chat what do we think the author meant by this?

Tangle: asexual; she’s just never been attracted to someone THAT way lol

Whisper: aromantic; she’s just happy to have friends again, and anyone she trust enough to get closer with becomes family to her

If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!

If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience

If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.

Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"

A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story

Random plot twists that don't connect to anything in the story are not clever. If we don't see it coming because the writer didn't provide any clues, they aren't clever and it's totally unsatisfying (and I will NEVER read this writer again). These clues need not be lit up in neon with a parade of elephants and showgirls. But they need to be present

If no one figures it out, you're doing your job wrong.

If everyone figures it out, you're doing your job wrong.

Of COURSE some people figure it out, they're paying attention.

If you're doing your job right, and laying out the clues, a certain number of people HAVE to figure it out.

Although… she is the only main cast member that doesn’t seem to have a character arc lined up for her besides being good at magic (which she already is) so maybe she needs some conflict-

“If you really think I can, I guess maybe. I could do something so extraordinary. They’ll give me my very own tapestry, even call me Zane the Legendary. All I need is the perfect plan to show how royally heroic I am and do something so undeniably cool, like driving that dragon out of our school!”

And then the dramatic—

“WE’RE ALLLLLLLLLLLLL” 🎶😂

I finally finished all the episodes that have come out so far for Royal Magic and I gotta say hands down Camila is my favorite out of Sofia's new friends

I love that she just pops in and scares the hell out of everyone and like just impulsively tries out spells she's never done before because eh why not. And even when she does them wrong she's just so like chill about it. And her Cedric fangirling like same girl

And the best part is none of her friends think she's a bad sorceress or don't believe in her abilities and in fact they never get mad or dismiss her when the spells go wrong. Instead the focus is on the actions of the other characters who asked for her spell like Zane in the Tippty Tap Dance and Amber in Veggie Good Deed

It's so different from the way ya know Cedric was treated all his life. He could do the spells right he just messed up because he got nervous. I have no proof of this but I like to think if The Incident had never happened Cedric might have been similar to Camila. Maybe not as extroverted but like more chill with making mistakes

Zane (and Zaria) is going to be important in the first episode or in a later a story arc but I can’t prove it…

Imo these shots aren’t just highlighting the duo for no reason (Zane’s got that deuteragonist energy fr)