#kaiju belos

[maskednerd]

[vyvilha]

this design was hot ngl

[macattackz]

Need to post on here. heres a titan belos I drew straight after the finale was over when I was crying

[amizuki]

it will be forever funny to me how the flashback portraits of Wittebrothers made Caleb seem like he's had packing peanuts for a brain

(this post ended up becoming quite lengthy, and so did the tags somehow, because I kinda devolved into a rant closer to the end of writing this whole thing, so bear with me here)

so we know that Philip and Caleb became orphans when both of them were still kids. after that, they ended up in Gravesfield and, to fit in with everyone else who lived there, picked up witch hunting and started thinking that witches are pure evil. Caleb knew perfectly well that he's the only family Philip's had left and that he even may be his his only friend, since, judging by the portraits, they've only ever hung out with each other and we don't know if those two ever made any other actual friends.

until one day, during a witch hunt he and Philip were both a part in (something Caleb seemed happy to do, judging by his smirk there), he met a witch – Evelyn – someone he's been taught to hate and want dead by the townsfolk. someone who, again, in his mind, should be evil.

but he just suddenly does a 180 and goes "damn, you can make fire with your hands, you're actually pretty cool"

and then a few days (?) of talking to her later, he's running off to live with her in the Demon Realm, while simultaneously not giving a single fuck about the brother he's abandoning.

(he even runs off with a smile, with a literal :D face, I fucking can't lmao)

Philip ends up seeing Caleb get dragged off through a weird portal and later follows along, thinking something like "no, my brother wouldn't just up and abandon me without saying anything. he probably got captured by that witch we saw together that one time! she probably used some demon magic to bewitch Caleb and took him through that portal to kill him or worse! I gotta go save him!". and, after spending god knows how long in that realm, searching endlessly for his missing older brother, he eventually finds him. but he also finds that Caleb is not only perfectly okay and not hurt in the slightest, he's also peacefully walking together with the same witch who "captured" him, even holding hands with her.

and when enraged Philip tries to attack Evelyn, to protect Caleb from the witch who took him from his home, from his brother, still thinking that Caleb's under her control, Caleb just... gives him a hug and goes on to introduce the witch as his new wife to him (I'm assuming that portrait is the same day as the other three, if not the same scene), also adding on top of that that they're having a child. all as if nothing happened. treating the whole thing like everything's perfectly okay and just another normal day, fully ignoring the fact that he threw his brother away with no care or thought, leaving him completely alone, a full orphan, now with zero actual family left (in TTT, during their backstory, it's said that "Caleb did his best to take care of his younger brother", meaning that either they never got adopted in Gravesfield, or whoever adopted them didn't give a shit about the two, so they still mostly had to fend for themselves), all to go smash some random 5 out of 10 witchussy he talked to, like, 3 times. no fucking wonder Philip killed him!

(btw, jokes aside, it didn't seem like he intended to kill Caleb, because in that portrait where he's ready to kill with a knife in his hand, he's facing forward, while Caleb is actually to his left. so it just looks to me like Philip was gonna try to kill Evelyn again, and Caleb either jumped in front of her to protect her and got accidentally stabbed or he attacked Philip back, to, again, protect Evelyn, and Philip ended up winning that fight. but that's just my theory)

my brother in literal christ and literal titan – why in the FUCK are you just hugging it out with a smile on your face??? you ran off while giving absolutely no warning to anyone, especially your younger brother! why do you think he's here and actively trying to attack you and your new wife? you're not even trying to address the fact that you left him! at least when Luz ran off to a different realm without warning, she had a "I'm still at the camp" cover, so Camila wouldn't worry that much about where her daughter is, and even then she still felt bad for leaving her mother and planned to go back home once summer was over. this chucklefuck, on the other hand, just permanently portaled away to the Boiling Isles, knocked up a witch and fully settled down there, walking around with a big ol' smile and no care in the world. "Philip who? never heard of him"

the only thing that would sorta make this situation seem better (as in, not make Caleb seem like an overly naive ignorant brick), in my opinion, is if they added one more portrait – after the one where he meets the witch, but before the one where he leaves. in that portrait, Caleb would look like he's trying his best to convince Philip that witches aren't actually evil, and perhaps even try to get him to go live with them in the Demon Realm, all the while Philip's looking at him with either disagreement/disappointment/disgust or just rolling his eyes and full on ignoring him, while sharpening his witch hunt tools or something. then it would look like Caleb at least tried to make his brother change his mind, like he tried to offer him a chance to go with them. but no. with the way the portraits look in the final version it just seems like Caleb was fully on-board with killing witches since he was young, even pulling his younger brother along to think the same way, Philip also thought that Caleb was perfectly fine with killing witches, but once he actually meets a real witch (assuming they've never met one before) he instantly pulls an uno reverse card and just runs off with her, without so much as telling his brother beforehand.

I'm not trying to say that "Belos should've been redeemed, because he's the victim here and Caleb is bad and it's all his fault". he still murdered his brother and went on to manipulate everyone on Boiling Isles for centuries, with his end goal being the death of all witches, while simultaneously being stuck in the loop of "denial" and "bargaining" stages of grief – repeatedly trying and failing to recreate a perfect copy of Caleb, but also killing each one that came out wrong or went against him. Belos not being redeemed in the end was the right choice (ignoring the "Belos was always le bad" from King's dad), I agree with that. frankly, if he actually got redeemed in the end, I'd probably be seething for the next 3 to 5 years, like how I did after the Diamonds' "redemptions" in SU (yes I'm still pissed about that lol). I'm just saying that, from what was shown to us, Caleb didn't seem like that good of a person either, not as bad as Belos ended up being, but still not that great. and, once again, seemingly had a raisin for a brain.

(off topic, but during Masha's retelling of Wittebane's backstory, their "sounds like big bro got a hot witch girlfriend and little bro got upset" line was so fucking cringe, it gave me a fever for 3 days the first time I watched the episode)

k, rant over, I dunno what else to add

TL;DR: I think Caleb was dumb as a brick, because, from what was shown to us in their backstory, he seemed to have run off to Demon Realm and abandon Philip without telling him anything beforehand. when Philip came to BI to look for his brother, who he assumed was under control of the witch who "took" him, since he thought his last living family member wouldn't just abandon him, and when he eventually found him, and it turned out he wasn't in any danger at all, Caleb just brushed the whole "I left you for witchussy" thing under the rug and pretended everything was and is perfectly fine, even though it clearly isn't. rip bozo

[ineedcoffee-sigyn]

You know... I miss villains who aren't always black and white with their views.

I like them complex and tragic.

[enchantedchocolatebars]

A reminder:

Old Man Philip: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Beardo Philip: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Teen Philip: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Kid Philip: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ <3

Peacher Philip: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Monster Philip: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Hollow Mind Kid Philip: ❤️ ��️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Chibi Belos Philip: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Philip's literal skull at the end of "Watching And Dreaming" : ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Kaiju Philip: ❤️ (Imagine this as a heart a half emoji)

[pipcoded]

i love belos and the collector’s dynamic in this one scene, they treat each other like old friends and regard each other casually, and it makes sense because they’ve been working together for centuries at this point. they make cruel jokes together. they’re cruel children in spirit and in another life they were probably ten year olds burning ants with a magnifying glass together on the sidewalk

[m4rs-ex3]

y'know people have been pointing out for a while now what a hypocritical pile of slime he is but this is just hilarious

[asherisawkward]

Do you have a favorite Belos (kid him, his bearded self, etc) Can you list the looks from favorite to your least favorite? I really hope this makes sense lol. Also, what did you think of the Chibi Belos thing? Is he capable of being cute (Belos in general)?

My favorite styles of Philip would be

Kings Tide Philip

Child Philip

Bearded Philip and Emperor Philip

Monster Form Philip

Kaiju Philip

I didn’t actually see a lot about Chibi Belos, but I thought the design was adorable.

Is he capable of being cute? Clearly, you underestimate the extent of my daddy issues. Of course I think he can be cute. In a pathetic, wet cat sort of way.

[kittydoesthings]

just watched the finale of The Owl House and I need to go cry for a bit

[guthrie-odonto]

On one had, there being other living titans out there kind of dampens the poignancy of King’s whole character

On the other hand, Anguirus voiced by Seth Rogen

[ash-the-gender-hoarder]

Holy shit just watch the final episode of the owl house and its got me crying rn I can't deal, fuck you disney for cancelling this show but this episode got me jkjwhsjzjnasjj

[thewiglesswonder]

I enjoyed the "mad-with-power kaiju" phase while it lasted, and the voice acting was, as always, incredible.

[jess-the-vampire]

Could arofam!belos turn into kaiju!belos? (Like canon belos can) Or is that not possible in the arofam au?

i mean he can, but he doesn't have much of a reason to, so it probably wouldn't happen regardless.

he might of thought about it as a weapon against the collector tho

[redvelvetpanpan]

Belos turning into a kaiju was NOT in my Watching and Dreaming bingo card.

[katrinasis]

i sure am glad they did nothing with belos’ backstory, constant self-deception, and deeply suppressed guilt after setting it up for like a season and a half. i sure am glad everything surrounding caleb never actually got explained. i’m especially glad belos spent half the episode as a kaiju so they didn’t have to do anything other than make him scream really loudly and act intimidating. yippee!