In that moment, some achieve the ultimate connection with the heavens and become enlightened ones, the Timeblind. The Timeblind transcend our perception of time. They experience the past, present, and future as one.
6x04 / 7x09 / 1x01
But as we grow up, we are forced to make choices, sacrifices, compromises, and they change us forever. Childhood innocence gives way to something… complicated.
1x01 / 7x02
1x01//7x01
Aaravos thinks sometimes about the way humans count their years: one day every year marks a precious point in their short life spans. They celebrate. They feast. He thinks that if he cared for the idea, he’d like to remember the taste of a smooth red fruit a human had plucked from a tree for him, once. It had been so crisp, and so sweet.
1x01 / 7x01
One thing I loved in season 7 is the reexamination of the Moonshadow Assassins’ oaths, culminating in Rayla preparing to give her heart (Callum) for Xadia, both of them with full understanding of the compromise and sacrifice they’re willing to make to save their world.
But I also want to highlight the reexamination of Runaan’s oath. During the original bloodribbon binding in season 1, the assassins offer up vital parts of themselves for the ideals they believe they kill for, the self-sacrifice element clear in their pledges. At first, Runaan does not appear to swear an oath himself, only officiate the ritual. But at second glance, his oath is actually the most severe: "Tonight we bind our lives to justice." Symbolically, Runaan has given up his life, and the lives of every participant in his ritual, until their mission is completed. If they cannot secure (vengeful, bloody) justice, their lives are forfeit.
But Runaan’s view of justice, and his own life, shifts with his character development. What kind of justice requires its executor to give up all they are and symbolically enter into a state of death? And what have they done, when they completely dissociate from their moral compass in service of their mission? When Runaan comes face to face with the harm he’s done, for the first time, he’s shocked. But after he reflects, realizes all the pain he’s caused, he’s remorseful, and with the support of his loved ones, he tries to make amends.
Runaan returns to Katolis not because he had to, but because he chose to. Justice will not be denied and Runaan never breaks his promises. But this is a different justice than he brought before. He offers his life, not as an agent of death, but a living, breathing person who loves and is loved. And that offer means so much more now that both he and Ezran truly understand how valuable life is.
1x01 // 7x01
you ready? uhh, i’m gonna have to say no. great. let’s do this.
1x01 / 7x09
S1E1 "Echoes of Thunder" / S3E1 "Sol Regem"
1x01 / S7
“my heart for xadia” + viren giving his heart for katolis yeah yeah yeah
1x01 // 4x09
super dead
1x01 // 6x09
hah.a. tak e tha..t.tT *sobs*
If we act quickly, we can accomplish our goals without sacrifice. / The sacrifice… it’s unthinkable.
1x01 / 6x08
1x01 / 3x01 / 6x08
