#cronan

Except: he has no idea he’s doing them.

The amulet is screwing with his head really, really badly. He hasn’t noticed, because he’s been wearing it since he was so young, so he just assumes ‘oh, I have massive gaps in my memory, must be because I’m getting older, and my mom forgot me a lot of the time, so adults just forget lots of things’.

He genuinely doesn’t understand why things fell apart with him and Rosalyn, or why Ashwing got sick. He thinks he’s trying to help his forest, with the help of his goblin friends. The goblins don’t realise they’re being controlled, either.

So he’s just a slightly awkward teenager, doing teenager things, with constant black outs, who gets possessed by shadow creatures through the amulet, and has no idea he’s doing evil things half the time. Or that as that keeps happening, it’s slowly killing him. No, his hair turning white isn’t just because ’oh, old people problems’. Kid, you’re 17 (in elf terms), that’s not old.

Everything makes perfect sense to him, because… no frame of reference. So when he begs Nadia to help him get his mother back, and get the amulet, he doesn’t understand why she wouldn’t help him. He’s done nothing wrong, and he only really needs to borrow it. He respects her decision, though.

Sophie has the weirdest time with it, because she’ had the exact same “Why are you in a cage?” conversation with this guy enough times she can read both parts. He’s tried to set her free, always letting her out, and apologising when she tells him he locked her in there, and he doesn’t know why he would do that. She’s also then gone through the same he goes completely blank and I get put back in the cage by the shadow goop and the cage is moved somewhere else part that she just knows something is wrong with her ‘cousin’.

I dunno, it came from a dream. It had holes in it. Still does.

(Lego Elves is as peak as i remember it from 8 years ago).

Her sister vanishes, right? Leaving behind a young, now very traumatised child, who was already being pretty much neglected in favour of power, and dedicated to everything to do with his somewhat crazy mom, to the point where he’s willing to go crazy himself just to try and bring back the one person he ever cared about and who cared about him.

Now, Skyra clearly knows about him, as her words to the gang are “ah, him” essentially, rather than “QUATZINE HAD A KID?!” So…

WHY IN THE WORLD DID SHE NOT GO AND CHECK ON HIM?!

Are they all really saying he turned out in anyway shape or form from the way a kid who raised themself with no good role model or mental support would have? He turned out exactly how his situation pushed him to be. He wanted his mom back. It became his one obsession. He had a shadow creature helping to enforce these ideals, and an evil necklace doing who knows what to his head!

But that could have all been avoided!

How? Child supervision! Did literally nobody in his family care enough to look out for him, or even stop by? Was the family estranged? Even if it was, there would have been reports of some kind about the state of the forest, which would mean Quartzine was either doing something bad (which she was) or something may have happened to her (which it did).

In summary: if Skyra wasn’t surprised by his existence, then she’s truly deplorable for not even sending a letter to ask if he was okay. All of the sisters were fallible.

He was a child. Alone. Desperate. Broken. In need of ANYTHING to bring his heart back again. He was alone for… however long elves take to grow up. Likely with mental health deteriorating rapidly.

Evil? Well, to him, back then, it was a necessary one.

He knew he was doing the wrong thing… but was there ever even a second option in his opinion? Why would anyone start caring about him now. The never did before. He was in this fight alone. And he used what he had to make sure his forces were unable to defy him… to leave him.

He treated Roysaln really badly tho, can’t explain that one…

Granted, he shouldn’t have done any of what he did. All I’m saying is he had reasonable reasons. An explanation not justification.

And kids need someone, they always do. Especially after trauma like that. I’d bet anything that he would probably have used to get up some mornings p, tired and sleepy, half awake, and stumbled to the kitchen, saying hi automatically to an empty chair where his mother used to sit. And be crushed all over again, reminding him over and over that she was gone, and he couldn’t save her. He couldn’t save her. He had failed then.

So, naturally… he would make that right. And it was likely “right” in his head, as he had no frame of reference. After all, his mom did the same thing.