#the way he’s reaching up to her like he never could Belos

[crimeronan]

Camila horror thoughts. In the horrifically fraught family horrors sense of the term.

What if Vee has specifically warned Camila about Hunter, told her all about what he specifically has done in order to give her a heads up, in a way naturally coloured by the views she has (not unreasonably) built up around Hunter because of all the stuff she's done.

So naturally she's got this wariness of Hunter that does not compute when she sees how genuinely caring he is with Luz even if logically she knows people can act remarkably differently in different contexts and none of it negates all the stuff he did with The Basilisks for Belos. But Camila is still pretty sure that Luz doesn't know, and is terrified that if she knew it might destroy something that she is desperately reliant on, her relationship with Hunter. It probably wouldn't, Luz could probably live with that since well horrible nightmare trauma soulmates and by Luz's standards she's done just as bad in a similar context but Camila and Luz keeping secrets for almost the exact same reason (to protect the people they love from horrors they are too insane to be affected by) appeals to me.

But the problem now arises, Camila's told Luz that she has adopted another kid, and Luz in the spirit of trying her best to reach out does want to see Vee or have her visit with Camila next time she comes or something like that since like, thats a normal thing to do on reconnecting with your estranged mother and finding out you have an adopted sister you've never met.

Vee, bless is not going along with that "don't tell Luz how horrible Hunter is since she is hopelessly codependent on him" bullshit at all. Camila knows that, Vee knows that. Camila knows she cannot ethically or reasonably expect Vee to not spill all of Hunter's darkest secrets to Luz in an attempt to ruin his life since, y'know all the stuff he did to her specifically.

For Vee the nicest most compromise-y thing she can do, is just never meet Luz face to face, and thats only because of her respect for Camila. But there's no way Luz isn't going to to notice or be concerned about this so there's this constant ticking time bomb of "when am i gonna meet Vee' since "oh she's off at college" isn't gonna work forever.

god this is all so good. i've been thinking about it since you sent this ask a few hours ago now. bc like. god. there's So Much....

i think you're 100% right that vee would try to stay out of things. she's like mama respectfully i'm ready to meet her IF i'm allowed to scream a lot of pent-up utterly unhinged bullshit but otherwise i think it's best for me not to be involved.

and camila is SUCH a bad liar. if she tried to say that things were fine with vee, luz would clock that something was wrong immediately. she obviously wouldn't jump to "she's from the isles" when there are so many more obvious conclusions -- maybe vee is jealous of luz for being the first daughter camila loved, maybe she's angry at luz for running away, maybe she's sick of luz monopolizing camila's time now when vee is used to having their mom all to herself....

regardless of what luz thinks is most likely, she's definitely like. Ah. I Am Driving A Wedge Between Them. This Is My Fault. On A Personal Level. Somehow.

and then on camila's end, that's even true to a point.... bc vee is getting increasingly more upset by the idea of protecting luz's feelings. i can absolutely see a very tired vee finally having the stress get to her & snapping, "why do you think she'll CARE?? she isn't going to care. even if she's as nice a person as you think she is, it's not like i'm a human or a witch. i'm nothing. she doesn't know how to care about people like me"

...there is, of course, a delicious and vicious irony in that. like. luz Very Much Does Know how to care about someone who isn't a witch or a human.

Oh God.

and then whenever luz meets vee, when it all finally Does come out.... i feel like it would sort of be worse for vee than anything she'd actually braced for. because luz DOES immediately care, she does act like it matters, she immediately wants to know everything and fix everything and make it all better, she immediately takes on all of the responsibility for everything the empire's ever done, she's so sorry, she didn't know, she would have done something, she can do something now--

--and vee is like well. HE knew. and he sure didn't want to help me!! even though i asked him to!! even though he KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING TO ME THE ENTIRE TIME

hunter has wisely remained quiet because he doesn't think he can really defend himself here. and luz has this moment of uncertainty and confusion, and then she looks at hunter's face, and for a second vee thinks that he's just going to straight-up deny it, but he doesn't. and luz seems to understand that it's all true.

and she doesn't look angry. or even betrayed.

and then she's trying to tell vee that hunter was always in danger when they were growing up, that there must have been extenuating circumstances that made rescue impossible, that he would have helped her if he could, that luz KNOWS he would have because he wouldn't just leave vee to suffer for no reason, that's not the kind of person he is,

and hunter is the one to be like luz. stop. she doesn't need to hear that right now. she can hate me. it's fine.

so vee's opinions on luz are like. 1) i hate that you're so nice that i look insane for being angry with you 2) you're a spineless coward who can't hold anyone accountable 3) you've fooled camila into thinking you're some helpless delicate flower by pretending to be sad when you DON'T care 4) if hunter is going to agree with me about anything then i should legally get to shoot him. just like once. i've never touched a gun or had any inclination to do so before today But I Should Get To Shoot Him .

camila's role in mediating this has mainly been to gently steer the conversation into more productive territory when it looks like it might devolve into panic attacks or violence from anyone involved. she's so fucking stressed by trying to keep things from coming to blows that there's like. no Way that she could do a professional-level job of Family Therapy Mediator.

god.

much 2 consider.

[sepublic]

            So thanks to @coulrology the revelations on Osran knowing Kikimora’s mother and helping her get into the Emperor’s Coven (and there being ‘resentment’ from this) are driving me insane because what happened during Follies at the Coven Day Parade?????

            Did Osran have any thoughts about Kikimora’s mother telling her to abandon her duties to go visit??? After all, HE wouldn’t dare to do that, and of course he’s a Coven Head who genuinely matters for the Day of Unity whereas Kikimora is just another interchangeable tool (Ignore that Osran canonically has an unseen replacement sshhhhh). Did Kikimora consider going to Osran, having him vouch for her since he’s a senior?

            Dana mentions ‘resentment’ which makes me wonder if Kikimora feels humiliation at having to rely on Osran, on ‘owing’ him a favor perhaps. So maybe she never brought this up to Osran for this exact reason, it’d be a second favor. Kikimora definitely likes to rely on her connections, but it points to a paradoxical self-loathing at having to depend on others, on not being the one in charge and pulling the strings. She wants to manipulate, not beg!

            And I guess Kikimora’s mother never brought it up to Osran, Hey you got her into this job, tell her to leave it! Probably because she was talking to Kiki herself the whole time, no need right? Does Osran feel any resentment himself, did he feel he ‘owed’ one to Kiki’s mom and sees Kikimora as just a nepo baby he helped create? So seeing Kikimora struggle because she never earned it and is still beholden to her mother who actually got her that is like. His cruel vindication. Maybe she should leave and Osran just bluntly tells Kikimora to do so, furthering her breakdown and desperation to (initially) accept Luz’s help.

            Osran was basically confirmed to come from the same hand as Kikimora, which does ruin my little gag I always had in mind of her appealing to him over this, only for Ozzy to flatly correct her, “I’m from the right hand.” AKA the Bonesborough area. Titan, what did they feel about Palm Stings being displaced, being made colder than the Knee because of Belos? Did Kikimora and her mother have to move out, or did they adapt the way witches can somehow live on the side of the Knee?

            The ecological devastation must be insane; I bet Kikimora soothes herself knowing she basically single-handedly ruined Belos’ entire work of centuries, when he could’ve been nicer to her. It was her actions that led to him wasting away for months in agony and humiliation, building himself back up just to start falling apart when his regeneration reached its limit. I bet that made her feel REAL good.

            But yeah, we know now that Kikimora is stuck doing community service via physical labor; Or maybe it’s not even community service, it’s just a regular job because her outfit may or may not be a uniform. Did she have her mother come back to her, asking for help? Did Osran ever meet up with Kikimora and attempt to talk her down, subdue her, feel some responsibility because maybe she wouldn’t have gone so far if he hadn’t gotten her into the coven to begin with?

            On the other hand, as I’ve said; Kikimora actually ended up being the lynchpin, which must’ve been an empowering realization that she unfortunately took the wrong lesson from in attempting to become a shadow empress during the Collector’s reign. Did Osran ever think to himself, Wow I helped save the Boiling Isles! He’s not seen vying for power like Terra, Adrian, and Vitimir are; It could point to him actually caring about the isles on some basic level.

            So maybe in contrast to Kikimora, Osran uses this feeling of importance for good; He decides to help the CATTs rebuild the Boiling Isles into a democratic society, hence the Boiling Isles Council. I don’t recall anyone or anything saying that Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf are the only members, maybe Osran is among them. But maybe he isn’t because he’s old and retired, happy to know that maybe he ultimately undid more damage than he caused as a coven ehad.

            Though, he might certainly mourn the damage he indirectly caused to Palm Stings; But given the alternative was Belos committing genocide, a displaced landmass is tolerable. But does Kikimora care? Or did she renounce her home like she renounced the family that lived there? I would not put it past her…

            Augh this reminds me of a Post-Hoot where they mentioned a scrapped concept for S3 of the protagonists wandering a desert in Abomination mechs; And we know Kikimora has Roka, AND she comes from a desert. That’s a glimpse into a Kikimora storyline, and probably Osran too; And probably Blight Industries because of the use of mechs plural, and we know Kikimora got hers from Odalia. So maybe Odalia and/or Alador, and some of the Blight kids, would be there.

            And Darius why not? He’s got ties to the Blights and might want to keep an eye on them and Kikimora and Osran; Esp Kiki since Raine seemed to clock her as a potential asset in the rebellion, which obviously proved to be good judgment. Imagine Raine telling Darius to keep an eye on Kikimora and Osran, esp if Osran is ultimately well-intentioned; And Darius melds an Abomination spy into one of the mechs, or even fuses with one of them to replace its goop components and hide within it! Haha, man…

[craftingcreatures]

So this post said it way more eloquently and comprehensively than I ever could, but I've been mulling it over for a while and I wanna talk about it anyway.

I've been watching the Owl House lately and honestly I'm kinda in love with the way the show handles redemption. I see so many people in the fandom complaining about how the multiple villain redemption arcs are unearned, or that they get forgiven too easily, but like... isn't that the whole point? Redemption isn't earned, it's given. And I love the characters in the Owl House because they are brilliant examples of this principle.

Take Lilith, for example - she cursed her sister out of petty jealousy and in doing so subjected her to a life of ostracization, broken relationships, and suffering. Multiple people got seriously hurt because of Lilith's choice, most notably her own father. And instead of owning up to her mistakes she kept her involvement secret for decades, pledging loyalty to an oppressive dictator and climbing the ranks of the dictator's private army/police force in pursuit of her own ambition. Instead of confronting her own mistakes, she tried to cover them up. She attempted to absolve herself of guilt by quietly removing the consequences of her own choices (convincing Belos to remove the curse) without compromising her own goals. And she continued to hurt people in pursuit of this goal (leading multiple coven scouts to their deaths at the hands of an eldritch nightmare demon bird worm, using Luz as a human shield while attempting to subdue Eda). So when she eventually does confront her own guilt and turns a 180 on her character, a lot of people can't quite comprehend just how quickly Eda and Luz accept her, as if forgiveness was a foregone conclusion. In fact I don't think the word "forgive" was even mentioned.

Pretty much the same thing could be said for Amity, or Hunter, or the Collector. (There are a lot of redeemed villains in this show and I absolutely love it; redemptions are definitely my favourite trope in media.) The moment a villain confronts their villainy and chooses to change their behaviour, the protagonists welcome them with open arms. Often the protagonists begin reaching out to them even before they start to show signs of remorse, like with Luz and Amity in Lost in Language, or Luz and Hunter in Hunting Palismen and Hollow Mind, or Amity and Hunter in Eclipse Lake, or Amity and Luz in Reaching Out. As I said before, forgiveness is a foregone conclusion; the only thing preventing it is the villain's genuine decision to stop being a villain (which is neatly illustrated by the season 3 finale; Luz tells the Collector that he "did good" when he tries to extend forgiveness to an unrepentant Belos, and when Belos later feigns innocence Luz and the others see right through him. Belos' repentance wasn't genuine, and so couldn't be met with forgiveness).

A kind of inversion of this principle can be seen in Luz' character arc in season 2b and season 3. Luz blames herself for Belos' meeting the Collector, leading to Belos learning the draining spell and later the Collector's awesome and uncontrolled power being unleashed on the Boiling Isles while Luz and her friends are trapped in the human realm. From Luz' point of view, she is directly responsible for the rise of a despot and the probable deaths of almost everyone she loves. And she hates herself for it. In Thanks to Them she has an outburst where she basically wishes she'd never been born. One of the most heartbreaking moments in the entire show, for me, was when Luz asked her mother "why aren't you mad at me?". She clearly expects the people around her to reject her, to hate her, to treat her with the performative expectations that she explicitly doesn't expect from the antagonists in the show, even the ones who have acted far worse than she has (see Lilith, above), and she can't understand why they don't. Luz thinks she doesn't deserve forgiveness, when she has freely offered forgiveness to everyone she's ever met regardless of whether they deserved it. And once again The Owl House displays the theme of redemption by all the people around her working to reach out to her, to give her a redemption that Luz doesn't think she's earned. Once again, redemption is given, not worked for.

Look, I make no secret of the fact that I'm a Christian on this blog. And I understand that the overlap between "people who are Christians" and "people who watch The Owl House" is probably very small. But I just can't help but see something so profoundly beautiful in this show, so profoundly Christian, because this repeated motif of freely offered redemption to anyone who wants it is a perfect illustration of one of Christianity's core tenets. Redemption is not earned - it is given. The offer of total forgiveness and reconciliation is already extended, even to the worst offenders, even before the offender acknowledges their offense. There's nothing I can do to earn it; no self-flagellation needed to prove that I'm in earnest, no great deed I have to do to convince God that I'm worthy of forgiveness. The forgiveness is already there, waiting.

Kinda makes you think, doesn't it? The Owl House is a show about witchcraft, with very prominent and positively depicted LGBT+ relationships, and with a primary antagonist who is heavily implied to be a conservative Christian. It would be hard to have a piece of media that more explicitly rejects the normal cultural values of North American conservative Christianity. And yet this show displays a better understanding and celebration of Christian redemptive ethics than a significant proportion of actual Christians. I'm sure a lot of people would clutch their pearls and call it anti-Christian propaganda, but at its heart the Owl House is built on the fundamental Christian value of radical love.

I dunno. I just really like the Owl House.

[owl-falls-au-gravity-falls]

During the time that Belos was fighting Raine and the main cast was telling their stories to The Collector, which places do they go and what are reactions from the Gravity Falls gang.

During the time that Belos was fighting Raine and the main cast was telling their stories to The Collector, which places do they go and what are reactions from the Gravity Falls gang? | Durante el tiempo en que Belos luchaba contra Raine y el elenco principal le contaba sus historias sobre The Collector, a qué lugares van y cuáles son las reacciones de la pandilla de Gravity Falls?

IN ENGLISH

I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, school is driving me crazy.

Stan would have the idea of ​​taking everyone to the most important places for the Owl Squad (whose members consist of Stan, Luz, Eda and King), Ford, Mabel and Dipper are surprised by the idea, they would undoubtedly be amazed by everything that the islands can offer them.

The Owl House: The first place they go to is the house where Stan and Eda lived most of their lives, using a shooting star that flies through all the islands, the group reaches the Owl House and finally lands in front of it. The Collector makes the star disappear

The Collector: So it all started at the Bird House.

Eda: The Owl House. Speaking of which, what happened to it?

Eda flies over and looks at the current state of the Owl House, Stan looks in shock, seeing such an important place in such a state.

King: You guys, uh, haven't been here in a while.

Mabel: I like the way she looks, she's so pretty!

Ford: Is this where you lived all these years, Stanley?

Stan: I swear it looked better before...

Luz looks at a picture of her in the Owl House. In the picture, she's sticking her tongue out and smiling. Eda is standing by the door, arms crossed and smiling, King is sitting on top of a smiling Hooty, waving at the camera, and Stan was shown in the background, he was going through journal 2 writing something.

Luz: Stan, would you like to tell the story?

Stan: Are you sure?

Luz: Yeah… I think Collector needs to hear your side of the story…

Stan looks at Collector, hesitating to tell his side of the story, but after looking at Ford, Dipper, and Mabel, he decides to start

Stan: Well… for me… it all started in the Human Realm… Things weren't so great… I accidentally ended up on the islands… Eda found me and gave me a place to stay… thanks to her, I was able to discover things I never imagined I could do… I found my way here and met Luz, Hooty, and-

As Stan says the last sentence, Eda flies back to the ground and places her hand on Luz and Stan's back

King: - jumps into Luz's arms - And the Demon King!

Luz: Neither of us felt like we fit in. So we decided not to fit in together. The Collector: - crosses his arms, scoffs - It was that easy, huh?

Luz: Not really…

Stan smiles as he takes out a photo and shows the Collector a picture of Luz and Stan running away from those who tricked them in "Witches vs. Wizards"

Luz: We had a lot to learn. But after a while, we met more people who helped us.

As she says this, she flips through more pictures, including Luz trying to be a Hexside student in "The First Day", Stan, Willow, and Gus supporting Luz in "Agony of a Witch", and Luz playing Grudgby with Amity and Willow against Boscha and her team while Stan was the coach in "Wing It Like Witches". A picture of Grom can be seen behind, with Stan sporting a black suit and wearing a Fez hat with his zodiac symbol.

Dipper: wow, stop, go back to the previous picture! - takes the picture - Grunkle Stan, it's you!

The Collector: Wow! That game looks fun - he said pointing at the picture of Stan playing Grudgby

Mabel: Grunkle Stan, is that really you?! Stan: I'm actually the coach of the current Grudgby team - he said proudly

Mabel: That sounds amazing!

The Collector: I wanna go there!

Grudgby Field was one of Stan's favorite places, as soon as he heard that the kids were having trouble with a Bully, he decided to teach the kids how to defend themselves. Thanks to the 10 years away from home, plus the 30 years running away and protecting Eda, as well as learning how to use his cane, Stan taught them how to play and over time became the unofficial coach of the Emerald Entrails, there he was able to get to know Willow, Hunter, and Gus better, and form bonds with the student athletes.

Mabel was so excited she wanted to scream, she had seen the kids practicing before, during her stay in Gravity Falls, and she was excited to join them in the future, which Stan immediately supported.

Afterwards they went to the Bonesborough library, where Stan learned all about magic and taught Luz the basics of magic, they spent so many hours there that Stan would have been called a nerd too, but the truth was that it was nice to share his knowledge with Luz.

Needless to say, Dipper and Ford were amazed by so much knowledge available, Mabel would be amazed because there are interesting romance books, besides "the good witch Azura", there was much more to offer.

Another important place for Stan was near the ocean, where he had memories of Ford and told Luz and King about his adventures in the thirty years he spent alone with his El Diablo and a duffel bag, over time, the rest of the Hex Squad had also joined in on his life lessons and what Stan's life was like 40 years ago.

Of course, Eda brought up the anecdote of how Stan overcame his fear of heights by having to save her from falling into the boiling waters, which Ford already knew thanks to their conversation at the lake in Gravity Falls.

Last but not least, the place where Stan fell was on his knee, where he spent his first nights freezing before Eda found him, as well as the place where he learned his ice spell and learned about glyph magic.

There, finally, Ford and Stan talk and make peace, finally Ford's palisman activates, which turns out to be a twin of Dominique, Stan's palisman, both hug each other while Ford admits that his greatest wish was to feel ready to forgive himself for all the harm he had caused.

Finally, Collector had understood a little more about how relationships, whether friendly, romantic or fraternal, were complicated, and that sometimes there could be more beneath the surface

unfortunately, Belos would not let them have a quiet moment…

EN ESPAÑOL

Lamento haberme tardado tanto en responder, la escuela me tiene como loca

Stan tendría la idea de llevar a todos a los lugares más importantes para el Escuadrón Búho (cuyos integrantes constan de Stan, Luz, Eda y King), Ford, Mabel y Dipper quedan sorprendidos por la idea, sin duda quedarían maravillados por todo lo que las islas pueden ofrecerles.

La Casa Búho: El primer lugar al que van es la casa donde Stan y Eda vivieron la mayor parte de sus vidas, usando una estrella fugaz que vuela por todas las islas, el grupo llega a la Casa Búho y finalmente aterriza frente a ella. El Coleccionista hace desaparecer la estrella

El Coleccionista: Así que todo comenzó aquí, en la Casa Pájaro.

Eda: La Casa Búho. Hablando de eso, ¿qué le pasó?

Eda vuela y observa el estado actual de la Casa del Búho, Stan se ve en estado de shock, al ver un lugar tan importante en ese estado.

King: ustedes, uh, no han estado aquí en un tiempo.

Mabel: me gusta como se ve, ¡es tan bonita!

Ford: ¿aquí viviste todos estos años, Stanley?

Stan: te juro que se veía mejor antes...

Luz mira una foto de ella en la Casa Búho. En la foto, ella saca la lengua y sonríe. Eda está de pie junto a la puerta, con los brazos cruzados y sonriendo, King está sentado encima de un sonriente Hooty, saludando a la cámara y Stan se mostraba en el fondo, estaba revisando el diario 2 escribiendo algo.

Luz: Stan, ¿te gustaría contar la historia?

Stan: ¿estás segura?

Luz: sí… creo que Coleccionista necesita escuchar tu versión de la historia…

Stan mira a Coleccionista, dudando de si contar su versión de la historia, pero después de mirar a Ford, Dipper y Mabel, decide comenzar

Stan: pues… para mí… todo comenzó en el Reino Humano… Las cosas no estaban tan bien… por accidente terminé en las islas… Eda me encontró y me dio un lugar donde quedarme… gracias a ella, pude descubrir cosas que nunca imagine que podría hacer… encontré mi camino aquí y conocí a Luz, a Hooty y-

Mientras Stan dice la última oración, Eda vuela de regreso al suelo y coloca su mano en la espalda de Luz y Stan

King: - salta a los brazos de Luz - ¡Y al Rey de los Demonios!

Luz: Ninguno de nosotros sentía que encajábamos. Así que decidimos no encajar juntos. El Coleccionista: - se cruza de brazos, se burla - Fue así de fácil, ¿eh?

Luz: No realmente…

Stan sonríe mientras saca una foto y le muestra al Coleccionista una foto de Luz y Stan huyendo de aquellos que los engañaron en "Brujas ante magos"

Luz: teniamos mucho que aprender. Pero después de un tiempo, conocimos a más personas que nos ayudaron.

Mientras dice esto, pasa las páginas de más imágenes, que incluyen a Luz intentando ser una estudiante de Hexside en "El primer día", Stan, Willow y Gus apoyando a Luz en "Agonía de una bruja", y Luz jugando a Grudgby con Amity y Willow contra Boscha y su equipo mientras Stan era el entrenador en "Wing It Like Witches". Se puede ver una foto de Grom detrás, en la que Stan luce un traje de color negro y usa un gorro de Fez con su simbolo zodiacal.

Dipper: ¡espera, detente, vuelve a la imagen anterior! - toma la foto - ¡Tío Stan, eres tú!

El Coleccionista: ¡Vaya! Ese juego parece divertido - dijo señalando la foto de Stan jugando a Grudgby

Mabel: ¡Tío Stan, eres tú de verdad?! Stan: De hecho, soy el entrenador del equipo actual de Grudgby - dijo con orgullo

Mabel: ¡Eso suena increíble!

El Coleccionista: ¡Quiero ir allí!

El campo de Grudgby era de los lugares favoritos de Stan, ya que en cuanto escucho que los niños tenían problemas con un Bully, decidió enseñarle a los niños a defenderse, gracias a los 10 años lejos de casa, más los 30 años huyendo y protegiendo a Eda, así como aprendiendo a usar su bastón, Stan les enseño a jugar y con el tiempo se volvió el entrenador no oficial de las Emerald Entrails, ahí pudo conocer mejor a Willow, Hunter y Gus, y formar vínculos con los estudiantes deportistas.

Mabel estaba tan emocionada que quería gritar, ya había visto a los chicos practicando antes, durante su estancia en gravity falls, y estaba emocionada de unirse a ellos en un futuro, cosa que Stan apoyo de inmediato.

Después fueron a la biblioteca de Bonesborough, donde Stan aprendió todo sobre la magia y le enseño a Luz los conceptos básicos de la magia, pasaron tantas horas ahí que Stan hubiera sido llamado un nerd también, pero la verdad era que era lindo compartir sus conocimientos con Luz.

No hace falta decir que Dipper y Ford quedaron maravillados con tanto conocimiento disponible, Mabel estaría asombrada porque hay libros interesantes de romance, además de "la buena bruja Azura", había mucho más para ofrecer.

Otro lugar importante para Stan estaba cerca del océano, donde tenía recuerdos de Ford y le contaba a Luz y a King sus aventuras en los treinta años que paso solo con su El Diablo y una bolsa de lona, con el tiempo, el resto del Hex Squad también se había unido a sus lecciones de vida y de como era la vida de Stan hace 40 años.

Por supuesto, Eda aporto con la anécdota de como Stan supero su miedo a las alturas por tener que salvarla de caer en las aguas hirvientes, cosa que Ford ya sabia gracias a la conversación en el lago de Gravity Falls.

Por último, pero no menos importante, el lugar donde Stan cayó fue en la rodilla, donde paso sus primeras noches congelándose antes de que Eda lo encontrara, así como el lugar donde aprendió su hechizo de hielo y aprendió sobre la magia de glifos.

Ahí, finalmente, Ford y Stan hablan y hacen las pases, finalmente el palisman de Ford se activa, que resulta ser un gemelo de Dominique, el palisman de Stan, ambos se abrazan mientras Ford admite que su mayor deseo era sentirse listo para perdonarse a sí mismo por todo el daño que había causado.

Finalmente, Coleccionista había entendido un poco más sobre que las relaciones, amistosas, románticas o fraternales, eran complicadas, y que a veces puede haber más bajo la superficie

lastimosamente, Belos no los dejaría tener un momento tranquilo…

[strangerpringle]

Ok so I have this au that’s basically just The Owl House but Huntric is a side plot- (it’s gonna be a long one)

So in this au Hunter WAS Edric’s date, but they broke up behind the scenes after Knock Knock Knoking on Hooty’s Door, and we get a hint that they hand a thing in Reaching Out when Edric is stirring the potion, he’s looking at his phone and King asks what he’s looking at, he gets all embarrassed and puts it away, but not before we cut to a picture of him and Hunter being all happy n stuff. Then we find out in Labyrinth Runners that they used to date, but according to Edric Hunter was too focused on his Golden Guard duties to put effort into the relationship and Edric dumped him, and they’re both kinda salty and sad about it then blah blah blah plot happens. Now during Thanks to Them Hunters realizing he thinks he still has feelings for Edric, but Belos is being Belos and doesn’t wanna leave this poor kid alone so that starts to occupy Hunters mind (literally) so we don’t get much Huntric until For the Future. SO NOW during For the Future the hexsquad is back at Hexside, but now Edric and Emira are working with Matt and Jerbo, (also Jerbo and Emira are dating because I think they’d be cute together) Emira is taking care of the younger kids while Edric is trying to make weapons with potions, and Hunter takes notice of this. So Edric is VERY relieved that Hunter is alive because he knew that Hunter has a sigil. Now they’re actually talking and they both start realizing how much they’ve both changed, now Emira knows Edric still has feelings for Hunter, so she sends them to get more food from the supply closet, now they’re alone and can finally talk. While they’re talking Hunter says he’s confused why he ever went out with him in the first place, Edric tells him that he could tell that he was hiding his true self from the world, Edric would love the moments when Hunter would accidentally start to ramble about things he likes, but be heartbroken when he would catch it and stop himself, and move on to do whatever work he had that day. Edric wanted nothing more then for Hunter to let him see the real Hunter, but he never did, it hurt too much so he had to leave him. I’m that moment all Hunter wants to do now is tell Edric all about what he’s learned about himself in the human realm-AND OOP they almost kiss because feelings, but Edric stops them and is all like “haha uhh we should get all this good back to the others.” But while Edric’s on his way out the door, Hunter gets taken back to the moment when Edric broke up with him and his only thought is “I cant lose him again” AND MUAAHH HE KISSES EDRIC THEN EDRIC KISSES HIM BACK AND ITS CUTE IM GONNA CRYYY AAAHHHHHHH-anyway, so cut to the end of the episode where Luz now has her palisman, Edric comes up to Hunter and asks “So, you wanna give this another shot? :)” and Hunter says “When this whole mess is over, I’ll take you on a proper date, the human realm is really nice actually, I think you’d like it!” Edric replies “…I’d like that a lot <3” “Cool *they hold hands* can’t wait❤️” AND WE SEE THEM HAPPY AND IN LOVE IN THE EPILOGUE THE END YAY :D💞💞💞

[waywardsunlight]

The idea that Hunter was made from a rib is so tragic to me because it’s the biblical implication of being created to serve somebody else and Belos positioning himself as a god. I’ve seen people relate Philip and Caleb to Cain and Abel but here’s the thing also: Belos is obsessed with his own childhood and being innocent and pure, and Hunter is an echo of that. The whole point of Hunter for him is to control his brother, finally win and get them back together again. Belos controls his knowledge and who he’s allowed to be around to try to maintain his grip on Hunter. Hunter symbolically bites the apple and gains knowledge with the help of Luz reaching out, who LITERALLY has a snake motif and he realizes that Belos and by default the religion he was raised to believe in was all a lie so that Belos could kill everyone Hunter loved and get revenge on some poor dude who was murdered over 300 years ago. While in the Bible, getting knowledge in this scene is a bad thing, here’s it’s a good thing because Hunter needed to know the truth. And he was never really innocent, he was just holding up to Belos’s standards, and now he’s free to do silly things like sewing which is also interesting because in Genesis the first thing Adam and Eve realize when they bite the apple is that they’re naked, and Hunter loves fixing clothes which... hmmm.

This is kind of a reach but Luz with her snake motif and also influencing people in a good way to turn again the hierarchical powers of the Boiling Isles just by being a little guy is interesting. The second episode of the Owl House features Eda explaining free will and saying that if you wait around to be chosen or to be a hero you’ll be waiting your whole life and you need to make the choice to step up, and Belos’ insistence on his ideology that there isn’t free will and that everything is pre-destined is just baller okay. Eda fulfilling the traditional role of the evil witch in the woods whose actually very compassionate and loving, King the ruler of demons being a little guy. It’s very interesting.

[fandomsandflyingstingrays]

Two years of Thanks to Them! Have some Luz and Hunter bonding to celebrate.

The knock at the door sent Luz shooting bolt upright, and the others reacted just as quickly. Vee leapt from the top bunk, morphing back into her human disguise, Willow summoned a vine covered in thorns, and Amity drew an abomination as tall as she was up from the floor. 

“It’s just us,” Gus whispered, cracking open the door. 

Amity quickly dispelled her abomination as Willow’s vine retracted and Vee returned to her true form. “Sorry.”

“Don’t be,” Hunter said, following Gus into the room. “It’s been one of those days.”

If that wasn’t an understatement, Luz didn’t know what was. It was impossible to believe that only that morning, she’d awoken among the other CATTs, Eda and King safe and sound beside her, the Isles in one piece. But the rest of the day was all too real. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw Belos’s dripping face. Every time the air went silent, she could hear the Collector’s laughter.

“Can we sleep up here tonight?” Gus asked. Quickly, he added, “not that it’s not comfortable downstairs, your mom did great, but—"

“We’re stronger together.” Luz gave him a smile, hoping it didn’t look as tired as it felt. “Come on in.”

Willow and Amity scooted apart, and Gus slid his sleeping bag between them. Hunter took one look at the empty space beside Willow and turned a shade of red that Luz could make out even in the dark, scuttling over to set his bag between Amity and the bunk bed.

There was too much to say, so they didn’t speak at all, and one by one, the breaths in the room evened out. All except Luz’s, whose hitched every time she tried to close her eyes.

“Luz?”

And Hunter’s, apparently. She sat up in bed and turned to look at him. 

“I thought you were awake,” he said, his voice barely audible. “I can’t sleep either.”

Luz scooted over and lifted her blanket, inclining her head in invitation. Hunter stood and carefully came to sit beside her under the covers.

They were silent for a long moment. Then—

“I’m scared.”

“Of what?”

The words sounded crueler than Luz intended them, and she tried to soften her tone. “Sorry. That came out wrong.”

Hunter shrugged. “I understand where you’re coming from. I don’t have anyone back on the Isles to worry about. Except maybe Darius and Eber and Raine, but I haven’t even really known them for more than a few weeks. But that’s kind of the problem. My whole life, I’ve known who I was, what I was for. Now I have no idea. The only person who could tell me is gone. I just… I don’t know what I’m doing.”

The only person who could tell me is gone. The context couldn’t have been more different, but the words registered. Luz took a few deep breaths, testing their steadiness before she spoke.

“My dad died when I was ten.”

Hunter’s eyes went wide. “Oh… Luz. I’m so sorry.”

She could only nod. She never knew what to say to condolences. It’s okay? It wasn’t. Thank you? For what?

Forging ahead as quickly as she could, she continued, “he wasn’t like Belos. He got mad sometimes, sure, but the last thing he ever wanted to do was hurt me. For my whole life, all the way up until the end of his, he was half my world. So when he was gone… I didn’t know who I was without him. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do.”

Hunter nodded, his eyes on his lap. 

“I think… I mean, of course you’re scared. This is terrifying. But I think it’s all right if some of that fear is grief, too. If you need to mourn the space Belos left behind, and feel lost now that he’s gone. He was awful, but he was all you knew. That’s a loss.”

He nodded again. Then, in a hoarse voice, he asked, “how did you get through it?”

“I… I don’t think I did, exactly. I still feel a little lost, all the time. But what really helped was having my mom with me— knowing she would be there to watch me grow, to take care of me.”

Another nod. This one was distinctly sad and, on an impulse, Luz reached out and took Hunter’s hand.

“You have that too, Hunter. I’ll be with you, through whatever comes next. You can count on that.”

He must have known that, deep down, or he never would have confided in the first place. He was scared, and he needed to tell someone, and he’d turned to her because she’d seen him at his very worst, and was still here.

And, she realized, the same could be said for him. He knew she was the reason for all of this pain— his pain included— and he had still taken her hand.

“Thank you, Luz,” he said, finally meeting her eyes. “I mean that. As scary as this is… it’s better than the alternative. I know that for sure.”

She smiled, nudging her head against his. “That’s good to hear.”

“Thanks.” He cleared his throat as though finally realizing how much of his soul he’d bared, summoning a thick cloud of awkwardness on them both. “And, uh. If you ever want to talk about anything, I’m, you know. Around.”

Out of nowhere, Luz wondered if this was what it was like to have a brother. Someone who was linked so thoroughly to you that they’d care about you without condition, but had no idea how to say it. For the first time all day, a real smile spread across her face.

“Thanks, Hunter. I know you are.”

[divinemiracles]

i just want Amity and Willow and Gus to get fed up with Luz for once.

Luz, Amity’s GIRLFRIEND, didn’t tell her about how she accidentally helped Belos and… Amity just forgives her on the spot???

Despite the fact that she had months to tell her..?

A rant about Luz’s dishonesty to everyone, specially Amity, below.

Same here. Throughout the show, Luz kept secrets and hid away from her friends even though they tried to help her. I never got why they could put up with her. Luz has a habit of getting so easily forgiven every time she does something wrong with barely any consequences. Her girlfriend has continuously assured her that she will still care about and love her unconditionally because she wants to be helpful but Luz doesn’t accept it. Luz has lied to Amity over and over, time after time, yet still gets forgiven in the end.

When Luz was on edge with the events of Yesterday’s Lie, she refused to tell her friends, especially Amity, about it and tried to lie her way out of it until Amity called her out. Amity assured her that she just wanted to help and be someone Luz could talk to and not hide from, someone she could be honest with.

Amity wanted Luz to be honest with her, yet she lied again in Reaching Out. She was acting rash and uneasy due to it being the anniversary of her dad’s death, which is completely valid, but she still thought it would be a good idea to lie about setting off an alarm to alert Amity’s abusive parents to her location? Yes, she didn’t want to ruin her girlfriend’s special day which is why she lied, but she didn’t have to lie about something as big as that. She didn’t know at the time that Alador wanted to be a better father, she just thought he was the same as Odalia.

When Luz helped Phillip, she had an overwhelming feeling that everything took place because of her. Months passed by (likely 2-3) and she was still scared of telling her friends about it, specifically Amity. Hunter knew about it and he assured her that they would be fine with it since it wasn’t her fault due to it being unintentional, but she still hid it from everyone. When Luz was revealed for helping Phillip, she tried to change the subject to Hunter being a grimwalker. Great friendship, out your friend who had an even bigger secret than you to everyone. Luz lied to Amity again with that major secret but Amity still managed to tolerate her and kindly tell her to quit lying.

Even after Luz PROMISED to never lie to Amity again, she still lied again. She still decided that she would leave the Isles since she thought everything was her fault even though she was assured otherwise. She still wanted to leave the Isles and Amity. Everyone assured Luz it was okay but she didn’t listen.

With her other friends, they should’ve gotten fed up with Luz’s lying as well. She had plenty of time to tell everyone about helping Phillip but she didn’t do it until the very last moment. Luz left Camila for the demon realm during the summer (not thinking about if she would possibly get trapped there) and was so lucky that her mother didn’t yell at her for it and forgave her. Luz was supposed to keep Hunter’s secret as a grimwalker and said he should tell them when he was ready, yet blurted out his secret in TTT to try to divert attention from herself. She didn’t get into an argument with Hunter for outing him when he wasn’t ready, her widowed and stressed mom for leaving and making her have self-doubt in her parental abilities, her girlfriend for continuously lying, and her friends for being dishonest about a big issue. Her loved ones just instantly forgave her and put up with her. Amity and Camila were already insecure about being a part of Luz’s life yet she still lied to them about major issues.

TLDR

Luz Noceda had continuously lied to her friends, specifically her girlfriend, throughout the show and easily got forgiven for it. She barely suffered consequences for her actions and everyone put up with her. Her friends assured her various times that they care about her but she still was dishonest and even OUTED someone who had a bigger secret than her. Luz’s friends should have gotten tired of her constant lying but they never did.

[insanelyadd]

I’ve a feeling that Collector’s resentment of their siblings due to their imprisonment for hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of years would not probably never go away. We’d like to think that amount of time wouldn’t be anything to a being as old as the universe, a mere drop in the ocean, but… it could very well be the opposite.

Quoting Dream of the Endless, from Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman”:

“Can you have any idea what it was like? Can you have any idea? Confined in a glass box for three score years and ten. A human lifetime. Time moves no faster for my kind than it does for humanity, and in prison it crawled at a snail's pace.”

And Dream was only trapped for a few decades.

On another topic, I can see Collector seeing Luz as a much healthier big sister figure (he probably already sees King as a big brother). Reached out to them despite everything they did, and even sacrificed herself to protect them. Odds are, at least one of their siblings are going to become very spiteful of that, especially since Collector might potentially disown them for leaving them behind. Might even try to find the first excuse to end her…

“Oh, this mortal was given the Titan’s power! Abd there’s tiny residual energy from it in her body! We’d best kill her, or she’ll become half-Titan again and try to kill us! Whoopsy, them’s the breaks! Sorry, Collie!”

Oh, I don't think they were imprisoned for that long. I have some evidence to support this, so I hope you don't mind me rambling about my timeline a bit in this answer.

I think the Collector was imprisoned for 2-5 thousand years and no more than that. Bat queen very obviously was the Titan's palisman and very much was the one who built King’s island and she said it's only been thousands of years, not tens of or hundreds of thousands. King was also incubating this entire time. Also, Bill. Bill claims to have been alive to see Papa Titan die, which means he must be as old as they have been dead plus a decade or so. Since he never personally slayed any Titans, I hc he was a child during this time, and I also HC that he managed to be long lived because. Well, it's quite morbid and horrifying, but hunters do normally eat the meat of the creatures they kill. And that's how I think he could have lived for thousands of years.

Also yeah he absolutely should feel resentful towards them, since they completely fucked up everything. Personally, I feel a bit merciful about his time imprisoned, and I usually imagine that until a tablet is activated, they are completely in stasis, a dreamless sleep. If the activated tablet is destroyed and no other tablet is active, then they go back into stasis. I HC it this way because the tablet feels like a Titan made Collection spell, and Collection spells keep the Collected in stasis. Still, there was a significant amount of non-stasis time with just Belos, which is perhaps 5x longer than what Dream went through in Sandman, with my current favored estimate being 350.

You're so right, I'm sure the Collector feels like King and Luz are like siblings to him. But he might also want to not associate them that way because of past experiences.

I think, though, that the Collector is prone to being easy to forgive, and if the circumstances are right, he might forgive his siblings. Depending on your characterization of the four of them, one to all might qualify for life shattering betrayal forgiveness (infomercial voice). Like with my own interpretation of the Archivists, Satellite and Solari were both young teens when everything happened, they had no say in what happened, they argued against what the elder two chose, and they would give up everything to keep their brother safe. Especially since their plan for if their brother returns is to take him and run away from Crescent and Penumbra. I think the Collector might forgive them.

I mean, he forgave belos who lied to and manipulated him for hundreds of years, who attempted to kill him basically, who did it all again just a few hours before he tried forgiving him. It's a reoccurring character flaw, but I think if any of the Archivists would turn against the others for the Collector and/or didn't participate in what happened to the Titans, then there might be a bit worth forgiving? Since at least then, he'd have people to live with who can raise him without worry they would die before he physically ages even a single year (that's a lot of pain for a small child).

They're far too young to be living on their own. It's not good for childhood development to be without a caretaker.

But if your version of the Archivists aren't worth forgiving then. Well. Obviously, he's justified for being as resentful as he wants to be and never forgiving them. This is still the case even if some turn out to not be completely vile bastards, but the Collector’s endless forgiveness and trust just doesn't show up at all wrt to his terrible siblings. Because they still were horrible to them.

My interpretation is just one where there may be room to forgive two of the four, mostly for practical reasons like the protagonists of the series being far better off fighting only two adult Collectors especially if they have the help of another two (though they might, justifiably, not be warmly welcomed to stay or drop by whenever they want). And also, genuinely by complete coincidence, their backstories and actions all sort of put them in a gradient of culpability for their terrible atrocities, and the twins just both happen to be on the low end, with Satellite being the absolute least evil.

[roodles03]

Huntlow sexuality and relationship headcannons:

Ever since the confirmation of Willow and Hunter's sexualites, I've been thinking a lot about their past experiences with love and crushes before. As well as how that affects their relationship currently. So let's waste no time. (This is gonna be a LONG post so be prepared.)

Willow:

Willow has had tons of crushes growing up, on boys, girls, and enby folk alike, but everytime they never went well. Whether she had the guts to ask them out or not, It was either someone way out of her reach, or someone who didn't like her back. (Or straight up didn't like her at all.) And worst of all, whenever Boscha and her gang found out about any sort of crush Willow had, they would tell the whole school and pick on her to death about it. This led to Willow eventually thinking that no one would ever see her that way. That no one would ever want to be her girlfriend. That she never had a chance with anyone she'd ever like. Whenever she developed a new crush, she wouldn't tell anyone. Not even Gus, and would bury and repress those feelings until they were gone.

However, everything would change when she met Hunter. Hunter was the first person to ever like her romantically, and even though he wouldn't confess for months, he showed clear signs with his body language that he, in fact, had feelings for her. However, Willow had dug herself in a hole so deep at this point that she never even noticed. Well, she did, but she had beat herself down so much that she just assumed Hunter was shy, or he was always nervous and flustered like that. After all, he had never interacted with peers his age until they met. He probably was always like this.

Willow had developed feelings for Hunter in the human realm, but the idea of having another crush was incredibly scary for her. Not to mention, the fact that it was on someone she was actually super close to made it downright mortifying. She knew her luck with crushes, and she bullied herself into a mindsight where she truly beileved Hunter would never in a million years like her back that way. The thought of him actually liking her was impossible in her eyes, so, she did what she did best whenever she had a crush. Repress her feelings until they went away.

However, this time they weren't going away. In fact, they were only growing stronger, and it terrified Willow. She didn't know how much longer she could hold these feelings in for, but then, during her meltdown in the detention pit, where Hunter saved her life from nearly suffocating herself, and told her just how much she meant to him, and that it was okay to let oneself feel things, she no longer began repressing her feelings for him. Which is why Willow didn't start blushing at him until then. She finally let herself feel romantic feelings again, and she immediately began showing Hunter how much he meant to her too. It wasn't long after that when Willow realized Hunter was showing obvious signs he liked her, not only that, but she realized that he only showed those signs around her and no one else, thirdly, he had been showing signs for months now that she was looking back.

Willow couldn't beileve it, someone liked her. Someone actually liked "half-a-witch Willow". The one thing she had to do now was confess her feelings for him, but somehow, doing that was just as terrifying as before. She holds off on it, but holds off for too long. Hunter starts attending Hexside, and her fears of being bullied for her crush return, and she has no idea what to do.

Hunter:

Despite queerphobia not existing in the demon realm, Hunter experienced it in an indirect way. Belos definitely was queerphobic, (I mean, come on, this is the man that killed his own brother for falling in love). and he definitely didn't want Hunter to learn about the LGBTIA community considering just how isolated he was. If Hunter fell in love with anyone that could spell a huge problem for his usefulness towards him.

So Hunter had absolutely no idea that queer people existed. However, he definitely experienced queerness in himself. In the little free time Hunter had, he read fictional books or watched movies and TV shows approved by Belos. Hunter didn't really know or understand it, but he would develop crushes on his favorite fictional characters, of both boys and girls. Sometimes even drawing self-insert fanart or writing self-insert fanfiction in his free time. Belos had literally never told him anything about queer people in hopes he'd never discovered it. This backfired as when Hunter first saw it when he found out Amity and Luz were dating, he didn't question it at all. He thought it was completely normal.

Hunter, at the time, definitely knew what romance was and that romantic feelings existed, but he had no idea how that felt. Hunter just assumed his feelings for those fictional characters were something everyone felt. However, this all changed when he met Willow. This was the first crush he had on a real person, and it was the first time he really noticed that he felt different towards her then anyone else he had ever met. It's the first time he notices this feeling. However, he had absolutely no idea what he was feeling. In fact, he thinks something is wrong with him. Like he's been cursed or has come down with some strange illness. This confusion continues when they get to the human realm, where Hunter's feelings only grow more. He learns more about queerness for Amity and Luz, picking up that what he's feeling is actually romantic love. This is when he looks back at those fictional characters he used to grow attached to, and then he realizes he's bisexual.

However, even after realizing all this, he's too scared to tell Willow how he feels. He thinks that she wouldn't see anything in him. That he doesn't have chance with such a powerful witch like Willow. It doesn't help that at this point, he's still hiding the fact he's a grimwalker, terrified at the fact that if she finds out she'll hate him. So he keeps his feelings inside and doesn't tell anybody, afraid he'll mess everything up. And even if that wasn't a factor, he had no idea how to express how to felt for her.

When Willow has her meltdown in the detention pit, Hunter is heartbroken to hear Willow say those things to herself. They're almost all things he has told himself before, and he can't stand to see her go through what he has gone through. He saves her, and tells her just how much she means to him, finally finding the words to say how he feels. This, of course, touches Willow immensely. And soon, Willow tells him how much he means to her, too, and that's when Hunter realizes he might have a slight chance with Willow now.

[zibiscusloon]

🐍 Sam Lindwyrm 🐍

Owl House OC

( Left to right: s1-early s2, s3 (human realm), epilogue )

Samara “Sam” Lindwyrm is a young witch attending Hexside with possibly the longest standing truancy record in all Hexside history. She’s almost been expelled on multiple occasions as a result of this.

She’s very temperamental and has a naturally sour attitude. Only thing she never counted on was a certain human bumbling into her life and cracking open her shell (while also forcing her to come to class)

— — — — —

-Sam is a witch-gorgon hybrid. Her father was a witch and her mother was half-gorgon. She can shift into a gorgon-like form (she only has two snakes in this form, their names are Salt & Pepper!), her gaze isn’t actually able to turn anyone to stone, but it can temporarily stun her target!

-She was initially enrolled into the Oracle track due to coming from a long family or oracles, but switched to the beast keeping track half way through her enrollment at Hexside. (She much preferred beasts to fortunes)

-She was raised by her grandmother Natalie, as her parents had been arrested and petrified. Her mother Ophia was a wild witch who kept her wild status hidden by tattooing an fake oracle sigil on her arm. She was caught using healing magic by one of her neighbors when healing a young Sam. She was later arrested, her husband Ernest being taken in for housing a wild witch. Sam was four at the time. She despises Belos as a result of this..

-She’s rather rude and spiteful towards her classmates, she mainly does this to cope with her fears of letting others get to close to her, out of fear she’ll have to deal with the pain of losing someone again. However, after being taken in as a member of the Hexsquad, her softer, protective side begins to shine through.

-Met Luz after Bump had sent Luz out to find Sam, as she was of course skipping, (he’d planned to finally hand in her expulsion forms, he just needed her in person). They met in Sam’s typical hiding spot, and through a series of definitely illegal shenanigans involving some poor Coven Scouts, they became friends. After they returned to school, Luz convinced Bump to allow Sam to remain a student. Bump eventually conceded, provided Luz make sure Sam actually shows up to class. (And Sam ended up becoming yet another member of the Hexsquad-)

-Her palisman is a capybara named Kibitzer. He’s as the entire Hexsquad would put it “a lil bastard”, and is also the light of Sam’s life. He’s rather deadpan constantly and is very protective of Sam.

-Met Hunter when her and Luz were doing illegal shit (of course on Eda’s order-), and their relationship started essentially as petty banter. But through a time of Hunter getting dragged around after her, and they actually began to talk, both began to realize that their lives are relatively shitty thanks to the Emperor’s Coven. They both also open up about feeling smothered at their respective homes. And while getting Hunter (with the help of Flapjack and Kibitzer) to open up about his suppressed interests (and gushing about her own), Sam began to realize how much she loved his dorky personality, and set out to try and reach out more to him afterwards.

-The two of them grew even closer during their time in the Human Realm, exploring human customs together, Sam beginning to dabble into researching the realm’s animals and trying out wild witch practices from the Savage Ages, while Hunter dwelled more into who he wanted to be, supporting each other’s endeavors the whole time. The two of them started to officially date after the Owl Fam saved The Boiling Isles.

-She was enraged by Hunter’s “death” during thanks to them. She lunged at Belos’s with all she had, not even calling Kibitzer to her, simply attacking with the largest spell she could conjure. Belos of course escaped, but she did show a side to her that hadn’t been seen until that point. She was completely worn down throughout all of For the Future, having to regain her magic as so much had been drained from that spell.

-Luz, Gus, and Willow are literally only able to get her to come to class if they put any creature in front of her. A dangerous dragon, a trash slug, pixies, ratworms, anything works, the girl goes doe-eyed at creatures. Otherwise she’ll be dragged into Hexside kicking and screaming.

-She’s a cheerleader for the Emerald Entrails! She did it as a favor for Willow. And also to get back at Bump for not allowing her to be cheer for the Banshees. It’s because of her that snakes are not permitted to be used at cheer tryouts..

-Her eyeball earrings she wears from s1-s2 originally belonged to her mom. They’re rather uncomfortable and rather worn from age, but she always wore them as a memento to her mom. Her eventually deciding to stop wearing them happened after learning to let herself move on from her parents’s passing.

-She got her cardinal earrings while in the Human Realm! It’s while the squad was out shopping for new clothes and Kibitzer and Flapjack directed her towards the pair. She felt guilty for a while as she wasn’t wearing her mom’s, but through some talks with Camila, she realized she didn’t need pieces of jewelry to keep her parents memories alive. She may have also gotten the earrings as a not-so-subtle hint to Hunter about her crush (girl ain’t slick-)

-Her blue jay earrings were a gift from Hunter! I love the headcanon that gifting jewelry in the Boiling Isles is the human equivalent to proposals, so that’s what I went for with it. Masha helped him pick them out from a shop in the Human Realm as he wanted to mix the next step of their relationship from both realms (jewelry from the Human Realm, and the practice of the Demon Realm)

-She views Bump, Bat Queen, and Eberwolf as parental figures to her. And despite the strain they initially had in their relationship, post Day of Unity, her and her grandmother worked to mend their relationship, attending family therapy together.

-As an adult she works as a palisman carver with Hunter and the Clawthornes! Since she’s not great at carving, she manages Palisman Adoption Day at all Boiling Isles schools with the Bat Queen!

-She also has a mentorship under Eberwolf, in which both of them worked to help rescue and relocate beasts who had their habitat destroyed by the raising of the Left Arm during Belos’s possession of the Titan.

-Is very close to the Clawthorne family, Eda, Camila, and Raine all welcoming her in as one of their own (she’s always admired Eda as a wild witch) and Luz, Vee, King, and Collector all happy their brother has an awesome girlfriend who can make him happy (and bonus to Luz since she’s already one her best friends!)

-She’s Waffles’s self declared mom now. Hunter still has yet to earn Kibitzer’s complete approval on their relationship, but he’s getting close! (He just wishes the damn capybara would stop bopping him with those tiny paws of fury-)

And this is Kibitzer and Sam in her gorgon form! (With Salt and Pepper!) (gorgon design is outdated though- I just need a new ref-)

[childlikegoblinqueen]

Huntlow Week Day 2: Prompt Umbrella/ Under Water.

Hunter's life had begun underground. Underground in the literal sense ... because as a Grimwalker, Hunter was literally grown in the ground.

But Hunter's life had also begun "underground" metaphorically. He was the last in a long line of young men with fabricated identities who lived on borrowed time.

So when Hunter's life nearly ended underwater, he felt -- for one small sad moment that he had outpaced his design. Here he was, defying the will of his creator by sinking into the depths of a lake where he would be undone as opposed to in the ground that had given him life.

But, one year later Hunter was still very much alive.

"Still with me?" Willow whispered.

"Hmmmm." He hummed. Her voice tickled his ear and his heart sped up, and within his chest, Hunter's heart (the heart of Flapjack) fluttered reminding him that, yes indeed. Hunter was very much alive.

Outside the half window of Hunter's basement bedroom in the Noceda house, the rain had been non stop. Luz had called it a "Tropical storm" which was curious, because Hunter was sure that Connecticut was no where near the tropics.

But somehow this orphaned storm had made it's way up the coast and drenched everything around them, and if the windows outside were to be trusted, it appeared that the basement itself was not "underground" but "underwater".

Willow ran her fingers through Hunter's hair in perfect rhythm with the thick raindrops outside. His eyes fluttered closed again only to open as he felt a soft kiss drop upon his forehead. "I think I'm losing you again." Willow teased.

"Nah." Hunter snorted. "You just make me feel very --" what was that word?

Cozy? Comfortable? Warm? Relaxed?

"Safe." Hunter settled on safe. But that wasn't the only thing, was it? "You make me feel safe and also happy."

Willow giggled a bit. It wasn't the light airy giggle that Hunter had associated with his girlfriend. It held a bit of a heaviness that rivaled the raindrops outside.

"Captain?" He murmured. "Did I say something wrong?"

He opened his eyes to catch Willow's tear filled eyes from behind her round lenses.

"It's just. I did almost lose you once." Willow gave him a sad smile. "For real."

Hunter nodded. He'd almost died. No. Scratch that. Hunter had died. Camila had dragged him out from underwater where he had gone to make sure that Belos could never hurt anyone again, and Hunter's head had been laid upon Willow's lap where Flapjack had given the last of his spark of life so that Hunter could live again.

But when he had opened his eyes, he realized that there were more ways to hurt someone than Belos could even understand.

"Please, please, please, come back to me." Willow was whispering. "Please, Hunter. Don't go."

Hunter reached his hands up and gently carded his fingertips through Willow's newly cut hair. "So, so, soft." He whispered.

Willow chuckled. Placing her arms around him as she had on that evening, she pressed one hand to Hunter's heart as she peppered the sides of his face with gentle kisses, like raindrops.

Please, please, please, come back to me. Please, Hunter. Don't go.

"You're not gonna lose me again, Captain." He sighed. "I'm staying right here." Hunter opened his eyes gently guiding Willow's nose to touch his own gently then drawing her lips closer for a long loving kiss.

[mdhwrites]

Do you think if Owl House’s third season were longer instead of being crammed into 3 long episodes, it would’ve been better?

I actually did a blog about this literally the night before the S3 finale and the finale did not prove me wrong!

But I want to emphasize here that a lot of these problems... are due to S2 and S1. S3 is how it is BECAUSE of the writing choices the team made going into it. There were ALWAYS going to be problems with S3 because of how S2A was paced, because of the INSANE decisions made in the face of the shortening in S2B like the Collector. Just the insane amount of mismanaged time. But I like to provide evidence:

No usable villains: S1 had the most amount of threats that could be taken seriously and even they weren't treated the best. The EC were still mostly bumblers who could be taken out by Eda or Hooty with EASE, Lilith is used for comedy far more than threat in S1, even if her role as straight man works to keep some of her menace, Kikimora is barely there and Belos is introduced at the end of the season. All the one off villains are pathetic and usually defeated through brute force in their episodes proving that except by schemes, like Really Small Problems, they're all fucked going against Luz in S2 who now has actual power behind her. So by the end of S1, you have Hunter, Kikimora and Belos. S2A will then go on to make Hunter immediately not a villain, Kikimora a joke by the end of it and ignore Belos entirely until S2B while introducing no new real villains so now they only had BELOS and their time is running out. Also, their only human realm villain is a joke who got beat by Camila, let alone anyone with magic. Speaking of:

Edit: I straight up forgot to mention the coven heads but S2 does technically set them up... and then destroys the coven system, giving them no systemic power, and Luz literally saved all of theirs lives so they have no reason to fight her. Also because the Collector is straight up not a villain in S3, he would not be sending them out to kill people even if that were his style so they don't count as usable villains and neither does the Collector.

Power Scale Issues: In literally the sixth episode, Willow singlehandedly beats the shit out of an entire squad of trained MONSTER HUNTERS without even the element of surprise. She's just that strong. By S2's end, EVERYONE will be at her level. Luz at the START of S2, before glyph combos are introduced, takes down the Selkidamus effectively single handedly. She literally only needed physical strength of pulling the thing in and NO ONE acts like it's a question if she can slay it once she's given a sword. It's really fucking bad. And as they have magic in the human realm, all of these characters are still at that power level for what would have been the first half of the season. This means threats and villains are out of the question. How about character work?

Character Blandness: Willow has no character. She is wishy washy all the way through the series and this is true even in S1 where she is shy for half the episodes and also the most brazen person you know in the other half, sometimes in the same episode. Escaping Expulsion murdered about half of Amity's potential and Reaching Out made sure that there would literally never be a conflict about Lumity and made Amity only a bland love interest with daddy issues and her dad isn't in the human realm so you got nothing on her for the first half. Hunter had to have almost all of his shit dealt with by the end of S2 so he's a certified good guy at their side by the Day of Unity who at least half of the cast have accepted so all you have is backstory angst which they can only do so much of without it being repetitive or boring, especially if you want the BIG reveal to only happen shortly before his possession. Luz has her angst which can't be resolved until post Belos revealing it so you have half a season where NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING. You theoretically have Camila fluff and Vee angst/fluff potentially but people got pissed at Hop Pop and Sprig getting episodes dedicated to them in the human realm instead of the plot. How would most have reacted to characters who have made barely an appearance stealing half a season from the entire Hexide Squad?

Human Realm is Bad: By the end of S1, the Isles has cellphones, it has televisions, it broadcast news, it will fight for a wrong unjustly done, etc. S2 only doubles down as it introduces robots, child endangerment laws and other things that are just part of the human realm. That's why ALL of the fish out of water jokes in Thanks to Them are utter shit and require characters acting like complete morons because the two worlds are the SAME. And they have almost always been that way. The only difference is that one has electricity, the other has magic. As such, going to the human realm is just not compelling. It doesn't even have thematic reasons to do so except I guess to FINALLY actually show Luz being bullied and they didn't even do that in the specials.

And sure, stuff with the resistance could have been neat in the second half. The first half could have included good fluff like Lumity dates and Gus freaking out about the human realm for an episode. But... It would still be needing to introduce elements. It would still be scrambling for ways to fill the time because S2 killed most of the potential for the characters and was so focused on that goal, even in S2A, that it didn't introduce compelling plot elements for drama or good villains to play into its adventure elements.

Could it have been better? Possibly. But a lot of people felt how much S3's specials were just padding. Just wasted time. Now TRIPLE the length of the season?

Yeah... The shortening was a blessing, not a curse.

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writing request: camila gets hunter and amity to go shopping together. chaos ensues. (post king's tide!)

“I never said thank you.”

Hunter grabbed a shopping cart, tugging it out of the line and wheeling it towards the door. “For what?”

Amity jogged after him. “For coming to help when my parents locked me up.”

“Oh.”

The door hissed open of its own accord, and Hunter jumped backwards, nearly landing on Amity’s feet. “Magic door!”

Amity snorted, though the door sparked a deep pit of unease in her stomach. “I doubt that very much. Come on.”

She pushed forward into the grocery store, and Hunter came behind. “You didn’t need to thank me,” he said after a moment.

“What?”

“For coming after you. I was… mostly just running away from Belos, and running towards you seemed like the least cowardly way to do it.”

“How chivalrous.”

“Hey, you’ve got Luz to be your knight in shining armor, you don’t need me. What’s first on the list?”

“Uhhh… apple ju—HEY!” Amity glared at the list. “Hunter, has the apple blood in the human realm tasted weird to you?”

“I don’t know, I never HAD apple blood.”

“Wait, really?” Amity shook her head. “Okay, I’ll get you some real apple blood once we get back home.”

“We don’t… what’s wrong with the apple blood here?”

Amity shook the list at him. “It’s apple JUICE here!”

“That’s probably the same thing, right? I mean, juice, blood, what’s the difference?”

“I’m not sure, but I think apples are different creatures in the human realm. Come on, let’s find some.” Amity tugged on the arm of the first store employee she could find. “Excuse me, do you have apples?”

She heard a quiet snort from Hunter. “What, does it LOOK like they sell livestock here?”

“Sure. Produce section, they should be right near the bananas.” The employee pointed. “Big sign. Can’t miss it.”

“Thank you!” Amity grabbed the front of the cart, directing it towards the sign that read produce. “Let’s go see for ourselves.”

“What?! Amity, apples are dangerous, do you even have Ghost with you if—

Amity tugged the cart harder. “If I’m right…” She jabbed a finger at the red spheres gracing the shelves, labeled Red Delicious. “Look!”

Hunter approached them cautiously. “Eugh, are they just selling apple corpses? Without proper refrigeration? Or are they alive? They’re not chained up or anything.” He gingerly poked an apple, then leapt back.

The apple shifted slightly at his touch, but in a normal “object just got poked” way. Hunter reached out and picked it up, turning it over in his hands.

“… Amity, I think it’s a plant. Of the non-carnivorous variety.”

“That’s what I thought. Camila asked us to pick up apple juice and red food dye. She hasn’t had any apple blood at all! I thought she looked confused when we asked her about it, but I hoped she was able to find some.”

“There’s a refrigerated section of the store—maybe they have other apples, or real apple blood there? Maybe the plant is named after its likeness to the animal?”

“Hm.” Amity shook her head. “I’m starting to think maybe apples are just different in the human realm. But we can give it a look.”

She followed Hunter to the refrigerated section of the store, examining the products. “Milk, milk, milk, cheese, eggs—what KIND of eggs?! What laid them?!” She picked up a carton, examining the contents with a snort. “Extra large? These aren’t even CLOSE to the size of the smallest griffin egg!”

“Weird,” Hunter agreed.

Amity pointed at a door. “We haven’t checked there yet?”

“Says employees only.”

“Exactly. If they have a live apple, it’ll be back there.”

Hunter shifted back and forth. “But it’s for employees only, Amity! We don’t work here!”

Amity shuddered, but paced in front of Hunter. “We’ve spent our whole lives doing what someone else told us to do! My parents! Belos!” She stopped to face him, one hand clenched in a fist and raised up at chest level. “We’re finally free! Are we going to let a door tell us what to do?!”

“Yeah,” Hunter said slowly, “Yeah! I mean—yeah, you’re right, we shouldn’t, not yeah we’re letting the door tell us what to do!”

“Alright! Are you ready?”

Hunter squared his shoulders with a gulp. “I’m ready.”

“Don’t you dare bail on me! I’m not going to break the rules alone!”

“Ha! Don’t you bail on me!”

Neither of them pushed through the door.

Hunter glanced at Amity. “Any time you want to go is good.”

“After you.”

“No, it was your idea.”

Amity laughed nervously. “I mean, maybe we shouldn’t. What if the door is trapped?”

“Absolutely,” Hunter agreed, “The employees might have rigged it, in case a non-employee tried to get in. Kikimora set up a BUNCH of traps like that in the keep. She always forgot to send me the memo on where they were, though.”

“Hunter.”

“Yep. Yep, I hear it.” Hunter took a deep breath. “We can do this.”

He pushed open the door, and Amity followed close.

The door clanged behind them, and a wave of panic swept over her.

“Oh, titan, what are we doing?! This isn’t some stupid rule designed to make us miserable, it’s just not a space that customers are supposed to go!”

“Bad idea,” Hunter agreed, “Can’t believe I let you talk me into this!”

“You actually went in the door first!”

Hunter whirled around, pushing on the door. His face paled. “Amity. Amity, I think it’s stuck.”

Amity shoved the door. It didn’t budge. “The employees did trap it! You can warp out of here, right?”

Hunter shook his head. “I left Flapjack outside.”

“What?!”

“It said no animals except for service animals on the sign outside!”

“That is your service animal!”

“In the human realm, not being able to do magic is normal!Besides, the sign also said no weapons!”

Amity summoned an abomination. “I’ve got this!”

The abomination pushed on the door with a groan, then stepped back and charged.

The door shuddered but didn’t open. Amity dismissed it. “Great. We’re stuck!”

“Camila knows where we are. She’ll come for us.” Hunter gulped. “Oh, we are in trouble.”

Amity put her face in her hands. “I can’t make her mad! What if she says I can’t date Luz anymore?!”

“Because telling you not to date Luz worked out very well coming from your mother?”

Amity sank to the ground with a groan. “She trusted us. And we let her down, and now, instead of making LESS work for her, we’ve made MORE!”

Hunter paced back and forth. “She won’t kick us out,” he said softly, “She won’t kick us out, she won’t kick us out, she won’t—”

The door moved, and Amity jumped up. “There’s an employee coming! Do you think they’ll kill us for disturbing their sanctum?!”

“Better than getting killed by Camila!”

The door rattled, and Hunter clung to Amity’s arm. “I’m sorry for attacking you and threatening Luz at Eclipse Lake!” he yelped, “In case we die, I want to say I’m really, really sorry!”

Amity gripped his arm just as tightly. “I’m sorry for cooing at Ghost and calling her a good little hunter baby when she pounced on Flapjack! I should have discouraged her!”

“What?!”

The door swung inwards, and the employee from earlier sighed. “What are you doing in here?”

“It opens in,” Hunter whispered.

“It opens in,” Amity confirmed, face palming, “It’s a pull door from this side.”

“Yeah, I wish it weren’t it makes it hard to get things OUT,” the employee agreed, “What are you two doing in here?”

“We… got lost?” Amity tried.

“Dude. Go make out somewhere else.”

Amity let go of Hunter’s arm. “Oh, ew, no! No offense.”

“She has a girlfriend,” Hunter yelped, “No!!!”

“Alright, alright, I’m sorry. Just…” the worker pinched the bridge of their nose with a sigh. “Get out of here.”

“Okaythanksbye,” Amity yelped, grabbing Hunter’s arm and tugging him out. “It opened the other way,” she said again, shaking her head.

He laughed. “It opened the other way.”

Amity let go of his arm and took the cart. “Well, I think we can safely say that there are no animal apples in this store. Let’s just get the stuff on the list and go.”

“Hey, what did you mean about Ghost pouncing on Flapjack? Because she’s a cat? She’s hunting my bird?!”

“Whaaaaat? No. Come on.” Amity started to walk briskly down the aisles, pushing the cart in front of her.

“Amity!” Hunter jogged after her. “Amity!”

[contrasting-realities]

Caleb/Outlander Character intro

You were born with the soul of the caressing. Your nature is one of kindness and compassion to others.

Your earliest years were spent in the kingdom of Rondon with your parents and younger brother, it was a happy life but not one that would last.

Increasing taxes and land foreclosures became commonplace in your country and your family’s farm wasn’t safe from this. Overnight, all the money had dried up and you were left with nothing.

With the last few dimes left in the bank, your father bought a seafare to move to the newly claimed Vinland, however no one knew the truth of this cursed voyage.

What was initially a month-long voyage doubled, with the vessel hopelessly lost at sea both passengers and crew began to succumb to starvation.

One of these unfortunate victims was your mother, who fought until her last breath.

Your father was drowned in guilt from this and took his own life, not only from the grief but so that you and your brother would have ‘something to eat’.

With the sailors praying for the deceased, they decide to respect his last wishes. Both of you are saddened beyond belief, you see the pain in your brother’s eyes but also feel the pain of hunger, you decide to…

Let your brother eat what was left for you (Bloodlust)

You eventually lost your mind to hunger, only recovering once landfall was finally made.

Split the carcass in half and take your fill (Devour)

Eventually, the boat does reach Vinland, and it was worse than you imagined.

Beyond the shores lied a land polluted by energy from the old gods, corrupting anyone who stepped near and taking those who got lost.

The small settlement you lived in was in constant terror of being wiped out by monsters, many went mad from the fear alone. The dark priests were the only ones who could keep their minds pure, ironically.

Either way, your parents died and you were left with Philip, your younger brother, who eventually fell victim to the wilds.

He was found, but lived with corruption from the maddening light since, slowly turning into a ferocious beast and seeing things that weren’t there.

After this you decide to begin training with weapons in addition to your work routine to defend your family, you enter an armory and decide to purchase…

Bow & Arrows (short bow, 5 arrows)

Axe and shield (Axe, wooden buckler)

Years passed and you carried on.

You eventually married one of the dark priests, a woman named Evelyn, and had a child with her but once again life was cruel to you.

Philip, now an adult, kidnapped your son after he was born, not wanting him to grow up in the same place that nearly drove him insane.

Your marriage never recovered after that, you couldn’t blame your brother for wanting to protect your child and you even began to reconsider the situation.

Evelyn wasn’t nearly as forgiving however and searched all over Rondon for him, but never found anything.

Afterwards, you went on an expedition with many other men to explore the interior of the continent.

The place wanted to twist your mind but you prevailed anyway.

Before leaving this realm, your men find a few bizarre artifacts and you consider trying your luck.

Take souvenirs from the interior (Soul Stone, failed conflip: Panophobia)

Unfortunately the relic you found tainted you with Panophobia, a fear of everything.

Don’t touch anything and flee back home (Enables Dash later)

It took many days and nights to return back home but by the time you returned, it was too late.

A mercenary band had raided your village, taking an artifact hoarded by dark priests and killing many.

Sadly, your wife wasn’t spared from this tragedy, none of those like her were.

Those who survived described their leader, a man named Belos who wore a golden dear mask, you recognized him as the leader of the Knights Of The Golden Eagle.

You immediately packed and snuck onto a boat to follow him, if not to settle your anger then to at least calm your grief.

Upon reaching Rondon, you learn that he’d been captured and sent to languish inside a horrible dungeon, but that wasn’t going to stop you.

On your last night before leaving the city, you…

Stock up on equipment (x3 iron arrows, bear trap)

Stock up on food (One Dried meat, a moldy bread, x3 carrots)

Stock up on healing items (x4 blue herbs, a white vial, x2 cloth fragment)

Rush straight after him (Dash if certain choices were made above)

[running2redemption]

Titan's Prophet AU Masterpost/Overview

A Philip Wittebane centric AU. Character relationships at the bottom of the post.

When Philip first arrived on the Isles, alone and hostile, the Titan attempted to reach out to guide him, subtly at first and less so as the stubborn man ignored the signs.

Eventually the Titan reached out telepathically - and even then Philip accused the Titan of being the voice of the Devil. It was only through ignoring the Titan's warnings repeatedly that he began to maybe consider this guide might not be evil. And once that trust was established, Philip was constantly asking questions about this place, and the Titan answered where she could.

By the time Philip reached Caleb, there was still an argument about being abandoned, but that's all it was: an argument.

Philip wound up living with them, helping Evelyn with potions and writing a book about the Isles from the perspective of a newcomer, published under the pseudonym Belos. It was around this time that Caleb carved Philip his own palisman, Tate(r).

When he heard Evelyn refer to the Titan in a manner similar to God and the Titan responded, Philip had a little tiny bit of a freak out. He was a chosen prophet of the God of this place? He was special. He was Chosen.

Caleb and Evelyn didn't quite believe him at first, but as he demonstrated knowledge he couldn't possibly have obtained any other way they began to.

And Philip was so eager to be directed by the Titan; the Titan had a means to influence the world in a bigger way with Philip. Caleb carved Philip a new mask and he went out to solve the world's problems as Belos, the Titan's Prophet!

He travelled all over the Isles, warning people of impending disaster, resolving conflict and occasionally running into trouble. The Titan shared some of her power with him, enabling him to cast magic similar to a witch, and lengthened his lifespan significantly.

Between following the Titan's bidding he returned to Evelyn and Caleb's home and their seemingly endlessly growing brood. In this time he built the Portal Door and subsequently lost it after a single use, Philip couldn't hear the Titan in the Human Realm so he returned to the Boiling Isles fairly quickly.

As more time passed, Philip asked the Titan to extend Caleb's life as well, which the Titan agreed to if that was what Caleb wanted. But Caleb rejected the offer - he was happy with the life he'd been given, he didn't want to watch Evelyn and his kids die, to outlive them like that. He was happy Philip had found his place in the world and had really grown into an accomplished man, but eternity was not for him.

There was a lot of bitterness about that decision and Philip tried to find a way to convince or force Caleb to accept the offer, but he never could, even on Caleb's deathbed.

Philip was left the house, and began wallowing in grief. The Titan installed Hooty into the house to keep Philip company and draw the man out of his misery. It worked.

Philip resumed missions with Hooty acting as security while he was away, but any Clawthorne was welcome to use the house as needed, it acted mostly as a family home.

The Titan's requests slowed as time went on, partly because there's only so many problems that can be solved by throwing Philip at them and partly because while Philip's lifespan had been extended, he was still aging and the Titan was worried it was becoming too much for him.

He became the Clawthorne family historian, good old uncle Philip, always reliably there. The general assumption is that the prophet Belos died, most of the Clawthornes didn't know that he'd even been the prophet.

The Sovereign took control of the Isles and Philip did ask if he should do something about that but was advised to stand down, which he did, reluctantly. He still wrote scathing political takes in the paper under the name Belos - most people assume it is just a reference to the old prophet for those who know their history.

When Edalyn was cursed and ran away from home she inevitably turned up at Philip's, who gladly took her in despite the attack on Dell - he was confident he could handle Eda at her worst with the Titan's blessing.

Philip has basically become a homebody, rarely leaving the house, the general public don't even know he exists.

Character Relations (most interactions would take place in the first season equivalent)

Luz - A new young face around the house. Philip is somewhat indifferent until he realizes she's human - he's warming up to Luz.

Edalyn - Beloved annoying niece.

King - Beloved son. Spoils him. King does not know he's a Titan at this point, though Philip does draw the Titan often and tells him that it's King's father.

Hooty - A good very annoying friend.

Hunter - Who's that? And why does he look like my long-deceased brother?

Lilith - Beloved niece. Reminds him of himself.

Willow - Luz's friend from school?

Gus - Luz's friend from school?

Amity - Luz's ??? from school?

Raine - Eda's ex. Shame, Philip really liked them, which should have been his first warning that it wasn't gonna work out - he never likes the Clawthorne's partners.

Dell - Beloved nephew, reminds him a lot of Caleb.

Gwendolyn - Not fond. Kind of amused that she is a -lyn that joined the family instead of being born into it.

The Sovereign - Never met them and never wants to.

The Titan - Partner.

The Collector - Who?