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Jason: Why would you give a knife to Frank? Leo: He felt unsafe. Jason: Now I feel unsafe! Leo: I'm sorry. Leo: ...Would you like a knife?

No Karims an idiot and Miyana is iconic. She just makes him look good. Reverse arm candy

KARIM AND MIYANA ARE ICONIC

I feel like normies think of tumblr as the fanart and aesthetic and gifset website but real tumblrinas know that our most culturally significant output and our lifeblood is the humble text post

As the only Viren fan around, gotta say heavy losses tonight boys

If Runaan is back that means his flower in the fountain is floating again. Are they going to deal with Rayla’s ghosting? They have to now right?

dads will literally have a revelation about how poorly they've treated you and then die in a magical act of self-sacrifice just to give themselves the most complicated legacy and you the most inscrutable daddy issues in the world

Leola was sentenced to death for teaching humans the basics of Primal Magic

centuries later, Aaravos taught humans Dark Magic

using Dark Magic causes "a darkness at the center of one's soul"

that "darkness" can only be cured by filling it with the "light" of the person truth

Aaravos refered to Leola as a star, and the light in his life

Aaravos used to have a solid star symbol on his chest - after Leolas' death, the symbol is inverted and has a hollow dark void at its centre

Something, something, blah blah - in order to use magic, Aaravos ensured that humans must experience the hollow void at the center of their soul that he feels every single day since his daughters execution.

She died to give them magic, he ensured that they feel the full weight of her sacrifice just as much as he does

Is Destiny a book you write yourself?

In S2 of The Dragon Prince we get Callum's iconic line, and in S5, a version of it appears in Viren's dark magic induced dream as well.

Both Callum and young Viren say that they get to make their own choices. Their own decisions.

But what if... they don't?

We meet again. Only this time, here I am on the other side. The path of fate is already chosen. Every step I took, I took because I had to.

This is what Viren says when he first sees the mirror in the dream sequence. Initially, I thought this was a reference to how he is now the one becoming trapped, not Aaravos. But that isn't the case.

Because he's not talking about the mirror; he's talking to the mirror. And the person on the other side. Teenage Viren, from the first time that he used Dark Magic. (I believe that this was confirmed by the writers of the show but don't quote me on that).

Years ago, as a teenager, Viren used dark magic for the first time. And he saw, in his vision, an older and corrupted version of himself. This older version of himself warned him of what was to come and told him that his fate was already decided. That every step he took, he took because he had to.

It's very similar to the conversation that Callum has with "Other Callum" in his dark magic dream. And crucially, Young Viren has a similar response to the one Callum had. He says that

No matter where you are on the path, no matter what you’ve done before, every step forward is a choice.

He rebels against this idea. He says his version of "Destiny is a book you write yourself". And yet... decades later he finds himself precisely where he was told he would end up.

Viren rebelled against the concept of Destiny, and yet, he ended up right where he was told he would.

And this raises the question; if Viren saw his future when he was a teenager, and it came true, then was it more than a vision? Was his destiny already written?

And so... is destiny actually a book you write yourself, or do you have no choice in the steps you take down the chosen path of fate?

Just food for thought going into the next season. Cheers.

i’m sorry. you’re telling me that at split river high school, on separate occasions, various students have been electrocuted in closets, chrushed by stage lights, tackled to death, KILLED BY GUIDANCE COUNSELORS, had deadly allergic reactions, and died in a mysterious fire. also the bUS CRASH THAT KILLED SIX KIDS??

hate it break it to you, but your school is for sure cursed

Mr. Martin getting a crash course in Sheriff Baxter’s office had me CACKLING. he was So Confused

mr anderson was probably the person that made most and least sense for mr. martin to bodysnatch