#choices luz

[penny-anna]

Willow: since we're trapped in the Human Realm and have time to kill, we've been thinking that it'd be great if you could show us some of some of the human 'movies' you're always raving about!

Luz: oh man I'd love to show you guys some of my favs! but uh, a lot of my top ten picks are horror movies so maybe we should start with something less scary

Gus: pfft, Luz, come on. after all the stuff we've been through together, what could these 'horror movies' possibly have in them that could scare us?

Luz: yeah, I guess you're right

*cut to the Hexsquad frozen in horror in front of John Carpenter's The Thing while Vee & Luz eat popcorn*

Luz: oh man you guys, this is the best part coming up!!

[balladofthe101st]

a moment of silence for this look on george luz. you are missed and loved

[anglerflsh]

for the future

[crimeronan]

I ALSO REALLY LIKE PROTECTIVE OF LUZ VEE.... THE SISTERS EVER.... I like the idea of Luz telling Hunter about her school day and ends up mentioning that one of her classmates was being kind of nosy and Hunter immediately starts getting growly and defensive on Luz's behalf until she's like "Chill my dude it's fine, Vee threatened to break the guy's kneecaps with a softball bat and he ran away." Hunter's trust in and respect (fear) of Vee multiplies by 10 on the spot

WONDERFUL. luz is like yeah vee lets me sit with her when our lunches sync and her friends are really nice!! one time a couple freshmen started filming me and then a guy at her table just got up and stood in front of me and barked like a dog until they left.

& hunter is like. Excellent. someday i must meet this compatriot. a man after my own heart,

[pastelfable]

Owl house sketchbook page :3

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: an open sketchbook with drawings on both pages of characters from The Owl House. On the top left of the left page is a fullbody of Vee in her season 3 human form, but with her basilisk tail. There are stickers and a doodle of a TBH creature Vee around her. On the bottom right of the same page is a halfbody of Luz in her season 3 design with a baseball bat. On the right page is a drawing of Hunter from the knees-up in his season 3 design possessed by Belos.

[welcometogrouchland]

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SPOILERS FOR THANKS TO THEM (obviously)

hello i was reading this lovely post (by @lollytea) that gave a good breakdown of the writers intent behind this scene, and i thought to myself “gee, i love it all in concept, but i wonder if they could’ve executed it better by emphasizing all of the things hunter’s fighting for in the actual moment itself?”. then i remembered that i have the power of editing, and made this! complete with the cheesy white vignette toh likes to stick on flashback scenes that i love jgvhnfchgfc

[anistarrose]

After rewatching the Thanks For Watching trilogy, I actually have to double down on my controversial opinion: Hunter never having to directly face off against Belos again after Thanks to Them is actually super satisfying and cathartic in an understated, underrated way. He said everything he needed to say after the worst thing that Belos ever did to him, and from then on, he didn't know it yet but he was free. I'm so happy for him.

[cherrymoonvol6]

ok nvm i'll elaborate right now

i think one of the many weird choices in the finale was to make belos possess raine out of all people. one, because it really comes out of the blue. when has belos ever shown any interest of raine? like, i'm sure he must be aware of raine's record of plotting against the establishment, but he never deals with them himself. instead he sends a plethora of other people to do it for him (darius, eberwolf, kikimora, terra). if anything, it is terra that has a bone to pick with them. and in a parallel work where raine got more to do, i believe terra and raine's dynamic would've been something really interesting to explore. kinda like the relationship between atreus and odin in GOW ragnarok, like this "okay i know you hate me and all that i stand for, but i see potential in you so i'll take you under my wing and prove to you that i am worth of your time and loyalty" kinda thing, which is a banger dynamic btw.

but the second part is that there are two way more attractive options. the first one, immediately on demand, is darius. ofc it would take some canon time of developing that dynamic between belos and darius (it pains me that it doesn't exist), but it would make sense that belos would keep a close eye on darius. after all, he was mentored and was a good friend of the previous golden guard, and it's implied in various scenes (mostly ASIAS) that he knows enough about hunter's "ancestors" to praise him when he doesn't follow orders, and ultimately play the long-con to betray belos. he may even be aware in some sense of belos killing the previous golden guard, or even the existence of the grimwalkers. in that case, it would make sense that belos would have built some resentment towards him that ultimately shows in the choice to possess, corrupt and kill his puppeteer-ed body. but then, there's an even better option here, and a character that belos has hide a long-time resentment against: lilith.

look, if belos remembers luz from all those years ago, then he abso-fucking-lutely remembers lilith as well. and in a sense you can interpret the actions in canon as him trying to exert his personal vendetta against her: keep her close in the emperor's coven, trying to get her sister to join and get branded with a sigil with the promise that he'll cure her from her curse, all this while knowing that she would eventually betray him and join luz's side. we know belos kept her close for a reason and he knows the extent of her abilities, her history and relationship with eda, and her weaknesses as well. belos possessing lilith, then, would not only be the definitive "fuck you" to her, but could've also been an effective way to provoke eda emotionally and lead her to abandon her hideout to confront him. and honestly, from the way belos acts in that scene in FTF, his reaction to finding the best candidate to possess would make so much more sense if it was lilith and not raine.

but like, aren't lilith and raine just... insanely similar characters in the show's narrative? both are figures of eda's past, who loved each other sincerely back in simpler times, and through plot-related actions (raine's reason is much better narratively though, IMO) abandoned eda and joined the opposing side, climbing the ranks through their powerful abilities until becoming important figures in the coven circle. trying to think about the things i'd change in canon to make raeda a better couple involve making them go through similar plot beats that eda and lilith have gone through: an emotional, powerful moment where raine has to choose between their position of power and eda's wellbeing, actual tension between them (resentment and guilt from eda's side, frustration and confusion from raine's side), situations where they are forced to colaborate and their chemistry can still come through but still their dynamic is permeated by those lingering wounds... like, all of those things are stuff that already happened in canon, between eda and lilith. there's even that moment in king's tide where eda has the same somber moment with raine and lilith before executing their sabotage:

to me, it event seems like lilith got a lot of attention and development with eda in S1 and early S2 and then her character got sidelined when raine started to appear, and simultaneously: how raine's backstory and conflict of interest with eda are pretty much an afterthought but they still get to be a key player in the plot through late S2 and S3. i'm really sorry that economic character construction has to work this way, but that's how it is: you don't get to give eda a sister and a significant other and then make those two characters the same one. you have to commit to just one and integrate all aspects onto them.

[blood-mocha-latte]

being in the hbo war fandom is just sitting in a dark room and pacing like a troubled detective whilst muttering about acting choices under your breath

[soyalexnajera]

[choices-binglebonkus]

10-year old child written by PB: Omg you big meanie!!! Hmph!!! I hate you! 😡😭

4-year old child written by PB: Sir, it is lamentable that mass agricultural development is not speeded by fuller use of your marvelous mechanisms. Would it not be easily possible to employ some of them in quick laboratory experiments to indicate the influence of various types of fertilizers on plant growth? You are right. Countless uses of Bose instruments will be made by future generations. The scientist seldom knows contemporaneous reward; it is enough to possess the joy of creative service.

[drachenfalter]

The fandom is a bunch of cowards for trying to make the Collector Luz' sibling after canon made them a Blight sibling.

[balladofthe101st]

often think about how toye didn't have to pull luz closer to him to ask for a drink but he did anyways

[yardsards]

extremely funny how the fandom collectively decided angus mcdonald was an orphan or otherwise had a bad home life, despite the topic never being addressed in canon

like on one hand it kinda makes sense to draw that conclusion, because what kind of parent would allow their 10 year old child to become a homicide detective/join a shadowy moon organization? but on the other hand i feel like not even the gods themselves could keep angus contained, so it doesn't *quite* rule out the possibility of parents who are good and who Try Their Best to keep him out of trouble

[crimeronan]

Realizing now that polyamory is not only the best and intended outcome here (we know that already), but it’s also possibly just The Healthiest Option to balance out all concerns of consent and autonomy with Hunter. Like, yes, Belos did raise him to be fatalistically loyal, and yes he did give him to Luz as a gift when they were both kids, but he absolutely Did Not have any control over who Hunter loves and is loyal to.

Like that bit from the Hunter + Amity library fic where Hunter says he’s choosing to be bad at his job in this one specific instance. I know Luz told him he couldn’t draft Amity to her guard, but if he was only concerned with doing his job and nothing else, I think he would’ve put up WAY more of a fight about it.

So I think having the whole polycule together would really help reality check those questions in some ways.

YEAH. YEAAAHHHH THAT'S THE STUFF. GOOOAAALLL

luz just wants hunter to have a self-actualized life that isn't defined by her. there is literally no one else in the entire history of humankind who is going to experience compersion as strongly as her. 🥺

[rubynautilus]

Messing around with the Spells and Secrets character creator.

Hastily tried to recreate the gang from The Owl House with mixed results.