#fucked up caleb wittebane

[lasymit]

Toh Axe AU Masterpost

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":

Original text

English translation

Early access to unpublished chapters and some sneak peeks on my Boosty

Arts:

Lore posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Refsheets: Caleb and Philip, Hunter, old disigns

Comics: 1 (1,5), 2, 3

Arts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Memes: 1, 2, 3, 4

AUs (yes, AUs on AU, I know, we are productive): 1, 2

Playlist

[whisperwillyou]

I still haven’t watched the last two episodes lol

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. 😌

[lenaellsi]

realistically i know that if caleb is actually a ghost and not a goop-induced hallucination and hunter interacts with him in the finale it will be like. viscerally upsetting for everyone involved. but also. i want them to two spidermans

do u see the vision.

[luzity]

forever living in your memory

[angelofdumpsterfires]

the autism won today boys, behold this atrocity.

[meltingchaos]

disbelief.

wittebro doodles. Pip, buddy, I think you’re scaring him.

[drbtinglecannon]

It's actually kinda sexy of Caleb & Evelyn to haunt the narrative so thoroughly while never having any speaking lines or even appearing on screen outside of 400yr old repressed memories, delusions, and/or hyped up folklore

We don't even know for sure if Evelyn was a Clawthorne, or what she looked like, or how the fight between Caleb and Philip went down, or Caleb's reasons for leaving without Philip, or what their half witch half human baby looked like, or how long after Caleb left before Philip found him again, or what Evelyn did when she discovered her dead lover's grave was robbed, or how quickly after killing Caleb did Philip decide "I can make a new Caleb that's Better™"

We have scraps to give us pretty good ideas for most of these, but nope they really just haunt with no reward. Like yeah babes give us nothing!

[funnywormz]

ok but has anyone else noticed how caleb is wearing the jacket here that we see philip in in elsewhere and elsewhen???? he also has almost exactly the same hairstyle as philip in that episode with the ponytail and everything..........

[puppyeared]

Bloody Mary

[wackulart]

The Danger Babies

God Brother AU

An idea that formed in my head for an AU where Philip meets the Collector at a much younger age and things go very badly

A very lonely child with godly powers meeting a very resentful one that wants to world to burn is a very bad mix!

[edoro]

it’s so funny when i see people talking about Hunter’s like, latent genetic big brother instincts he inherited from Caleb, and how he must be sooo good at nurturing and caring for younger kids because of Caleb

and meanwhile we literally see how The Kid Caleb Cared For turned out, and he’s an extremely emotionally unstable abusive genocidal monster who never got over his codependent obsession with Caleb and has spent the last 300 years using forbidden necromancy to try and play Happy Families with a series of disposable Caleb-clones

like i think Caleb did the best that a kid in that position could possibly be expected to do when responsible for raising a younger sibling with no help or support that way and i don’t blame Caleb for wanting to get the fuck away from Gravesfield asap at all or think that like, any mistakes Caleb might have made raising Philip mean that Philip’s actions as an adult aren’t his own responsibility

but like... you don’t... act that way if you have a stable, functional, safe upbringing. lmao.

[perereiii]

There's a strange new boy in Gravesfield...

[evilfarmin]

wow you're kinda sticky huh what'd'ya do die in a glue trap thirty minutes ago?

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[goldenglitzer]

No thoughts, just look at how pristine and spotless all of Philip's childhood portraits are, when he and Caleb were just kids playing witch hunt:

All changing when Caleb meets Evelyn:

After which no memory is well-kept:

All the way up until rebuilding the portal:

A little bit stuck in nostalgia, aren't we Phil?

(P.S: long-brown-haired-beardless Philly Cheesesteak is acually one hell of a look, kinda wish we could've seen this in animation)

[crimeronan]

i saw you post on wondering how early Caleb left and it got me thinking, in the Princess Luz AU was Belos jealous of Hunter and Luz relationship?

OH YEAH ABSOLUTELY HE WAS. i have actually given this a lot of thought & it plays a role in the actual fic. unsurprisingly. considering how much thought i've been dedicating to how fucked up belos is.

he SAYS (and honestly believes, to a point) that the reason he didn't kill hunter upon adopting luz was bc luz immediately imprinted on hunter. but let's be real. if luz was about kindgertarten-age then it would have been Extremely Easy for belos to dispose of hunter; luz would probably have been lonely and cried for a couple days but then gotten over it. death and grief are super impermanent feelings at that age

the narrative that belos constructs for Himself is: he makes hunter, then god brings luz to him, and he realizes that hunter is a corrupted abomination to the lord and that belos should never have tried to resurrect a human with dark magic. (he is able to abandon the idea of the grimwalkers after centuries despite sunk cost fallacy because he is now free to redirect all of his obsession with purity and with saving a human soul and with Fixing His Brother onto luz.) but then he realizes that his new daughter really likes hunter! so he lets the abomination to the lord live. to be nice to her <3 because he's a great dad <3 who loves her <3 and wants her to be happy <3333

in actuality, belos saw hunter get a proxy baby sister and went "hmm, maybe THAT'S what's been missing. maybe THIS ONE could Actually be caleb. now that he has a younger person to act as role model / caretaker for"

and then of course that works fabulously, by his own metrics, while also being a result that he Fucking Hates. he hates that hunter is so fatally loyal toward and protective of luz when caleb never gave that kind of shit about him (note: i'm POSITIVE that what ACTUALLY happened between belos and caleb and evelyn was FAR more complex than this callous abandonment narrative. but callous abandonment is how belos has chosen to interpret it because that's easier). he hates that luz and hunter's trust in each other is so uncomplicated. he hates that they spend all of this time together and haven't managed to develop a Shred of resentment toward each other. he hates that hunter for all intents and purposes is The Better Caleb that belos has been wanting, but that his energy is directed toward an entirely different person

this simmering jealousy and resentment drives a Shit Ton of his actions in this verse. he has no reason to make hunter's life a living hell and to make hunter constantly scared for luz's safety, except to punish hunter for being a decent person. by pushing all of his Better Caleb buttons constantly. belos's anger toward luz in the third chapter isn't Just because she's questioning his authority and standing in the way of him finishing his unfinished business -- he is ENRAGED by the fact that luz isn't enough like him to betray hunter like he betrayed caleb. he considers this a personal failure on his part, he believes that he hasn't properly raised her to recognize the soullessness and emptiness of caleb grimwalkers. and he's also maddened by what he views as her choosing caleb hunter over him, because she's SUPPOSED to be the answer, the one who actually does things RIGHT. she's SUPPOSED to make the right choice and choose belos. like no one ever has before.

it's. layered. the man is fucked up. Waow.

[solazu1]

Bug like an angel -Mitski

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