Short summury: Caleb is alive, he has become an emperor, and Philip is his right hand, the Black Guard. They have a terrible relationship, somewhere between slavery and domestic violence. But Philip has a son, Hunter, and almost adopted daughter - Luz, and they are going to save him.
Fanfic "Where the war axe is buried":
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Hihi, here we are with another small animation for my lil the owl house AU, Charis!AU!
This time, I will give you a small snippet of the relationship between Caleb&Hunter (yes Hunter still exists in this AU, and he is still a Caleb Grimwalker). Rather than being the emperor’s nephew, he is the emperor’s “son” and well, they di nit really have a positive relationship what can I say. Caleb isn’t going to win the award for father of the year any time soon.
Let me know if you’d like to know more hope you enjoy this! 🦊
I was doing an rp with @sad-boy-coven and a few others where young Caleb and Philip (I was Caleb) fell into the Boiling Isles and then fell through a time pool, eventually meeting Lilith and Eda.
Caleb is initially friendly, though internally suspicious, and Philip is outright antagonistic at times. I’m a big fan of the idea that Caleb used to be as into witch hunting as Philip (and maybe even introduced him to it) but later realized it was wrong, so he suggests to Philip that niceties would be a good manner to win over the witches and capture them off guard.
Then, Philip likely being the child who caught the common cold every year since he was two and nearly died each time, gets the common mold.
See, the thing about time travel is that going back in time could create a plague from all the viruses, bacteria, etc. that you developed an immune defense that the people of the past would not be able to fight (see the Spanish Influenza as well as the growing resistances against antibiotics). Meanwhile, going to the future could kill you due to the aforementioned reason.
So Philip gets absolutely messed up by the modern common mold, so Lilith, not knowing better, gives him the medicine for it. The medicine that is made for witches, not humans. This would likely be toxic, so Philip becomes even more sick, and Caleb panics.
Prior to this, Caleb had been slowly opening up to the idea that witches weren’t as bad as Gravesfield and the Bible suggested. He had been slowly bonding with Lilith of older sibling issues and trauma.
After this, Caleb immediately reverts back to his “default programming” and assumes that everything the connected over was a trap in order to lower their guards to kill them. He then attempts to find his way through time pools to get back to town and see the minister/priest to beg him to save Philip.
He finds the time pool as Lilith catches up to them, but Philip is incredibly weak and at the edge of death.
In the rp, Caleb’s desperation to do anything to save his brother overcomes his distrust of Lilith, and he allows her to administer an antidote for the toxins that Philip ingested.
But…As soon as that happened…
If it matters to anyone, they ended up going to the demon realm because Caleb wanted to take Philip to the beach like he had wanted as a child. So cue feelings of guilt for the unintentional death of his brother.
This is the first post as I do not have character designs drawn up yet. In the actual canon of the AU, I might make it a Clawthorne ancestor (probably Evelyn) that the brothers meet (so they simply fall into the Isles rather than the future as well.) to make it more sensible and not have to worry about “the Bloodyfly Effect” as Lilith put it.
So now Caleb has been left entirely alone, been abandoned by the church when he needed it most, “tricked” by witches, and forced to bury his brother. Caleb would grow up to go on a full blown crusade to destroy witches.
In the most recent episode, For the Future, we see that Philip’s lies are slipping through his fingers—even the ones to himself. Caleb would not have that feeling because of how his brother died. (I am not sure how/if grimwalkers will be integrated.) However, his relationship with the Collector is more positive because it reminds him of Philip’s gremlin energy as a child.
Have a Noceda siblings sketch that I never finished
Luz really cartwheeled into the boiling isle and swiped the brother Belos has spent the last 400 years fine tuning and I have nothing but respect for her. 😌
Look! Its Hunter!! :D It was a while since I drew him last time. And yes, he also exist in Axe though Caleb is alive. You will know why in the fanfic itself >:3
Also there was a comic a long while ago with baby Hunter! Here they are!
My AUs with Philip Wittebane (Emperor Belos) "The Owl House" I write fanfiction for
"At the dawn of the light" (The Dawn): Masterpost
AU where Philip Wittebane (Emperor Belos) is inprisoned and has amnesia and is annoed with his stubborn visitors (Hunter and Luz). Family angst and death of the soul included
"Where the war axe is buried" (The Axe): Masterpost
AU where Philip Wittebane (not Emperor Belos) is under his brother's (Emperor Caleb) control and adopts every child he meets. Family angst and the burden of awfull mistakes included