Aladdin, stop pouting.

Seriously it’s not worse than his Prince Ali outfit.

…okay no, that hat’s pretty ridiculous.

Really, Disney 😐

Okay, but some seriousness, here. Sadira seems desperate to believe that getting Jasmine out of the way is going to make Aladdin love her. It has to work, she says.

One has to ponder on that for a bit. Does it have to work because she can’t stand the thought of being alone again? Or – given her hesitance to kill Jasmine (she explicitly says she doesn’t want her to die), does it have to work because she won’t be able to justify to herself what she’s about to do?

I don’t think she thinks it’s worth hurting Jasmine if it’s not going to get her what she wants. So if she’s going to go through with this, it had better work.

What is your canon for Mozenrath?

Head canon, you mean? Because God, there’s a lot. Most of it I’ll reserve for when I do his episodes.

The bit of head-canon I discuss during the Return of Jafar liveblog includes a bit about familiars where he’s mentioned, that was developed partly for him but expands well to other characters.

For now I will say that I don’t believe the gauntlet is what skeletized his right hand, and when I do “The Citadel” and get to “The Lost City of the Sun” I will expand on this.

It would be fabulous to read your old RPs as Mozenrath. Where could we find this Kingdom Hearts RPG you were in? Thanks!

Oh Hell, I did most of those over IM with a few close friends. His lands were consumed by the Heartless and he lost his heart, but he managed to seal it in his gauntlet. (MOST of this was played out before II even came out so the concept of Nobodies was not yet a thing.) I’ve played him consistently through one storyline for 3-4 years now and he’s much developed beyond his canon personality, so I get a little too embarrassed to show him off to people who don’t know how much he’s changed. Now and again in memes I get a chance to play him straight from canon, and that’s still quite fun!

In Sadira’s defense, she’s Jasmine’s age and teenagers do irrational things with no empathy. I know I’m looking too deep into it and the writers didn’t care about technicality but look at Ariel, ripping her tail apart to walk on land for love. It was supposed to feel like pins and needles when she walked, wasn’t it? What kind of accent was that monster supposed to have, Hackney British?

Oh no, I’m totally with you! Sadira is also completely alone and has no friends so it’s only natural that on top of taking her crushes too far she gets a little obsessed with positive feedback of any kind. It’s not a good combination. Sadira also (and I’ll get into this more as I continue this liveblog after errands tonight) doesn’t fully realize what she’s doing. When faced with the notion of killing Jasmine she’s absolutely horrified.

As for Ariel, in the original novel the Little Mermaid wanted a soul more than she wanted the prince. Because mermaids cease to exist once they die. And it was like walking on knives. Her sisters sold their hair to the sea witch to get her a knife, and if she killed the prince she could come back to the sea to be with them (because he got married to someone else) and rather than do that she committed suicide. Her selflessness got her an immortal soul and she ascended to heaven.

And man 😐 That accent.

So Sadira’s in the Inner Sanctum of the Witches of the Sand. Whom she has apparently heard of.

So fearsome witches, apparently rulers of Agrabah who disappeared “thousands of years ago.” According to Sadira. I really want to know where she heard that from. Maybe they are a scary bedtime story told to Agrabah children, like the boogeyman.

Anyway, the disembodied voice belongs to this:

…What.

Realizing the Witches of the Sand are gone, the worm decides it’s leaving. Sadira asks it to tell her more about them, but why the Hell should he? You apparently know more than he does, Sadira.

When did I lose control of my life?

Sadira decides to read the scrolls and learn the magic inside, because then she won’t have to be a streetrat anymore, by her logic. Which I can see being tempting. Magic being what it is in this world – often found in objects rather than people – represents power, even upward mobility in the case of Aladdin. If you have it, you have something of value.

It totally makes sense to me that she wants magic and wants to use it to get what she wants.

Of course this involves making Aladdin “be hers,” which is all kinds of problematic.