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??!!

Darius Deamonne🪡Eberwolf the huntsman🪲 Hunter 🐺

I been want to post this and where I’m, it’s Father’s Day so I thought why not. I saw people were also doing a dadius week and I really want to join but I don’t have any embroidery/art ideas to do for it. But it one of my favorite things from this fandom as it’s so sweet. Hopefully I can think of something more for them later in the future.

I also love Eber so much along Darius so I need him to be included. Also him joking with Hunter that he his wolf dad or uncle or something. Just him picking a fun name to call himself and Hunter joking along to annoy Darius. Also Eber totally calling hunter cub as it’s so cute

Also costume note as I have to say it but I love how Darius subtly matches Hunter in the last bits, as look hunter has a little bit of purple from his wolf shirt and Darius has a little bit of yellow to match hunter.

[ID: The picture is a felt doll that is the shape of a gingerbread man with a big circle head, they is supposed to be Darius Deamonne He has dark brown felt for skin, different shades of purple felt to make up his ab hair and beard. He has his white gloves and boots. He has on his violet pants, black shir with purple beads around the neck line, and the golden edging. And this purple shoulder cape. Eberwolf is made wirh orange felt and a copper color felt for his hair, he have fluffy cheeks and pointy ears. He in his gery shirt, and brown skirt that have spikes. And brown shoes, and yellow wristbands. And Hunter he have his short blonde hair and the extra stand. And he has this big scars on his face with and scar ear. He is his cosmic frontier cosplay with the top part tied around his waist and his Wolf shirt that has little purple wolfs on it what have little white stitch around it to look like he made it. The first picture it a remake of the reunion scene with Eber wolf on Darius’ shoulder and the 2nd picture Eber is standing next to him.:ID]

You asked for characters to draw, what about the Hagsquad? Specifically Eda, Raine, Darius, and Lilith. You can add Eberwolf if you want too! They’re awesome!

ACK- i probably should’ve stated this in the post but i’ll only be doing one character per request! so i’ll only be drawin one of em sorry :’3

AS FOR WHO… well… you saw my icon… and the option was available so…

Eberwolf headcanons because I'm cramming for an exam currently delirious I'm not even halfway through-

Throwing them under a readmore cus I'm not going to make you scroll past the amount I wrote

• The reason they ride large beasts like rat worms and sit on Darius's shoulder all the time is because he uses cat logic in that Higher up = Superior

• Very few scouts understand Beast (which is what I'm calling their language) and he gets really sick of pointing and their directions getting misinterpreted so he usually goes on his assignments solo or with their beasts (And Darius if he can convince him)

• Their mouth and vocal cords aren't shaped to speak English, and even if he could they wouldn't bother learning it. He sees no point on learning a language for people who can't be bothered to try and understand theirs

• When Eber first became a coven head, Darius attempted to start a conversation with him (Darius was also a fairly new coven head at this point, abt 23 years old). When he realised they could understand, but not speak English, he took it upon himself to try and learn Beast. Eber saw this as An Opportunity and began pointing at objects and saying what they are in Beast. Darius picked it up quickly and was soon able to translate for them.

• He is perfectly capable of walking bipedaly, but finds it much more efficient to trot around on all fours.

• They spend most of his time in Darius's office rather than their own, partly to annoy him and partly because he enjoys just coexisting with people

• Beast isn't yoda-speak or overly-simplified but sentences tend to be shorter and more blunt.

• I remember reading a fanfic about Eberwolf using nicknames and titles instead of names (if I find it I will credit the author) and I imagine they call Hunter "Cub"

• He curls up on the chests of people he loves partly to soothe them to sleep with his warmth and purring and partly to protect their internal organs like a furry shield (beast habits)

• During coven meetings, they regularly shit talk his coworkers out loud since only Darius can understand them.

• Mostly Darius replies to Eberwolf in English, but when he's really tired or needs to discuss confidential information he'll just respond in Beast, which definitely throws people off seeing this distinguished gentleman speak in chirps and clicks

• When they ride on Darius's shoulder and need to get his attention they'll just yank on his ear, which absolutely pisses him off, which makes them do it more often

• He sees Darius as their brother-in-everything-but-blood, and pretty much accepted Hunter as a member of his pack immediately.

That's all I got so far, I'm going to fucking collapse 👍

I find it interesting actually that Mason is the only Coven Head present at the convention episode in season 1 (I assume he is already a Coven Head because he is on the banner in a later episode).

He seems quite stoic and unbothered by being tossed around too. So this might point towards some characterization - maybe he actually cares enough to show up unlike the others, and he isn't a type to throw a fit over a member of the public bothering him and thus might be less drunk on the power.

[my personal headcanon is that he cares about the members of his coven and has teaching tendencies, but isn't very sharp when it comes to the politics, and he had never expected to get raised that high, so he doesn't question the decisions around him and finds his new role disorienting]

Things we don't know about Eberwolf:

Age

If they can talk and what their voice sounds like

Pronouns

Backstory

Which magic school they went to

How they & Darius of all other coven heads clicked

Motivation(s) to rebel against Belos

Things we do know about Eberwolf:

Feral

Cheeky

Besties with Darius

Commits to the bit better than Darius does

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.

I'm looking forward to the Day of Unity now.

Belos: "Ah, my nine Head Witches at last. Could someone please prop Adrien up with a stick? Thank you, Terra. And, now, if any of you will need to be mind-controlled through this ritual, please step forward. The remaining seven of you? Wonderful. Just wonderful..."

Love how Darius and Eberwolf are fundamentally good, loving people, but aren’t afraid to attempt to murder another adult if they get in the way of them protecting the people they care about and everyone else (i.e. them going after the other Coven Heads because of Eda being exposed and trying to protect her/the rest of the rebellion). Now, I’m not saying I want Hunter to end up in life threatening danger in front of them because I want to see them go feral over protecting him, but that’s exactly what I’m saying. 

so i extended the “Coven Heads Fight, but they’re TF2 Mercenaries” thingy I did because I performed a “copy and paste” trick of sorts to save my phone’s storage from exploding

in retrospect, there are a few things I could have done justice on this clip, but y’know what i like it: coupa parts I enjoyed editing here

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Featuring (highlighted in red are new):

Darius (Demoman); Abomination Form (Horseless Headless Horsemann)

Raine (Sniper)

Eberwolf (Scout)

Mason (Engineer)

Hettie (Medic, duh)

Adrian (Spy)

Osran (Heavy)

Terra (Soldier)

Vitimir (Pyro)

You cannot convince me this never happened.

Still sad over the missed potential between Eber and Terra because of the whole different kind of nature they present-

Fun little poke around theory, do you think that the collector trapped the coven heads in their own mind. So when the gang comes back they have to save them undertale final act style?

i think about darius and his mentorship under the prev golden guard sometimes

- originally, they started out as a mentor/mentee duo, much like amity and lilith in covention. Darius would have been an emperor's coven protege which i think is neat!

- darius was selected as an emperor's coven protege due to his skill in magic, and he gladly seized the opportunity - it would be good for his future! this was, however, also a strain on his relationship with his schoolfriends - with his mentorship, he just. Didn't have the time to hang out with alador and odalia, so they just started drifting apart.

- gg was initially very aloof during darius' training, very Proper Mentor, and was pretty strict with darius at the start of his mentorship. Darius, at this point, was trying to be very by-the-book with his abomination magic to win the approval of his mentor.

- (of course, he experiments a lot on his own time. he just keeps to Proper spellwork whilst training)

- this did.... not work. gg (from darius' whole attitude in ASiaS) values autonomy, and found darius' whole "perfectly by-the-book" attitude frustrating. Eventually, gg decides to goad darius into being more creative with his spellwork, possibly via a spar, and darius ends up using his "turn into abomination goop" move to pull a surprise attack on gg and it goes... okay. He doesn't win the spar, but gg is truly and genuinely impressed with him.

- also, darius would have learnt other types of magic from the gg given that the emperor's coven allows all types of magic! multiclassing, baby. However, it also becomes fairly apparent that darius favours abomination magic to a ridiculously heavy extent - he starts questioning whether he should be gunning for a spot in the EC at all, or if the abomination coven would be better for him. gg assures him that the EC would be better for having him in it, regardless of his personal magic style preferences

- as darius gets older and becomes more of an Older Teen as opposed to a Literal Child, he and gg's dynamic morphs from Strictly Mentor/Mentee to something more akin to an older brother/younger brother kind of vibe - there's still that professional edge to their relationship, but it's waning.

- by the time darius is nearing graduation, the two of them are basically besties, and get up to all sorts of shenanigans together that their younger selves could barely have imagined. if you'd told 13-year-old darius that he would one day be sneaking around the Emperor's Castle to pull pranks on the coven scouts with his stiff, formal mentor, he'd have called you insane.

- gg dies approximately two weeks before the emperor's coven tryouts. darius is unclear on the circumstances - he gets a harried note or two from his mentor that he's found something big, that he needs to look into it so he'll be gone for a while but he wishes darius good luck with the tryouts and can't wait to work alongside him in the coven-

- darius, in perhaps not his most rational moment, does not attend the emperor's coven tryouts. it's a move he regrets quite a bit, after the fact - a foolish impulse decision borne of grief for his mentor - but part of him is glad that he doesn't have the constant reminder of his dead mentor hanging over his head and burned onto his wrist.

- it's a moot point, anyways, a good few years down the line. he makes coven head young, and that's a step up from coven scout in most people's book, anyways. he meets eberwolf, and they become fast friends.

- in the end, he's grown past it - he's grieved and he's moved on.

- that doesn't mean he doesn't feel a pang of sorrow when he sees this kid - the emperor's nephew, he says - in a shiny golden mask, kneeling as he oh-so-proudly inherits that staff from the emperor.

- but that's neither here nor there.

I don’t see much Eberwolf angst, if any at all

I just feel like there’s so much potential yk

The coven heads might be forgettable side characters TO YOU but they are the most important, interesting, and well written characters in the show to me despite having less than 5 minutes of screentime and with no voice lines whatsoever ok