Tdp Callum - Blog Posts
The Dragon Prince
is SO GOOD. I finished it today feeling so happy and inspired. Everything about it is amazing- the characters, the writing, the humor, & refreshing diversity that’s handled respectfully and organically. Here’s to another fandom I’ve gladly buried myself in 👍👍
dark callum art for season seven
guys i love callum so much
yes i did draw this in the exact same style as the show.
post s3
Callum: RAYLA COME QUICK ITS AN EMERGENCY.
Rayla: What is it? I was sharpening my blades.
Callum: WE’RE OUT OF JELLY TARTS. EZ HAS JUST FAINTED
Rayla:
Callum: DO SOMETHING
mystery of aaravos
okay someone please help me i binged all of season six yesterday, and it left me in tears. claudia chops her hair off, rayllum is a thing again, VIREN IS ALIVE BUT HE DIES AGAIN?!? aaravos has a daughter, LEOLA is that daughter, callums dad was called Damian, there is a thing called being ‘Timeblind’ i now ship soren and corvus and Oh dEaR SpiRiTs sOMeoNe pLEasE hELp?!?
This is a great show and all the characters are so fun. Have some Callum while I try to remember how to shade/colour things.
How far can a person bend before they break and how long can the broken be wielded before they turn double edged?
This season was so devastatingly beautiful, but ironically, the metaphorical crown wouldn't be heavy if the gemstones didn't dig into the head of the wearer.
Sometimes, the line between mercy and cruelty can be thin.
The reason WHY Claudia resonates so deeply with Aaravos' story is because it's a mirror that she finds herself in. She IS the daughter in the story but not the one who pays the price. No, that was paid by her father... her father, who was brave enough to do what Aaravos couldn't. What's heartbreaking is that she doesn't even realize what she's discarding is the same thing Viren chose to embrace in death; his humanity.
The loss portrayed was so unsettling...
To even the loss we felt as the audience, seeing what made Viren who he was... his own son, to seeing what he made himself and the loss of what could've been and how his death proved the one thing we didn't want him to show... him having a human heart. And that's what this show did magnificently... it made this audience root for people against our will.
From the unfinished story of the lovers forever frozen in time to the mournful ballad rayla sang to console the stormbringer.
The only thing left to see is how these weapons charecters are to be utilized.
How callum will embrace his darkness and if Rayla will be able to kill him if need be. Or if promises will not be the only things to be broken next time.
This wasn’t supposed to get any notes
I’ve made a terrible discovery
Remember in the Dragon Prince episode when Rayla was pretending to be human.
She joked about how humans have shorter life expectancies. And then realized
Elves have longer life spans than humans
Rayla is going to outlive Callum and Ezran and she’ll watch them die while she has to live on without them…
Every Rayllum kiss ever!
(I got these screenshots from this video and take no credit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob8YPx_vL5Y )
its always a competition
Reblog if you'll be keeping the TDP fandom alive with me after s7 release, even if we don't get Arc 3
So it's just Callum, Rayla and Zym now?
For some reason the image that comes directly to my mind is Callum and Rayla in bodyguard outfits with cool sunglasses and Zym very swaggy in the middle.
They walk through town, the people make a path for them and then:
Callum trips.
If Callum decided to go have a little TALK with the celestial council about Leola
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The celestial council : she broke the rules
Callum: So let me get this clear you killed a kid for not knowing better?
Callum: You killed a child for giving magic tricks to other children??!
Callum:YOU KILLED HER FOR NOT FOLLOWING SOME STUPID ORDER WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF MULTIPLE ARCH DRAGONS, THE CREATION OF DARK MAGES, AND THE CORRUPTION OF THE MOST POWERFUL MAGICAL ARTIFACTS AND MAGICAL LANDMARKS IN ALL OF XADIA!!!!
The celestial council:…
Callum: FucK YOU
Very true
TDP fandom after season 6 ⭐️
Yall every just zone out and remember the fact that Rayla and Callum will be traveling through Xadia TOGETHER ALONE LIKE DO YOU REALIZE HOW THE IDEA ALONE HAS SO MUCH SHIP FUEL
And now, fellow Raylums, we feast 🥂🥂🥂
So I haven't technically*seen* this part yet, I just figure it's bound to happen since the literal Netflix background gives it away 💀
so i was thinking,,,
callums birthday is july 15th
early season 1 he said he was 14 and 5/6
5/6 x 12 is 10
which means it’s two months before his birthday
which means it’s ≈ mid-may
by the start of season 2 it’s been a week
by the start of season 3 it’s been around another week
which puts season 3 ≈ late may early june
therefore
correct me if i’m wrong
rayllums anniversary is somewhere between may 30 - june 5
i elect it as a possible candidate for a rayllum week
Expanding upon the idea I put in the tags of this post on my main blog.
Viren saw the monstrous part of himself in Claudia when she killed to revive him, and abandoned her because of it. Mostly I think because he saw it as a hurt he was causing and ran away. The same way he emotionally abandoned Soren as a child because seeing his son reminded him of the hurt he caused for his family. He COULD HAVE been on a path to forgiving himself. I think his attempts to reconcile with Soren and apologize (however poorly managed) were brought on by the realization of what he’d done to Claudia.
And we see him let go of the shame he was feeling (writing out the events that occurred, burning the letter when he realized he couldn’t put that burden on Soren). But he does not see himself as worthy of another chance. He views himself as a monster, and he views Claudia as a monster. That’s the part of himself he left behind for her.
He also left behind the part of himself that we saw in his dark magic fever dreams. The younger version of himself that believed there is always hope, that there is always another path forward. That people can change. We see that reflected -
(oh hey mirrors/reflections as a symbol: Leola and the sea of the cast out reflecting the night sky, the reflection of the full moon in the water of the nexus when Rayla went to rescue her parents from the coins, Ethari seeing Rayla in the reflection of the sword when she’s a ghost, the reflection of Soren in his sword when he “kills” Viren ((mmm I love these Soren Rayla parallels)) also YALL I think Claudia’s gonna die like WHYS Soren alone in his reflection!)
in Soren’s character arc.
Harrow, Runaan, and Viren were all prepared to accept death as justice for their actions. They all knew they were guilty of continuing the cycle of violence. Harrow stopped being ashamed and felt remorse for the actions he took and their effects. We can see this in his letter to Callum. He has regrets, but he believes the justice he deserves is death, not forgiveness.
Viren is finally coming to terms with his guilt and shame when he writes his letter to Soren. And he never delivers it because he sees it for what it is. But that doesn’t mean he’s fully prepared to let go (he never tries to reconcile with Claudia and I’d have to watch it again because it’s hard to tell at that point if he’d even want to. That man really just threw her to the wolves). His death is his final cycle into violence. Falling back onto the crux of dark magic - even if it’s to save people - and the dark magic literally requiring him to die. He’s running away into what’s safe and comfortable instead of overcoming that fear and trying a different solution even if it would be harder. He could have left with Soren and found an alternative (this is a narrative, he made this choice for. a. reason). His life to save Soren’s was not the only option, it was his choice.
Runaan was ready to accept death until Claudia decided he’d be better used for information. Which ends with him trapped in a coin (very similar to the way Aaravos is trapped in the prison for eternity). He had an opportunity to overcome the violence and listen to Rayla and Callum about the egg. But he chooses the cycle of violence again. And it’s what consumes him in his limbo. And then having the second chance to overcome that violence and accepting it is what saves him.
This is getting rambley and it’s getting late, but like - do you see my vision? Do you see the parallels? The themes? And so on and so forth