I wish Darius came back around after his one episode in season 1.
Posted by EuphoricButterflyy@reddit | xena | View on Reddit | 25 comments
Xena seemed very attracted to him and he was such a kind, compassionate and mild-mannered man who loved his children. Sad his wife died.
Would have loved to see him around again and Xena with him.
multiplecats@reddit
He's chicken soup at home in bed. She likes pizza and killing abroad. It won't work.
IseQween@reddit
I think he was the most decent (morals wise) of her suitors.
Latte-Catte@reddit
More decent than Gabrielle? Hard pass.
IseQween@reddit
LOL! I meant to say *male* suitors.
Wise_Airport5655@reddit
Ulysses and Marcus were also good suitors. If Ulysses wasn't married, it could work. Marco Antônio also attracted Xena a lot. There's that thief there, who attracted Xena too lol
Wise_Airport5655@reddit
I think the only one who would leave Xena confused regarding Gabi would be Lao Ma. So much so that Xena dropped everything to fulfill a promise for Lao Ma. With Gabi, Najara had a great chance of winning over Gabrielle.
EasyEntrepreneur666@reddit
I don't know he was rather bland.
EuphoricButterflyy@reddit (OP)
That’s what she needed as a lover.
Latte-Catte@reddit
He would hold her down from completing her redemption. She would heal Darius, but Darius cannot heal Xena. She has a past to fix. Later into the season when Xena had Eve, and Gabby attempt to convince her to settle in the Amazon, she would rather travel everytime. She even reject living in a farm with Ares and Gabby, even if they're good at it. Xena can't settle, not our warrior princess.
FirebirdWriter@reddit
Doesn't she also point out that it's not safe to settle? Yes after the time jump that's less of it but she has a lot of enemies who will threaten everyone she cares for. Gabrielle suffers for this a lot.
Latte-Catte@reddit
Definitely, but imo her excuse to not settle in the Amazon village with baby Eve is what puts Eve in danger. They had two episodes in the Amazon village without external threat, besides just learning more about the Amazon.
Wise_Airport5655@reddit
Remembering that there was an Amazon girl interested in Xena. 🤣😏 Xena even told Gabi that she hates community baths, Xena couldn't do anything alone. I think if it were just Xena and Gabi in a protected place, maybe Xena would accept it, although I think Xena is totally nomadic.
DanieXJ@reddit
You mean male? 🙄
EasyEntrepreneur666@reddit
The show implied the exact opposite.
Wise_Airport5655@reddit
Xena likes Bad Boys and he's not like that. He's now more like Gabrielle's kind of nice guy.
Wise_Airport5655@reddit
I thought he was a super nice guy, but I think Xena would easily get tired of the "normal" life he wanted to have with her. Even when Gabi told Xena to stay with the Amazons and finish raising Eva there, Xena already hated the idea. I think that since Xena is used to moving around, I believe she likes the nomadic life more.
And I thank God that Xena and Gabi never worked out their relationships with men 🤣
Scrubla@reddit
He seemed sweet, but it was insanely out of character for Xena to be acting like she’s ready to settle into some domestic life, especially in the second episode lmao. It makes so much sense that it was originally written as a Hercules ep.
ShondaVanda@reddit
he's very 90s pretty
wrathofhsv@reddit
I liked him too. He was a good guy. I think Xena could have also gone back just to visir him and the kids. They all really liked her and she was so good with the little girl.
AuntyEmfromOz@reddit
He was a nice enough guy but she was already frustrated by him in the day-and-a-half she was in his company, because he wouldn't fight back. That's not Xena's way.
XyberVoXXX@reddit
Like peace-loving Gabrielle.
TangledUpPuppeteer@reddit
I absolutely loved his character. For a moment, we got to see Xena, the NOW Xena (not a flash back) be just normal. And it suited her for a hot second.
It would take her about two and one quarter seconds to despise her life with him, even if she was madly in love with him (which she wasn’t).
He was the exact opposite of who she was. He represented the life that she would have had, had Cortes stayed away from her village. The life she was promised to. The life she completely rejected.
That was her moment to realize that’s not where her redemption lay — settling down and being “normal” wasn’t who she was or how she was.
I would have loved to see him again. But not like that, and not as a love interest. I would have liked to see him maybe in a town she showed up in, a place he resettled to keep his peaceful ways, and they see each other and they catch up. But in a friendly way, no romance or tension. Maybe he’s even remarried to someone who is a lot like younger Xena and she sees herself in it.
Part of her lesson is to see what could have been if she stayed on that path, with someone who she met while on this one. She met a lot of good people in her journeys, but that would be the one that stuck with her, ya know?
But her being with him, dating him, whatever — absolutely not. It would have been the world’s most boring episode until she ran away screaming from boredom.
The only way they could be together is if he was willing to travel with her, and with kids, he wasn’t about to do that. If he was willing to fight with her, but he wasn’t a pacifist by choice and that was his way — she would hate herself for changing him (she didn’t exactly love it when Gabrielle decided her way wasn’t going to work and decided to wipe out 30 of Rome’s best and brightest while she was injured). She would end up hating him if she had to live the peaceful life because that wasn’t her path.
There is no world where these two would have worked in any real capacity. Playing house for two days is one thing, but actually staying there and being with him — one of them would have to change the core of who they are, and that’s an impossible starting position.
aliensxblairwitches@reddit
Lmao this has GOT to be a troll post. Right?
Agent8699@reddit
Thank you, next!
Of all of Xena’s love interests in season 1, I think he’s the most forgettable. I’d much prefer to have seen more of Draco, Marcus, etc.
DanieXJ@reddit
Why? Cause he needed a Mommy for his children? And to totally change who Xena was? Hard pass.