#(vandran)

MOTHERFUCKING

TIM MCGRAW EVERYBODY

on power, knowledge, and inheritance; fjord stone & imogen temult

Preface: all of these guesses are based on my standing theory that the people they chose to highlight are characters introduced in the first two episodes to avoid getting into spoiler town three months out. Since we know there's a beacon heist early on, that basically means anyone in the Assembly or connected to the Beacon plot is fair game.

I initially thought a lot of the characters would be from the circus, but now I'm not sure, given how fast the circus plot seems to go (Alan Cumming is only in one episode) either Gustav fucking dies to Kylre (highly likely) or the entire Kylre plot takes up the better part of a 45 minute episode, which feels fine for pacing purposes, honestly.

So here we go. In order of how confident I am.

Mark Strong- Trent Ikithon. Already confirmed via Ripley flashback. He's been here the whole time.

Alan Cumming- Gustav Fletchling. Already confirmed via Alan Cumming's social media presence and a general disregard for NDA I guess. (Or they allowed him to confirm it because who is telling Alan Cumming no when it was ABUNDANTLY OBVIOUS who the fuck he'd be playing.)

Tim McGraw- Vandran. Absolutely no way it's not. Travis got to pick who plays his ship dad and he's a country boy. He will of course pick the most famous country singer who also voice acts every now and then.

Jonathan Frakes- Ludinus Da'leth. Listen I do hear you saying "But the Gentleman" and I do agree he would be very good as him, but these are the people who cast JANET VARNEY, AKA THE AVATAR, as Keyleth's mom. If they can get Xanatos to play Martinet Xanatos Gambit, that is who they are using him for. They would not miss the meme.

Ming-Na Wen- Astrid Becke. If Astrid is one of those people on the list and I assume she has to be, it's her. The one line sounds like her. She has the exact right energy.

Auli'i Cravelho- Marion Lavorre. If there are Vandran flashbacks, there will be Marion. 2/3 Disney Princesses on our list have beautiful singing voices, but only ONE of them has been on Fjord's playlist. If they got Moana, they're going to want to put her close to the sea. Also playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret means she's got that big diva energy, while also having this shyer, quieter countenance. Auli'i has the range to play Marion 100%.

Anika Noni Rose- Leylas Kryn. I am only confident in this in that she is the only other woman on the list and the only other SIGNIFICANT female character who could appear in the first two episodes and have a decent name attached is either Leylas or Vess and I just don't see her as Vess. Leylas though? She'd fucking rock Leylas.

Robbie Daymonde- Yeza Brenatto. This one isn't mine and I'm still not sure about it, but I feel like (A. They're going to try to get Yeza established in the narrative early to give viewers a SHOCK that oh shit his dead wife??? is Nott?? (B. If they continue the trend of "Robbie plays an NPC for some CR shows for groups he wasn't in" Yeza is the most fun for him to play and probably the easiest. Yeza is ABSOLUTELY in his character range. And it's hard for me to pick who else he would play this early on besides one of the carnies and I don't know if Robbie playing a carnie for one ep would be worth announcing.