Soooo obsessed with the stories of Syrax and Sunfyre.
Syrax: a life spent chained esp after Rhaenyra reaches adulthood (based on the assumption/inferred from text that after a childhood of Rhaenyra rode less. Especially once the Dance started and she was recovering from traumatic birth) never had to hunt and was fed by keepers. (Also described as “well fed” but the wiki sourcing is a bit too vague for my tastes) Laid several clutches. Killed Joffrey when he desperately tried to ride her. Chose suicide in a blind rage killing rioters until she fell.
Sunfyre: Described as beautiful and strong, critically wounded along with Aegon during the first real dragon duel of the Dance. Neither fully recover. Survives devouring dead soldiers- and eventually other dragons. Barely survives the second dragon duel, and devours that dragon as well. Is used to execute Rhaenyra by eating her as well and eventually dies of festering wounds.
Just to go along with your ideas of dragons and riders sharing parts of their personality the narratives are shared too and it gets me so Good.
by god someone did it….you unlocked the secret good fire and blood for real. going crazy about this
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This is from the book, while Crowley is trying to talk Aziraphale into helping him stop armageddon, and does his drunken ramble about eternity. Apparently God enjoys The Sound of Music.
“You’ll enjoy it. You really will. You won’t have a choice.”
I feel like this line gets overlooked a lot. It’s an important line, for sheer horror potential.
Whatever the control mechanism is, clearly it isn’t running on every angel at all times, because if that was the case, a rebellion never would have happened. Aziraphale wouldn’t have six thousand years of doubts piling up to critical capacity. Gabriel wouldn’t have been able to escape.
But it’s also clearly very easily turned on, since they both accept that it would be used for something as petty as enjoying a movie. This lack of will can be rolled over angels at any time, for any reason.
Aziraphale clearly has some dread of this. *Crowley* knows it, and used it to convince Aziraphale to help him stop armageddon. But Aziraphale is very good at letting one part of his brain know something while another part of his brain denies it, so it’s not clear how much *Aziraphale* knows he dreads it, even as that dread shapes his character.
He’s never really broken free of Heaven. Even when he was being called a traitor, he wasn’t fallen, and so he was expecting to be called home eventually. And he’d be happy, of course. He won’t have a choice.
Aziraphale’s been trying to walk away from Heaven for at least six thousand years. He walked away from guard duty. He gave away his sword. He lied straight to God’s face about it. He lied to the archangels, and then straight up told Crowley he was ready to go to Hell. Several millennia of trouble-making and demon-fraternizing later, he stood in the middle of Heaven, declared he wasn’t going to fight in any war, then escaped via the demonic act of human possession. He is ready to GO.
And still his wings are snowy white. He’s just as angelic as when he first worried the pretty starmaker might get in trouble, and tried to protect him with a warning.
But he can’t escape. Heaven isn’t letting anyone else go. And he knows what his future holds. Eventually, no matter how many times they put it off, eventually he will be called back to Heaven.
And so, what promises can he make Crowley?
To stay with him always? Of course not. To love him? Can he even promise to love him? No. He’ll eventually be dragged back to Heaven, and he’ll be happy to go, and he won’t even miss him. *He won’t have a choice.*
And perhaps that’s the problem. He loves Crowley too much to make promises he can’t keep.
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