#kay's metas

[hyperfixated-chaos]

"Caleb and Hunter parallels" this and "Caleb and Hunter parallels" that--everyone needs to shut the FUCK up and think about Caleb and Luz parallels okay??

THEY HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON. Caleb and Luz are both from the human realm but they weren't happy there. They both felt confined like they didn't fit in/belong there, so they ran off to the Boiling Isles (and were led by a Clawthorne) to escape that life. They're both curious souls who wanted to learn about a new world, and got a witch gf, palisman, and a new life there. They each had one (1) family member who they cared for back in the human realm but ultimately decided to hide their Boiling Isles adventures from. Aforementioned family member was hurt and betrayed when they found out the truth.

And then there's their differences. Caleb's environment was more religiously oppressive and Philip was much less understanding than Camila. Not only did he not want to work on their relationship, but he would rather Caleb die than be a witch sympathiser. Whereas Camila actually supports Luz. Luz also finds a way to balance her human and demon realm lives.

If you use Luz as a blueprint, you can extrapolate a lot about Caleb and the possible friendships and found family, and the arc he went through to feel comfortable there. You can also see where their stories would differ, with Caleb being suspicious and nervous where Luz was more enthusiastic and reckless. AND THE POSSIBLE LUMITY/CALYN PARALLELS IM ASDJFKJSDLFAS

Caleb is the original Luz, whose story ended in tragedy. Luz is his successor, whose story came full circle and got the happy ending they both deserved. (And she kicked his murderer's ass, which I'm sure he approves of)

THERE'S SO MUCH HERE GUYS WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS. PLEASE THEY LIVE IN MY HEAD RENT FREE SOMEONE TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM IM AJKLDFJA

#the owl house #toh #caleb wittebane #luz noceda #analysis #toh analysis #kay's metas

[yourhighness6]

Ugh I will always love the concept of Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko after the last agni kai, mostly because it makes no sense to me that Zuko was able to bounce back so easily after being struck by lightning, but also because the way the show treats bloodbending is just odd to me. It was a defense mechanism created by a traumatized victim of some of the most devastating parts of colonization, and although I understand that Hama was supposed to symbolize the "bad parts" of waterbending and was important for Katara's growth in realizing that the world isn't entirely black and white, its still disappointing to me that the show never explored the gray areas of blood bending, especially since that episode was, as I stated above, about understanding the gray areas of the war. Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko would add so much to the last agni kai in demonstrating that she has truly realized that "good" and "evil" are relative concepts, and Zuko being saved by both a defense mechanism of a survivor of colonialism and a type of bending used to terrorize his people would have even added to his arc, as the narrative required him to save and subsequently be saved by the physical embodiment of everything his family sought to annihilate.

#also just the angst potential #there are so many fics and better metas written about this but I had to throw my two cents in #Bryke's refusal to acknowledge bloodbending as anything but evil incarnate is so fucking annoying #anti bryke #bloodbending #zutara #zuko #katara #final agni kai #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla meta #zutara meta #technically

[vidduality]

SPOILERS for Episode 6 of the Avatar Live Action series

AKA why this episode makes me SO grateful for this adaptation (re: the Zuko flashbacks and the Agni Kai).

----

Wow.

I admit, I was really worried at the idea that Zuko might potentially fight back in the Agni Kai against his father in the live action. I expected to HATE it, and it's certainly a bold change, but it fits in SO WELL with why Zuko is the way that he is (and why he works so hard to push down his empathy whenever Aang tries to reason with him).

The Agni Kai - Zuko obviously did NOT want to fight his father. He still tried to apologize and beg for mercy, but in the end he was just too terrified of his father to disobey a direct order.

But when Ozai left him an opening to see what he'd do with it, Zuko couldn't bring himself to actually land a blow that might burn him. Making his lack of ruthlessness the weakness that Ozai ends up mutilating him for - even straight up telling Zuko that compassion is weakness and then demonstrating by holding his own child down and lighting him on fire - adds a layer of depth that only enhances the original scene (and in another stroke of genius, we see Ozai nearly in tears himself. He's convincing himself of this lesson as well as Zuko, which was likely passed down to him by his own father). Honestly, this to me is even more heartbreaking than Ozai burning him for refusing to stand and fight. Zuko did everything his father asked and he still failed, because his family has distorted what it means to be honorable and believes Zuko's capacity for mercy to be a shameful weakness unbecoming of an heir to the throne.

The 41st Division - And here come the waterworks. Assigning the very people Zuko was hurt so severely for trying to save to his ship as it's being cast out of the fire nation (presumably forever, with the Avatar not having been seen in 100 years) is SUCH a brilliant addition. His crew resents Zuko for being stuck on this impossible mission with this bratty, angry child. And Zuko is too ashamed of his "weakness" to explain why they were assigned to him.

I can totally see Zuko's hurt at their lack of respect making him even more angry (especially after everything he went through to save them from being sacrificed), and his seemingly irrational anger at them just continuing to make them resent him more in a neverending feedback loop of anger and disrespect that's been growing and festering for 3 years.

Which makes the scene at the end when Zuko's crew finally learns about how he saved their lives (as well as why he's obsessed with the avatar, why he's banished, what his scar means and why he's trying so very hard to rid himself of empathy, even if he can never quite manage it when it counts) so much more impactful. I SOBBED when the 41st Division stood at attention and showed him their utmost respect and loyalty, possibly for the first time since they've been on that ship. Zuko's soft "what's going on?" at finally being honored by his crew is just imprinted on my brain.

The seed of the idea that his compassion may NOT actually be what was shameful about his banishment afterall can finally begin to take root.

I just, damn, I love this episode so much.

#zuko #avatar the last airbender #atla live action #atla spoilers #atla netflix #fire lord ozai #avatar live action #avatar netflix #avatar spoilers #41st division #agni kai #avatar #i hope they survived #i need them to be there to see what zuko becomes #and they can spread the word to the fire nation #about who deserves their loyalty #meta #natla #atla

[waterghostype]

shit postings

#ninjago #kai smith #cole brookstone #zane julien #jay walker #jaya #ninjago jaya #kai ninjago #aphid’s ninjashits #im sure this has been done but ive had this idea for so long #also i just realized i messed up kais scar position in the first drawng #oops! #he was forced to acknowledge the rebooted love triangle #imo the love triangle sucks total ass but it’s also like peak comedy in a meta way #like yeah misogyny and badly wirtten romance but i’s so absurdly stupid you cant help but laugh #also looking at the comment section for the jay kai fight gave me brain damage omg #like ok i have problems with the way kai was treated in regards to nyas seaboundification #but ppl keep acting like jay shouldnt have cared as much as he did which is ??? dude #AITA for being sad my fiance turned into the ocean #but dragons rising fixed that for me mostly #another reason why dr ON TOP!!!!! #and jay’s characterization in recent seasons is definitely really just mmmm #but his reaction to nya’s leaving made sense and i wish it was explored more but whatever #crystalized is crystalized

[mondothebombo]

✨Small Canon Things in Ninjago That Aren’t Necessarily Important to the Plot, but Important to Me Pt 2✨

(in honor of the first post reaching 2.5k notes)

1. the reason the ninja can’t summon their elemental dragons anymore is bc they’re too traumatized

2. Kai takes laxatives

3. Lloyd felt responsible for Nya’s sacrifice

4. Morro took a shot while he was in Lloyd’s body

5. Cole’s favorite color is orange

6. Chamille, the master of form, is a “bad girl” post s4

7. the ninja were literal children when they waltzed into Chen’s tournament and proceeded to beat all the adult EMs in the competition

8. prior to seabound, Nya resented her parents for not being there in her childhood, her mother more so than her father (✨mommy issues✨)

9. Nya is hyper-independent as a result of her childhood; while Kai is more openly accepting to his parents because he has a better memory of them

10. Wu was close enough with Lilly that he could remember whether or not she wore a necklace

11. Cliff Gordon was a “womanizer”

12. Lloyd didn’t naturally hit puberty until s8

13. Cole and Jay are best friends

14. whether or not you see Pixane as a bf/gf situation in canon, they are canonically soulmates

15. Jay has not yet received his inheritance letter

16. at least up until the Merge, Zane’s statue is still in downtown Ninjago City

17. ninjago citizens are fully aware their only protection are six super-powered teens/young adults

18. the ninja are still famous, public figures

19. Jay is the only ninja who hasn’t died (yet)

20. despite being a terrible actor, Lloyd is always sent on the undercover missions

21. the ninja are on first name basis with each others parents

22. Cole’s favorite genre of music is soft rock

23. Zane has selective memory

24. after Nya’s sacrifice, each ninja depicted a different stage of grief (Zane-Denial, Kai-Anger, Lloyd-Depression, Jay-Bargaining, and Cole-Acceptance)

25. Cole never actually had feelings for Nya, he was just flattered by the attention and petty about Jay being mad at him

26. elements react based on the master’s emotions

27. Jay is so emotionally dependent on being around other people that he loses his mind when he’s alone for too long

28. Lloyd had a chat with god and wasn’t impressed

29. Cole’s snoring can be heard throughout the monastery

30. Nya is not a morning person

31. Kai and Skylor have been in a situationship since s4

32. Lloyd being the grandson of god is not common knowledge

33. the group of civilians that were on the bounty when Cole fell are probably the only ones who truly realize the danger the ninja put themselves in on the regular to protect the city, and how close they are with each other

34. Wu didn’t want to tell the ninja about the green ninja prophecy because he was afraid of having a repeat of Morro

35. since s8 at the very least, the ninja all shared a room on the bounty until the monastery was rebuilt

36. Jay’s confidence in his own abilities fully depends on what others believe he’s capable of

37. several villains have called the ninja out on being “just a bunch of kids,” and then proceeded to get their shit rocked by said kids

38. the overlord can gloat to Lloyd all he wants to in crystallized, but fact of the matter is Lloyd defeated him when he was like twelve

39. Kai and Nya raised and took care of each other, it wasn’t just Kai doing all of the work

40. Kai is two years older than Nya

41. Zane’s biggest fear is losing his humanity

42. Lloyd’s biggest fear is becoming his father

43. Nya’s biggest fear is losing her individuality

44. Cole’s biggest fear is letting his family down

45. we the audience are the only ones who see the characters as legos; they’re real people in-universe

46. Kai likes spicy food

47. while elemental masters are immune to their elements to some extent, their elements can also be shown to hurt them in some circumstances

and as always, feel free to add on!!

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #mondo’s metas #my hcs #mondo’s hcs #ninjago jay #ninjago nya #ninjago cole #ninjago kai #ninjago lloyd #ninjago zane #ninjago wu #ninjago dragons rising spoilers #kinda

[gradelstuff]

Overhaul + Meta Liberation Army - Acrylic Trading Card designs from Ani-Art Vol. 6 (2024)

League of Villains version

#bnha #bnha official #shie hassaikai #mla #meta liberation army #overhaul #kai chisaki #redestro #trumpet #skeptic #curious #geten #plf war

[suckishima]

like this is what i'm talking about, how fucking cool is it that furudate writes a whole new bonus chapter for us that shows another perspective to a scene that we've seen before and then at the end of that chapter they're just like "oh and by the way here's what they're doing now, today as 30-year-olds—they all still hang out and think about volleyball" like wtf??? thats SICK

furudate could have chosen any time period to show that kai is still thinking about what happened back then and that it haunts him differently than how he expected, and furudate chose now, and i just think that's so cool. it helps the characters feel alive and fresh imo, as if they're real regular guys just hanging out in some parallel universe to ours lmao (and like. yeah i know that sounds silly, but that's kind of my point—it's fun!)

and on a personal level i find it especially impactful since i'm the same age as the third years, i also turn 30 this year, and idk to get to see them living life in the present helps me feel like i'm still connected to them and this story even though it's been over for almost four years now—and it's just kind of exciting, like, are we just gonna get updates like this indefinitely? will we watch them all grow old as we do??? i love it

#furudate ilysm this is awesome thanks #hq #hq manga spoilers #karaneko manga spoilers #nekoma #kai #yaku #kuroo #connect #hq meta #x

[zukosdualdao]

i’ve sometimes seen the idea that azula cheating in the agni kai by aiming at katara is supposed to show how far she’s fallen and how lost she is because she wouldn’t have cheated before, but that just… does not ring true to me.

i think this idea comes from her characterization of trying to live up to perfection, but i think it’s important to remember she’s functioning under ozai’s definition of perfection, a guy who infamously colluded with his wife to kill his father so that he could be firelord. i don’t get the particular sense he cares how, exactly, azula carries out the goals he’s set for her, as long as she accomplishes them.

and a lot of really prominent azula scenes turn on the axis of her being exactly this underhanded. in the avatar state, she tries to manipulate iroh and zuko into coming home under false pretenses, when she really means to arrest them. in bitter work, seeing she’s outnumbered, she makes a false surrender so that her opponents will hesitate/back down and then attacks iroh when they do. in the crossroads of destiny, she strikes aang with lightning from behind while he’s in the avatar state. in the awakening, she lies that zuko killed aang because she wants an insurance policy she won’t be blamed on a hunch he might be alive.

whether or not these break official rules of combat or acceptable legal/social behavior in-universe, i think it’s hard to deny that these actions form a pattern that showcases azula as someone not concerned with integrity or ideological fairness in such situations.

azula is a fascinating character, and her breakdown in sozin’s comet is tragic. but it’s not because she’s acting out of character; if anything, it’s because she’s falling back on old patterns despite her hallucination of her mother (and therefore her own subconscious) trying to warn her that using fear to control people isn’t truly viable. but that means her entire concept of the world is wrong, so she doubles down and shoots for katara, a noncombatant in this fight, having seen zuko agree to an agni kai in the hopes she wouldn’t get hurt and thus understanding he fears that and will make sure the lightning never reaches her. azula doesn’t care how she wins because it’s never mattered how she wins, as long as she does. but with katara defeating her and ozai’s impending downfall, it’s about to matter a lot more.

#i actually think there’s an interesting parallel between azula here and zuko in tcod #falling back into harmful patterns #with the caveat that i think zuko is a lot more self-aware about how conflicted he is #none of this is meant as like. slander btw #she’s a fascinating and tragic villain but she is a villain #atla #azula #meta #sozin’s comet #the avatar state #bitter work #the crossroads of destiny #the awakening #into the inferno #the final agni kai #azula & ozai #zuko & azula

[starlight-bread-blog]

My Interpretation of The Last Agni Kai

(Disclaimer: This isn't critisism of Zuko as much as it a small breakdown of the tragedy of the royal family. This post was also editted and it may not appear in reblogs).

Do you hear this language? "The showdown that was always meant to be". It's somewhat true, but I'd argue that it's not because of who they are as people. It's because of Ozai.

It's because they're the golden child and the scapegoat. It's because they've been put against each other by their abuser.

I would argue that she is sorry. She does love her brother, and she didn't want it to end this way. Zuko cannot see that, and he isn't sorry.

In The Beach, Zuko burns a picture of them, as a family.

To him, the picture resresents the perfect past. Before everything went to shit. But he no longer fits there. Even though he's back. He's frustrated, he hates the world, and wants to burn it all.

Especially after he has redeemed himself, he is sure there is nothing for him. His mother is gone, his father is abusive, and Azula: the prodigy, the favored one, who belittled him from the day Ozai began to favor her. She left him in the dust while making it extra dirty. She's barely his sister anymore, she's the untouchable force making his life worse.

In Zuko Alone, Azula practically taunts him over his planned murder.

This is what Zuko sees. Not a human, not a sister, but a boogeyman. After all, Azula always lies. What he doesn't see is Azula's reaction when she realizes the situation is serious. She'll never let him see that.

Azula could have burned the bridge all those years ago, when he was banished. But she didn't. She is the reason he's back home, on that beach. Ozai was her God, she was disciplined to him and only him, even more than herself. And she lied to his face so Zuko could come back home. She's cunning, manipulative and dangerous, but she loved her brother.

Zuko can't see that. Even when "she's slipping", he can't see that. Of course he wouldn't, her love for him is overshadowed by the damage she caused him, and his envy of her. She's above him, the demon haunting him. As Ozai and their history led him to believe. And he sticks to this belief, until it's disproven.

(Author's note: Azula's face here makes me want to cry, props to the animator)

She's human, his sister. And she's trurly sorry it had to come to this.

The Last Agni Kai is a tragedy. It's the story of two siblings who grew up in an abusive household, with a dad who played favorites. One made all the wrong choices, while the other could not fathom the other's humanity. They don't reconcile, they put themselves against each other. Because it's the showdown that was always meant to be. And he only recognizes it wasn't, after it's over. Now, he too, is sorry.

#next to aang's non violent solution #this sticks out like a sore thumb #tw abuse #tw child abuse #prince zuko #atla zuko #fire lord zuko #firelord zuko #zuko meta #azula meta #princess azula #atla azula #azula avatar #azula and zuko #zuko and azula #sozin's comet #the last agni kai #atla meta #atla analysis #avatar the last airbender meta #avatar the last airbender #avatar aang #avatar: the last airbender #atla #a:tla

[azure-firecracker]

I have the threads of an Azula theory.

Disclaimer: This is about the Last Agni Kai, which I haven’t watched in a while because it makes me cry. Also this is a theory. It’s a train of thought. I’m not proclaiming it to be absolute truth or anything.

But I was thinking about Azula shooting lightning at Katara. Now, Azula isn’t exactly making the most strategic decisions here since she’s having a…rough time, to put it mildly. But I was also thinking about what her thought process could have been (since her exterior only really goes to show that she’s…having a rough time).

Now in Azula’s eyes, she knows she’s not winning this fight. Between Zuko having improved and her being a mess, she’s clearly fighting an uphill battle. She’s going to lose and she knows it. She also probably thinks Zuko won’t kill her. Although they’ve battled before, it would take really specific and clear intent to kill on his part since they’re not like…on an airship or a gondola. They’ve been shooting big up until this point, but they’ve also kind of been toying with one another.

Then Zuko asks her where her lightning is. Something she probably hasn’t considered using, because up until this point, she didn’t think she would have to. And she sees Katara. But here’s the thing: did Azula plan to have Zuko jump in front of the lightning and fail to redirect it? You have to keep in mind that Azula hasn’t seen the majority of Zuko’s interactions with Team Avatar. She hasn’t seen him be this selfless, hell, he’s never BEEN this selfless until now. Azula also, as we’ve seen, struggles to understand real, unconditional love. She certainly wouldn’t jump in front of lightning for anyone except maybe Ozai, and that’s…not unconditional. So would she understand this? Maybe not. And Azula doesn’t know anything about lightning redirection. What makes her think that Zuko wouldn’t be able to redirect the lightning if he jumped in front of it. After all, he did redirect quite a bit of it.

So if we follow these theories (and again, they’re only theories), this leaves one possibility: Azula was actually trying to kill Katara. But why? Azula doesn’t care about Katara. We’ve never seen her delight in violence for the sake of it. Why not focus on the fight at hand? If I were her, I wouldn’t want to risk involving Katara at all. She’s struggling enough as is, and even she should know that Katara’s a powerful opponent. They were evenly matched in Crossroads of Destiny.

Let’s think about Azula’s mental state right now. Her brother and her best friends have all abandoned her. Her father’s love, the one thing she hung onto, is meaningless and she’s only realizing this now. At her lowest point, she’s been reminded of her mother: the first person to call her a monster, and that is what she believes she is. No one loves her. She has nothing left to fight for. And the one scrap of validation she has left, which is being better than Zuko, is slipping away. What’s left? Why stay around in this state?

So: what if Azula was trying to kill Katara so that she could make Zuko furious enough to kill her?

Just a thought.

#atla #atla meta #azula #atla azula #azula avatar #tw suicidality #zuko avatar #atla zuko #zuko #fire siblings #atla theory #azula meta #katara #last agni kai

[hyperfixated-chaos]

I cannot get over Hunter's expression here. He looks so absolutely devastated, you can feel the grief he's feeling because Flapjack isn't there. He isn't with the other palismen and he never will be again, he's never going to meet Stringbean or nuzzle Camila because he's not coming back.

But then he smiles. It's a sad smile, and he kind of wants to cry, but he smiles. Because that's not the end. Flapjack is gone and he's not coming back but that's not the end of everything. The other palismen are still here and they still have their joy because life goes on, even through the pain, and that's a beautiful thing in a way.

I do think this is symbolic of him starting to move through Flapjack's death as well... Not that that he's Totally Fine, of course, but I don't think he's going to be quite so miserable about every reminder of Flapjack in Watching and Dreaming like he was in this ep. I think the healing is starting. But we'll see, I suppose.

Augh, anyway, this show's exploration of grief makes me want to fucking sob, please send help-

#the owl house #toh #kay's metas #meta post #toh analysis #for the future #hunter the golden guard #flapjack

[quirkwizard]

So like… what are your thoughts on Chapter 419? AFO modifying Overhaul into Decay kinda makes him come across as a dumbass. Because why not just mold Overhaul into your successor unless AFO was just that petty which considering that he killed the light baby for being the “first” Quirk user, that’s fair. But then he had all these convenient pushes like making Kotoro more abusive or inspiring Tenko, or convincing Kotoro to have another kid.

In the latest chapter is all for one implying that Tomura’s decay was a mutated copy of overhaul?

How do you feel about 419 when it comes to Overhaul now?

I will get to All For One's influence on Tomura's backstory soon, but for now, I'll just stick to "Decay", Overhaul", and everything surrounding that.

For Tomura being given a Quirk by All For One, I don't mind that part too much. There has always been something sketchy about Tomura's backstory, especially him awakening "Decay" in the first place. It all just seem too convenient for me given the circumstances and a figure similar to All For One appearing in Tomura's backstory. So the set up was there for this. My only possible reservation is now that "Decay" isn't Tomura's Quirk anymore. One of my favorite parts about Quirks is how much thematically they tie into the user. Tomura especially since so much of his theming and growth is tied into his Quirk. I do think that some of that is lost if Tomura's Quirk is not "Decay". However, I think that there could be some interesting thematic reasoning for it as well and new ways you can read into it. Because now, I think it reaffirms that Tenko wasn't just born evil, for lack of better wording. That he didn't have this terrible need to destroy everything and how that was forced upon him by outside forces.

My problem comes in tying it to "Overhaul". While I vastly prefer this to it being Deku's Quirk, I do not see the point in connecting the Quirks like this. If you want Tomura to be given "Decay", why not just say Garaki made it? We know that he can with Quirks like "Warp Gate". Tying these together raises a whole lot of questions as well. If Overhaul was at one of the orphanages, how did he get with the Boss? Was he adopted like a normal kid? If so, why on Earth would All For One or Garaki ever let him go? Why waste someone as promising as Kai? Even if you want to argue that he couldn't work as a vessel for whatever reason. Like the ability to heal and fix things somehow made him unsuitable, Tenko far more malleable as a target, or that All For One is just such a petty chump. Why not keep him around as a minion? And this all raises a bigger question: why didn't All For One take "Overhaul"? "Overhaul" is one of, if not the most powerful Quirks in the setting and All For One had it within arm's reach. Why not take it? Is it because it was too complicated to use? Well, that there isn't anything about how the Quirk is used that implies it's that hard. It just raises so many questions.

#My Hero Academia #Quirks #Tomura Shigaraki #Decay #All For One #MHA Meta #MHA Theory #Kai Chisaki #Overhaul

[fanficmaniatic]

Do you guys ever think about how Kai, in the earlier seasons, was quick to anger and didn’t trust anyone, but later on he became more playful and barely if ever picked on fights? And how this is a reflection of him having to raise Nya by himself, so he had to grow up quickly and build up walls, but now that he has a family and feels safe he doesn’t need those walls anymore because he knows his family is there?

#emotional about Lego bricks at 2 am #Ninjago #kai smith #ninjago kai #kai #meta?? #meta

[jyndor]

what’s fascinating to see is the juxtaposition of cassian as a recruiter (as an axis or a fulcrum) and luthen as a recruiter.

the show has been playing on chirrut’s words in rogue one: there’s more than one kind of prison.

so you’ve got luthen who every episode gives me more and more former jedi vibes - and say he is actually a former jedi in hiding, say it’s not just a similarity. he has made his mind a ‘sunless space’ and thinks of himself as damned because he is using his enemy’s (the sith’s) tools against them - anger, ego, unwillingness to yield, eagerness to fight. “they’ve set me down a path from which there is no escape.” i mean im not ready to pound the gavel yet but he’s definitely a jedi in hiding who has felt a need to use the very tools that he doesn’t believe in. that are antithetical to his very belief system. even if he’s not a jedi, he’s trapped in a world that he loathes, selling the pieces of cultures that have been marginalized and oppressed to fund a rebellion, a rebellion he believes in but cannot serve without selling his soul. that is a horrifying thing.

you’ve got mon mothma who lives in luxury and affluence but has locked her truth away to protect herself and to protect the rebellion - and is in a traditional marriage that began when she was a teenager, a child. for all of her privilege and she does have that in spades, that is something the show is saying - that mon is in a prison of sorts too. vel as well - though she has her freedom when she is with the rebels and with cinta.

you’ve got jung who has been undercover in the isb for six years, who now has to live with the guilt of kreegyr’s rebels likely being massacred so that the isb doesn’t find out there’s a spy in their midst. man luthen that was cold.

but those are metaphorical prisons. and that’s important to remember because ultimately while they are at risk, they’re also not in literal prison. they’re not enslaved like cassian and the others on narkina-5, or tortured like bix.

and a metaphorical prison IS easier to survive, no matter what mon says. the irony is that while cassian has been in many ways lying to the audience and to everyone else in the show until narkina, he’s always known what he’s against. to borrow saw’s words, cassian has clarity of purpose from the moment he is imprisoned. we don’t see him worn down although he surely is exhausted, we don’t see him disillusioned like melshi or in denial like kino loy (who andy serkis says was put in prison for organizing his workplace. fun fact).

he is at serious risk of torture and death but cassian is more alive and more himself than he’s seemed in the show until this arc. he’s organizing, he’s being a leader, he’s recruiting - and he seems like he’s free in some ways. because he knows the enemy intimately like luthen, but in different ways. the fact that he knows the empire thinks they’re not even worth listening to because he’s lived that his whole life, that liberates him to openly rebel in a way that seems counterintuitive. but he’s right. and it works.

but unfortunately recruits don’t always live. shit goes wrong or someone doesn’t get the help they need when they’re at their weakest - kino loy - sometimes someone has to die - like tivik, like kreegyr’s rebels - to get a message to people who can do something with it. like cassian and jyn and the rest of rogue one.

that’s where cassian is when we meet him in rogue one. back in prison, but more of a metaphorical prison (i mean saw’s cell aside lol) as chirrut notes. a mental prison, like luthen’s. like lonni jung’s.

kino loy says that “if we can fight half as hard as we’ve been working, we will be home in no time.”

rogue one is when he can finally liberate himself again and go home.

#star wars andor #cassian andor #meta #andor #andor series #kino loy #ruescott melshi #bix caleen #luthen rael #mon mothma #btw jyn is the key #she is literally what is on his mind when he frees himself in saw's cell #and also the home references and welcome home #i'm just saying it's a thing #and cassian is her key too #he is the reason melshi and kay break her out of prison #it's omg #andor spoilers

[lanichols]

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[avayarising]

Zuko: There's something off about her, I can’t explain it but she's slipping.

When Zuko says he can’t explain it, he doesn’t mean he can’t explain how he knows she’s slipping. He can see that she’s messed up her hair that she always took such care over, that her fine control over her posture and facial expressions has fallen completely apart, that the quick wit and clever words that used to cut to the bone have deteriorated into vague insults.

What Zuko can’t explain is why she’s slipping. She has everything she wants, hasn’t she? She had the palace to herself, their father to herself. Zuko is firmly a traitor and out the line of succession. She’s about to be crowned Fire Lord. Isn’t that what she wanted? Why would she be losing herself now?

I don’t think it’s until after that battle is over, after Azula has screamed and sobbed herself out in chains, and Katara has healed the lightning wound she gave him, that Zuko actually starts to think about how much emotional pain Azula must be in. And it's only after he talks things over with Lo and Li, and they tell him what happened to her, that he starts to realise how much pressure she was under, and starts to realise that Ozai destroyed her life, too.

One of the many tragedies of the Fire Siblings is that each of them thought they knew what the other wanted – and they were both wrong.

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