#layl.text

Talos, knowing full well New Asgard exists:

Nakia was likely pregnant and that’s why she was absent in infinity war. (2018)

Then they all get snapped and Nakia is left behind and chooses to leave Wakanda. (2018)

T’Challa and the others are brought back 5 year later and T’Challa meets his son who’s named after him, because Nakia thought he was dead. (2023)

T’Challa decides he’d rather his son continue to grow up in a non stressful/pressuring environment and he visits as much as he could. (2023-2024)

T’Challa spends about a year doing so, while silently battling an illness. (2024)

Then the movie takes place a year later, after T’Challa passes away, making T’Challa junior roughly the age of 7. (2025)

He revealed vibranium to the rest of the world to help. “You are wrong to turn your back to the rest of the world.” He wanted to provide aid and to protect not just those in Wakanda. He offered to heal and protect Bucky. He offered to house Steve as well (I’m assuming). He opened his borders to the avengers and stood right alongside them as they all fought Thanos. But his decisions that were made with good intentions, and to SAVE people, also came with repercussions as we see in bpwf. 

With Shuri (at least this is my interpretation of what happened, supported by several scenes and her comic counterpart) I think she took everyone else’s words to heart in that moment with Namor. Unlike Zemo and Killmonger, Namor had an army. A powerful one. He wasn’t just one man. He and his entire underwater nation was a very real and powerful threat, and killing Namor, like M’baku had said, would’ve caused eternal conflict between their people, which would’ve hurt more Wakandans. And so she didn’t do it. Because Shuri, especially during this movie, and everything she and Wakanda had been through, will put her country first. She’s dutiful. That’s who she is in the comics as well.