#(from compassion to corruption | philip wittebane)

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Elsewhere and Elsewhen…

(inb4 canon destroys my Little firefly au forever)

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Part 1

When i watched belos mistreated Hunter i couldn't help but think "did Belos experimented the same" "did he internalized it was normal?"

I have heard my grandfather's childhood stories and....i'm so happy child abuse is no longer seing as "a way of education"

Anyways, there is 2 more pages that i have to finish. Have a nice day and for the Wittebane fandom: one week until elsewhere and elsewhen!

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More Philip rambles

Oof you can really see where my man is starting to lose his mind and get fucking desperate holy shit. He like completely stops taking care of himself, hyper focused on nothing but getting these ingredients and getting that door. Look at the way his bangs are hanging down in the second one. He hasn’t brushed that shit or tried to cut it in years. It’s quite a juxtaposition to the first frame, where we see his hair has those adorable tufts but he still looks well groomed.

Not only that, but the confusion in his tone, how he’s losing track of the fucking years as he can’t figure out if he’s in fucking 1660 or 1670. That’s a ten year jump, my guy. The desperation in ‘the years are flashing by, but it’ll all be worth it!’ You can hear where my dude is falling more into mania, and likely without his bro to keep him in check.

Shit.

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The child is…extra difficult to handle today. He supposes it’s a bit endearing, although Philip would never admit such. She reminds him of….him. Once upon a time. Maybe that’s why he takes to her antics today in good spirits,

“I’ve told you, Missy. You can’t be out here after sunset!” He hikes her up on his back. “You’re quite enjoyable to control, now aren’t you?”

@magicfeatherbean

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Okay but where is the shine in his eyes?

Did his curse take those too? Is it because he’s not even technically alive? Shit this is so fucked up

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this episode is gonna be a ride

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UHHHHH IS HIS CURSE FROM USING GLYPHS?

….GUYS?

GUYS IS HIS CURSE FROM USING GLYPHS??

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Micro analysis on mah boy

So I was re watching the part where Luz and Lilith first meet Philip and I was watching where she first tells him ‘I’ve heard about your exploits and I know what it’s like to be far from home. Can we talk?”

And this is his expression for about three seconds. And at first I’m thinking it could be for comedy reasons since he just gives a flat ‘no’ after a few moments, but he actually looks earnest here. Like he’s thinking about it. Someone far from home? Someone that knows what it’s like?

I mean yeah, it could just be his arrogance of ‘ouu I get to brag about my accomplishments to someone’, (or the obligatory pause in animation between a new expression), but I’m still inclined to believe that ‘just came to the Isles Philip’ is still in there buried under this asshole, and part of him wanted to open up to her, this girl that could maybe empathize…but he forced himself to close right back up. And I really have to wonder how different the outcome would have been if he just knew this was another trapped human like him.

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//I can only think of Belos now seeing the palisman that was either his or his brother’s (probably his) that he thought he’d lost, or worse, it’s an AZ story and little Rascal flew off when Belos became consumed with grief and anger and couldn’t let go. He was determined to make the Isles hurt as they hurt him and resurrect his brother at all costs, no matter who he hurts to do it, because who cares, right? The demon realm caused him unimaginable suffering, why shouldn’t he just deliver it back? Perhaps Little Rascal was his brother’s palisman but after his death became his own, his own coping mechanism as they bond over their grief.

And Little Rascal couldn’t take the pain he was causing others and flew off from him, knowing the friend he loved is gone and may never return.

And then Belos sees him and Hunter is terrified, so sure he’s about to be eaten to ease his uncle’s curse and Belos just freezes or breaks the fuck down. It’s his last remnant of his old life, of himself, of his brother, and he just can’t handle it.

Little Rascal is back but he’s fallen even further into grieving insanity and may never be able to be saved.

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@talk-to-the-glyph

I thought more on that silly joke AU post I made earlier and I decided to try and make it somewhat work with canon rules as like a canon divergence (for context the post I made was basically about Philip going through a time pool and staying at the owl house)

- Philip appears before Follies at the Coven Day Parade but after Yesterday’s Lie

- He’s found by Luz while wandering through the woods and she understandably flies through about fifty emotions at once because ‘ohmygodthatsphilipwittebane-‘

- Eda sees right through him immediately being the kind of person she is and lets just say she makes it clear to him that if he makes one wrong move, he’s not gonna like what follows - this leads Philip and Eda to just… constantly glare at each other when Luz isn’t looking, silent hatred and all

- Philip treats Luz better than he does in Elsewhere and Elsewhen simply because she’s human so there’s that natural desire to connect and of course the ‘humans are superior to witches’ mentality

- Philip is literally just that one unhinged uncle who’s always made to babysit and is the definition of:

Luz: We need an adult.

Philip: I’m an adult.

Luz:

Philip:

Both: EDA-

- Elsewhere and Elsewhen doesn’t happen, Belos looking forward to meeting Luz again refers to this instead (also they try to withdraw as much information from Philip even though everything that happens is supposed to happen and you know owl house time travel stuff)

- Philip and Hooty are frenemies I make the rules, and by that I mean Hooty keeps trying to befriend Philip but Philip fucking hates him and is having to try so hard just to keep his act up and composure

- Luz and Philip finding new glyph combos together go brrrr

- Eda introducing her two humans like ‘This is Luz and she can do no wrong, oh and this is Philip I found him in the trash’

I may have thought a lot about this and given it actual plot and tried to explore character dynamics while also staying true to Philip’s character etc, and also giving an explanation as to why this doesn’t make him not become Belos and stuff but for now just have these random notes. I’ll probably never speak about this again and actually explain aspects of the AU and how Philip fits into the episodes if at all because anxiety but YOU KNOW-

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we all think Rascal will die but what if when Belos sees the palisman that was either his or his brother’s he winds up having a fucking break down instead

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If you think Hunter’s socks are silly, you should see where he gets it from.

Emperor just scoffing as he swings his feet over each other in his study. “Amateur.”

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*WHEEZE* HE FUCKING PUNCHES THE DOOR WHEN THE KEY BREAKS. PLZ THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME

“YOU BITCH HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME I ORDERED YOU TO OPEN!”

Philip definitely would be the kind to screech furiously when something he invented didn’t work and would just keep hitting it until it did

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“Here comes trouble

No mistaking

I'd know you anywhere

I could sail to the ends of the ocean and

Find you waiting there

I've been searching and searching

Near and far

Searching and searching

And there you are

Our wishes share a star 💫”

Belated Birthday present for my friend @lawfulwittebaby of a tearful reunion! Wittebros for life!

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The smoke wound around his lungs, threatening to siphon off all oxygen as he spluttered and coughed. He wasn’t even supposed to be out here. His brother was going to absolutely kill him; the fire storm was a horrible risk he knew might happen today, but after a week of boiling rains, Philip had been too cooped up. It was funny, it went from one elemental extreme to the very next!

Directing his attention once more to the young lad in distress, Philip gave his staff a small spin and then slammed it into the earth, briefly casting off a gust of wind in a wave large enough it sent the flames receding just momentarily. Just long enough for him to grab onto the child.

“Please forgive me for this, but the cloak will protect us both!” He looped an arm around the boy and picked him up, draping his cloak around the two of them and just managing to avoid a tree as it collapsed under the weight of the flames.

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“ Jesus ever loving titan I’m fucked up but I’m not that fucked up.”