#If i found kdj in front of me

[ekanatsume]

i just realized if wos is the tragedy of yjh, then orv is the tragedy of hsy.

Yjh kept trying to save the world in wos regressing and using everything in his means to save the world and end the scenerioes. He could reach the end of the scenerioes only to realize he couldn't go beyond the wall. Still he went off to oversee other worldlines spending decades after decades to search for the way to go beyond the wall and finally save the world.

Meanwhile in orv, hsy kept trying to just save one person ie, kdj and kept failing. She managed to prolong kdj's life to 28 yrs only to lose him multiple times in his sacrificial missions. She finally got to reach him at the epilogue only to lose him once again both the 49!kdj and the 51!kdj, and now in the sidestories, she's constantly trying to save him.

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s/o simping over someone shamlessly infront of the dokja? 😳 pls

Sorry for ghosting you guys lol i had exams

anywho

kdj x simp s/o

It wasn't-well actually, it was everyday that you'd shower kim dokja with romantic comments, publicly if i may add. "[name]... you can't say that in front of so many people!" kim dokja covered your mouth, red and embarrassed from your comments that yoo joonghyuk would rather die than hear. "why not? I love you so much, I want to show it." you cross your arms and scoff. "plus, your face is just so kissable and your skin is so soft and you're so pretty and handsome and-"

Eyes wide, kim dokja slapped his hand on your face to prevent you from speaking your thoughts. "you cant-you cant do that and pretend its normal!" he scolded you as you shrugged nonchalantly. "but it is normal? i do this everyday, even yoo joonghyuk is used to it. and you cant just expect me to not compliment you when youre literally perfect, i could kiss you right now." you smiled, as if this was a day to day routine. well, it is, theoretically. "what?-" kim dokja paused, processing what you had just said. "yeah" and you gave him a small peck on the lips.

kim dokja froze. perhaps he broke? oh well. you shrugged, grabbing your drink off the ground and taking a sip. "hmmm, i'm going to sleep now." you stood up from the ground, walking away from the fireplace. you had found tents from an already broken in store.

It didn't help that you talked in your sleep. once every one else got settled in and kim dokja finally 'unfroze,' they all went to sleep. it also didnt really help that you and kim dokja were sharing a tent. once he settled in your two-person sleeping bag, you immediately latched onto him like a leech. not wanting to wake you up, he tried to wiggle his way out of your grasp, but failing to do so in the end.

"kim dokjaaaa...." you mumbled.

"yes [name]?" he replied.

"If I beat up Yoo Joonghyuk, would you find me cool?"

"huh?"

"Im hungry"

"what"

"muah <3" you gave him a kiss.

"ZZzzzZzz"

The next morning, kim dokja could not look you in the eye. lets just say, if you wore red lipstick to sleep, his face would be completely red.

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PART 2 of 6 of the Owl Deity Hooty Theory: More Than Meets The Eye

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[OWL DEITY HOOTY THEORY MASTERPOST] (in development)

(TLDR at bottom)

Throughout the show, I’ve found that the Owl House has been somewhat of an unnoticed enigma for a good deal of the fandom. It’s a subtle detail that’s easy to miss, but if one looks closely at each part of the house and particularly at a few visual design and art choices, it becomes readily apparent that rather than having been built from the ground up wholesale by Eda, it likely had originated as a dilapidated shell of a former building that she had repaired and grafted pieces of other buildings onto to form the Owl House we know today.

To start, from the exterior alone, we can see four other architectural styles attached to the central building - labeled as 1 - making up the house.

2 is essentially the exterior shed as seen in I Was a Teenage Abomination, and at other angles throughout the show like in my image for 4 and 5, is clearly off center on the side of the Owl House’s wall and doesn’t look like an original part of 1. Meanwhile, though we’ve yet to concretely get a good look inside of it, 3 appears to come from a tower different from the one behind the house due to it having the most grafted-on-to-the-house appearance, different circumference, slightly smaller windows in comparison, and more distinctly greyer coloration.

For 4 and 5, the former is actually the least incongruous with the rest of the house given how chimney brick styles tend to differ from the rest of the building, though both it and 5 - which is the bathroom from Witches Before Wizards - are noticeable with how they and Eda’s room balcony interfere with the base structure’s almost symmetrical exterior design.

In fact, with the makeshift balcony in Eda’s room, several shots reveal just how much of a contrast there is between the building section it comes from and the Owl House’s architecture, particularly between the the gray tower brickwork vs the white house walls as well as the way it awkwardly fills up the “door” to the balcony with a short brick wall rather than a clear and flush path outside.

All in all, these various parts differ significantly in wall style and flooring when compared to the center structure 1, and yet are very much in theme with Eda being a gleeful collector and scavenger of items others consider trash, but with that said, there’s a few more interesting details that seem to point towards even the Owl House’s owl theme not being of Eda’s design.

For starters, my friend @elementalist-kdj pointed out to me last year a painting in the living room that depicts a tower similar in appearance to the one behind the house but not the exact same one as my friend Oak Leak Knight points out below:

For reference from Steven Sugar’s storyboards that depict the painting and house towers:

There’s a few other differences like the painting tower having that whole gate vs the empty divot and mysterious stairs the tower behind the house has, but regardless, the fact of the matter is that both are -or were in the house tower’s case- implied to have the same slitted eye glass window. A window that appears to have been repurposed for the Owl House itself for Eda’s bedroom, which is interesting considering how much it makes the front façade of the house challenges the owl motif she has and has kept since childhood.

To clarify what I mean, the “HOOT” graffiti from Hexside in Something Ventured, Someone Framed and the dresser handles in the curser reveal flashback in Agony of a Witch demonstrate how Eda’s owl motif precedes both the curse and the moniker of “the Owl Lady” she gained from it. Paired alongside other examples of her use of said motif in the present day, we can see how it follows a general, clearly defined two-eyed owl design through and through no matter what coloring it takes on, one similar in appearance to that of a barn owl.

However, all throughout the house, we can see an also very clearly defined ONE-eyed owl motif, whether it be in various pieces of furniture, the balcony door frame in Eda’s room, and the front façade of the house - which most likely looked relatively close to how it is today when she found the structure, as she probably just repaired the façade with minimal changes and replaced a probable missing/damaged slitted eye window with the one from the tower we know.

And with one particular instance, we have a much greater idea of just what kind of owl motif the original structure seems to be based around through the living room ceiling mural. From it, we can gather that it has a diamond-shaped star on its belly, long phoenix-esque tail feathers, prominently clawed feet, a crown of some sorts, and seems to be a literally horned owl rather than merely having feather tufts like actual horned owls.

In fact, when one looks at the setup of the living room minus the furniture, rug, and decorations, the tied up wall length curtains in the corners and the candles everywhere give off an oddly...reverent feeling towards the ceiling-wide mural. Almost as though the living room used to be some sort of altar or ritual room dedicated to the owl entity the mural depicts, and almost like the base structure Eda probably turned into the Owl House might have been part of a larger temple dedicated to it - especially given the unexplained doorway in her room for the makeshift balcony that looks particularly stylized after this mysterious one-eyed owl entity and like it is meant to lead into a no longer present hallway or such.

Like an attentive reader might have picked up at this point, it is this strangely implicit reverence towards said entity and the lack of concrete information on what exactly it IS for which I decided to title this theory of mine. There’s not enough to say if it was some kind of godly being in of itself, but there is enough to suggest that it may have been exalted like a god, hence the use of “Deity” as according to the word’s third definition of ‘a person or thing revered as a god or goddess.’

With that said, as I’ll expand upon in Part 3 next, while I can’t definitively argue that it’s some god-like being, there is the interesting little detail about how the overall design of a play on a one-eyed horned owl and its ear tufts extend to a particular set of interdimensional artifacts AND the blueprints - almost as though this entity and especially its slitted eye plays a key role in making them function the way they do…

TLDR: The mismatched variation in architectural styles across its segments and the borrowing of the stained glass eye window from the tower behind the house suggests that Eda had discovered its central structure in ruins years ago and then turned them into what we know now as the Owl House. From this, the altar-like setup of the living room with its ceiling-wide mural seems to indicate that prior to its deterioration and Eda’s refurbishments, it used to be some sort of temple or building of reverence dedicated to what I call “the Owl Deity,” and going by the Owl Deity’s design, it appears to be integral in some manner to both the titular structure and the central artifact of the whole show. Tune in next time in Part 3 for how I think this unusual entity may turn out to be connected to our favorite little bird worm!

[leefi]

ORV 19 (II)

Okay, wait - so there actually is something special about YSA.

[Incarnation caught in the scenario. The direction of fate is turning. The stories of the stars are gathering in one place and the fate of the constellations will begin.]

��What are you talking about? Are you referring to Gigantomachia?”

*GRABS MY NOTEBOOK*

I hurriedly grabbed Yoo Sangah’s body. Then I felt someone’s gaze from the sky. I shouldn’t raise my head right now. Nobody told me this but I instinctively knew. If I looked above me…[The exclusive skill ‘Fourth Wall’ has offset your mental shock.] I looked up with confusion. There was something in the distant Great Hall. It was a presence that destroyed Ariadne’s power. It seemed to be a tongue or a tentacle but in the end, it didn’t resemble anything. It was a fear that was beyond language and it was unable to be comprehended. A god from another world.

Same unknown god as before? I will name him Bernus.

thanks for letting me use your body to talk to the gods homegirl. *fist bump*

YES YOU WILL YES YOU WILL YES YOU WILL I'M SO PROUD OF YOU I LOVE YOU STAY SAFE *waves a little kdj flag*

Antinus didn’t have much time left. ‘…I need a new host.’ Antinus shook as she thought of the men who killed the Disaster of Questions. Those humans prevented the disaster that destroyed her planet. She was desperate in front of the unbelievable sight and decided again. She would get revenge through any means. She would exterminate the humans who destroyed her home, Chronos. ... At this moment, her antennae reacted. ‘This aura...?’ A familiar aura was felt. It was a power that she felt from the insect kings species found on Chronos in the past. Antinus’ increased her pace. If she infected a person with this potential, revenge wasn’t impossible. Finally, Antinus reached the location and encountered an unexpected being. She couldn’t believe it. How was this presence on Earth? “K-Kieeek―!” She instinctively made a sound and the boy’s eyes gleamed in the moonlight. “You will be the first insect!” The boy, Lee Gilyoung, laughed at Antinus.

KDJ: I've always wondered, is it fun for a writer to read what they wrote?”

HSY: it is very fun.

liar

"Using multiple stigmas will place a burden on Yoo Sangah-ssi’s body.” The damn Olympians wouldn’t tell her this but there was a limit to the story that a single being could afford. Every stigma contained the history of the constellation and the random blend of histories would impair the human spirit. If Yoo Sangah borrowed the stigmas of a large number of constellations, her remaining vitality would be reduced in an instant. Then in probably one year…

YSA... ;_;

Yoo Sangah smiled faintly. “Thank you for your concern.”

...

There were numerous wounds on the back of Yoo Sangah’s hand as she spoke. The wounds felt like a big hole for me. Han Sooyoung had said, ‘In the end, reading is the process of keeping the irregular holes in place.’

YSA!!!!!!

Yoo Sangah took the meat from the monsters and distributed it to the people. Some people felt sorry and bowed to her.

“It is just leftovers. It doesn’t matter.”

I left Han Sooyoung alone and pulled a yanaspleta stem out of my bag. It wasn’t possible for everyone to become a ‘hunter’ in this world. By now, there would be a great deal of research about the monster species all over the world. The man who received the plant from me bowed deeply.

“Ah! Thank you…”

“It’s nothing. Difficulties should be shared.”

Of course, I was essentially a different person from Yoo Sangah. All my good deeds were planned activities.

LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR

I like that we have somebody (HSY) offering a more jaded perspective even though I disagree with it. The reality is that YSA's perspective will be right sometimes and HSY's will be right others.

Oh SHIT. Is this the central disaster?

What motivates a disaster to come back and destroy their own home planet? I understand why they leave to destroy others - survival - but their own? What's the incentive? If their sole purpose is destruction, where do they even go when they're done? What's the incentive to even live?

Yoo Jonghyuk had attempted it several times in the mid to late regressions. The first thing he did was find Shin Yoosung and try to prevent her from becoming a disaster. He failed every time. No matter what changes were made to the Shin Yoosung in the present, the future Shin Yoosung would return in five days. Then she destroyed Seoul.

*puts head in hands*

*HEAD HITS DESK*

This child, who might become a disaster, would become my ‘first incarnation’ in this round.

She's going to defeat her future self.

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Just how important IS Hooty?

You know, I can’t help but wonder if some of the secrets and codes in the episodes have been working as a bit of misdirection, diverting our attention away from the deeper mysteries tucked underneath the surface. 

After all, I’ve been seeing plenty of speculation about stuff like Eda’s curse, the Boiling Isles titan, and King’s backstory/possible true form, but not a whole lot about the titular Owl House itself, the silly goofball pictured below:

Now, to be fair, he is particularly easy to overlook due to the lack of focus and weight given to him and his actions beyond the apparent role of sheer comedic relief, and much of what he has said is rather dumb-sounding with others emphasizing how annoying his voice is, but it feels very telling to me that this whole show isn’t named after Luz and Eda or their adventures in particular. 

I mean, while the show has mainly been focused on the main characters of Luz, Eda, and King, they are the inhabitants of the Owl House, not the Owl House themselves, and with the way this show likes to reframe seemingly minor jokes and offhand lines as important in later episodes, I get the sense that the same might especially happen with Hooty but on a much grander scale.

We’ve seen throughout the series how he can manipulate different parts of the house like the weather vane and shutters, and in Hooty’s Moving Hassle alone, we both learned that the walls literally breathe and had the demon hunters - who were noted at the beginning to capture and sell the most powerful beasts - view Hooty as some sort of house demon tied to the house.

Though the latter could possibly be chalked up to the demon hunters mistaking a powerful display of animation magic from Luz, Willow, and Gus as a demon, the way that Hooty grew feet and the kind of aesthetics with the house’s design makes me wonder about the kind of importance Hooty could potentially be revealed to have.

Namely, that he either used to be or will become one of THE most important, powerful characters on show.

As @elementalist-kdj​ has noted before, the stained glass eye window of the Owl House comes from the tower behind it, but it has always struck me about how closely the whole house resembles the owl mural - or perhaps the Owl Deity as I’ve speculated before.

For those who don’t know, I’ve made a post before about how the mural and a few other parts of the Owl House seem like they could have come from some kind of temple or building dedicated to an owl spirit/deity that Eda may have found as a kid rather than having made it herself, and said “Owl Deity” appears to be reflected in stuff like Owlbert’s depiction on Eda’s wanted poster and etc, with particular focus on the following:

Obvious house geometry and chimneys aside, the front of the Owl House to me looks both like a more abstract and more realistic depiction of the Owl Deity than the mural itself. For comparison, let’s look at an actual life horned owl, one with brown streaks and a white spot in lieu of triangles and a diamond shaped star:

The dark brown streaks in the chest plumage are hardly uniform or symmetrical, and the kind of “diamond shaped star” that can be imagined with the spot of white in the center of this owl’s chest is less outlined as a clear star and more as a splash of color.

Now, with the Owl House, all of the glass windows on the front besides the eye-shaped one could be abstracted into right side up triangles while at the same time realistically varying in size and placement just like a real owl. And just like the white splash of color in the above picture, the door - aka Hooty - is placed roughly around the same spot on the house as the diamond on the Owl Deity in the mural. Heck, the owl weathervane could be interpreted as a stand-in for the subtle flame/crown above the Owl Deity’s head.

Just turn the eye-shaped window ninety degrees, make the outside more feather-like, and add some horns/ear tufts above the eye, and you could get what would likely look to be a more accurate version of the Owl Deity - albeit one with the wings tucked in as if roosting rather than spread out in flight - with some slight alterations to the feet of the following picture and getting rid of all the dirt right below the house and above the legs:

All in all, what I’m suggesting is that - as Hooty IS the Owl House itself - he could be either a reincarnation of/a new vessel for/an aspect of the Owl Deity, or a severely weakened and amnesiac Owl Deity that Eda had discovered and incorporated into her house. 

With this, I believe that the power of the Midnight Conjuring and its effects on Hooty could be an indication that it would require both a LOT of magical potential/power to restore/bring back the Owl Deity in full force, AND the correct spell or ritual to do so. 

Obviously, Luz and her friends easily fulfill the first requirement with their showing in Hooty’s Moving Hassle, but that incident merely channeled that power through Hooty rather than into him, and as such, Hooty’s true potential only partially manifested itself with very limited independence. 

Heck, it didn’t even manifest in the correct manner at that, what with the feet in the above failing to match the kind of feet the Owl Deity and the IRL owl have as @sepublic​‘s pointed out to me before, so to me, the implication seems to be that for as powerful the combined might of Luz and her friends under the Moonlight Conjuring was, that is still just a flash in the pan compared to the sheer amount of power required to actualize the entire Owl Deity.

As for what is the exact relationship between Hooty/the Owl House and the Owl Deity, I suspect that it could be related to how Hooty’s been often described as the house’s defense system and ‘guardian’ both in and outside of the show, and if my theory about the mural and curtains having come from just one of many rooms out of a whole temple is correct, then maybe the Owl Deity is a guardian being that has a mutually symbiotic relationship with its supporters.

Specifically, a being that is the temple housing said supporters itself.

In exchange for offering protection and maybe even some ancient wisdom as befitting the traditional image of a large and incredibly powerful owl in pop culture, its followers may have taken up residence within this temple and ritually offered to help bolster the Owl Deity’s strength and abilities with their own magic, which helps it more easily manifest its true power and knowledge.

However, I’d like to propose that something might have happened to the Owl Deity’s followers a long time ago, whether from something like all of them dying or being killed, the Owl Deity having fallen in some kind of battle or fight and such that led to its followers being forced into hiding, or its supporters somehow being swayed over to the side of someone else - perhaps someone with a closer association to corvids and ravens rather than owls.

From there, the Owl Deity lost a good amount of its power and strength, its temple body eroding away by the currents of time and its legacy falling into complete obscurity until a chance discovery by a young Eda Clawthorne during her studies at he Hexside School of Magic and Demonics.

And within these ruins, she found a miraculously intact room containing the owl mural and its associated curtains, among which she also uncovered a young/infant owl-like ‘house demon’ she brought back with her, eventually giving it the name “Hooty.”

Though I know the justifications for this theory are admittedly rather circumstantial and flimsy at the moment, I just can’t think of any other conclusion that feels anywhere close as likely to actually happen within the show.

I mean, a very recurring semi-major character often being the only one constantly being re-established as ‘just silly comedic relief’ among a whole cast of characters whose small quirks and funny antics constantly returning to show hidden depths?

And the owl mural itself - a topic of much theorizing - is a part of the owl house and therefore part of Hooty himself much like the breathing walls in the ‘living’ room, so wouldn’t that mean that Hooty has a MUCH closer relationship with it?

How about all the points brought up about how Hooty is supposedly a “state of the art defense system” and how Eda has a LOT of people after her who ought to have been able to get past Hooty despite his many showings of incompetency?

Either all of this is just coincidental set dressing and have no actual bearing on Hooty and his role in the story, or this is all part of a massive bait and switch where, between the idiocy and comedy, things are subtly building up towards a MAJOR demonstration of just why the show itself is named not after any of the inhabitants of the Owl House, but after Hooty himself. 

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Where did the Owl House come from?

Lately, I’ve been wondering exactly where Eda got all the parts she used to build the Owl House, starting off with the detail @elementalist-kdj​ pointed out a while back about how one of the paintings inside the house depicts this section of land and tower before the house even existed here

Such a detail comes with the implication that Eda - as befitting a collector of many different knickknacks and human things that got thrown away - had cobbled together the house from a bunch of other structures, some of which were likely forgotten or in disrepair. For example, there’s the stained glass eye window from the now dilapidated tower in the back like @elementalist-kdj​ has pointed out before, and there are five different kinds of brickwork styles used to make the house that indicate up to five different structures were used:

Of these five sections of brickwork, 4 is arguably the only one that sticks out the least due to how chimneys on many houses tend to be of a different brick style than the rest of the house while 5 mainly seems to only be important in regards to likely being where the bathroom is located and is only mildly conspicuously due to the asymmetry it adds to the house’s outline.

As for sections 2 and 3, I’d say they are the most tacked-on looking parts of the Owl House due to 2 not at all being flush with either the front or the back and being noticeably off center as seen in the above picture. Meanwhile, 3 almost seems like it’s the very same section of the tower that’s currently missing were it not for the slight but noticeable differences in coloration, window size, and difference in circumference, and it’s the part that is the most obviously slapped on compared to the rest of the other sections.

While it’s obviously too early to even attempt to figure out exactly where these additions to the overall structure came from and what made Eda use all these structures, section 1 is particular interesting to me both in its shape and what it might tell us about its history with Eda.

Overall, we can see that this center section 1 is considerably symmetrical in shape and seems to be THE core structure the Owl House is made of, which most likely means that it has the highest amount of value and importance out of all the conglomerate parts - both in a sentimental sense for Eda and a narrative sense for the rest of the story given its apparent role as the figurative bedrock the Owl House as a whole was built upon.

Now, the design of this particular section raises quite a couple of questions, as its relative uniformity and placement in the house’s design implies that it either was its own building or part of some grander structure that Eda took to build the house, but the detail of the stained glass eye window coming from the tower behind it as @elementalist-kdj​‘s pointed out also implies that this part of the building was constructed specifically to be part of the Owl House rather than some old structure that got repurposed.

In short, either Eda took and modified a previously existing building/structure - the disappearance of which likely would have raised at least some kind of investigation - or she constructed this center section herself and thus all of the center of the house was her original work, and there’s evidence to imply both of these options, options that may seem to contradict each other. 

That said, I’ve noted in the past about how the owl mural, living room curtains, and - as @sepublic​ recently discussed - the window frame in Eda’s room look like they may have come from a long-forgotten temple dedicated to some kind of owl spirit or deity due to how they don’t look much like something Eda herself created. Instead, I had theorized that Eda had discovered this temple - albeit in severe disrepair and having fallen apart - as a student at Hexside, and that she decided to take whatever she could salvage from her old childhood hideout when she made the Owl House.

However, with this new analysis of the separate parts of the building, I am starting to suspect that the entire center section IS the Owl Deity temple - or at least, a significant part of such a temple.

It would fit with how the dimensions of the Owl Deity mural fits the entire ceiling of the living room upon closer inspection of shots of the room from different angles, and the strangely huge window frame in Eda’s room would make sense if it had been a door frame that Eda partially filled in as a makeshift window. In fact, this door potentially could even be the main entrance if the Temple had originally been partially buried underground due to how wide it is.

And if the temple had merely partially fallen apart with a good number of rooms that were still relatively fully intact - with only barely a few crumbled walls here and there rather than completely in pieces like I had initially surmised - then it’s not much of a stretch to assume that Eda had used just a tiny bit of construction magic to rearrange only the wall in order to fit the stained glass eye window. in what would eventually become her room. 

This would explain how the center section of the Owl House looks like it came from some pre-existing structure while also including a window from a completely different structure, and if my theory is correct about Eda’s childhood relationship with this temple, then her taking as much as she could of it to build the Owl House would offer an intriguing glimpse into just how much of a personal attachment she had to the place as well as a rough timeline of how the house has changed over time.

It seems to me as though the Owl House started life as just the temple itself, having been relocated, polished up, and given a new stained glass window from her old tower as well as the likely installation of a fireplace and chimney at the same time. With section 2, it’s a bit unclear whether it was added before or sometime after the proto-Owl House itself was constructed, but as for sections 3 and 5, they were most definitely added at the same time since she obviously needed a bathroom, and the brickwork partially and awkwardly filling up the balcony entrance in Eda’s room matches the rest of the balcony’s edge rather than the rest of her room as seen below:

Overall, it makes me curious about what exactly the Owl Temple used to look like - both in its heyday before Eda modified it and when she had found it - and exactly what other glimpses of its previous use and history we can uncover under all of Eda’s modifications in the background.