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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, VIREN!?!?

(This is Viren’s VA for context)

O.J. Simpson posing with his wife Marguerite Simpson, daughter Arnelle, and son Jason in Buffalo, New York on October 10, 1973.

Marguerite & OJ Simpson and their children Arnelle & Jason Simpson in their Los Angeles home, 1973 🖤

Dunno if you’ve seen the tweet by viren’s voice actor but what do you think he means by Callum pulling a Romeo?

Have seen the tweet & tag rambled a little bit about it here, but basically:

Could 100% absolutely be a joke (as Jason is prone to do), could also be a bit of a foreshadowing, as I'd expect almost every actor to know their Shakespeare. Most acting programs do a bit of the bard if only to get used to line memorization / giving what can sometimes feel like awkward lines a natural sound rhythm, so like, Jason for sure knows what he's talking about

Everyone knows that Romeo and Juliet ends with a double suicide of the titular lovers, resulting in peace between their feuding families. However what's sometime lesser known are the circumstances that lead to said suicide and how it goes down

In a street brawl, Romeo's friend, Mercutio, who exists outside the family fuel is killed by Tybalt, Juliet's cousin. As he lays dying, Mercutio swears "A curse upon both their Houses." Romeo kills Tybalt in retaliation and fearing the Prince's law (as well as having technically killed a family member, as he and Juliet have been wed by this point), Romeo flees Verona. (Also spends the night with Juliet first but that's neither here nor there lmao)

Meanwhile, Juliet is being engaged to a young named Paris despite her protests. She goes to Friar Lawrence, who wed her and Romeo, and asks for his help. He gives her a potion that will put her in a death-like state for 42 hours, she's given a funeral and placed in her family's crypt. Friar Lawrence writes a letter to Romeo explaining the situation but he doesn't get it (messenger isn't allowed through legal issues to leave the city) so he shows up, thinking she's actually dead, and buys poison ahead of time so he can kill himself and be with her. A la pulling a Romeo at last

So the key thing is: after a separation, Romeo falsely believes Juliet is dead, and kills himself in order to be with her upon their reunion. It's already looking like moon magic, lies, and deception is going to be a major theme in S4 since Aaravos will be interacting with characters outside of Viren (namely Callum and Claudia) for once. Maybe he has to see through Aaravos’ lies, maybe he’s presented with an illusion of Rayla or just thinks she’s dead, who knows

Romeo’s "death" part also doesn't have to be so literal - it could be Callum doing something destructive and dangerous to save Rayla or because he thinks she's dead, for example. So if we take the tweet as something more than a joke, that would be my best guess. Which I have a few thoughts on already (with an added caveat of Callum helping to free Aaravos from the mirror to literally revive Rayla, say, similar-ish to Viren, or for Callum to give something of himself in exchange for her life, since we know magical intention can matter a lot in the series)

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Jason: I think I got your lunch.

Jason: *pulls out a note saying: "I am very proud of you. Love, Dad"*

Dick: Oh yeah. I didn't think this was for me.

Dick: *holds up a note saying: "Be good. For the love of God please be good."*

When you’re reading a fic that says it’s gender neutral but then “You wore a short skirt and tied up your hair”

(Bruce walks in on an argument between Dick and Jason) Bruce: - Hey! What's the problem here? Dick: We were fighting over which one of us loves you more! Bruce: Awww...! Well, go ahead. (Dick and Jason turn to each other again) Dick:...YOU love him more! Jason: No, you do! Dick: No, I don't! Jason: YES YOU DO! Dick: NO I DON'T!

….ravishing?

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

There are those among us that see problems but no solutions. There are those of us that see a problem and recognize a tool is needed. There are those that can determine which tool is needed. Those that know the very tool exists but not how to obtain it. There are those who can in fact obtain it but do not have a clue of how to use it. Then there are those that see the issue, recognize the tool needed, can obtain and manipulate the tool, and fix the problem. Those people are rare and special, no doubt.

Larger caption taken from a Hot Brown Morning Potion podcast episode regarding Viren’s philosophy / view behind dark magic, but had me thinking about how I’ve always seen Callum as very solution oriented, although I’ve framed it as him having Fixer Tendencies than phrasing it in any other way, but... It truly is another larger similarity he shares with Claudia (to a degree) and with Viren in particular. 

Viren encourages inciting violence because he sees it as the only solution; Callum rejects violence because he sees it as part of a cycle that needs to be broken; but they’re both still focused on rooting out solutions. They just massively disagree on what that solution (both on identifying what constitutes as a problem and understanding how to fix the problem) is.