Like I keep seeing people say "oh my god the finale made me cry" and it's like. are you crying because of how much finn doesn't care about huntress wizard or do you just see a character die and start crying
Seems like a very reductive take to be honest. Because no Finn do's care about Huntress Wizard.
Bluntly, Fionna and Cake seems to have had a critical misunderstanding of her character from the start. A lot of things feel like they completely missed the fact that Huntress isn't very expressive, and uncharitably, it feels like they just copy and pasted Fionna's level of maturity onto her because they can only write female characters that are teenage girls. CHARITABLY, it feels like they confused her being asocial with her being socially awkward. Regardless, this isn't strictly why it's upsetting.
Sounds like a shallow read of S2's story for Huntress Wizard because the basis of HW is emotionally reserved throughout the vast majority of the season. And even then she was very brash in the original show as well. In Flute Spell she was threatened Finn and was very narrow and straight-forward with her goals. Just like in this season. And even then she wasn't socially awkward at all if anything she is even more blunt and straightforward here.
The show makes a point to establish a backstory to Huntress, to explain that her behavior stems from a past trauma of losing her parents, but at no point does the show make this trauma matter in any appreciable way at all. The show just kind of takes it as a given that being emotionally reserved is an objective flaw and not a part of her character, and nobody investigates why Huntress is reserved because her feelings do not matter to anyone, they're just growing pains that she arbitrarily moves away from in the process of the show.
I some-what agree that her backstory could of been explored more. However its kind of clear that her dead-set focus on Finn is an example of her not wanting to loose someone close to her again. And even then the show never said this was an "objective flaw" because the story while about her opening up its also about her learning she isn't broken rather she was given the chance to evaluate herself and that she doesn't have to be one thing. She was given the means to adjust herself to any situation.
In the scene of Huntress reviving Finn, she has to surrender multiple of her own lives to revive Finn. There's two ways to look at the scene- literally and figuratively. Bluntly, there's not really any reason to look at it literally because there isn't really any reason why Huntress knows how to do this, she just does it, and on a literal level this sacrifice means nothing so I don't know why I'm expected to care. The moment I try to analyze it figuratively it just feels so gauche, like-
No Huntress Wizard is giving instead of taking. Her whole deal has been taking from others instead of looking inward. Its not meant to be some large scale sacrifice but rather a moment that reflects her willingness to give for others. At first she took love as a means to empower her but now she is giving it back. Heck she at first ask others to give her power and then she decided to give power herself.
To save Finn from the injury he got himself into because he didn't listen to Huntress, Huntress has to sacrifice multiple realities worth of her life for him, and even doing that isn't enough, because his consciousness doesn't feel like anyone loves him enough, despite being the most loved man in Ooo, because Huntress specifically doesn't outright express romantic love towards him and let him into her home.
Huntress Wizard is like Finn in that they follow their heart in a dead-focus way as a means to avoid his issues. While Finn made his mistakes she made the same mistakes. Also I feel like your missing here its never been about "no one in OOO loves him" rather that no one in OOO will love him like "Jake" the one person who was his bed-rock and helped him through all of life's hurdles. And as for HW his issues aren't that she outright expresses romantic feelings rather by not showing him these feelings he isn't able to see how much he matters to her.
Finn isn't even given the chance to express literally anything even approaching mutual love with Huntress- she's reclusive, and that makes him upset, but like, at no point does it seem to cross the writer's minds that Huntress is someone who is hurting and has emotionally shut herself off as a result. The solution to Huntress' problems is just to Stop Being Antisocial And Just Act Like A Normal Girlfriend And Kiss Finn And Make Him Your Husband And Everything Is Okay! and it just feels absurdly coldhearted after going out of your way to express that Huntress is like this because of emotional trauma and she should just like get over it I guess and then she does and it saves Finn, because Finn is under zero responsibility to comfort Huntress and make her feel okay, and frankly it's her fault for not being a good enough Submissive Wife to Finn.
Again the whole basis of her story isn't about Huntress "fixing herself" nor was the show saying that she needs to "stop being so closed off" rather that she needs to acknowledge that in order to move forward she needs to look inward and recognize she can be more. Because she stop looking outside herself, and instead look started to look inward. And which in turn can allow for her to extend herself more because that is the only way for her to accomplish her goals.
On top of that, everything Fionna says is basically just that Huntress was only in this narrative to show Fionna what a Bad Person is like so that she can grow to be a Good Person instead of a Bad Person. Again, a really weirdly coldhearted direction to take when we establish that Huntress is the way she is because of trauma without actually exploring her feelings at all.
Again narrow minded take. Fiona isn't saying HW is a "bad person" for being closed off rather that she needs to look outward and not try to resolve things on their own. Rather that she needs to look inward instead of outward. The show isn't playing down her trauma rather that in order to move forward she needs to open up.
In conclusion, Huntress Wizard gets no sympathy from anyone in the entire show and is expected to clean up Her Husband's mistakes and also to go the extra mile and mend his broken heart because she isn't shown an ounce of mercy or understanding, and that's just presented bluntly and plainly.
Correction Huntress Wizard stops seeing the mistakes of others and recognize she is also capable of making those same mistakes. Finn recklessly threw himself into danger as a means to avoid confronting his deeper feelings. Huntress Wizard was the same. She managed to needs communicate her deeper feelings to Finn.
And don't even get me started about how much this show hums and haws while doing fuck all. Hunter has nothing in common with Huntress and Huntress isn't even allowed to have any sort of attention granted to her identity- there's a pretty solid trans narrative to write given that she's just a genderless plant person and chooses decidedly to present as female and that her entire humanoid identity is imprinted onto her from her parents, but like. OOOHHGHHH WE SEE 1 FRAME OF TOP SCARS ON THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF HER!!!! THAT'S HER TRANS NARRATIVE OMG SO BRAVE SO BRAVE SO BRAVE!!!!! And it's just like... it's so hard not to feel petty about this because, again, charitably, like we're so disinterested in exploring Huntress that we'd rather focus on this empty slate version of her that we invented, or uncharitably, like Hunter deserves the attention more because he's a man and who cares what kind of identity bullshit some freak plant has to go through.
Hunter is someone who managed to navigate their deeper feelings. And also Hunter is non-binary, which is meant to mirror how HW started off as androgynous plant creature that later identified themselves as female, while hunter started as a girl who later in life became Non-binary. Again while I wished Huntress Wizard was explored more this season. That doesn't mean the show is outright dismissing her.
What's the point of Witch Wizard? Why does Huntress react to her like she knows her? That fucking double middle finger scene is so fucking embarrassingly desperate, why the fuck would Huntress act like this about something she wants to kill? Why does Huntress feel so passionately about her? Since when does Huntress feel so defensive of The Magic?
Witch-Wizard is the leader of a Coven that seeks to isolate themselves from the rest of the world. And her fight with her with things like her middle-fingers was means to get her to continue to take instead of give which in turn made her so much weaker. Also Witch Wizard drank the thing she need to use make a cure for Finn which made her so upset here. Also this is the episode where she learned to look inwardly and extend herself.
If you find any of this oppositional to your stances, please tell me why, because like... I'd be fascinated to hear the opinions of anyone who believes that this show feels anything towards Huntress beyond a deep, burning apathy and that her emotions are a tedious hurdle to jump over to get to the Correct Solution of her being Finn's wife who has to wipe his butt and clean all his problems so The Big Strong Important Man can feel good.
Look Huntress isn't some maid that needed to give up things for FInn but recognize that there both people who have issues and that they both can rely on each other to navigate their feelings. She isn't reduce to Finn's wife that is uncharitable read of the story.
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