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Me every time I talk about viren it just becomes

Has layer

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Happy father's day to Viren.

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Zym Concept Art by Lisa Henke

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weird mermaid!au I’ve been thinking about for the past 2 weeks.

I’m trying to learn how to use photoshop better (and leave paint tool sai behind) so this was a great exercise hehe

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I think the problem I have with the dragon prince (beyond a surprising lack of dragons), while finding most of it decently entertaining, is that by far the most interesting aspect of their magic system is dark magic and the other magic doesn't even remotely compare to the point where it feel unintentionally imbalanced. Not to sound like Viren but it IS clever and practical and until any of the other kinds of magic can prove that they're able to cure full body paralysis for the price of a single deer (who get hunted for their meat daily anyway) they don't hold a candle to it.

Yes, other dark magic spells bad, don't trap people in coins forever, but like, for a series that likes to dip its toe into grey morality sometimes, it's weird how 'we should evaluate spells on a case by case basis instead of painting all of a certain kind with the same brush because some of them are incredibly helpful' doesn't seem to be the final conclusion the series is/was headed towards. Am I supposed to give up all helpful drugs because some of them are poisonous or addictive? No, it's about which ones are used in which context and in what amount. Maybe 'regulations good' is just too boring a conclusion or something.

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lord Viren as a Survey Corps commander because "offer our hearts" is just SO him, Soren, Rayla and Amaya coded

More than that, I've often been saying Viren feels like an AoT character unknowingly trapped in a Disney movie. He wishes he was Erwin. Heck, he is Erwin (without the charisma). He's a tragic utilitarian war strategist, shaped by moral erosion, politics, dilemmas, trauma, looming apocalyptic doom, and systemic collapse, while TDP is structured around didactic binaries and idealism somehow promoted by the one true king of divine right who is just oh-so-perfect and can speak to animals for some reason.

Viren's black clothing, baryton voice, magic mirror, dark magic, and role as the king's advisor cast him as Scar or Jafar, queer-coded, full of hubris, sadistic, sociopathic, and doomed by the narrative because he's a power-hungry monster. But in AOT, his pragmatism would actually be part of the debate : he no longer believes in “good,” only in sacrifice, survival and necessity. He's lost his wife, his family, his legitimacy, and perhaps his soul — but he keeps going, no matter how many more people and parts of him he has to lose, because not going on would mean everything was meaningless. Broken, pragmatic, clinging to action as the last bulwark against despair, haunted by guilt and by everything he lost and forsake.

His actions make sense within his paradigm — it’s just that the narrative judges them by another paradigm.

For example : the scene where Viren gloats while imprisoning Ezran. Trade with the devil or not, it makes no sense for someone to gloat at the boy whose mom died saving him, whose dad he tried to sacrifice himself for two weeks ago, who spared his own kids from life imprisonment and whom he watched growing up since birth. That's what Scar would do. Not Viren. I'm sorry, but giving all the executive power to a child of eight, going so far as not reading any letters as long as he's still missing, all that while there is a goddamn dragon and human invasion happening, is just recipie for disaster. Imagine Erwin having to wait for the seal of approval of a Reiss child to defend the walls or evacuate citizens.

Anyway Viren as survey corps commander "offer your hearts" and that tridimensional gear is an absolute nightmare to draw

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(225): I feel like you’re encouraging me to commit a felony.

(985): I feel like you’re wasting time.

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(203): You obviously don’t comprehend the level of insane I operate at.

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Aaravos screenshot redraw from the dragon prince finale

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Viren for @madou-dilou

I'm sorry, but after 4 seasons I only have one picture of Viren in my head

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Happy Birthday, Viren!

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it's viren's birthday wowie

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"Would you, Viren?"

[x]

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Took me this long to realize you can color in HeroForge but here's my OC, Ruvyn!

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This post is for fellow Virsters ONLY

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