SO EMOTIONAL! *• LESBIAN REACTS - "NIMONA" •* 

To me, one of the biggest details about this movie is that Ballister saved Nimona from herself at the end. He didn't save her from some big bad, he stopped her from ending her own life.

“ARM CHOPPING IS NOT A LOVE LANGUAGE!” Raine and Eda: and I took that personally

I will admit, I feel bad for Gloreth as well. She wasn't evil, she was just a little kid who believed her parents and the other adults in her life. It was a tragedy what happened between and Nimona.

I saw another comment make this point on another video about Nimona, but at 46:46, when the Director says she was worried about a crack in the wall, or a crack in the system, she *is* that crack. Look at it this way. If she hadn't switched Ballister's sword, and set him up to frame him, he would have never met Nimona and gone through the adventure he does throughout the movie. *She* is the reason that the system is unraveled and overthrown, the exact thing she was afraid of. Pretty ironic if you ask me.

According to ND Stevenson, the medieval/sci fi aesthetic is representative of how while this society has advanced technologically, they're still stuck in the same, medieval mindset and prejudices. So it's a cool design choice and it serves the movie's themes.

First The Owl House and now Nimona. Disney truly can’t seem to understand a true masterpiece. But as long as society makes it seem like LGBTQ is unprofitable, the problem will only get worse. I love this movie. The representation is amazing. My favorite part is how they incorporate the shape shifting into the fighting.

Something I noticed in the big "monster battle" is that Nimona herself doesn't cause any serious harm or destruction (aside from that one billboard). All the destruction is caused by the knights attacking her. She never goes to hurt anyone but the people throw bricks and stones at her. The city hurt itself.

Another thing that I kinda take from the scene at 24:40 when Nimona turns into a shark, she turns into something that a majority of people would consider dangerous when in actuality, most sharks are not all that dangerous as everybody makes them out to be. This is all I have to say, take this as you will

Ugh...God, Nimona's backstory really speaks to the fact that kids aren't naturally hateful. They're trained to be.

Ballister: "And now you're a boy" Nimona: "I am today" Love Nimona so much!!!!!!!!!

When I tell you I’ve never cried so hard, I mean it. I’m trans, stuck in a non supportive highly transphobic family… this movie will always have a special place for me

The fact that she literally predicted it in the beginning 😭

As a genderfluid person i like to refer to myself as living chaos

Gloreth and Nimona’s past perfectly show how accepting children can be of others differences, and it’s the adults who instill the prejudice and hate into them😭

Eugene voicing Ambrosius is literally the most perfect casting ever.

I love how when Nimona rewrites her story, her new giant form is one of pure light and not shadow anymore. I bet her original giant form was light too, but centuries of sadness took that light from her, until someone finally saw her and helped her find it again.

Elijah: Today we're watching and reacting to Nimona! Also Elijah: *accuratly guesses the entire movie in the first 10 minutes*

As a suicidal genderfluid person this film hit me in the feels hard and there was a lot of crying

"Arm chopping is not a love language!" Eda: "Heck ya it is."

AND THEN YOU SAID “and all the gender-fluid friends” AND I FELL IN LOVE

This movie is a not so subtle trans/non-binary allegory (written when the author was struggling with his own journey), it is a HUGE deal that it was saved and is doing well. So glad people are enjoying it. I can't wait to see this be super successful and Disney be like "WTF did we cancel this?" It would't be the first time.

Fun Fact: The credits for the film has an entire section dedicated to everyone that has worked at Blue Sky, complete with Nimona shapeshifting into a squirrel. A bittersweet, but great note to end on.

As a transwoman, this movie never gets old. Just hearing, and seeing it feels.. so amazing. (From south US and not really a friendly nor safe place) this setting hits so so hard. This movie will always have a special place in my heart and life.

Straight but lifelong ally and registered himbo/ golden retriever here🙋‍♂️ this movie was fantastic and legit brought a tear to my eye

As a non binary person who was born of a girl, the, 'Im not a girl.' Made my heart warm up

The problem with Disney is that they don't look past the LGBTQ+ elements. Its either they cancel shows and movies because of it, or they allow it only because it gives them clout, which is just disgusting, to say the least. I've only watched Nimona once(so far), and it's probably the fastest any movie has made into my top favorites. Disney really missed their chance of improving their reputation

I love how this movie shows the effect fear can have on people. Golorith was a child, fed a lie by her own parents. She didn't know what the truth was, she was just scared. scared because she didn't understand. "The person I've been playing with everyday is a monster? what do you mean? could I have been hurt this whole time..?" etc. But the director...Listen to how they both deliver the line "go back to the shadows from whence you came". The director says it with pure malice. Its pretty accurate to life. generations of fear lead to deep-rooted hatred...

your reactions to Nimona were brilliant. you do great reactions but Nimona is my favorite. you brought out all the points vividly thank you

“If you don’t, you’re gonna die in this closet!” I literally had to pause the movie just to process that line. There is no possible way that was an accident, they purposefully did that.

What we have learned from this movie: 1: arm chopping is not a love language. 2: Always be yourself. (unless you're Todd. Then, by all means be someone else) 3: We need more Elijah/Mosco crossovers.

so from what I'm seeing there is no specific gender/sexuality for Nimona. Mostly her shape shifting is a metaphor for gender-fluidity. Also from a gender-fluid person I was so happy when you kept pointing us out and the shout out so thank you again!! ( We ( gender fluid people ) don't have much representation with in movies and shows so this made me smile ) 33:42 personally I love pineapple on pizza with ham, it's actually called Hawaiian Pizza and it's amazing

I love how this movie is subtle enough for kids to get the message without seeing the major issue it points out but clear enough to really stab at adults with it’s message

An interesting thing I took away- Nimona DOES say she feels the arrow. So I believe she is getting hurt, and feels the pain, she's just... Used to it. In the same way we get used to society's aversion and hate towards us and just ignore it as best we can, adjusting to the pain, Nimona does the same. But sometimes an injury - a hate - is so severe even she - we - can't NOT suffer it. Can't ignore it. FOr Nimona that just... Happens to be literal fire and rocket launchers :p

"They grew up believing that they could be a hero if they drive a sword through the heart of anything different. And Im the monster?" This line made me tear up so much

Her giving in to the pain and trying to end her life, thatbreally hit me hard. And I love you little "Bal?" Whisper 😢❤

This movie quickly became one of my favorites. It has such powerful messages in it and makes me cry every time.

I'm glad Disney didn't finish Nimona because then Ballister and Ambrosius wouldn't have gotten the relationship they deserve and they definitely would have toned down Nimona herself. Nimona was a massive W, in spite of the awful production troubles it went through.

The PAIN in Nimona's screams at the end is the most heart tearing thing..

As a person who is scared to show who i am, you made me feel confident,and understanded

1:00:05 This is actual fear. That's hand trembling. People can be indoctrinated enough to truly believe that something benign is dangerous. It is, in fact, possible to get a person close to something like Peeta in Hunger Games where irrational objects are seen as outright deadly. Considering the Director (interestingly enough, we never get a name for the Director, and we notice a lot of people mix up Gloryth and the Director, which may be intended due to what we're about to say,) has shown herself to possess great knowledge and study of Gloryth's institute, it's likely that before she received that role she was taught for a significant amount of time like expected, but she also continues to research now (we don't want to make too many direct finger points, but this can easily be compared to someone who considers it important to read the whole bible front to back at least once or twice a year as well as having a audio bible to sleep with.) She also has admitted to having paranoia and nightmares. People who are told over and over again that something is the bringer of the end of the world, who grow into an advanced role, and are also given the burden of knowing what could happen, aren't stable. They're paranoid, all the time. They'll stay up in the middle of the night wondering about how to prepare for the end of the world for the 9th time this week when there's only 7 days. This spin cycle of brainwashing the entire population inside the walls has been occuring for 1000 years. 1000 years of passing the baton and becoming ever assured that one day, one of them will have to deal with the end times and they'll have to do the right thing. And each one getting more relief that they didn't have to be the one to deal with the apocalypse and retired first. So the Director, here, to be honest, probably only expected to kill the queen and be done. Crisis averted. When she saw this monster (Nimona) come in exactly as was told, she had a fucking breakdown because of the realization that she was the one that was tasked to deal with this. End of the world, and she now is the lucky victim who has to protect the whole fucking world from ending. Serious indoctrination can do this. ...before anyone even starts to feel bad, though, the Director does have traits that don't come from that starter pack, such as the fact that she took out the queen and a legion of guards (the people around Nimona is normal, but taking out not only your leader but a swath of members is not normal since that would be essentially fratricide,) which still makes her a vicious, self-important, vindictive piece of shit. -L----/D--/R--, Greenpier System 🟦🟦🟥

"i don't know what's scarier, the fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to drive a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let them" breaks me everytime because as a trans person this hits so close to home and I feel the exact same way. Sometimes it feels like it'd just be easier to let them win instead of trying so hard to get them to accept something they're never going to fully accept.

"They grew up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything that is different" gave me chills the first time i watched this movie

I CANT stop watching the end scene. Her laugh was PRICLESS

OML I CANNOT GET OVER HER REACTION OF "THEYRE GOMNA LOVE U LIKE I DO" ITS SO PRECIOUS OMLL

The mm equivalent of "sapphic" is "Achillean" And about pronouns thing, it's honestly okay when you fumble. We aren't offended. We only get upset if we tell you our pronouns and you reject or mock it upfront. You are really perceptive, like you really called out every twist, and every trans allegory. And you pointed out little details i missed. This is my fave reaction. And thank you for all your sweet words for the trans community.❤ Also, I'm SO grateful for this movie. I briefly heard it has trans allegory so i checked it out. Since it's a PG, i didn't expect explicit rep. But OMFG. it's rare enough to have this authentic rep, but it also as great animation and a story! So you can imagine my shock when i saw this movie. And funnily enough, i immediately picked up on Ambrosius being flirtatious. I got giddy but then shook my head at myself. (I'm used to being scolded or mocked when i 'read too much' into things). So you can imagine my excitement when it was revealed later they were a couple. And being enby, this movie is healing for me. It's like this movie took EVERYHING i felt inside and put it on screen. I'm so glad Netflix saved this. Screw Disney, they didn't deserve this movie.

One thing that I feel is very important is that Glorith was accepting and fine with Nimona until she was told by others not to. How much pain could have been avoided if the adults had been half as accepting as the child.

i watched the movie and two reactions before this, and i JUST understood the "cold in here?" line 😆 19:40

46:51 "I'm sorry, do you want a stuffed animal for that?" LOLL

As an autistic adult, the shape shifting reminds me of masking. Like her human form is the mask and whatever she feels like is her true personality. When he asked her “does it hurt to shape shift,” she said “actually I feel better when I shapeshift. You know how when you have to Sneeze and finally do? It’s like that.” That’s how it feels to be autistic.

Fun fact! In the polish dub (not sure about other dubs) Nimona refers to herself with different pronouns (masc, nb, femme) and switches how she refers to herself throughout the movie.

57:33 you have no idea how emotional you made me when you said that. I was bullied in the school taxi every day for a year and I tried to do the right thing by telling my school principal (3 times I told him) but he did nothing but when I did snap and physically hurt the bully the school told me that I was going to go to prison for assault and that he was the victim. And even when it's been years since that has happened i still have trust issues. I didn't go to prison by the way they we're just feared mongering me to punish me for standing up for myself when the people that are supposed to didn't.

My family all except for my dad think pansexuality isn’t real and I’m pansexual and nonbinary so i have lived my life being scared of being sent to conversion therapy and the only. One. Who understands is my dad who is also pansexual so we were both raised only around homophobes so i watch you to get some of the only acceptance I ever get. Thank you for being here. I’ll miss you since I’m being forced to leave to a facility for 3-6 months so please remember I have faith in you and good luck. -xoxo your biggest fan, Stormy

I actually love you can hear Nimona's scream when she roars in her shadow form, it shows from the citizens perspective its a giant monsters roar, but its really just Nimona screaming in pain.

The fact that Elijah and Mosco had the complete opposite reactions to the "pineapple on my pizza" bit is a perfect summary of opposites attract

The amount of times I watched this movie because of ballister and ambrosius. And nimona I love her a lot and they can't leave us of on her showing up at the end after thinking she died. ❤❤❤

Ninmona is the most greatest character of this and I find out she a lesbian and I can’t believe she was betrayed😱😱😱😱😱❤️❤️

At 41:53 he said "Do you wanna know who the kid is?" He said kid not girl since Nimona made clear several times that they don't like it. Let's appreciate his progress in beeing supportive.

a word like "sapphic" for women loving women is quite often referred to as "achillean" for men loving men! just like the sapphic umbrella, the acchillean umbrella can include gay men, but also bisexuals, pansexuals, and more :0 also i love the fact that you noticed ballister and ambrosius' relationship so soon ahah. when i saw their hands touch i screamed "GAY" very loudly lmao i love your videos

I haven't seen a lot of other ppl mention it but I loved the dynamic between Ballister and Nimona--- it's not father/child, they're not immediate found family. Ballister is a queer dude taught by society how to act 'correctly', to try and fit in so he can become a knight, and seeing someone as free as Nimona made him VERY uncomfortable at the beginning! Of course he comes around, and he is a lovely character, but throughout many of the scenes between him and Nimona it reminded me A LOT of people in the LGBTQ+ community who punch down, blame new laws and restrictions on "the bad gays" who just want to unapologetically live their lives. People who are queer but shun others who are "too loud" or "too vulgar". We shouldn't have to be palatable to society's standards just to be respected as people! In all honesty sometimes I think the queer people who think this way are scarier than your average bigot. You don't NEED to understand someone's label inside and out to respect them! We've gone from using labels as self-identifiers for comfort and understanding ourselves, and flipped it around into forcing queer people into tiny understandable boxes. Seeing Ballister come around, idk, it gives me hope that maybe other queer people will unlearn that shame

I LOVE how you have the sparkle in your eyes on the cover thing!!!! ITS AMAZING HOW YOU PUT THE LITTLEST DETAILS IN I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!

I think the parts where Nimona says “I don’t know what’s scarier, the fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to drive a sword into my heart, or that sometimes, I just want to let them” was such a punch to the gut for me. It’s hard and I’m so tired, but I’m still here. To everyone who also was affected by this, I see you. Stay safe, please, it will get better one day, I promise. And to those who want it or appreciate it, I’ll pray for you ❤

I am genderfluid and came out to my mum about 2 years ago. It still felt fresh and she still had trouble accepting me, so I made her watch this movie with me so she could understand me more. She finally does. Her and I cried multiple times, she apologised for so many things and finally accepted me for who I am and told me to never hide ever again. This movie helped me fully be accepted by her, and helped my inner child heal. Nimona is absolutely wonderful and if there was a dvd, I would 100% buy it. It will be one of my comfort movies forever. The story, the artstyle, the references with all the kinds of struggle people from the LGBTQ+ community can go through, the growth and pain, it is a masterpiece for all of us. I am so so grateful for this movie to exist, and tbh you embodied all my reactions so much, thank you for this video. Cried again. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

ARM CHOPING IS NOT A LOVE LANGUAGE! Raeda (Raine and Eda): 👁️👄👁️ i beg to differ 😏

I found this movie yesterday and when i tell you...DAMN THIS MOVIE IS GOOD. This is my new fav movie.

im a trans woman, and in the scene where bal takes the arrow out of nimona's leg, i could not believe what i was watching, because it was a near word -for-word recreation of my go-to metaphors for describing what dysphoria feels like to me. that and the fact that you can see a trans flag in the background of that scene makes it even more powerful. i've never seen anything like this representation for us, and I am LIVING

I love that in the end Nimona chose to be a Phoenix. A Phoenix means rebirth. Such as the change of mind from "things I don't understand are monsters and monsters deserve to die" to "even though I might not understand it and I might never understand it I should try and respect it". The world is making so much progress and still has so far to go. Every good representation matters.

I love that you always notice the details in these react videos, it makes me want to be more thoughtful about my own experiences, plus I’m sure the artists especially appreciate it 😊

one detail i love about the "i see you, Nimona" is that Bal looks into the eyes of the creature and not the chest, where the scroll showed Nimona residing. He doesnt see the form they take. he sees THEM. For all that they are. He accepts every part of Nimona. The good, the bad and the ugly.

The MLM equivalent to Sapphic is Achillean! This movie is so good, I watched it with my roomate tonight after we had a long discussion about relevant trauma, and oh boy, did that make this movie hit like a truck. I love all of the representation, and the morals of the story, and it just means a lot to feel represented. In the first few minutes I went "I ship it, oh wait are they...? OH MY GOD!" Such a good movie

As someone who is not LGBTQ+, I know what it's like to be an outsider as someone who immigrated to america it was tough adjusting. Somehow this movie spoke to me of my difference and when I was a kid it felt like I'm always the outsider. And yes I cried my manly tears at the emotional climax.

I had a personal Nimona moment. I got bullied in school for over ten years. My snapping point was during class. Someone sitting behind me constanly threw food (grapes and bredcrums) on me. I tired to ignore it but eventually I just couldn't bear it anymore. I turned around and screamed at my classmate "leave me the fuck alone you fucking asshole".I think you can guess where this is going next. My teacher kicked me out of class. That led to my class laughing at me for being kicked out and bullying me even further. Funny thing is... the bullying stopped. But only after word about my moms death got out. So much for "and I'm the monster". That was years ago, Iam 24 now and long out of school but that memory just is so burned into my head that I still see it so clearly. Also, thank you Elijah. Your (and Moscows) reactions and your wisdom help me through.

Elijah's videos are amazing; she reacts to all the series/movies I love; this was really fun to watch her predict all the big twists. My friend had also brought up the Eda and Raine thing with the "Arm chopping is NOT a LOVE LANGUAGE!" so that's also something. In their case it is indeed a love language.

I've seen half a dozen reactions to this film now, and nearly everyone has started sobbing when Nimona starts "I don't know what's scarier-" for the second time. The immediate realization and the deep, intense grief that comes with it. God this movie is so good.

Nimona is living proof that there is potential to revive scrapped projects. That being said, I hope other studios take this movie's success into consideration and give their scrapped projects another chance. I'm still mad that Disney shut down Blue Sky. Such a wasted potential. I'm so glad that at least Nimona got resurrected and they kept the art style. The movie was really fun.

Nimona: ARM CHOPPING IS NOT A LOVE LANGUAGE Ambrosius: ARM CHOPPING IS NOT A LOVE LANGUAGE! They said the same sentance😂😂😂😂

sorry this is a long comment. When Elijah talked I about finding people who love you. The moment she said " I love you I don't even know who you are and I love you." I was dying on the inside so much I actually cried. I bottle up my feelings and most of the time I have trouble sharing my emotions I most of the time I feel stupid for it. So thank you Elijah so much for that. ♥️♥️

My lesbian sibling has came out (not as non-binary but as lesbian) and my mom has been “supportive”. Behind their back she says “She just hang found the right guy, I may set her up with someone.” And it breaks my heart to hear my mom of all people say that. When you brought up parents and people being like that, it touched my heart that a content creator I love so much is protect and acknowledging people who go through that

I love how it took all of five minutes for Elijah to become deeply emotionally invested in Ballister and Ambrosius' relationship.

We need a season two that movie would have been so great as a series

As a queer person who's struggled with depression... I only stopped crying after it became physically impossible.

I personally love the scene where she is starting to drive her heart towards the sword. Not for what she is trying to do in the scene, but for how they depicted her roar. It starts as what we would deem a monstrous roar, and you can hear it change into this heart shattering wail/scream. I think it's a beautiful touch.

This has to be one of my favorite reactions ever, I love the reaction and honestly this is how everyone should act. Thank you Elijah.

I have already watched this twice. I love what an emotional roller coaster this movie is! ❤ Well written.

Just to make sure there was no chance of misinterpreting the trans allegory, when Nimona is explaining her relationship with shapeshifting at 36:36 you can see a trans flag design on a stained glass windowpain in the upper right hand corner. Ugh we need more trans rep because im sobbbbinggggg

"I don't know what's scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart, or that sometimes I just wanna let 'em." Not gonna lie, that line broke me.:_Sobbing: I did not expect them to go that deep. This movie is an absolute masterpiece. I'm so glad Annapurna saved it and gave what was going to be Blue Sky's magnum opus a second chance. A true victory over Disney.

As a Christian, being Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, non binary, aroace, bisexual etc is okay! You can be whatever YOU are comfortable with. I don’t care if your a Therian, Goth, Furry, or OtherKin or any of that. I think that people deserve to be treated as equal as everyone else.

My girlfriend and I watched this the first time she came over and she just screamed "THEY'RE GAY." And I was like "Yes love, they are." (We're both girls, she was just excited the first movie we picked to watch had lgbt rep)

"Once everyone sees you as a villain, that’s what you are. They only see you one way, no matter how hard you try. " That line made me want to hug Nimona. Such an amazing quote!! That's true in the real world!!!

Fun fact: Disney threw this project to the curb a year or two ago. Now that it's on Netflix let us celebrate this masterpiece

My 2 girls watch this movie at least once every day since it came out. Such a deep and human story.

I love how the wishing well actually comes into play to her actual back story

You’re right. She turned into fenix so she could reborn from ashes and survive. I like that they let sink in that Nimona is dead so you can be more happy that she actually survived. Bal stopping her from ending herself was so well written and all that hit me like a train. My new favourite movie for now

What I absolutely despise is that Disney bought out Blue Sky and then casually shut them down saying it was too expensive to maintain. This was simply them getting rid of competition.

I love watching shows with subtle little lgbtq+ hints or symbolizem through this channel cause I miss so many things watching it on my own. Also, the creator said that the reason its medieval and futuristic is because we technologically advanced but in terms of mindset we are still stuck in medieval times.

I've seen this movie 5 times and even just watching you video, the scene with the Gloreth statue has me in tears every time.

Outside of it just being an excellent movie on its own, I love the fact that Nimona now exists as pure karma on Disney‘s behalf. All they would’ve had to do was say gay rights outside of June and all of this critical praise and probably several sequels could’ve been theirs, but instead they canceled the movie 75% through completion and then shut down blue sky studios so that there was no chance of it ever seeing the light of day, all just so that they could keep from losing a little money in China and Russia. I bet the last thing they expected was Netflix coming in to save it at the last second.

someone once told me, "FEAR, means false evidence appears real." which is honestly so true

Easily one of the best reaction videos I've seen. Thank you for your unfiltered emotion. You're good people :-) (Nice catch on the phoenix. As soon as I saw that, I was, 'Confirmed, Nimona is a flippin' genius.' )

after i watched the show and your reaction i got the comic and was absolutely in love with it instantly

Alright everyone get your tissues ready 😭