#im saying that belos is so unwilling to admit his own guilt for killing caleb that he blames everything on evelyn

[lollytea]

Im afraid of the person I will become if we get belos witnessing huntlow or eda and getting dejavu in the last episode

On one hand, I feel like the obvious person that Belos would sees flashes of Evelyn in would be Eda. Because she's her actual descendant and bears a striking physical resemblance to her. But also, Belos is familiar with Eda. The Owl Lady was an infamous criminal wanted by the Emperor since long before the series began. I'm sure Belos noticed the similarities a long long time ago. He likely knows there's a family link. So, if those two end up having a confrontation, Belos won't be caught off guard by all the distinct Clawthorne features. He probably won't fly into a rage upon seeing her.

Unless....remember how angry she was in AOAW when Lilith stole Luz. She's gonna be just as pissed to see Belos has stolen Raine. And he's seen that kind of Clawthorne rage before. And it makes him relive things against his will. Maybe that's what makes him go ballistic. He knew who she was this whole time but things like the eyes and hair never bothered him much. But once Eda lights up in a fucking inferno of fury, Belos isn't seeing the Owl Lady anymore. He's seeing her and he's willing to throw away everything else just to see her dead.

I really love the idea that it's the emotions and the actions and the significance that stir the image of Evelyn in Belos' mind, rather than physical resemblance.

Which is one of the many reasons why I love the idea of him seeing her in Willow. Because she is the exact opposite of Evelyn in terms of appearance. Evelyn was tall and thin with sharp facial features, a head of wild bushy hair, burning amber eyes, while Willow is short and chubby with a moon shaped face, soft green eyes and neatly braided hair. She would fly completely under Belos' radar.

But...then he sees her holding someone's hand. And that someone has his brother's face. His brother steps between him and that girl, shielding her with his body in that stupid selfish way. And then 400 years are suddenly eaten away and he's a young man again with a death grip on a dagger.

It just goes to show that Belos' has become so consumed by denial and rage that his resentment towards Evelyn has mutated into a form of obsession in itself. Not only does she never die but she never stops taking from him. Killing Caleb just wasn't enough for her, but now she needs to make sure he can never have his brother back. He catches sight of her constantly. No matter how many centuries pass, she haunts him from the bodies of endless witches, in an endless cycle of taking. She's stolen hundreds of his grimwalkers.

What Willow looks like is irrelevent. She's the latest of hundreds of witches that Belos saw Evelyn in. The fact that his grimwalker is willing to throw his own life away just to protect her tells him everything he needs to know. This time, he kill the right person.

#im not saying willow is evelyn's reincarnation #she isnt #im saying that belos is so unwilling to admit his own guilt for killing caleb that he blames everything on evelyn #and that anger becomes so warped that it fucks with his sanity #so everytime his grimwalkers betray him hes like *guy falling off his bike meme* ''fucking evelyn'' #hes tricked himself into believing that she is deliberately reincarnating over and over again just to fuck with him #and god forbid he recognize the individuality of his grimwalkers #so if they fall in love he always just sees it as caleb and evelyn all over again. it doesnt matter how different the relationship is #but i cannot stress this enough. evelyn was dead to begin with #belos has just completely fallen off the slippery slope #(headcanon. sorry this is a headcanon not an analysis.)