#but I live for the headcanon that Caleb taught Evelyn how to carve

[letssofia3006]

@octoemm au where wittechild met the first grimwalker haven't left my mind since.

There are so many possibilities, their slow born friendship, how are their relationships with their parental figures, and how both Evelyn and Belos choose to cope with Caleb's death. The inevitable angst for 1st grimwalker death, and later, how would Wittechild and Evelyn's dynamic change with the two of them having survivor guilt...Ngggggg

Nevertheless, have this minicomic....as a treat

[bananadramaaa]

I'm not sure if anyone has asked this before, but do you have any headcanon about the brothers? I really like reading your comics and seeing how Caleb is as equally fucked up as Philip xD

Hi! I'm flattered that you enjoyed my comics ✨

I have some headcanons about wittebros. Some of them can be messed up, considering the time period when brothers lived so be careful. I won't be talking about the relationship between Caleb and Evelyn, how Caleb changed his mind about witches, how he decided to live in the Boiling Isles, etc., because I didn't decide or find the answer myself yet (I have a feeling of a plot hole right now tbh). So some of my headcanons that I'm mentioning here take place before Evelyn's appearance.

Their parents were hanged. Mother for "dealing with the devil," i.e., witchcraft, and father for aiding and abetting the witch and hiding her. Then the bodies were thrown out to be devoured by animals. It was decided to banish the brothers from the city, leaving their fate to "God's will" as a sign of mercy (but before doing so, they made them watch their parents being executed, so that they would learn their lesson).

They have hatred for their parents after. "Why did they abandon us, why did they sell their souls to the devil?"

Since they were puritans ("The Idea of the Holy Trinity" - home, church and school), education played a role, so Caleb knew some literacy, could read, write and count. He taught Philip too. However, household chores like sewing and cooking took some time for them to learn (the boys spent more time with their father helping him with his chores).

Brothers tried to survive as best they could, so there was stealing, too (and once Caleb took things from the corpse of a hanged man, "a beautiful doublet, an unworn one, should be nice"). Usually, it has been Caleb as the eldest who ran the outing. In Philip's words that this was wrong, Caleb replied that repentance was their chief savior and that God would absolve them of their sins because God had inflicted enough suffering on them (rather, Caleb was just repeating what he had heard from adults without fully understanding the meaning).

Upon arriving at Gravesfield, Caleb invented the legend that their parents had been murdered by witches and strictly instructed Philip to stick to that legend.

The brothers took refuge in an abandoned house on the outskirts of Gravesfield.

The brothers feared the Inquisition because of their parents' accident and also feared that "witchcraft" had been passed on to them. So as not to fear the reckoning of their parents, Caleb and Philip decided to imitate the witch hunters, and were frequent visitors to church (to fit in).

Caleb learned wood carving for the first time so he could make dishes with it. Carved a sword and sewed a witch costume for him and Philip to practice witch hunting. He also made a few toys for Philip.

Caleb was retraining Philip to write with his right hand, for if one wrote with the left, it could be considered a sign of the devil's presence.

Once Caleb discovered a mole on his lower back that might have been considered the mark of the devil. He was so afraid of anyone seeing it that he cut it out with a knife. He told Philip that he had cut himself at work by accident.

My other headcanons I've shown in my works. There was also a bit in my answers to other questions.

The post turned out to be quite long, so that's it for now✨ Thank you for your question!

[tentacledsnakelover]

Crazy Theory: Flapjack might have been Philip’s Palisman

So this is a theory I haven’t seen anyone really talk about, but I wanted to throw it out there because it felt like a cool idea. We saw in Thanks To Them that it was implied Flapjack was either originally Evelyn’s palisman, and he either became attached to Caleb, or Evelyn made/taught Caleb how to carve Flapjack. These two theories are the most common, but here is my personal headcanon/theory: What if Caleb made Flapjack for Philip.

We already saw Caleb made Philip his iconic prong-horned mask (Funfact: Pronghorns are a type of animal that are the closest living relative of giraffes, so Philip basically has a giraffe mask) to help his brother adjust to their new life style as witch hunters in colonial Gravesfield, so it doesn’t feel too far fetched that Caleb might gift his brother a way to use magic to adjust to life in the Demon Realm. With magic, they wouldn’t need to worry about going hungry, or getting sick, they could use magic to live in comfort for the rest of their lives.

But for Philip, the childhood of being taught witches are traitors to mankind, and demons are creatures of Satan, has him convinced otherwise, that his brother is under Evelyn’s spell, and she is using his brother to try and tempt him to sin. So maybe Philip tolerates Flapjack, but doesn’t use him (Out of fear Evelyn finds out through Flap that he is plotting to get rid of her) and does what Hunter did, and tries to at least distance himself from the bird.

Eventually, things come to a head. Something happens between the brothers, perhaps Philip tries to kill Evelyn, believing this will break her ‘spell’ over Caleb, but Caleb, in an attempt to save her, and stop his brother from something irreversible, gets killed. And perhaps he couldn’t save Caleb because maybe only Palismen can resurrect someone they are bonded too, and people like Philip, who try to absorb the life force of a palismen they aren’t bonded too (by force or not) suffer consequences.

We saw in Eclipse Lake Flapjack is extremely loyal, and is willing to stick to Hunter’s side even when he puts Amity at risk of the Emperor’s Coven. Perhaps Flapjack thought his duty was to be loyal to Philip, no matter his deeds, and turned a blind eye. But when he realized his inaction got someone killed, he felt guilty and left Philip, but during the events of Hunting Palismen, he met Hunter and saw how similar he was to Philip, in that they would both do anything for their loved ones. This, along with a sense of guilt probably spurred by the fact that he couldn’t originally save Caleb, but could save Hunter, from meeting a similar fate.