Azymondias

Azymondias, also known as Zym and the Dragon Prince, is the titular deuteragonist of the 2018 animated Netflix fantasy series, The Dragon Prince. 
He is the son of the late Avizandum and Zubeia, the former Dragon King and the Dragon Queen, whose existent put an end to the conflict between elves, dragons, and humans, as it showed that humans, elves, and dragons, as Ezran, Callum, and Rayla were the ones to risk their lives so Azymondias could return to his mother.
== Personality ==
Although dragons can be wild and unpredictable beings, Zym has a playful and childish persona, since it’s mostly due to the fact that he’s a baby. Even after 2 years later, Zym is now going through his juvenile stage of life and still acts like his usual playful self, although he acts stubborn when it comes to eating his vegetables, and he tends to rebel and defy his mother’s orders. Deep down he has matured, as shown when he stood up against Rex Igneous who began to make mockeries about his father and his power. Azymondias never met his father, (specifically alive since he’s petrified) but he still deeply respects him.
== Biography ==
=== Backstory ===
Before Zym was born, Viren and King Harrow killed his father Avizandum out of revenge for killing the later's wife Queen Sarai, and after understanding that Avizandum was trying to get to Zym's egg before he died, Viren told Harrow that when the egg hatched and the dragon grew up, he would want to get revenge on humanity for killing his father, so Harrow reluctantly told Viren to destroy the egg.
While the other eleves protecting Zym abondoned the Storm Spire, Rayla's parents, Tiadrin and Lain, stayed to protect the egg, but they were defeated by Viren, and when Viren was about to destroy it, Tiadrin convinced Viren to keep it intact because it's magic would be useful for Viren in order to convince him to spare it, which he does, and as a "reward", Viren presumably turned Tiadrin and Lain into coins and added them into his collection.
Due to believing that she lost her son, Zubeia sent Moonshadow assassins to kill Harrow and his son Ezran out of revenge. However, before Rayla, one of the assassins, killed Ezran, she finds out that the egg of the Dragon Prince wasn't destroyed, so she decided to stop being an assassin and try to stop the attack, but she failed, but she was able to leave with Ezran and Callum to go on an adventure to get Zym back to his mother and end the conflict between elves, dragons, and humans.
=== The Dragon Prince ===
During the mission to return the egg to Xadia, it hatched when they were in the Moon Nexus due to Callum using Fullminis to make sure it happened because Zym almost died before hatching because the egg fell in a frozen river, and after it hatched, the dragon was named Azymondias, or Zym for short. Zym would later be trained by Ezran so he could learn how to fly.
During this, Soren and Claudia tried to capture him to bring him back to their father Viren, but they failed thanks to Callum, Lujanne, and Rayla. Zym would several events during the quest to give him back to his mother, such as going to save a dragon when he was nearly killed by Soren, nearly getting by the con artist Nyx, or when he saved Rayla an Callum by blocking the sun with his wings so they could see the Moonshadow path.
By the end of Season 3, Zym woul get protected by Rayla during the battle of the Storm Spire, but she failed to stop Viren and Azymondias nearly got his magic sucked by Viren, but Rayla stops him from killing Zym by throwing herself off the mountain while holding onto Viren, but Callum saves her life and Viren egts killed by the fall, although he would later be revived two years later.
After the battle was over, Zubeia woke up, ahppy that she was with her son again and that humans, elves, and humans are now allies, causing peace between them and ending their centuries-long conflict. Zym would later stay in the Storm Spire with his mother, although he would sometimes visit Ezran when he was able to.
One day, after getting several jelly tarts to their bed, Zym comforted Ezran when he was sad over his father's death and after looking at Harrow's sword, believing it as a symbol of war and bloodshed, but Zym and Bait sugested to Ezran that they should melt the sword and ask a metalsmith to turn it into a crown so Ezran could use once he becomes king again to become closer to his father.
While in the Storm Spire, Azymondias left the spire to play around his father's statued body, and when his mother went to see him, and she told him to go back to the spire, and while him refusing initially infuriated his mother, she came to apologize when she understood that he was there because Avizandum's corpse was the closest thing he would remember about his father.
Zubeia then told her son about many of the greatest actions his father did, but then brought him to a place filled with grass and flowers down a cliff. There, Zubeia told Azymondias that he had many of his father's traits, and that he would gain many of his own. It then started raining, so Zubeia protected her son with her wing, with Azymondias then pressing against her, and allowed it to comfort her.
Two year later, Ibis was trying to convince Azymondias to eat his vegetables, but he refused to do it, and to make sure his mother Zubeia would get mad at him, Ibis threw the vegetables off the mountain and told her that Azymondias had eaten his vegetables. Later, he and his mother went to Katolis, with Azymondias imediatly going to hug Ezran after they got there.
During the ceremony that Ezran made for Zuebia's appearance in Katolis, a portait made to represent the peace between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms was torn appart, and Ezran would make a speech about how everyone was angry because of the loss they had been put through, and that they should put the anger aside for the chance of peace. After the speech, they see message sent by Ibis to Zubeia about Aaravos' return, which would cause Azymondias to briefly leave in fear, but he got back with the help of Ezran.
Team Zym would then go to the Storm Spire, where they find Ibis' body, and they then decide to make a small ceremony for their deceased friend before they went to investigate Aaravos' mirror, where Aaravos would possess Callum. While possessing Callum, Aaravos would taunt Team Zym and tell them that he was returning and that it was inevitable before destroying the mirror.
Zubeia would then tell her son to stay in the Storm Spire while the rest of Team Zym and herself went to Umber Tor to find Rex Igneous, but Azymondias desobeid and went there anyway. After he got to Team Zym, they would try to find Soren, but Azymondias got found by Drakeriders, causing them to start chacing after him.
However, the rest of the team were able to defeat their leader Warlon, but he got captured by N'than. Despite this, N'than understood that he wasn't able to kill, and after Azymondias was freed, N'than decided to guide them to Rex Igneous. During this, they got through three obstacles to get to Rex Igneous' temple, and in the second one, they got trapped by a group of light monsters who tried to kill them, but Azymondias flew to a pit to bring the other monsters with him and give his friends a chance to escape, although he is still able to get to them and escape as well.
After they got to Rex Igneous, they find out from Azymondias that the latter's father and Rex were rivals, so they decide to create an illusion and make Azymondias a dog. When they got to talk to Rex, Ezran told him that they were sent by Zubeia, causing Rex to wonder why she didn't talk to Avizandum, and he then starts to mock Avizandum, leading Azymondias to attack Rex in a fit of rage for mocking his father, which causes Rex to throw Azymondias and break the illusion.
Rex came to believe that Avizandum had his son meet him as a way to taunt him, causing him to call Avizandum a coward, but Ezran tells him that Avizandum was dead, leading him to feel sad over his death and tells Azymondias his laments over his father's death. Claudia would then appear and out them sleeping, but Rayla was able to get up thanks to Soren, and she would then wake up Rex Igneous by stabbing him in his left paw to stop Claudia and Terry from finding where Aaravos was through the map that Rex had carved in his tooth.
The rest of the team would then awaken and escape Umber Tor as Rex accused them of trying to hurt him which lead to Rex to attempt to kill them. After they were able to get out of Umber Tor, Zubeia saved them from Rex, and was angered at Azymondias for disobeing her, although she still was glad that they weren't and allowed her son to join in the team hug.
Zym would later go to the Storm Spire to find the Siren Stone in the Arcus Vault with Ezran, Corvus, Soren, and Pyrrah. After they got the stone, they would go to the ocean so they could meet Domina Profundis. There, Domina told them that about the archmage Akiyu, a Tidebound elf who knew the location of Aaravos' prison. Later, Zubeia and the rest of the group would rescue Callum, Rayla and Amaya from corrupted banthers in the Bookery of Lux Aurea, although Amaya and Corvus stayed behind due to Amaya getting surrounded by the banthers and Corvus falling from Zubeia after saving her from one, although they were able to survive due to hiding in the Bookery's bookdrop.
The next day, Zubeia brought Team Zym to the tidepools where Akiyu lived, before returning to the Storm Spire to take care of the injuries caused by the corrupted banther the other day. At the tidepools, the group gets surrounded by giant carrion gulls, but are saved by a Tidebound elf who calls herself Tidebound Tina. They then ask if she knew the archmage Akiyu, with Tina using a shell to make it look like she was contacting Akiyu, and told Team Zym that she wouldn't allow them to visit her.
However, the group decided to go meet Akiyu despite Tina's warnings, leadingto Tina tricking them (with the exception of Soren) into entering the mouth of a giant sea monster, which almost digests them had it not been for Zym eletrocuting the monster's stomach and forcing it to throw them out. Callum then realises that Tidebound Tina is Akiyu, who explains that the reason she tried to kill them was because she once made a promised to a human mage called the Jailer that she would die before she would give the location of Aaravos' prison.
Akiyu changes her mind, however, when Ezran tells her that two human dark mages were trying to free Aaravos and were already aware of the prison's location, leading her to give Team Zym the location of the prison on a map and an amulet before demanding them to leave her cave. That night, they waited for Zubeia, but she didn't appear due to her injuries beginning to slowly infect all of her body.
Realizing nobody would come, Rayla decided to go to Scumport to buy a ship that would get them to the Sea of the Castout, the place Aaravos' prison was located. After finding Villads there, Ezran tells the group that they need to get the box that was in the office of the leader of Scumport Finnegrin, with them being able to trick Finnegrin and stealing his box, which was revealed to be three baby glow toads.
Because of this, Finnegrin decided to go after them, and while they try to find multiple ways to escape from Finnegrin's ship Sea Legs, he is eventually able to capture them, and traps Team Zym's animal companions in cages. During this, Finnegrin tried to force Callum to do a dark magic spell for him, but Callum refused and through Soren, who convinced Finnegrin's bodyguard Elmer to stand up to Finnegrin, the team was able to free themselves and went to the Sea of the Castout. There, the crew was able to defeat Claudia and get a pearl that had Aaravos' prison, with Claudia losing her leg to Rayla during her fight with Team Zym.
== Gallery ==
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Ezran and Zym.jpg|Zym with Ezran.
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Azymondias Season 4 Promotional Art.jpg|Azymondias in the Season 4 Promotional Art.
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Mistery of Aaravos.jpg|Azymondias in the Mystery of Aaravos Poster.
Dragon-prince-season-5.webp|Azymondias in the Season 5 Poster.
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Callum, Rayla and Zym (Ezran is back).jpg|
==Trivia==
*Zym knew his own name right after hatching due to his mother always wispering it when he was an egg.
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