#old hexside

[lonndoodles]

Office AU Party

[possibly-a-table-or-just-gay]

more of these fuckers

the first one

[maxcatz]

they make me feral

[astrolavas]

it's sound weird, but i have headcanon that Hunter didn't go hexside, because he too old to shool(according to my feelings, at the end of the he is 16-17 y.o (except for the post-credits scene), and at that age it is already too late to go to school):p

i mean, well- in my opinion he rather certainly did go to hexside, since one of the things he'd said during his TTT monologue was "i'd like to attend hexside like a normal student and play flyer derby with my friends" and all of his "wishes" were supposed to sort of foreshadow his goals and his future (carving palismen, studying wild magic, etc etc) so i feel like it's safe to say he succeeded in becoming a hexside student as well. we also know he attended grom with the rest of his friend group, and like- since he's 16 before the timeskip (no canon certainty whether he's recently turned 16 or is going on 17 already though, but like... around 16 canonically) that means he'd get at least 1 year of school, but most likely 2+.

my personal headcanon is that he went to hexside for around 2 years (full or not quite, depending on when the school year starts in the boiling isles and how long it lasts; possibly even 3), and during that time he picked up a mentorship/apprenticeship at del's palisman carving shop, and after he graduated from hexside he started carving palismen professionally with the clawthornes (i like to think that he also takes some courses at eda's wild magic university in his spare time, simply cuz . funny uni hexsquad shenanigans)

[drachenfalter]

"It's not about Home Security"

(AO3 Version here)

“I was wondering when you’d come here.”

Lilith was surprised to hear a familiar voice when she sank down into the booth, a pint of apple blood in front of her. 

It had been some time since she’d really talked to anyone outside of her sister and the colorful group currently living in the owl house. She told herself it was a safety precaution — most of her friends and acquaintances were high ranking members of her former coven, people loyal to Belos. Not people she could trust.

Or maybe that was an excuse she told herself, a reason not to let them see her in her current state.

But this was not a former colleague.

This was someone she had known since Hexside.

“Odalia?” Lilith watched as the green haired witch took a seat opposite of her. “Didn’t think I’d meet you here.” Her childhood friend had never been shy about her disdain for this hole-in-a-wall place.

“Well, yes, this place is a shithole,” Odalia said. “Exactly the place to look for a disgraced former Covenhead.”

Lilith winced and took a long swig from her apple blood. Not nearly as strong as the stuff Eda liked, but still enough to get a nice buzz. “Are you just here to insult me? Or is there something you want from me.”

Odalia rolled her eyes. “You always think the worst of me. Maybe I’m just trying to catch up with a friend? Maybe I’m concerned about an old friend who just lost everything?”

Lilith gave a humorless laugh. “Hah. You. Concerned. Very funny!” Lilith knew her better than that. Odalia looked at her, unaffected by the implied insult.

Lilith took another sip. “But I guess you are the first one to actually ask. Even my own mother didn’t bother,” she added in a low voice.

 “So. What happened?”

“You already know what happened. Everyone knows. Belos wanted to petrify Eda, and I couldn’t let that happen,” Lilith explained.

“Yes, I know that, obviously,” Odalia cut in. “I’m trying to figure out why you would throw it all away like that.”

“She’s my sister.”

“And a wild witch. Like all the other witches your coven captured and petrified in the last few years. Really, what did you expect to happen?” Odalia gave her an incredulous look.

“I- Belos promised he would heal her curse, if I got her to join,” Lilith argued. “I had to try, okay? How was I supposed to know he would go back on his word?” And then, realizing what Odalia said, she added, “And — and also, the last public petrification was thirty years ago.”

Odalia gave her a look. “You know you don’t have to spew his lies anymore, do you? I’m not part of your coven (Lilith coughed), sorry, former coven. But I know my customers. I notice when they disappear, and I know the difference between a statue and a fossil.”

Lilith balled her hands, feeling new guilt well up inside her. “We — he said they were irredeemable. Too dangerous to risk ever escaping.” Lilith shut her eyes and sank her head. “Oh Titan, I was such an idiot.”

“Yes, yes, Belos is a crook, what else is new.”

That stopped Lilith, because it was new. At least from Odalia. In their over thirty years of friendship, this was the first time she had ever heard the oracle talk so disrespectfully about the Emperor.

“I - what?” Lilith needed a moment to. "You knew? Know? But you never said anything to me."

“You were his Headwitch. Loyal enough to sell out your own sister,” Odalia stated. “I’ve gotta think of my own. And you wouldn't have listened, anyway."

“Hmpf. I guess that’s fair.” Lilith took another long gulp from her apple juice, the glass looking almost empty now.

"Not that it really matters. Crook or not, Belos is still the most powerful witch on the Isles." Odalia didn't sound particularly happy about it, Lilith noted.

They sat there in silence for a few moments as Lilith continued stewing in her thoughts.

“You know that you’re the first one of them to approach me?” she eventually said, bitter. She didn’t feel the need to specify that she was talking the small group of friends they were a part of since Hexside.

“Really?” Odalia sounded genuinely surprised.

“Yep.” Lilith finished her apple blood. “Not even my own mother sought me out. Not a word, not even a text or letter.”

“Well, I can’t speak for the others, but Alador has been very busy with work lately. Not that he’s ever been the social type, mind you.”

“He’s not overworking himself again, I hope?” Lilith continued, happy for the excuse not to talk about her own pathetic life for the moment.

“Please, that man is never happy unless he’s elbow deep in an abomination goo or tinkering on some new invention.”

“Sure. But you can still have too much of a good thing,” Lilith argued, speaking from experience. She’d definitely overdone it a few times while studying under Flora.

“Pfff. He’s not your husband, okay. And it’s kind of out of my hands now, anyway,” Odalia grumbled.

“Out of your hands?”

Odalia sighed and leaned forward, beckoning Lilith to come closer. “We recently had a visit from your least favorite upstart at the factory.”

Her least favorite– Oh. “The Golden Guard?” Lilith whispered back.

Odalia nodded. “He threatened to investigate our business if we don’t comply - not that we're actually doing anything illegal, of course - and now we’re selling exclusively to the Emperor’s Coven.” She leaned back. “At least they pay decently. But still. The audacity of that guy.”

“Huh. So, the Emperor’s Coven is buying home security…” Lilith mumbled more to herself.

“Don’t be ridiculous, Lilly,” Odalia interrupted her with a cold laugh.  “They’re not buying home security."

Then the business witch got serious.

"They're buying an army. "

"And I’d really like to know why.”

[knockknockknockingonhootysdoor]

when toh ends this next week, i want you all to know, i will still be here making the stupidest drawings you will ever witness. ♡

[marvelousmagicalaura]

For the Future is bad. Not a bad episode, but bad relative to what it could’ve been. This episode felt like they didn’t know what to omit, so they haphazardly inserted characters and arcs that were supposed to be in the original plot.

I’m baffled as to why they kept romance between Willow or Hunter, or Willow feeling like she must be “the strong one,” or the New Hexside crap. And I definitely didn’t need a conclusion to fucking Kikimora or Boscha! They’re mid! Hexside has always been mid!

I looked at the Collector’s portraits and they’re interesting. It seems like there were multiple Collectors that descended upon the Demon Realm, each one representing different astronomical bodies. Then they warred with the Titans millions of years ago, annihilating the race. Their goal reminds me of Preservation from Mistborn - preserving life through extreme methods such as genocide.

Its interesting lore but it’s a bad idea to include it at this point. After they defeat Belos there are more powerful beings than the Boiling Isles Collector out there.

Camilla is the best part of this episode. Cartoon mother of the century. I’m really disappointed that screentime wasn’t used to develop Belos. I feel like if it was, Dana and her team could’ve delved into the religious implications behind Belos’ character. Plus, he clearly loved Caleb at some point. I like to think he felt SOME guilt over killing Caleb. Which brings us to the Grimwalkers because wow… There were so many Grimwalkers. Such a shame we barely know anything about the Golden Guards.

My fears came true. The Collector is being portrayed as a lonely kid. Which makes some sense, but he lacks the teeth presented in Season 2. Season 2 portrayed him as lonely and gullible, but he reveled in death and understand the consequences of Belos’ actions. Then again… he was inconsistent even in S2. He was an extremely smart magic user, but acted stupid the moment he learned King is a Titan.

[badgirlcoven-official]

It's really funny to think about the whole custody battle people are having over Hunter when you remember he is is sixteen and all but fully independent like it does not matter who has official/legal custody of him he's still just gonna go wherever he wants and that's what he did. Literally why would he pick one household to live in when the entire point of his character arc is that he doesn't want to be confined to any one place or occupation (he wants to carve palismen, he wants to play flyerderby, he wants to go to school, and he wants to make cosplay and sew wolf t-shirts all of which are things he'll want to be in different places for generally)

And it's so funny to me when people concede to coparenting like some kind of compromise but they think that they are going to have a post-divorce Hunter spends weekdays with one family and weekends with another situation like how did you miss the whole point of found family in this series.

Hunter doesn't switch between the Deamonne, Noceda, and Clawthorne-Whispers families because they're the same family now. Everybody came together. They all became Luz's family, Hunter included.

[agaythatlikesfrogs]

A preview of my piece for the @hexsidezine !!

Its live on gumroad now, go check it out

[saltedcoffeee]

staring into the distance what if ratador was carved by a relative who wanted to have a mini alador w them at all times n then they died. that stupid little rat came back to the person it was based off of and alador has to live w the fact that one day someone loved him enough to want him w them forever. idk im just saying stuff

[trafficlightchild]

WHY DID THEY SEND THREE TEENAGE GIRLS OUT FIRST!?! WHOSE IDEA WAS THAT???

[lonndoodles]

I don't think I'll draw this out but 2 routes we can go for this Raeda ship.

Route 1: This will be Eda and Raine's first time meeting at their job. It's Eda's first day and Lilith offers to show her around the office. She sees Raine talking to someone during their lunch break. Either Raine has something on them that makes Eda go like "Hello? 👀 we have similar interests?" or "Oh?? U look cool. I wanna talk to you"

OR! flip the script, we're following Raine's pov and they have a BIG crush on Eda. Altho Raine is very put together, they're clumsy or freeze up when trying to chat w/ Eda.

Route 2: They have not seen one another since high school. It's been several decades since they last saw one another. I haven't thought too long on this but I'm curious abt this idea. Did one of them had a crush on the other during high school? Or both? Maybe they had a huge fight and now working together they see they've grown since those school days.

[possibly-a-table-or-just-gay]

Hagsquad nickname headcanons. If that means anything to you.

[maxcatz]

can i talk about him? no? ok thanks

so um i had an idea that he would go to beaches or in forests whenever he had free time and he would just like. collect creatures. like he brings a bag and when he finds a bug or a crab he just collects them and takes them home and builds them stuff and he shows them off to his friends

[confused-stars]

i just had the possibly best MP100 au idea

Ageswap Owl House au

because like. a human kid ending up in a realm of magic on accident and being taken in by an adult whose magic is a little whacky and who doesn’t really fit in with everyone else. and said adult has an overachiever sibling

do you see the vision??

[quismihiignem]

Lilith stops the drama

drama (loser club)