#the Golden Guards need therapy

[asherisawkward]

A Ramble on Grimwald, My Golden Guard OC

To start, the name “Grimwald” means “prevail,” which is one of the ways that inspired my design of his personality despite intending it initially as a morbid joke.

I made Grimwald based on the idea that he develops Philip’s obsessive behavior growing up, but aimed at Philip himself. I personally headcanon that Philip hand-makes each of the Grimwalkers a special item (like Sprig for Hunter) to foster attachment and dependency to him. So, when he’s about six, Grimwald gets a quilt that he keeps literally until the day he dies. He finds out about the Grimwalkers when he’s sixteen.

What happens is that Philip turns into his beast form and flees up to the Titan’s skull. Grimwald follows him and eventually catches up on the bridge area. Philip grabs him and YEETS him off the side in a moment of anger, but Grimwald survives the fall using magic (even if he does get beat up). He lands in the Golden Guard pit and sees all the bodies/masks. Obviously traumatized, he cries for a while but makes no move to leave. Philip eventually comes down after regaining control to see if Grimwald died.

However, Grimwald immediately runs up to him, throws his arms around him, and asks to go home (back to the palace). Philip is surprised but intrigued, so he allows this to happen. Grimwald doesn’t ask about it and continues about his duties until Philip kind of goes, “Aren’t you curious about what that was?” And Grimwald says he was waiting for Philip to be ready to talk about it because he doesn’t want to push him.

So Philip decided to do what he does best and manipulate a child. He tells Grimwald that he is a human and Caleb is his brother reincarnated of brought back from the dead because he failed to stay with him (Philip) like he (Caleb) promised in his first life.

Philip gives a heavily altered course of events that paint him as the good guy, witches as the bad guys, and Caleb as bewitched and an abandoner. This makes Grimwald feel immense responsibility for Caleb’s actions, and he makes an Everlasting Oath to never abandon Philip as long as he lives.

After that, Grimwald refuses to leave Philip’s side unless ordered to and always returns as quickly as possible to him, placing emphasis on efficacy and ruthlessness to please Philip. He additionally becomes convinced that the only reason he connects with witches is because he is “tainted” by the Grimwalker form and basically gaslights himself into dehumanizing witches and that his empathy for them is entirely because he is a flawed reincarnation.

During time when there are not other witches around, Grimwald tries to recreate himself as “Caleb” by acting brotherly towards Philip and attempting to simulate that relationship again. It works fairly well, and Philip sometimes slips up and calls him “Caleb” (which Philip is really proud of because he sees it as proof he’s succeeding).

However, Grimwald begins to detest his appearance because it does not look the way that it used to “when he was human.” This leads to an incident where he tries to cut his ears to look human but is stopped by Philip. During the time after the revelations, Grimwald only communicates with people other than Philip out of necessity.

The whole thing lasts four years, with Philip slowly realizing that Grimwald is becoming self-destructive due to the guilt he feels. He will risk punishment and danger rather than failure, but it has lead to medical expenses for healing and hospital trips due to lack of self care.

Grimwald’s last mission is one where he is sent after a shapeshifter type of creature similar to Grom. It turns into Philip upon seeing Grimwald, and the latter feels to terrified and worried to harm it simply because it has the appearance of his creator. Grimwald dies in the ensuing fight, and the creature runs off. He is twenty years old when that happens.

He doesn’t initially realize he is dead when he wakes up as a ghost. He returns to the palace, ready to accept his punishment. But Philip doesn’t acknowledge him. Grimwald thinks he is getting ignored for failing, so he just sits in the throne room until a scout comes in to bring Philip news of his death. Afterwards, Grimwald spends much of his time watching Philip and his successor (Darius’s mentor) before beginning to leave the castle and wander around the Isles once Hunter is created.

[platonic-sponge]

just finished watching the owl house yesterday and then saw this and. yeah

[iamchaos1234]

Dabbled in edits, take some Hunter :3

[eternalera]

i just noticed this really cool thing in the s2 intro of the owl house.

it shows lilith in this almost power like stance as if she's threatening someone it shows her as this basically enraged undefeatable foe and it shows her like shes a threat. she gives you the impression that she would never ask for mercy of any sort.

with hunter is shows him as the golden guard with his staff in hand and with his mask it demands power and respect it. it feels like your stereotypical warden who does a shit tone of bad stuff

then with kikimora she looks innocent and playful holding her cloth up to cover her mouth almost like a child would.

then with lilith when it turns it shows that what we saw before was basically just a facade. her hands are switched and shes looking down as if she's begging for either forgiveness or mercy. its almost like she's doing the action that's switched between frames

then with hunter his staff is gone and he's taking off the mask. both of which belos gave him to reassemble his power and his importance. yet its not here showing us that whatever we thought of this impenetrable warden that we saw before isn't true. once again it seems like he's doing this motion just like lilith

then with kikimora we see her crazed which honestly is just her whole buildup in the show which is pretty cool but she also looks angry. once again this seems to be done in one motion showing us that yknow 'theres more to them than we think'. as we get more of kikomoras insane devotion throughout the show (up until the part where she helps king) and i think this is supposed to show us that.

then we get belos scooping them up in his hand as if showing that he has power over them and that theyre his. he has control over them into doing basically whatever he wants

[jam-half-missing]

jnbwiohefujwsinfcpwiuebfowuefb look away

[childlikegoblinqueen]

A very BIG thank you to @kris-creations for bringing to life one of my favorite of Hunter’s traumatic flashbacks from SCOM…

The scene is from chapter 46.

Link! ^^^

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[kris-creations]

I’m torturing this poor boy 🥺

[rainy-xp]

Okay, so I have no idea whether something like this has already been done or not, but I just had the idea.

If this has been done already please let me know!

If not... it's my original idea :D

Its during the time the Kids were trapped in the human realm.

More of my ideas below the picture

In this au they basically found the small Bit of belos before he could really do anything while trapped in the human realm. They decided to put him into this small Glass necklace so they dont lose him again.

Hunter decided to take the necklace Even the the others reasured him that he didnt have to.

I guess you can Imagine that small belos not happy about this is-

The kids arent happy about this either but atleast they now dont have to worry about belos as much (and they can shake the small necklace as much as they desire).

[cheeserobin]

Robin and The Golden Guard

WARNING: English is not my first language, I am sorry for any spelling mistakes that may appear below.

Is it just me or do Hunter from TOH and Damian look a bit alike, although I think that's obvious, they both share the “Zuko trope”.

There are a myriad of reasons for this, they were both born and raised in violent environments where their word didn't matter 100% and the mission came first, not to mention that both are sometimes considered clones and there were or are more of “them” out there ( this mostly in Damian's case who no doubt has more brothers/clones out there in the world without him knowing ).

Nor can we forget the previous vision that both had of justice, a distorted and dirty one that was instilled in them because according to their maternal and paternal figures it was the right thing to do and they were doing the right thing, right? well, what a great surprise and regret they had when they realized that they were not doing the right thing.

It's just a small idea of both characters, if both were in the same room I feel they would become friends very easily or a little bit the hard way knowing that Damian's rare talent in making friends with people equally or more traumatized than him.

And it could also be as a small idea of how to handle Damian if they adapt him to a series beyond movies and comics, because the control of his development could not be the same in terms of time to be a different medium of entertainment. But considering that his story would give a lot to show and adapt it would be a difficult issue.

But x what other characters would get along with each other? Maps and Luz?

…

STOP-

[parasocial-hermit]

2022 Redraw

[star-mail]

Secret Santa ! for @/sipsscreams 

hunter angst :]

[buggietastic]

shiny sharpie ✨

[shadysadie]

It just dawned on me that Hunter hasn’t looked in a mirror in three days. Of course, Belos is gone now, and everyone is safe. But trauma doesn’t magically vanish when the danger does. 

At one point, whether it’s somewhere in the demon realm, or if it’s at Camila’s house, or the Owl House, there is going to be a point where Hunter gets to look at his face in the mirror. And deal with the emotions that will inevitably come when he realizes that the last time he saw his face in the mirror it looked like this:

And now it looks like this:

And I just really hope that someone (whether that someone is Darius or Camila or Willow or Luz) is with him at that moment because I cannot imagine that will be easy for him to see

[iamchaos1234]

Huntlow my beloved ❤️

[honestlyobsessed]

*slaps roof of Fandom*

"This bad boy can fit so many revived children in it"

[madstheintrovert]

Ok just watched the last ep of owl house so like warning for spoilers~~~~

Thoughts I had prior to, during, post

1- wow if Belos, a witch-hunter who literally wants to kill all witches, doesn’t misgender Raine than the bar for transphobic assholes should really not be hard to reach (I.e., if Belos can do it, so can you)

2- it took me longer than it should have to realize that the tear marks on Raine’s face were their scars from the possession and then I was just like omg my baby

3- Huntlow at the end. I… their looks, waffle/waffles the palisman, hunter carving palismen, flapjacks grave, willow adding flowers

4- CANON DADDRIUS also was that a hint of Alador x Darius i saw at the end Dana. BESTIE U REALLY SAID U HEADCANON I CANON.

5- THE EARRINGS. Stop it

6- Lilith being harpy Lilith and omg her look and just the confidance and her and Steve’s friendship and Hooty

7- HOOTY U BEAU

8- raine and eda sitting in mini nest in the owl house or actually I’m not sure but I’m guessing that is where they were at the end and I just. My babies

9- vee at the end. Also I see ppl being like background pic confirming them and frick I forget other besties name bc it’s 3 am but them two together

10- Luz in titan form… ok I’m ngl I was like a lil hyped that she might stay that way… but literally KINGS DAD who IS HIS MOM AND DAD AH also back to Luz… WHEN EDA AND KING GO FULL FERAL GOBLIN AFTER LUZ *dies*

11- CAMILLA BEING LIKE ITS BEEN A WEEK LUZ

12- Raine fighting belos, raine stumbling, raine breaking their instrument in a last ditch effort, them whistling to themself, them having lost their glasses and being terrified because they can’t see its Eda, them continuing to fight alongside Eda, king and Luz after all that. CAN U TELL RAINE HAS WORMED THEIR WAY INTO MY HEART.

13- Edas smile when Luz is like where is the magic from… the heart. Idk why but this smile specifically

14- I feel like I must have seen hunter smile before now… well… but that gap tooth smile after they defeat Belos

15- I LOAF YOU

16- EVERYONES NEW LOOKS. BECAUSE GUS. And LUZ. AND VEE. AND AMITY. AND ANYONE ELSE.

…ok I must sleep but this is not the end. Don’t worry I’ll tag it with all the things so hopefully y’all’s who have yet to see this don’t get spoilers. Me being from Canada and being a uni student with no easy access to cable understands that heh.