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incorrectlumityquotes · 3 years

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Why Amity fell for Luz: A Theory

Watching all the episodes of The Owl House and reviewing them brought back a lot of thoughts and feelings that I maybe forgot about. We all ship things and sometimes we do it for fun; sometimes for deeper reasons. I just started lumity because it reminded me of Diana & Akko from Little Witch Academia. I loved that show so much that I wanted more, and I thought it would be cool if Luz & Amity did something similar. I had no idea that it was going to go beyond that, so DAMN. To quote a talking science wolf, “For years we ask how, but we should ask why.” I mean, we saw how. But why? Well I can take a guess.

If we’re are going to start anywhere it’s going to be with the girl in question, Amity Blight.

As far as I know as of this typing, Amity Blight is a witchling from The Boiling Isles. She lives in Bonesboro at The Blight Manor estate with her parents and her siblings. She attends Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. Good for her.

Amity has an ambitious and competitive personality. She’s always striving to be better and be at the top of whatever she is doing. When she’s introduced in I Was a Teenage Abomination, she’s showing having great pride in being the top student in her abomination class. In Adventures in the Elements, she goes to The Knee in hopes of training to beat her siblings’ high score on the placement exam.

Amity also has a bit of a temper and gets annoyed easily. In I Was a Teenage Abomination, she sics her abominations on Willow and Luz just because she wasn’t named top student that day. In Enchanting Grom Fright, Amity snapped at the person she bumped into before realizing it was Luz. And later in the same episode, Amity beat up Hooty when he decided to get too close.

But she does have a soft sensitive side. She keeps a diary in her secret room in the library and even reads to kids in her free time. Amity also has a strong sense of integrity. She despises cheating (and cheaters) and feels guilt when she’s forced to break ties with Willow.

So why did someone like this fall for Luz of all people? (see above image)

Enter what I call my Shipping Theory of Compliments

The Shipping Theory of Compliments is that two characters would be shipped and sometimes canonically enter a romantic relationship based on their personalities complimenting each other and fulfilling elements they don’t have alone necessary to developing the character.

People like to use the image of a missing puzzle piece, but I don’t like that comparison because I think it’s a little inaccurate and I don’t like puzzles. Think of it more like the two pieces of the yin and yang coming together and then growing the circles of the opposite colors in them.

Something like that.

And it’s compliments, not opposites. When you think compliments, think more Star and Marco from Star vs the Forces of Evil. Star wants to go on a magical adventure. Marco also wants to go on a magic adventure. The difference is that Star goes in recklessly while Marco wants to plan it out a bit. They still have their adventure as oppose to Star’s opposite who wouldn’t want to go on a magical adventure. That sort of thing.

So how do Luz and Amity compliment each other?

Let’s start with that they have in common. Obvious stuff aside, they’re both training to become the best witches they can be. The difference comes that Luz is a human who has to learn magic via glyphs that she finds and Amity learns magic the “proper” way on The Boiling Isles.

Luz and Amity are also both fans of The Good Witch Azura book series. Difference is that Luz is more open about her fandom while Amity tries to keep it a secret. Also petty thing but they’re both fan artists too, but I think Luz might be a better than Amity. But hey, her crosshatching is improving.

Luz and Amity are also (at the start of the series) both lonely people. Luz’s mom says that she doesn’t have any friends, and Amity doesn’t like her “friends.” The difference is that Luz reaches outward to ease her loneliness (being social and friendly, trying new things, etc.) while Amity reaches inward (keeping a diary, staying busy, having a secret spot, etc.). They both also use escapist fiction to ease their loneliness.

That’s all well and good, but now we get into the real speculative parts.

...complimenting each other and fulfilling elements they don’t have alone necessary to developing the character.

When I was taking acting classes I was taught that the way you see people act is a persona based on their experiences on what it takes to survive and avoid physical, emotional and social death. So now we have to speculate based on what we were given on what emotional/social needs and wants has Amity not been getting before that she has with Luz.

First let me point you to another show called F is for Family. F is for Family is an adult animated sitcom on Netflix that follows a very dysfunctional family in the 1970s. These are legitimately bad characters, not in terms of being poorly written. What I’m saying is that these guys are assholes. But here’s where it gets interesting.

One of the characters is Kevin Murphy, the teenage son of the family. He’s a dim-witted wannabe rockstar who is always yelled at and put down by his parents throughout the entire series. However in season four Kevin meets Alice. Alice teaches Kevin that his favorite band is a big reference to Tolkien and gives him a copy of The Hobbit. They bond over their love of Lord of the Rings and get along really well. Alice calls him smart for being able to read all of Lord of the Rings over a few days and never puts him down. Even in the one time they did fight she never yelled at him or raised her voice which he found weird because he’s so used to being yelled at. Alice gave Kevin the emotional support he always wanted but never got from his family.

Using that as a backdrop, let’s go back to Amity.

Amity grew up with her parents making her do things she didn’t want to do, making choices for her. Amity wanted to be one way. Her parents wanted something else. Amity’s mother even dyes Amity’s hair green so it matches her siblings. Amity wanted to be friends with Willow. Amity’s parents wanted her to be friends with the mean kids. While Amity does work hard to be the best at what she’s doing, her parents also put pressure on her to make sure that she is at that level.

Her siblings are another bag of awful. They constantly refer to her by an annoying nickname that I’m guessing has an embarrassing moment attached to it. They seem to live by a double standard that Amity despises. She has to work hard and follow the rules just to be accepted while they are naturally talented and break the rules with everyone still thinking that they’re perfect.

Family is supposed to provide unconditional love except it looks like the love of the Blights is based on conditions. Nobody just likes Amity for who she is. She doesn’t have a friend.

Enter: the friendliest person she’s ever met

Amity has to struggle and work for the simplest things, even affection. Except when it comes to Luz. Luz is naturally friendly and positive. Amity doesn’t have to earn her kindness. Even when she’s bullied Luz before, Luz is always coming back with a smile. I suppose when you live life surrounded by jerks, you’ll want to hang out with the one person who’s always nice to you. Sort of.

Yes, Amity did think Luz was a bully for constantly getting her into trouble. But even at Covention and Lost in Language, Luz kept reaching out to her. This combined with Amity’s awareness of her own behavior is what convinced her to try to reach out in kind to Luz by the end of Lost in Language. “She’s trying to be nice to me, so I should try too,” I’m guessing is the mindset especially in Adventures in the Elements. And then...Luz continued to be nice to her which is kind of a big deal for Amity.

Let’s tally up what we have so far:

Luz and Amity have similar interests (The Good Witch Azura series, art, fiction, learning magic)

Luz and Amity have similar values (work ethic, disdain for cheating, protecting those closest to you, etc.)

Luz gives Amity the positivity and affection that Amity doesn’t normally get anywhere else

They still have differing personalities with Amity being more competitive and Luz having more of a live-and-let-live attitude.

Even with all these things in mind, why was Amity so scared to ask Luz to Grom?

Speculating again but my theory is that Amity wasn’t sure if Luz actually liked her or if Luz is just friendly because that’s how Luz is. Amity was scared of being rejected because she felt that maybe she was just reading the situation wrong. Luz is this ray of sunshine in her gray skies (if you’ll forgive the cliché). People like Amity always think of all the worst possibilities (I know because I do this too). Amity was probably thinking a bunch of what ifs. “What if Luz doesn’t actually like me? What if she’s just being friendly because she feels sorry for me? What if she has feelings for someone else? What if she never actually liked me? What if she’s straight?”

Luz is Amity’s first crush and it is scary as all hell to put yourself out there like that for the first time. She wasn’t expecting to get married at Grom night. She just wanted to dance with the girl she liked.

The dance at Grom was like confirmation for her that it could happen. Amity didn’t have to ask out Luz because Luz asked her. Being with Luz isn’t a pipedream. It’s a definite possibility. And we all know how she reacted to that idea.

Uh...she’ll be in her bunk.

While Luz and Amity aren’t together as of this typing, I believe it’s bound to happen. Until then, after The Lumity Trilogy, Amity knows that Luz is the girl she likes.

tl;dr version

Amity fell for Luz because they have similar interests and values, their personalities differ in a compatible way and Luz provides Amity emotional needs and wants that she doesn’t get anywhere else.

Also, round eared girl pretty.

Thanks everyone for reading.

#my thoughts #lumity #meta #analysis

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kikikittykis · 3 years

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Who is this “Santa Claus”

Summary: Jack is asking about Santa Claus and you decide that you all should watch Rise of the Guardians

Fandom: Supernatural

Pairing: Jack Kline x Reader

Characters: Jack Kline, (Y/N) (Y/L/N)

Genre: Fluff

Warnings: none

Wordcount: 411

Note: Requests are open and this is a indirect sequel to Easter Fun my first Jack Kline Fic

Masterlist

“Y/N”

“Yes Jack”

“Who is this Santa Claus”

“Where did you hear that name”

“I heard some people talking about it at the market when I went with Sam”

“Jack do you want to know who he is?”

“Yes please Y/N”

“Well Santa Claus is a Christmas spirit that bring little kids gifts on Christmas Eve”

“Is he evil”

“No of course not people worship him”

“How do they do that if he is a ghost”

“Not that kind of ghost Jack” “I have an idea, There’s a movie that came out when I was younger we should all watch it”

“What’s it called?”

“It’s called Rise of the Guardians it’s about Jack Frost and the Easter Bunny”

“Wasn’t he the one who brought all the eggs on Easter”

“Yes that was him”

“Let’s watch it”

“We’ll do it tonight with the others”

“Will they want to”

“I don’t think so but we can persuade Dean with pie”

“So let’s go” Jack said “Wait what are we doing”

“We’re gonna make a pie silly” you said to jack and pulled him up from the spot on the bed where the two off you were chatting. The two of you went into the kitchen and you pulled out all of the ingredients for making Apple Pie. The two laughed and joked about as you made the dough and turned on the oven. Jack was in charge of making the apples for the filling of your pie. You put the apples into the crust and then instead of doing a normal crosshatch design you made a devils trap on the top you put it into the oven careful not to burn your hands as you placed it in and closed the door. Jack and you started to clean up the flour from the table when Jack flicked some at you with a devious look in his eyes. You planned your trip to the flour jar slowly and got a handful throwing it straight at Jack dusting his dark brown hair white. You giggled “What are you now Jack Frost”

“No I’m Jack Kline”

“It’s a joke Jack I know that you’re Jack Kline”

“Oh”

“Come here silly” Jack took a few steps toward you with a smile on his face as you brushed the flour out of his hair.

“Now let’s get everything ready” you said and finished cleaning the kitchen with Jack’s help for the movie night with the boys.

#Jack Kline #jack kline imagine #jack kline x reader #jack kline x you #supernatural #supernatural imagine #supernatural x reader #holiday

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airyairyaucontraire · 5 years

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spockvarietyhour

replied to your post

“Rewatching Stranger Things 3 with my sister (who’s still on the first...”

it feels like they really wanted people to bask in the irony of having the communists build a base under an american mall and that wasn't...all that great

It makes less sense the more times you watch it. At one point Erica estimates it took the Scoops Troop three hours to walk from the elevator room to the secret mad science headquarters. She didn’t seem to be using hyperbole, either, because she was doing a calculation to try to prove a point to Dustin (and succeeded only in proving she was a nerd). Why on earth would they build the two so far apart? If the big evil whirring machine needed to be at that particular location to target a weak point in the membrane between worlds, couldn’t they have found a handier site to build the mall on, especially with Mayor Kline finagling the real estate for them? Digging a tunnel that long and large and installing that much stuff along its walls and ceiling would have been a huge job, and as I objected merely to the depth of the elevator shaft, what did they do with all the spoil to clear it out without being noticed? Then to compound the inconvenience and inefficiency, even at top golf-cart speed it would take at least an hour, maybe a couple, to reach the elevator and then the same to bring the new supply of glowing green goo jars back to mad science HQ. What a hassle.

And everything was entirely too spiffy and shiny! Of course it’s the kind of thing anxious Cold War Americans might have imagined the Russians had the resources to do, but these days we know they really didn’t, so what’s the point of depicting it that way in a show being made now that until now presented the world the characters live in as (allowing for Demogorgons and telekinetic little girls) pretty ordinary and realistic?

to summarise

What I enjoyed about Stranger Things 3:

ALL THE FRIENDSHIPS THERE WAS SO MUCH FRIENDSHIP

Nancy’s summery dresses

The popping rainbow summer colours generally, it’s so nice that it’s not ALWAYS fall in Hawkins

Eleven’s new BSC-worthy wardrobe (although was Hopper giving her an allowance that she couldn’t spend on anything out in the woods? How did she pay for three or four new outfits all at once? Did she take her saved allowance with her to see Max, and why would she, when the shopping trip was unplanned? When did she buy all of the outfits and accessories, since on her only visit to the mall that we saw it looks like she just bought the black-and-neon romper and carried her old jeans and shirt out in the shopping bag? Did Max buy them for her? How much money does Max carry on an impromptu shopping trip? Why would Max buy a funky new wardrobe for a girl she’s only just making friends with? Would not “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” have been an even more appropriate song for the shopping montage than “Material Girl,” with the lyrics “Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I wanna be the one to walk in the sun” and “The phone rings in the middle of the night, my father yells ‘What you gonna do with your life?’ Oh Daddy dear, you know you’re still number one, but girls, they wanna have fun” reflecting both Mike and Hopper’s overprotectiveness and possessiveness of her and the more open, sunshiny, fun world Max is introducing her to? Plus Cyndi Lauper did a song for The Goonies, a clear influence on Stranger Things, and I just really loved Cyndi Lauper as a kid in the 80s, she spelled her name Cyndi instead of Cindy and had crosshatches shaved into the side of her hair like Archie, it blew my mind)

The fact that Steve and Robin both wore sailor suits for almost the entire story

Robin generally

Steve generally

“You can’t spell America without Erica”

I shot my bolt when I went off on that fugue about Eleven’s clothes, I’m tired now.

The Neverending Story duet

The part where Will’s friends leave the house while he is setting up his D&D game and he bleats “Guys! I’m still here!” and I went HA! but also aww.

Billy is so extremely dead. I wouldn’t mind if Dacre Montgomery reappeared for flashbacks, visions, dreams and nightmares, but stay dead, Billy.

What I did not enjoy:

Hopper being angry and mean and rude and drunk and using torture without any apparent compunction and breathing like a water buffalo and did I say being rude because he was very rude to Joyce and she needs and deserves a man who is respectful and kind to her all the time not just when things are going well! Joyce Byers is a lovely person and very brave and long overdue for some good fortune! I am shouty!

Assorted improbabilities re: both the USSR and thirteen-year-old girls’ budgets and the walking distances as detailed above

Grigori, like don’t introduce a guy who picks up a guy by the neck like Darth Vader in his first scene and then completely drop the Darth Vader thing and try to make him like the Terminator, it’s unsatisfying! And why should some human Russian rando with no backstory be like the Terminator anyway? Unnecessary! Phooey!

#spockvarietyhour #Airy post #stranger things 3 #long post #logorrhea

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craniumculverin · 6 years

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so many. just. so many thoughts on stuff in feast for a king. lots of theories, that sort of thing. based on both in-comic info and info gathered from kosmic’s blog, some of which is like a year old. so what with how he’s changed the story over time, some might be plain wrong now. idk. enjoy my mad ramblings.

how did knife know to use sign language with rome when rome’s confident that next to nobody knows he’s deaf? i doubt that’s something knife would have gleaned from rome’s heartbeat alone.

is rome sex repulsed? pretty sure he’s definitely aro and/or ace. he’s had repeated instances of being disgusted by bodily functions as well as sex. doesn’t seem to be general touch aversion as he’s cool with handholding and being all close to king while facing that queen worm. he was engaged to a woman but for what little we know about the relationship between him and penny it could have been a strategic/political engagement that rome and/or penny wasn’t okay with.

Plus kos has inferred that rome’s aro/ace throughout their blog via asks in a multitude of indirect ways, soooo...

at the time of good leadman trying to take perkons from his cell, meat body robots (aka the helpers) were already in use. this means celadon had already received her creepy robot body shell from the aiguilles since she is all of the helpers, in some fashion. what was it that made that union between triangle alien and powerful human family? when did this alliance start?

cross was created by the aiguilles - specifically randall and rembrandt. being the creators of both cross and meat body robots, is it possible the aiguilles knew/found out about/was actively a part of cross’s change to cash? rome was born a year after cash was “born”. is it possible rome is a sort’ve meat body robot/human hybrid based from aiguille DNA? from the few aiguilles we’ve seen besides rome, they’re not a particularly physically jacked family. they’re brains and money. maybe they treated him like an experiment, fiddled with his DNA a bit? maybe this resulted in his genetic “oddities” (deaf, pink hair, orange eyes)? they were hidden from the public eye in order to have rome appear more “aiguille-ish”.

according to rome cash was his childhood friend as well as training instructor. did relations change between the leadmans and aiguilles (good leadman wasn’t to keen on randall at least, and info from scissor-as-cash adds more to her not liking how her creators treated her) in that 500 years for rome’s family to allow this? was it a strategic/political sort of thing for the sake of appearances? or did rome have more of a connection to the leadmans than just that? maybe his similar physicality to good leadman (and thus crimson) isn’t just happenstance?

cash’s “mother” is just another meat body she uses at the same time (at least occasionally?) as her main meat body for the sake of keeping up the daughter facade. so it’s possible, at least for an AI, to control at least two bodies at once. if rome is a meat robot after some fashion, maybe he could somehow be controlled? or allow someone to experience things through him at least? good’s dealt with plenty of shit to cause anyone to just shutdown, but maybe he’s not being as un-attached as it appears? maybe evil mother can see and feel what good’s original body/mind is up to - but hitching a ride in someone else’s might be a different story. if rome is aro/ace that could tie in - good doesn’t strike me as a voyeurism kinda guy... or maybe he just lucked out, idk.

dang this one feels like i’m really grasping for straws, why’d rome have to stay my favorite and somehow get next to no background yet, dang.

“aiguille” means “needle” in french. “de fil en aiguille” is a french saying, literally translates to “from thread to needle” but basically means “little by little” or “one thing leading to another” - moving from one thing to another, step by step. curious, what with all the thread-like, highly story-significant worms all over the place. plus, dylan’s particular specialty of using her worms like thread to “sew” people up; dylan, who was raised/morphed(?) to have such specialized skills either by or influenced by antony aiguille. and there’s the part where the aiguilles likely had a huge part to play in the initial near-extinction of the mandragora worms...

also, “anguille” means “eel” in french and for the life of me i can’t stop writing that instead of aiguille ffs.

also also, speaking of mandragora worms - crimson’s a human/mandragora hybrid (mandragora born in a human body), born with the usual 2 mandragora eyes and then a third, freak defective heart. king canary’s also a hybrid, except a hydragora/mandragora one(however that works). i’m guessing the mandragora part won out, since that’s how it usually seems to go between the two species, but what does that mean exactly?

did/does canary have 3 hearts - 2 mandra, 1 hydra? if so, how does antony’s becoming a sort’ve heart when he “fused” with canary play into it all?

some heart was used to fuel the creation of that meat pod and celadon (evident from that ugly turnip-ish looking thing amnesia!king pulled out of her finger) but which one was it?

my guess? which i suppose all of this is but still? it was the hydragora one. afterall it’s the hydragora worm kings that have the seeds, and king canary - if they (or evil mother as them) really did ever eat their father’s corpse - would be the sole worm in charge of the hekatonkheires (since they were made from one of his father’s seeds i think). it’d only make sense for any “seed information” to be stored in the corresponding species’ heart.

and it’d make everything waaaay easier for celadon if one of her bodies could control the main course of her eventual feast.

aeschylus has been “reborn” as a mandragora weed. weeds feed on worms, and he has amnesia to an extent - is he gonna be driven to kill worms now? did the weed do it’s job and make him forget about being a worm, or will he have some hang-ups about it? he remembers/is connected somehow with canary still... is that due to being knighted by king canary (who was actually evil mother att but w/e)?

if/when rome isn’t so ignorant about basically everything and more chill around non-humans - will he and aeschylus get along because yay killing worms? rome vaguely resembles leadman physically, and is kinda similarly empathetic - would aeschylus retain memories of him enough for that to affect how he sees rome? would being familiar with amnesia!king (who he'd remember because canary) give rome a leg up in case aeschylus remembers who killed his worm self?

aeschylus likely gets his name from an ancient greek actor that’s considered the father of tragedy - yay google for checking my spelling. anyway no one should be surprised when 2.0 weedman inevitably dies horribly. we all know kos enjoys doing it, lets not deny him that.

king canary’s body only has 8 seeds left according to antony. one was used to turn him into a worm heart-ish thing. evil mother likely used the other missing seed to create the mandragora weeds - which she planted inside aeschylus at some point while still piloting king canary’s body.

evil mother’s organization wants to wipe out humanity and is primarily comprised of hekatonkheires and hydragora worms - the worms that weeds eat. she also wanted almost desperately to revive her species. maybe having all those hydragoras in one place so to speak wasn’t simply utilizing a strong species...

could the disease she gave leadman be a sort of prototype of the weed? hm...

antony and dylan were doing experiments on worms, one of which was eventually aeschylus, the weed-bearing worm. one of those worms, licky, is/ends up being a weed. all/most of those worms had/have strange coloration for just common worms. antony claims he was close to curing aeschylus. were antony and dylan specifically experimenting with splicing/merging/whatever mandragora weeds with hydragora worms?

licky has some interesting patterns on their arms - kinda like a b-type hekaton’s. HMM.... more experimenting on antony’s part, or just an interesting subject? dylan couldn’t have been too involved, after all she didn’t know about hekatons.

it’s weird that king canary was alive but seemingly brain-dead before eating antony. could that be from worm/weed experimenting? could that explain king’s amnesia, that she was basically going through what we saw aeschylus 2.0 go through? ehh, feels like grasping at straws again...

and, to end on a different note...

mr. rotten’s original creator was randall, but the little guy didn’t get a franchise until relatively recent - like, 30ish(?) years before the present., about when fork was baby-kid age i think. so, who made mr. rotten into the franchise that it is?

my guess is rome and antony’s parent(s), or the third, unnamed aiguille brother. i could’ve sworn i remember seeing somewhere that rome was the eldest brother and antony was the youngest, leaving the unknown one to be the middlest brother, but i can’t find that info anywhere and i don’t feel like checking again.

anyway, my hope is that the unnamed third brother hasn’t shown up yet because he’s on wiggle world - being the guy in charge, or at least managing things. also he’s fat, like rembrandt. also maybe the least likely personality to be in charge of/ work at an amusement park moon based on a kid’s cartoon because he’s a no-nonsense, no-fun, business-minded butthead.

this is based on nothing but antony looking kinda like randall, rome’s weird, and there’s another bro that could look like rembrandt. except the last part, that’s just me being tickled by the irony of that character.

oh also, rembrandt - co-creator of the crosshatch unit, the most advanced AI ever, with a rather unique personality thanks to randall which rembrandt wasn’t too happy with. rock’s robot children/lackeys are known as rembots. where do the aiguilles fall on the HEEL/THUMB dichotomy, was that ever stated? hmm...

okay now i’m done, thanks for reading. if you didn’t, well

tl;dr - i think to much about a silly webcomic about worms.

#ffak #feast for a king #ramblings #rome aiguille #antony aiguille #you know what i'm not even gonna try for the rest #there's a lot and some of them are the same person #screw that #for now #kosmicdream

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