#about janai

[raayllum]

Janai and Amaya in episode 2, Fallen Stars

#i haven't really seen anyone posting about them but they were so freaking good this season #janaya #janai #amaya #s4 #4x02 #s4 spoilers #tdp #the dragon prince #wlw #tdp spoilers #screencaps #1k

[yurayuramiharin]

"Then today you live, true Queen of Lux Aurea. May our next meeting be more favorable."

#the dragon prince #the dragon prince s5 #tdp s5 spoilers #tdp janai #tdp kim'dael #bloodmoon huntress #listen we dont talk about this kiss enough

[sunfire-shield]

I’ve got the scene where Amaya puts the orchid in her hair when things are getting dire at the Bookery to feel Janai close and to give her strength playing on repeat in my head. These girls are so soft for each other it’s insane

#janai #amaya #janaya #the dragon prince #they��re soft and they’re strong they’re both and that’s good I’m totally normal about this #lying #tdp spoilers

[aamaryst]

redraw of the end credits from Rebirthday bc i’m still absolutely crying over these two, can’t wait for them to take over my life this season

#the dragon prince #tdp #tdpspoilers #janaya #janai #amaya #tdp janai #tdp amaya #the dragon prince season 4 #tdp season 4 #tdp season 4 spoilers #tdp fanart #if you thought i was annoying about toh wait until the full season of this drops this week #my art

[tai-janai]

(stares at you, not denying that you're pretty)

#you think i couldnt make this about shipping #i have earned this dn #stp voices #the voices #smit #stp doodles #cold #remaking-machine + tai-janai #stp little voices #stp little voices fanart #little voices #smitty and the cold bitch

[kradogsrats]

Mercy and the Sunfire Monarchy

so I started this as just a short "Aditi or a direct ancestor was the originator of the Merciful Compromise, here's the evidence" but then it kind of turned into a general Sunfire meta on Janai and Aditi and I'm too lazy to extract it into two coherent parts

anyway I'm officially calling it now: either Aditi herself, or one of her close ancestors, was the one who proposed the "Merciful Compromise" of splitting the land between humans and elves

But at the last moment, a daughter of the elven leader proposed the Merciful Compromise. She asked that humans be allowed to move and settle the lands to the west.

— Book One: Moon, Prologue

Aditi, being queen of what is obviously a bloodline monarchy, would have been the daughter of a prior monarch.

— s4e4: Through the Looking Glass

Note the numerous types of elves pictured: Aditi was not considered queen/leader of only Sunfire elves, therefore it's a reasonable assumption that the elven leader mentioned was another Sunfire monarch.

— s5e5: Archmage Akiyu

Here's where things get a little messy: Aditi is Karim and Janai's great-grandmother. We still don't have a firm answer on elven lifespan, but it technically only has to be about 250-300 years to easily put Aditi's parent as Sunfire monarch 1000 years ago. Problem is, we know Aditi was queen as recently as 300 years ago, so she would have to have lived 700+ years to have been alive at the time of the expulsion of humans from Xadia.

Now, to be frank, this canon is not the best with timeline consistency, especially when it comes to reasonable length of time between events. Combined with the deliberate vagueness over elven lifespan (in that they clearly intended it to be significantly longer than a human's, but then probably realized that would make the two primary romantic relationships of the show sad and now don't seem to know what to do with it), it would not surprise me at all if they were just like, "yeah Aditi lived extra long because of... her exceptional connection to the Sun primal" or something. There does seem to be something special about Aditi, compared to Khessa and Janai—like, Janai's great, but I can't see her commanding the respect of archdragons (yet).

However, if we assume a 250-300 year lifespan, the originator of the Merciful Compromise could be Aditi's grandmother. If we continue to take Rayla's jab at humans' "sub-century" lifespan as a canon-establishing fact, with minimum expected elven lifespan at 100-200 years, you're looking at a distance more comparable to that between Aditi and Karim/Janai. If elven lifespan drops to "comparable to a human's, plus an extra decade or two so 100-120 is not abnormal," the distance becomes more like that between Ezran and the Orphan Queen. Even with the distance, those are considered significant connections—for Janai to Aditi, and for Ezran to the Orphan Queen. I don't think it's a stretch for Queen Aditi the Merciful to possibly have a connection drawn to a merciful ancestor.

— The Queen's Mercy

Queen Aditi the Merciful. The Merciful Compromise.

The concept of mercy in The Queen's Mercy is very complex, and if anything at all, I think it points to a continuing dichotomy of Sunfire elves and Sunfire elf culture—the Sun primal is explicitly known for its destructive power and connection with strong emotions, but also has a less-acknowledged potential for healing and truth when balanced (Tales of Xadia, 137). Janai is introduced to us as an aggressive warrior, having attacked the fort Amaya commands and attempting to trick her into an ambush. She's shown to have a stern and hot temper when interrogating Amaya.

However, because Amaya showed her mercy she didn't expect, she's clearly deeply uncomfortable with Khessa's initial decision to just have Amaya killed (due to her being "worthless") and then even with Khessa's clearly pointed use of "letting the Light decide her fate." Khessa is obviously expecting her little sister to learn a harsh lesson about mercy in that scene: Amaya will be revealed to be corrupted, as all humans are, and Janai will see that her soft heart allowed her to be tricked. She's visibly disappointed when Amaya passes the trial, but at least keeps to her word and lets her live... as an object that is Janai's problem, now. (Probably she still expects to be vindicated, in the end.)

— s3e3: Ghost

We don't see a lot of Khessa being queen, but that's not a very flattering scene for her. In The Queen's Soul, we see Karim and Janai remember her fondly... but there's also an interesting moment:

— The Queen's Soul

Karim expects Janai to be the kind of ruler Khessa was, calling on her to take the same path as Khessa's "wisdom." Janai rebuffs this line of thinking, partly because she's not super thrilled to be queen... but also because, as the next sentences show, she doesn't plan to be the kind of queen Khessa was. We see throughout s4 the tension between the future Janai wants for her people and Sunfire tradition: blood duels to the death, the death penalty for nonviolent infractions... the start of the s4 Sunfire arc is literally Amaya mistaking a Sunfire ritual of joy and love for an attack.

Completely unrelated side note: Karim already has Osato's red glove in The Queen's Soul, meaning the events of After Darkness are within weeks of the end of s3. Boy's been holding on to that shit for years, now.

Aditi is portrayed as a ruler, a warrior, a smith, and a mage—aspects that encompass different kinds of power, as well as both creation and destruction. She is characterized as wise, kind, and merciful, but that doesn't make her naive in the face of unrepentant evil. She spares Kim'dael's life, but locks her into a redemption that will take lifetimes—and also hinges on the mercy of her descendants. (A mercy that Janai is not willing to extend, though that's the kind of thing that could still come around.) Janai may not be a mage and we haven't seen how much of a smith she may be, but we are seeing that she's a visionary who cares deeply about the future of her people, even at the expense of her own life.

Janai can stand up and say "this human is guilty of her crime, but death is not justice," the way Aditi could stand up and say "this blood duel tradition is nonsense and detrimental to our people," and the way someone, centuries earlier, stood up and said "all humans don't deserve to die."

The Merciful Compromise was proposed by a Sunfire elf of the royal line, send tweet.

#anyway imagine how much it sucked to be aditi's daughter lmao like #'hey your mom's... gone and everyone's pissed off what do you plan to do about it?' #i hope we see her whenever we get more orphan queen stuff #sunfire elves #janai #aditi

[mushtoons]

I've just seen your 2018!ronin Mikey au and I immediatly got like a... hundred of silly questions? I don't know if it's okay to ask some but I'm going to try cause I'm super curious now!

So, does 2012!Mikey cook in this au? What's 2018!Mikey opinion on his food or/and cooking skills? Has he ever cooked something himself after getting in 2012 universe?

Your au idea is very cool by the way, and I'm looking forward to see more comics :D

first off ahh ask away!! we'd love to info dump about it considering its gonna take a bit to draw up all the scenarios we got planned lmaoo

and he does!! sorta!! ronin mainly cooks considering splinter wanted to just feed them algae and worms, with mikey helping him then in his preteen years mikey started experimenting with different food combinations and textures much to ronin's horror but who is he to deny a young chef, no matter how many times ronin "accidentally" drops his portion of the mikey special of the day

#AND HEHEHE THANK U!!! #we're glad people like it #odie put his heart and soul into thinking up this au so hopefully we get to draw more about it soon #djdjdj #wood wide web #anata wa hitori janai mr ronin

[randomcartoonnerd]

MY POINT IS-

#why aren't y'all screaming about this!?!?!?!?!!? #what!? viravos child being CANON is much more interesting for you!?! #please they deserve some attention #the dragon prince #tdp season 5 #bloodmoon huntress #kim'dael #janai

[bisexualenbyblueberry]

as promised by my skittles-inhaling birthday past self!

AND YES, Astrid has had literally zero minutes of screen time, but she seems cool (I really hope she doesn’t end up being like. An asshole lol because I’ve been praising her since I first saw her)

#the dragon prince #tdp #Fun fact about the skittles thing I ate so many that when I brushed my teeth my spit was orange and I thought I was dying #the dragon prince season 5 #tdp s5 #dragon prince #tdp season 5 #tdp terry #tdp callum #tdp rayla #tdp rayllum #tdp amaya #tdp viren #tdp karim #tdp kazi #tdp gren #tdp janai #janaya #ruthari #tdp soren #sorvus

[quinn-pop]

more ll kirbyposting because im silly !!!

some liella things

yea that last one is a redraw of this. never getting over this scene

#shoutout to the two other people that like both of these things ily #happy cringe day Wednesday #this was to help me out of art block and it worked (enough) #take my word and don’t look at the anatomy too closely #kirbyposting #my art or something #meta knight #kirby #love live #bandee #sailor dee #bandana waddle dee #magolor #love live superstar #comparing things is so fun meow #i think about maru janai all the time #kirby crossover #yeah that’s sumire magolor #pls to the two people who know both of these things. you see the irony right #‘this saved me’…im gonna go cry now

[stobinesque]

another prompt: stomarol + shiver

I opened my notifications for a minute and barely read this prompt before the first bit of it was writing itself in my head, so take your stomarol filth, janai! i may or may not expand on this at some future point.

I have lots of prompts whose fics won't need to exist below a cut, but this is not one of them!

prompt: 'shiver' | wc: 250 | tags: Stomarol, oral sex, face-fucking, light manhandling

"Bet I'm better at eating pussy than you, Stevie." 

Steve cocked an eyebrow Tommy's way. "Why do you think that?"

"I've been doing it longer."

"And I've done it with more girls!"

They both turned to look at Carol, who regarded them with barely concealed amusement.

"What? And I'm supposed to be the judge of that?”

"Fuck, Tommy," Carol moaned. Her bare chest rose and fell with each gasping breath, and Steve's gaze was fixated on the swell of her breasts. "Steve— move him a little higher."

Steve used the hand he had tangled in Tommy’s hair to tilt his head up at Carol's request. "Y'know, I feel like this is cheating?"

"D-don't care. Fuck, right there!"

"You want his fingers now?"

Carol puffed out a small breath and shook her head. "You didn't use yours— wouldn't be fair." 

"Oh yeah, now you care about fairness." Steve rolled his eyes. "I just think you wanna get a couple good orgasms out of us."

Carol snorted. "if I wanted to get good orgasms I'd use my own h-han—ohhhh, fuck." Shivers traveled the length of her body, and her hips bucked up against Tommy's face uncontrollably.

Steve wasn't going to let Tommy up for air until he'd brought Carol over the edge, so he shot back a comeback on his behalf. "You were saying?"

"Oh, sh-shut up, Harrington."

"Make me, Perkins."

"Gimme a minute and I will."

"So, verdict?"

"Nuh-uh, if I pick, neither of you are gonna do that again."

I’m celebrating 250 followers! Send in a pairing and a (one word) prompt for a drabble!

#stomarol #read writes #janai 💜 #this happens at some indeterminate time in some indeterminate universe in which they're all 18+ and still (or again) friends #don't think about it too hard #also this is more implied than anything #but carol and steve tag-teaming tommy is so real to me #read microfic

[raayllum]

Steven Universe, The Question, 2018 / The Dragon Prince, Re-Birthday, 2022

#rupphire #steven universe #janaya #the dragon prince #tdp #tdp spoilers #aka all i could think about lowkey while watching the janaya proposal #we're gonna spend over half the show with them being a married couple that's crazy to me #4x01 #s4 #non tdp #parallels #mine #personal fave #wlw #also janai proposing in sign we love it here <33

[a-certain-elf]

Tell me I`m wrong about this.

I dare you.

#the dragon prince #tdp #janai #amaya #janaya #janai x amaya #two cakes #the dragon prince spoilers #tdp s5 spoilers #tdp spoilers #not gonna tag the other characters #since this is mainy about Amaya and Janai

[sunfire-shield]

Okay but Janai waiting for news about Amaya and leaping up as soon as Miyana comes in like “is she back??” was so cute they’re so in love

#the dragon prince #janai #amaya #janaya #I’m having all the feels about them this season ok #don’t mind me #tdp spoilers

[emmettspeakz]

poor janai and amaya though. ugh the betrayal, fucking miyana and karim!!! imagine finding out your wife is alive, just to be betrayed by your brother, his wife, and have terrible nightmares about something you're not even sure how to prevent??

#this whole season was about choice but also helplessness?? #and it hurtssss #the dragon prince #the dragon prince spoilers #just let my gays be happy pleaseeee #queen janai #janai x amaya

[baatarthefirst]

#At least Gren is happy about getting a new big sis #best boy #amaya #janai #Gren #janaya #amaya x janai #the dragon prince #tdp