i need people to recognise that while osha was/is emotionally repressed, that doesn't mean she's innately passive in her personality?? passivity is forced upon her by other characters (primarily sol and the jedi) but since she was a kid she expressed a desire for action and adventure - she was the one sneaking out of the fortress to the bunta tree, desiring her own life outside of the coven and her relationship with mae, drawn to the jedi and their lightsabers, and even when she leaves the jedi order, she doesn't exactly settle down somewhere quiet but goes to the other end of the galaxy and takes up a dangerous mechanic job that's only legal for droids to do while hopping from ship to ship and getting tattoos on drunk nights out with her crew? even in episode five with yord trying to haul her back to the ship, she doesn't exactly go completely willing (sol has to force push her into yord!) and is then the one that convinces yord to go back (💀), and she also immediately latches onto the idea of rejoining the jedi when she thinks sol is offering that at the beginning of episode four, and once she does know the truth, she instinctively force choked sol and bled his lightsaber (even anakin needed more convincing/encouragement to go dark side than she did)
mae comes across are more active/aggressive because she's more emotionally open/driven and has the truth that osha does not (that sol killed their mother) so is therefore incredibly motivated by that truth and desire for revenge/justice - but she's also the one that was comfortable and content with her life in the coven, that seemed to only need osha in her life, that didn't like osha sneaking out of the fortress, that seemed to flourish under the coven's teachings whereas osha chafed against it, doesn't actually seem to like conflict all that much considering how quickly she's willing to give herself up to the jedi once she knows osha is alive and then when she seems content for sol's punishment to be facing the high council/the republic, she seems surprised when she succeeds in killing indara and then doesn't kill the shopkeep alien even though that'd likely (and does) make things harder for her, offers torbin the option of going to the council or taking the poison, and doesn't even kill kelnecca or sol, and generally is clearly not all that committed to the dark side/sith stuff qimir's trying to teach her and spends episode five running from him/pleading for her life over trying to fight him (in comparison osha manages to (temporarily) defeat him by siccing giant bat moths on him)
they're both more complicated than they might appear on the surface!!
They guys, the bros, the high schoolers who are probably failing at this point given how much school they skip and how many shenanigans they get involved in and it’s only the first week
My problem with The Dragon Prince is that while it preaches about "breaking the cycle" and "choosing love", it repeatedly does so in a way that echoes the age-old idea of telling victims to passively accept their lot in life and the injustices inflicted upon them while their perpetrators never have to acknowledge their wrongs or face consequences for their actions. This is the kind of narrative they follow on both a personal and systematic axis, and it's exactly why the show will always frustrate me.
Part 2 of marking designs on the cephs: Sol n Ami :)))
as written, Sol is based on a longfin inshore squid and Ami is a day octopus! They are portrayed as their current ages :)
Sol used to be an ex competitive player even while she joined the Squidbeak Splatoon because at the time, that's how she was lowkey making income. After the battle with Octavio, she was able to score a job/apprenticeship under Sheldon and has been learning about weaponry, even helps out in the shop with him. Sol sometimes dreads when there's a new weapon because she knows Sheldon is going to talk about it for maybe.. hours. But she tries to fight the urge to almost pass out and hear him cause she admires his passion about it, also to just keep notes in the future too.
Ami is still going strong on Grizzco, but she has been taking some classes towards horticulture. She likes plants :)) Sol always insists on Ami to take a breather from Salmon Run to focus on her classes so she sometimes take a whole week break for it, Sol makes sure on it hehe.
Her brother (which I must write/draw out soon within what I see in my head on how this story goes- gosh im a mess @-@ ), Suke, is just exploring what the overworld land has to offer after he had been stuck in the Metro. He's been going to different cities and what seems like months, comes back to see Ami and Sol at their apartment. He's rather nomadic and draws a lot within his small wanderings, its like when he's done filling out his sketchbooks he comes back. He'll always be overjoyed to see how happy his sister is, but still feels rather awkward around Riley. Suke leaves after maybe a month or more (depending on how he felt on his trips) when hanging around with his sister, since he's heard that Ami took a liking to plants, he sends some seed packets stapled to a postcard from places he went :))
here are some overviews
they play turf/anarchy together for fun ^^ Sol likes supporting Ami if she's trying to be a slayer in the match, and protects her if Ami's anchoring.
So like… the only thing that really separated Osha and Mae and what made them act so different was that Mae knew the truth and Osha didn’t.
So they really are the same person but split in two.
I thought it was going to be a good/evil light/dark halves before this episode, especially because of the way they’re always dressed, one in light colours and one in dark.
But they’re really just the same. They reacted in the exact same way.
AND THE FACT THAT DURING THEIR FIGHT THEY WERE LITERALLY USING THE SAME MOVES MIRRORED IS CRAZYYY.
I’m so obsessed with the fight choreography in this show. Plz whoever did the choreo needs to do all Star Wars fights from now on. I liked the show overall but I LOVED all the fights.
Like I was expecting Osha to Fall cause that’s kinda what it was leading up to but damn it was different than I thought.
AND THE KYBER CRYSTAL AND LIGHTSABER TURNING RED AND BLEEDING AS OSHA CHOKED DOL WAS CRAZY AND SO COOL.
I’m a bit too excited for Osha Falling but I’m SOOOO EXCITED FOR SEASON 2 AND WHERE THEY TAKE THIS.
I know a lot of people called Qimir being Vernestra’s former padawan but if I hadn’t seen those theories I probably wouldn’t have guessed it. The plot twists can be a bit predictable in this show but honestly they’re shown so well I don’t even care I still feel shocked even if I guessed them ahead of time
Also the Plagueis shot was crazyyyyy
DAMN THOOO im really excited for season 2 holy shit.
ALSO honourable mention to Sol’s cool ass force push thing I was like DAMN
I didn't want to cut too much or add any effects because it's just so stunningly beautiful as it is 😭😭😭 I can't get enough of it! I thought the fight scenes with Mae and Kelnacca were top, but they saved the best for last!