Toh S2b - Blog Posts

Okay so in response to this post about The Owl House I have a few thoughts…

(Ngl I had originally put all of this into @emotional-mess-in-distress’s comment section for the original post but ended up being, like, 6 or 7 individual comments so I thought a post would just be better. Also none of this is canon-obviously-but these are just some of my thoughts and theories that I wanted to share and would love to see other people’s thoughts and opinions on it as well 😁)

What if Phillip’s brother (pretty sure that the brother’s name is Caleb because that’s what Flapjack told Hunter to call himself in Any Sport in a Storm so imma go with Caleb) stayed longer in the demon realm than Phillip? we don’t see the effect that time may have on Luz yet but we know that Phillip/Belos has been living for ages. Maybe time/aging is slower in the demon realm. If Caleb spent more time in demon realm while Phillip went back to the human realm then that could explain the aging differences as well as why some reasons behind the discrepancies.

Like maybe the jump in his own age between Phillip’s memories was because it was a dedicated sections of his memories with his brother (like how the first level of his mind was a hall of his lies, maybe there are multiple sections of the mind dedicated to the most meaningful parts of their lives. Like how Willow’s mind had so many memories of her and amity but in that same section of her brain there weren’t memories of any other friends or family?) So if the mind has specific sections for each person then the gaps in age could be explained that he simply was not with Caleb again until he came back to the demon realm. This could be caused by Caleb staying in the demon realm for his wife, which could give Phillip more of a personal reason for hating witches. Not only were they considered evil by humans, but a witch took his brother away from him, causing Phillip to grow up without his older brother, ergo the memory age gaps and his personal spite.

The wife follows him after Caleb’s death. She curses him. She also hides the door to punish Phillip for taking away her husband/father of her child(ren). Now he’s cursed in the demon realm, left to live out his days to regret what he did. Instead of accepting responsibility, he blames her and all witches and that mentality drives his every action. Not only is this section of his mind dedicated to his brother but is also dedicated to the true birth of Belos and his deep-seated hatred for witches.

I’m not entirely sure why Flapjack isn’t depicted in his memory. Maybe the palismen souls reframed or edited his memories so that Flapjack is cut out in order to protect their fellow palisman or maybe Phillip wasn’t focused on Flapjack so he doesn’t remember him.

And about the book/statue, it could be that these depictions are going off of Phillip’s lies since he has a habit of lying to make himself look better. I’m thinking he told the town that he and his brother were heroes, bravely going to the demon realm to hunt witches (ergo Hunter’s name) but sadly his brother was lost in the demon realm. Phillip looks like a hero when he returns to the human realm after surviving the demon realm unlike his brother and a martyr when he doesn’t make it back after going back for his brother. Boom.

Hunter, climbing through Darius' window at 3am: Is four followers a lot?

Darius, locking the window and shutting his blinds: Depends on the context. On penstagram? No. In a dark alley? Kind of.

Poor him...