#wittebrothers

[moonmeg]

2 years.

Crazy it started with a big brother and his hot witch girlfriend.

Thank you for being part of this journey 💕

Close ups & process pictures under the cut!

[maglorthecrab]

CALEB WITH DEELY BOPPER KNIVES!!!

[goldenkenku]

[Repeat to yourself.

"I won't leave you, I won't leave you."

Until you fall asleep and dream of the place where nothing is red]

[tdaac-correct-order]

Okay, I know I said this blog is dedicated to Two Doves and a Crow, and it still is, but seeing as you just reached the end of the most recent updates, I am going to take this little bit of time to recommend some further Wittebane content to fill the Caleb shaped hole in your heart until the next update is available, while shamelessly promoting my own story.

So if you would like to support me, check out my story My Brother Cain, My Brother Abel over on AO3. It's a historically based retelling of the Wittebros story that I'm honestly really proud of.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47368897/chapters/119362057

[phobylee]

THIS IS SO WHOLESOME IM GONNA CRY

Ofc I have another part after this UM IDK WHAT TO CALL THIS AU but this is pt1 I was actually gonna post this later but I couldn't sleep so I just got up and here we are

I'm definitely gonna draw more Ev and Pip making potions together I think that will be fun

[phobylee]

Tags are REALLY weird guys. Has anyone else noticed that? I had to DIG to find art I liked. Reblogging everything I find. It's funny cause stuff I see that would usually grab a lot of attention just.. isn't because it's buried so deep. And then some art just won't pop up in the tags at all. Reblogs, guys! Get stuff out there! And it's not just my art that isn't popping up. Plenty of other artists too. That's the main thing that kinda concerned me lol 😭

Anyway I love all you losers. Happy day-after-easter and I hope you've all been doing well.

[bananadramaaa]

What do you think a little sister of the wittebrothers would look like?

That was fun to think about, thanks dear anon XD

I named their little sister Eden, I like how it sounds together with Wittebane surname & it was like a obvious choice for a puritan to name their kid with Bible reference, so it's all coming together 🌈

Her design based not only on Caleb & Philip, but also on my witteparents designs too. You know, for genetics reasons. While I was sketching her, I couldn't "hear" her voice or picture this character to be loud and talkative so she's non verbal baby girl. Now Caleb has one more sibling that can stare right into your soul with their baby blue eyes.

[amiizuki]

it will be forever funny to me how the flashback portraits of Wittebrothers made Caleb seem like he's had packing peanuts for a brain

(this post ended up becoming quite lengthy, and so did the tags somehow, because I kinda devolved into a rant closer to the end of writing this whole thing, so bear with me here)

so we know that Philip and Caleb became orphans when both of them were still kids. after that, they ended up in Gravesfield and, to fit in with everyone else who lived there, picked up witch hunting and started thinking that witches are pure evil. Caleb knew perfectly well that he's the only family Philip's had left and that he even may be his his only friend, since, judging by the portraits, they've only ever hung out with each other and we don't know if those two ever made any other actual friends.

until one day, during a witch hunt he and Philip were both a part in (something Caleb seemed happy to do, judging by his smirk there), he met a witch – Evelyn – someone he's been taught to hate and want dead by the townsfolk. someone who, again, in his mind, should be evil.

but he just suddenly does a 180 and goes "damn, you can make fire with your hands, you're actually pretty cool"

and then a few days (?) of talking to her later, he's running off to live with her in the Demon Realm, while simultaneously not giving a single fuck about the brother he's abandoning.

(he even runs off with a smile, with a literal :D face, I fucking can't lmao)

Philip ends up seeing Caleb get dragged off through a weird portal and later follows along, thinking something like "no, my brother wouldn't just up and abandon me without saying anything. he probably got captured by that witch we saw together that one time! she probably used some demon magic to bewitch Caleb and took him through that portal to kill him or worse! I gotta go save him!". and, after spending god knows how long in that realm, searching endlessly for his missing older brother, he eventually finds him. but he also finds that Caleb is not only perfectly okay and not hurt in the slightest, he's also peacefully walking together with the same witch who "captured" him, even holding hands with her.

and when enraged Philip tries to attack Evelyn, to protect Caleb from the witch who took him from his home, from his brother, still thinking that Caleb's under her control, Caleb just... gives him a hug and goes on to introduce the witch as his new wife to him (I'm assuming that portrait is the same day as the other three, if not the same scene), also adding on top of that that they're having a child. all as if nothing happened. treating the whole thing like everything's perfectly okay and just another normal day, fully ignoring the fact that he threw his brother away with no care or thought, leaving him completely alone, a full orphan, now with zero actual family left (in TTT, during their backstory, it's said that "Caleb did his best to take care of his younger brother", meaning that either they never got adopted in Gravesfield, or whoever adopted them didn't give a shit about the two, so they still mostly had to fend for themselves), all to go smash some random 5 out of 10 witchussy he talked to, like, 3 times. no fucking wonder Philip killed him!

(btw, jokes aside, it didn't seem like he intended to kill Caleb, because in that portrait where he's ready to kill with a knife in his hand, he's facing forward, while Caleb is actually to his left. so it just looks to me like Philip was gonna try to kill Evelyn again, and Caleb either jumped in front of her to protect her and got accidentally stabbed or he attacked Philip back, to, again, protect Evelyn, and Philip ended up winning that fight. but that's just my theory)

my brother in literal christ and literal titan – why in the FUCK are you just hugging it out with a smile on your face??? you ran off while giving absolutely no warning to anyone, especially your younger brother! why do you think he's here and actively trying to attack you and your new wife? you're not even trying to address the fact that you left him! at least when Luz ran off to a different realm without warning, she had a "I'm still at the camp" cover, so Camila wouldn't worry that much about where her daughter is, and even then she still felt bad for leaving her mother and planned to go back home once summer was over. this chucklefuck, on the other hand, just permanently portaled away to the Boiling Isles, knocked up a witch and fully settled down there, walking around with a big ol' smile and no care in the world. "Philip who? never heard of him"

the only thing that would sorta make this situation seem better (as in, not make Caleb seem like an overly naive ignorant brick), in my opinion, is if they added one more portrait – after the one where he meets the witch, but before the one where he leaves. in that portrait, Caleb would look like he's trying his best to convince Philip that witches aren't actually evil, and perhaps even try to get him to go live with them in the Demon Realm, all the while Philip's looking at him with either disagreement/disappointment/disgust or just rolling his eyes and full on ignoring him, while sharpening his witch hunt tools or something. then it would look like Caleb at least tried to make his brother change his mind, like he tried to offer him a chance to go with them. but no. with the way the portraits look in the final version it just seems like Caleb was fully on-board with killing witches since he was young, even pulling his younger brother along to think the same way, Philip also thought that Caleb was perfectly fine with killing witches, but once he actually meets a real witch (assuming they've never met one before) he instantly pulls an uno reverse card and just runs off with her, without so much as telling his brother beforehand.

I'm not trying to say that "Belos should've been redeemed, because he's the victim here and Caleb is bad and it's all his fault". he still murdered his brother and went on to manipulate everyone on Boiling Isles for centuries, with his end goal being the death of all witches, while simultaneously being stuck in the loop of "denial" and "bargaining" stages of grief – repeatedly trying and failing to recreate a perfect copy of Caleb, but also killing each one that came out wrong or went against him. Belos not being redeemed in the end was the right choice (ignoring the "Belos was always le bad" from King's dad), I agree with that. frankly, if he actually got redeemed in the end, I'd probably be seething for the next 3 to 5 years, like how I did after the Diamonds' "redemptions" in SU (yes I'm still pissed about that lol). I'm just saying that, from what was shown to us, Caleb didn't seem like that good of a person either, not as bad as Belos ended up being, but still not that great. and, once again, seemingly had a raisin for a brain.

(off topic, but during Masha's retelling of Wittebane's backstory, their "sounds like big bro got a hot witch girlfriend and little bro got upset" line was so fucking cringe, it gave me a fever for 3 days the first time I watched the episode)

k, rant over, I dunno what else to add

TL;DR: I think Caleb was dumb as a brick, because, from what was shown to us in their backstory, he seemed to have run off to Demon Realm and abandon Philip without telling him anything beforehand. when Philip came to BI to look for his brother, who he assumed was under control of the witch who "took" him, since he thought his last living family member wouldn't just abandon him, and when he eventually found him, and it turned out he wasn't in any danger at all, Caleb just brushed the whole "I left you for witchussy" thing under the rug and pretended everything was and is perfectly fine, even though it clearly isn't. rip bozo

[jascurka]

Idont speak German but I can if you like AUGH!

Huntlow brainrot including willow holding hunter in the air because some of you said under my previous toh sketchdump that would be cool to see. And I had this in my sketchbook all this time I just forgot to upload ehebdb also these are a few months old now and there are Wittebrothers and hunter looks like a rat most of the time

[enchantedchocolatebars]

Butter Business

💕 Original headcanon 🧈

🧈 Ao3 version 💕

One of the ways that the Wittebrothers earned money, besides Caleb working a slew of jobs at his young age due to the passing of his and his brother's parents, was by making and selling their own homemade butter.

The boys ran a stand that they both shared, which was basically the kiddy equivalent of running a lemonade stand in the 1600s.

Being that Caleb and Philip had responsibilities, the process of making the butter was relatively easy.

Caleb was in charge of gathering the milk and making it into cream, before separating said cream from the milk and aiding his little brother in pouring the creamy contents into thier single barrel.

Once that task was completed, both boys took hold of their wooden plunger and placed it into the lid of their dash churn.

The next step they took was to start churning the cream from their barrel into butter.

Since Philip was so short, he had to stand on something while he helped his big brother keep their butter pole in constant motion.

Both boys enjoyed the peaceful activity immensely.

When Philip's arms grew tired from the dasher pole, Caleb would tell him to take a break and take lead in churning the remaining cream, eventually turning it into butter.

Did the brother's butter business become a huge success?

Not exactly, but they did earn a fair amount from selling it to some their neighbors and used their butter money to buy the small necessities that they needed to survive.

Such a fact can be found in the history books and textbooks of modern-day Gravesfield, as well as on the back of butter packaging boxes titled 'Wittebutter' and 'Butterbane'.

[little-ghost-little-ghost]

Ok so if the owl house hypothetically did get some sort of spin off

[moonmeg]

The last night in Edinburgh my friend saw a Wittebrothers edit with my art that I had in my saved posts on Instagram and she made the mistake to ask me about the story behind them and an elaboration on my OCs.

The rest of the night was just me being the equivalent to this meme as sleepy me explains everything to sleepy friend

[mdhwrites]

Would Owl House would have worked better if it was for an older audience so it could better dive into topics like Christianity and darker themes like for the wittebrothers

The show doesn't do anything with the concepts that would be expected to be expanded on in ANY story so why would allowing more topics for it do anything?

Remember, the Isles is barely a world. It has no culture. The demons of the DEMON Realm may as well not exist for how little we actually know of them. The Covens are nothing except a tattoo and the system itself is treated incredibly inconsistently. It butchers elements like Amity's character arc, excising parts of it that are made out to be important like her parents for the sake of simplicity and ease of storytelling.

The show kept adding more. Making more social commentary. Making more romance plots despite this NOT being a romance and no one forcing them to in the slightest. Why would adding MORE help the show?

The only thing it could have done was make it so TOH could make more blunt statements that people treat as deep before the show then does nothing with them. That's not making the show better, that's just more of the same flaws.

I have a much larger blog coming out in the morning that is effectively this topic but on steroids. That's kind of why I'm keeping this one short but it's also to make it blunt. It's not like religion was a theme or core concept of TOH after all. Belos barely exists. So why would expanding that ONE. SMALL. PART be what suddenly makes TOH better when it didn't even bother with the teacher/student dynamic it was supposedly founded upon for more than half a season?

And that's being is EXTREMELY generous about how much of S1 is actually spent between Eda and Luz because after Adventure in the Elements? That part of the show is just over. So again: Why would broadening the scope help when even very early on, the show stopped caring about core elements?

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[jess-the-vampire]

HELP so I’m trying to find a toh post in your styles about Caleb and Philip and it’s just drawings of them I think it was your au but idk for sure but one of them involves Caleb trying to be a wingman for a gay Philip and I thought that was funny but I can’t find it please help?

found it

[tdaac-correct-order]

Hello

So this is a blog I created specifically for the purpose of reblogging all of the Two Doves and A Crow comics every time they update so that they appear in a chronological order on the page. I already unlike/relike all of the comics when they update so they appear in order on my likes page, but I figured if I made a blog out of it other people can benefit from it. 

Disclaimer I am not associated with Moonmeg at all, nor did I ask for permission to do this, so Meg, if you don’t like that I’m doing this for whatever reason, let me know and I’ll delete it, but yeah, if not, enjoy. I did my best to get everything in the right order, but if there are any mistakes let me know so I can correct them next time

@moonmeg @twodovesandacrow

[letssofia3006]

Oh I´m in!

Count on me for any animation of the wittebrothers and backgrounds.

Wittebane fandom: Can I propose something crazy?

Ok, so Watching and Dreaming was great, but despite knowing in my heart we weren't going to get the wittebane story I wanted i still cant help but feel kinda disappointed. But there's so many talented artists and animators in our little corner of the fandom. Any chance we could band together and make a fan episode focusing on their story? Probably an animatic. Maybe reply or reach out if you may be interested in being involved?