#btw @ the person who asked me & worstie about allen and oz's adjacency to each other i promise we haven't forgotten fdkjsafdsa

[ozwuv]

Maybe a bit random but it always confused me that weather Oz was a child of ill omen or not was a debate just because he isn’t human when baskervilles aren’t fully considered human and like half of the story making sense if he isn’t one and also oswald literally called him one like am I blind I feel blind why aren’t people talking about this

ngl pretty much any ph-related discussion i witness is against my will so i didn't even know that was a point of contention lol.

this is what i have to say on that topic though

as far as i know it was never specified that children of ill omen are exclusively human. most things in ph are pretty open-ended and leave room for a million different interpretations anyway (despite fandom often seeing it from a black & white lens -- which is part of why i usually avoid discussion about it lol). the things i remember actually being specified off the top of my head are

1. oswald's statement that children of ill omen are "irregular existences produced by the core on a whim" 2. lacie's theory of the core producing children of ill omen out of a desperate need for someone to find her & save her from her loneliness 3. the fact that there have been children of ill omen who were siblings to the glen of their time, aside from lacie & oswald

in any case, i don't know everything so i could be wrong! like you said, oswald did explicitly refer to oz as a child of ill omen buuut it's not an explicit focus in the manga. i didn't even connect the dots myself until like 2019? so i can understand how people could just miss it entirely. but vehemently denying it is kind of odd to me because oz reflects a lot of the struggles lacie & vincent had as children of ill omen. imo break is the odd one out, conventionally speaking. i could go on about that all day tho so i'll spare the details ¯\_(ツ)_/¯