#njadaka

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Any theory why Shuri's question and Namor's answer echoed with Shuri's conversation with N'Jadaka in the ancestral plane?

Wondering why it's exactly the same conversation. Had shuri unconsciously constructed Namor in her mind in the ancestral plane so everything that's in her heart actually manifested itself in that place? Hmmmmmmm suspicious.

Because I 100% just imagine Erik and Attuma doing this when Namor finally brings home the girl he's been "courting like a gentleman"/he thinks is the love of his life for montys.

Namor is torn between embarrassed, laughing and wanting to kill his friends. Shuri thankfully thinks its hilarious. So they got dressed and opened the door.

Erik stops dancing when he sees Shuri

"SHURI!"

"N'Jadaka!" Shuri looks like she's seen a ghost, Namor completely misreads what is happening.

"How does she know your birth name?" Namor pinning Erik to the wall. Not realizing, Erik can't explain with a tight hand on his windpipe. Attuma grabs Namor trying to keep him from breaking Eriks neck. (Erik guards his birth name to avoid dealing with his dad's family. So Namor only knows it because he's been friends with him for seven years. So Namor assumes they had to be close lovers.)

"Namor let him go, we're blood cousins he's turning Blue!"

Namor let's go.

"Oh....sorry."

"I'm just surprised you're cradlerobbing Namor. Thought you'd have taste for older ladies or at least your age."

"What are you talking about? She's in a masters program." (Namors in his early 30s, and assumed Shuri was like 27-29)

"A program she's been in since she was 17. She's not even 22 yet."

*Namor flustered and looks like a soul left his body. Because this means Shuri's rhe same age as his baby cousin Namora. He's overthinking so hard , smoke might come out his ears. But looking at Shuri , he still had deep feelings. But holy hell he feels like a creepy old guy hitting on a college freshman.

Attuma is just quietly watching this live soap opera now the fighting stopped.

"Sooo, Shuri hows auntie?"

"N'Jadaka for the love of Bast, shut up."

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I really liked that Shuri saw Killmonger instead of Ramonda, T'Challa, or T'Chaka. I find it significant because it reaffirms just how much of a 'breach' it is for Shuri SPECIFICALLY to take on this role and in the way that she has assumed it. The fury that is her grief has overtaken her, and her inability to truly confront it in the past has led her down a path paved with understandable intentions (avenging your mother) but not 'good' ones (doing good by and for Wakanda).

So when she speaks to Killmonger, saying that she is nothing like him and he only cares about himself, it's great because we know that she is yet again uncomfortable with confronting herself. Killmonger, in that moment, is her mirror, is the personification of grief that turns into all-consuming fury. And that's why it can only be him that she sees. In spite of her refusal that they are alike, she knows deep down that the strength she desires is the strength he relied upon to express his rage.

Ramonda, T'Challa, T'Chaka...none of them abandoned her. None of them left her. She left them. And it is only when the fire of her grief is extinguished (through burning Namor), that she chooses to see them once more.