#the thing is everyone saying character X should kill belos bc that fulfills their narrative arc

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

belos is falling apart. he spent his entire too-long life trying to rid the world of what he thinks is evil. he trapped himself in the world of the witches for this. he killed his brother for this, then brought him back and killed him over, and over, and over again. he spent 400 years working towards the day of unity, using the very magic he despised to turn himself into a monster he would have killed as a young man.

but then the day of unity doesn’t work. he gets back to the human realm, but everything is so bright and loud and the new people worship heathen gods. they tell stories of his time, but they do so mockingly, as if phillip and his people were some sort of backwards brutes. for everything phillip did in his youth to protect future generations from corruption, the future generations talk about his legacy as if it’s a joke.

but belos can barely do anything about it. he exists as a shapeless shadow, spending months just to build up his strength to possess his last grimwalker. this world is already corrupted the way he feared in the past. and maybe he won’t live to see it be fixed, but he still needs to return to the demon realm, so that at least that evil world (and how could it not be, having taken his brother from him?) could still be destroyed.

as he makes his way to his lab, he is losing parts of himself. the goo he used to only feign a lack of control in to scare hunter, now drips from him with every step. all the other grimwalkers he’s prepared have now died. and there isn’t any time or resources left for him to make another one. and when he possesses the animals, or hunter, or the dead grimwalkers, he corrodes away at them to give himself another boost of life but none of it is enough. even when he possesses raine’s puppet, who, due to the collector’s magic, should be sturdier than a corpse, he is still falling apart, bits of him falling from the puppet.

in the final confrontation, the collector may not even need to do anything to him. it would be redundant for them to explode him like in the season 2 finale, anyway. i don’t think anyone needs to land the final blow on belos to kill him. he has been slowly losing himself the whole series. he gave up his morals, his physical body, his identity, and finally, he lost any reason he had to get any of those back.

i wouldn’t be surprised if, after they get him to stop possessing raine, belos just gives up and melts into a slurry and never rises back up again. and instead of the angry, fearful fighting luz does in her other confrontations with belos in the season 1 and 2 finales, in the season 3 finale, she just watches belos’s 400 year long temper tantrum end with disgust and pity.