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Spoilers for Cobra Kai Season 6

Spoilers for Cobra Kai Season 6: Guys Kreese killed Tory’s mum. That was the plan he was talking about, to drive Tory back to Cobra Kai. He was there in the valley the day her mother died, he’s got some snake venom, he’s got motive your honour and he’s completely lost it. I think even Sensei Kim is starting to see that too.

This is not related to Dimesnion 20 but Cobra Kai is also one of my favourite shows of all time and now it’s time for theorising.

Why Natasha Matters

Okay, I am sick of reading reviews and articles and fan rants about how Natasha and her ‘pop guns’ were outmatched and out of place in the final fight of the Avengers.

Because I think that was exactly the point, and I kinda think that some people might’ve missed it.

Let’s leave out what does happen.  Let’s leave out the endgame.  Let’s ignore that.  Let’s look at what is happening here.  Let’s look at this:

Natasha Romanoff: We gotta stop him. Clint Barton: Yeah? Who’s we? Natasha Romanoff: I don’t know. Who’s ever left.

Let’s look at the words of a woman who knows she’s outmatched.  A woman who knows she’s a spy, not a soldier, not a fighter, who has her strength lying in speed and subterfuge and backstabbing.  A woman who is now marching into battle with another human being, two people of amazing skill and training, but two human beings.  

Because at that moment, THEY ARE ALL THAT IS LEFT.

When the superhumans and the geniuses and the gods all splinter apart, it is the human beings who set themselves up to fight, and likely to die, in the defense of the rest of the world.  

It is Natasha, Natasha with red in her ledger, a woman who knows that she can never be redeemed, not fully, who takes her ‘pop guns’ and goes out to fight, because she stands a better chance than the bankers and cabbies and waitresses of New York.  She is going to fight.  Knowing she is unmatched, knowing she is going with only Clint as backup, she is willing to go.

Please take a moment to think about the bravery that entails.  That she is going out with a couple of pistols and a catsuit to fight an alien army.  Even Hawkeye has the advantage of being able to hit from a distance.  She doesn’t.  She’s up close and personal.  She’s hand to hand and short distance attacks and a cool head.  She doesn’t belong there.  She shouldn’t be there.  BUT SHE GOES.

Natasha said that she had skills, she had a unique set of skills, and she didn’t care much who she used them on, or for.  This time, those skills, no matter how unmatched, are used in the defense of the rest of the world.  This time, no one tells her to go.  No one pays her.  Fury doesn’t order her out there. 

She goes of her own free will.  She makes the choice.

When the Other says:

 ”Humans… They are not the cowering wretches we were promised. They stand. They are unruly, and therefore cannot be ruled. To challenge them is to court death.”

It is Natasha who stands for the rest of us.  A human.  No super powers.  No armor.  No amazing weapons.  Just a woman with red in her ledger, and the strength and the bravery to go somewhere she has no business being, to step up to a fight where she is outmatched. 

Natasha is the human heart of the Avengers, a woman who fights a battle she has no hope of winning.  And saving the world wipes out a lot of red.

We must be nothing. - No, you’re not that. You’re the only mystery worth solving.

Spoilers incoming for FHJY post episode 15 as well as ramblings that attempt to express a coherent theory:

This post is a great point, throwing this theory into the ring, it was Arianwen Abernant.

She 100% got her magic back because it was taken away at the end of Sophmore Year by Cassandra who is now dead. And we know she can teleport and probably has mage hand too. So the second she regained her powers she could teleport right out of that nightmare forest.

What if she’s also been bankrolling the Rat Grinders and or the church of Galicaea (with the money that should have gone to Adaine and Alewyn) and the dragon thing is really a misdirect.

Galicaea is worshipped by a lot of high elves so funding the church would be a way to get back in good graces with Fallinel, and the popularity of Galicaea helps overall in the goal to keep Cassandra from returning.

She and Jace Stardiamond, and potentially Porter (he could be a Paladin of Ankarna who is a giant god, he did make sure Fig didn’t make that oath to Cassandra and his whole thing is rage) are allies and with Kalina were the memebers of the spy’s tongue curse.

“Ragh Barkrock” was Kalina’s hint to that.

Arianwen’s goal for the nightmare king was to restore her family name, and power and riches, and this is a way to do that. She’d be fully on board with taking out Yolanda and making sure Kristen failed and kept Cassandra dead so she can have her powers, and she’s not above manipulating children to get that. She doesn’t have Alewyn to do her dirty work, but Kipperlilly will do, and she even has a hatred of the Bad Kids already.

They’ve got the motive your honour.

All this to say, Oisin would never, it has to be Arianwen Abernant.

all kristen saw was a blue hand, right?

mage hand is usually blue, right?

all I’m saying is it might not have been oisin 🤷🏼‍♀️

One of the most amazing scenes of all time

it’s a spy’s g o o d b y e.

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