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The Collector did some truly horrible things before Belos, but I too would loose my mind and be off my rocker if Philip freaking Wittebane was my only social connection for centuries. 

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In relation to the ADHD post I reblogged, I realise Luz, who is canonically ADHD, is some of the best ADHD representation we’ve got in a while?

In season one, it’s presented as quirky for the most part unless you were to look deeper and see the bullying, struggle to fit in etc. And it matches with how so many people view ADHD as this quirky thing. Luz is having fun with her fixation (fantasy) and it’s like an escapism for her of sorts.

Season two however, we begin to see the reality of it get the spotlight. The bad memory and misremembering, the inability to do things without relying on her fantasy fixation, the RSD (Rejection sensitive disorder), how distracted she gets, how hyperfocused she becomes on specific tasks and goals etc.

It’s really nice to see an ADHD character presented in a way where the struggles are made clear alongside her other character traits, some of which stem from the hardships she’s faced at school for being ADHD. I have bad experiences myself with that, and connecting to people is just difficult when they can’t understand you or why you act the way you do or why you struggle with what should be a simple task.

This is worded very messily as I didn’t have time to organise my thoughts but I think it makes sense. I just really hope we see more characters like Luz in the future!

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Apparently Belos being a witch-hunter paints him as Puritan, which means he's Old-Timey Protestant.

I can’t believe Belos is the worst Protestant ever. Man finds a world full of people who are different from him and does the typical Protestant thing of stamping out any differences (because most Christians aren’t really Christian are they) but he does it in an incredibly Catholic way. Guilt as a way of control and “only I can talk to the Titan” and even stained glass palaces??? Hello?? What happened to painting churches white so you aren’t distracted from the sermon & god????? That place is dripping with idolatry.

I mean the one of the major points of Protestantism is that anybody can speak to god whenever and (mostly) however they please. Anybody can read the Bible, and it’s encouraged that you do. Belos claiming to be the only one able to speak to the Titan is the most Catholic shit I’ve ever heard.

He’s not even proselytizing!! He’s not converting them as Christians are instructed to do. He invented a whole new religion to try and kill them!!! This is directly antithetical to what he should be doing—showing them the mercy of Christ or whatever and helping them convert. He’s putting another god before Christ to kill people who are different from him. He doesn’t even give them a chance to repent or anything! The Boiling Isles would probably dig Jesus, too—guy helped people with magic, told others to be kind, and then came back from the dead to ensure a good afterlife for his followers? I could totally see witches converting, but nooo—they’re all evil and irredeemable so I guess there’s no point in even trying.

Belos is fantasy Catholic and the fact that he started as a Protestant and backslid at the first chance is fucking hilarious to me. Literally the worst Christian ever. On no level is he doing this right. I love this show so much. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

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the golden guards were all people. They were different. the similarities they had to Caleb was looks only- they were all parented/guided by Belos, and they don't have his memories.

It's not that they're inherently good. What's the point of Hunter's storyline of breaking away and being good if you just attribute it to something inherent to all of them?

Rather, I think it's Belos. He makes the grimwalkers, and he destroys them when he thinks they've betrayed him.

He's shown this trait on screen when he gets confident, when he thinks he's won; he lets his guard down, even if only a little. He's confidently leading Hunter to the memories and hoping Hunter, unlike Caleb, would rejoice in what he was doing. He thinks Hunter is dead in his mind before he Isn't. He takes Luz's hand in a handshake, only to be branded.

So the other golden guards... maybe some of them weren't good. We know some were, of course, and we see two of the previous ones have doubts on screen, about blowing up a town and about leaving witches to die.

But Belos wants something unattainable. And the moment he becomes distinctly, sharply aware of it, he does away with it. So even the golden guards that might've been on board with killing everyone might've been taken down by Belos.

He wants his brother, like he saw him in his childhood. Someone who guided him, helped him, and would hunt witches with him. Someone who wouldn't disagree with his decisions. And none of them ever lived up to that image, perhaps even the ones who would go along with Belos' plans.

Isn't that more vile?

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The Owl House makes a big deal of subverting The Chosen One tropes, but you know who’s actually the chosen one? Eda Clawthorne. The Evil Emperor is secretly her great-great-great x uncle. Her sister coincidentally cursed her with a connection to a beast from before their landmass formed, of unknown origins and immense power. That same sister then got promoted to the Emperor’s right hand. She’s one of the most talented witches of her age. She finds the portal everyone is looking for in her backyard. She accidentally adopts a baby Titan and the first human to visit the Isles in hundreds of years.

What does she do with all these significant plot points and world ending power? She digs through inter-dimensional trash, pulls small scams, and flips off cops. No intentions of broader rebellion. No lofty goals. She’s out here to survive, keep her kids safe, and maybe make some snails. All the big, dramatic rebel action is pushed by other characters. Instead of a young idealistic hero sopping with power, the chosen one is a chronically ill forty year old mentor who just so happens to have had every powerful object/ancient burden/lost child in the Isles dropped into her arms.

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Prom

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The sad thing about Philip is that he was loved. Loved all the way until the end! And he took it completely for granted.

He had Caleb at the start of his time in the Boiling Isles. And based on the picture in Belos's mind of Caleb hugging a cursed Philip, it seems that Caleb loved his brother unconditionally. But because Caleb was able to grow and learn to love the Boiling Isles and Philip couldn't, he no longer saw Caleb as an ally.

Hunter loved him! He loved Philip so much and believed every word he said and thought Belos was doing good things for the Isles and for Hunter. If Belos wanted to become change and become a better person, Hunter would have supported him all the way! But love and change doesn't matter to Philip. Control matters to him--control over the Isles, over people, and control over the narrative that he can tell everyone, but especially himself.

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Someone pointed out that the statue of caleb is wearing a style of suit that would only come into fashion years later. It also seems awfully strict and older in comparision to Pip's and the memories. So my theory: The statues were made decades later without too much regards to historical accuracy as a sort of tourist attraction about a legend of two brothers in the witch world and they had some depictions of Pips as a young adult but none of Caleb beyond teen so they had room for interpretation.

Huh, yeah, that makes sense. Or maybe Phil came back, grabbed a change of clothes, spread the story as if it happened to someone else, then left to wipe out the Isles?

Wouldn't be surprised, though, if it was a story passed down, and then one day someone was like :) Town Founders Statue Time

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“They both have real families to return to”

1. Later in the episode, the adoption cementing that Eda IS King’s real family

2. He literally doesn’t. All of his ‘family’ is long dead

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Thinking about how Belos is a pathetic man living in misery and self-delusion but also how he could have Literally been happy if he didn’t Actively Choose the cruellest, evilest option at every term. He could have been happy in the Demon Realm, like his brother was, if he’d just reconsidered his own preconceived biases and bigotry, but he refused to, and became an outcast… because he became a serial killer, which he could have, y’know… not done? When he found his brother having settled down with a witch, he could have done, like, literally anything but murder him, which left him without the one person he ever actually cared about entirely due to his own bigotry and anger issues. He could have, at any time, looked at the masses of people who supported him and believed he was good and decided not to kill them, but he didn’t. Literally every fucking decision he made was the worst possible one both for the people around him and himself. He chooses to be an awful person even at no benefit to himself. 

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….Y’know, Caleb’s wife being pregnant is probably what saved Philip’s life in the years after killing his brother. 

Because like, Clawthornes are inherently family-orientated - we’ve seen that with all four of the Clawthorne’s we’ve met in the show - and Caleb was her family, her husband, the father of her child who’s likely only just started to live his life as fully as he can, given how repressed he would’ve been being a child growing up a Puritan. Caleb was her family, and someone he should have trusted has killed him… but so is their child. She can’t go on a one-woman rampage across the Boiling Isles looking for Philip because she has to protect the last remnant of Caleb that remains: their child. And once that child is born, that protection only has to increase. She can’t hunt Philip to the ends of the earth, even if she’d like to.

But she can keep her child safe, Caleb’s child safe. She can ensure the Clawthorne’s Clan stays alive. She couldn’t protect Caleb, but she can be sure that Philip doesn’t take anyone else away from her.

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I think Hunter would take Vee telling him in no uncertain terms that Belos was a horrible person pretty well. At the same time he might need it. Perhaps it's just me projecting but I think Hunter knows he was intellectually but he needs to witness someone else giving emotional arguments to "allow" those feelings in himself. So yeah, that conversation *would* start with Vee calling him out but at the end they'd be crying angry messes together trauma dumping on each other.

Oh, yeah, he knows it in his head. He was able to vocalize that he knows it was all a lie to Gus. He says "no, you're a liar" but he's sweating while doing so, retreating back into himself. Hearing someone else who has the same "bond" with Belos as creator/creation (even if Belos didn't really raise Vee in any way) confirm that he doesn't owe Belos anything would be a HUGE relief. Obviously, there's still the grief issue to work through, which probably won't be solved so bluntly, but. Yeah.

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Sometimes I think about how Luz and Hunter are so protective of their friends and how Luz can be reckless about her own health to help others and how Hunter's the oldest and I cry.

Usually I don't post my fanart for other fandoms on here mainly because I used to care a lot about numbers but I thought 'hey why not' and here we are!

Also in case you couldn't tell Luz and Hunter are my favorite characters

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Since I wanted to redraw one of my fave shots and some of the tapestries/murals, might as well be all symbolic about it!

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"I hope they're okay"

Quick sad Eda 💖

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we were robbed 😔🤚