Here’s a quick breakdown of where everyone finds themselves. The Mary Sue has a strict comment policy that forbids, but is not limited to, personal insults toward anyone, hate speech, and trolling.A lot has changed between Seasons 3 and 4 of The Dragon Prince. Want more stories like this? Become a subscriber and support the site! She’s also lurking in the shadows waiting for you to follow her on Twitter or Tumblr and read her Star Wars fanfiction. She chronicles the quirks of New York living, runs writing and scripting services, and lends her voice to Birth Movies Death, Film School Rejects, and The Script Lab. When not angsting over her first poetry manuscript or a pilot screenplay about space samurais, Carol is cooking her own Chinese food instead of buying take-outs and dreaming of winning Hamilton lotto tickets. The Dragon Prince can teach us that executing rounded female characters lets girls and women be real people with their own, personal strengths and flaws.Ĭarol is a queer Vietnamese-Houstonian Earthling surviving under the fickle weather of New York while buried in her Non-Fiction MFA homework like Hermione Granger and her Hogwarts studies. I look forward to where her arc will take her if she confronts some truths about the nature of her father’s plans.Īlso, she blissfully engages in a fart joke.Ĭlaudia, Rayla, and General Amaya may be on conflicting sides in a kingdom-wide conflict, but they are all strong, serious, goofy, emotional, and unabashed about their vulnerabilities-in Rayla’s case, she’s still learning. She wants to advance, but she’s also happy with where she is.Īlthough she has a good heart and affection for the princes, she doesn’t quite know she’s tasked with carrying out dark machinations under her father’s wing. She’s a mage-in-training as studious as Hermione Granger but easygoing as Ron Weasley. She’s ambitious but doesn’t sweat her shortcomings, even when her father and brother bring her ditziness and social clunkiness to attention (“Not everyone can speak Claudia, Claudia!”). Out of all the female characters in the Dragon Prince, Claudia has a personality I envy the most.
She can be tight-lipped about own shortcomings, such as her phobia of rivers, but is assured that it’s alright for her to be open about her fears.Īlso, she does a killer human impression: “I sure like hanging out with other humans, and talking about things like money and starting wars.”
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To her elven code of honor, she’s a passionate loyalist but not a dogmatist, compared to her elven comrades, thus she easily allies with the princes when they invoke a more diplomatic solution to the conflict. But it’s all for the better that she questions orders and becomes, in her own words, an assassin who has never killed anybody. She’s a talented assassin-in-training, but her elf pack find her too soft, since she cannot take a life under orders. When she scolds, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” she means business.Ī Moonshadow Elf assassin who joins the two princes in returning the precious Dragon Egg to its rightful domain, Rayla has quite a burdensome task, which is at odds with what her elven heritage expects of her. When she curses in sign language (“Bull … droppings,” Glen translates), she means business. When she kicks down doors, she means business. She wears her vulnerabilities on her exterior, too, in an emotional sequence where she solemnly signs to the statue of her late sister-which is poignantly left untranslated.
She kicks down doors (“I don’t believe in locks”) and is a match for an elf assassin.
Her disability is incidental as it is visible. One second later, she’s an affectionate aunt sweeping her two nephews into a bear hug.ĭid I mention, representation-wise, that she’s a major step forward in portraying a deaf person as a badass military leader? With her trusty interpreter Glen at her side, she commands, jokes, and snarks in sign language. When we first meet General Amaya, she has a steely face with a battle-ready smirk. While some found the CGI animation style lacking, its world-building, humor, levity, and engaging characters have won the hearts of fans.Īmong the show’s best assets are three multi-dimensional heroines who kick ass, have organic moments of weakness, and honestly, deserve a tribute, so here we are.
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The series centers around the quest of two human princes and an elf to return a Dragon Egg to its rightful domain, in hopes of resolving a conflict between the human and the magical kingdoms. Helmed by veteran animators of Avatar: The Last Airbender series, The Dragon Prince is an inventive new animated fantasy on Netflix.
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