One of the funny things I’ve recently realized after browsing old TOH posts is that the whole idea of the ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ dynamic feels like almost entirely a creation of the fandom. Not only that, but a dynamic that was created basically by accident.
Consider for a moment just when and WHY fans actually started the ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ idea: It wasn’t in the wake of King’s Tide or after Hollow Mind when Luz and Hunter start really becoming friends, it was following Hunting Palismans. AKA, the episode where the mysterious ‘Golden Guard’ is revealed to be the show’s resident ‘edgy bad-boy with a sad backstory’ named Hunter, and also established that despite what he may think at the time, him and Luz are definitely going to be friends sooner or later.
In other words, the fandom’s idea that ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ started mainly as pushback against shipping those two and more notably, any theories/claims that Luz and Hunter might end up together in the show. As in, right after Hunting Palismans released, you can find a ton of posts that amount to ‘THEY’RE LIKE SIBLINGS DAMMIT!’ as fans try to get ahead of any ideas people might start getting that Luz and Hunter might be some endgame couple.
Now of course, in should have been pretty clear even when Hunting Palismans released that ‘Lunter’ was NEVER going to be an actual thing in the show. Like I’ve always commended the foresight of Dana Terrace and her crew for making sure that Amity was FIRMLY locked-in as Luz’s love-interest before they let Luz anywhere near the show’s resident ‘edgy bad-boi with a sad backstory in need of a redemption-arc’.
But for me, the funny this looking back on all this in hindsight; this presenting that Luz and Hunter are going to be like siblings as pushback against any theories that they were going to end up together romantically nonetheless made the same underlying assumption about where Hunter’s character was going:
That he’d end up being this super-close friend and ally to Luz and that she’d be the one facilitating his redemption arc, ala Aang to Zuko or any other case of ‘hero(ine) redeems rival and they become best friends’.
And of course what makes that so funny is the fact that this DIDN’T actually happen, at least not in the way most of us were expecting. Yes, Hunter did end up being A close friend and ally to Luz, but the people who he’s actually closest to and the one who really drove and facilitated his redemption arc wound up being Willow and Gus!
In conclusion, the whole idea of ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ dynamic feels like one of those cases of a fandom coming up with an assumption about where characters might be going, and then forgetting that they were the ones who originally came up with it while the show itself does something else.
And also, Hunter is WAY more of an older brother to GUS than he is to Luz, and frankly I think we need more recognition of that fact XD
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Gus and grimwalker Hunter from @captainmera 's fanfic The Golden Brother. Go check it out!
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At a human realm carnival
Amity: So how do you play this game?
Luz: You just throw the ball at the clown as hard as you can to try and knock it down to win
Amity: Oh, okay
Amity: [throws the ball at Hunter and knocks him over]
Hunter: [on the ground] OW!
Amity: Did I win?
Gus: Well, you did knock him over
Willow: And you DID throw the ball as hard as you can
Hunter: [still on the ground] Hey!
Luz: [wheezing with laughter]
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Hunter : *having Clawthorne-Deamonne-Noceda-Wittebane (soon Park) for his last name*
Darius, about to marry Alador : do you want to add Blight for your surname collection?
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secret santa gift for @/cooltective on twitter!! one of his prompts was gus and hunter nerding out, so that’s what i drew!! :] thank you to the hexes and o’s zine (@ tohshippingzine on twitter) for hosting!! ❤️❤️
[ ID: A digital illustration of Hunter and Gus from The Owl House. Gus and Hunter are wearing their halloween costumes, as seen in Thanks to Them. Gus is to the left, kneeling down and looking at hunter as he flaps his hands happily. Beside him to the right is Hunter, who is reading through the Cosmic Frontier book, thinking, with his one hand resting near is chin. Flapjack is on his shoulder, looking down. Around them papers are scattered. The background is the Noceda’s basement where they sleep, as seen in Thanks to Them. End ID. ]
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Sure! Thanks for reading and your enthusiasm! :)
And this old one that's related to it:
Also.. I've wanted to draw the sky scene for awhile so I might do that too.
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