

When Callum goes to talk to Ezran about growing up and facing hard truths, a monologue with an emotional significance that deepens through later reveals, Callum realizes he doesn’t have the courage to tell the truth, either. Instead, he only thinks about how he’ll share the grim news with his young animal-loving half-brother Ezran (Sasha Rojen). There would be plenty of drama in a conflict that hurts their relationship and drives Callum further toward Claudia.īut that isn’t what happens. The predictable outcome would be for Callum and Rayla to have a huge fight over the way she hid the information from him. She resolves to finally break the bad news, but Callum’s crush, the dark mage Claudia (Racquel Belmonte) beats her to it. The elf assassin Rayla (Paula Burrows) has a crush on the bookish prince Callum (Jack De Sena), and hasn’t told him that she knows his stepfather, King Harrow (Luc Roderique), is dead. In “Half Moon Lies,” the second episode of season 2 of Netflix’s animated fantasy show The Dragon Prince, the writers set up a pretty classic rom-com conflict.

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As The Dragon Prince moves on, I look forward to what the series will do with its living heroines. They’re willing to let their doubts and questions have space to breathe. The heroines of The Dragon Prince pursue their own goals and ideals on their own terms.
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She reveres her queen mothers while knowing how to forge her own queenhood. She concedes to Lord Viren’s point that her late mothers would run into battle-after all, it was their final action-but to counterpoint her late mothers’ final fatal decision, Aanya chooses to avoid warfare with the magical lands. She has the tongue of both a child and adult, and both her sageness and child’s perspective shape her royal decisions.Īanya commits to a crucial decision that puts her late mothers’ fate into examination. She’s isn’t afraid to tear up before Lord Viren, the man who openly underestimated her, when he feeds her a firsthand account of her parents. She isn’t afraid to avoid majority opinion and vote “undecided” when she feels uninformed about a situation. Her impeccably formal rhetoric has a touch of playfulness to it-“I hardly call, ‘we’ll do what everyone else does’ a decision.” Having survived countless usurping attempts, she drops this pearl of wisdom that speaks to the problems young girls and women have today: “Sweet words can be more dangerous than hidden daggers.”Īfter all, words that look and sound deceptively positive can be used against women. She’s a child on the Duren throne, a queen, and the daughter of two queens. Their legacies are memorialized, not just in legends and statues, but in their wise heir. At the very least, they exercise agency in their sacrifice for their kingdom, and it isn’t for naught. In their little screen time, there is a fair amount of investment in them as a couple. My personal quibble was not knowing their actual names in the series (I had to find their names, Annika and Neha, from an external source). “bury your gays,” but there are still positive aspects to enjoy. While their fate fits the problematic pattern of supporting queer characters getting killed off, a.k.a.

And is it me, or does she seem to have a thing for a disrobed Lady Justice? (You’ll understand when you hear her conversation with her husband.)Īs their stories are told in a flashback, and we know their young daughter holds a throne, we’re prepared for their demise once we see their faces but take solace in the fact that they’re a legend like Queen Sarai.
