“Mages aren’t born with the ability to use magic. The talent usually surfaces around puberty, and never reveals itself in quite the same way. Signs may be as subtle as spontaneously changing eye colour or extreme as accidentally starting a fire.”
Sharing this little tidbit because you can give your mage fantasy eye colours and it’s entirely canon, friends. Felassan does not have to be alone with his magic-y purple eyes, or Morrigan with her yellow.
me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!
me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES
Confession: Solas is the dread wolf? Blackwall is Thom Rainier? The biggest twist for me is apparently the 50+ Grand Duchess Florianne is a friggin NINAJ!!!
If you must blink, do it now. Pay careful attention to everything you see and hear, no matter how unusual it may seem. And please be warned: If you fidget, if you look away, if you forget any part of what I tell you - even for an instant - then our hero will surely perish.
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) dir. Travis Knight