Graydon and Jade's friendship: rolling their eyes, they patiently wait until their girlfriends stop bickering

If Elora and Kit are having a staring contest Graydon and Jade are betting on who’ll win

i love your theories, do you have any thoughts on kit and eloras relationship? ive been rewatching willow (aka having it as a background as i do thesis work) and i noticed they both hate themselves and each other and also envy what the other has (kit never wanting to be a princess and elora always wanting to, both of them feeling unworthy and “not enough”, etc). i think their friendship would be real interesting in a kind of insane way. like “i hate you but not as much as i hate myself, also i would kill and die for you”. like what the hell is that - barmaid anon

My theory is that Elora's season 2 arc is going to be about accepting that people are going to flock to her, fight for her, and die for her/the cause.

We've seen it with the woodcutters, and she told Graydon that she doesn't want anyone else to die for her during The Battle of the Slaughtered Lamb. She specifically tells him that, and he's the only one of the questers to actually die, very clearly and obviously for her.

We know that the Empress being revealed is supposed to gather a great army to her and I think Elora will be horrified by the magnitude of life that will need to be lost during this war. I think she'll do her absolute damndest to try to do everything on her own, to try to win the war by herself so no one else has to suffer.

But that's where Kit comes in. More than anyone else drawn to her cause, Kit is the most devoted, by choice and by fate. She is Elora's sword and shield, she has to stand between Elora and the darkness. She has to suffer, and potentially die, for Elora. The entire storyline of Elora making peace with others risking their safety for her can be condensed down into the relationship between these two girls. Kit's the only one who knows about the woodcutters, who knows the guilt Elora is bearing, and I think we all know what she'd say about it.

"Well, tough. You may be the Empress, but you don't get to tell me or anyone else what we get to fight for."

Do I think Kit is going to get real hurt on Elora's behalf to make this story beat work? Yes I do. Do I think it will drive a wedge between Jade and Elora? Yep to that as well. Am I rubbing my evil little hands together looking forward to it? Absolutely.

(also do I think that Kit and Elora's scenes are incredibly homosexual and do I think they have an obsessive love and belief in each other that makes me bonkers and do I want them to kiss about it, yes.)