has anyone ever thought how aaravos is not only based on both prometheus fire bringer and the serpent of eden, but also like, reminiscient of a genie?
like
he’s blue and sparkly.
he’s magical, powerful, and has been trapped for centuries in an mysterious artifact recovered from a treasure filled lair “as alluring as he is mysterious”
he grants wishes
and swears he’s telling the truth, maybe he has to.
but you never know if those wishes will benefit you or him more because of how they’re worded and the way he words his startouch dealt honesty—half truths, loopholes and all
often genies find a way for the people they prey on (yk, viren & claudia & maybe callum here) to get manipulated into freeing them somehow and sometimes switching places
oh and just aesthetically you know?
the gold adornments in places reminiscient of a genie.
the illusive form of him moving freely, unaffected by gravity, and is translucent like genies are sometimes depicted
i can look at sources later to show the parallels better because right now im going off a hodge podge of genies i’ve seen in media that i vaguely remember but
idkk man he seems like a shady genie bastard to me
































