#ash's owl house meta

[ashanimus]

One thing that brings me to tears if I think about it too long is how a Eda, a chronically ill, loud, unconventional adult woman with no bio children is still celebrated for who she is and what she has accomplished just by surviving.

Her story isn’t over. She isn’t irrelevant or just a joke. She’s still allowed to struggle and grow, and occupy a mentor role—but also that of a sister, a daughter, a friend, a mother, a lover. Shes a fully rounded, connected person. She is celebrated for her wit, her power, her humor, wisdom and growth as a person. To say nothing of her courage and endurance.

This is a lady whose community has treated her terribly because she failed to fit in at every stage. Too clever by half, and a “failed” gifted child as disabled adult—feared for her power but also a garbage selling felon barely getting by before the apocalypse came along.

As a character she goes beyond hope—she reminds many out there that we are enough, and getting by and Surviving is the birth of rebellion. And every part of us matters.

#eda clawthorne #the owl house #im being redundant but eda means a lot to me #and all the millions of disabled adults with similar stories #ash's owl house meta #I've already gotten sloppy with the tags damn

[f-o-and-selfship-club]

NEW F/O List!!!

Romantic F/Os💖

Scarecrow (DC/BTAS/TNBA/Nolanverse/Arkham Knight/Arkham Asylum/Fear State/Brave and The Bold/Injustice 2/Happy Halloween Scooby Doo/Tomorrowverse/Harley Quinn Series)

Mad Hatter (DC/BTAS)

Joker (DC/BTAS/The Batman Series)

Ragdoll (DC/The Batman Series)

Riddler (DC/The Batman Series)

Penguin (DC/The Batman Series)

Question (DC/Justice League Unlimited)

Harley Quinn (DC/Harley Quinn Series/Injustice 2)

Luigi (Mario)

Bowser (Mario)

ENA (Dream BBQ)

NOS-4-A2 (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command)

Zurg (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command)

Ty Parsec (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command)

Bezel (Chikn Nuggit)

Dabi (MHA)

Tenya Ida (MHA)

Tomura Shigaraki (MHA)

Hawks (MHA)

Toga Himiko (MHA)

Eijirou Kirishima (MHA)

Doc Ock (Spectacular Spider Man)

Electro (Spectacular Spider Man)

Shocker (Spectacular Spider Man)

Eddie Brock/Venom (Venom Movie)

Meta Knight (Kirby)

Sammy Lawrence (BATIM)

Zavok (Sonic)

Zazz (Sonic)

Wes Weasley (Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog)(Childhood crush)

Spawn (Image Comics)

Dr Facilier (Princess and The Frog)

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

Jafar (Aladdin)

Claude Frollo (Hunchback Of Notre Dame(Disney)

Snatcher (Hat In Time)

Dr Nefarious (Ratchet and Clank)

Bender (Futurama)

Father (Kids Next Door)

Scar (Alien Vs Predator)

Right Hand Man (Henry Stickmin)

Chris McLean (Total Drama)

Izzy (Total Drama)

Narrator (Stanley Parable)

Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot)

Matt (Eddsworld)

Blitzø (Helluva Boss)

Paimon (Helluva Boss)

Kronk (Emperor's New Groove)

Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)

Zestial Moore (Hazbin Hotel)

Tabi (FNF)

Garcello (FNF)

Freddy Krueger (Nightmare On Elm Street)

Dr Strangeglove (Moshi Monsters)

Dr Krankcase (Skylanders)

Captain Hook (Peter Pan)

Wally Darling (Welcome Home)

Peppino (Pizza Tower)

Vigilante (Pizza Tower)

Drakken (Kim Possible)

Strangled Red (Poképasta)

Sniper (Team Fortress 2)

Korekiyo Shinguji (Danganronpa)

MX (Mario.EXE)

SCP-049 (SCP)

Katz (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

Freaky Fred (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

Computer (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

HIM (Powerpuff Girls)

Espresso Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Clover Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Bob Velseb (Spooky Month)

Agent Trout (We Bare Bears)

Mordecai Heller (Lackadaisy)

Jack Horner (Puss In Boots)

Zenitsu (Demon Slayer)

Silver Spoon (Inanimate Insanity)

Black Hat (Villainous)

Walker (Danny Phantom)

Skulker (Danny Phantom)

Fred (Scooby Doo)

Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Devil (The Cuphead Show)

Jack O Lantern (Grim Adventures Of Billy and Mandy)

General Skarr (Evil Con Carne)

Simon Belmont (Captain N The Game Master)(Childhood crush)

Emperor Belos (Owl House)

Sub Zero (Mortal Kombat)

Stocking (Panty and Stocking)

Kiyoshi (Hanazuki)

Jack Sparrow (Pirates Of The Caribbean)

Nikku (FNF)

Six (BFB)

Lesley (DHMIS)

Sasha Waybright (Amphibia)

Astral (Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal)(Childhood crush)

Vulture (Spectacular Spider Man)

Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony)(Childhood crush)

Discord (My Little Pony)(Childhood crush)

Mr Scatterbrain (Mr Men/Mr Men Show)(Childhood crush)

Ales Mansay (Rayman)(Childhood crush)

Mr Nonsense (Mr Men)(Childhood crush)

DangerGrid Of Doom (Skatoony)(Childhood crush)

Platonic F/Os⚘️

Kuromi (Sanrio)

Cinnamoroll (Sanrio)

Chococat (Sanrio)

ENA (Season 1)

Moony (ENA)

Bendy (BATDR)

Ellie Rose (Henry Stickmin)

Charles Calvin (Henry Stickmin)

Reginald Copperbottom (Henry Stickmin)

Demencia (Villainous)

Benrey (Half Life)

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid)

Kasane Teto (Vocaloid)

Kagamine Rin (Vocaloid)

Hex (FNF)

Annie (FNF)

Pom Pom (FNF)

Cassette Girl (FNF)

Boyfriend (FNF)

Girlfriend (FNF)

Carol (FNF)

Ash (FNF)

Selever (FNF)

Ruv (FNF)

Nikusa (FNF)

Solazar (FNF)

Rascal (FNF)

Dr Springheel (FNF)

Tankman (Tankmen)

Tord (Eddsworld)

Eduardo (Eddsworld)

Matilda (Eddsworld/Ellsworld)

Zanta Claws (Eddsworld)

Elvira Mistress Of The Dark

Rayman (Rayman/Animated Series/Captain Laserhawk)

Globox (Rayman)

Grand Minimus (Rayman)

Tessa (Skylanders)

Mags (Skylanders)

Eye Brawl (Skylanders)

Flynn (Skylanders)

Hugo (Skylanders)

Bambi (Bambi)

Faline (Bambi)

SpongeBob SquarePants

Patrick Star (SpongeBob)

Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob)

Plankton (SpongeBob)

Karen Plankton (SpongeBob)

Tiana (Princess and The Frog)

Charlotte (Princess and The Frog)

Tanjiro Kamado (Demon Slayer)

Poppet (Moshi Monsters)

Luvli (Moshi Monsters)

Oogie Boogie (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)

Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel)

Vortex (Helluva Boss)

Queen Bee-Zlebub (Helluva Boss)

Bunny (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

Kitty (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia)

Red Action (OK K.O)

Puss In Boots

Frost Queen Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Strawberry Crepe Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Cherry Blossom Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Squid Ink Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Daizy (Wow Wow Wubbzy)

Widget (Wow Wow Wubbzy)

Rocko (Rocko's Modern Life)

Filburt (Rocko's Modern Life)

Gordi (Unicorn Wars)

Maria (Unicorn Wars)

Toaster (Brave Little Toaster)

Luca

Giulia (Luca)

Lord X (Sonic.EXE)

Majin Sonic

Hypno (Poképasta)

Bubble (BFDI)

4 (BFB)

X (BFB)

Cofi (Chikn Nuggit)

Rabbid Rosalina (Mario + Rabbids)

Iris (Pokémon)

Shaggy (Scooby Doo)

Freckles (Lackadaisy)

Gia (Madagascar)

Alex (Madagascar)

Melman (Madagascar)

Private (Madagascar)

Corporal (Madagascar)

Soft Mouse (FNF: Soft)

Charlie (Smiling Friends)

Pim (Smiling Friends)

Gretchen (Camp Lazlo)

Edward (Camp Lazlo)

Patsy (Camp Lazlo)

Mario

Yoshi (Mario)

Peach (Mario)

Daisy (Mario)

Rosalina (Mario)

Toad (Mario)

Boo (Mario)

King Boo (Mario)

Wario (Mario)

Sonic The Hedgehog

Amy Rose (Sonic)

Vector (Sonic)

Chip (Sonic)

Orbot (Sonic)

Knuckles (Sonic Movie)

Tom Wachowski (Sonic Movie)

Maddie Wachowski (Sonic Movie)

Po (Teletubbies)

Laa-Laa (Teletubbies)

Fleegle (Banana Splits)

Alice (DC/BTAS)

Donutella

Rango

Beans (Rango)

Mao Mao (Mao Mao: HOPH)

Badgerclops (Mao Mao: HOPH)

Nazz (Ed, Edd N Eddy)

Oggy (Oggy & The Cockroaches)

Familial F/Os💙

Bandit (Bluey)

Chilli (Bluey)

Radley (Bluey)

Frisky (Bluey)

Calypso (Bluey)

Brandy (Bluey)

Eda Clawthorne (Owl House)

Raine Whispers (Owl House)

Lilith Clawthorne (Owl House)

Millie (Helluva Boss)

Moxxie (Helluva Boss)

Stolas (Helluva Boss)

Asmodeus (Helluva Boss)

Fizzarolli (Helluva Boss)

Rosie (Hazbin Hotel)

Lucifer Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)

Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Sally (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Moominpappa (Moomin)

Moominmamma (Moomin)

Mama White (Sanrio)

Papa White (Sanrio)

Hugo, Victor and Laverne (Hunchback Of Notre Dame(Disney)

King Andrias (Amphibia)

Olivia (Amphibia)

Lila (Spooky Month)

Jaune (Spooky Month)

John (Spooky Month)

Wallace (Wallace and Gromit)

Lady Tottington (Wallace and Gromit)

Muriel Bagge (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

Yor Forger (Spy X Family)

Loid Forger (Spy X Family)

Sarvente (FNF)

Chris (FNF)

Alicia (Pokémon)

Alice (Pokémon)

Taki (Friday Night Fever)

Count Bleck (Mario)

Tippi (Mario)

Vanilla (Sonic)

Optimus Prime (Transformers)

Ventriloquist and Scarface (DC/BTAS)

Catwoman (DC/The Batman 2004)

Connor (Detroit: Become Human)

Hank Anderson (Detroit: Become Human)

Jason Voorhess (Friday The 13th)

Pamela Voorhees (Friday The 13th)

Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Dr Eggman (Sonic)

Sibling F/Os🦋

Moomintroll (Moomin)

Snorkmaiden (Moomin)

Snork (Moomin)

Octavia (Helluva Boss)

Bluey

Bingo (Bluey)

Rusty (Bluey)

Slushi (Chikn Nuggit)

Sprig Plantar (Amphibia)

Marcy Wu (Amphibia)

Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Wendy (Gravity Falls)

Melony (SMG4)

Meilin Lee (Turning Red)

Abby Park (Turning Red)

Jenny Wakeman (My Life As A Teenage Robot)

Soft BF (FNF: Soft)

Madelyn Dinkley (Scooby Doo)

Streber (Spooky Month)

Tails (Sonic)

Rasazy (FNF)

Mindy (SpongeBob)

Nezuko (Demon Slayer)

Darrell (OK K.O)

Shannon (OK K.O)

Fink (O.K KO)

Dee Dee (Dexter's Laboratory)

Edd/Double D (Ed Edd n Eddy)

Collector (Owl House)

Olivia (Oggy & The Cockroaches)

Child F/Os🍰

Child versions of Blitzø, Stolas, Octavia, Fizzarolli (Helluva Boss)

Oliver (Helluva Boss)

Pom Pom (Bluey)

Lila (Bluey)

Cyan Fitzgerald (Todd McFarlane's Spawn Series)

Ashley (Warioware)

Penny (Warioware)

Kat & Ana (Warioware)

9-Volt (Warioware)

Julianna Scott (Sanrio)

Nifty (Hazbin Hotel)

Eri (MHA)

Kota Izumi (MHA)

Maggie Simpson (Simpsons)

Nugget (Super Meat Boy)

Anya Forger (Spy X Family)

Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls)

Adorabat (Mao Mao: HOPH)

Skid (Spooky Month)

Pump (Spooky Month)

Robert (Spooky Month)

Hat Kid (Hat In Time)

Sam (Trick R Treat)

Cream (Sonic)

Kirby

Orbulon (Warioware)

SCP-053 (SCP)

Baby Doll (DC/BTAS)

Cub (Happy Tree Friends)

Lazlo (Camp Lazlo)

Cubot (Sonic)

Dogday (Smiling Critters/Poppy Playtime)

Hoppy Hopscotch (Smiling Critters/Poppy Playtime)

Hello Kitty (Sanrio)

My Melody (Sanrio/Onegai My Melody)

X (BFB)

Snorky (Banana Splits)

Lumas (Mario)

Baby versions of Mario, Luigi (Mario)

Onion Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

Three Diablos (Puss In Boots)

QT (FNF)

Pet F/Os🐈

Gidget (Secret Life Of Pets)

Daisy (Secret Life Of Pets)

Chloe (Secret Life Of Pets)

Fat Nuggets (Hazbin Hotel)

Keekee (Hazbin Hotel)

King (Owl House)

Thumper (Bambi)

SCP-999 (SCP)

SCP-131 (SCP)

Artemis (Sailor Moon)

Diana (Sailor Moon)

Luna (Sailor Moon)

Zero (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Perrito (Puss In Boots)

Kitty Softpaws (Puss In Boots)

Gary (SpongeBob)

Ringo (Eddsworld)

Pipsqueak (The Lorax)

Shirousa, Kurousa, Strawberryusa, Blueberryusa, Momousa, Vanilla, Aousa, Pandausa, Balletusa, Primausa (Sugarbunnies)

Pusheen The Cat

Cheezborger (Chikn Nuggit)

Chikn Nuggit

Muffin (Bluey)

Socks (Bluey)

505 (Villainous)

My Sweet Piano (Sanrio)

Feathers McGraw (Wallace and Gromit)

Gromit (Wallace and Gromit)

Jeffrey The Land Shark (Marvel/It's Jeff Comics)

Polterpup (Luigi's Mansion)

Jess (Postman Pat)

Garfield

Odie (Garfield)

Bond (Spy X Family)

Le Quack (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

Courage The Cowardly Dog

Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Hypno, Eevee, Sylveon, Darkrai, Piplup, Pichu, Wynaut, Manaphy, Togepi, Pawmi, Mudkip, Torchic, Chikorita, Jirachi, Emolga, Axew, Cosmog, Mew, Celebi, Zorua, Minccino, Cinccino, Ralts, Latios, Latias, Riolu, Lucario, Buneary, Dwebble, Altaria, Swablu, Quaxly, Gengar, Misdreavus (Pokémon)

Shinto (FNF: Lullaby)

Scooby Doo

Chao (Sonic)

Rilakkuma

Zippy (TUFF Puppy)

Pugsley (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

#my f/os #f/o #f/o community #romantic f/o #platonic f/o #familal f/o #pet f/o #child f/o #sibling f/o #comfort characters

[transcodedcharacterstournament]

Winners from the first round on the left side

So to make things a little easier for me send your asks here @transcodedasks

Also I'm going to start tagging my tournament post with "trans-coded-characters" to make it a bit easier to find

Btw it's going to take me a little while to get the right side out because of some personal problems

Jesus of Nazareth (the bible)

Dean Winchester (supernatural)

The tenth doctor (doctor who)

Shigeo "mob" Kageyama (Mob psycho 100)

Penelope Garcia (criminal minds)

Anakin Skywalker (star wars)

Crowley (good omens)

James (pokemon)

Toph Beifong (A:tla)

Odo (star trek)

Julian Bashir (star trek)

Jadzia Dax (star trek)

Luke skywalker (star wars)

Hunter (The owl house)

Dipper pines (Gravity fall)

Shadow the Hedgehog (sonic the hedgehog)

Pidge (voltron)

Ejirou Kirishima (my hero academia)

Hatsune miku (Vocaloid/irl)

Test tube (inanimate insanity)

Black hole (bfdi)

Saw (bfdi)

Animal (the electric mayhem)

Janice (the electric mayhem)

Zoot (the electric mayhem)

Zuko (A:tla)

Pyrrha dve (the locked tomb)

Silver the hedgehog (sonic the hedgehog)

Howl Jenkins pendragon (howls moving castle)

Jesse Pinkman (breaking bad)

Noelle (deltarune)

Jim Lake Jr (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia)

Danny Fenton (Danny phantom)

Fox Mulder (the X-files)

Edward nygma - riddler (gotham)

Neo ( the matrix)

Worf (star trek)

Saavik (star trek)

Kurapika (hunter x hunter)

Miles Edgeworth (ace attorney)

Link (the legend of Zelda)

Chip (just roll with it)

Jay Ferin (just roll with it)

Ashe Winters and Kian stone (just roll with it) (they tied)

Gillion Tidestrider (just roll with it)

Leonardo (rise of the tmnt)

Madeline Hatter (ever after high)

Shuichi saihara (Danganronpa)

Hajime Hinata (Danganronpa)

Chihiro fujisaki (Danganronpa)

Jonathan Byers (stranger things)

Max Mayfield (stranger things)

Cecil Palmer (welcome to night vale)

Lena Sabrewing (duck tales)

Naoto Shirogane (Persona 4)

Futaba Sakura (Persona 5)

Ricky Potts (ride the cyclone)

Narciso Anasui (Jojos bizarre adventures)

Meta Knight (Kirby)

Ferdinand von Aegir (fire emblem)

Gomez Addams (the addams family)

Yellow caballero (pokemon adventures)

Silver (pokemon adventures)

Bow (she-ra and the princesses of power)

Lilith Clawthorne (the owl house)

Franky (one piece)

Shiki Misaki (the world ends with you)

#transgender #Trans-coded characters

[genderenvyelimination]

First Round Masterlist

3/12/2023:

Zuko | Avatar: The Last Airbender vs. Red | Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

Asmodeus | Obey Me! vs Garry | Ib

Spencer Reid | Criminal Minds vs. ENA | ENA

John Doe | Malevolent vs Lyfrassir Edda | The Bifrost Incident

Blackbeard | Our Flag Means Death vs. Percy Jackson | Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Otachi | Pacific Rim vs. Kurama | Naruto

Thanatos | Hades vs. Obito | Naruto

Lydia Deetz | Beetlejuice vs. John Mitchell | Being Human UK

Milo Thatch | Atlantis vs. Hiccup | How to Train Your Dragon

Loki | Norse Mythology vs. Kaworu | Neon Genesis Evangelion

Chat Noir | Miraculous Ladybug vs. Stevonnie | Steven Universe

3/14/2023:

Byleth | Fire Emblem vs. Fiver | Watership Down

Toruk Makto | Avatar: Way of Water vs. Aragorn | LOTR

Alma Winograd-Diaz | Undone vs. Jennifer Check | Jennifer's Body

Meta Knight | Kirby vs. Anakin Skywalker | Star Wars

Sylvester Ashling | Epithet Erased vs. Emmet | Pokemon

Thursday Plurbonym Boyporridge | Strange Aeons vs. Wizard | wizardisananimal

Bears in Trees | Band vs. 4th Phase Ghouls | Ghost BC

Electra | Starlight Express vs. Gerard Way | MCR

Hare | Tales from EarthSea vs. Sonic | Sonic the Hedgehg

Hero Killer Stain vs. Hawks | BNHA

Ekko | Arcane vs. Papa Emeritus IV/Copia | Ghost Band

Will Wood | Will Wood and the Tapeworms vs. The Toy Soldier | The Mechanisms

3/15/2023:

Lewis Pepper | Mystery Skulls vs. The Curious | Creeped Out

Raine Whispers | The Owl House vs. El-Ahrairah | Watership Down

Kris Dreemur | Deltarune vs. Doug Eiffel | Wolf 359

Elias | Ancient Magnus Bride vs. Ash Crimson | King of Fighters

Testament | Guilty Gear vs. Megamind | Megamind

Undertaker | Black Butler vs. Cure Chocolat | Kira Kira Precure a la Mode

Young Tim Curry Characters | Clue vs. Rumi | Just Roll With It

Richard III | Requiem of the Rose King vs. Simon Petrikov |Adventure Time

Denji | Chainsaw Man vs. Sasori | Naruto

Hunter | Rain World vs. Sam Winchester | Supernatural

Eddie Munson | Stranger Things vs. Magnus Chase | Magnus Chase

3/16/2023:

Hiei | Yu Yu Hakusho vs. Kaname Date | Ai: the Somnium Files

Bold and Brash | Spongebob Squarepants vs. Lucienne | Sandman (THEY BOTH WON?)

E-boy Wojak | Meme culture vs. Cal Kestis | Jedi: Fallen Order

Team Rocket | Pokemon vs. Nico de Angelo | Percy Jackson/ Riordanverse

Ludwig Von Drake | Disney vs. Red Lizard | Rain World

Julian Devorak | Arcana vs. Professor Venomous | OKKO

Giovanni Potage | Epithet Erased vs. Ryuko | Kill La Kill

Mr. Fox | Fantastic Mr. Fox vs. Zim | Invader Zim

Dio Brando | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure vs. Sasuke Uchiha | Naruto

Yamato | One Piece vs. Roy Mustang | Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

Lemon Grab | Adventure Time vs. Fujimoto | Ponyo

Mizuki | Project Sekai vs. Gomez Addams | Addams Family

3/17/2023:

Arven | Pokemon Scarlet and Violet vs. Reigen | Mob Psycho 100

Pure Vessel | Hollow Knight vs. Lord Shen | Kung Fu Panda 2

Trunks | Dragon Ball vs. Dr. Robotnik | Sonic

Five Pebbles | Rain World vs. The Goblin King | Labyrinth

Turrican OST | Turrican Game vs. Ganon's Corpse | Breath of the Wild 2

Edgar Allen Poe | Bungo Stray Dogs vs. Mollymauk Tealeaf | Critical Role

Dwight Enys | Poldark vs. Will Graham | Hannibal

Scrooge McDuck | Ducktales 2017 vs. Dr. Emmett Brown | Back to the Future

Rohan Kishibe | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure vs. Bilbo Baggins | Hobbit

Micheal Afton | Five Nights At Freddy's vs. Cecil Palmer | Welcome To Nightvale

Carla | Dumbing of Age vs. Larry | Pokemon

Tragedians | Pathologic vs. Zagreus | Hades

Alucard | Castlevania vs. Robin | One Piece

#genderenvyelimination #this is going to get loooooooooooong

[kakusu-shipping]

Crush List

I use to have a crush list on my first pinned post but I ended up deleting it to save space and sense then have been pretty indecisive about bringing it back just because I didn't feel it was useful information and the concept was too broad and more and more excuses of the like.

Then my OCD got stuck in list mode so here we are anyway.

Long post under the cut, thankyou for your attention

Canon Crushes

Crushes that are canon to my Self-Insert's story (either I have a crush on them or they have a crush on me), some of which are also on the F/O list, but they're still in the crush phase to me <3

Katsuki Bakugo - My Hero Academia

Reedus Jonah - Fairy Tail

Usopp - One Piece

Makoto Katai - Komi Can't Communicate

Souichi Nishimura (Ironman) - Baka and Test

Junta Hayami - Romantic Killer

Franky Franklin - Spy X Family

Chieko - Princess Jellyfish

Masato Hanzawa - Sasaki and Miyano/Hirano and Kagiura

Baron Humbert von Gikkington - The Cat Returns

Arrietty Clock - The Secret World of Arrietty

Pearl - Steven Universe

The Beast - Over the Garden Wall

Ash's Sirfetch'd - Pokemon Anime

Guzma - Pokemon Masters

Doctor Mario - Super Mario

Metal Mario - Super Mario

Wardell - Animal Crossing

Spyke - Splatoon

CQ Cumber - Splatoon

Chara - Undertale

Flowey - Undertale

Gaster - Deltarune

Phineas Filch - Ace Attorney

Maugaloa Malosi - Overwatch

Luca Blight - Suikoden 2

Just can't be bother to make an S/I

For various reasons including; Already have too many S/Is for this media, There's a ship I like that already has the dynamic my S/I would have with them (including friend's self-ships), Haven't had a good S/I concept yet, etc.

Pantherlily - Fairy Tail

Taurus - Fairy Tail

Mayaya - Princess Jellyfish

Hilling - Ranking of Kings

Marco Pagot - Porco Rosso

Palo Barrrows - The Titan's Bride

Noppo - Drifting Home

Randall - Monsters University

Jasper - Steven Universe

Rose Quarts/Pink Diamond - Steven Universe

Padparadscha - Steven Universe

The Titan - The Owl House

Grime - Amphibia

Maddie Flour - Amphibia

King Andrias - Amphibia

Hugo Oak - Kipo and the age of the Wonderbeasts

Jamack - Kipo and the age of the Wonderbeasts

Black Hat -Villainous

Bobert - The Amazing World of Gumball

The Nomad - Nomad of Nowhere

Brock - Pokemon Anime

Cilan - Pokemon Anime

Ren - Pokemon Anime

Ingo and Emmet - Pokemon BW

Nanu - Pokemon SuMo

Mega Swampert - Pokemon

Regirock - Pokemon

Regice - Pokemon

Mega Lopunny - Pokemon

Dusknoir - Pokemon

Giritina - Pokemon

Blacephalon - Pokemon

Magnazone - Monster Mind

Bowser - Super Mario

Dimentio - Super Paper Mario

Grilby - Undertale

Damon Gant - Ace Attorney

Bobby Fulbright - Ace Attorney

Junko Enoshima - Danganronpa

Chihiro Fujisaki - Danganronpa

The Ultimate Imposter - Danganronpa

Gundham Tanaka - Danganronpa

Winston - Overwatch

Mako Rutledge (Roadhog) - Overwatch

Akande Ogundimu (Doomfist) - Overwatch

Jean-Baptiste Augustin - Overwatch

Richmond - Suikoden 2

Don't know enough

Either a non-major character I got a little too attached to or Their source material is too small to inspire me or I literally haven't directly interacted with the media they are from

Lapointe - Fairy Tail

Sanji Vinsmoke - One Piece

Usopp - One Piece

Bartholomew Kuma - One Piece

Bepo - One Piece

Kitsune - XXXHolic

Dream Seller - XXXHolic

Otori-San - I Like Otori-san!

Tomoki Inohara - Melt at Night

Satou Jun - Mimasaka-kun to Mayoeru Kobuta

Yuzuru Tachibana - Drifting Home

Metauro - Villainous

Caine - The Amazing Digital Circus

Data - Star Trek

Harvey Hornswoggle - Drawtectives

Animatronic - Drawtectives

Callagan - Pokemon the Power of Us

Pumpkinmon - Digimon

Noblepumpkinmon - Digimon

Tubba Blubba - Paper Mario

Ganon - Legend of Zelda

Meta Knight- Kirby

Galacta Knight - Kirby

Morpho Knight - Kirby

Magalor - Kirby

Roche - Dokapon Kingdom

Gaster - Undertale

Light Field (Snake) - The Nonary Games

Shamura - Cult of the Lamb

Ralph - Detroit; Become Human

Jerry - Detroit; Become Human

Bloodhound - Apex

#Crush List #Proship Selfship #Proselfship #Self Ship #One of these sections is MUCH longer than the other #If you're uncomfortable with sharing your F/O and see them on this list #Don't Worry About It #These are specifically just characters I think are neat #But am not actively Self Shipping with #Because Brain Dumb #OCD made me work on this for like a full week now #And I honestly still feel like it's too short or too uneven #Buuuuut whatever #I don't want anyone to question Usopp being in the first and third category alright I've never seen One Piece #But I do have a self insert vetted by my BF who is currently hyper fixated on it #And said S/I is down bad for Usopp's cringe fail Transgirl swag #Alright anyway #Thankyou all for reading if you did I apologize again for going list crazy recently #It's 2am but I might also post an Ask Game to follow this up sense I have a crush ask game on hand #And my Drafts have passed 30 and I'm going to explode if I don't start chipping that down some #Thankyou very much for reading if you did

[lorenzobane]

So fun! Thanks @lou-isfake I haven’t been very involved with fandom in a while despite the fact that I continue to write and that is because I’m occasionally antisocial

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line. Then tag 10 of your favorite authors!

Anyway! Twenty last fics first lines, and even though I have written well over 20 I’m going to post my WIP so it might actually make me finish it:

 Untitled (Drarry): “To be honest, mate,” Ronald Weasley, one of Draco’s friends as if that isn’t crazy enough, says. “Hermione and I thought for sure you’d hold out better.”

Pretend to Be Nice (Drarry): Draco isn’t sure why he decided to come to this stupid party. 

Look Back At It (Drarry): Of all the hurdles that Harry thought he would have to overcome to become an Auror, he felt that not having his NEWTs would be the one that ultimately tripped him up. 

Hate to see you go (Love to watch you leave) (Drarry): The first time that Draco spots Potter after the war, it is at a Ministry gala.

Blood Bound (Magnus Bane & Asmodeus): “Oh, my poor sweet boy.”

Intrusive Thoughts (Malec): If there is one thing that Magnus is adept at, it is hiding his depression. 

Whatever It Takes (Malec): Magnus knows. Magnus knows. Magnus knows. (I know this is technically three sentences but it is one sentence thematically) 

Extra! Extra! Read All About it (Zimmbits): “Oh, honey,” Bitty says, laughing in his ear on the phone. 

Charmed, I’m Sure (Malec): The past six months have been a whirlwind for Magnus.

House of His Father (Magnus & Asmodeus): The small boy is smarter than the other street rats. 

a sun to maybe dissipate (Malec): He’s never seen Magnus bleed. 

Till the world ends (Malec): If Alec had to list his top date ideas, he would not list ‘skulking in an alley with Magnus trying to find the Owl, who is also his brother.’ 

Quite Magical (Malec: Harry Potter AU): Magnus leaned back bored in his chair.  

Regional Flora (Sam Wilson/ M’Baku): In retrospect, Sam really shouldn’t have been as surprised as he was when he was the first person T’Challa asks to hang out with socially. 

Noir (Malec): It was raining that fateful Thursday evening in New York. (Technically a series of one-shots but I just picked my favorite)

Vulnerability (Michael Burnham/Ash Tyler): Dating.There is a word that former First Officer Michael Burnham had not often used. 

When the Walls Fell (Malec): “I mean- I just don’t get it!”

old moon into stars (Malec): Magnus was leaning over a potion with a pipet, carefully dripping dilithium sulfate into it. 

See Your Scars (And Kiss Your Crimes) (Malec): Alec was lounging on the couch in Magnus’s living room while the Warlock bustled about the chamber.  

Who Ya Gonna Call? (Malec): “Magnus!” Magnus sighed and put down his copy of Journal of Modern Magick.

Patterns: Hmmm often short and to the point, I also used to be very prone to starting on a dialogue line. I still am, but I think I have a tendency to start en media res. Nearly always, my fics take place in the middle of the conflict or drama that is already happening because I tend to write mostly one-shots. I just want to write something short and fun with immediate gratification because I am a fool that way. 

Tagging:@ohlafraise (one of my favorite writers and people on this website); @punishandenslavesuckers (creative and delightful! I would love to see your crack at it) @magnusclarys (one of my favorite Shadowhunters writers); @cibeewastaken (I’m not that familiar with Drarry writers tbh- but a great writer); @thesorrowoflizards (back when I was in the SH fandom, I loved their work); @magalimoons (The only person I have ever agreed with on most meta); @stokiometry (I remember really loving their writing as well); @intangibel (a FANTASTIC! Shadowhunters writer); @ladymatt (one of my first friends on this site, a great person, a generous editor and a overall wonderful human being); @letteredlettered (an generous and thoughtful author, I always appreciate when you know a ton of thought went into every line) 

#Shadowhunters #Harry Potter #start trek discovery #Harry James Potter #omg check please #black panther #Draco Malfoy #Magnus Bane #Alec Lightwood #ash tyler #michael burnham #Sam Wilson #m'baku #eric bittle #jack zimmermann #drarry #malec #sam'baku #zimbits #fanfic

[tatticstudio55]

Daenerys as an anti-Cinderella?

Another asoiaf/fairy tales meta

It’s always fun to wonder which fairy tales goes best with which asoiaf characters (especially the girls, for some reason). For Sansa and Arya, the references are overflowing. With Dany it’s… trickier. Only two – or maybe three – classic tales really fit. Two of those I’ve already talked about in previous posts (Thumbelina and The Fire Bird). There are some general “clues” pointing to Cinderella…

-Viserys, the Anastasia & Drizella duo to Daenerys’s Cinderella

-In ADWD, Cleon the “butcher king” of Astapor make a marriage offer to Daenerys and gift her with a pair of slippers, but

Irri slid the slippers onto Dany’s feet. They were gilded leather, decorated with green freshwater pearls. Does the butcher king believe a pair of pretty slippers will win my hand? “King Cleon is most generous. You may thank him for his lovely gift.” Lovely, but made for a child. Dany had small feet, yet the pointed slippers mashed her toes together.

-Cinderella is named as such for her habit of retreating close to the ashes-filled hearth once her work is done (from “cendres”, the French word for “ashes”). Bettelheim view Cinderella’s behavior as a product of sorrow and grief for her dead mother. For Dany, ash is also linked with sorrow and, first inverted trope, with the mother mourning her dead child:

She could feel the heat inside her, a terrible burning in her womb. Her son was tall and proud, with Drogo’s copper skin and her own silver-gold hair, violet eyes shaped like almonds. And he smiled for her and began to lift his hand toward hers, but when he opened his mouth the fire poured out. She saw his heart burning through his chest, and in an instant he was gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash. She wept for her child, the promise of a sweet mouth on her breast, but her tears turned to steam as they touched her skin. – Daenerys, AGOT

There’s also the “Queen of ashes” nickname Dany is sometime dubbed with (more so in the show) and the fact that Cinderella herself is a “queen” of the ashes, somewhat (hence why she’s called “Cinderella”).

-Mirri Maz Duur is an inverted fairy godmother to Dany.

But these are details. Overall, Dany comes off as the anti-Cinderella of asoiaf. This becomes especially apparent in ADWD, where she’s, essentially, a glorified slave to her duties who dreams of escapes with her “prince charming”, i.e. Daario. This all reach a culmination point when she goes to the “ball”, i.e., the grand reopening of the Daznak’s pit. Unlike Cinderella, who’d give anything to attend the ball, Dany would give anything to skip it:

“Even if the pits must open, must Your Grace go yourself?” asked Missandei as she was washing the queen’s hair.

[…]

She would rather have drifted in the fragrant pool all day, eating iced fruit off silver trays and dreaming of a house with a red door, but a queen belongs to her people, not to herself. – Daenerys, ADWD

Whereas the ball meant dreams and freedom for Cinderella, for Dany, it’s the perpetuation of a nightmare. They both present themselves at the event under a veil: a literal one for Dany,

“And over it, the long red veils.” The veils would keep the wind from blowing sand into her mouth. And the red will hide any blood spatters. – Daenerys, ADWD

A metaphorical one for Cinderella, garbed so elegantly that her step mother and half sisters don’t recognize her. This idea of disguise is interesting. For a start, it contrasts with Dany’s refusal to put a veil between herself and Astapor in ASOS. To borrow Clapton’s words on Dany’s white garments in the show, the purpose of the veil is to “remove herself (Dany)” from the situation. Dany’s choice of clothes is a mean of non-attendance, while Cinderella’s costume allows her to go incognito and enjoy the moment. There is the contrasts of colors: Cinderella wears an immaculate, pure white dress (at least in the Disney version), whereas Dany wears yellow silk and a blood-colored veil. Finally, in some versions, the ball attended by Cinderella is a masked ball. This could be significant, since the reopening of the pits prove to be its own kind of masked “ball” (and even more so in the show, where the sons of the Harpy creep inside the pits wearing literal masks):

At the base of the Great Pyramid, Ser Barristan awaited them beside an ornate open palanquin, surrounded by Brazen Beasts. Ser Grandfather, Dany thought. Despite his age, he looked tall and handsome in the armor that she’d given him. “I would be happier if you had Unsullied guards about you today, Your Grace,” the old knight said, as Hizdahr went to greet his cousin. “Half of these Brazen Beasts are untried freedmen.” And the other half are Meereenese of doubtful loyalty, he left unsaid. Selmy mistrusted all the Meereenese, even shavepates.

“And untried they shall remain unless we try them.”

“A mask can hide many things, Your Grace. Is the man behind the owl mask the same owl who guarded you yesterday and the day before?

How can we know?”

“How should Meereen ever come to trust the Brazen Beasts if I do not? There are good brave men beneath those masks. I put my life into their hands.” - Daenerys, ADWD

Behind the drum marched Brazen Beasts four abreast. Some carried cudgels, others staves; all wore pleated skirts, leathern sandals, and patchwork cloaks sewn from squares of many colors to echo the many-colored bricks of Meereen. Their masks gleamed in the sun: boars and bulls, hawks and herons, lions and tigers and bears, fork-tongued serpents and hideous basilisks. – Daenerys, ADWD

In fact, some descriptions of the event, when taken by themselves, almost make it sound like there’s an actual ball happening inside the pit:

Across the pit the Graces sat in flowing robes of many colors, clustered around the austere figure of Galazza Galare, who alone amongst them wore the green. – Daenerys, ADWD

We could even dig further: dancing, in asoiaf, is often used as a euphemism for dying, or is used in scenes going heavy on the death-related subtext. What do people do in a ball? They dance. What do people do in the pits? They die.

“Barsena is very quick,” Reznak said. “She will dance with the boar, Magnificence, and slice him when he passes near her. He will be awash in blood before he falls, you shall see.” – Daenerys, ADWD

Cinderella’s ball is a dream and Dany’s “ball” is a nightmare, but both are woken from it, for the twelfth stroke of midnight will lift the charm. Fun fact, if I’m not mistaken, there were twelve fights planned that day: Khrazz, the Spotted Cat, a “Lysene youth with long blond hair”, an elephant, a bull, a mock battle, a folly with dwarfs, Barsena, a folly with old women and “three more matches”, according to Hzdahr… yup, that makes twelve. Each fight is a “stroke of midnight” for Dany, pulling her from the nightmare, urging her to wake up. At Barsena, she snaps. The charm falls, her carriage turns into a pumpkin and her gown into rags:

She lifted her veil and let it flutter away. She took her tokar off as well. The pearls rattled softly against one another as she unwound the silk.

“Khaleesi? ” Irri asked. “What are you doing?”

“Taking off my floppy ears.” – Daenerys, ADWD

In her haste to flee, she loses a shoe:

“Let me go!” Dany twisted from his grasp. The world seemed to slow as she cleared the parapet. When she landed in the pit she lost a sandal. Running, she could feel the sand between her toes, hot and rough. Ser Barristan was calling after her. – Daenerys, ADWD

The aftermath finds her alone in the grass sea, wearing literal rags (again, not unlike Cinderella), in a dream-like state and wondering what just happened. Unlike Cinderella, Dany has no desire to relive the ball and would much rather stay where she is, with her rags and her animal companion. Both girls experience an unpleasant return to reality. Cinderella must go back to being a slave to her step-mother and half-sister, while Dany knows she must go back to Meereen (which doesn’t quite work out, but).  

Yet for everything nightmarish about it, the reopening of the fighting pits meant something Dany deeply dreamed for and desired: peace. No more bloodshed in the streets of Meereen. The safety of her people. She wanted it and she got it, until the whole farce blew up in her face and the pit of Daznak turned into a pumpkin. I think that’s when she realized it: that the peace was never real, that Hizdahr’s “peace” was an illusion (as many before me have pointed out), a veil that got lifted with the twelve death blows of the pit.

#daenerys targaryen #asoiaf and fairy tales #asoiaf meta #cinderella

[writerspink]

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[ashanimus]

On Hunter's Fighting Style and Eclipse Lake

So: Hunter and fighting. Thank you @carpisuns for enabling me.

What he does is he sets up a guard position, and immediately tries to move to an enemy’s blind spot. He would have learned that to compensate around a casting opponent before he had magic--his only hope without a magical staff would be “defend defend defend” and get close enough to break their guard. The goal is a decisive blow to the head or neck to end combat. The priority is staying up because if he’s pinned or disarmed, he’s screwed.

 The ability to teleport means that he starts in a strong defensive position and basically gets a sneak attack, rinse/repeat/adapt. Generally speaking he has to end fights as fast as possible, and given that he trained without magic his whole strategy is built around DEFEND first, decisive strike, DEFLECT magical force (a stick can't hope to counter it without magic). We also see a little bit of this implied training with his parkour abilities. Without the ability to fly, or the ability to summon plants to carry him to his destination, he would've had to learn all of this physically. Let's dig into some of the details of how this separates Hunter from most of his opponents. Let's talk about FIGHTING!

Most witches take their magic purely for granted. Because of this, it is likely uncommon for people to turn their own bodies into extremely efficient machines like how martial artists or athletes are required to. In their own way, these skills are generally probably pretty impressive to the average witch outside of combat — and within it they're surprising at least for the first few seconds. And in combat, seconds are really what matter. Most actual fights are over in less than 10. And one of the things that separates a trained fighter from a casual brawler or the average person defending themselves is the conditioning it takes to actually respond in time. 

Most people don't respond to fight stimuli by fighting. Most people go into freeze or flight. When it comes to serious fight training, one of the first things that happens is called conditioning. For sports that means getting the body into a particular kind of well, condition — but for combat the conditioning is also mental. If you've seen stereotypes of things like Army boot camp where the drill sergeant is yelling at people and slinging abuse constantly, that's actually part of it. I am reliably told they try not to do this as much anymore. But if you're doing something like Krav Maga which is more or less brutal streetfighting but formalized in a dojo environment that is absolutely part of the training (or at least, it was part of mine!).

Specifically, when you're learning the throw punch or doing a series of them, what they will have us do is scream and swear at our opponents (and they will sometimes scream and swear at us during spars or drills) in order to condition our minds as well as our bodies for the ugliness of an actual violent confrontation. Yelling, intimidation, insults, swears those are all part of the human "puff up and look big" thing. The other thing about conditioning in this way is the instructor teaching someone how to be hit and actually hit back. As I said before, most people tend to sink into freeze or flight. The average person who has not been trained needs to be hit an average of six times before they're able to summon up the nerve to strike back. By then, the confrontation is almost always over.

The reason I outline all of this is because it highlights the conditioning gulf between Hunter and the others, as well as trying to explain how he’d be approaching most enemies and WHY. Speed and dexterity is obviously critical, but the approach matters immensely as well.

This is especially true when you have a combatant like Hunter who is starting from a punishing disadvantage against the vast majority of his casting opponents. Without magic, the only weapon he has is his body. When you train on a weapon, that weapon becomes an extension of your body. As such, a critical part of this kind of training is gaining an awareness of the body in order to hone in mind-to-muscle control. Martial artists, dancers, etc have a scary amount of precise control in this way, not that much different than an excellent musician who understands their hands and the intimate ins and outs of their instrument. Developing awareness, control and practice is what creates reliable muscle memory. This more than anything is Hunter’s (and any martial artists tbh) superpower.

Witch's magic is shown to be driven by emotions, thoughts and feelings.

This gives them the benefit of reflexes helping them out in the face of sudden danger, but nobody is invulnerable to the sudden appearance of somebody inside their personal bubble hitting them in the temple with a really big stick. If Hunter is on target and playing for keeps the confrontations is over, witches duel: won. Even without magic. 

Once Hunter has access to magic, his muscle memory is the same, with added oomph and a battle style combat-ready witches would be baffled by. Brawlers would be exceedingly rare on the BI except for niche sports and probably those highly unusual witches and demons who practice a form of magical martial arts. One or more of these unusual individuals would have helped train him (someone had to and Belos seems like he’d move like a broken ikea chair on his best day when he’s not a bone-rotted goop monster). Likely more. Hunter was obviously not allowed to get close to any teachers (I would expect that they were under strict orders to stay distant or otherwise motivated). 

So most of this is context to kind of the depth I saw and how Hunter's fighting movements are animated, but now let me go into how his actual personality and emotional conflicts affect his ability to fight.

Over the course of the show, we can see a pretty direct correlation of his emotional state and priorities to his efficacy and fight. Basically, when his goal is directly aligned with how he feels about it, he’s very good. But when those things have conflict, his effectiveness goes down. When we first meet him as the GG, he is very intimidating and using heavy amounts of magic from the staff Belos gave him. He rolls easily through his first encounter with Luz, etc etc. And even though neither Eda or Luz are capable of putting up too much of a fight, he's goofing around for the entirety of that encounter, you can hear the smile even while he's dodging — and it's one of easy confidence. He can trust his body to do most of that pretty much automatically which frees him up to pontificate.

Against Kikimora he was effective because despite the fact he was self-sabotaging his mission, it was within his moral alignment. He was defending himself, but Luz had moved him, and he protected her. Protecting, generally speaking, his Hunter’s preference and his entire fighting style is based mostly on defensive forms. And being by nature a gentle person, defense feels better — especially when he knew Luz was doing the right thing in protecting the Palismen. It was one of the instances that we see where his intelligence was able to overcome his brainwashing long enough to act on it, and the Avenue was Luz's respect and kindness. That being said, fighting Kikimora was more of a struggle or at the very least a more even contest. Even debilitated by the sleeping nettles, Kikimora was not a pushover and he did end up letting his guard down pretty significantly and that she did get the first hit on him, distracted as he was by his emotional moment with Luz. The giving of the name was an explicit show of vulnerability that was immediately exploited by an opponent who if she had aimed slightly to the left would've caved his skull in.

Now, Eclipse Lake is a little more interesting. There were a ton of factors that led to him fighting to a standstill with Amity. I wouldn't really call it a loss either, but I'll get into that in just a second.

Hunter is at this point fueled by anxiety. He started the entire endeavor by deliberately disobeying a direct order from the mouth of the Emperor to try and make up for a recent failure that Belos has let Hunter believe is affecting his favor. Already that's an unbelievably emotional place with incredibly high stakes. At this point, we're well aware of the fact that Belos treats Hunter brutally. The best case scenario for returning empty-handed after disobeying a direct order is a beating that would probably leave him with more scars than he started, but what Hunter actually fears is being replaced. While at this stage he doesn't regard his life as something that necessarily belongs to him, but the successful outcome of this might as well be life-and-death. 

Deliberately disobeying the Emperor does actually have a material impact on how Hunter arrives at the Knee. Because this is a stealth mission, he wasn’t able to bring his mechanical staff--the thing that would give him away to Kikimora. Flapjack had not fully become his palisman yet. Which means that Hunter hiked up that mountain after Kikimora and her party, navigating waist deep snow knowing that if he was caught she would kill him. He also knows that she is currently surrounded by her partisans, and it is super unlikely that any of them would stick up for him in a way that would put them at odds with her. With no support, no ability to take a break and probably no rations he was probably pretty hungry, tired and dehydrated by the time Eda and Amity had made it up there. And they had the benefit of being able to fly. That's one thing I don't see people talking about enough when it comes to considering the relative strength of Amity and Hunter. The little rag-eared bastard had already had a very very long and physically arduous and miserable day, maybe even more than one!.

He also bit off more than he could reasonably chew with those disadvantages in mind. He only has to make one mistake and he’s toast. He didn’t account for Flapjack dragging him to Eda and Amity’s feet. As far as he knew, they could have really hurt him, or left him--having no guarantee or even expectation of Flapjack’s assistance. But none of this changes the fact that Hunter spends the next couple of hours tied up. Amity wasn't gentle (why would she be?). We see him rubbing his wrists and stretching his shoulders out once he is free.

Cartoons often don't make anything of this gesture, but the truth of it is this: if you been bound for any length of time, especially in the position that Hunter was, what it does is it yanks on your shoulders, your chest, it hurts the hell out of your elbows and you lose feeling in your hands. The minute you’re released, all the blood goes back into those areas and it hurts like hell. IT REALLY HURTS. And you're stiff.

Which finally brings us back to the actual confrontation between Amity and Hunter. Hunter has experienced incredible emotional highs and lows over the course of this journey. There were probably at least three or four times where he was almost killed. He is tired as hell, frozen stiff, probably in pain, almost certainly hasn't eaten or had anything to drink for a very inappropriate amount of time and he has no weapon. He's also on the brink of despair and crackup. And his mission? At this point, he’s staring down the barrel of guaranteed failure. When Amity is talking to him and trying to comfort him, he is so up a creek that for a moment he actually is hearing what she has to say. Given the depth of his devotion to Belos at this point  that is saying a lot about how he feels about his prospects at the moment. 

So when he sees the key, he attacks her out of desperation. Pure emotion. He has to at least try. There is no scenario where an unarmed combatant can wrestle the armed abomination prodigy with auxiliary support. Then Flapjack joins the fight, and that changes everything. You can see it in how his expression changes once he takes what's offered: magical aid. Suddenly he has a fighting chance. A fighting chance. 

However, he is now using a weapon he's never used before — and I think that has a huge impact on how that fight went. Palismen are shown to respond to their wielder's thoughts. Later, in ASIAS, we can even see Flapjack responding to Hunter's mind when he's doing all the staff tricks to impress the students. This leads me to believe that wielding a Palisman staff is less like swinging an inert stick and more like moving a limb. And when your entire fighting style depends on knowing exactly where your own center of mass is at absolutely all times, that would change Hunter's balance, and throw his timing and physicality off.

All things considered, given the unbelievable disadvantage that Hunter started with, I kind of wish the fandom gave him more credit. With his emotions in absolute tatters in addition to being a physical disaster and using a new weapon, he is absolutely at his worst here! Amity is fighting from a position of knowing she has backup coming in addition to the backup she already has in King. Even then, she's fighting to get away from him. And Hunter, in addition to using a new tool and all of the aforementioned problems is going full out on the attack-- which is very contrary to how he prefers to fight. When you go this feral into a combat, the emotional place itself is a disadvantage.

And even after all that? Amity didn't beat him. They fought to a standstill.

She has a blade to his throat, he had Flapjack on her hand. With Flapjack in his possession, if for any reason she tried to open his throat he would still have the option of flash stepping away. She might have cut his neck enough to bleed, but not enough to kill him instantly. In holding the way she did, she missed her chance at a fatal opening (and she's never killed anyone before. Interpretation is out for Hunter, I generally don't headcannon him as ever having killed directly with his own hands although I do think he's done some real damage).

He says to her, "Listen. You're strong, and I'm tired. If this continues, you'll probably escape. But here's the thing: we know where to find you--and your human."

The first part of that statement has way less to do with Amity's training or skill as an equal to Hunter's (she clearly has a little, but if you're as good as Hunter is at his age, you would've started at around three years old and that probably was not the case for Amity), and more a statement of the fact that Hunter is actually physically exhausted and there is the slight possibility that Amity might be able to outlast him in terms of endurance. But what I think is a lot more pertinent is the reality that Hunter has an incredibly small window of time to achieve victory before Eda the HARPY OWL LADY comes flying through that tunnel to beat his already exhausted ass.

He also says: "If this CONTINUES". And he even says probably. He's incredibly fucking tough at least in terms of what he's capable of enduring before he falls down and can't get up.

If Eda did come through to help Amity, the best case scenario for Hunter at that point is they leave him senseless or in too rough of a shape to escape from Kikimora. Kikimora openly despises him, is extremely petty/cruel, and is surrounded by her own partisans (who have demonstrable willingness to murder teenagers!). She screeched about how excited she was about exacting revenge (and unbeknownst to Hunter she absolutely knows how disposable he is in the grand scheme of things!).

She’s a lot more interested in Hunter’s blood than Titan’s blood at the moment. Hunter would die BADLY and slowly at her little claws if she got him. 

So he tries a last-ditch measure by leveling a threat Amity that he couldn’t hope to carry out even if he wanted to. It's ironic that the only reason that they were both able to achieve a partial victory here is because Hunter was able to effectively empathize with her enough to see his own vulnerability in her and squeeze it.

To all that stuff about how his emotions affect his ability to battle, if we look at what happened on the day of unity, at that stage he was still unable to confront his abuser and would-be murderer. He did not strike Belos once, and spent the whole time playing defense on behalf of his friends, taking up a defensive position and otherwise moving them out of harm's way. He's in the process of actively dying and his right (dominant) arm is paralyzed, so his form is pretty crap but this speaks to his iron will to stay breathing for as long as he can. And he's lasted a lot longer than the most affected adults. The lack of a bile sac probably comes into it a bit...but it's not the only factor here.

So yeah! I hope that this provides a little bit more nuance to the conversation! And again, thank you to the animators and storyboarders for taking such time and care for portraying Hunter’s fighting with respect to his personality and arc. 

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This Belos Essay is Gross

I fully admit I did this to myself. I voluntarily went HEY you know what animates me like a vengeful eidolon to the point where I could chew solid stone while laughing? Ragging on the history of Christianity in America! Oh look! A cute gay show about disabled witches sticking it to Puritan Cult-Peddling Murder Grandpa (also known as Ash's personal bugbear)? SIGN ME UP? Lets dissect this dreadful son of a bitch in the context of his theological bullshit!

But then I get to the parts where I have to think about Belos and all the Grimwalkers and its sicker the more I think about it. Everyone knows of course its just. The depth of the violation and desecration and depravity in its own context is Beyond Grotesque.

I'll elaborate more on this later, but Puritans were obsessed with how a person's remains were kept. This scabrous donkey's bastard was mutilating the unburied remains of the brother he murdered for 400 years. The thing that makes me insane is that any attempts to tell himself "I'm saving your soul, Caleb" had to have petered out pretty quick in that process. He discards the Christian name. Starts calling them all Hunter. Witch Hunter, a title, a job description, a fucking factory tag. He even started branding them after a while, which we know now is a death sentence no matter how perfectly obedient they could have hoped to be. He knows he's not saving Caleb. He's farming the experience of his death.

"I'm starting to think you make those things just to destroy them."

Belos demurs, "Of course I don't, Collector. It hurts every time he chooses to betray me."

The fact they included this line from the Collector--someone who has observed and gleefully enabled this sick fuck for centuries--seems to suggest Belos' denial here is a weak one.

He does enjoy it! They show us! As soon as Luz and Hunter enter the mindscape, he goes out of his way to sabotage Hunter's loyalty. He gleefully drags the kids around, building up the reveals that will make Luz crumple to her knees and destroy Hunter's entire world. The timing. The showmanship of it all. He smiles when he flicks Hunter's little forelock.

"What a shame. Of all the Grimwalkers, you looked the most like him :)"

These are the words he intends to kill this kid by. The dude has been playing this game for CENTURIES and still enjoys the process of torturing them before he slaughters them. How many Grimwalkers died with some variation of "What? Who is Caleb?" on their lips--but the part that haunts me are the ones who lived long enough to say "Sorry" before they were killed. Phillip isn't saving Caleb's soul, he's punishing him over and over.

So why does he do this? How does the Puritan part factor into it? Other than the pleasure of murder that is. It makes me think of how the main purpose of missionaries is to experience rejection. Particularly when it comes to sending kids out from the church. The purpose of the whole affair there is to reinforce that The World Bad, and Rejects the Word of God, and the Only REAL community you have is the Church. They understand you. This creates not just the insulation that gives them a chance to practice the script of the Rejected Religious Warrior, but create distance from reality.

Belos has been working on the worlds most horrible DIY project. He's been doing it for 400 years. What on earth can sustain that laser focus, him working while his body monsterizes and turns to evil Ghibli goo around him? Man hasn't eaten real food in 400 years.

His brother's death! The point of no return in Phillips villain origin (inciting incident: the moment Caleb fell for Evelyn). Each incarnation is going to to have a witch's pointed ears and the Grimwalkers pink eyes, wear different scars that Belos himself stuck there, but it's still his face. Sure it's a younger face than Caleb had when HE died, but at this point it hardly matters. Phillip is farming Caleb's death to re-inspire the moment where genocide entered his heart. These witches have taken you from me, Caleb. I'll make them all pay.

But first, I'll make YOU pay.

This bitch was going to take time out of the Day of Unity to kill Hunter if he got him. My god. Given that he was pressed for time I like to think it would have been quick but god if this is any indication...ugh.

I feel gross! 8)

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For those adults left behind...

The closer we get to For the Future, the more I find myself thinking about the adults left behind in the Boiling Isles. We obviously have no idea what's going on with the right now, or how much damage control poor King has been able to swing with the Collector. But I still find myself wondering how the CATs and the parents of the kids have been coping.

One of the major selling points I've mentioned when recommending this show to older audiences has gone along the lines of: The Owl House has a really strong, multi-generational cast where the middle-aged adults are doing most of the heavy lifting when it comes to the actual business of political rebellion, as well as trying--and naturally failing--to shield their kids from its effects.

It still floors me that our adult heroes general intent going into S2 finale was to proceed with a damn near suicidal plot--and also to remove their kids from the thick of the fighting as gently as they could. Everything is on fire at this point. The plan they have is Rough. Everyone knows this. The anxiety and grim reality of it all was the major point of contention for Oh Titan Where Art Though with Eda and Luz--but that doesn't really prevent the fact that Eda gently encourages Luz to go to rescue Amity from the latter's parents in Clouds on the Horizon.

Re: Luz didn't really have a planned, direct part in what would have been the adult's sabotage of the draining spell. I definitely got the impression of a lot of relief from Eda here.

And it works. Between this moment and when Luz and King are dropped off, Darius also has an opportunity to shift Hunter. It's unclear at this point how much contact the Darius and Hunter had post Hollow Mind (there are a lot of headcannons out there that suggest they've at least spoken a little over their scrolls, which make sense, given his interest in Hunter's well being?), but he's gone out of his way to contact a known fugitive and send him off with Eda's kids, AWAY from ground zero.

Eda and Darius' motivations here seem like they're rooted in harm reduction. Anything to get the kids away from the worst of it. But, knowing them, and the sort of lives they've been shown to lead, they're probably expecting something messy to happen regardless--although at least this way they know they did their best.

But how is that sitting with them now? Willow and Gus' parents (who probably had way less of an idea of what as happening at any given moment? I'd be amazed if Willow and Gus hadn't had to sneak off with Hunter to go with Luz but of course that's just speculation on my part). The last Eda and Darius knew, they sent their kids off to Blight Manor, and after everything exploded they have NO way to know what happened. Only that they're not able to answer their phones. They have no way to put together the possibility that the kids miraculously made it to the Human Realm. Last they knew, the kids where nowhere near the Head of the Titan.

Do they still have hope, after all this time, that the kids made it? Have any of them given up? Have they had any opportunities in the wake of whatever the Collector is doing to the BI? It's possible King's survival has been made clear to everyone, but there's no real way to know until we get a new promo or trailer or the thing airs.

As I've gotten older, it's naturally shifted how I relate to shows like this. However, Owl House is one of the few I can name with adult characters whose struggles are emotionally very grounded in reality, which makes the fear and horror of surviving a fantasy apocalypse so much heavier...since these are the sort of fears and horrors parents and caregivers experience all the time. Where are my kids? Are they okay? Have I failed them, even when I did my best?

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Owl House Face Reveals and Why They Work

I'm so behind on my Huntlow week contribution but I have to exorcise these bees from my brain.

One thing I have noticed that The Owl House does really well are face reveals. Each time we've had them they have been genuinely unexpected and interesting. Now, face reveals are nothing new in media, and in many genres within the speculative fiction box they kind of have their own language and preset expectations depending on the assumed archetype of a character.

Growing up in the 90's, this was quite consistent (particularly with anime). When a Cool, Masked Character or Villain shows up, there's usually an instant of the mask getting revealed in a moment of vulnerability that shows us what the character looks like--but in a wide variety of these reveals...the conclusion is often along the lines of:

Protag: Oh. They're a lot cuter than I was expecting!

There's often a little romantic subtext here too, but not always.

And for all the benefits (and true banes) of anime-type character design, it was/is very common for the resultant revealed face to be conventionally attractive (or drawn to be perceived that way). I know that this is a sort of gentle pushback to the historical VILLAIN=UGLY trope that is nowhere near as prevalent as it used to be, but after thirty years of prettyface mask reveals, it ended up paving the way for strong, sleeping expectation of mask=pretty underneath instead.

And as a result, we're not taking away much more information that what was already expected (re: masked character not so bad) when the character showed up masked to begin with.

Now, this isn't always bad. But in the case of a face reveal, it's supposed to be a moment that establishes really important visual information quickly--and if it's doubled with the "masked character is unconscious/injured" there's a good chance they wouldn't normally let our hero get that close to begin with. The point is, the scene has heavy lifting to do!

Which brings me to our first big face reveal in Owl House, Hunter.

So at this point, the Golden Guard has made his debut--he's been set up as a "genius teen prodigy". This is loaded language that anyone who grew up watching anime instantly understands. Even if you don't though, the way Lilith talks about him sets him up for this expectation well. In this scene, he shows up as a cocky little asshole with a lot of bravado but also, importantly, some key visual indicactors of power. He's got a staff in his right hand, a cage in the other, and is wearing heavy armor and of course the mask. He shows up in a fifty foot fist made of boiling salt water.

Without showing us his face, the show has already laid a pretty strong, unconscious foundation for what the audience is going to see under there! So when we get our classic moment:

This scene moves so much VERY quickly.

First, the Golden Guard's face doesn't resemble the archetypal expectation the audience might have had based on what had been set up. If anything, we're getting a lot of traits all at once we're not used to on a sympathetically portrayed character (more on this in a second). They also wisely destroy any possible interpretation of romantic subtext by giving us a sibling slapfight immediately. But the biggest takeaway from this quick scene visually is the fact the Golden Guard here very young, about Luz's age, maybe a little older--a detail highlighted by our hero herself--and VERY vulnerable. Very murderable. See how his torso (heart) is twisted up, head is tipped back and the eyebrows are scrunched up? Makes him quite a bit "smaller" looking even though he's quite tall compared to the other kids.

But what does this do for visual understanding of a scene? When expectations are subverted, the viewer in a way is able to absorb the visual information with new eyes. When a mask reveal shows us something actually surprising, it actually allows us to absorb the visual details without sorting them into an archetype. So what do we see? Who is the Golden Guard without his mask, his armor, or the trappings of his power?

Well...he has a lot of traits classically associated with unsympathetic characters, to start! He has dark heavy brows, reddish eyes in an ashy face, an aquiline nose and a big ol' gap in his teeth. He's got a ragged ear. Now lately, eye bags and facial scars have come into vogue for heroes, but not usually in combination with all of those other traits (if it was just the scar or even the ear, it wouldn't have told us much). And even here, they're startling because no other character in the show displays eye bags or prominent scarring--not even the mercenaries or adults. He's also fabulously expressive and earnest regardless of emotion, which takes the edge off any potential ability to intimidate (and we know he's about as intimidating as a kale salad as shown when he tries to order the Coven Scouts around at the precinct).

At this point, now that whatever preconceived vision of the mysterious Golden Guard has been blown out of the water, we're able to absorb what each individual character design choice is actually telling us.

This is one busted-ass teenager.

The eyebags show he's exhausted/stressed. The facial scar is a brutal fucking injury and the kind of thing that you get when someone is deliberately trying to hurt you (in combat or...well. what's implied to later be the actual reason). The ripped ear highlights the idea he's seen a lot of combat. The gap teeth highlight the childish imperfection and youth.

One of the things that struck me most about watching this for the first time and watching other reaction videos (a lot of them of different ages and demographics to get a decent sample size) was the incredible consistency of the response to all this visual information! Almost every single one of them were some variant or combination of these two thoughts: "Oh no, he's so young, poor thing! Is he okay?" And even better--the audience understands the answer to that question the minute they ask it, even before the conclusion of the episode. No, he is certainly not! This brainwashed child is in a lot of physical and emotional danger!

Which is GREAT! That's clearly what the intent was. An given how much of a little shithead he was in his first appearances, it was really amazing to see how thoroughly he was able to go from that to instantly sympathetic--as well as visually very interesting.

The Owl House demonstrates a lot of mastery over animation and writing techniques/tropes. You could fill a book on the topic (please oh please let there be an art book at the end please please please). But I REALLY loved how they handled face reveals especially, and to date this one in particular is probably my favorite.

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Blood Magic and Galdorstone Hearts on the Boiling Isles

I'm gonna preface that this is pure, fanficy speculation that will probably not see any return in the show but it makes me curious.

We know that wild magic on the Boiling Isles has corpse magic everywhere. We see these things for sale at the Night Market. We also have the Grimwalker recipe--which calls mostly for body parts of things...Let's talk a little bit about the potential ideology that formed the Isles' corpse/blood magic!

We see during the "savage ages" Belos has a bunch of body parts on his table that have little price tags on them.

We also see the one Portal diagrams show some of the components, which appear to include uh. A brain and a pair of kidneys?

Luz and Eda's ratchet-ass door is played for laughs but even that thing shows that its strung together with organic bits, and of course in both cases the door is obviously partially composed of bits, powered by Titan Blood.

But here's the thing that gets me excited as a possibility. Eda and Hunter helpfully inform us that Titan Blood is known as the most powerful source of raw magic on the Isles. Hunter even says that ancient witches used to mine it consistently. We've had some cool hints mostly through Eda and the Clawthornes that most of the pre-Belos ideology, the trad stuff, had a lot to do with a respectful, relationship to the land they live on, the Titan. It doesn't really give the vibes of like...Christian style worship. The Titan isn't a god, he's the land they all came from. This is kind of its own essay about colonialism in this show and how Belos has affected it, but the point is it sort of suggests a magical and philosophy of living based on respect for the land, and your place as PART of it, not its master.

ALL OF THAT TO SAY. A big part of how magical ideology and runes may have developed and evolved probably assigned ingredients alchemical correspondences. Runes are basically simple codes that can be built up to immense complexities. For example, lets look at Phillip's teleportation rune.

See the fire glyph is central to the spell. This may suggest that fire, in glyph language represents "active/on/go/initiate". If that is true, then the alchemical correspondence for Titan Blood--or blood as ANY component, is probably fire, as its the "power source" common denominator of several kinds of spell.

Titan Blood as a common denominator for powerful magic would suggest that as witches grew in their magical innovation before Belos, blood magic was probably common and a logical extension. Belos, who has done a great job of eradicating and muddling old ways of all sorts, has probably made it illegal by lumping it in with wild magic. Or at least, given how gross potions are shown to be, there may be seriously muddy legal shit going on there.

But not all blood would be equal probably. Titan blood is obviously the best. You'd think witch/demon blood would be next but...what about blood pushed through a heart synthesized from a Galdorstone, a known POWERFUL magical amplifier?

It's hard to read but one of those books reads "Grimwalker Extinction" and damn guys, I wonder if this could have been a factor in why they're all gone now. I think Grimwalkers probably pre-dated Phillip, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if he helped lead the charge to destroy then all. I expect his motivations would have been to just keep the technology entirely proprietary to himself, but still!

And this final bit is a bit of a stretch but as far as Galdorstone hearts go...

We're told that you have to hold a Galdorstone to power up your magic and it doesn't work on illusions. It's not like Willow needs a power up, but if she had to move a mountain or a reanimated Titan...

Hold his hand and move mountains girl O w O

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