#welovelance

So Lance and Valkyon lived in the little town, then they lived in the fenghuang temple, and they decided to join the Eel Guard. Everywhere Lance was very popular (not only with the women ;) ). I have the feeling he was a good mentor, someone who could help you to become the best version of you (and I hope in the future he could help Erika to master her powers, and not to be afraid about them). And this is how he managed to become a chief guard. But this advancement, this popularity didn’t delete his feeling of loneliness and his misunderstanding (why his parents sacrificed themselves ? Why he is still alive ? Why his parents didn’t sacrifice him at the same time ? Many questions and no dragon to answer it). Lance is a clever man (he knows many things, he knows how to master his powers, he knows the ancient Greek, he read of lot of books, etc.), and he wanted to know everything about the Blue Sacrifice, he wanted to understand. That’s why he spent several days in the archives, he learned many things about the Sacrifice but it was not enough. He started to read evertything about the dragon, and it’s at this moment he learned about the obliged sacrifice of the last dragons by the faeries, the genocide perpetrated against the last descendants of dragons. It was the straw that broke the camel. He had the feeling his loneliness is the consequence of the actions of faeries. He didn’t have any dragon family or any congener just because of them. He had the feeling the sacrifice of his parents was vain because they protected monsters. Thus Lance has become blinded by his anger and his hatred, all he wants is to destroy this world because this world killed his parents who sacrificed themselves to create it and because this world is full of traitors, of monsters, of killers who don’t deserve his parents’ sacrifice. 

This is how the nice Lance became the bad Lance. Lance decided to join the dark side. And his first decision was to destroy the Crystal. During his first attempt, he failed to destroy it completely. But he met an unexpected ally ... Leiftan. Leiftan doesn’t want to destroy the crystal, that’s why I think the two bad guys met during this event (Leiftan was the one who “succeed to repulse Lance”). Leiftan succeed to convince Lance not to destroy the crystal, and to become his ally. He promised him he could bring back to life the great dragons, so his parents. So Leiftan brought hope to Lance, he could not be alone anymore. That’s why he decided to become his partner. But Leiftan manipulated Lance, he fueled his hatred against faeries, he became a bomb (that’s why Leiftan wanted to eliminate him before he exploded). 

Then Erika arrived on Eldarya. First, she was a funny curious thing to Lance. Later she became a possible ally (that’s why he decided to reveal her some informations the guard tried hiding her). Then, she became an obstacle when he realized Leiftan didn’t want to execute their plan because it meant to kill her because she was the chosen one by the Oracle. Thus he betrayed Leiftan, thus he tried again to destroy the Crystal, thus his hatred amplified, thus the bomb exploded. 

When he kidnapped Erika, he started to appreciate her, she was kind like the inhabitants of the little town (if you decided to be nice with him). There is an important thing about the episode 26, Lance belongs to the dark side, but he has still a light side in him (we could see this when he covered Erika with a blanket, when he gave her some water, when he talked to her on the cliff and she could see in his eyes he was sorry for everythink, and in the episode 28 he doesn’t want the kappas genocide, the situation escaped from his control). But in the end of the episode 26, Erika betrayed him, she became a traitor like any member of the guard, that’s why he tried to kill her. 

Then he managed to escape Memoria with his brother. He wanted his brother to join him in his fight, but he was, once again, disappointed by him. Valkyon decided to join the guard side. The Lance’s hatred got worse, he was betrayed by his own family.

Lance is not a real bad, evil character. He is just a lost character, who felt lonely, betrayed ... But we have clues he could join the light side again. I hope he could see his mother and talk to her. To my mind it is the only way to help this character to join the light. I hope the Erika’s vision in episode 29 means the Leiftan’s plan will be applied, and the dragons could be brought back to life. Lance, thanks to his mother, could join the light side, he could have a fantastic redemptive bow (like Leiftan). Then he could also become an LI.