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HUNTER MAKES PALISMANS IM FUCKING SOBBING DO YOU HEAR ME
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The Lonely End of Belos
Or why Hunter, Caleb, Evelyn, Lilith, Collector, or anyone that Belos personally wronged didn't get to be the witness to his demise.
I admit, I was a bit unsatisfied with Belos' demise. After all the build up with Caleb hallucinations and Grimwalker bones, I thought he would fall into the graveyard pit, see the ghosts, and realizing all too late it's his fault before he melts into a pile of bones.
Prior to that, before Thanks to Them, I speculated on Belos' fate would be him being hunted down by an angry mob of humans led by Jacob Hopkins believing him to be some kind of cryptid monster either threatening the town... or offer a rare opportunity to get rich on the news. And then he falls apart like an animal.
And when Watching and Dreaming trailer hinted at Belos possessing the Titan, I wondered how they were going to defeat Belos without resorting to revenge or poetic irony (since Belos is this big final boss that the heroes would blow up like with the core). I thought perhaps they would turn Belos into a Palisman tree and make him give back all the Palisman he devoured in a twisted form of redemption. Perhaps they'll remind him of his past and start a mental collapse that causes him to lose control of the Titan as he sees images of Caleb. I was pretty sure Caleb would show up just before Belos dies, giving him the realization that he's damned.
But his actual demise... feels empty. He did fall apart as I expected and there's sense of loneliness in his demise, but... no Caleb. No Evelyn. Nothing hinting to his past. Heck, I don't think the name Philip is even brought up once. It feels like we've been cheated out of a cathartic demise, and I spent the hours since the special aired trying to make sense of this choice and why. Why is there no Wittebane lore.
And ultimately, I make this conclusion:
Belos refused to open up about his past. It's quite telling the Collector spilled everything of his Freudian Excuse from being bullied by the Archivists to being wrongfully imprisoned by King's Dad to his desire for friends and being accepted. Him opening up communications of his insecurities allowed Luz, Eda, and King to empathize and help him. To teach him kindness and forgiveness. To teach him the value of life through death. And through their teachings does the Collector become better and ultimately redeemed.
But Belos? We know he had a traumatic past and a lot of insecurities with his brother. We know he's a lot like Luz and the Collector when he was a child. But unlike them, he never opened up about his insecurities. He forcibly molds them into abstract ideas and rules. For the greater good of humanity. For the good of your souls. He always tries to make it non personal, thinking it makes him selfless and pure.
But what he ends up creating is a caricature of himself. A shallow representation of his former human life. The Hollow Mind portraits released this week on Twitter shows tragedy with the happy memories being free of scratches and burns. Those were the original looks. But in the actual episodes, even the happy memories were scarred and burned. As Understanding Willow reveals, if you burn the memory pictures, you essentially erase them from existence. This means that Belos barely remembers his past. Now that I think about it, Belos never actually used the word brother at any point. Just an old friend. At first, I thought he was trying to avoid triggering trauma memories regarding Caleb's murder, but now I wonder... did he actually forget Caleb was his brother?
Because if he did, then it explains why he never seem to make the connection that Eda and Lilith may in fact be the descendants of Evelyn and Caleb. He only remembers Evelyn's first name but can't remember her face or anything that would link her to the Clawthrones.
And then it hits me. Despite being the big main antagonist of the series... Belos has only one personal connection to our main trio: Luz the Human. Eda, he dismisses her as an Owl Lady outlaw who isn't important in the grand scheme of thing. And King, he thinks it's a weird dog demon, not a baby Titan. But Luz, he's obsessed with because A) she would help him learn the Light Glyph and find the Collector and B) she's the first human he has seen in centuries.
Thus, it is Luz that Belos focuses on the most. It's Luz that Belos wants to form an actual connection since Caleb's death. And when you think about those witnessed Belos' demise... Luz is the only one that Belos has any genuine interactions with. Eda, King, and Raine... they were all background pawns or obstacles, not even worth specializing personal grudges towards like he would with Lilith, Hunter, Evelyn, or even Caleb.
So in spirit, Luz is the last lifeline for redemption and forgiveness. And Belos blew it. He was so obessed with Luz due to her human status but he never gave anything about his past to her (Luz only got Belos' backstory from Masha). He assumes that being human alone is sufficient enough for speaking terms. And he choose the best looking human look for her: A non-broken nose Philip Wittebane. Just as how she saw him in Elsewhere and Elsewhen. The ideal adventurer and hero of the 17th century. He evidently forgot that this bearded Phillip destroyed Luz's respect for him. This Philip lied to her and betrayed her and Lilith. This Philip was not the hero Luz envisioned. After all, the Philip she idolized in the diaries was clean shaven. He could have chosen that form... if he actually remembers that.
And then he sloppily try to make himself sound like he's freed from a curse, sloppily using the term dark magic instead of wild magic, and taking great pains to even say that he did horrible things, even under the excuse of a curse. He has no idea on how to make himself relatable when it's all there within him deep down. He just uses the surface-deep level of relatability and Luz doesn't buy it. And the boiling rain melts away that skin deep humanity, revealing a rotting ghoul barely clinging onto life, screaming of how witches are evil and unforgivable as he crawls to Luz. Notably, he still doesn't give a reason as to why he thinks they're all evil. We all know what it likely is, but Belos never confirms it to Luz.
Belos is virtually on autopilot, repeating the mantra of humans are superior and witches are evil. He never speaks about how Caleb was "stolen" from him by a witch. He never speaks about how Gravesfield taught that witches are evil. His memories almost completely erased by his self-inflicted denial, all he can think of is wiping out witches and saving humanity. A caricature of his former self.
And by failing to swayed Luz, he's completely alone. There is no Caleb now. No Evelyn. No Hunter. No Lilith. No Grimwalkers. No Flapjack. Just Luz whose connection he tries to forge is now a shallow parody because of how much he doesn't understand her at all. But she wouldn't kill him since that would give him a known company at his last moment. Instead he meets his end by those that he doesn't even see as personally important beyond pawns. Though they have a lot of personal grudges against the former Emperor and tyrant, Belos only sees strangers at the end of in his long life.
Philip Wittebane is nothing more than a faded memory of a bygone era. He died with his brother Caleb, regulated to just folklore ghost stories told in Halloween of Gravesfield. To some, they may never really exist in the first place since 1613 is a very long time.
The creature that resembles Philip is just Belos and he is little more but a parody of a man, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
#emperor belos#belos#philip wittebane#caleb wittebane#luz noceda#eda clawthorne#king clawthorne#raine whispers#toh analysis#evelyn toh#toh spoilers#character analysis#I realized I might have charted another villain's downfall in my description#ganondorf#calamity ganon#the legend of zelda#the owl house#toh watching and dreaming#toh 3#toh 3x03
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Them,,,,,
#sigh#they’re so sweet#huntlow#the owl house#toh 3x03#toh season three#my art#hunter#hunter toh#willow#willow toh
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I’M BACK!
#the owl house#tohedit#luz noceda#toh 3x03#watching and dreaming#toh watching and dreaming#titan!luz#toh spoilers#disneyedit#my stuff#lh13 gifs
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Is it me or do these two images of Alador have something in common?
short sleeves
collar shape
white pants and boots
Alador has soiled the hand that is currently wearing a glove, which, in general, is very similar
What I want to say is that in his youth Alador was happy at that moment, and now he is in a similar outfit and a) doing what he himself wants and likes b) next to Darius. My dude is finally happy!
#the owl house#toh#toh alador#alador blight#the owl house alador#toh alador blight#darius deamonne#aladarius#toh season three#toh 3x03
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the finale was absolutely fantastic :') was an excellent and intelligent way to end the series in a way that honored what they could do and gave respect to what they couldn't.
personally, i think they did the absolute best work they could do.
i will mourn for the loss of some obvious content—clawthorne/belos connection, collector development, backstory on titans/archivists, more information on magic—but the team did such an amazing job that it feels satisfying enough without all of that.
#witches are just humans who developed the magic bile sac#the owl house#toh spoilers#the owl house spoilers#toh season 3#toh 3x03#i will still always fight for the theory#and to that point: luz's exposure to titan magic through the will of the titan enables her to do magic#and belos' corruption of the magic is what turned him into that human/witch that was falling apart#and thus she wouldn't even need the glyphs!! but she would still need to learn King's to understand more of the world...#just a theory!! ... a game theory...
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Attention spoilers.
So...The Owl House. I've heard a lot about this cartoon before, but I started watching it relatively recently, just a couple of months ago. By itself, the message, the main characters and the plot did not particularly catch me, unlike one single character exposed by the villain. Unlike everyone else, he had an interesting storyline, and his backstory aroused sympathy. I sincerely hoped for some kind of, but still redemption of the villain in the finale, because we, throughout the cartoon, were given pieces of his story because of which you get into the character. But now, to my great disappointment, he was killed in the end in the most unpleasant and humiliating way. I honestly don't understand why they made such an unpleasant ending for him, because my logic is quite simple - if you want the villain to have a path of redemption, then tell me about his past and explain why he does certain things. Otherwise, you could just create an Umbridge from Harry Potter, which is nice to hate and the death of this character would cause genuine joy.
#sketch#idk#emperor belos#the owl house belos#toh#toh fanart#toh spoilers#toh 3x03#talking#philip wittebane
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✨Hootylicious ✨
#the owl house#toh#toh spoilers#toh season three#toh season 3#disney the owl house#watching and dreaming#toh 3x03#toh s3 spoilers#hooty protection squad#i love hooty#toh hooty#hooty#hooty supremacy
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Good luck to Luz Noceda on her first day of college
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Ok but EL ÚLTIMO CAPÍTULO DE THE OWL HOUSE I feel like dying rn and making it a statement to Disney
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My beloved and their fox palisman :’3
#ending up the spam with my presently only post-finale toh artwork#I love raine#raine whispers#toh 3x03 spoilers#watching and dreaming spoilers#toh#the owl house#mine#my own art
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I don’t even know where to start- the episode was so good I’m crying they did such an amazing job
Luz’s transformation, the collector getting acceptance, Belos finally being defeated, Darius being there for Hunter, THE ENTIRE FLASH FORWARD CREDITS SEGMENT HOLY SHIT
It’s amazing, it was so amazing, thank you Dana, thank you Owl House crew, thank you so much
#the owl house#toh#the owl house spoilers#toh spoilers#toh 3x03#watching and dreaming#snail scribbles
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Damn that foreshadowing is crazy
(Btw she’s called Luzan!)
#Titan Luz#luzan#toh Luzan#Toh luz#the owl house#toh#matthieu Cousin#Watching and Dreaming#Once Upon a Swap#1x08 toh#3x03 toh#Spoilers toh
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Thoughts During TOH 3x03 Watching and Dreaming
Here we go. The finale. This is it.
I’m going to be honest, I didn’t record my reactions to the first half of this so some general thoughts before I continue.
So, seeing kind of King, Luz, and Eda’s worst fears be reaffirmed by the dreams was the worst, but we also got out of the actual dreams a lot quicker than I expected. It’s fine, I understand.
Raine needs to rest after all this.
We’re actually teaching the Collector about actual friendship and kindness and the permanence of death, huh.
The fact that Luz actually reassured the Collector that what they did wasn’t wrong when they tried to apply their lessons of forgiveness and kindness to Belos but it’s just the issue itself is so much more complicated than that. That kind of approach isn’t going to work on someone like Belos. I just really appreciate her letting them know that they didn’t do anything wrong.
And finally, before I continue, Luz’s “death” got me to cry. Especially when it showed Camilla crying even as a puppet like she knew! Ugh. Pain!
Okay, back to the live reacting.
“I should have thanked them.” AHHHHHHH! Pain!
TITAN DADDY!
Who voices him? It’s an interesting voice.
Oh that’‘s a cool design.... Bye Titan Daddy.
Gus! Friends! Camilla! .... “She’ll be okay.” Frick why am I crying again!?
Okay so, two things. The voice acting for the Collector right now? Amazing. He sounds like such a scared kid. Love it. Second, Luz’s Titan Witch design? Gorgeous! 10/10.
OH MY GOD! My baby is casting spells with spell circles and Eda is supporting her and the animation got real smooth and I’m getting emotional again!
Weh!
Look at all my babies go!
I haven’t mentioned it yet but this version of the theme is killing me! Oh my god!
The overview of the Titan! Like back in episode 2! A callback to the scene that made me realize I was going to love this show! How dare! Crying in the club a lot tonight!
And then they do an episode 4 callback! “From the heart!” Hell yes it does!
RAINE!
GOD THE ANIMATION! GO OFF CREW!
OPENING SCENE CALLBACK! “I am the Good Witch Luz. Child of the Human Realm. Student of the Demon Realm. And Warrior of Peace!” She better say what came after- “NOW EAT THIS SUCKA!” YESSSSSS LEETTTTS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And oh my god the animation! That looked like Studio Trigger there for a second! LWA anyone?
Nice try Belos. Love how Luz didn’t say a word.
WHY AM I FRICKIN CRYING OVER A BREAD PUN FRICK ME! SCREW THIS SHOW! HOW DARE IT!
DAMN RIGHT IT’S AN HAPPY ENDING!
FINALLY EDA AND CAMILLA MEET IT’S ALL I EVER WANTED! BEST CO-PARENTS!
So... No more glyphs.
TIME JUMP AND LUZ LOOKS SO COOL!
WHAT THE HELL WILLOW LOOKS SO COOL TOO!
EVERYONE LOOKS SO DOPE WHAT THE HELL!
Oh that last shot was just mean!
Alright. So.... full thoughts later. Right now I’m just gonna cry. It’s been emotionally taxing day with my shows so... Yeah.
Thank you Dana. Thank you Owl Crew. You guys really brought us something special!
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Are you sure you wanna give this power to me?
#the owl house#tohedit#luz noceda#watching and dreaming#toh 1x02#toh 3x03#eda clawthorne#toh titan#toh spoilers#disneyedit#my stuff#lh13 gifs
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I love all the timeskip character designs, but I especially love King’s that kinda lanky “heading into teen years” design, haha. Tall genes, indeed.
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