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Idk about you guys but I think this season finally gave us more on an insight into Viren as a human and as a father rather than a villain and a dark mage like in the previous seasons.
Like, at least to me, back in the first season it gave me the impression he almost saw Soren as replazable, more like a subordinate and not his son. Like he wouldn't care about whether Soren came back from looking for the princes or not.
This time though, he's openly very affectionate with his vision of baby Soren. He explicitly said 'l love you too', played with him, and desperately said he'd do anything to bring him back when he thought he was gone.
It's almost like the villain, dark mage part of him died with him, and Claudia only brought back her and Soren's dad.
I 100% think Viren was a bitch before because the dark magic did currupt him down to his soul and not only his appearance. Claudia said it was like a reset when he came back, so maybe that's why he's acting like this now: He's back to being almost fully human, not a dark mage. And that's also why Claudia is going more and more off the deep end every single time she uses dark magic.
There's a price to dark magic, and I think it not only takes the life of the animals and insects used to conjure a spell. It takes a part of the user's own humanity too.
Edit just to say: maybe this is why Callum is so crossed about dark magic too. He's very intuitive, so it's not only that he thinks it's immoral, but when he did dark magic the first time he felt something shift and he knows it comes with a higher price than everyone thinks. Maybe that's also why he's not phased by the idea of killing Aaravos while Ezran looks horrified at the idea.
This is how I think he reacted after he got imprisoned and found out the Orphan Queen (his friend) was the one who helped the dragons imprison him by sharing his weakness (secret).
listen tdp is a cohesive wonderful show but from Viren's perspective can you imagine what it must feel like to be all about dark magic and coups and power and starting a war and all this other stuff and at the end the thing that gets dropped on him is btw just to recontextualize some of that, a literal alien did decide you were a worthy mate. that's your kiddo right there. fucking screaming
no one me making and deleting a twitter account within a 7 minute span just for show info ANYWAY
fuck you
GOD IS NON BINARY
FUCK GOD AAA. also YES GRACIE bro knows rayla hasn't had nearly enough restful nights throughout the course of her life the Only boyfriend
i am still loyal to the concept of rayla's tats starting to fade and bein kinda sad bc she can't go home to redo them and callum doing a bunch of research on moonshadow markings and surprising her and doing them for her and this is further solidifying that idea in my head and and and an
canon
NO /POS. FURTHERMORE NO /NEG
shits gonna FUCK me up
mhm
IM CRYING THE FACT THAT OFFICIAL SCRIPTS LOOK LIKE THIS MAKES MY LIFE SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER