No choice? Ha. You made the same choice you’ve always made. / This is the destiny I choose. The one I write for myself.
5x08 / 7x06 / 7x07 / 7x08
If you love them, Rayla, Ezran, all of them, you’ll do anything to save them.
cruel and cold like winds on the seas 🏴☠️
And, admittedly, when the figure steps out from between the trees, his first thought is that it is indeed an elf. Straight Moonshadow white hair falls to the woman’s shoulders, her garb dark and frayed, skin ghostly pale, but then the head turns upwards—and even if it’s been six years, no matter how long it’s been,he will never forget that face.
you guys forgot? I dont
When you're watching something and a character really comes across to you as autistic
You have succeeded. You have found something worse than death: Harrow.
Dragon Prince Arc 2 Concept Art!
challenge them to a duel
On the surface, Amaya can come off as a very flawless character.
She's a total badass, she's gay and pretty, she sees through Viren's bullshit (er, droppings?), she's kind to those in her employ, she's loyal and forthcoming, she loves her nephews and her sister, and she's not unreasonable in her elf prejudice in addition to letting go of it fairly quickly. She's also Deaf / perceived as disabled (noted here as many Deaf people do not view themselves as disabled) and, in addition to being gay, that can sometimes make people overly sanitize a character due to notions of disability making someone (particularly women) more 'innocent' or 'pure' due to infantilization.
However, I've touched briefly on her main flaw of being callous and dismissive in the past, and I've always wanted to talk more about Amaya's general arc, specifically in how she grows in empathy throughout the seasons. So let's talk about it
Just a quick disclaimer: S2 will not be really touched on as she only appears in two episodes, and they mostly serve as plot set up for S3 rather than doing any real emotional work or characterization for her. Cool? Cool
Amaya in S1 both perpetuates the Cycle, and she doesn't. On the one hand, like Viren, she's deeply concerned with the safety of the Breach, enough so that she's willing to return to it and delegate the search mission to Gren rather than insist upon undertaking it herself.
She hates elves and considers them monsters, much the way Claudia does in S1. In spite of a lifetime of fighting Sunfire elves at the Breach, she considers Moonshadow elves to be "the worst kind" of elf, like a monolith of loathing and fear (perhaps because of their sneaky ways or associations with death).
At the same time, she's not purely an antagonistic force to anyone. Corvus, her trusted tracker, offers Rayla a deal that shows reason ("Give me the boys peacefully and I'll let you go") and, more importantly, she foils Viren's plans to be king with her entry and reaffirmation in 1x04 and 1x05. This leads to him not having the throne all the way until two seasons later, and is undeniably a good thing.
So while Amaya is an ally to the boys and an antagonist to Viren, this plants her firmly in the middle, of both perpetuating the cycle and helping to stop others from perpetuating it. We see her increased antagonism with the Sunfire elves in s2 lean along the former vein as well.
Until of course, we don't, and we get to the heart of Amaya's arc:
The Dragon Prince Xadia: All Rayla skins and descriptions
Found @hazieash’s videos showing off the characters skins and thought they were great references!
Rest of the characters coming soon!
