Ethari tell Rayla a story of how they became a family. Created for Moonfam Day 2022.

Raincheck

(Runaan x Ethari, rated M, completed)

Five times Runaan and Ethari want to fool around but something, or someone, unintentionally interrupts them. Because no one said that parenting was going to be easy.

Under blue moon (I saw you)

(Runaan x Ethari, rated M, ongoing)

College/University AU

Chain me down

(Soren x Corvus, rated M, completed)

Corvus uses his trusty chain during one of his sparring sessions with Soren. Things escalate quickly.

A Song of Love and Loss

(Soren x Corvus, mentions of Runaan x Ethari, rated M, completed)

Soren returns to Katolis from his recent mission in Xadia. It doesn't take long before he has to embark on another journey with Corvus to escort an important guest to the castle. The trip gives them a great opportunity to reflect on their past, present and... future?

Constellation of the Heart

(Aaravos x Viren, rated M, ongoing)

College/University AU

Gone with the sin

(Aditi x Kim'dael, rated M, completed)

Aditi slightly loses her patience. Kim'dael bites back.

Ocean of red

(Aditi x Kim'dael, rated E for blood and gore, completed)

A shortie inspired by s5 trailer release

Infantae febrem (Baby fever)

(Aaravos x Viren, rated E, completed)

Aaravos decides it's time to give Sir Sparklepuff a sibling.

Animal Therapy

(Soren x Corvus, rated G, completed)

Soren returns to the Sunfire camp with three new friends who help him cheer Corvus up.

Strategic distance

(Runaan x Ethari, rated M, completed)

Ethari joins Runaan on the assassin training camp for purely professional purposes. During the night they get a bit too carried away in their tent...

#tdp fanfic #miharin writes

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eerna · 2 years

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what's your thoughts on the new clip of tdp s4?

"wow I wouldn't want to be a fan who didn't read Through the Moon right now" and also "Katolis should invent therapy"

#eernask #fangirlneverlie #eernask talk tdp #i am not feeling this plotline at all. like. not at all. i just want it to end quickly

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blutopaz15 · 3 years

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Comet: What’s your big dream?

Like you did for me, fandom if you want

k so like, shocking no one…therapy for Rayla.

No but seriously:

I want Rayla to have all the things.

All four parental figures back, issues worked through

All KINDS of places she feels like she belongs, and no doubt whatsoever that she’ll be welcome in any of them…silvergrove, katolis, WHEREVER

Happy, happy life with Callum doing whatever it is they want (most of all 💕💕💕) with little, adorable, sweet halfling babies (if they want)

A fulfilling direction for her life that doesn’t involve assassin-ing and lets her be her good, big-hearted self

Friends!!! (besides the boys bc she needs and deserves even more than our wonderful boys can give her)

…and all the Moonberry Surprise she can eat.

ask game bc I’m bored and it’s Friday

#I just Love Her and I want all the good things for her #help I made myself emotional #….or should I blame arnie for that?#I’m blaming arnie for that 🙃#rayllum #rayla #ask games #thanks for asking! :)

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iwillhaveamoonbase · 4 years

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Rayla: *to Soren after interrupting another Rayllum date* Why are you like this?

Callum: We have a saying in Katolis: ‘he was probably dropped on his head as a baby.’

Soren: Ha! I know for a FACT that didn’t happen because you have to be held to be dropped!

Rayla: Oh, Soren, no...

Soren: ......

Soren: ....This is why I need therapy?

Callum: This is why you need therapy.

#rayllum #tdp #the dragon prince #moonbase muses

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thosefiveadoraburrs · 4 years

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what are your favourite rayllum headcanons?

oh gosh there are so many that i’ll probably forget a LOT of them but

- them p much sleeping within the same vicinity after 3x05, meaning they’re there for each other’s nightmares (A LOT OF WHICH HAVE TO DO WITH THE OTHER BC THAT HURT/COMFORT THO)- the rayllum flying kiss did not end when they landed- they also did not land gracefully, but it was v cute and tumbly- i really love the idea of them conceiving their first kid out of wedlock? not necessarily bc of the ~scandalous implications~ but mainly bc the idea that they’ve just been emotionally married since they were teenagers taking over everything so much that they’re like “oh right, we’re supposed to get pregnant AFTER having an actual wedding WHOOPS” is just so soft and comforting to me (and yes this is something that was cemented by jellyjay’s delicate series bc im weak)- they are CONSTANTLY having Big Feelings talks. even when it starts out casual someone will say something offhand and the other’s “oh no bae is Less Than Happy” senses will tingle and they’ll ask to elaborate and bam! another big feelings time. (esp since a lot of the couples i know kind of do this naturally too and it’s such a good soft part of like, having a Life Partner where it’s not Therapy bc ur both way too emotionally invested in the other but sometimes it’s good to have those talks with someone who can’t be unbiased bc they love ur guts too much. Balance, yknow?)- my personal headcanons about them singing - the most traditional mum thing rayla does is take over lullabies for their future baby- this is basically canon but the idea that they really just learn to love themselves by being with each other? i know personally i’m learning that a) self-love is a journey and not a fixed destination and b) you don’t have to have that figured out completely to have a good, healthy relationship, and they don’t rescue you but they kinda just. help u find the energy to save urself. and they have so much of that energy and they’re just gonna be such solid places of support for each other through all the peaks and valleys of life and i love that for them- rayllum’s go-to terms of affection are “love” and “babe”. no im not biased towards these pet names no one can prove anything- the period of time between nyx dropping them off and them reaching thunder’s resting place took a while and during that time they kissed. so much. borderline making out bc they’re dumb teenagers with no adult supervision and yes they’re responsible but also we’ve MET THEM - the “oh god am i a good kisser” nerves went away real quick when one of them was like “well guess we’ll just have to practice ;)”- (the one who said that was 100% callum have u met that flirtyass prince)- when they do eventually get officially married, they have two weddings: one in katolis with a smallish more formal ceremony and the other in the silvergrove, with all the moonshadow elf traditions and much much livelier- rayllum weaving matching tiny braids into each others’ hair as a way to promise themselves to one another (kind of like promise rings but so much better)- this is. way beyond what anyone is thinking at this point but i see them raising a family in the silvergrove. they probs do more work ie. dragonguard and mage stuff into their 30s-50s but eventually they would retire together in the silvergrove. i just see them really taking to that sort of quiet solitude when they’re in their later years. callum’s hair turns grey and rayla gets so fond of the fact that they match now. and they kinda just spend the rest of their lives quietly and blissfully growing old together.

#rayllum #headcanons #asks #long post is long #thethiefandtheairbender

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inflammatoryfandomblog · 4 years

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the dragon prince has... a lot... of writing problems, but the easiest one to spot is probably the exposition the show has.

and it’s hard to succinctly explain why the exposition of the dragon prince so negatively impacts the show, because exposition by itself isn’t bad. the more complex your setting/plot is, the more of it you’ll need--sometimes, the audience needs stuff explained to them. normal.

but there are good ways and bad ways to deliver exposition, and tdp often exposits when it doesn’t really need to. these bits are very short--so they’re hard to spot--but it most often comes up when characters just explain what’s going on in their heads, even though it would be eminently clear with clever editing.

two easy examples that come to mind are a) when callum sees thunder’s corpse and just explains to rayla that he’s conflicted about it (in very uninspired words), and b) when soren explains to callum that the reason he bullied him about being a step-prince was because of his insecurity about his own father.

both were things that were particularly sour to me as a viewer, because a) real people don’t act like everything’s a 24/7 therapy session and b) you could easily use fairly typical cinematic language to convey both these ideas. in callum’s case, you can simply have a shot of him looking up to thunder and juxtaposing that with ezran, maybe even paste a bittersweet smile on his face and have him weakly hold rayla’s hand, whatever. in the second, all you needed to do was have soren apologize with an already-weird apology (”sorry for calling you the step-prince all these years, it was wrong.”) and maybe cut to viren and claudia. when people say “show, don’t tell,” this is the kind of thing they mean.

“it’s for kids.” yeah, kids don’t need this stuff. plus, the demographic that the dragon prince is ostensibly for has presumably grown up on a visual-media-heavy diet, and they understand better than perhaps any other generation the cues of editing.

but another bad piece of exposition is actually the very first scene of the show, where aaravos explains how the elves+dragons ethnically cleansed the humans. the problem with this scene is that i was immediately able to guess the logical course of events by the first two episodes of season 1:

1. humans were persecuted by the elves+dragons for not having magic

2. one guy “invented” dark magic

3. the elves and dragons don’t like that and wanted to exterminate the humans

4. for some reason, they just settled on relocating them instead.

all of this, by the way, turned out to be basically correct. season 3′s cold opener between ziard and sol regem confirms #1, aaravos is implied to be behind #2, and recent writing interviews basically confirm #3 and #4. basically, everything i ever wrote about the elves and dragons was... right?

this one exposition scene contains the entire meat of the conflict between the humans and the elves--and it communicates all this very well. maybe not well enough for some viewers, but i’m a fairly shallow media-consumer, so if it got the point across to me, it did good. so why am i saying that it’s bad exposition?

well, this one’s complicated. the main root of the problem is that the show proper (aside from another flashback in season 3) never addresses it. no character has any opinions on it, except viren, who vaguely references humanity needing to return to its ancestral homeland and wanting humanity to be free from chains. it’s a non-factor to literally everyone else--in three fucking seasons, not one character--not even a side character!--has any direct feelings or opinions re: the historical events that got them there.

And for a series that had “it’s not that simple, there are multiple atrocities from both sides!” in the first few episodes, you’d think that... part of the main conflict of the series... would be to grapple with the history... and move past it... instead of never looking at it, and naively ignoring history with nonspecific platitudes like “we can’t punish people for the crimes of their parents.”

and that last sentence makes sense only if tdp wants to ditch most of its backstory and keep it just between the royal families of katolis and xadia--but that’s not it, either. viren’s motivation has to do more with this history of dark magic and the results of the ethnic cleansing that followed than it does with punishing people for the crimes of their parents! which only works with the zym/ezran parallel and literally nothing else.

so as a viewer, knowing all this from the get go makes this series hard to watch. but i think there’s also a problem with the history being given to us as exposition the characters don’t interact with--and that’s the characters don’t interact with it. like imagine if this information was revealed to us at the same time it was brought up to the characters--it would mean that the audience would also be on a similar journey to the characters, and it would mean that the characters actually have to interact with that history.

like imagine if a human, instead of being a HUR DURR STUPID PEASANT WITH PITCHFORKS!!! actually said something like “the elves and dragons would have exterminated us, you think you can make peace with them?” or something like that, and that was the first hint of what would be going on. or maybe sol regem straight-up tells callum he’s a lesser being instead of that also being shoved into a flashback, maybe be like “ah, you remind me of the first of your kind!!! talk of peace but smells of death!!!” once he realizes callum has practiced dark magic before or... something!! then the show could actually grapple with what history means to the present instead of awkwardly handwaving it.

the fact that the history is more-or-less unimportant to the main characters also means that the setting and worldbuilding become less interesting and less relevant. aaravos, the Big Mystery Guy i’m supposed to care about, means jack shit to everybody except viren. and khessa, but she was racist and she died and she actually doesn’t matter. all the “ultimate villain” of the show has is... people being thirsty for him... and people who like making headcanons about him, which just isn’t really compelling plotting or writing.

anywas, imma end this tangent before it gets truly out of control. the more i think about it, the more i realize that front-loading such important aspects of tdp’s lore into the front was a mistake that let the writers be lazy with it and really... just throw most of the plot’s potential in the garbage. on a smaller level as well, the tendency to explain shit to the audience that doesn’t need to be explained kind of rips away the advantage of having a visual medium.

#tdp #the dragon prince #me.txt #begone thought

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raayllum · 4 years

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me thinking about how viren must’ve babysat the princes at least once and how much their relationship has deteriorated since then

#it was just red #having a funky fresh time my dudes #the royal family of katolis #viren #headcanons #memes #mine #and at that point he still would've taken their mother's last breath i'm Upset #viren could've just gONE TO THERAPY AND IT WOULD'VE BEEN F I N E

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raayllum · 3 years

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Headcanons for ptsd nightmares for each character post season 3?

rayla’s are canon but here’s the headcanons for the main five kids anyway (tw for trauma, ptsd, etc.?)

rayla

seeing her loved ones entrapped in the ice and being unable to save them (her mother, father, runaan, and callum, per canon, but honestly ezran, zym, and ethari too as hc)

drabble of a nightmare rayla has about the first time she met callum

dreams where she keeps falling off the pinnacle and dies with viren / the wings don’t work and callum dies too

tends to be more related to anniversary trauma but her having nightmares about katolis somehow Ghosting her too (so she literally has no place to go)

like just basically everything that happened to her in “through the moon” in her dreams and in the portal itself tbh

she tends to wake up with aching pains in her wrist that had the binding on for longer

ezran

his nightmares tend to feature either the egg prominently, since he felt so responsible and attached to it right away, or his father’s death and how he had no real clue it was happening but in reality was just in the courtyard outside

frequent nightmares as king of assassins coming for him again finishing the job this time around that makes him wake up in cold sweat

all three of the trio have dreams that feature drowning but ezran and callum in particular

ezran only processing how terrifying being in the dungeons was well after the fact and a lack of sunlight featuring in a lot of his dreams (sometimes tied in with the drowning)

don’t even get me started on the nightmares related to viren in 3x09

bait doubles as a therapy toad

after nightmares if soren’s on guard duty, ezran will go out into the hallway to sit with him and often falls asleep leaning against the crownguard

callum

he tends to have panic attacks over nightmares, but the latter are still fairly common

he’ll often be transported to post-s1 when he didn’t have the primal stone, but ezran (under the ice) and rayla (falling or by soren and claudia) die while or because he’s “helpless” to do anything about it

drowning and falling for obvious reasons

having his magic taken from him - also plays into having his voice stolen by viren again, sometimes warps into having his breath stolen (the way he saw in the 3x08 flashbacks) which all feed back into the anxiety over breathing thing

a lot of his nightmares have him trapped, somehow, unable to move and spring into action

yelling “dad” in the tower in 1x03 comes back often, although his feet are sometimes encased in ice or tar or chains

his first ever nightmare was imagining how his mother died and it’s the most reoccurring one

soren

his only nightmare is really about stabbing viren, as nothing could horrify him more than that

sometimes, though, the dream will shift and he’ll have let viren stab ezran, blood spurting, and his father looks at him and smiles, teeth sharp. “i’m proud of you, my son.”

he hates those dreams most of all, and has a hard time looking at ezran the next day, and inevitably stress eats jelly tarts at least a little.

claudia

her worst nightmare is a memory, of finding viren’s corpse with his head smashed open on the rocks, limbs bent at wrong angles

dragging the dead body somewhere safe and then finding a barely alive soldier (or luring an injured one in) to murder is a close second

sometimes she dreams that soren stabbed her, instead

(she still doesn’t know how to feel about those)

#thanks for asking #tw blood #castle kids #headcanons #anonymous #requests

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raayllum · 4 years

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through the moon thoughts

disclaimer: this is by no means all encompassing or a review - those will come on october 6th when i’ve actually sat through and read everything and like, fully digested it in all of it’s kindle glory, but, for now - including both a spoilers (under the read more) and non spoilery section

no spoilers

loooved the art style! it was so cute and great at capturing emotion, very expressive like the show is and everything looked very nice and cute and cool

loved soren and rayla bonding!! that was so nice

ezran and lujanne and phoe-phoe was so sweet

loved learning more about moon magic

angstier than expected but i?? loved it??

the rayllum was excellent

spoilers for everything!!

god i knew rayla would pull this shit but i thought it’d be in s5 or something not this early. callum did absolutely everything he possibly could and she still did this shit to him, she is... lucky he has the forgiving nature of a saint, sometimes

soren and rayla sparring?? talking about runaan and viren?? just so good.

also i loved allen and have fully accepted him into the found family

loved the kiss and callum initiating two of the hugs!! i wanted both of those things so bad

and god the reality of rayla being traumatized to the point she starts to lose herself in spite of her support system, it was... so real and heartbreaking and i hope she gets to a better place soon bc. baby girl please just go to therapy i am begging you

i loved callum’s own baggage in regards to runaan being acknowledged even if it made him lose sight of his own compassion for her, and how they made up pretty seamlessly afterwards. the healthy communication didn’t entirely go out the door

the dead assassin troupe finally getting closure and seemingly being “released” at long last? was actually super fucking emotional and i loved it, it’s what they deserve

also callum’s self loathing coming through with “why do i always say dumb things” and way he shut down a lil when rayla wasn’t there in the morning at first, like honey i knew it wasn’t gone but still, this poor, poor boy

rayla being like “give me a boost” and callum automatically knowing what to do?? them basically fighting back to back? they train together no one can convince me otherwise

baby phoe-phoe was adorable

the three panel forehead touch was immaculate, 10/10

i fucking loved that ezran’s the one who thought of the feather to help callum survive the portal!! like yes my smart king, the contribution!!

also the parallels of callum going to lujanne the same way rayla did in 2x02?? loved it

lujanne’s entire presence in this book was so good and fun, i always love seeing more of her

the symbolism of rayla leaving her katolis pajamas folded up and donning a dragonguard-esque / moonshadow cloak? leaving callum a letter? the head kiss? destroyed me

the fact we canonically have each of them saying “i love you” first

rayla’s hand on his cheek when they kissed?? the reunion hug?? god my hEART

ezran cheering on soren during the sparring match was so sweet

#through the moon #through the moon spoilers #dragons rambles

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