#callista

✨The flamboyant bards✨

So flamboyant they took going out with a bang literally

As promised, the fanart on my banner! If it wasn't obvious, I'm team Bards all the way. Best captains with the slightly insane Casper and Callista, and best goyen with the even more insane Sunspear, what can I say. Their motto could literally be "gaslight gatekeep girlboss" and i would cheer. 😌✨

can vampires get tired? Either way I'm sure she'll find a way

the coterie's cunty scheming leader 👁️‍🗨️

And naturally i made fanart

Its called a brief reliving of troll lore on ao3

By @i-am-gun-robot

Extra doodle of happy jim

The challengers are accepted!

Kal Asterock, I present the Defenders of the Banners Helm.

OMFG WHAT WAS THAT ENDING?!

A DAMN CLIFFHANGER LIKE THAT

OMFG Odward and Casper were a thing and I called it?!!

DISNEY ACTUALLY DID THAT-

Guess now we know why it aired in June 👀

When we first get introduced to both Odward and Casper, they’re both very snappy and a lot more tense and heated than they usually would be later on.

Then in the tryouts when Casper is taunting the Knights, Odward is clearly annoyed but then that scene where they confront each other in front of Milo happens.

I was immediately like “This sounds like a toxic break up” Yk as a JOKE cause Disney ain’t got no balls. But while they were talking about the game and the “team” it quickly divulged into talking about each other personally. Then they BOTH start getting emotional and tearing up then I was like “Damn these two have some tension fr” then Odward quits and Casper looks GENUINELY heartbroken like WAS THAT ALSO HIM BREAKING UP WITH CASPER LIKE-

Then in the following episode whenever they meet they banter and Casper and the other Bards are just spitting insults and calling him a traitor but Odward always seems to take it a bit differently when Casper says it. And I was like “ohhh bitter exes 👀” again not seriously-

THEN THE LAST EPISODE CAME IN WITH THOSE SCENES MID GAME

WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS SCREAMING WDYM I WAS RIGHT-

Disney don’t be 🐱 YOU BETTER GIVE US THE DETAILS NEXT SEASON

BACKSTORY EPISODE

I caved and rewatched all the scenes that had MagnetMirror; they have taken over my brain I can’t anymore.

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Anyways, let’s start with episode three.

13:35–13–53 is the first time we see Casper and Odward interact on screen.

It’s during the try-outs, right after Milo slips on his tama, Casper comes over to make fun of him to Odward, leaning against him, and hugging him, before Odward shoves him off and walks away.

Casper mentions something happening yesterday that Odward would be ‘sore’ about (like upset or something), but I have no idea what it could be.

I thought maybe it had to do with Milo, but we learn later that Casper doesn’t know they’re siblings, so I don’t see why Casper would think he’d be upset about making fun of him or anything.

In that same scene noticed a two things about their dynamic. 

A) Casper is so happy to see his boyfriend I can’t even, he immediately hugs him. Oh my god.

B) When Odward walks away he’s clearly upset but also perplexed by it.

I’ve seen a lot of people seem to think they were on and off, but Casper doesn’t seem to have the reaction of someone who’s used to Odward getting like this.

If they were on and off you’d expect him to upset, but also annoyed like ‘classic Odward’. Instead he looks like a kicked puppy.

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Later that same episode at roughly 19:40–20:48 During the break-up scene; the break-up scene starts by Casper over hearing that Milo and Odward are siblings, poking fun at the fact that Milo is so much worse than Odward.

It devolves into them fighting, and then Odward quitting the team(and more importantly; breaking up with Casper), along with throwing his Bards jacket at him.

Now, obviously, despite his claim to the contrary, Odward probably is just mad about Casper making fun of Milo, he can say otherwise all he wants, he’s not fooling me.

Then Casper says ‘I’m the only one that matters’. And that’s it, that’s what makes Odward so mad, because it’s basically him admitting he doesn’t care about anyone else, including his boyfriend.

And I’m sorry, but the way Casper’s voice cracks when Odward says he’s leaving the team, is so heartbreaking on a rewatch. Casper looks like a wet puppy.

Now, Casper’s reaction isn’t to apologize, if it was to apologize Odward might have stayed; but no, because he’s fifteen, and prideful; he doubles down.

Casper says ‘we can replace you’, this is a sentence with a double meaning; on a first watch he’s talking about the team, but on a rewatch he’s basically saying he can get another boyfriend.

Which of course upsets Odward! So he quits/breaks up with him.

But I still can’t tell if Milo is aware that they’re dating; if they were breaking up, which they are, it make sense for Casper to says something like ‘I don’t need you’, but he doesn’t he disguises it like they’re just talking about the team.

So, maybe Milo doesn’t know; or maybe by talking about the team Casper was trying to make it hurt less; or maybe Milo does know, but since Casper doesn’t know that he knows he’s keeping it under wraps for Odward’s sake; or even since they were already talking about the team neither of them want to make it anymore personal than it already feels.

Regardless, this scene is way sadder on a rewatch, they’re both crying, their voices are breaking; props to the VAs, it’s super sad.

I don’t have much to add to this scene though; it’s pretty clear on a rewatch.

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In episode 4 at 20:00, during the banner scene, the twins see them when they came in.

Casper looks so heartbroken, I’m not okay.

He’s like ‘you break up with me, to join this team?’

The way his sister talks makes me suspect that she doesn’t know they were together.

She sees Odward as a traitor, simple. I’m sure she’d see him as a traitor no matter what, and maybe she’s just hoping Casper will feel less bad if she talks like this. But, maybe she just wasn’t aware of just how close they were.

Callista doesn’t seem like she’s the most socially aware, and it’s not clear how much the twins tell each other. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Casper was as touchy with Odward as he is either everyone else.

I don’t know! I hope season 2 makes it clear who knows, and who doesn’t.

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In episode 5 at 4:12, when they meet down at the market Callista and Casper have very different reactions to seeing Odward.

Callista is amused; she wants to see him squirm.

Casper is visibly upset, the wound is clearly still raw.

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At 4:29–4:59 is when they actually talk at the market.

It is VERY clear that Casper is still hurt because he purposefully pokes at Odward to try to get a rise out of him.

Even when Key intervenes, Casper is still poking at Odward. Casper doesn’t care about the knights, if Odward wasn’t on their team, he would treat them the same as all the other teams.

Casper stands there for a few seconds even after Odward turns away; he’s probably hoping he’ll look at him; when he doesn’t, Casper walks way.

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5:05–5:15 after the Bards leave, it’s shown that Odward is not as unaffected by the break-up as he pretends to be.

He blew up at Key for ‘fighting his battle’, probably because the battle wasn’t with the bards it was with Casper, and he just wanted to walk away, but Key kept poking.

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At 5:45 and the rest of the episode Callista is the one to instigate every time after Odward left; like I said, Casper doesn’t care about the Knights, he cares about Odward.

I think Callista sees that Casper is upset, but doesn’t really understand why, so she defends him by taking it out on the knights.

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At 22:40 Casper wants to have stopped the Knights, Callista does too, but Casper’s seems more emotional, while Callista seems that she just wants to pick on them.

I’m not sure though; maybe I’m just reading into it.

Callista also mentions having a plan to get back at them, but I’m not sure…

Wait, actually, I have a new theory, but I’ll discuss when I get to episode 11.

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They don’t interact again until episode 10 at 8:28–9:19.

And this scene is juicy.

Is the one where Odward and Key are looking for Ameline, they run into the twins.

We see, yet again, that Callista is against the Knights, Odward’s just one of the knights. She gets in the face of Key, not Odward, that’s important.

The other thing that happens is Casper saying to leave them alone; now this could be for any of three reasons, maybe more that I’m not thinking of.

A) He started to feel bad about what happened with Odward.

B) He doesn’t want to talk to Odward at all.

C) He’s showing Odward what it’s like to be ignored.

It’s probably C, but B makes sense, A is the least likely, given his pride.

Now, Odward had been angry all episode, so his reaction to this is the same reaction he’s had to pretty much everything else.

Also, Callista says ‘kiss and make up’, when Casper tells her to leave them be, and I can’t tell if she’s making a dig at the relationship they used to have, or if she’s just saying that because it’s a common phrase and it’s driving me crazy, who in-universe is aware of their relationship!

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Episode 11, 5:53–5:57, is the first time Casper makes a dig at the Knights in general, and it’s while they’re playing; about to play anyway; so to some degree I do think how much Casper insults teams is part of game play.

Now I have one theory for what Callista’s plan was that she mentioned in episode 5. Their plan might have been to steal the armor; it wouldn’t have taken them long given their tama’s, and they do look a little guilty when Sunspear tells them the whole ‘a win without humiliating your opponent,’ thing.

And when the time is running out they give each other a point.

I have another theory for what their plan might have been, but it’s mostly vibes, and I just think it would be really cool.

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8:28–8:49, The twins throw around the knights the whole game; remember this.

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9:08–9:15, Casper takes a did at Odward, and calls hums ‘Oddie’, no one can convince me this wasn’t originally a pet name that Casper used to call him and is now using to mock him.

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10:22–11:15 The scene that had me literally screaming, and I have been thinking about non-stop since I watched it.

It’s the reveal scene of course.

Casper doesn’t really use his tama anywhere nearly as much or as violently against Odward during this one-on-one as he has most of the game; he’s using mostly footwork (he does use his tama a bit, but mostly just to launch himself forward it looks like).

Now, obviously this is the big reveal scene, so I too was busy screaming to notice that they’d both started crying on my first watch, and it’s only at that point that Callista intervenes, so she must know the history there, right? Right?

I don’t know, he seemed distracted enough that she might noticed, but just might not notice know; if she doesn’t know she will probably figure it out soon.

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11:43—11:47, Callista and Casper fall from a super high height, high enough that a huge dust cloud appears; they were on the roof when they fell; wouldn’t this kill a normal person? At least break some bones? What are these kids made out of? Anyway, this is important to remember.

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At 13:25—15:54, the twins are not playing around, and mess with everybody in the air; they throw them around and stuff; remember this as well.

They also throw Key around for quite awhile until he breaks free.

Remember this.

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At 16:52–16:58, Sunspear says to them his infamous ‘you need to end Nagatastu, for good’, I’ve have a whole poll on this, with arguments, and you should check out the comment section; but I have more tos at about this whole event.

Only one this to say about this scene though; after saying his line, Sunspear adds ‘you know what to do’.

What if Callista, after the whole forge thing, really wanted revenge, and so brought up to Sunspear that they needed to exploit a weakness of his.

Sunspear at this point brought up whatever he actually meant by his evil sounding order; whether it was to injure Key, to bring up his mom, or to kill him.

Regardless, both in the scene we have, and if that scene just mentioned exists, the twins don’t like it, and look decisively horrified.

Which would make sense if it was about his dead mom because it’s been confirmed their mom is also dead.

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17:09, the twins are visibly uncomfortable, preparing for what they were told to do.

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17:14–17:30, Key says one sentence, then Casper uses his tama to slam Key into the ground. 

This is violent, sure, but we see people being smashed into the ground; it probably hurt no more than when they fell from the ceiling.

Remember what I said to remember? The twins have been throwing people around all game.

The main difference is that Casper doesn’t play like that, at least not as much as his sister, or in this moment. He tends to fling people around; but mostly he uses his ability to walk on the ceiling.

The most violent thing Casper did up to this point was shortly after the game began he slammed Odward into Key.

The real thing that punctuates this scene, at least to me, is that Casper makes what sounds like a death threat, ‘You wanna be like your mom? She’s gone. Why don’t you join her?’ Which definitely sounds like a death threat to me.

But maybe it’s just to scare Key, to emotionally break him enough that he stops fighting, and then even if the injury isn’t that bad, he’ll be taken out of the game just because he’s already checked out.

After this Casper makes a sound that sounds like he’s pleased with himself; which only proves to me more that the instigation is part of his play, and not his whole personality; we saw how horrified he was at having to do this.

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19:00–19:12, the most infamous scene, Casper lying in the ground, he just got a full force of firing; scaring the right side of his face.

Obviously, Casper’s plan, whatever it was, backfired horribly.

Odward is the first one there, and he goes to cradle Casper’s body, quickly follow by Callista, and someone who I can’t see.

Odward yells at Key, for obvious reasons.

I don’t have much to add to this scene, it’s heartbreaking, but I don’t see anything that isn’t obvious.