#bc in the flashbacks she was worried about getting detention! she was smug and mean but she liked hanging out with her friends!

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darius has mentioned alador before and they both seem to keep up with each other’s lives, since darius follows alador on penstagram and alador has darius’s book and i know thats why the fandom focuses on their potential dynamic and i agree i really want to see what they were like when they were still friends! but what i would REALLY like more people to explore is the relationship between darius and odalia. all we have is them hanging out at school in eda’s flashback but they were friends too. what happened?

#toh #the owl house #alador blight #odalia blight #darius deamonne #again i HATED the blight parents arcs and how they were written in the finale #especially odalias writing bc they removed all nuance and just made her a genocial capitalist and her plan doesnt even make any sense #the conflict between her alador and the kids shouldnt have been about whos helping belos it should have been about who believed their kids #but anyway otherwise the blight parents as characters are fascinating to me bc theyre abusive assholes but theyre still sympathetic? #even odalia the 'more' abusive one who ends up solidly a villain #bc in the flashbacks she was worried about getting detention! she was smug and mean but she liked hanging out with her friends! #in the picture of alador winning the bonesborough brawl she was flustered bc her boyfriend was super strong! #even in her debut episode she has a charisma to her as a saleswoman but you also see her worried about sales and be scared of the emperor #and i wanted to see more exploration of why she needed to control the kids and what she wanted them to live up to #not to excuse her but to humanize her and make her more interesting as a villain #bc i hate the trope of the abuser whos shitty not because of fleshed out reasons but because the characters need a plot contrivance #irl abusers arent like that and evil or not everyone has a past and a thought process that explains why theyre Like That #and to make abusive characters evil for cheap drama is poor writing and misses nuance that could have made the story more interesting #anyway i read an analysis before that darius and odalia are parallels and i can see it #odalia is just a darker version of what darius could have become #an exploitative high society asshole who uses her prestige to further her own goals without care towards her loved ones #but theres also the tragedy of the whole trio because like another post said darius could have been uncle darius to the blight kids #but because of the falling out hes never met any of them and the blights have ruined their kids mental health #i hate HATE the hc that they stopped being friends because odalia 'stole' alador from darius as if alador couldnt make his own choices #and the idea of alador 'learning from his mistakes' and rebounding with darius after the odalador divorce because first of all #the 'odalia is an abusive wife' retcon is bullshit and even if it isnt is rebounding to your ex wifes romantic rival REALLY that romantic #especially after leaving said abusive ex wife #idk if i have enough tags to explain my own theory on why darius left the friend group but just know id like it to be more aladors fault #bc darius only expresses disdain towards him odalia probably just got caught in the middle and took aladors side #shut up pandora