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mayandjuly1811 · 5 months

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WHY HUNTLOW IS A FORCED AND UNREALISTIC SHIP.

1. First impressions:

Raeda has the most amicable meeting. About Lumity, Amity shook Luz's collar and almost got Principal Bump dissect her. It stems from misunderstanding, because Amity doesn't know Luz is human but a strange non-Abomination that Willow used to cheat. About Huntlow, Willow seems to be violent for no reasons at all. Hunter disguises as a Hexside student so to Willow, he's just a student that she doesn't know. He's not a threat at all. Yet she summons the vines to wrap him tightly and drags him down the ground so hard that the asphalt gets damaged. Treating strangers like this is not fine and out of character for Willow.

Also, when Hunter is about to leave again, Willow drags him down the ground and takes him to the field without asking his permission. This crosses boundaries a lot. In comparison, even though Amity sees Hunter as an enemy in Eclipse Lake, she just simply uses Abomination magic to capture him, not dragging him down violently like Willow.

2. Understanding:

Raine and Eda have a genuine common interest in music, magic (Eda is interested in wild magic and Raine supports her). Luz and Amity are both interested in Azura, the idea of being not enough for anyone, the idea of being accepted and loved for who they really are. Amity is also interested in Luz's glyph magic and she learns to draw it many times.

About Huntlow, I don't see any common between them besides flyer derby. The whole “Half a Witch” is forced. Half a witch means a witch who is not powerful enough. Willow is a powerful Plant witch, her fathers just didn't realize her real magic talent and put her into Abomination track, which isn't her forte. If you're only good at Maths, but not Chemistry, does it make you unintelligent overall? Of course not.

About Hunter, first off, he is not even a witch. He's a Grimwalker with no bile sack, his pointed ears were adjusted to look like witches’. Also, he's skillful at using magic staffs so no one sees him as powerless. He's the elite Golden Guard, one of the most powerful figures under Belos. No one dares to call him half a witch, even if they do think he's weak. And how he quickly recognizes the illusion of Willow in S2ep18 is unrealistic. How come Gus, Willow's long-term friend can't figure out before Hunter? The fact that Willow seems to be scared of Hunter is understandable. Last time, he literally locked her and her friends up, then kidnapped them, he also worked for Belos. Who knows if he's gonna do the same?

Hunter and Willow know little about each other. It's one sided. Hunter knows Willow is a strong and independent person, a caring and selfless girl. But Willow knows too little about Hunter compared with Luz, Gus and Amity. They never have a serious talk about Hunter's trauma caused by Belos, only a short scene of Willow cutting his hair. In Thanks to Them, Hunter has a deeper conversation with Luz and Gus than with Willow. With Willow, he just blushes even though nothing happens. Gus and Hunter's bond makes more sense than Huntlow to be honest. They both like Flyer Derby, they both like Cosmic Frontier, Gus knew about Hunter's being Grimwalker and his conflict with Belos, Hunter comforted Gus when he felt sad in Labyrinth Runner and when he missed his Dad. Hunter's screentime with Gus is even more than with Willow. Their platonic bond is stronger than Huntlow's forced romantic one.

Feeling development.

The way Willow and Hunter like each other is too rushed and unexpected. Starting with Hunter, he met Willow only one time in ASIAS and started to have a crush on her? He only met her once directly and already blushed? And Willow, she treats Hunter the same way she treats everyone. Only until Hunter has power and saves her does she fall for him. It's so rushed all of the sudden. Some people say they live together in Luz's house for months so they have feelings for each other. But there are no bonding moments between them besides the cutting hair scene. Even though the show is cut short, from Willow's scrapbook, she and Hunter don't have any bonding moments between the two of them.

Comforting.

It's one sided again. Hunter is understanding and sympathetic towards Willow. Meanwhile, how Willow tries to comfort him is questionable. He just lost Flapjack and Willow isn't understanding at all. She gives him the Flapjack picture, causing him to feel grieving again. He's been struggling to hold back his grief to focus on helping others. This backfires really back. She should have waited until Hunter brought things up about Flapjack first, just like Gus. He knows Hunter is a Grimwalker since the Day of Unity, but he doesn't bring anything up first and waits until Hunter says it first. He thinks about Hunter's emotions after being traumatized by Belos

Also, when Hunter looks upset, Willow should have stayed to continue to comfort him?! Instead, she acts like she's the one who is hurting and leaves. Imagine you're feeling sad, someone tries to comfort you. You haven't felt better since you need time, they feel sad and leave you. Now you feel guilty because you can't be happy to make them happy. This is making things worse. Hunter can't even make himself feel calmer after Flapjack's death, yet now he'll feel guilty because his own sadness and grief makes Willow feel sad! Also, when Hunter calls out, she keeps walking and ignoring him.

In conclusion, Willow and Hunter are better off as friends. They don't have any romantic chemistry or deep understanding. The ship is so forced and rushed.

#toh #toh critical #ship hate #anti huntlow

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witch128chick · 20 hours

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i watched the toh pilot episode, here's my reaction

ooookay i so wasn't expecting what i just watched- I WANT MORE

(if you haven't watched it yet but want to do it without spoilers then don't open this)

alright alright i lost my shit actually

Amity stood up for Luz and the fact that she said this was the first time anyone had done that for her is just so sad...

and Luz gave her a drawing as a 'thank you' ( ꒦ິ ཀ ꒦ິ ) she's so sweet

oh and also!!!! first bigger change is that Amity was an exchange student in the human realm! i wonder why her parents sent her there and if there's any angsty reason for that (cuz yk yeah i'm a sucker for angst esp if it's Amity related)

my first thought when i saw this frame: "if i could picture how my mind looks like this would be it"

girly just casually grabbed a key and travelled between realms- do most witches and demons have a portal key or is it exclusive??

Luz met Eda!!! also they teleported later- so cool (ง ◉ _ ◉)ง

i heard that the Owl House was meant to be a shop first and now we can see how it would've looked like!

awww Luz is so excited!!! i love her (˶˃⤙˂˶)

that ceiling looks so prettyyy

Luz i have to say it again and i will never stop saying it: i love you you're amazing pls never change

another bigger change!! Lilith is headmistress in the high school!!! and everyone's afraid of her- shes's a boss bitch and ik she's evil but i love her

girllll--- (ง ͠ಥ_ಥ)ง why are you like this???? you had no business being this mean-

she threw away Luz's drawing from earlier whyyyy (·•᷄∩•᷅ )

side note: the demon on the left is Boscha's pilot?? yk 3 eyes and everything...

i loved this scene! Lilith is so cool and everything! and i absolutely love the sibling mocking between them it's priceless-

and said mockery pissed Lilith off sm that she turned into a beast ༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽ does she have the curse in this version? is it really a curse or can Lilith turn into that thing whenever she wants to??

soooooooo omg- i can't Lilith got trapped... somewhere!!!! and her hand is chopped off now

i am soo curious about this like what happens to her after this??? where does she go? how does she get back? will she seek revenge??

oh uhm all i wanted to say regarding this frame is that guys- yes. relatable

Luz is literally this emoji 🧍🏼‍♀️just in a lying position

noooooo this was sooo sweet!!! (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)♡

i love how it was Eda who screamed bc the drawing that Amity threw out the window hit her in the head-

Eda complimented Luz's drawing and omg it touched her sm (っ˃̣̣̥ -˂̣̣̥ς) she only felt accepted and understood by Eda i'm so sad rn

and the biggest plot twist happened

i am not okay

EDA'S WORKING FOR THE EC??????? since when? how? why???

i'm guessing Lilith is also working for the Emperor but like Edaaaaaaaaaaa

i can't get over this

i saw someone say smth about a betrayal and this scene but i wasn't expecting THIS

tho i'm pretty sure Eda wouldn't hand Luz over (but i do have some alternative ideas for how this could play out)

is Eda cursed here too? how would she get another key to send Luz back to the human realm? what happened to Lilith??? where's Camila? we saw Amity starting to change her mind about Luz but how different her arc would've been here from canon???

i am so fixated on this rn this will occupy my brain for a good few weeks i think

and i absolutely hate myself for wanting to write a fanfic for this- I HAVE TOO MANY PROJECTS AND IDEAS ALREADY!!

but guys pls if you see anyone writing a fic for this lmk!!!

so yea i'm crazy rn i loved this and will definitely watch it again

the lore, the questions...

#owl house #the owl house luz #eda the owl lady #toh pilot #the owl house pilot #king owl house #owl house lilith

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lily-orchard · 1 year

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I'm not even a Belos enjoyer but finale was pretty dissapointing. It felt like Dana just saw that fans hate Belos and decided to not even show a proper flashback for him and kill him in a lame way. Sure fandom loved that he got stomped by Eda King and Raine (for some reason), but I feel like it should've been more like Luz tells Belos that he lost everything because of his inability to change and now he turned into a monster that nobody will remember after he dies or sth and Belos dies while seeing visions of Caleb Evelyn and everyone he's ever killed that don't even look at him so he dies scared with realization that Luz was right. Cuz that "huehue look we are not like the other cartoons our villain is lame and underdeveloped and died by being stomped by Luz's friends huehue AREN'T WE QUIRKY AND NOT LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS CARTOONS" felt lame and cringe like make defeat of a fashist actually worth it bruh

I mean I don't like the Not Like Other Girls'ing of the writing, but I'll be honest I think you're just mad that the Caleb and Evelyn red herrings didn't amount to anything. Those are things that were always afterthoughts and should have been scrapped. Phillip didn't need a secret Cain and Abel backstory to explain his genocide against witches. He was already from a deeply racist and fundamentalist time period.

There's a lot of people who wanted to Caleb to matter and for Evelyn to be a Clawthorne, and the truth is... they don't matter... at all.

I think it would have been worse if they harped on that shit. The time spent particle effect-ing and anime-framerating should have been spent on the main characters, not on the fan theories.

I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but if you really wanted to just drive the spike through Phillip as a last word, what they would have done would have been for Camilla to take Luz by the shoulder and guide her away from him as he rots in the boiling rain, Phillip starts ranting about how the witches aren't people and will doom humanity with their filth, and then Camilla turns her head back and says "Yeah, I've heard that one before."

Because the thing about Belos is that he is fundamentally an invader. He's an invader of the Demon Realm, but he's also a white Christian British man living in America in the 1600's. He's an invader back in the Human Realm too. He came to the Demon Realm at the HEIGHT of his own previous invasion.

His profession is Witch Hunter. His job was never to hunt witches. It was to hunt women and native people and escaped slaves.

Belos' genocide of the witches on the Boiling Isles directly mirror the Salem witch trials, which were little more than a thin veil to persecute women who didn't conform to Christian morals. And they knew this. They knew magic wasn't real. They all of this.

Let's be honest here. Let's be brutally honest here. Why does Belos want to genocide everyone on the Boiling Isles?

He's mad about his brother's hot new gf

They do magic and therefore it is sinful

It is an integrated society that knows neither colorism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia?

It's the third one. Because to a white christian man 1600's US Colonies, that very notion is profane to him.

Hell when he tries to play the whole "I only care about humanity!" spiel to Luz, Luz looks at him like

Luz knows that were they in the Human realm, she would have been the target of Belos' ire in the place of the witches.

Honestly with that kind of background behind Belos that you can easily extrapolate just by knowing what he is and where he comes from, it was always fucking sad that they backpedaled like fucking crazy and pulled this stupid Cain and Abel bullshit in the first place. Like, you had the best foundation for a villain, you didn't have to add all this fandom bullshit.

But that's the Adventure Fantasy death spiral, isn't it? They start with something actually very biting and edgy, the genius of The Owl House in it's early seasons was that it didn't pull it's punches, and then walks most of it back to replace it with safe, santizied fandom mysteries about secret families and hidden identities and conspiracy mongering. Because you can't really pack hidden mysteries in like a pretentious weeby jackass if your bad guy is just a racist white guy.

Because racist white guys are just pretty straightforward.

Honestly, I think Luz just fucking standing there watching him burn away in the boiling rain, lacking any sympathy for him or his bullshit, silently gloating at the fact that she has completely and utterly destroyed his 400 years of work to undo the Boiling Isles and is content to watch him die like the cowardly, snivelling rat he is to be a and extremely powerful and poignant image

A far more meaningful moment than... whatever the fuck you were talking about.

You want the defeat of a fascist to be worth it, making him practically beg for the mercy of a woman who (were they not currently in a place with magic in it) would have been on his hit list and who he only tried to appeal to because she was the closest thing to a kindred spirit for parsecs, and having her look down at him like he is literally muck on her shoe IS WORTH IT.

What you're suggesting just puts the stupid red herring fandom shit at the forefront. Nobody cares about reading Belos a "reason you suck speech." Nobody cares about Caleb. Nobody cares about Evelyn. Nobody cares about any of that shit.

This is the closest thing we get to payoff for all that dragged out angst in the last 7 episodes, Luz getting to watch this man who fucked with her head and manipulated her good nature die begging at her feet, and you want to center the stupid Roundtable fan theories?

That's ultimately my problem with this entire genre. Because even when we get a really good moment like this, there's people like you saying that it should have been different and presenting ideas that all follow the same templates, and are written by TVTropes, and suck, and position white background characters as more important, and suck, and primarily exist for theory youtubers, and suck, and mimic your favourite anime, and suck, and suck, and SUCK SO FUCKING HARD!

What you said should have been done instead... would be shit. It would just be shit. It would be garbage.

I have complaints about Season 3, but this?

This is beautiful.

#the owl house #the owl house discourse #fandom rot #fandom racism #tw - racism #tw - religious violence

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crimeronan · 2 months

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i occurs to me re: Camila letting her sci-fi background guide her thinking about Hunter that she might, if she starts to voice her guess, blurt out "is he a clone? did they MAKE him? is THAT why he has no legal identity" and I'm just. Luz's reaction. Particularly if Hunter is in the room and still doesn't know. (DOES he know in this scenarion? I guess Philip might let it slip while torturing him and whatnot…)

FKDJDJ. GOD.

i got an ask a while back about belos letting the grimwalker thing slip when torturing hunter, which Does compel me. i think hunter probably doesn't know exactly what he is..... but he knows he was Created by belos, that belos later ~*~realized~*~ hunter had actually been Made For Luz, and that it's such a shame that luz could never appreciate the gift she'd been given as much as hunter appreciates/lives for her, because maybe then belos wouldn't be so tragically forced to break her toys like this. it's really not hunter's fault at all that he feels the way he does for her. so sad.

(he says all of this while, like, methodically breaking hunter's fingers. or something.)

hunter loves and believes in luz enough that he'd never blame her or question her for a Second. a shitload of broken bones would explain why he's not able to track her down for a while, he can't move enough, he has to rest and heal. despite probable attempts to go find her anyway. (i like to think somehow darius is involved. and keeps punting him back to bed)

but there IS a question for hunter of whether he'd still love luz like this if he hadn't been literally created to. that doesn't matter to him, like At All, but he knows it would matter to luz. and he's scared of her rejecting him.

so he.... wouldn't tell her that he knows.

which brings me to. camila asking if he's a clone/lab experiment.

and both hunter AND luz responding with the Exact Same, "HAHA NOOOO LOL NOO WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT SILLY. THAT'S SO CRAZY"

and then pausing and looking at each other like.

🤨🤨🤨

#replies #MUCH TO CONSIDER.#toh #princess luz au #princess luz au worst timeline #horrible mindscape trauma pals #camila noceda #injury #torture m

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the-salem-devil · 1 year

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Hey ummm, if you're still taking requests, can i request a fic where hunter is a vampire x reader, maybe a female reader or gn doesn't matter, maybe smut? If you're okay with that ofc

You can ignore this is you want to 🥲

HUNTER WITTEBANE X FEM!READER [NSFW HEADCANNONS: VAMPIRE]

Awww, you’re so sweet! And as a nerd for mythology and folklore I can assure you this was burden my love ❤️

[TW: EXTREMELY GENTLE FEEDING, I DON’T DO EXTREME BLOODPLAY BUT GENTLE VAMPIRE FEEDING IS EXCUSED.]

-Remember when Luz called him an, ‘bad but sad’ boy, yeah?

-That would only increase tenfold if he was a vampire, I wouldn’t call him the brooding tortured type like good ol’ Edward Cullen over here, but he’d have even more deep rooted fears in him.

-So afraid of biting you, bloodlust thrums under his skin constantly but after years of training he’s got a pretty good hold on it.

-You’d be his favourite smell, he would never bite you, ever, even if you asked him (at least, at first) he would never bare his fangs for you, though he couldn’t control breathing in your sweet smell.

-The only time he’d ever give into the temptation (for the first time at least, someone as sexy as you is hard to deny) is when you’d ask him all pretty in the throes of passion.

-Here’s how it’d start:

-Slowly sinking inside of you, he’d lay gently on top of you so his nose buries itself in your neck, guilt always grew in his chest but he couldn’t help himself, he breathed in your lovely scent.

-It wasn’t just your blood though, his senses were so enhanced he could realise things mortals and witches couldn’t, he could smell your shampoo, soap, natural scents and the lightest sheen of sweat.

-It was all yours, so he loved it.

-You bucked into him with a soft cry, running your fingers through his blond hair, your breathe hitches and the sound booms in his sensitive ears, as does the beat of your heart.

-Your moans and gasps get him harder than anything else, knowing he’s actually making you feel good turns on not only his body, but his entire being, down to his worn heart.

-He’d circle his hips gently, pushing in deeper, careful to not hurt you but knowing you wanted him to speed up a bit.

-You pushed against him, eager to be close as possible, and that meant pushing your skin right against his nose, and he (much to his embarrassment) almost let out a loud moan at your scent.

-Your blood was so sweet, he loved every layer of you, but that smell haunted him, he didn’t sleep, but if he did, he knows he would dream of that, of this,

-You writhing gently underneath him as he finally buried himself to the hilt, your ambrosia getting so warm under your flushed skin.

-Of course you noticed how he reacted, the way he’d wrap his arms around you and lay his head in your neck, how he’d hide his face in your collarbone, and there was something you wanted, craved.

-“Hunter..” you scratched gently at his scalp to get his attention, “P-Please bite me.”

-That made him freeze, the gently thrusts that were gaining momentum stopping entirely much to your libido’s disappointment.

-He’d pull his face out of your neck, and despite the flush on his cheeks and the heavy lidded look in his gaze, you could see the panicked confusion plaguing his features.

-“W-What do you mean, why would you want that?” He’d sputter out, and you felt embarrassment start to rise in you, but you got to see it to the end, my boy.

-You continued to lightly scratch his scalp, and despite his alarm he still melted under the ministrations, he always loved when you’d touch his sensitive scalp.

-“I-I want you to bite me because..” you bit your lip, and noticed the way his eyes would flicker to the sight, “I want to feel close to you, please Hunter, I won’t pressure you-“

-How long has it been since Hunters given into anything? His temptations were pulled from him by Belos, and although he’d never give in to the feral bloodlust still hiding inside him,

-How bad would it be to take just a small, small amount? He knew it was the need talking, and he felt so guilty, not just for your sweet ambrosia, but the need in the way his hips kept trying to buck into your warmth.

-You we’re afraid you upset him, he put his face back in your neck, nuzzling against the skin slightly, “..You can scratch or hit me if you need me to stop, I will, I promise.”

-You felt your stomach twist in excitement, and anticipation when he kissed at your neck, choosing a spot and sucking gently in warning.

-His fangs elongated, his pupils expanding in hunter, and he ran his teeth over the spot once before slowly sinking his fangs in.

-The moan you let out was small and sweet, the sting feeling so good, especially when his hips started up again.

-When vampire drank from their victims, their fangs stayed buried in the skin to push out as much blood as possible, but he didn’t do that.

-He left a gentle bite on your skin, before pulling away and running his tongue over the bloody mark, like he was savouring a fine wine on his tongue, the moan he lets out is almost obscene.

-Even when he wasn’t acting like himself, the more vampiric side of him taking over, he couldn’t resist being gentle.

-You spent a long moment like that, him pumping into you with as much gentleness as he lapped at your bite mark, reviling in your moans and gasps.

-You tasted so good, like caramel on his tongue, the drops he licked at like a dog tasting like heaven, he knew he’d hate himself later for this,

-But for now, he wanted to enjoy the moment, your taste and the way you’d buck desperately before finishing around him.

#hunter x gn!reader #the owl house hunter #hunter the golden guard #hunter headcannons #hunter x reader #toh hunter wittebane #hunter wittebane #toh hunter headcannons #toh hunter x reader #toh hunter #hunter toh x reader #hunter toh

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mdhwrites · 6 months

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The Owl House's Problem with Genre

So this is more a general lesson of: You are supposed to set your expectations for something by the genre set forth by it. If you're consuming a tragedy, you need to understand that fundamental flaws in who a character is are going to doom the entire cast. That doom is inevitable for them by who they are as people. However, if a RomCom tries to pull the same trick for angst and sadness, that's when you get the Third Act Breakup in both its good and infuriating incarnates because, well, it's two genres about joy more than pain.

So what does this have to do with The Owl House? Well, it's something that I struggle with as a writer myself because I can blend genres some and that makes it hard to entirely quantify what genre a work is in. TOH has a problem where the genre will often shift between various episodes.

Like let's look at the first episode. Pretty firmly, that is a comedy adventure. It's got some fun jokes tying into the problem, the action is silly and the powers are a bit goofy to play up the comedy even as they're in danger and the show is telling a lot of jokes pretty rapidly.

Jump over just two episodes though and you have the first episode with a comedy B plot. Sure, Eda and King are having a comedy adventure of sorts but Luz? That one is magical slice of life. It's somewhat comedic but calling it an adventure feels a bit like a stretch. Yes there's a fight eventually but it's much more about the societal issue presented and making friends with some cute banter that you'd expect from a light hearted show. The fight is barely a fight and is over quickly so it just... comes across as something you'd see in any magical school show. Not necessarily bad but not in the genre TOH claims to be. Covention is very similar where there's not actually any real adventure element as it just does some world building until its fight scene mostly. Even then, besides a quip, the fight itself isn't funny.

And mind you, SOME genre blending is actually a good thing. A comedy knowing when to slow down for a serious moment is good. Times for a party to breathe in town can lead to great chances for sides of characters you otherwise wouldn't see. There's a genuine back and forth to be had there.

But it shouldn't ALWAYS be contrasting like that, especially with your main character. Luz actually has VERY little to do with the comedy side of the show. Almost always, there's a moment or two in an episode but the majority of the comedy is either through comic relief characters or explicitly through the B plots. She does just enough comedy to get her character across (which is part of why it fades from her so much in S2B) but no more. Sometimes, she's even gone from the adventure elements too because Luz is too caught up in romance or drama or slice of life stuff to even be put in peril, or isn't until the very end. Like Hunting Palisman has a couple cute jokes but it's mostly a serious affair... except for giving Hunter shit. Otherwise, the show honestly treats Luz mostly seriously. She isn't funny to me as much as she is cute when it comes to how she's trying to express herself which is fine for an adventure, much more questionable for something specifically branded as a COMEDY adventure.

But if it's not the greatest comedy, what genre fits TOH? Was it just listed wrong? Well, pretty much EVERY genre falls into this sort of problem with TOH. It's not a great slice of life because it's not inventive enough to make many of these situations interesting. It's most archtypical episodes are considered some of its worst. It's not a great adventure because the action is pretty meh most of the time and there is zero threat to the main characters so there's no tension. No threat/tension means it's also not good horror. It spends a LOT of time on romance but all of its romances are bland and samey and when they are together as a couple, they often struggle to do anymore than fluff. As a drama, there's never any consequences to anything so the angst feels hollow as it just makes an episode feel bad then moves on. And finally, as a fantasy show, its magic is really basic, kind of boring and there's nothing unique to its world or rules that don't make it feel like it's not just the modern world with more teeth and that's not great fantasy.

The best stories know what they aren't as much they know what they are. Genre blending is a good thing but there's a point at which you're just a composite sludge. Master at nothing, impressive at little.

And there is no genre TOH impresses with.

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#the owl house criticism #toh critical

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heyitschartic · 1 year

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hi! I saw u recommended artist formerly known as bonesaw, do u have any other worm fic recs? bonesaw is my fav character but god I am so desperate to read good worm fics in general

I have been sitting on this ask for a very long time thinking about it. I've been in this fandom so fucking long that fics have just started to pile on top of each other in my head, so I think the best thing to do is just to recc every single thing I can think of at this moment and give my reason why. There's a lot of good fics out there buried under all the trash! This is going to be a long one, so I'll cut it off here so you don't have to scroll down past all my bullshit. In no specific order...

I have a post here going over some of my favorite authors and the works they produced, so I won't redo what I said there. I think for every one of them, you should definitely check out everything they've done because it is just fucking amazing writing. Most of their stories live in my head rent free at all times, even the stuff I didn't post in that thread.

Glowspider is one of the people I should have included on that list. Her writing is just wonderful, though I'd recc her Pact stuff just as eagerly as her Worm stuff. Lady Tremaine at the Kitchen Table just hits in all the worst ways. For Worm though, Valleyxandria, a story about Valley-girl Alexandria obviously, and Golf Morning, Gold Morning retold as a golf match, are some fucking killer stories. Some of the funniest written. It's Cold Out There Every Day was easily my favorite fic for last year, a story about Missy stuck in a time loop, and still holds my heart in a death grip. BROCKTON is a Riverdale/Worm fusion and oh my god does Glows just nail everything with this.

K800 is another amazing author and no I'm not biased shut up. She's a great writer who has put out a ton of stuff, both Otherverse and Worm. Luz Mala is a great story about an ex-villain on the run in Argentia. Wonderful story and criminally underliked. Forward is the canon-compliant story about Taylor post-gm trying to get better. It's lovely, rips at your heartstrings, and is one of the only good portrayals of how Taylor would be after Gold Morning. Bitter But Sweet is the fandoms only coffeeshop AU and it is wonderful. The name suits it perfectly and Taylor is very gay. Soliloquy is a story based off one of mine (not biased), Taylor who was in the S9 reconnecting with the clone that was made of her during Gold Morning. Very cute, very sad, all that good shit.

Hopeful Penguin fucking PUMPS out words, I don't know how the man does it, and it's all good too, some type of devil contract. He has so many I would recc, but to not fill up the page, I'll give some short ones. Def check out: Flare, a post-gm Taylor dropped in the New York Behemoth fight. It definitely nails a really good from-the-ground look at it. High Soaring Above a perfect look at the life of Hannah Washington before Brockton Bay. Balestra, a love story in the style of This is How You Lose The Time War between Alexandria and Rebecca.

Harbin wisely left this dustbowl fandom, but they are one of the greats. Their snippet thread is wonderful and full of so many great ideas (I love the one about Bakuda switching out with her normal-earth counterpart), but to focus on their stories. Cutting Ties is Taylor with Jack Slash's power. Really well written, interesting concept, but it does do the Rune redemption thing (something the author wishes they hadn't gone with). I still recc it because it's just really good. Overhaul is about Taylor with Sphere's powers, struggling with her tinkering and her disability. Scour is about Taylor with Shatterbird's powers wandering through the desert after she triggered. Very thoughtful, I love it.

Omega_93 needs to post more because all of their works bring joy to my heart. Timeslip is a story about a Taylor clone waking up during the Teacher raid in ward. The reunion between Taylor and the Undersiders is just <3 and all the hints at what's going on behind the scenes intrigues me horribly. See is a short story about Bonesaw in Twig and I think it nails Riley. Just this fucked up girl trying to figure out how to even slightly act like a normal human. Finally, Larva is about a clone of Taylor joining Breakthrough. Just a really fun idea with great execution.

Redcoat Officer has written so many amazing stories, most focusing on original characters too. Ghost in the Flesh is a runaway hit about Sonnie from Love, Death and Robots joining Faultline's Crew. Finished and fantastic! Nightcrawler is an OC story about a Case 53 in Seattle. Finally, for those begging for more Undersiders he made Good People, a Shadowrun cross where the entire worm world is made into the Shadow run world (the shadow verse?) Very fun crime, great writing, and I love how the worlds are integrated!

Discreet is an author that it just shocks me how many fucking amazing stories they've written, banger after banger. It Starts With One is their most famous fic for a reason. A very political story about Alexandria and Skitter fighting it out over Capitalism. A Word is another beautiful story about Taylor with a version of Jack Slash's power. It's a beautiful story about writing and language and being understood. Lost Cat, Please Help is a great story about a case 53 being found far after Gold Morning ended. Really love the main character. The Girl in the Room is an interactive story and I won't say a word, it speaks for itself. Finally One-Sided Rival, a story about Sophia after Gold Morning and how she deals. All amazing.

God this is getting long, only individual stories from now on.

Rank is the Worm story. If you're going to read anything, read this. it's a story about Carrie Kobayashi, a refugee from Japan after Leviathan, joining the PRT and making her way in San Fransisco. It's a fucking behemoth of a story, going all the way from 2004 to Gold Morning and fuck it uses its words well. It covers so much shit, the main character is fantastic, and it is one of the best works someone could create from Worm. PLEASE read this.

Something else to definitely check out is the Parahumans Zine. It's long, it's wonderful, and it covers so many different stories and ideas. A fuckton of love was put into this thing by so many different people and it shows. The little weld article, about a kid saying how Weld inspired him is something I still think about from time to time. Oh my god I love this piece of work.

Bubbles Always Pop is a bittersweet story about Bakuda, who she was and how she got there. It kills me reading it. Some people say it's better without the epilogue, but for me, it would be hard to handle it without.

Throttle is a story about Taylor who turns into a car. It is a fucking insane ride (appropriate I suppose) about burnout Taylor and her best friend Bitch. It scratches that itch for bad bitch stories, I wish there was more.

We Appreciate Power is an insane story. A peggy sue where Emma gets sent back to before Taylor triggers and does her best to stop Taylor from doing it and become as bad a bitch as possible to prove how much better she is.

This is cheating cause it's a snip thread, but Quantum Prompts has some of my favorite snips in this whole fandom. One More and For That Girl make me cry every time I read them.

Just One More Thing, Mr Anders is the story about Columbo taking out Max Anders. The author has a snip thread that is hit or miss(still might wanna check it out, some good stuff there), but this story is a definite hit. Nails Columbo's whole vibe and watching Anders bring himself down is incredibly enjoyable.

In Golden Armour is a love story between Lisa Wilbourn and an OC. I love this romance so much and Corey is wonderful. Definitely one of the better, if not the best, love stories out there.

Voracity is a Case 53 quest about a fun and frightening girl figuring out her place in the world. Cirrata is a delight and her personality just makes you want to see what she does next.

By the same author, Rein is a story about Taylor able to summon Taylor (based off Fate stuff, I don't know that though). It nails the voices of Taylor from four different times in her life and really plays into a lot of fun stuff that would come up in this scenario.

Mixed Feelings is a fabulous story about Astrid, a gay girl born into the Empire dealing with her feelings, her past from a horrible father, and her look towards a future. It can be a very heavy read. This story is a main stay in the fandom, been updating forever, and it's always a joy to see it.

East of Eden, god what a fucking trip of a story. Eden dies and rebirths herself as Taylor Hebert. Shit just gets wilder from there. It seems like a cracky premise, but it plays it so well, managing to make it through the end of the world and end on an upbeat note. I love this story and I hope you do too <3

From the same author, The Countess is perhaps the story I should have recommended first. A Count of Monte Cristo fusion that...well listen, you hear that premise and it manages to mesh the worlds together into a beautiful tapestry. God it's just so wonderful and the kind of thing I'm begging for more of.

City of Salt is a wild story told from a bunch of different viewpoints about Brockton after Behemoth hits instead of Leviathan. It has beautiful artwork, covers so many interesting threadlines, and has an insane companion fic about three Echidna Taylor clones in the Wards.

Agent of Cauldron is the sort of fic we need a lot more of. It fleshes out the worm world in a ton of ways, builds on what Cauldron is and adds so many new and interesting characters. This story is wild and I'd recommend it just to see what they added.

Tabloid was one of the original greats by one of the best artists in the fandom, long gone for better pastures. It follows a cape paparazzi and they are a joy of a main character and the art work is amazing too. A definite read.

Dragon Unbound is another oldie but a goldie. The Dragon that Defiant created in the Epilogue gets free and goes to live her own life. Really fun and entertaining. The sort of thing that should be recommended more.

Diary of a Professional Knockoff about a dorky girl who writes cape fanfiction and finds herself joining the PRT as an intern. Fun antics with social anxiety and tinkertech.

Alright, there are tons more I could post about but this thread is wayyyyyyy too long as it is. Besides, that should leave you thousands of things to read through in the meantime.

#wormblr #wormwebserial #wildbow #fanfiction #parahumans #There's so much I haven't put here too

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Analyzing all the differences in the storyboards posted by Yasmin Khudari and the final product! - Part 2: Collector Edition!

And so here we are! If you haven't seen part 1, I urge you to do so, as we looked into some pretty interesting and lore rich boards that were cut or done differently compared to their final episodes!

This post will cover all the boards for For the Future, and as always I'll try to be mindful with how many pictures I add for the image limit!

While chronologically the sequence with King and Collector playing pretend comes first, that one gives us a LOT more ground to cover, so I'll start with the Bedtime Story sequence, which is frankly easier to get through!

First of all: minor change, Collector used to get big sparkly eyes when asking King to read them a story!

And there also used to be dialogue by Collector after he drops the huge book down, stating that this book usually takes 300 years to get through, but assuring King they usually fall asleep midway. I think this is kind of a funny line and it would make sense with the way King responds "easy..." afterwards, which did make it in the final cut. Of course we still get that impression without this dialogue, but it was kind of funny. The book also appears to have paper pages here, rather than stone slabs.

Minor visual thing that I think is very cute: the scribbles over the "bad" part Collector did used to have little angry faces! I'm so sad they didn't make it in! Look at them! One is sticking its tongue out!

Small but super interesting dialogue change also: King used to read aloud the part Collector scratched out anyway, and go "yikes" as a response to it (fun! and accessible for viewers who may not be able to read it when it comes up for some reason!) and as a result, Collector doesn't say "don't read the NEXT part, skip to where I fixed it", but rather just "don't read the BAD part", confirming he does view it as bad. He also would say "right..." when finishing reading! I like how talkative he used to be here... sad it got lost.

Minor thing! King also used to tilt his head when telling Collector he only lets one other person hold François. This little movement is absent from the final cut!

There's also a dialogue change with Collector, he doesn't refer to Luz as "that human", but rather by name, going "your old best friend, Luz". I wonder if this was changed because the crew thought Collector might not want to admit this about Luz, or if maybe it felt inaccurate since Luz is more specifically King's sister figure.

And finally... oh these boards have gone viral baby. Excited to talk about them!

Instead of saying "I don't like being alone" after asking King at least leave François to watch over them, Collector says they promise not to touch it which... oh myyyyy God, this is so cute.

But I am conflicted about it! I think the inclusion of the line about loneliness makes a lot of thematic sense considering how this is brought up again by King to Eda and Lilith, as a reminder of the pivotal part of Collector's trauma dealing with his imprisonment, but on the other hand! This original line would have driven home the point of how good Collector is trying to be for King, specially with the divergence that comes next.

This! This feels so important! This is a call back to the moment where King tells Collector they can trust him (and this is present in both the roughs and cleans AND the final episode!) and make a pinky promise! This right here is a direct parallel that has King decide that if he tells Collector they can trust him, he should trust them too! This is decisive in portraying them as two kids who are trying to see each other as equals and just have immensely unhelpful circumstances all around them!

I can understand why it was reworked though, again, I feel like they might not want to let the audience forget about The Collector's loneliness because it is such a pivotal part of their arc and it constitutes the very important theming of how wrongful imprisoning someone is, and how punishing children through methods that border on or are straight up torture do nothing to help them grow. If this wasn't brought up again at least once, I can see the crew feeling this section of his character was neglected, and he was made into just a playmate for King to hang out with that'll inevitably turn good by the end.

I just... wish I could have them both, lol but well, other fans also had some pretty big losses in other storyboard changes, so I guess I'll settle for what we have now! I did speculate the theming of trust and telling the truth and striving to see each other as equals will come back next special, so here's hoping this won't be dropped completely!

Anyway, now for the big event! The roughs AND cleans for the playing pretend sequence! For this one, since there are sometimes differences happening between each of the board sets AND the final episode, I'll be adding those simultaneously as things happen.

First of all! Immediate punch to the gut: In the roughs, Willow used to run at her dad and get close to him and try to talk to him, not just wait until the puppets started running and screaming! I can only imagine they took this out because this would just be really sad?? But this show also revels in sadness and they do want to make us feel for Willow so I do not get it... maybe time save? Either way. I cry.

Oh yeah also! As you can see here! The puppets used to, for the most part, have stars for eyes instead of just stylized eyes? It's more subtle in the clean version but their eyes still turn into stars when they're "activated". I'm not sure why this was changed other than to maybe make it easier to animate.

Willow seems to have no dialogue when running after her dad both in the roughs and cleans, though in the cleans she does only run after him when he starts running and screaming, just like the final episode.

Also! There is a small scene not present in the final episode but both in the roughs and cleans: When Terra is running around as the owl beast, there is a close up of her obscured face with mouth open looking like a big monster mouth. I can see that they probably cut this due to it probably being weird to get such a close up without giving away it's not Eda, or maybe it was just for some extra time.

Another minor change, when she sees her dad getting attacked, in the roughs, Willow doesn't bring out her staff, instead just covering her mouth. In the cleans, she does the final episode motion normally. I think they may have changed this to reflect her personality better: we do know Willow is the type to want to jump into action to protect those she cares for.

Also minor detail: after Collector says "stop right there, beast" there used to be no frame showing Willow being surprised by this and hesitating, cutting directly to Collector's star descending with him and King on it.

Minor dialogue difference as well! Both in cleans and roughs, Collector did not address the "citizens of Bonesborough", but rather declares "I'm here to stop your mad rampage!" at the beast! I feel like it may have been changed to better reflect his view of playing the hero of the story here, instead of just playing the role of hunting the beast as he may have done before.

However the identification of his role as Luz came in the form of something else, as King used to have added dialogue in both the roughs and cleans, going "Use the spell I helped you find, Collector!" This is very cute, and I kind of wish they kept it in, it solidifies that King is playing along as an important part in the story, just like the actual episode they are referencing! I wonder if it was cut for time or if it was redundant or something...

And then King goes "I believe in you!" with your usual "Thanks, best friend" reply from Collector.

We also have this short little cut moment where you can see them looking at each other happily and there's a weird divergence between the roughs and cleans here. See, they're nearly identical, but in the roughs, King appears to be blushing for some reason?

Granted, we have seen characters blush in non-romantic settings before, even cut blushes in storyboards such as Luz blushing when being happy about Philip being impressed by her (I still feel so bad for her!) ...but it is at least notable here because a lot of people debate whether King actually enjoyed Collector's company and would like to be friends in the future or not, but I feel like moments like these in the storyboards (the bit about trusting each other from earlier on comes to mind) help solidify that they were always meant to befriend each other, King isn't just a miserable participant with no agency whatsoever! His little blush could indicate he feels happy by now to play with them! And there are further boards I will show that further prove this!

In the final cut, this bit is of course, absent, instead just cutting to Luz's eyes widening. This also leads to a funny little divergence in the roughs and cleans, where what I think happened here is that the reaction Luz used to have at Terra coming out of the Owl Beast costume was instead at first going to be her reaction to King and Collector playing together and seemingly enjoying each other's company... which is very funny to me. I think they may have changed this because it may have seemed a little too mean spirited to have Luz react so badly at King being happy around Collector.

Look... I made a GIF to show how they're one to one the same frame... This literally is just funny to me.

Another small cut moment, there used to be an overview shot of the puppets cheering for Collector! This one is very cute. Look at them with their little hands on their hips!!

And because Luz's reaction to Collector and King being besties got switched around, this caused another set of fun divergences in the roughs, cleans, and final storyboards.

In the roughs, Luz has a moment where she looks attentively at the Owl Beast costume as the camera holds on it, likely doing a kind of suspense zoom and then bait and switch. In the cleans, the zoom doesn't happen. However in both the roughs and cleans, there is a close up of Luz reacting with a weirded out face at the same time as Terra says "back to normal" offscreen.

I imagine what happened here is that these expressions from the boards were then re-tooled to be the close up shot we see of Luz reacting to King and Collector, her eyes just widening as she stares in shock.

Further on, Terra also has some cut dialogue and actions, which are the same in both the roughs and cleans:

While kicking off a bit of the costume, she then throws her "hair" back and goes "Bad girls and so on". This is a funny little bit that I can only think was maybe but for time!

And then! We actually have a case of added content! In the roughs and cleans, Collector didn't give Terra any descriptions about Eda being "like a cool aunt" who "actually cares a lot". I do think it was clever to include this, it helps show a little better that Collector actually respects and likes Eda despite how things are at the moment.

After that, both in the cleans and roughs, Terra's dialogue changes a little bit, instead of calling King a "stupid little" dog, she calls him a "little freak" dog, which does sound like a kind of harsher insult.

Another minor change that is barely noticeable, the roughs and cleans call for Terra clearing her throat before going "Ooh, I like musicians", and you can see a BIT of this motion in the final cut, but she doesn't actually do it, just sort of inhales.

Similarly, there's another cut bit in both the roughs and cleans where Terra would cough and gag right after this line, indicating she would maybe be disgusted by Eda and Raine's relationship. I think this could've been a funny bit but I understand if it was cut for time or maybe the VA couldn't cough at that moment due to complications for any reason.

This next scene is also slightly different! And contains also small differences between both the roughs and cleans! Collector, instead of saying, "You're not being very nice right now", goes "I never pinky swore to THAT."

In the roughs, he assumes more of a frowny expression, just looking kinda angry at Terra like in the final cut, but in the cleans, he gives this sinister ass smile that I love love love! Oh, my little son named warcrimes who commits atrocities and I adore it.

Minor change: Terra used to plead "no no no no" before getting turned into a puppet in both the roughs and cleans, but this is absent in the final cut.

Alright, this next part gets REAL complicated with the divergences not just towards the final cut, but with both versions - rough and clean - between each other. There's a ton of dialogue changing and even action/expression changing, and I'm very excited to talk about it.

First, in both the roughs and cleans, after going "Collector, buddy, you gotta stop doing that." King doesn't plead "Think about what you're doing to these people", but instead says "You're running out of people to play with." I imagine they may have changed this to make King seem more sympathetic to the plight of the people getting turned into puppets, whereas the first one showed more of his practical side knowing just what to say to Collector to get them to question things, as Collector would probably respond better to being reminded this is less people to play with. Another reason why this may have been cut is because one could argue Collector can still play with the puppets, just that they won't be sentient.

Here is where we run into our first divergence: present only in the cleans, King also adds "plus, you could've really hurt someone!" I imagine this bit was added in the cleans to make up for that need of showing King's compassion, but I think the reason this was also changed is that it doesn't make sense? We know the puppets aren't getting hurt, sure it's terrifying to lose control of your own body and be forced to be a doll and sleep within that wooden carcass, but they're not at risking of being actively hurt and can be easily fixed if anything happens. This is of course still bad, but the threat of physical harm doesn't make sense in this case particularly.

Because of this divergence, here's where the roughs, cleans, and final cut split into three different versions:

In the roughs, Collector responds by continuing to seem sad and going "But we'll NEVER be able to play Owl House right without an Owl Lady." He then pleads: "Maybe if you let me talk to Eda myself-" which... certainly seems a lot different than the chipper "maybe if I ask her real nice, I won't have to turn her into a puppet" from the final cut. This reads even more like Collector wants to connect to Eda and talk to her, but is being actively kept from it by King. I can see why maybe this was cut as it would make King look a little bad for barring Collector so much from seeing Eda if he is so well meaning, whereas the final version actually seems more threatening and like King has a reason to not want them interacting yet.

In the cleans, however, because King added that comment about maybe hurting people, Collector responds in a really interesting way: "You said this game was pretend, why do I gotta worry about stuff like that?" Both the roughs and cleans as you've probably already picked up lack that malicious "you're so boring" jab at King, but this one is definitely the one with the most striking contrast, as this one directly implies Collector WOULD worry about hurting people, and is just confused as to how this could happen in their game.

This makes King go into his little speech about playing pretend having consequences, but this one is also slightly altered: Instead of saying "playing pretend", King says "living in a fantasy has consequences, too. Real ones". And ohhh! I would like to bite my fucking arm off at this!! Do you see this shit! Not only is this perfect fodder for the theory Collector is trying to shut himself away from the grief he feels over the titans and refusing to confront his past trauma and generally repressing his emotions, but! It is even more of a DIRECTLY DRAWN parallel to King, by HIMSELF, at King's season 1 self and his backstory of having once believed he was the King of Demons.

But of course, I can see reasons why this may have been changed. Namely, "living in a fantasy" may have confused audiences while "playing pretend" is more of a direct description of what is happening. Also "real ones" may have just been cut for extra seconds. Lord knows they need those.

After King says that, Collector launches into his usual excited talk of Eda, though he doesn't say "no substitutes allowed". However, just like in the roughs, how he refers to talking to Eda here is pretty different. Here, he says "Maybe if you'd let me talk to her, she'd wanna play-"

Again, no mention of turning her into a puppet. Hmmm.

So, I have some theories. First is pretty straight-forward, they added the threat of her maybe getting turned into a puppet to keep the stakes high and give a reason for King to really object Collector talking to her. The second one... well, it involves a lot about Collector's arc in this episode and how it may have changed over time, but I want to talk more about it once we finish looking at all the boards for differences, and believe me, we aren't done yet.

After this, the roughs and cleans meet again, and both of them feature King going "n-no", but unlike the final cut, his dialogue is slightly different here again: he doesn't say "Her curse is still in effect." He says "She's still... not feeling well... y'know. The curse and all that." It's a subtle difference, and it does use more words and pauses, so I think they may have just changed this for time.

The roughs and cleans and final all diverge again here: In the roughs, King reassures Collector by saying "I'll talk to her about joining the game, don't you worry." In the cleans, it switches to "D-don't worry! I'll talk to her for you". In the finals, we have the known "But I can check if she's feeling better." Here we have a progression that I think shows us the difference between King promising Collector something we really aren't going to see- which is Eda joining the game, to say he'll talk to her for him which is similar but vaguer, and then, just saying he'll check on her. I feel this change may have occurred so his promise is mostly kept here.

Slight divergence: Collector goes "you promise?" as a response in all versions, but only in the cleans and final version does he do that little lean while smiling. In the roughs, he used to remain kind of sad looking. I wonder if initially they were going for Collector initially doubting King, but discarded that in favor of his more confident behavior.

And hoo boy, this next divergence is another that makes me kind of insane. You see, while King says the same thing in all three versions, "You can trust me, Collector" and offers a pinky promise, his expressions and motions! They are so different in storyboards!

In the final version, you'll recall King has his gaze averted while offering the pinky and looks kinda sad while doing it. In both the roughs and cleans though...

Look at how happy he seems doing it! He looks at Collector the whole time, only looking away at their pinkies for a second, then they have a moment where they just look at each other happily!

So this is that further implication I was talking about, that King and Collector, at least in some iteration of the story, were written to actively be friends, and not just have a one-sided thing.

Again, I have a few theories about why this was changed. Another straightforward one is just that they wanted to show King was still worried about things and not just nonchalant about the misery around him. Another possible, less straightforward one is that they really wanted to keep the thing about King actually caring about the Collector and not wanting to hurt him a surprise. In a way, that makes sense, younger people may fall for this, hell, I've seen at least one or two people online confess they really thought King wanted to kill Collector with that line from him. So to show them being so indisputably intimate would kind of spoil that.

That being said though... I have another theory, the very same that connects as to why other things have been changed, but again, it's kind of big so I wanna talk about it after we're done.

Only in the roughs now, there's a small bit where we see Camila scoot over to Luz's side to ask "Is that the little guy you've been telling me about?" (Notice in the final cut she also says little King, not just little guy. I feel like this was done to avoid confusion on who she referred to.) In the cleans, it just cuts instead of showing her getting there.

There's also a big divergence in the roughs, cleans, and final result here. First of all, in the roughs and cleans, there's no zoom in on Camila's face.

Then, in the roughs, after Camila comments "ay, que lindo", Luz gives out a giggle and goes "Verdad?" which means "True", like she was saying "true, right", like!! It's like ikr for spanish basically. However, she looks sad right after, and so does Camila upon realizing Luz still feels bad. I think they probably cut this for time, really, as well as maybe they thought Luz wouldn't be in the mood to laugh at her mom reacting the same way she did when she first met King.

In the cleans, however, this scene is way more depressing. Camila still gushes over King like normal, but here, Luz's reaction is just sighing and giving an eerily blank looking dejected expression. My god girl. You are not doing well. And of course, Camila does get sad seeing her this way.

Minor change, Collector used to not say Archive House, just the Archives!

Another minor but fun change: Amity used to reply to Camila's question about the eyeballs being normal but not Collector, by going "Yeah, that's basically it."

Some pretty heartbreaking cut dialogue here as well, in both the roughs and cleans, after Hunter says they should follow Collector and King as Belos is probably trying to get back to the Collector, Willow points out they're flying too fast.

The roughs and cleans diverge here a bit, but Hunter's reaction is more or less similar.

In the roughs, Hunter goes "Flap would be able to-" before cutting himself off and storming off.

But in the cleans, this is made further more upsetting, as he says "Flap could-" then pauses for a moment, entirely silent, realizing what he just said. Then he announces "It's fine." and walks off, stating that "there's more than one way to find him."

I! Really mourn these losses! These are such neat little moments that solidify Hunter's grieving and I wish we could've kept them! I can only think they may have been cut for time, the crew felt they didn't need to add more, or they didn't want to rub it in.

Minor dialogue changes ahead, Gus doesn't say "it looked like they were playing a game", but specifically focuses on The Collector, saying it looked like (they) were playing pretend (hmmm, possible Gus role with the Collector foreshadow?) Similarly, Luz doesn't described it as a "messed up version" of her life, only HER life. Gus also doesn't refer to them as puppets in roughs and cleans, but rather as toys.

Before climbing up the debri to look at the Archives, Luz would say "The Archives..." dramatically, in both the roughs and cleans. Also, may just be the nature of the roughs being roughs, but in the rough storyboards the Archives look way more like a bunch of floating debri strung together rather than a full on circular castle.

And... that's it basically! Whew! That was... quite a lot as you can tell, just these two scenes had so much material they practically overshadow the sheer amount of content the first part of this little analysis project had.

Okay, so. Again, as the guy who usually goes cuckoo crazy theorizing on every little thing related to the Collector, this was a feast for me, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't very intrigued by how much Collector's characterization -specially in relation to King- changed from the storyboards to the final product.

One thing you may have already clocked just from this is that The Collector and King used to seem much more like close friends, as well as there was less of an emphasis on Collector's loneliness and implied trauma rather than on the issue of trust between King and Collector- can they really call each other best friends if they don't take the steps to trust each other and be honest with each other?

Hell, there's even ANOTHER modified detail from the storyboards where King used to SMILE while beaming up with Collector after meeting Odalia.

So... what happened? Why did they change this? I've given you my reasons before but have been teasing one big theory all along, so I will say it now: I think they were pretty confident up to a certain point in diving into the themes of friendship and trust and telling the truth with Collector and King that I've already kinda identified as remaining in this episode, but that got kinda built up for the next episode, but then they realized "oh shit, we are barely touching on Collector's own trauma from being put in hardcore solitary for hundreds of years and having his psyche shattered into pieces from that we should probably. Focus on that huh."

And so was born a revised version of the episode that focused on King feeling a lot more general pity and sadness for the Collector, and the Collector in turn also being allowed to show more sadness that wasn't just related to not getting why his games are going wrong or why King won't let him talk to Eda. One where a more young and/or impressionable audience may be excused to think King didn't like Collector that much, but the twist is that he does, in fact he feels bad for them and relates to them.

Put simply, these earlier versions were nice, but they lacked the drive back to focus on the metanarrative Collector brings to the table of how terrible it is to punish a kid- or anyone- with extended solitary imprisonment, even if they did do bad things or are still doing them. And honestly, I'm still conflicted! I still like both of these a lot, I really think I would have enjoyed this earlier version with them being clearly besties maybe even more, but I also can't say I wouldn't have been frustrated if they never brought up Collector's trauma and issues ever again, specially after setting that up through Season 2B.

But well... I still will hold these storyboards near and dear to my heart, and I hope this post will reach many more people and spread the good word of the King and Collector endgame besties agenda being real!

#the owl house #toh analysis #the collector #toh collector #king clawthorne #commander's orders

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carpisuns · 1 year

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Consider this. Luz and everyone watching Miraculous Ladybug. What would their favorite side of the love square be and why?

HI I FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS it’s been in my inbox for. a While but I did think about it and here is my take

Luz: ladynoir stan. she loves their classic banter and their “you and me against the world” power couple energy. she eats it up. She is a sucker for a battle couple who always has each others’ backs no matter what. “The SOULMATISM” she says every time they do something in sync. she wants amity to cosplay with her so amity can be her lady and she can be kitty…with a dark side (nya)

Amity: adrinette stan. she relates to marinette being an incomprehensible blushing mess around her crush a little too much. also a sweet friends to lovers romance taking place mostly at school…yes she likes that idea. (do Not mention puppeteer 2 around her though bc she almost exploded from embarrassment. mostly because she could picture herself doing the exact same thing.)

Hunter: ladrien stan. what can I say, he just loves Girl Strong. he watches a powerful girl with dark pigtails effortlessly scooping up a sad blond boy and he’s like haha I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me!! (too late.) also the pining. he feels the pining part very hard. the way they look at each other makes him ache and blush and he’s embarrassed and always pretends he doesn’t care that much about the romance but he cares so much and wishes for ladrien crumbs every episode

Gus and Willow: marichat stans. at first they just chose it bc luz asked and they thought it would be funny to pick the only side who doesn’t have feelings for each other, who barely interact. everyone else is like ?? why tho. and they’re like “listen it would be funny. just imagine it. it would be so stupid. it’s perfect. Dude what if they fake dated HAHAHA” and then when weredad happened they were like SEE!! SEE!! IT’S FUNNY. WE ARE SO CORRECT AND OUR TASTE IS FLAWLESS. and by the time they all got to elation. oh boy. they were so smug bc it was mostly a crackship to them but look how powerful. in ur faces first remembered kiss hahaha [does a secret best friends handshake that makes hunter feel left out]

#anon #ask #ml #toh

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belleski · 2 years

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heavy kudos to hunter for speedruning nearly every transmasc haircut in 6 minutes (image description) Three digital illustrations of hunter from The Owl House with comments written in dark brown around them. image 1: Hunter is wearing his yellow jumper and has a shorter haircut. He’s holding Flapjack in his hands and has Emilee slung over his shoulder. Clover is hovering in front of him, and he is looking away from them and smiling. There are Comments written around him that say ‘ Sweet child, perfect boy, everyone approves, he looks polite, tbh i just wanted to draw him with all the palipals’ Image 2: Hunter has slightly longer hair, thats pushed back out of his face and he’s wearing a light blue button up shirt with a purple triangle pattern. He’s frowning and looking to his side. There are comments written round him that say ‘ Greasy but he makes it work, very fun to draw, literally cant tell if this looks good or not, definitely reacting to something Luz just did, why does he dress like me? image 3: Hunter has long hair that is falling over his face, and hes looking to the side with a sad expression. the comments around him says ‘ Trauma, very not good, so glad it didnt last,im not loving it’ (end ID)

#the concept art included the buzzcut but its nice to know ive shared every haricut with this guy #the owl house #toh #the owl house fanart #toh hunter #toh spoilers #toh flapjack #image description #belleskiart

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Ah okay I have an idea for Jasper's mental health journey in Eventually.

I've got two meta reasons for why Jasper should be mostly-mentally-stable. The first is Hunter, obviously; the kid's going through it, and he needs this new parental figure in his life to be, like, okay. As delightful as Jasper's breakdown in MH has been, it would be super bad for everyone involved if his mental health was anywhere near that point in Eventually. The second reason is CAMILA, who just became a mother of 6 and absolutely does not deserve to also be shoehorned into playing therapist for a grown man. I love the idea of Camila and Jasper being friends, and Camila deserves to have a friend who, while definitely traumatized, is also mostly on top of his shit. Once he's no longer unconscious on her couch I think Jasper would be a huge help around the house and with the kids and he and Camila should be the responsible adults supporting EACH OTHER, so we don't want him to be a hidden wreck or a ticking time bomb.

So the first few years after his "death" Jasper reads parenting books as a coping mechanism. It helps him visualize where Hunter's at in his development. Every so often he thinks "he's probably taking his first steps right now" or "he should be speaking with a few words per sentence by now" and it's sad but it helps.

But eventually the baby books run out (is there really much of a market for them past, like, age 5?), and also Jasper is well aware of the fact that he left his child in an extremely bad situation. He knows what Belos is capable of, and while he has hope his kid PROBABLY won't ever see his own spinal cord, he's not stupid enough to think that being called "nephew" will actually protect Hunter from all of it. Child abuse is a thing, and it's a thing that's usually perpetrated by, y'know, family members.

There aren't any books entitled How To Unindoctrinate Your Estranged Child Soldier, but that doesn't stop him. He reads everything he can find on the subject and learns about allllll the things. Physical abuse, emotional abuse, gaslightning, manipulation, CSA. (He hopes to the Titan he won't need to know about that last one, but then he wonders if it'd be preferable to, like, being beaten to the edge of death and dragged back from the brink with healing magic multiple times, and then he just feels awful that he's even trying to decide what the "better" sort of abuse to endure would be.)

And pretty regularly he happens upon a paragraph that is, like, scarily relevant to his own lived experience and he needs to reevaluate some things. Maybe he tries to brush it off, but the more he interacts with Hunter, the less he's able to do that.

Book: Believing that love is transactional is, in fact, a sign of trauma, and not good or healthy.

Jasper: …haha, right, okay.

Hunter, at their next fight: I am LOYAL to Emperor Belos, I OWE him, and I HAVE to keep working hard so he'll LOVE me!

Jasper: Oh my Titan okay yeah this is really upsetting to hear and deal with, actually.

Sometimes after their fights Jasper has to just…go lay down and stare at the ceiling for a while before re-reading his self-help books and grumbling while he takes notes like ugh, FINE, they were RIGHT. He and Hunter end up working on their issues after their reunion because they see themselves reflected in each other and they HATE it.

Jasper: Look, I'M not important. YOU'RE the one who's important here and I WILL sacrifice myself for you.

Hunter: Dear Titan this is infuriating.

Luz: Now YOU know how it feels.

Hunter: Maybe it'd be better if I'd just died, that way I'd stop causing problems for everyone I love.

Jasper: *deep breath*

At some point in the Human Realm Hunter has a bad mental health day and locks himself in the basement, and Camila finds Jasper sitting at the kitchen table and she's like, you okay? And he's like, I've read a lot about this, but all my books and notes are back in the Demon Realm and I feel like I'm flying blind and have no idea what I'm doing. And she's like, actually that's pretty par for the course when it comes to being a parent. And he's like, oh really? That's kinda reassuring, thanks. I'll just wait and see if he wants to talk about it later.

omg.... eventually!jasper is like... he's so isolated, he doesnt have anyone he trusts and he doesnt have a single person he'd call a friend. he's fallen back on the same thing he did under belos in a way- there is one single driving motivation in his life and absolutely nothing else matters. whether it was serving the emperor or saving hunter, he HAS dedicated everything inside of him to one single person at a time. probably not great, but! he could be doing worse. also, MH jasper is having a lot of breakdowns, but its also been less than two years for him lmfao. for eventually!jasper its been sixteen!! hes had a lot of time to gather his shit together

im actually imagining the isolation is less like. immediately of a problem because hes fairly used to it. he only ever had one friend before and he didnt much trust him either, not with his secrets. so being alone is... well, just what hes used to. hes also probably like. deeply in hiding wherever he is. he doesnt have magic and his face is all fucked up and if word got back to belos about it, he would totally suspect if not outright know.

ive kind of got this mental image of- you know at the end of the time travel episode when belos goes into his little cave house and its. like. hes got normal house stuff in there. like he has shirts hanging to dry on the cave walls. sure theres like evil grimwalker stuff in there too but its the domestic items i find hysterical. so like. im imagining jasper has found himself a nice secluded cave to bunker down in but also hes had sixteen years to straight of domesticate that place. there are definitely couches in there. hes got a CB. hes probably got running water and hes stealing electricity from the neighbors. and cable. and then just books fucking everywhere. jesus christ. theyre everywhere. what else would he fucking do with his time; hunter isnt allowed out of the castle on weekdays. that is. so much time to just Do Nothing.

he probably does hang out with the CATTs on non hunter missions too, if only because some of them will fuck over belos which he actively wants, or has no impact on the hunter situation either way, but improving his relationship with the CATTs before he inevitably pisses them off again is always a good idea. also, its something to fucking do.

god yeah just. camila with this bizarre man in her house. hes not having breakdowns, he doesnt like not understand that other people have feelings, hes mostyl together, hes just fucking weird. he hasnt been around people for this long in basically his entire life. hes not wearing a mask and hes never spent so much time without a mask in his entire life. hunter is here???? hes spent 16 years trying to save hunter and uhhhh shit i did it. i am not entirely sure what to do now. turns out you can spend sixteen years planning out this reunion and then it all go out the window immediately. also hes been living in a cave and hes forgotten basic rules of being in a house sometimes. hes very POLITE and gracious to camila especially like, i imagine both him and hunter frequently thank her and offer To Do Anything She Needs and its like. so fucking funny to see them both just Like That.

omg hunter gets to actually meet hawk hunter. "haha yeah he saved my life. hes like three hundred years old and he cant talk. look at this gnarly scar hes got. he bites me a lot"

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elliot-needs-sleep · 1 year

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Fuck it y'all get an Owl House fic cause why not its the only thing I can find-

(Just to be clear this was something I had written with a specific person in mind, also (f/n) means fake name because why not)

(The specific person MIGHT have been me)

I Don' Have A Title For This One!

Character: Hunter x reader

Fic type: Drabble?

Fandom: The Owl House

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I had just come from school and was still in my uniform, the red and yellow sleeves, and blue and cyan legs showing my enrollment in both the Bard track, Potions track, Illusions track, and Healing track.

I had walked into the palace, uniform in hand, and went to find a place to change, when I ran straight into the Golden Guard.

"What's a hexside student doing in the palace?" He had his hands on his hips, and I raised an eyebrow at him, mirroring his stance.

"Because I work here, duh. Thought you were smarter than that, Goldie." I smiled at him as he suddenly straightened up, head tilting down for a moment, before back up.

"(F/N)? Huh… I would say you're shorter than I thought you were, but that hasn't changed." I stick my tongue out at him, winking as I walk past.

"Don't think I didn't see you check me out, Goldie!" He sputters, trying to form a response, and I just laugh, blowing him a kiss when I turn the corner.

"I was NOT checking you out!"

—

"I didn't know you studied bard magic." Goldie remarked as he stood beside me, both in uniform. I shook my head, smiling slightly.

"And I didn't know you cared so much, Goldie." He sputters again, and if I could see his eyes I could almost guarantee that he'd be glaring at me.

"Yo, (F/N)! Shift change!" Steve yells from down the hall at you, coming to change positions with me.

"And that's my cue. Don't dream about how hot I am, Goldie!" I snicker, ducking to avoid his staff and then sprinting down the hall, waving goodbye to him and our friend Steve.

—

Luz had told me she met Goldie, and her and his adventure to save the palismen/spite Kikimori. I'd DEFINITELY be hearing about this tonight from him.

"He's a bad…. But sad boy." Luz remarked sadly, she seemed upset that she couldn't make friends with him.

"Yeah, no, that fits the description, you did definitely meet Goldie. It took me months to be friends with him, and I mostly just annoy him, so don't worry about it too much, Luz."

—

"Darius!" Caleb teleported in front of the Head Witch, and Gus' illusion dropped once he was distracted. Caleb was wearing a familiar uniform… and now I realized why his voice was so familiar.

He was Goldie. This scrawny kid with messy blond hair, red violet eyes, a cute hooked nose, and an adorable gap tooth, this was my Goldie. May Titan have mercy on my soul.

"Wait!" As Darius cornered us on the beach, Caleb jumped in front of us, arms spread wide as if to protect us.

"Out of my way, little prince." Darius glares, but Caleb stands still, determined.

"No! I was mistaken. These five are insolent agitators who aren't fit for the Emperor's Coven. And we don't need another egotistical bard" He glances back at me, and there's a sadness in his eyes. "And I'm unfit to wear the sigil of the Golden Guard."

Caleb takes off his cloak and drops it to the ground. He then turns towards Willow, not making eye contact.

"You can go." His voice seems to betray him, cracking slightly.

Willow raises her staff, barely containing her tears. I've never seen her this angry and upset before.

"Please, Captain." Caleb pleads, and Darius looks unimpressed from behind him. Willow lowers her staff, a small smile on her face.

"Let's move, team. We need to find a replacement." She turns away, starting to leave. "After all, it'll be 52 weeks before Caleb's next day off."

Caleb seems to brighten immediately, and I can't help but linger behind, wanting to be around him more, but Darius hasn't recognized me yet, and I don't want to be around when he does.

"Bye, Caleb. You were really cool today." I run off after my friends, hoping the dark hid how pink my face was.

—

"So uh…. You're blond?" I cleared my throat, and he nodded awkwardly from beside me, eyes avoiding my own, as we were both unmasked.

"Yep… How's the team doing?" He was watching me out of the corner of his eyes, I could see it, and I tried not to freak out.

"Uh… good? Yeah, they're good. Viney and Skara are, at least." I gulp slightly, wanting this awkwardness between us both to end.

"Ah, yeah… I guess you do have class with them." He raises an arm to scratch the back of his neck, the tips of his ears going pink.

—

"Also… my name is Hunter." He rolled his eyes as he leans against the wall to my right, avoiding my gaze with pink tipped ears.

"I prefer Goldie!" I beam at him, and his face goes more pink, smiling slightly, but I know there's insecurity behind it.

"But… have a good evening… Hunter." His name felt odd in my mouth, and I missed how the rest of his face went red as I quickly walked away.

—

"That human called you (Y/N)." Hunter commented as we chased after Luz, crashing through the night market.

"Yeah, and? Its my- oh shit wait a minute-" I cursed, not remembering the whole fake name thing, and he looked over at me for a moment.

"(F/N) is a fake name?" He doesn't seem surprised, more like… offended. After all, he told me HIS name, and I'd been lying this whole time?

".... If I say yes will I get fired?" I tried to sound apologetic, and he just shook his head, smiling slightly.

"If you don't talk about the Caleb fiasco, I'll keep this secret… (Y/N)." I tried to ignore the butterflies in my stomach when he said my name, and it worked when we crashed into the centre of a spell circle, Luz tackling the both of us.

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"You do not get to hurt him." I growled at the inner Belos, holding my own staff in front of me and Hunter.

"Hm. Such a shame you don't get to make that decision." The ground fell away beneath us, me falling faster than Hunter, who tried to grab me, but only got my staff.

"Hunter, let go! Luz can still save you!" I growl, trying to get him to safety, but he shook his head, still trying to grab for Eda's jacket.

"No!" I shook my head, turning my palisman back into a raven, and we both fell into another memory.

—

"Thank you… (Y/N)." His voice is quiet as he sits next to me, arms wrapped around my waist and head on my shoulder.

"Of course… Hunter." I replied just as quietly, and we just sat like that, calming him down until eventually he fell asleep on me.

—

"Hunter!" I shouted, sprinting down the steps of the school. His red violet eyes meet mine, and the fear on his face calms quickly as he runs towards me as well.

"(Y/N)!" I'm crying now, only a little, and I almost tackle him in a hug, but he spins me around before putting me down, holding me at arms length for a moment.

"Are you alright? Where were you? What happened?" His eyes almost seemed to frantically scan me for injuries, but I shake my head.

"I'm fine, I was just locked in a closet for a bit by a scout, I think it was Steve actually, but I just stayed out of the action for a bit until I saw Gus' illusion drop! What about you, are you okay?" My tears had slowed down but I was still stressed and worried about my friend, and I lifted my hand to gently caress a scratch on his face.

He nods as the tips of his ears go pink, and we both stand there for a moment, before I surge forward to kiss him briefly, pulling back with an almost glowing red face.

Hunter is just as red as I am, but he pulls me into a tight hug, both of our hearts beating out of our chests.

"Sorry…" I whisper, but he holds me tighter, seemingly struggling to breathe.

"Marry me?" He coughs out, and I look up at him, we're both bright red.

"Maybe we go on a date first." He nods, looking away from me, and I stand on my tip toes to kiss the scar on his cheek.

"Someday though, I will. You better still want to by then." I beam at him, and he's the one that kisses me this time, an arm wrapped around my waist and a hand on my cheek.

—

"I KNEW YOU TWO LIKED EACHOTHER!" Luz yells, chasing me around the yard back at the Owl House.

"Luz, if you say another word, I will join Ed and Em in annoying you and Amity. And I will tell them about the whole 'Cotton Candy Goddess' nickname, and you two will never hear the end of it."

I threaten, running away from who was essentially my younger sister.

"You're evil." She stops in her tracks, shaking her head in disappointment.

"Oh yeah, I'm evil, hun." I wink at her, walking inside only to get the SAME conversation from Eda.

#elliotiswriting #toh #the owl house x reader #the owl house #toh hunter #toh hunter x reader #x reader #a fic literally nobody asked for <3

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bairmeidwhaaat0172 · 1 year

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Spring Came Early!

Huntlow fanfic incoming!

Back when they were living in the human realm Willow noticed something odd happening ti the plants. They seem to die off after a few months which at first was quite worrying for the young witch. When she asked Luz she told her it was normal, which again, seemed odd to her

Luz explained to her what was apparently named "seasons". They were four, in fact

Spring: the season where the flowers bloom

Summer: the season where the flowers thrive

Fall: the season that flowers die

Winter: the season that flowers sleep

In a weird way, Willow was very intrigued by this whole thing, cause in the boiling isles there's no such thing as seasons, or at least seasons like this

It's always warm, well, everywhere besides the knee

There were no rules for plants there, depending on where they grew they developed and had ways to survive like this forever

But in the human realm it was different, flowers died, so they can be reborn better and healthier than before!

She adored this idea,but she still was attached to these plants she did not want to see them in such bad state

Unfortunately for Willow however, fall was back once again, a year later

She was able to prepare for this, seeing all her favorite plants die slowly one by one

And you could say that the beauty of them slowly descending wasn't so scary either. But it was still a bit sad to see.

She decided to experiment, around a forest that was near the town

She wanted to see if she could help them live with her magic!

She left the Noceda house, (that she happened to visit with her other friends) and went to the forest, trying her best to be unseen

She didn't want others to know what she was up to, in case what she would do is bad for the environment

She has a plan if that would be the case, she would just ask for Vee to take the magic she used in the plants so they can go back to their previous form!

She got close to one of the trees, and took one of the falling leaves, and by just holding it, she was able to change it's color from orange to green

She was more than strong enough to fix the entire forest if she wanted to, but she wanted to start off easy, and see how the trees would take her magic in their such fragile state

The leaf she was holding turned back into a beautiful, healthy green, she could feel it being reborn

She was happy, she wanted to try a tree now

She placed her hand into the log of said tree, and slowly got the color of those leaves back into a green

She smiled, she continued to do more and more trees, and she fixed the grass, okay, and maybe added a few more flowers here and there for decoration

Her little area seemed so alive, and so beautiful, just as she remembered

But as she was gently and fixing out the place to her liking, she heard a familiar voice coming from behind her

"Willow?"

Uh oh???

"H-Hunter! Weren't you with the others?"

"I was, but I was searching for you, and I noticed your plants coming from this area so I checked. What are you doing?"

"I was just...fixing the place a bit"

Hunter looked a little confused, he tilted his head when he always does when he's confused and r e a l l y wants to find out what's happening, he's so cute

Willow sighed, "Look, I'm not the biggest fan of this season, most of the plants that I've grown so attached here fall and die. I know that it's part of how it works here but, it just feels a little sad, don't you think?"

Hunter nodded with understanding, he took a breath before replying "I see why you don't like it. But that's just a part of how they can thrive here, they take a break and come out of it stronger than ever"

"And besides" he looks at her with the most admiring glance anyone can ever give to someone "Their colors are beautiful"

Willow nodded, blushing at the way he looked at her, she notices whenever he tries to flirt with her, she always picks on his little signs, though he may not be the best at picking up hers. She doesn't mind, cause she loves him

"You're right! They are pretty beautiful" she points at a leaf she had in her hands, with it now being a mixed color of green and orange

What a pretty world

"I'll ask Vee to help out with taking out the magic, I don't wanna ruin the eco system. "

"I don't think it's even possible for you to hurt the eco system, you're so powerful I have a feeling these trees are immortal now!"

Willow chuckled, "Oh stop it! It was only just a little magic!"

"We gotta bring the others here for a picnic, I don't think there's a better season than fall to have a picnic"

"It suits you"

"What?" He asked, blushing a bit, cause apparently the smallest compliment that even he doesn't understand can get him to overheat

"Fall suits you, everything about it, it kind of screams you! That's a good thing"

Hunter let out a giggle, I guess it did suit him huh?

The sun was starting to come down once more, and the colors fell on him perfectly, it kinda looked like he was glowing!

And on Hunters eyes, Willow was glowing too, the shadows of the now beautiful green trees, mixed with the orange leafs, and the light of the sun falling on her cheeks. She was gorgeous!

They kinda stayed there for a second or two, staring at each other mesmerized

Until Hunter got suddenly a little too embarrassed and decided to speak up "H-Hey, uh, let's get back to the others? I'm sure they're looking for us"

"S-sure thing! Let's do that" She started walking off, and when she was besides Hunter she pulled up her hand, asking for his

Hunter gave it to her, with his hands already sweating bullets, but alas, Willow didn't mind, she never did

They both walked away, going back to the others. Willow might not warm up to this season immediately but, she can try, it's a part of life after all. And if Fall reminds her of Hunter, she can definitely get to love this time of year one day!

And with the forest being different from everything else, it was something different, something odd to others, something beautiful

Thanks for reading!

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