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Still losing it over the fact Callum’s all "I need quasar diamonds for Rayla. Only 3 exist in the entire world and I'm going to smash them. For her."

Love that for him. For them.

Destroy all the priceless ancient artefacts, king. Do it for your girl.

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Your Ez POV fic was *chef’s kiss*! I love Ez but don’t find many about him/from his POV that satisfies or feels true to who he is.

You gave me Christmas, Raay! And the fact that Rayla came to check on him, too.

It was everything I wanted from an Ezran fanfic. It might be my favourite you’ve written so far. Thank you thank you thank you!!

Aww thank you!! I adore writing Ezran pov and don't do it hardly enough - he's such an interesting character, so good hearted but accordingly very easily frustrated, I think, and I love delving into those sides of him. Someone needs to be the moral compass, but that doesn't mean it's easy or fun, and I loved drawing out the contrast between him, Rayla, and Callum in this fic <3

Other particular fave Ez POVs:

series of drabbles, some of which S5 ended up on touching on regarding Ezran feeling like he has to be a king > a child

s5 ezran meta that ended up being one of my faves ever to write and in what i think i accomplished with it (& heavily influenced "it wouldn't be this story" as well)

will not be denied: Per the monarchs of old, King Ezran is visited by Lady Justice in a dream. 1.5k, Ezran centric

ezran contemplates viren’s death (post-s3, featuring one of my favourite headcanons that Viren is Ezran's god father, and the messy emotions that come with it)

and my chessmaster ezran tag my beloved

#Reblogging to read these fics later #tdp ezran #🤍 #Ezran is sweet and underrated

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4x01 / 5x04

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Rayla and Ezran in Book Five: Ocean

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yeah y'know just normal Friend looks

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A little glance

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some of the questions & answers i was most interested / validated by from this interview between The Reel James and Aaron Ehasz

INTERVIEWER: He used dark magic again, there’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it?

AARON: Yeah he did. He did what he had to do, and he saved her. Like I don’t know what would’ve happened if he hadn’t made that decision when he did. 

INTERVIEWER: Another wonderful moment in S5, well actually several moments, something that I and so many of the fans are asking for, which was just having more Rayllum this season. And Aaron, you delivered, sir, because I can tell you - I was putting together a compilation video and they are like five, six, seven genuine Rayllum moments. Was that something intentional? Did you always kinda knew you were gonna do that in S5?

AARON: I thought people were gonna hate us. I-I’m glad people feel that way, cause we - we were very distinctly decided let’s focus on rebuilding their actual relationship as friends and as trusting people who care about each other and not build the romantic part. So I thought people were gonna be like “No kiss, what?!” and it turns out people actually respond to the genuine connection and reconnection that happened between Callum and Rayla this season, and that makes me really happy. 

INTERVIEWER: Yeah, I think we all got a little bit of closure too, with that scene with Amaya and Rayla in the Great Bookery. They’re having that conversation and it sounded like Amaya was gonna tear her head off, and then she ends up saying she sees “a lot of me in you” and I think that’s such a mature moment. I was wondering if you could kinda talk through that cause that ended up being one of my favourite scenes of the entire series, because it was just so much more mature than I ever expected it to be.

AARON: Yeah, I mean, it’s something we knew we were gonna have to grapple with from more than one side […] Amaya’s also this super protective aunt who saw what happened and saw how hurt her nephew was, so it’s just great material and also they’re both such strong characters, so seeing them kind of go at it a little bit, but also each show some vulnerability was just really delightful, and it was a great opportunity. Sometimes you find those scenes that are almost […] but yes the time between Rayla and Amaya, it was just a joy finding the drama and the humour in their conversation.

INTERVIEWER: [Rayla and Callum] have their Han Solo - Princess Leia moment where Callum looks over to Rayla and says, “Rayla, I just want to tell you–” she says “I know.” And I’m like whoa! Hold on. So I’m guessing he wanted to tell Rayla that he loves her, or he forgives her?

AARON: Some combination, but I think he’s seeing in that moment - you know, you have those moments where you’re hurt by someone and they come back, and they wanna be welcomed back or treated warmly or something, and we all understand this, and instead of… Part of you wants to be warm and normal again, but you’re a little cold, cause you’re waiting for them to do whatever they need to do to process the wrongs that you perceive that they did to you. Like we have those moments in our relationships all the time and they’re hard not to do. Part of it is you’re standing up for yourself and all this stuff it gets complicated. And I think to some degree in that moment, Callum recognizes, like, he’s kept these walls up and maybe he’s hoping she’d do the work to get through them, and in this moment he’s regretting that the walls were up, maybe. And trying to tell her, you know, that - cause he, he thinks that’s it. Like they won’t have time to process, and maybe he… So, I dunno, I agree it’s a sad, beautiful, lovely moment. 

INTERVIEWER: Do you see a world where they actually have that ‘sit down and have a conversation’ about “here’s how I felt, Rayla, when you left for two years” and “here’s how I felt when you came back” and “you gave me the cold shoulder” or do you think that was enough closure? They can move forward from now?  

AARON: Um, what do you think, do they have more to talk about? 

INTERVIEWER: Yeah, I think they do.

AARON: Yeah, I agree. They have a lot more.

AARON: [About the “I hope you know–” “I know”.] He’s regretting that he’s held the walls up to protect himself and not given her a chance to make things up to him more easily, and not express to her that he missed her, that he still… 

INTERVIEWER: Was Callum using dark magic in a way to darken and make it easy to be controlled by Aaravos next time? Or was it just a convenient way for Callum to get free and safe his friends on Finnegrin’s boat?

AARON: Yeah I don’t think so. I think, Callum recognizes correctly that using dark magic somehow is creating some vulnerability in him that allows Aaravos kinda more access in a way to controlling him or be inside him in some horrible way. The fact he recognized the risk and vulnerability of using it- that it poses to himself but he took that on anyway because he felt like he had to to save Rayla.

AARON: The wait for S6 will be similar to the last gap [between S4 and S5], slightly less or slightly more. We’re concurrently working on S6 and S7 right now. 

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How it started:

How it's going:

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"Love and trust grow a kind of strength that is much bigger than we each possess. To have that kind of strength, it's not enough to love someone. You have to trust them to share the burdens you carry." | Callum and Rayla in The Dragon Prince: Book 5: Ocean

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“People are allowed to dislike things” WRONG! No one is allowed to dislike Rayla

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If I had a nickel for every time a teenage boy voiced by Jack DeSena in an animated fantasy series proposed a trip to a legendary library to find a key piece of information to help defeat the bad guy, and then stayed too long in said library, endangering himself and his friends in the process, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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@magicandmundane dangling really great writing posts for me (but I’m sure magic has other writing buddies, but still).

we need to popularize the term “mutual bait”, where you make a post with the sole purpose of a specific mutual interacting with it

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Me when a character gets hurt and their SO gets overprotective:

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you know your girl had to redraw this one :3

EDIT: i’m sorry, but i had to add this.

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Problems only writers understand

Having very chaotic notes on your phone

Having secret files that you will NEVER let anyone ever see

WHAT THAT WORD THAT MEANS THAT THING????

Why cant I think of a name?

Writing 10k words in a day then never again

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Callum and Rayla at Amaya and Janai's wedding.

Callum: (holding an ice pack to Rayla's left eye) Sorry, I should have warned you that Amaya said she was going to aim for you when she threw the bouquet.

Rayla: So humans just lob flora at each other at weddings?

Callum: (blushing) Well, who ever catches it is supposed to get married next.

Rayla: Humans are so weird. (Considers) Ok then. If that's the tradition.

Callum: Ehh...

Rayla: Only so I can get her back with flowers to the face.

Callum: No, it doesn't work like that.