The Owl House S02 E16 "Hollow Mind" Reaction
Added 2022-07-25 15:00:08 +0000 UTCum…. Holy $&@!
Comments
Some of the timing on that is speculation, but you definitely have the substance of it right, if the portraits are to be believed. I would like to say it as well, just in case it's not clear to anyone reading or watching: Inadvertently, Luz is absolutely responsible (not morally, but causally) for Belos's rise to power. She taught him the light glyph. The last base glyph that Phillip didn't have. And remember how she found it? By accidentally capturing an image of it from one of Eda's spells with her cell phone. That's an option that Phillip in no way had access to at the time, and given how hard it seems to have been for him to have discovered them, it seems probable that he never would have found it at all, as a symbol in the stars is hard to see if you're not specifically looking for that shape, even discounting the idea that the Titan might have been trying to obfuscate the matter. She taught him the light glyph, the only way he could reasonably have learned it. Who knows what combos this made possible down through the centuries? Who knows whether his mastery of magic would ever have been a fraction of what it now is without that, or whether he could have attained the status that he did? Thanks to the apparently deterministic nature of time travel, and because, well, Luz really can't be held accountable for not knowing what would result, it's definitely not her fault. But you can damn well bet that she'll think it is. And by showing Luz those memories, and seeing that she too remembers them, he's just confirmed that the time loop has closed. Luz has already gone to the past and done what she needed to do. He no longer needs her, or any of her friends, around. As Jacob Alvers said, above, the gloves are absolutely off.
Ganaroth Les
2022-07-28 07:30:12 +0000 UTCThat dude? I think he’s just a QAnon dumbass who’ll absolutely be used As for Caleb Owl Beast, maybe? I’m iffy on that one.
Charolette96
2022-07-25 23:42:06 +0000 UTCIs that whack job museum curator a direct descendant of Philip? -hmm, smelling Season 3 villain return here. Also, Philip had a friend or a brother back in the human world who carved his first mask. Philip seemed to be sacrificing companions to gain access to the Titan's head. Theory - the Owl Beast is actually the friend or brother that Philip sacrificed. We havent had a good owl Beast theory in a while
Mark Ten
2022-07-25 22:42:08 +0000 UTCSo the background portraits tell quite a story: Phillip Whitibane is a lad born and raised in the puritanical era of what would be known as Gravesfield. He wanted to be the bestest witch hunter ever with his brother/bestest best friend (we’ll call ‘Caleb’) , Caleb is the reason ‘the mask’ was originally carved, they played games such as ‘witches vs Hunters’ and engrained themselves in the practice of finding and exterminating ‘witches’, not knowing better. Their relationship and their lives would start to fracture when they stumble upon a wholly foreign land, with things unimaginable, rain and seas that boil the flesh, the island itself is a titanic corpse, and REAL witches for once. While Philip was a good puritan lad and detested this witch woman, Caleb was…let’s just say curious about her and this new corpse island with boiling water. Caleb gave into that good witchussy almost immediately as Phillip watched in horror, thinking he’s been ‘seduced’ by this demon, put under a spell. He sought to do anything in his power to free HIS Caleb from this temptress by tapping into magic of the isles so dangerous and self harming, he was becoming less human as a result. Caleb managed to help him retain his humanity to hopefully find a cure to whatever happened to him, but Phillip saw this as an opportunity to free him from the spell cast on him, all he needed was a knife and to be close enough to purge the witch threat. Phillip, unfortunately, read that situation completely wrong and Caleb genuinely settled down with that witch and is living a life better than he had in Massachusetts. So Phillip killed Caleb, burned their house down, made a wife a widow, and a child bereft a father. Scarred, enraged and frankly humiliated, he sought to purge out this entire realm for what they did and dive further into this twisted magic to the point normal food won’t even sustain him. He learned that it was palismens that now kept him alive. That wasn’t the only hurdle, word started spreading about the murder of that human and the other human who did it, he was being chased out and distrusted. He had to lie and manipulate others into being ‘sacrifices’ for his research and the palismen to consume. There was Eclipse Lake for the Titan blood and the head of the Titan to find a being only known as ‘The Collector’. People were dying too fast to get what he needed from the head and leave. His luck turned around when these odd witches, with lies so obvious he can’t roll his eyes back anymore than he could, but we’re perfect distractions non the less. One of these ‘witches’ even uses Pictolyphs, the one thing he’s convinced The Titan is preventing him from easily getting. Thankfully he learned how to harness light now, good. It worked like a charm this time, they didn’t die immediately they remarkably handle their own more than long enough to dig up the prison for this ‘Collector’ and simply teleporting out of there, it’s a shame they didn’t die in there. Because of these ‘witches’, his name is thoroughly sullied and his name can no longer be used, he needs a new identity and a new Alliance with this seeming god in a mirror. Using the Mask Caleb made for him and tattered golden cloaks, and self-carved ears, he reinvented himself as ‘BELOS’, a savior of the Boiling Isles from the scourge known as WILD MAGIC! He and more obedient copies of Caleb called ‘Grimwalkers’ use the fear-mongering of wild magic to have the people willingly lock all but one of their magic and eventually kill them with said glyphs when the time comes. He eventually built an empire with foundations built on lies and dead grimwalkers he personally killed, the people are ready to be slaughtered like sheep in their pens. This is when he learns of Lilith Clawthorn and later another human, Luz Noceda, the ‘witches’ that ruined his name as Phillip. He knows he can’t kill them and, in turn, the witch known as ‘The Owl Lady’ quite yet, despite their annoyance. He needs them to live long enough for their little time travel trip to happen. After invading his mind and pulling another grimwalker from his control, especially one that looks the most like Caleb, the gloves are absolutely off now…….
Charolette96
2022-07-25 16:12:09 +0000 UTC
