I Have Nowhere Else To Post These Actually So They Will Go Here For Now Because I Love Aarastrid :3

I wish we got more interactions of Terry and Aaravos because they were so funny to me and their dynamic was so amusing and interesting

I was pondering a lot recently on why arc one Aaravos and arc two Aaravos had such different vibes (disregarding the fact that we as the viewers have tended to view him with more sympathy and pity since his backstory dropped because that can tend to make us think vibes have changed when it’s just our point of view that’s changed) and it literally just hit me. The entire point is that the vibes ARE different because Aaravos is focused on manipulating a whole new person in arc two.

In arc one Aaravos is manipulating Viren, a man who wants power. In this case, Aaravos doesn’t have to rely too much on trust (even stating that Viren shouldn’t trust him just yet at the very beginning) and needs to focus more on showing the power he has and the power he has to offer. And because of that, we see him as a very graceful and powerful man, someone who exudes extreme mystery because why wouldn’t he when there’s no reason to tell a man who doesn’t trust him anything super important/personal about himself and therefore we, as the viewers who know as much as Viren does, also view him the same way as Viren: a powerful Startouch archmage who’s knowledge is extreme and is immensely shrouded in mystery.

And because Viren doesn’t require a whole lot of trust for Aaravos to manipulate him, they never actually form a friendly bond together that’s more than just a few jokes and respect and you can tell that Viren doesn’t hold much of an emotional bond towards him at all when he gets annoyed at the "has our relationship truly escalated to this new height?” line because Viren does not feel that their relationship is more than acquaintanceship with how little trust is required amongst them.

But in arc two however, Aaravos is manipulating Claudia, an entirely different person who is so love-driven (and therefore so much more emotion-driven than Viren was) and has been alone (her dad dying and being dead for two years, assuming Claudia didn’t meet Terry till around the like one year of Viren being dead mark) for so long that Aaravos needs to rely on trust and emotional bonds more than just power (although that’s important too because he got introduced to her when Viren died) to manipulate her. And because of that, he has been so much more 'soft' and caring towards her that we no longer just see the all powerful and mysterious archmage, we see a man who has formed a bond with Claudia that goes past acquaintanceship that we never got to see with him and Viren.

That’s what made everything click for me, because I had asked myself 'why would Aaravos tell Claudia his backstory and not Viren when they have so many similarities with them both being fathers who would do anything for their kid(s) and it would make Viren trust him more?' It’s because Viren and Aaravos’ relationship never relied too heavily on trust and emotions while Claudia and his did because she’s a character who is so loving that she can’t seek out power (subsequently not follow anything Aaravos had said during his manipulation) without it being for love.

So in arc one, we only see one side of Aaravos, one that’s powerful and mysterious. In arc two, we see another side of Aaravos, one that’s caring and can be trusted by Claudia. The only times we really see arc one Aaravos in arc two is his conversation with Viren, his talk with Ezran, and the final battle because he’s no longer with people who are so emotion and love driven.

I wish we got to see more of Ziard and Elarion because like all of that would’ve been so interesting to see and learn more about especially with how Ziard was the first (? Correct me if I’m wrong, it’s hard to keep track of tdp lore) dark mage

A missed opportunity was definitely decoining Kpp’ar and letting him and Aaravos have an interaction because it would’ve been such a fun dynamic plus Aaravos looked so ecstatic to see that Kpp’ar was practicing self-eating magic that I’m sure that would’ve been a topic that led to a very interesting conversation

Since Aaravos went back to the heavens when he died and the other Startouch Elves up there can watch all the life on earth, I’m assuming Aaravos can do the same so like do you think he keeps an eye on Claudia from up there till the seven years are up?

I haven’t seen many people talk about how Aaravos had isolated Claudia from Terry (her really good and healthy boyfriend who was her emotional support system) to lowkey make her dependent on him

Like Aaravos not only was the one who convinced Claudia not to tell Terry the truth about the Garden of Innocence which led to their breakup even though Claudia had clearly wanted to tell him and would’ve had Aaravos not interfered but he also told Terry about her not telling him (leaving out the fact that he TOLD HER not to) so he WOULD leave because he knew Terry wouldn’t have wanted that situation for him or Claudia even though Aaravos did not need to tell him for any other reason other then getting him to leave

Thinking about how Aaravos was stuck in a prison (based on??) of his own house. Like he was stuck in a place that carried memories of a home with his daughter when she was still alive for three centuries. It must’ve already felt lonely after her death but to be stuck knowing that no one can come or go? That no one was there or outside in the fields around his house? That her room and every trace she left behind is something he has to look at everyday and be reminded of her fate? That a place filled with love was now a prison for his grief and revenge? It must’ve been horrible.

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the fact that Aaravos didn’t know where his prison was. He states in the ep 'thunderfall' that he didn’t get told where his prison was kept. And his prison was literally placed in the sea created by his OWN TEARS where his daughter’s carcass laid plus (I think at least?) placed where her heart would’ve been. Like I wish we got to see his reaction to that because it would have been so interesting to see

This acc is slowly getting off track from my analyses but I genuinely do not know where to put these so deceitfuljest posting I cheered

They’re so funny to me

Pointing out something about Leola and Aaravos cause I’ve had yet to see people talk about it.

Here before Leola’s death/Aaravos falling from the heavens you can see that the like half circle thing (idk what it’s called, I forgot) around Aaravos’ main star is pointing downwards.

However after Leola’s death/his falling from the heavens, you can see that the half circle around his main star is now pointed upwards.

Now Leola’s main star used to have it’s half circle pointing upwards just like Aaravos’ after Leola’s death/his falling from the heavens.

But when she falls to the earth/dies, her main star’s half circle is pointing downwards just like Aaravos’ before her death/his fall from the heavens. (Also I find it interesting how Aaravos is the only thing in the background that’s visible although that could just be a choice to make the scene look more interesting rather than having a deeper meaning.)

I think that the way these changes to their main stars are that they could symbolize how Leola took the kind Aaravos with her when she died and how Aaravos is how Leola lives on through him since he is the only one to remember her and he helped give humans magic like her (albeit dark magic) even going on to say that he’s doing what he does in Leola’s name.

Or maybe since Leola doesn’t seem to come from the stars but instead having been birthed (because Startouch Elves can choose their forms and I don’t think a baby is smart enough to do that), maybe she shares some of Aaravos’ stars and they returned to him when she died? (this one is a crack theory that I don’t particularly believe in but wanted to note anyways.)