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raayllum · 2 months

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She Must Pay the Price, or A Drop of Mercy :: A Rayla and Leola Meta

Quick:

You're a young elven girl, and you show mercy and compassion to a human that you definitely weren't supposed to. When it's found out, you're punished, with elves even calling for your execution (6x09, book 1 novelization). Your father does what he can, but there's only so much. You're put on trial. You're found guilty regardless of intent, and only by association. You die for this; you die for them. You're a star. A guiding light. There's even a Great Fall off a precipice (though only one of you hits the ground).

Your name is Leola, or Rayla.

You're the beginning and the end, respectively.

So let's talk about it.

Tests of Love

For years, I had wondered where Aaravos' assessment of "Those who fail tests of love are simple animals. They deserve to be motivated by fear" (2x09) came from, cause you don't drop in a line like that if it's not going somewhere. It's quite a statement and worldview, after all. Now, with Leola's trial, it seems we know.

We can see, then, perhaps that Leola's gift giving was the first test of love — are you willing to break the Natural Law, the Natural Order of things? — to help another? To show another a source of power in order to share, to be compassionate, and in Rayla's case, to be merciful (though we'll get more to that in a minute).

We also know that the love Leola had was powerful and all encompassing:

She didn't care to follow the order set in the stars. Though she was born an immortal being from the Heavens, she loved this world... and all its flaws. Her heart was warm and open.

And she befriended mortals. Animals, elves... and humans.

ETHARI: Who I love, where I love, what I love, are all specific. But to Runaan and those like your parents... love is rooted in all families, all creatures. Souls like that feel called to protect everyone as fiercely as those they hold close. (Bloodmoon Huntress)

Okay, so Leola and Rayla both have big compassionate hearts and befriend creatures from all over the place. So what? So do Callum, Ezran, Soren, and most of our other main good guy characters. Even Claudia to a degree (though she could work on not using magical creatures for spell parts).

Well, specifically, it's because of how they intersect currently more with anyone else on the concept of

Mercy

KOSMO: Daughter of the Moon, yours is a wondrous heart. In a moment of mercy, you sent ripples out into the ocean of time. Ripples that have not yet stilled. (6x05)

Rayla sparing Marcos, as noted in multiple interviews by the creators and by myself in previous metas, is ultimately the inciting incident / lynchpin of the entire series. Without it, there would've been no soulfang proposal or Ez running away to find the egg or any of the number of other elements that had to come together to make achieving peace possible.

While we still have details to discover regarding Aaravos' Fall and development of dark magic, we know that a lack of mercy was ultimately what sent him on his path of vengeance. Leola was not shown mercy, and while it seems there were already "flaws" for an imperfect world, things were (probably) better than they currently are in Xadia in a variety of ways. Then, to kick off the entire Saga, we have Rayla sparing Marcos in a soundtrack literally titled "Mercy" and have Kosmo, seasons and seasons later, spell out directly what a big deal this was for well, the ocean of time.

None of this is to say Rayla can't act out of revenge — she did ("when I first came here, I was on a mission for revenge") and she has ("but I became so obsessed with revenge"), much like Aaravos ("he isn't doing anything out of love, he's doing it for revenge") — but that her general compassion and love for others has always been stronger than her grief or rage, and that even when she had every social and personal reason to, she was and is fundamentally unable to hurt someone innocent.

Even when she's shamed or punished for it by herself or by others. RAYLA: The human looked up at me, and I saw the fear in his eyes. RUNAAN: Of course he was afraid, but you a job to do! (1x01)

EZRAN: Yeah, but then you saw he was scared, and you knew he was a person, just like you. RAYLA: That shouldn't have mattered. I had a job to do. (1x08)

The Cosmic Council — and to a degree, the Silvergrove — say that the reasonings or motivations, the intentions, behind Leola and Rayla's actions do not and should not matter when it comes out to doling 'Justice'. So Leola faces her justice, being literally killed in the one manner that can kill a Startouch elf, and so does Rayla, being metaphorically Ghosted / 'murdered' by her community, regardless.

Neither are enough to ultimately quell their light or their love/power, however.

A Star

RAYLA: That beautiful shining star you just pointed out? We call it Leola's Last Wish. (5x02)

So both Leola and Rayla are stars in season 6, literally and metaphorically respectively. Leola's is more self-explanatory, whereas Rayla's is mostly about the role she has in Callum's life as a guiding light and star. I don't think it's a coincidence, though, that just as Rayla placed Callum on his path of being a primal mage, though, that Leola did the same for humanity. I also don't think it's a coincidence that Callum's love for Rayla restores Callum's own light and agency amid Leola giving humanity the same through light and fire.

It happened long ago, when humans had only just learned to hold fire in their hands without burning. They nurtured their precious primal flames secretly—in the dark of night, beneath shadows and shrouds—as cultivating its glow drew the eyes and ire of monsters. Eventually, for the audacity of their fire, they were hunted, and—though they looked to the stars for salvation—the stars, too, looked down upon them with disdain. Humanity had been given something it was never meant to have. (TDP shorts, Ripples)

In this way, we see the manifestation of a repeating parallel of Rayla representing Leola, a gift giver of life, magic, light, unjustly punished/killed, and Callum representing humanity, looking to the kindest brightest star for guidance, magic, restoration, and salvation if he's just given the chance to grasp it. After all, presumably, Leola's last wish would have something to do with primal magic and humanity, and who represents that better than Callum, with two arcana under his belt and possibly more on the way? With that in mind, I want to return to another quote from earlier but with a different focus on

Ripples

Daughter of the Moon, yours is a wondrous heart. In a moment of mercy, you sent ripples out into the ocean of time. Ripples that have not yet stilled.

The wisest of the humans looked upon the water. His own reflection smiled back at him, and he dared to imagine what such power would feel like in his own hands, should he be allowed to hold it. Imagine, he thought, if I were more than what I am. With a trembling hand he touched the surface of the water. Ripples spread from his fingertips. [...] I hope the stars were watching. I hope they saw it: the moment their perfect reflections turned warped and ruined, churned to chaos by the touch of a single human hand. In this, the humans taught me another lesson. And so I touch the surface of the water. I watch the ripples spread.

Water in TDP is a strange beast, symbolically speaking. There are some more straight forward motifs (reflections, "don't try to control where the river [of life] goes, there's one thing you can know and control: yourself"). For Aaravos, it's connected to deep loss but also his own sense of patience in playing and winning his game, as illustrated above. For Rayla, it's linked to shame, self-reflection, bravery, and loss. Aaravos weeps and creates a sea upon losing Leola; Rayla says goodbye to her family by the lotus pond times three.

We don't know what water represents for Leola. Not distinctly, anyway. The best we can figure though, is that by following the through line of the Rayla and Leola parallels, that the ripples Leola wanted to send out or did send out — not the distortions caused by her father and his grief — are ones that Rayla received, and then continued.

Rayla has always been a foil to Aaravos, and this hasn't changed. She is the one who set Callum on the path initially of being a mage, which put him in Aaravos' machinations as prey; she retrieved his Key; and she's the reason Callum's done dark magic, twice. At the same time, much like the moon, Rayla carries Leola's light as much as she shoulders Aaravos' dark. She literally represents light in Callum's life, helps lead him through the darkness, and him being a primal mage and it's possible growth to other humans is the best possible thing that could've ever happened to Xadia.

Sol Regem says that "no one can save" Xadia or fix what is deeply broken. The Cosmic Council said that Leola had broken the Cosmic order and had to pay the price. Rayla has repeatedly been willing to pay the price for both hers and other's actions in hopes of making things right, of sparing others' pain. Sometimes to her detriment, but—if Rayla as Callum's one Truth could fix the darkness within him, if she's the lynchpin for breaking the Cycle, for bringing back Runaan and fixing her family's souls, in opposing and presenting mercy amid the Council's lack of mercy, in the face of Xadia's violence—

Then Rayla's act of mercy in 1x01, and potentially beyond in S7 with Callum, will be what fixes Xadia.

Leola's gift of magic is what 'broke' Xadia, and her execution is what literally did so, leading to the division of the continent. She wrongly paid the price in the absence of mercy and love. Rayla is therefore her thematic successor — welcomed this time as Light and Truth — as the carrier of Mercy and Love, and she will 'fix' Xadia through her ripples and dynamics. She will mend them back together. There will, at last, be no price to pay.

Misc. Thoughts / Predictions

One thing I was always curious about going forward into future seasons was the prospect of a 'trial' or reunification of the Silvergrove. It felt like a no-brainer the Silvergrove would have to change in order to reflect Runaan's character arc, much the way we see Katolis and the Sunfire elves change to better accommodate the new, more compassionate world order. Pre-S4 a trial felt a little strange as an idea, though post-S4 the parallels it could provide to the Lucia tribunal made more sense about why include either (or both).

However, Leola's trial seemed to hammer home the almost necessity (as this is still a prediction, after all, that may not happen) of Rayla and/or Runaan saying their peace to the Silvergrove leaders. This would be a great opportunity to provide a contrast to the Cosmic Council, reaffirming that Xadia is ultimately better than them because the Moonshadow elves and everyone else can change, and the Cosmic Council seemingly cannot or will not. But I guess we'll have to wait for S7 or beyond (#GiveUsTheSaga) to find out if this'll come to fruition or not.

I also wanted to touch on what we see with Leola ("I'm so scared!") and the repeated emphasis on "recognizing fear as a moment of empathy and personhood" and the horror that can come if you don't have that moment of recognition. This is something I've touched on before most notably as a striking difference between S1 Rayla and S5 Claudia, but I thought it was worth mentioning as S6 added to it specifically with Viren towards Soren and Lissa. This is another point in the "Rayla is an inversion of the Council's lack of mercy" column, as Leola's — a child's fear, and Aaravos willing to pay the price and take her place — earns her no mercy. Rayla, meanwhile, sees someone innocent that she has 'every right' to execute is afraid of her, and that strays her hand; it steadies her sword, and she spares him. Because if someone is afraid of you, it's worth asking yourself why, and what you might want to do instead.

Last but not least I wanted to talk about Leola's parallels to Callum and Ezran as well, since they are very much there (though yet not perhaps to the same extent).

Ezran has Leola's friendliness to animals and soft heart. He too is a child whose death is called for as a means of Justice, and he is granted mercy through Rayla and the discovery of the egg, able to live and grow and help usher in peace. He is, I think, what Leola might've been allowed to be if she'd lived in different times. Callum, meanwhile, carries the gift giving motif through his cube, staff, and tokens he both gives to (moon-phoenix bracelet) and receives (the moon opal necklace) from Rayla, and previous 'human-Leola' magic dynamic. Callum being able to break free fully from Aaravos' and dark magic's control in S7 and turn his eye instead to primal magic will be what helps bring true justice to Leola and hope for humanity / Xadia in righting the Cosmic Council's fundamental wrongdoing. Hopefully, anyway.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed this deep dive into some parallels and potential narrative goings-on between Leola and Rayla as characters. TDP loves its historical and ironic layers in TDP (Ez and the Orphan Queen, Viren's arc from S1 to S6) and I think this layered thematic dynamic between the two merciful young girls was a good, brilliant choice by the creative team. I'm excited to see where this thematic thread goes in the future and how it may continue to be woven into the story. As always, thank you for reading, and I'll see you in the next one.

#tdp rayla #tdp leola #tdp meta #tdp spoilers #the dragon prince #she must pay the price #s6 spoilers #multi #arc 1 #arc 2 #s6 #analysis series #analysis #parallels #rayla #leola

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samepisodebracket · 2 years

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justice for sam

If the spnepisodebracket craze has shown us anything, it's that the supernatural fanbase is extremely divided, with the lowly sam stan seemingly at the bottom of the pile. sam is always last in polls, so this is a bracket for the 10% or so who always votes for him. because yeah, there's 327 episodes of Supernatural, but how many are popular because of a dean or destiel moment? how many good episodes are drowned out because they focus on sam?

i've chosen, with some crowdsourced peer review (special thanks to @spneveryseason, @suncaptor, and @ambersock!) 125 episodes that are Sam Relevant. Some are extremely sam-centric, some just have a shot where sam looks like he's being crucified that gives me brain worms -- i tried to be generous about it to keep a relatively even seasons distribution! matchups will be random and polls will last 24 hours each. in the tradition of @spnepisodebracket (who this is obviously inspired by and would not be possible without!) i'll try to rb a gifset for every episode in the poll!

a final note: no this is not that serious but the criteria for voting here should be how good the episode is as a SAM episode, not as anything else, so please vote accordingly! i am making this for people who actually enjoy sam and if that is not you, then this is not the poll for you!

with that out of the way, here is the compiled list of episodes! voting starts this sammy sunday, 3/26!

Season 1 Pilot (1x01) Bloody Mary (1x05) Home (1x09) Asylum (1x10) Scarecrow (1x11) Nightmare (1x14) Shadow (1x16) Provenance (1x19) Salvation (1x21) Devil's Trap (1x22) Season 2 Simon Said (2x05) Croatoan (2x09) Hunted (2x10) Playthings (2x11) Houses of the Holy (2x13) Born Under a Bad Sign (2x14) Heart (2x17) All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 (2x21) All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 (2x22) Season 3 Bad Day at Black Rock (3x03) A Very Supernatural Christmas (3x08) Mystery Spot (3x11) Jus In Bello (3x12) Time is On My Side (3x15) Season 4 Metamorphosis (4x04) It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester (4x07) I Know What You Did Last Summer (4x09) After School Special (4x13) On the Head of a Pin (4x16) It's a Terrible Life (4x17) Jump the Shark (4x19) When the Levee Breaks (4x21) Lucifer Rising (4x22) Season 5 Good God, Y'all! (5x02) Free to be You and Me (5x03) Changing Channels (5x08) Sam, Interrupted (5x11) Swap Meat (5x12) The Song Remains the Same (5x13) My Bloody Valentine (5x14) Dark Side of the Moon (5x16) 99 Problems (5x17) Two Minutes to Midnight (5x21) Swan Song (5x22) Season 6 Exile on Main St. (6x01) You Can't Handle the Truth (6x06) Family Matters (6x07) Clap Your Hands if You Believe (6x09) Caged Heat (6x10) Appointment in Samarra (6x11) Like a Virgin (6x12) Unforgiven (6x13) The French Mistake (6x15) The Man Who Knew Too Much (6x22) Season 7 Meet the New Boss (7x01) Hello, Cruel World (7x02) The Girl Next Door (7x03) Season 7, Time for a Wedding! (7x08) Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie (7x14) Repo Man (7x15) Out with the Old (7x16) The Born-Again Identity (7x17) Season 8 We Need to Talk About Kevin (8x01) Hunteri Heroici (8x08) Trial and Error (8x14) Taxi Driver (8x19) Pac-Man Fever (8x20) The Great Escapist (8x21) Clip Show (8x21) Sacrifice (8x23) Season 9 Holy Terror (9x09) Road Trip (9x10) First Born (9x11) The Purge (9x13) Meta Fiction (9x18) Season 10 Black (10x01) Soul Survivor (10x03) Fan Fiction (10x05) Inside Man (10x17) Book of the Damned (10x18) The Werther Project (10x19) The Prisoner (10x22) Brother's Keeper (10x23) Season 11 Form and Void (11x02) Baby (11x04) Just My Imagination (11x08) Oh Brother Where Art Thou (11x09) The Devil in the Details (11x10) Into the Mystic (11x11) Ouroborus (11x14) Red Meat (11x17) Don't Call Me Shurley (11x20) Season 12 Keep Calm and Carry On (12x01) Mamma Mia (12x02) American Nightmare (12x04) Rock Never Dies (12x07) The Raid (12x14) Who We Are (12x22) Season 13 Lost and Found (13x01) Patience (13x03) The Big Empty (13x04) Various & Sundry Villains (13x12) A Most Holy Man (13x15) Funeralia (13x19) Beat the Devil (13x21) Exodus (13x22) Let the Good Times Roll (13x23) Season 14 Stranger in a Strange Land (14x01) Mint Condition (14x04) Nightmare Logic (14x05) Byzantium (14x08) Prophet and Loss (14x12) Lebanon (14x13) Peace of Mind (14x15) Game Night (14x17) Moriah (14x20) Season 15 Back and to the Future (15x01) Atomic Monsters (15x04) The Rupture (15x03) Golden Time (15x06) The Gamblers (15x11) Unity (15x17) Inherit the Earth (15x19) Finale: Carry On (15x20)

Edits: Bugs (1x08) will be added, polls will not be completely random bc im not doing this for science im doing this to see a good episode win and my randomizer pit when the levee breaks against swan song in round 1

#samepisodebracket #sam winchester #polls #spn #spn polls

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hannah-shipper-banana · 1 year

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I swear i have a personality that goes beyond Austin and Ally but on the few occasions I come on Tumblr, I’m instantly hit with Auslly fever.

My favorite episode is Tunes and Trials (2x09) because that episode just gets me in the feels every time.

Like come onnnnn

First Ally tells Austin to write his own song and when he has literally no idea what to do, she tells him write about something he cares about.

Thus prompting him to write his first EVER song on his own (and undoubtedly being one of the best A and A songs).

Trish and Dez notice the song is rather romantic as it’s literally about him stealing someone’s heart. (Not literally but you know what I’m saying, winning someone over) But since Austin isn’t creative like that to be singing about something in general, it MUST be about somebody.

Blah Blah Blah there’s legal drama because Val tries to pass off the song as her own. And even after being in a literal courtroom, Austin still doesn’t want to confess who he wrote the song for. (IMO i dont see how that is much evidence but-hey I see where they were going with it, it would’ve counted as inspiration to write the song i guess)

Eventually he’s asked to perform the song and gives us one of the most memorable performances in the whole show.

Trish notices that he danced or interacted with every person the song was rumored to be about (aka his exes) EXCEPT Ally. (When i was first watching I was wondering why he didn’t even glance at Ally during the performance because she’s literally his most recent ex)

ONLY to find out that the reason he didn’t interact with her was because it would’ve hit too close to home and been too emotional for him…BECAUSE THE SONG WAS ABOUT HER!!!!! *gasp* plot twist (is it really tho?)

And the reason he didn’t want to reveal it was because he didn’t want to make his feelings public and ruin their friendship. Also I feel like he kept it a secret because it was a little school boy crush yk. *cue the AWWS in the audience*

Ally ends up revealing that she’s relieved because she had hoped the song was about her. *cue the AWWS in the audience*

Blah blah blah the judge is a major Auslly shipper (as we all are) and drops the case. And everyone celebrates.

Austin wrote his first ever song by himself, about a girl aka his best friend/ex/musical partner who he still had a big crush on.

#auslly #austin and ally #austin moon #austin and ally really was that show #ally dawson #steal your heart

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dailyats · 1 year

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Best Episode Poll (Poll 3/11)

#ats #angel the series #buffyverse #polls #our polls #besteppoll

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bikananjarrus · 2 months

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hi!!! top 10 rebels episodes?? :)

omg thank you for this question! 💙 i think this was my hardest question to answer yet lol. i got to 10 SO quickly. if i could say the whole show is my fave i would! in no particular order (and counting some of the two parters as one ep):

the call (2x15)

spark of rebellion (1x01/02)

family reunion and farewell (4x16)

trials of the darksaber (3x15)

stealth strike (2x09)

twilight of the apprentice (2x21/22)

steps into shadow (3x01/3x02)

fire across the galaxy (1x15)

legends of the lasat (2x14)

shroud of darkness (2x18)

(honorable mentions that i can't bear to not mention bc they are also right up there with my faves: twin suns, kindred, homecoming, rise of the old masters, always two there are)

ask me my top 5/top 10 anything!

#as you can tell with 50% of them being from s2 i LOVE that season it's my fave <3 #swr #asks #answered #mik chats

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goodwhump-temp · 2 years

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M*A*S*H - Hawkeye Whump

2x05 Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde - Sleep deprived, worried/anxious, worried/cared for, paranoid, cries, maximum confusion, drugged 2x08 The Trial of Henry Blake - Foot squeezed, arrested 2x09 Dear Dad Three - Life flashes before eyes (grenade in patient) 2x11 Carry On Hawkeye - Only doctor during flu pandemic, nauseated, sick, exhausted 4x04 It Happened One Night - Bit by shell-shocked patient 4x19 Hawkeye - Car crash, intense pain & lightheaded the whole episode 5x04 Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Blinded, in pain, depressed about loosing his hawkEYES, angry outburst 5x20 Hepatitis - Insane back pain the whole episode, jealous, annoyed, trauma 6x13 Comrades In Arms Pt.1 - Bombed, scared, hit by chunk of wood, in pain, limping, scared 6x14 Comrades In Arms Pt.2 - Limping, in pain, scared, annoyed, slapped, complicated Houlihan relationship issues 7x01 Commander Pierce - Angry/stressed 7x21 C.A.V.E. - Intense claustrophobia, scared, comforted, Houlihan bonding 8x06 Period of Adjustment - Punched, scared 8x25 April Fools - Paranoid, visibly exhausted, humiliated 9x01 The Best of Enemies - Bad sleep 9x17 Bless You, Hawkeye - Sneezing/itching intensifying, feels like hes dying, trauma, emotional 10x17 Where There's a Will, There's a Way - Scared the whole episode, emotional 11x04 The Joker Is Wild - Paranoid, sleep deprived, humiliated 11x16 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen - Horrible PTSD/hospital, guilt, emotional

#m*a*s*h #MASH #Mash tv #mash 4077 #alan alda #hawkeye pierce #hawkeye #whump #whump list #emotional whump #whumplist

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thepunkmuppet · 10 months

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just rewatched the trial (2x09) and AHHHHHAHAHAHHHHAHAHH DRUSILLA SERVED SO MUCH CUNT THE SLOW MOTION THE TRAGEDY OF IT ALL SEASON 2 IS SO FUCKING GOODDDDD

#also the trial guy was a serve. wish he was a long term villain or just character in general that actor was genuinely so good #ats #angel the series #btvs drusilla #btvs darla #btvs angel #ats 2x9

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gh-0-stcup · 2 years

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Killed for manpain - round two.

#2x09 the trial #ats #ats s2 #darla #let angel turn her and give her a soul you COWARDS

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raayllum · 2 years

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1x01: no tears, although Ezran almost cries

1x02: Harrow cries while embracing an emotionally distraught Callum

1x03: No tears

1x04: No tears

1x05: No tears

1x06: Callum almost cries while Ezran is under the ice

1x07: Ellis cries in her flashback with Ava

1x08: No tears

1x09: Rayla and Ezran both cry over Zym / Rayla’s guilt and Ezran trying to comfort her

2x01: No tears

2x02: Callum cries over Harrow at the end of the episdoe

2x03: Callum cries over Harrow (x2), Claudia cries as well

2x04: No tears

2x05: Callum is emotional but does not cry while trying to read the letter

2x06: Callum cries while reading the letter, Harrow cries, and Aanya cries

2x07: No tears, although Callum comes close when Rayla leaves

2x08: Ezran and Rayla cry over the Harrow reveal, Soren cries with the weight of everything on his shoulders

2x09: Rayla cries over Callum; Claudia cries when revealing her family past to Ezran; Ezran cries over his brother and father

3x01: No tears

3x02: No tears

3x03: Rayla nearly cries with Ethari and Amaya cries in the Trial of Light

3x04: Rayla sobs over the loss of her home/family

3x05: No tears

3x06: Harrow cries while avenging Sarai, Avizandum cries while being ripped away from his son

3x07: Janai weeps when losing her sister

3x08: Rayla cries in her argument with Callum and before they make up

3x09: Callum cries seeing Rayla fall, Rayla cries upon seeing Zym reunited with his mother, and Claudia cries reviving Viren

4x01: Claudia cries explaining what she did to bring Viren back; Callum cries over Rayla’s disappearance

4x02: Viren cries when Claudia hugs him, Callum nearly cries when Rayla returns

4x03: Terry sobs after killing Ibis, Ezran sheds a tear once Corvus’ song is done

4x04: Terry continues to deal with the fallout of Ibis’ death

4x05: Callum cries on the Storm Spire, likely over the possession and everything that’s happened in the past two days

4x06: Karim cries upon realizing he will never live to see his people return to what they once were (cultural grief)

4x07: no tears

4x08: no tears

4x09: Callum sobs over possibly losing Rayla while she weeps over having her family slip through her fingers

21/36 episodes of TDP feature some kind of tears, with plenty of moments that didn’t make it (aka shiny eyes / on the verge of tears but not actual tears). Which is unsurprising for a show that deals with grief so heavily, but paints a pretty clear picture of how emotionally heavy the show can be, particularly in S4, which features only 2 (two) episodes in which a character does not cry, the lowest of any season thus far.

#tdp #the dragon prince #the cycle #like no kidding jc #mine #text post #arc 1 #arc 2 #s1 #s2 #s3 #s4

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