#to denounce witchcraft he'd be working against himself

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I don’t think Caleb meeting the witch is when he decided to go with her because we still need to account for the fire from Hopkin’s book and the fact that Caleb is depicted being friendly with a witch in said book and already had Flapjack + adult Caleb is portrayed with both long and short hair so at some point between meeting the witch and leaving Gravesfield, he cut his hair.

I think what’s more likely is that Caleb meets the witch and Philip gets jealous, which is why he’s hanging back. Caleb and the witch are friends and maybe she lives in Gravesfield for a minute, she gives him the materials to make flapjack, etc. Belos doesn’t really remember Flapjack’s name after so long and probably called him “that thing” because he’s made of magic and magic is evil whatever but he recognizes him on sight so I think he was probably around flapjack for quite some time. I don’t think Philip turned them in until later because Caleb would’ve been murdered too and I don’t believe he set out to kill Caleb, I think he just wanted him back until he realized it was too late and the Caleb he thought he knew was gone. 

My theory about the fire is that it’s a government building and it was possibly a jail or courthouse before it was converted into a historical society building and we associate Caleb + his wife with fire because they used fire to represent him dying, she’s shown holding fire, etc. So I think that Caleb and/or his wife started that fire as a distraction so they could escape after they tried to hang her for being a witch. The representations of her with the hat, etc came later and it’s not fully accurate because they probably didn’t know she was a witch until she was outed but I do think that there’s a lot more to this than teen Caleb just following her into the Demon Realm. 

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I don’t think Caleb meeting the witch is when he decided to go with her because we still need to account for the fire from Hopkin’s book and the fact that Caleb is depicted being friendly with a witch in said book and already had Flapjack + adult Caleb is portrayed with both long and short hair so at some point between meeting the witch and leaving Gravesfield, he cut his hair.

I think what’s more likely is that Caleb meets the witch and Philip gets jealous, which is why he’s hanging back. Caleb and the witch are friends and maybe she lives in Gravesfield for a minute, she gives him the materials to make flapjack, etc. Belos doesn’t really remember Flapjack’s name after so long and probably called him “that thing” because he’s made of magic and magic is evil whatever but he recognizes him on sight so I think he was probably around flapjack for quite some time. I don’t think Philip turned them in until later because Caleb would’ve been murdered too and I don’t believe he set out to kill Caleb, I think he just wanted him back until he realized it was too late and the Caleb he thought he knew was gone. 

My theory about the fire is that it’s a government building and it was possibly a jail or courthouse before it was converted into a historical society building and we associate Caleb + his wife with fire because they used fire to represent him dying, she’s shown holding fire, etc. So I think that Caleb and/or his wife started that fire as a distraction so they could escape after they tried to hang her for being a witch. The representations of her with the hat, etc came later and it’s not fully accurate because they probably didn’t know she was a witch until she was outed but I do think that there’s a lot more to this than teen Caleb just following her into the Demon Realm.