#damn it odalia

[time-lady-the-sage]

"Mom took pensta but we're safe."

So I'm guessing the Blight siblings tried to talk to her about the abomitons...

[susie-dreemurr]

Holy fucking shit

[ashchoo]

Baby Odalia art no one asked for TEEHEE

[tedturneriscrazy]

While, yes, Belos posessing Raine is horrendous and makes all of us wish him a very die, I think the fact that he inflicted one last humiliation upon Odalia like that is very funny.

[thousand-winters]

At this point we're absolutely not getting an explanation on the show itself (fuck you, Disney) but there's some messy stuff going on with Darius, Alador and Odalia and I'm gonna die if they never say what it is.

It's obvious enough there was some kind of fight or so between Darius and Alador with their open dislike for each other, but... what the hell was going on with Alador and Odalia? Did they only marry as a business partnership kind of thing? Or they did love each other at some point and their love just... wilted down until it was little more than the disaster we just saw?

Their relationship confuses me SO much now.

[omegy]

Odalia Blight has definitely referred to having twins as a 'two for one deal' before

[yakulovez]

i hate huntlow sm please for the love of collector let me have my gay rep in peace PLEASEE

[space-owl]

Since "unnatural“ hair colors on the boiling isles are normal, Amity needing to dye her hair green is the equivalent of a parent in our world wanting to dye your hair brunette

[kingindecisive]

I cant believe odalador is dead I blame capitalism

[pikabian]

idc about fandom discourse but if i see one more person try to say alador is a good dad ill explode

[sepublic]

            I love ragging on Belos but also DAMN he’s fiendishly clever. Like let’s analyze his ‘reunion’ with the Collector;

         Gets caught, Collector is suspicious and scared? Belos immediately calms him down by making the Collector feel in control over his own spell he openly doubted, pointing to the moon symbol on Raine’s forehead; Telling this kid not to worry about his most immediate question! And then Belos justifies the anomaly by playing along with the wishful fantasy rules of a kid who believes in the magic of friendship! Anything can happen, so no need to question any further, he flatters the child.

         Then there’s his next line, in which Belos warns the Collector that he’s in danger, which is incredibly vague and could mean anything; And in the couple of seconds it takes the Collector to react in derision, Belos figures out he needs to be more specific and how to elaborate on this, claiming someone is going to betray the Collector.

         Note that he never name-drops anyone on his own, because Belos doesn’t really know who’s around the Collector, other than Odalia. But just in case, he keeps it vague so the Collector can provide an answer for him, the first person he’d assume, and thus the one whose betrayal he fears the most: King!

         Belos latches onto that. He sees King isn’t here, so he asks where is he? Note he doesn’t give an answer, doesn’t make any claims because he doesn’t KNOW anything. Belos is trying to avoid saying something that can be contradicted later on, so he keeps it vague by throwing a very simple, ‘safe’ question that nevertheless makes the kid doubt.

         The Collector watches, is reassured, looks back to Belos to brag! Then he checks again, sees what King said, and looks away. The kid is concerned, but he’s not jumping to any conclusions, and you may think, oh! This is where he checks again, just to be sure.

         And that’s when Belos drops the bombshell; Luz is here. And as he so cleverly plans, this revelation shocks the Collector, distracting them from checking on King again to hear what he ACTUALLY meant. Because Belos doesn’t know for sure how genuine King is or not, but either way, the less this kid is actually in touch with the outside world, the easier it is for Belos to control the narrative and filter all information through himself. The kid has seen enough to doubt, no need for him to find out more and potentially clarify.

         Likewise, Belos has been manipulating this kid for hundreds of years; Like it or not, the Collector is the longest relationship he’s ever had in his life, by a long shot. He knows the kid’s psychology in and out, he knows exactly which buttons to press, and he guesses at how jealous the Collector can get. If he’s friends with King and holds him in high regard, then King has probably told him about Luz during the time they’ve been hanging out. 

        And that Collector is an insecure kid… So Belos creates an Us VS Them scenario, plays into the Collector’s worst fears of King replacing him for Luz (gee, it’s like Philip speaks these insecurities from experience). The fact that Belos himself contributed deeply to the Collector’s trust issues, and is now using them is just. Ugh.

         Now Luz is something Belos DOES know about, having inhabited Hunter, knowing she followed right behind him and does plan to change things, and herself doesn’t know any more than he does; If anything, she knows less! So Belos is a lot more free to make claims about Luz’s motives and goals here, because he actually knows them for the most part. Luz is something Belos can guarantee and thus reliably interpret for the Collector to support his claim.

        That creates an unpredictable element that unsettles the kid, pair that up with the ambiguity of what King said (never checked back on, due to Belos diverting the Collector’s attention) and you’ve got the perfect recipe to manipulate this child all over again… An empty sandbox the Collector can’t verify from which Belos can craft a new narrative with, and anytime something comes along that can be interpreted in its favor, like the ending of the episode? You betcha.

         God he’s so smart, so confident that you might not even notice at first how baseless Belos’ claims are. You’d understandably think he actually DID somehow know, and wasn’t just adapting and having good luck in guessing! Imagine society if Belos weaponized his autism for actual good.

[ashchoo]

I REDESIGNED THE QUEEEEEENNNN giggless

[reicav97]

Meanwhile in another dimension~

- That's right, damn Odalia in all of those too.

[godofdystopia]

*family dinner at Blight Manor*

Odalia: Dear?

Alador: Yes, Odalia?

Odalia: Why does Darius call you 'Babygirl?'

Alador: ... Why do you call Kikimora that?

Odalia: Well played.

*both go back to eating in silence*

Amity: ...

Amity: One dinner.

Amity: I just want one titan-damned dinner.

[let-us-cultivate-our-garden]

I swear... Belos deserved so much more....

Lowkey...I want Odalia Blight to end up with a much better husband/business partner and being a capitalist queen. (I see her getting with either Honsou/Perturabo)

Cause here's the damn thing... Alador gets too little flack for what he did... and just cause he stood up for Odalia... he really didn't do shit. Hell... It would be better for them to cut off BOTH of her parents.

TBH, it would be funny for Luis to try and "the friendship is Magic" shit on Perturabo (who would NOT listen to any of that nonsense) or Belos somehow getting somebody like Konrad Curze and uses him to hunt down Eda. Or Lorgar getting in, KILLING Belos and making thing WORSE.

I answered a similar ask about Odalia here.

Belos definitely deserved better writing because he's the main villain yet the show did a poor job of making the coven system actually oppressive and the coven scouts are just mooks that can quit their job with zero repercussions. This just makes Belos look bad as a dictator and a villain. Plus, there's his implied backstory and narrative foil with Luz that was stripped of all nuance and ends with "you're a good person because your motives are pure and not a power-hungry meanie."

As for Odalia, she didn't need to be deep but she didn't need to be so basic either. She's largely a caricature that doesn't really have anything meaningful to say about how capitalism supports oppressive regimes but the show isn't about that. So we have the abusive mom who tries to mold her daughter into her own image. Great concept, really lazy execution, especially since once Amity meets Luz, she doesn't really struggle with the expectations of her mother with the freedom her new crush provides.

As for Alador, he was implied to be on equal footing with Odalia and on the same page as her only to be retconned as a distant father who is "redeemed" once he stands up to his wife. Guess we're not going to address those years of emotional neglect. Also, Amity for some reason gets into engineering when she never really displayed an interest in that before. So instead of becoming like her mother, she turns into her dad. Great work, team.

(Also, I don't know who those other characters are you mentioned. I don't play video games).

[disregardcanon]

Family Jewels

Fandom: the owl house

Relationships: Darius/Alador, Alador/Odalia, Odalia & Darius, Odalia & Lilith, Odalia & the hexside friend group. Alador & Darius with therapy eventually, the blights all with each other

Summary of the first fic:

Father stares down at her in pure disdain. “Thank you, Odalia. But I see little use for a half-witch Oracle who can’t even predict an imminent tragedy.” The Blight family have run a successful abomination business for generations. Without any talent for abomination magic, Odalia struggles to make a place for herself. To the misfortune of everyone around her.

the series includes:

odalia character study where she ruins everything and blames everyone else

darius and alador have ill-advised sex on the night before alador's wedding

darius is mean to baby hunter because he looks like his dead partner and he thinks that means he was cheating

darius and alador have their first grownup conversation in YEARS after they figure out the coven sigil removal tech

Poster's Note: okay, so this fic hits some of my personal favorite headcanons for the odalia-alador-darius clusterfuck of the past. the ones that i already was married to were

ODALIA is the one with the family business, and she's the family disappointment because she can't keep it going

odalia and alador never had a single romantic feeling for each other but by god. did they. do that

past darius/golden guard and the awful fall out of that

really cool intricate bits with odalia's thoughts on all three of the kids

watching odalia start off as a sad little girl with an awful family and becoming the one making everyone miserable... given all these chances to get better, while everyone around her starts to heal, and continuing to throw them away. it's just so GOOD

darius and odalia were FRIENDS! they were friends, damn it!