good morning to princes whose father’s greed cursed the land for 18 years, knights who have daddy issues and are gay because they are fun, aspiring knights who have daddy issues and are fun because they are gay, witches put in gay jail, the sisters of the witches put in gay jail who has 50+ wolves, boss bitch ladies in waiting, children who run zoos, queens who start shit, queens who finish shit, queens who start shit and make other people finish that shit, princes whose foreign policy is “fuck around and find out”, royal advisors who invented dark academia, washed out thespians who eat hot chip and be bisexual, sirens who are #allies, and Kevin Christopher Snipes.
At first I thought that it was kinda arbitrary/out of nowhere.
If you asked me, I’d say that Rupert’s best quality is his passion and determination towards the things and people he cares about, or maybe his wits and cunning.Heck, I was surprised Malkia was included in that speech, since Rupert was pretty convinced she was evil after they fled the castle.
But from Amir’s perspective? It makes perfect sense.
He looked down on and was a prideful jerk to “Fitz” when they first met, and yet instead of leaving, Rupert broke past that facade, got Amir to see his mistakes AND open up about himself, and still fell in love with him!!!
And when Amir lost his memories Rupert never lost hope and refused to believe he was gone! Granted, he was kind of a jerk to Chad, but when Amir looks back he probably remembers Rupert talking about Amir’s good qualities that he was trying to see in Chad.
So OF COURSE Amir sees Rupert’s trying to see the best in everyone as his best quality, Rupert made an effort to see the good in him, twice, and both times it saved their kingdoms!!!
Anyways that speech makes me cry every time, thanks for coming to my TED Talk
All of this, but I’d also like to add: Amir brings this up when Rupert’s feeling regretful about trusting Darling!
Amir thinks this is Rupert’s best quality EVEN THOUGH it doesn’t always play out nicely or benefit them.
He loves Rupert, and everything about Rupert, even when things go south. And as someone who grew up thinking that I had to be perfect because love is conditional, and that people will only love you when it’s convenient for them, that’s a really powerful message.
As self-centred as Barrabas is, I think he was probably heartbroken when he had to leave the West (and Chamberlain) behind
He’d hide his pain behind jokes and songs, get drunk to forget, but in the late hours of the night, he’d lie awake thinking about his mistakes, about how he could change
In season 3, seeing Chamberlain again, it brought back all the memories of their time together, and yet he did not want to show weakness, so he jokes around instead, trying not to let the hurt show
He may say ‘crisis averted’ when Chamberlain rejects him in episode 3, but maybe that was just an excuse he gave himself so he didn’t let the rejection set in
Basically, I think Barrabas has more depth to him than it first seems
To help you recover from the angst I posted yesterday, I present to you the image of Barrabas, although he probably flirts more, blushing hard whenever Chamberlain flirts back
dni if you imprisoned the fairy queen and unleashed a curse on all the land as a punishment, you are the curse unleashed by the fairy queen who consumes all of mankind, you lead a rebel uprising protesting the gay marriage of the two princes who would join the warring lands together, if you started the warring in the lands because you’re canonically a petty bastard bitch, you’re an enchanted singing plant who lures people to their deaths, you’re a banished wandering thespian who hangs out with cannibals who eat people who hate theater, you’re the people who hate theatre who get cannibalized, your name is Chad, you unleashed an angry sorceress because you wanted to get your crush’s attention, you’re a giant dragon, you’re a giant spider, you ate the last unicorn, or if you tried to marry off the King’s champion to a pig farmer.
