#i think of that and the smile he gave at the end of hunting palismen. the smile of acceptance. of i am doing all that i can;

[palismet]

the alt. thanks to them opening boards are going to emotionally scar me for life. look at his face. luz is terrified but desperate with a hope she feels is unfounded, needing that optimism to imagine a way out of this that doesn't hurt; that doesn't end in more tragedy?

she thinks they're on the same level of bad but sad. that she did as much as hunter in the name of helping belos, without knowing the whole truth of who belos was, who he is. she's traumatized by it.

she needs to not be alone in it.

the i'll keep your secret if you keep mine is a knife to the heart. we are in this together, she is saying. whether we like it or not, at least we have each other. at least i'm not alone.

but what do you say to that? how do you make a witch's oath without magic? you take it to heart. you hold it closer to anything. there aren't words for a devotion like that, the kind of devotion hunter has led with his entire life, and now, here, it's for luz. it's for everyone, for protecting them, to be able for them to get home again.

it's reminiscent of that good old golden guard loyalty, but remade in the light of this new world, new life. it's a cause to live by, a goal, a dream; and as the story goes, we can see - there isn't much he isn't willing to sacrifice for it, especially if the cost is only himself.

(he has nothing to return for, after all. he has a graveyard, filled to the brim with bones and masks and a future he only narrowly escaped.)

sacrifice - that is something he's been waiting for his whole life. so of course he's willing to risk everything for them. what better ending is there, where at the very least, his friends can go home to where they are loved? where no one has to be afraid, anymore?

[roxannarambles]

Do you have your top 10 or 5 Lunter scenes? If you do, which are they?

1.) Hunting Palismen, the scene where they both open up to each other for the first time. Hunter has this smile and that spark in his eye as he talks about wild magic to her. He soon catches himself and stops talking about it, but he still ends up opening up to Luz a lot anyway. I think this is where it all started, really.

2.) Hunting Palismen, HE PROTECC. It's automatic, instinctive, he just met this girl and this is crazy but already he's gonna keep his enemy from getting blasted to bits

3.) Hollow Mind, most of the episode has been leading up to this moment, when Hunter finally accepts Belos is not the person he thought he was, which completely and utterly tips his entire world on its head-- and he allows himself to be vulnerable with Luz and let her in, accept her help.

4.) Hollow Mind, the moment Hunter STANDS UP to Belos directly for the first time, by using the forbidden wild magic, because more than anything he knows he has to protect Luz. The reason he can save her is because Luz herself saved him-- the lifeline of her jacket is something he held onto and gave him a way out of the dark we thought we had lost him to forever.

5.) Thanks to Them, Flapjack lets Luz use him to reach Hunter, it's always Luz, it's always them, they save each other, this is their story at the end of the day, they are the incarnations of a human and a wild witch bound by love and fate to echo throughout the centuries, but this time is different, this time they are going to defeat Belos for good