So a couple weeks ago I was listening to the Mii Plaza Palooza albums that SiIvaGunner put out and it put me in a 2010s Nintendo mood for a while, and that lead me to drawing Rie in her salsa outfit from Wii Fit U lol
(also featuring the sketchbook page with Monita and Arcade Bunny)
currently playing Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and I now have a newfound rage for the game design choices of "Enemy that flies away from you while you're attacking" and "Enemies despawn when they leave their designated area so you have to make them respawn with full health"
After around a decade of putting up with people on the internet portraying Mario as hating Luigi, being a selfish, shitty brother to him, and more half because he rubbed his shoe on Luigi's exactly once in Mario Power Tennis and half because people thought being needlessly edgy was funny, this exact scene in the movie brought me a colossal amount of joy and catharsis in finally being able to let the nine year old inside of me be at peace with the confirmation that Mario and Luigi do in fact care about each other
I think a Kingdom Hearts question that does not get brought up enough is whether or not Jiminy Cricket must undergo a transformation as well whenever the gang goes to certain worlds
i haven’t made a proper toh text post in a while but i was going off about this on discord and twitter so now i am bringing it here:
What the hell happened with Luz’s cape?
Just like. everything involving it. It was heavily underused in the series (Luz herself only wore it in four episodes, three of them being in Season 2A) despite its importance as a representation of Luz’s connection to Eda (and in my opinion, the demon realm as a whole), and was later passed down to King, only for it to inexplicably disappear anyways.
So under the cut, I’m gonna provide a detailed history of the cape and every instance in which it was used, to try and make any sense of what happened to it.
Starting with Agony of a Witch, Eda is first seen preparing witch’s wool to knit a cloak out of. According to her, it “repels powerful spells”, so it apparently has actual function aside from looking cool as shit. Luz wants the cloak, but Eda insists that she herself needs it to ward off the increased attacks from the Emperor’s Coven. However, later thinking of Luz’s kindness and devotion to her wellness, Eda decides to make the cloak for Luz instead, as a gift.
Next is Young Blood Old Souls, where Eda is currently captured. Finding the finished cape (I’m gonna call it a cape from now on), Luz is inspired by Eda’s gift and their bond to go on a rescue mission to get Eda back. This is the first episode where Luz herself wears the cape, but it’s also this episode where there’s a noticable flaw; the cape just looks cool.
We skip to Lilith and King getting captured and the “fight” between Luz and Belos, and he opens by teleporting behind Luz and flinging her against the wall with magic of his own. The cape seemingly does nothing to hinder this.
Here, you could probably chalk it up to Belos’ red magic being artificial (since he’s a human and all), which is why it was able to pierce through the cape that was made to counter magic. Fine. So Luz rescues Eda, King, and Lilith and that wraps up Season 1.
Fast forward to Echoes of the Past, the third episode of Season 2 and the first one of the season in which Luz wears the cape. She goes to King’s old island along with Lilith and Hooty to find out about King’s past and stuff. The biggest threat of danger they face there is Jean-Luc, who attacks not with magic, but with polymorphism by shifting into various shapes to attack. No magic involved means no chance for the cape to do its thing.
Fast forward again to our next episode, Hunting Palismans (or Palismen, whatever). In this one, Luz goes out at night in her cape and pajamas with Flapjack and later gets scooped up by Hunter along with the rest of the palismen. Once again, the wonkass red magic that Hunter also uses pierces through Luz's cape. The later fight with Kikimora (who uses actual magic) doesn't count, as Luz had put her cape away.
Fast forward yet again to our next episode: Yesterday's Lie, the last episode of Season 2A and the very last episode that features Luz wearing the cape. In this one, Luz is in no inherent danger, as she spends almost the entire episode in the Realm of Inbetween while Vee and Camila must contend with Jacob’s nonsense. Sometime during Luz’s final conversation with Camila before being pulled back, though, the cape itself gets stained and torn with several holes in it.
And such is the last time we see Luz wear the Witch’s Wool cape. It had a good run of four episodes spaced out from eachother, but you may be wondering, “What happened after this?” That is where things get… ehhhhhh.
The next appearance of the cape is about halfway through Season 2B, in Hollow Mind. Near the beginning of the episode, Luz, Eda, and King go out to the Night Market to buy some Witch’s Wool to repair the cape. Unfortunately, Prim the shopkeeper closed up to join the Oracle Coven. Oopsie poopsie.
That’s all we see from the cape this episode. Which brings us to the very last episode that the cape appears in, in the strangest situation possible: Clouds on the Horizon.
In their last moments all together for a long time, it is shown that Eda fixed up the cape herself by shortening the cape to remove the torn bits. It’s also here where the cape goes to its final owner: King. Everything looks spelled out clearly; the cape is now too short for Luz to wear ( D: ), so it goes to King. Simple right? Surely it will come up later as a plot point. King will at least be shown wearing it throughout the episode, right?
Wrong.
Not even a minute after King is given the cape, it completely, inexplicably disappears during the commercial break. When we cut to Luz, King, and Katya descending into the forest, the cape is literally nowhere to be seen. Actual video proof.
And this is the last time we ever see the cape. No seriously, it never shows up again. Not with King during his stay with the Collector. Not with Eda as she hides out with Lilith in the Archive House up in the sky. Not even four years later, when Luz is seen packing up her closest belongings as she prepares to attend the University of Wild Magic, does it even make a cameo.
I think this might be the owl house equivalent of Araki Forgot Syndrome. How the hell does one introduce a physical attribute of Luz's character that represent not only her ties to the Demon Realm, but her bond with Eda, the witch who guided her through this new world, only to severely underuse it, show nothing of its function, write it off as broken, and then have it disappear from existence. We had a good thing. We had a badass cape, it had meaning, we had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork.
And it was hyped up, too. The original poster for Season 2 of the show had Luz front and center wearing the cape, and it was even included in the brand new animation provided for the same season's opening sequence.
Alas, the show has been over for a long time now, so there's not a lot that can happen now. We can only hope that in some post-canon spinoff/continuation or another Reddit AMA the whereabouts of this marvelous piece of fabric are addressed, because I will continue to rag about this at any given chance. Be thankful that I don't use the rest of this post to rag about what happened to any part of Luz's original outfit to begin with.
I wanted to get this done before the end of June, but hey who says I have to stop feeling proud of who I am just because the month is over.Â
Honestly, it felt like such a treat to have both season 2 of The Owl House and the In the Heights movie premiere within the same month, so it felt appropriate to have my very first piece of fanart on this site be about my current comfort character. Growing up I didn’t have a Hispanic character that I could personally identify with, let alone a Hispanic bisexual character, so it really warms me to my core that the wonderful Dana Terrace went ahead and made one for the kids today. Seriously, every time Luz casually says something in Spanish my heart just sings.Â
Meanwhile, listening to In the Heights filled me with so much of the Hispanic pride I didn’t realize I was missing, so I added lyrics to one of my favorite songs on the soundtrack. (For my non-Spanish speakers: That beautiful flag contains my whole soul). I know there’s a lot of controversy with the recent movie, and the points being made against it are certainly ones that deserve serious attention, but I still had a lot of fun watching each musical number come alive on the big screen (my first movie back in theaters after so long) even though I could’ve watched it free on HBO shh.Â
I’ve only been a lurker on this site so far, but I’ve decided I’ve got some art that I want to start sharing so feel free to follow me if you’d like to see more of what I’ve got to offer.Â
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