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Fandom: The Dragon Prince
Rating: Teen?
Relationships: Sarai/Harrow/Viren but Harrow is not appearing in this fic
Additional Tags: canon character death, canon-adjacent AU, spoilers for S2 & S3 flashback in "Thunderfall."

(Note that I haven't rewatched anything to make sure the logistics are correct. I didn't think we knew how Viren got rescued, so I assumed something like, "Play dead til the dragon leaves & wait for dark." But its slightly AU anyway, so)

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I think maybe it's inevitable that you're going to queercode your magic users. Liminality and deviance are just where magic lives. It's a way a around the ordinary rules, by paying costs much of society shrinks from.

So that's why it's super disappointing that so many deviant weirdo magic users get depicted as villains, even if they're sympathetic ones. I want those people to be heroes, and to show that existing in liminal spaces and breaking your culture's expectations can be a strength. Yeah, they can go too far and give up too much, but so can the dude with the sword and the "honor," and those people do it with society's blessing much more often.

I do like a good combat wizard doing both, but again they're rarely as weird and queer as they could be if they're heroes...

Which brings me to Odin, and this amazing poem I will never get over:

https://manygodsnomastersblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/poem-rassragrmol/

There was a period where I had recently watched The Dragon Prince and I ended up reading three stories in a row about evil sorcerors.

One of those was opposed by another strange wizard and a lesbian queen.

And one was specifically pointed out as "A sorceror who Went Bad, unlike all the other ones who helped the chief and served the ancestors but are Not Appearing In This Book."

I forget what was up with the third one.

But what I was craving was the effeminate dude, or the sneaky subby silver-tongued weirdo of non-standard gender, who is the hero of the story, the helpful advisor, the protector of kingdoms and bringer of victory. We have that in myths and folktales, but we keep not putting it in our kids's cartoons with hot dads and it's past time for that nonsense.

Then I remembered The Graveyard of Empires is a thing, and a new chapter was uploaded, and all the trans witch princess warrior Goth goodness blessed my crops and my family. It can do it for you, too:

https://manygodsnomastersblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/the-graveyard-of-empires-0-prologue/

Contains mild, vague spoilers for Into The Spiderverse

I mentioned one of my fav ship types:

Ruler/Leader and childhood/longtime Friend/Companion who's always by their side, will defend them to the death/pain/afterlife/etc.

A wonderful variation on that is where the Companion is some kind of monster, magical, alien, not constrained by things like "physics" or "ethical concerns"...

fichuntie wrote Virrow fic that, like, strokes this button for me:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17126294

Garak/Bashir can hit this nicely. I should dig up some of my fav fics. Julian wasn't particularly a leader in the show, but it's definitely something he could grow into.

Charles & Eric can do this, too...

Man, Roku & Sozin coulda had this!

Marvel!Thor and Loki can have it, too. I don't ship them, but you can do it with other kinds of love. Also ages ago on norsekink I prompted this and someone started writing it as Loki/Rhodey, which was AMAZING, but I don't think it got continued...

It's fine if they take turns being the monster.

Itempas/Nahadoth from Jemisin's Inheritence Trilogy hit this really well. You can do it in an OT3 too... I guess Shahar Arameri / Itempas works too? The whole series does amazing stuff with power and responsibility and love and lust and devotion and aaaaaaaaaaaaa like enslaved gods and tattoos with magical world-altering power and and and

OMFG I almost forgot the most amazing potential for this in The Killing Moon with Reapers, or even just devoted pet Gatherers. *Pours one out for Ehiru* *Vows to reread*

Riv and Isaac in the Mangoverse by Shira Glassman sort of fit, taking turns I guess? He's a literal monster with the dragon-shifting (and snakes? I should reread...), she's a mercenary in the first book and general hardcore warrior.

SG called Isaac a "snarky wizard DILF" in a tweet so of course that made me think of Viren...

Djinn can be all about this trope! Variations on coercion vs. partnership...
Must... find... American Gods... fic...

I want to think of more examples with woman characters. My shiny new ship from Into the Spiderverse might work... ("Oh great, it's my ex-girlfriend the evil genius with tentacles")

I was never really in VLD fandom, but if you shipped Allura with one (or several... or all...) of Lotor's generals you could have an amazing version of this!

I should go see what's in the Wonder Woman tag on AO3, Amazons got this...

I like it ok with het ships as long as the woman is in charge. A shadow side* AU Galadriel/Celeborn could be this. Hell, Melian/Thingol and Luthien/Beren kind of canonically are this? Arwen/Aragorn could be too...

Persephone & Hades got this going on sometimes. I should find that comic where he's like, "Kick his ass babe, I'll hold your flower."

I really, really, really wanted Ella & Frederick in the Hero's Guide series to grow into this. I also ship her with Rapunzel and that could have been such a nice OT3. If someone got with Briar Rose they could have this, too.

Shades of this in the...3rd book, was it? with the witch and the barbarian, non-romantic... Doing this while sharing a body is interesting... (frantic scribbling about soulfang serpents...)

*Is "shadow side" a better way of saying "dark" for AUs and stuff? It's a little awkward, but it's the best thing I can think of, reminds me of magic and shadow work but where does that come from? is it too close to "dark" to be ok? What are some alternatives that make sense?

The decision to have people in the Dragon Prince universe refer to glowy purple magic dealing with death and souls as "dark magic" disappoints me.

Like, I know that even though "quintesscence" is a nifty word that refers to a similar concept, they couldn't use that in this timeline. Ok.

And they didn't call it "black magic" so hey, congrats for being one level up from ultimate racism and lack of originality, I guess?

It's just crappy and I feel like anyone giving it some thought could come up with something referring to the use of life/death energy. Possibly they could have just called it "the 7th source," but that's probably too awkward...

My girlfriend thinks it looks like black light / ultraviolet radiation, which is neat and probably related to some useful terms.

But like, even just thinking about the magic system... You already have several sources that generate light. You have star magic, and sky magic, which seems more like weather magic so far, but certainly includes darkness at times. Something that would actually make sense being called "Dark Magic" would be something more like space magic. The emptiness between the stars.

(Dark matter and dark energy are things, if also kinda uncreatively/imprecisely named...)

It reminds me of this poem:
http://www.odins-gift.com/poth/S/spacegoddess.htm

but they're not doing space, so... death & souls magic. Needs a better name. Glowy purple magic for fashion-concious Disney witches.

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