@@stuff6836 just wanted to say that i am also aro and i do have this!! my relationship is a qpr with a dash of romance sprinkled on top and it's wonderful. you can have any sort of partnership you would like - you can have this type of love and companionship. most of the rayllum shippers i talk to on tumblr see rayllum as aspec anyway, it's really nice

​@@wordswithdragons9599 Hey! (So sorry for commenting on your comment to everyone lol, you can delete it after). I just wanted to say how grateful I am for your video!! One night, I sat innocently, bored and looking for a new show to watch, when I happened to stumble across this. I thought, eh, why not, and clicked it, hoping that the ship was good. AND BOY WAS I IN FOR A TREAT- I had never seen anything like it (besides Hiccstrid ofc lol, I think I had just finished watching that…) I immediately clicked off of the video after about 2.5 Rayllum moments and looked up where I could watch it. Luckily, it was on Netflix, and the second I pressed play, my life was forever changed, introduced to the magnificence of ✨RAYLLUM✨. I just again want to thank you SO much for this video, and how much joy it inevitably brought to my life!!!! Rayllum forever ❤❤❤💅✨🔥😩😭🙌🏽👏🏽✋🏽👌🏽

Thats rough buddy

Me who read the comic: Hehehehehe…

@@connormcgrath5800?

@@jonas7483 HAHAHAHAHA nah I’m just jokin and being a dick. Nothing to worry about. I hope…

@@connormcgrath5800 i have read all comics, i just dont know what they have to do with the topic?

I love how that's countered by when they talk about themselves it's either very short it's a monolog about how much they suck and then the other comes to slap the positivity back into them. Rayla: 'talking about how she deserves to be rejected' Callum: Excuse me shut up. No one talks bad about my best friend, not even my best friend. Or the opposite. Callum: 'talking about how his magic was the only useful skill he's ever had' Rayla: That's a lie and you know it. You're the idea guy.

I love when Callum matter of factly goes "Rayla is a hero" and Rayla is just boggling at him in the background. She'd never thought of herself like that before and he just says it.

@@zanite8650 That's pretty similar to the first time Rayla called Callum a mage. He'd never thought of himself like that before either.

True

😭💅👏🏽🔥😩😫I CANT THIS COMMENT SECTION IS JUST IT-

We got 5 but your right

Can't wait for season 4

@@haux522 Is there a season 4?

@@venissaa idk I search it on YT

@@venissaa "Books" 4 through 7 have been confirmed for a while, though due to the delay in getting them confirmed (thanks Netflix) there was basically no work done on them, which means development is taking a while.

@WoF_Art♥️ yeah 😭

Also still waiting for them to use the pet names “Cal” and “Ray”

Not to mention the story isn’t finished yet (i think its the half way point/close to it but not sure) so there’s still development to be done between both characters as the story progresses. Unlike most romances that happen at the very end.

What's funny is that the two didn't start out slated for a romance. That's something the writers decided on midway through season 2 I believe.

@@kevindolan9 I think we might actually get to see them as adults in the coming seasons. Season 3 seemed pretty wrapped up, and it takes time for Viren to prepare his next move.

@@andrewcummings7832 YES

SAME!

Until season 4☺️

"what?" *realization of the ship* "WHAAAAAAAAT"

one of the funniest moments in the show! XD

That was my favorite moment that was so funny

Ezran*

When you missed ONE game night and now the rogue and the wizard are suddenly a couple.

UGH IKRRR- LIKE WHY THEY GOTTA DO US DIRTY LIKE THAT 😭😭✋🏽

And so is he.

Fun fact: constant self sacrifice can be a trauma response🙃

Feels like naruto and hinata

@@avrilslittlesis Not with Rayla, and you just ruined the comment

@@avrilslittlesis Or, self sacrifice is a sign of love and true friendship 🙂

They complete each other, this is all just marvelous

mans sokka in a different universe

Yeah I'm so sick of romance tropes in genre fiction. One pursuing the other unreciprocated until OOPS They kissed for no adequately explored reason. "mediocre man getting the girl anyway". Love triangles (*shudders*, I was seriously worried there was gonna be a love triangle between Rayla, Claudia, and Callum. Thank goodness we dodged that bullet) Rayla and Callum share strong fundament morals, and have great chemistry to boot. They both give and receive desire, and emotional support equally. Like,a good romance is one where like, if in an alternate world these two were Ace/Aro they would be close, loving, platonic soul mates for life without the romance aspect. And then if you do add the romance part it just turns it into a beautiful, charming, very healthy and straightforward relationship.

If you like strong women characters then you should check out Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. It's a redemption story so the main character starts off as a horrible person but as the series progresses he becomes a decent human being.

It's one of my fav ships alongside "Optimus Prime X Elita-1" in Transformers lol.

I think the word that fits here is "brave".

Water: I'm about to end this elf's whole career.

To be fair, deep water is a scary thing…

@@AndorRadnai yeah

nah cuz thalassaphobia tho

I don't think you understand how many instruments nyx has on that craft. Lying effectively is impossible

AHHHHH! I *did* know that, but I was too busy looking at her blushing cheeks that I didn't notice!!!

Very cat-like in a way…

I saw that!!! I'm pretty sure I've rewatched that scene over 10 times and I love it! 🥺

Eyes also expand when people are scared.

She also blushes in that scene which I find so adorable ☺ cause she's so fierce all the time, but underneath it all she's a shy cutie

I still find that fact to be so incredible because I felt that they had chemistry the whole time. Heck, I was shipping them from the moment they met! 😄❤

@@silverstarlightproductions1292 Yeah. It felt like they weren't going to to it but the writing and the chemistry they had were just right so they just went for it. I like those two because they reminded me of Sokka and Suki from Avatar the last airbender.

@@The105ODST It helps that Sokka and Callum share a voice actor!

What makes it even better is that thunder rumbled and lightning flashed at that moment. In French, there's a saying that goes "Un coup de foudre," which literally translates to "A thunderclap," but is a metaphor for falling in love. It's believed that if you're looking at someone/into their eyes during a thunderclap, that's the moment you fall in love with that person. Slightly unrelated, but Miraculous Ladybug did this with Marinette and Adrien when she fell in love with him. (He has yet to reciprocate, but ah, we'll wait.)

It honestly just makes this ship better as their relationship wasn't built on a plan, but rather a developing foundation that the characters got overtime cementing that just like people, they got closer over time.

I've rewatched that scene more than the entire show. It's unbelievable how real the emotion conveyed was in that moment.

It's also a really beautiful bookend for his story, the first big decision he made when he met Rayla was to sacrifice his own life without a second thought to save Ezran, and then at the end he risks losing his own life to save her. He's just a really really good dude from start to finish. It's so refreshing. He doesn't just get dragged along like so many protagonists, he shapes the story with a strong moral compass right from the very first episode. It's one of the main reasons Rayla fell in love with him. That and his big doe eyes of course 😍😘

Rayla: Now your my boyfriend Callum:😀

You just had to jinx about it don't ya? There are 2 dislikes now.

Spoke too soon

@@Celestial-yq6hz face it, dislike are... *inevitable*

comment didnt age so well

@@pocketinfinity6733 No, it did not

Wait WHAT, season 4? WHEN!?

Spoiler alert

@@dragonwolfstudios6529 November time

@@lucapagano7636 ITS NOVEMBER NOW!

Agree, it's so attractive! as are the voices of the other Moonshadow elves. LOVE how they decided to give each "tribe" of elves a different accent. Wondering what the Ocean elves will sound like. Spanish maybe, or German?

@@nickgarcia6572 i want to have a russian accent for one tribe

@@MontanaSpeck_69 I have a doubt to it these days

@@MontanaSpeck_69 that would be cool for ocean elves or maybe even snow elves?🙏🙏🙏 Star elves have American accents and earth blood elves are Aussie

Yesss! I LOVE her accent, and it's just amazing!

Hi me

yep.

He Might End Up Being Taller Than Rayla By Next Season.

@@hannahburke7328 Still, cute addition.

​@@hannahburke7328 Lol he is now actually, love the realism. Girls grow faster in the beginning, and also earlier. And now Callum hit his growth spurt in the 2 years she was gone and now he's, just a little taller than her.

It would be interesting to see their babies.

@@tureytayno3154 Me too.

@@tureytayno3154 Im hate babies, so i hope they dont planning make them

@@Raidzu ima pretend I didn’t see this comment ☺️😀

@@tolancefraser3452 Ye, right

It's not a subplot any longer, its the beating heart of the whole narrative!

@@BaiZhijie I was just gonna say this. It's so true, and it works on so many levels. Rayla and Callum (and Ezran) represent the future of relations between elves and humans; they are inversions of the relationships their parents had with each other. There is a lot of space for the writers to explore their relationship as an ongoing parallel to the growing relations between humans and elves moving forward. Just because they had a successful alliance doesn't erase centuries of prejudice and war, and I'm hoping that they show Callum and Rayla dealing with those issues and continuing to lead by example. Gosh I'm rambling and not explaining myself that well but I think you get it. On top of the great performances by the VAs, and fantastic chemistry in the writing, they form a perfect emotional core to the story that serves to elevate all the themes of the narrative.

@@MrTombombodil You're not rambling, I get how you feel completely. Im a grown man in his mid 30s, yet I completely adore this show for kids.🤭 And I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out why this work of art has affected me the way it did. Apparently the romance wasn't planned, but the characters "came alive" in the writing and took the writers in a new direction. (which is a sign of good art). So I think it was originally going to be a straight adventure story like Avatar, but then the romance began and pulled the narrative into a new direction.

... Now I see the show as a narrative exploration of this question: "what does it mean to love thy enemy." And is the redemptive power of love strong enough to overcome 1000 years of hatred. At the beginning of the first season Rayla is Callum mortal enemy, but the end of season three, he's willing to lay down his own life for a chance at saving hers. Watching that kind of love unfold in a work of art is deeply moving stuff. Now Im rambling! But I think thats part of why the show and their relationship works well.

So true. It's not even anything ground breaking in concept, it's just a normal healthy relationship that happens to involve dragons and magic. It's so simple and straightforward in a refreshing way, but is elevated into the stratosphere by amazing performances, storytelling, and music (gods the music is soooo good). -No stupid love triangle -No "comedic" misunderstandings that leads to pointless drama -No overnight friends-to-lovers with for real reason -No one character providing all the desire and emotional input while the other is too busy with ANGST (they both give and receive emotional support and desire from eachother) Just wholesome goodness from start to finish with some completely believable emotional turmoil and catharsis.

LOL

I trust these writers to not take cheap shots. These two breaking up would require one or both of them to act pretty wildly out of character. They have already demonstrated they are able of quickly and compassionately resolving pretty big disagreements. Them having a falling out doesn't make sense thematically or in terms of their personalities. I think the most likely thing is they get separated by duty, Rayla goes off on some quest and Calum has to be a mage and advisor to King Ezran. And so we can get some drama from them being apart and get to have a big reunion scene, without any kind of ham-fisted romantic schism.

@@MrTombombodil For all our sakes I hope you're right

@@MrTombombodil coming out of season 4s release today… you hit the nail on the head!!!

aged like milk

" Oh wait.... Its just one of those sleep crusties 😅"

I seriously doubt that

@@haydenberends3905 the creative team said so rayllum was never an idea

@@ZephyrBW Huh

@@haydenberends3905 maybe that's the key. They really just fucking push their relationship step by step and then finds "hey, this could work" Kinda like real relationship how ya begin harborin feelins for a friend Then again, never been in that sorta relationship so, ain't for sure

Where did you see/hear this? I’m curious!

you're so welcome and thank you for your very kind words! i love editing these two, hopefully we'll have season four soon

@@wordswithdragons9599 yep ! manifesting season 4 asap

I feel you! Also finished today and amazed by how much effect a story like this can have on my mental health. It is all so sad and beautiful at the same time. Hope their story ends well.

I feel the same

i really like atla's romances but definitely prefer tdp's, so i get what you mean! in atla the romance is mostly a subplot but tdp can honestly market itself partially as a romance at this point, which is pretty neat - esp since it was so unexpected to the crew & initially unplanned

@@wordswithdragons9599 Agreed, I didn't dislike the romance in Avatar, it just seemed to come and go as the story needed it. Some points felt appropriate for the show to use it but it honestly did feel more like a side plot rather than a part of the actual plotline. I prefer how Dragon Prince managed to intertwine its romance plotline into its actual plotline, feels more refined and just as an improvement overall. Still think both series are S tier though.

@@andrews_lego_tanks_and_more One of my gripes with the romance (Mainly Aang and Katara) was how they dragged it on near the end when they couldve been together sooner and developed them as a couple from there. Theyre still great though so it doesnt bother me too much.

I KNOW IT'S SO AWKWARD BUT SO CUTE LMAO

same its so awkward but at the same time i love them together

No- . This is how you explain me- ✨ How to train your dragon prince ✨

Why hate on both when you can enjoy both couples for what they are!

@@sanjeevoommen9593 Agreed.

I don’t hate either. I just feel Rayllum is a more engaging relationship.

@@sanjeevoommen9593 You speak truth my dear queen/king

I know right

Its wholesome

Hang in there champ. Focus on yourself, growing and loving yourself, and your time will come ❤️ I believe in you!

Are more seasons confirmed? It’s been a while.

@@davidlance4683 They have 7 seasons planned so far.

@@TheGreyParse Any release dates?

@@davidlance4683 late 2022 or early 2023 for season 4.

I trust the writers to make it work no matter what, but I literally don't think I could keep watching if they split up. Mostly because I think for that to happen one of them would have to do something really out of character in a way that would be a deal breaker for me. They just ended up writing two characters that are so perfect for each other I can't think of a way to separate them romantically without it feeling forced (obviously they could separate them in the narrative by having them have different quests or something, even if they're still together romantically so they can undergo some solo growth and then have a big reunion)

Nyx

Yup, this is pretty accurate lol

aww i smiled reading all that, cause i was the same way haha

@@The-Apothekari XD

This compilation needed the bit with them on the leaf!

Also the scene of them riding the big leaf together!

Proud of you 👍

me too

based

Ah yes the sandwich talk

@@starcraft8555 "hm.. your breath still smells like peanut butter 😩"

The producers confirmed her comeback in season 4

@@MontanaSpeck_69 Thank you Jesus! You truly are my saviour!

@@AndorRadnai you're welcome

@@MontanaSpeck_69 I can only imagine when someone says the ‘who asked’ argument in a comment section you just reply to them with just a ‘Hey’ Lol

I’m crying🤣

Do not remind me of what I used to be.

didn't have room for it, but there are lots of clips i'd love to include in another video!

@@wordswithdragons9599 your other videos are pretty nice. Keep up the good work!

Not to mention them riding the leaf!

According to the creators, all of season 4 audio has been recorded, the storyboards and animatics are complete, and they're currently animating each episode. So, if all goes well, it'll be released sometime in late 2022. :D

yep

Try scissor seven its awesome

Agreed

*2 year gap

Well, no one's stopping ya from doing that.

Thank you for the suggestions! I'm still in early days of editing so my software and programs is a work in progress, but I'll look into these for sure!

That's possibly rough, buddy

Callum : like my old girlfriend Rayla: YOU had a girlfriend who let me guess claudia Callum: um actaully no my first girlfriend turned into the moon

cutest straight cartoon couple