lone-star-multiple-moons:

jumpboy-rembrandt:

ok, i’m gonna make a lotta connections here, but trust me and follow along

griffin had the plot figured out pretty damn well by crystal kingdom. he had determined:

• who the seven birds were
• that the red robe was barry and one of the seven birds
• red robe/barry was in love with the red robe in the cave to whom the umbrella belonged
• this cave red robe was lup, taako’s twin
• that barry/red robe was a lich, so it is VERY LIKELY he had also planned that lup was a lich, bc i doubt he ever intended to permanently kill taako’s sister

i would like to posit that, based on these decisions, griffin had also:

• realized the OP-ness of two in-control, immortal, undead characters
• decided that he needed some sort of way to keep that in check
• introduced the idea that barry (and by extension, lup) are not infalliable and can lose control as a way to check that
• determined that, since this would no longer matter if/when lup and barry are reunited, he needed a stronger, larger control over their power
• created an arc based around the dangers of messing with necromancy and introduced a character and deity whose purposes are to prevent reanimation and protect the sancitity of life and death

so what i’m getting down to is that kravitz/the raven queen were introduced in order to show that the constant resurrection of the ipre and, more specifically, barry and lup’s lichdom have consequences

let’s suppose that i’m right. let’s suppose that i managed to guess the actual line of thought behind the crystal kingdom arc and kravitz’s insertion into the plot.

then can you imagine griffin mcelroy’s fucking face when justin announced that taako, brother to two liches, was going to romance the grim reaper