Family Portrait

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

Bonus:

Wait stop since Raine, Darius and Eber were those people in the woods and Raine wrote, “I know how to get past the bird owl tube HIM!!”

That means their brilliant plan was literally just giving Hooty flowers and telling him it was from a secret admirer 😭 I can just picture it now:

Raine: Don’t worry, I have a plan to get past the…him and save Luz and Hunter.

Darius: Oh, thank Titan. What’s the plan?

Raine: Just follow my lead.

*the three of them creep toward the owl house*

Darius: *drawing a spell circle* okay, so should we—FOR TITAN’S SAKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Raine: *walking up to the door hood down and knocking* Hi, Hooty. Would you mind giving these flowers to Eda?

Hooty: Ohhhh, of course not. And should I say it’s from youuuu? 😉

Raine: No! Uh, just tell her it’s from a secret admirer.

Hooty: *Exaggerated wink* Can do!

*Raine slinks back to Darius and Eber who is watching them with crossed arms*

Raine: *blushing* What? I said I knew how to get past him, didn’t I?

A kinda Analysis of Eberwolf and what reason they might have for joining the rebel side

Team RED, a.k.a Raine, Eberwolf, Darius, a.k.a undercover traitors who all rank top in their respective covens. We got two epsidoes surrounding Raine and how they are doing what they are doing because they hate the system and think forcing people into covens against their will is wrong. Raine has strong beliefs. With Darius no episodes are centered around him, but he has played enough of a secondary role in certain episodes that we can piece together his motivation. He was mentored by a previous Golden Guard. He had a lot of respect, admiration, love for his mentor. Like all the Grimwalkers before, his mentor eventually went against Belos and was killed. To make Darius head of the abomination coven Belos must either not remember who mentored Dairus, or believe he was trained to be 100% loyal to the Emperor. One more thing Belos is wrong about.

Now we have Eberwolf. We do not really know much about Eberowolf. Is Eberwolf a bipedal demon or a best demon? What does Eberwolf’s language of grunts mean? What is Eberwolfs backstory and reason for doing what Eberwolf is doing? What is Eberwolf’s gender/pro-nouns? We really do not know. Now any definitive answer to any of these will probably come in the form of quick short sentence answers/translations from Raine/Darius to questions Eda/Luz asks regarding Eber, as they all race to fight the day of unity. Until we get that I want to make some theories based on what we have of Eberwolf already

So the beast keeping coven flag and sigil is of Eberwolf and these high-bread chicken pig things But in the field Eberwolf seems to commonly employ another type of Beast: ratworms.

Maybe Eberwolf lives on a farm or a ranch and has herds of different beasts. That would certainly make sense for the head of the beast keeping coven. But lets focus on Eber’s Ratworms for now. The one on top came with Eberwolf to a televised event, to represent the track. It is small, pudgy, has large red eyes, but is honestly cute to look at. Join the Beast keeping coven you will get to ride and work with cute and awesome beast like this one...right?... Well let’s look at the one bellow, that came with Eberwolf on an actual mission. It’s scared up, blind in one eye, has a broken tooth and is missing a chunk of ear. Poor thing has seen some really bad times.

Who did this to the poor beast? Another ratworm? No. Rats are incredibly social animals and generally act buddy buddy inside the pack. I cannot imagine worms exhibiting this amount of competitive hostility towards one another either. And even if you want to argue with me that these high-bread fusions may exhibit more aggression and territorial behavior than either of its human world counterparts, those are not teeth marks on its skin. How would another ratworm be able to cut it up like this without claws or hands capable of wielding a blade? It wasn’t another ratworm.

Did Eberwolf do this? Did Eberwolf beat and scar the beasts in an effort to assert themselves as Alpha and force the lower beasts to do their bidding? No. In Keeping up A Fearences we get our first look at beast keeping through Gwendolyn Clawthorne. We see that gaining control/aid of the creatures does not involve any kind of aggression or a fight. There are simple spells to alert them and bring them to your side. Also if the fact this one is wearing a collar is not enough to convince you of Eber and its relationship, then take a look at this...

Eberwolf wasn’t caught by Raine and Eda’s doom song. They purposely ran into it to try an dig their pet out. Eberwolf loves these beasts more than their own life. They would not hurt any of them like that.

You know who that poor ratworm’s scars look likes? Hunter’s.

And after hallow minds I am no longer holding onto any illusion of a belief that any of Hunter’s scars are from training accidents, standing to close to the crossfire, or mixing things up with criminals. They all come from Belos.

Belos who is a puritan witch hunter and regards all life on the boiling isles as vile, unworthy, and needing to be purged. Belos who has killed countless beings with human faces. Belos who has killed, recreated, then re-killed his own brother/nephews countless times. If he can do all that, then it is no stretch at all to believe that he would maim or purposely endanger demons. Of course someone like Eberwolf, who see’s such value in these creatures and has so much love for them (again they raced to potential death to try and help their pet) would hate that and be opposed to all of this. But if Eberwolf tried to fight Belos openly and directly they would lose, become petrified, and then there would be be no one left to protect their beasts. Eberwolf may be animalistic but as we have seen they are capable of reason, schemes, sticking to a plan, and playing the long game; as any secret rebel would have to be. I am sure they want to save the isles beast from Belos’s hate, but they are smart enough to do it right. To get in close, act subtle, find others like them, and form a plan for when the time is right...

I mostly wrote this because whenever I got into Eberwolf’s tag I either get discourse over what their gender/pronouns are (LOL) or it’s actually full of posts that are more about Raine, Raeda, or Darius. Do not get me wrong, all three are awesome and I love them. But Eberwolf is awesome too and deserves more love. Final theory Eda is a rebel because she does not like being controlled. Raine is a rebel because of their beliefs. Darius is a rebel in memory of a fallen loved one. Eberwolf is a rebel to protect the pets/beasts they love and do not want to see be abused/brought to a end.

Fruit universe (ruin spoilers)

Could we possibly get some platonic Yandere Eberwolf where eber has gotten a case of the zoomies and platonic darling has to help get them to calm down?

(Some buddies and I headcanoned that They regularly get the zoomies and I’d honestly love to see someone else’s take on this idea)

Asks for EberWolf and the other Covenheads/Hunter/Belos are open :)

EberWolf pack bonded with you the second you joined the Emperor's Coven. They have very primal instincts about who to bond with and whether you knew it or not they had to have you as a friend and pack member. You didn't really do anything directly involving the beast track but you did work with the covenheads a lot which meant you interacted with them on several occasions. Eber would follow you around outside of meetings learning more about you and while they can't communicate normally they are still very intelligent. Over time you got used to the little Beasty following you outside of their own work and grew close with EberWolf.

Eber despite being a beast keeper has many beast attributes. His fangs, claws, and eyes only being apart of the many beast qualities he possess. You quickly learn of their possessiveness over who they deem apart of their pack and Darius is chuckling as you get used to Ebers eccentric nesting and packing behaviors. Their clinginess as well as their tendency to climb you is just another thing on a long list you're adjusting too.

You quickly learn about zooming and how they have the random urge to run and expel excessive amounts of energy.

Eber settles in your arms when you scoop them up but soon they're whining and thrashing around in your grip. Sitting down so they can settle in your lap you gently pet them to calm them down. While you don't mind the zoomies (having long gotten used to them) you don't want them to get in trouble for these urges as Belos has mentioned how savage they are before.

While Eber hates staying still especially when they have zoomies feeling your hands on them and being surrounded by your scent helps immensely. As you begin to brush their hair with your fingers and braid their mane in slow deliberate motions they purr contently curling up in your lap. Even Darius has to admit he is impressed when he sees a limp Eber relaxing against you.

hunter gets adopted by his eber and his legal name becomes hunter the huntsman

Eberwolf: *Make littles Groans* (Darius and I are so close as we even share a toothbrush)

Darius: We what?

I’m lowkey getting annoyed by all these “who’s the traitor” posts, so I’m gonna put in my two cents.

Obligatory spoiler warning

I don’t think ANYONE is a mole in the group. At the very least, not intentionally.

Logically speaking:

- From what we’ve seen, Katya was originally a wild witch, and has no reason to support Belos if she was forced to join a coven. Even if she was in a coven before, the Emperor’s Coven is actively restricting her creativity. I’m guessing Derwin and Amber have similar stories.

- Lilith was redeemed at the end of season one, and for the most part just wants to have a normal life. That can’t be done if she’s dead.

- King was raised to be against the coven system, and Luz has every reason to hate it.

- Not Eda because… well… Eda.

- Steve is a possibility, but he showed signs of disliking the coven system long before this point and before he knew any rebellion members. Why would he change his mind?

- Raine has been against the covens from very early on after joining them. Their life’s work is trying to take down Belos. “Oh BuT tHeY cOuLd Be BrAiNwAsHeD” but they can’t. It’s like everyone forgot the massive confusion and discussion that came after Follies of the Coven Day Parade because of the inconsistencies in that exact plot point. Plus, if the story aligns true, Darius warned Raine about the other heads beforehand so they would know to use the drink altering spell on anything Terra gave them.

The only ones I could potentially see being traitors are Darius and Eber. Darius could easily have lied to Raine about being on their side, and we still don’t know much about Eberwolf. That being said, even they’ve taken steps to prove they’re loyal to the rebellion, like Darius willingly being an informant.

Kikimora only said “the emperor has eyes everywhere” which doesn’t necessarily mean someone’s a traitor. There could be someone spying from the outside.

- Raine could unknowingly have Terra stalking them, which she’s honestly not above something like that.

- Flora says that the EC is keeping an eye on Lilith, and someone could have followed her.

- We don’t know the extent of King’s mental connection with the Collector. They can probably hear him as much as he hears them.

Well, that’s all for my rant. Bye!

I PASSED ALL MY CLASSES HOLY SHIIIIITTTT

No pronouns Eberwolf my beloved

SEVEN DAYS

Name of the day...

Ever ˎˊ˗

✮. ✮. ✮.

Origin: Old English, Hebrew, Scandinavian

Meaning: Always; "Ever in life"; "Strong/wild as a boar"; Region beyond; "One from the other side"; Vibrant

Notes: "The unisex name Ever means “always”, “ever in life” (from Old English “æfre”)." (Source)

"Ever also seems to have ties to a Scandinavian name meaning "wild as a boar" and a Hebrew name meaning "beyond,"-- a variation of the name Eber." (Source)

Ever can also be short for the names Everest, Everett, Everly, Everleigh, Everdeen, and so on.

Other variants of this name include Eber and Eiver.

Nick-names: Ev, Eva, Eve, Ev-ie, Vee

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Coven heads and Hunter (contains a few spoilers!!!)

So we know Hunter is a Grimwalker due to Hollow Mind. But do the Coven Heads know? We know that the previous Golden Guards have been killed once they learn the truth about Belos and that he has made a ton of them. So would the Coven Heads know?!

In the later episodes of season 2, we learn that Eber, Darius, and Raine are trying to stop Belos’s plan. In Hollow Mind they (only seen as cloaked figures) also go to the Owl House to help Eda get Luz and Hunter out of Belos’s mind. And in Any Sport in a Storm, Darius is seen to be a bit affectionate towards Hunter at the end of the episode.

So I ask again DO THE COVEN HEADS (or at least a few of them) KNOW THAT HUNTER IS A GRIMWALKER??!!

The last chapter of Brotherly Ballad is up! Thanks to all those reading!

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