✮⋆ Krelito ⋆✮

oh wait, that’s all krel did in the movie. all that follows after his totally not subtle write-out is him saying a few lines, the ninth configuration bullshit, his bestie claire saving him from falling to his death, and then allowing his entire life to be reset.

reblogging with @vanillapie-80’s tags because that’s another thing that pissed me off:

aja, krel, AND douxie are ALL PROTAGONISTS TOO. TOA THE TRILOGY HAS FOUR (4) PROTAGONISTS!!!! and how many did the movie have? 1! because they gave jim all the protagonism by draining it from the other three. the tarron sibs and douxie were treated like background characters IN A SERIES CONCLUSION THAT’S EQUALLY ABOUT THEM!!!!!!!!

as much as some people want to believe it, toa is not just jim’s series, jim is not THE main character. he is A main character, one of many. aja, krel, douxie, toby, claire, blinky, aaaarrrgghh, varvatos, strickler, barbara, steve, eli, etc! just because he’s the protagonist of the first show of the trilogy doesn’t give him some seniority over the other three protags. this series belongs to ALL of the characters, it’s THEIR show.

but to get back to the point of this post, the characters from 3below seriously deserved more relevance to the plot. aja and krel did fuck all as protagonists of their own show, and varvatos, the second most important character of 3below, had maybe 10 lines the entire movie, he had his fight with bellroc’s titan and that was all he got to do.

the fight with halcon (1x07)

not saying that aja should be erased from this completely, but something that always pissed me off about this is that instead of letting krel help and fight alongside aja, he just gets knocked unconscious. which, okay, sure, stun him for a second like halcon did to varvatos, but when he comes to he can help! but then when he DOES wake up, he’s… instantly knocked out again, like literally instantly. what the fuck. not to mention, when halcon first attacks, it’s on krel (and ricky) alone (one of the rare moments that krel’s part of something without aja involved), so you’d think they’d give krel some stake in the final fight against halcon. and i’m not saying he needed to be the one to get the dramatic final blow on her either, in fact i love how varvatos just wakes up and one-shot blasts her to pieces in the sky. i’m just saying i think krel should’ve been an active part of the fight.

the battle of the bands (1x12)

this one’s not really as major, but it only slightly annoys me because i’ve always felt like most people were cheering because of aja’s vocals/dancing rather than krel’s music (save for eli and seamus who directly compliment him, they’re real ones) especially when krel literally has to clarify that HE’S the main act when someone in the audience cheers for aja. again, not the biggest deal, just a silly music competition, but it feels weird for the show to frame it as krel’s major legacy moment when moments earlier he was still being sidelined by people in favor of his sister.

rescuing varvatos (2x02)

this is by far the one that pisses me off the most. as we see in both 1x12 and 2x01, krel is VISIBLY more emotional and affected by varvatos’ betrayal being revealed. to the point where tears ROLL down his face, and he ALMOST EXECUTES varvatos on the spot, and his emotion in the season 2 premiere coming out in apathetic anger, but then we see him curl up and break into more tears when finally confronting his feelings on what happened. it’s literally HIS IDEA to go to the moon to save varvatos anyway. only, when the plan gets enacted, it’s… aja who gets to free varvatos from his cell. so where’s krel? playing dress up in the space tavern’s main room and getting hot-potatoed between dozens of bounty hunters. this makes me unbelievably upset. you show that krel is massively more affected by the events than aja is, but then he’s not even granted the courtesy of the 1-on-1 that aja and varvatos get as she frees him? say what you want about anything else i’ve mentioned, but this is a moment that 110% should’ve belonged to krel and not aja. also the fact that krel doesn’t even really speak directly to varvatos for the remainder of the episode once he’s freed. if anything, they kind of just gloss over krel’s internal conflict of being angry at him vs wanting to rescue him, another flaw in the usage of krel as a character.

One of my all time favorite fictional exchanges comes from the show Babylon 5 (huge shock to my followers). In it, a late-middle-aged Centauri ambassador and his much younger attaché have a discussion. The attaché had just narrowly avoided getting in major trouble for helping two other young Centauri marry for love rather than status. The ambassador, Londo Mollari, who had scolded his attaché for this, tells a story. When he was young and his father was getting older, he told Londo "My shoes are too tight, but it does not matter, because I have forgotten how to dance." Londo says he did not understand then, but he does now: "My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance."

His young attaché, Vir, replies with some confusion that he doesn't understand.

Londo, with a bittersweet sort of tone, replies, "Nor should you."

Additional note: I was able to find the scene. I love older, obscure shows for that.

For some reason, today my brain decided to apply it to K-pop Demon Hunters, of all things. It could apply to any of the girls, especially Rumi with her tight shoes of shame, but my brain picked out Mira first, actually.

Because she was forced into tight shoes much younger than anyone should be. We don't see much about it in canon, just how Cool and Rebellious about it she was.

But I can't help but wonder -- how much of her youth did Mira spend having forgotten how to dance?

Day 4- Aja

What better date than taking your girlfriend to sparring with you in a deadly forge?