#eberwolf huntsman

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they really did this SO casually like I wasn’t 0.2 seconds from bawling my eyes out, HELLO???

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I have to wonder how the rest of the coven heads’ personalities clashed with their covens.

Darius - neat freak working with goop

Raine - performer with stage fright

Eberwolf - beast tamer despite likely being feral

Terra - wants to see the world burn despite working with nature

Adrian - diva director instead of performing

Mason - ??? works alone despite construction usually done in crews ???

Osran - ??? too busy looking into the future to notice the present ???

Hettie - ??? doctor or nurse practicing maltreatment ???

Vitimir - ??? honestly no idea, maybe too busy making potions to care about health like his stinky breath ???

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So knowing that Darius (and Eber, probably) were being little rebels even in Eda’s Requiem just makes them capturing Raine even funnier. They’ve been keeping their treason a secret for god knows how long and then they turn on the tv and their newest Coven Head is wearing a mask that covers half their face and attacking Coven Scouts in broad daylight. I just know Darius sighed.  

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Love how Dana Terrace looked at the queer-coded villain stereotypes and didn’t sidestep it entirely, but improved on it. I mean, queer-coded villains are 100% fine when literally everyone in the show is queer. Also, the main villain is, hilariously and historically accurately, the Token Straight.

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Okay Luz I can understand but Hunter not recognizing the silhouettes of what was clearly Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf is so funny..... buddy learn what your coworkers look like pls

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King’s Tide Promos

The season 2 finale. The final normal episode, before all that is left is the three 40-minute specials. It’s been a long ride, and King’s Tide brings us to fruition. So. Being the finale, we have gotten an absolutely ridiculous amount of promos for this episode, and it airs in less than twenty-four hours, so let’s go through them all. 

First thing to unpack here; the crack in King’s skull. It’s very purposeful in this image - it’s what we’re supposed to see first, with the way King’s head is turned. Perhaps he gets injured? I worry, because it’s awfully close to his eye, and an attack hard enough to crack literal bone is not going to be fun to witness against King. 

Then there’s the shadow. It’s clearly a play on King’s father, who was a Titan and likely the one King lives on now. The destiny King’s been wanting all his life, and now that he has it, he’s not being allowed to help. But the episode is named King’s Tide, and so I’m sure he’ll get his moment. Let’s just hope he isn’t too traumatized!

Next, his collar/necklace. It’s not on his neck, though; rather it’s just laying on the ground. What happens to it? Something that’s interesting is that we have also seen a similar purple glow to this image in Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door when Eda in the Owlbeast’s memories battles the Collector. With that combined with the fact that King is canonically connected to the Collector’s thoughts to a point, this is... worrying. 

With the possibly-snapped collar... could King be growing, I wonder? God knows we have little information on how exactly Titans grow to their size, but I wonder if maybe it’s not as slow a change as most’s growth. In the Titan Trapper’s lair in Edge of the World, the Titans skulls all seemed to be children’s ones, but perhaps their small size is simply because they stay small for a longer time than most. I mean, Eda’s been with King for eight years, and though he has grown, it’s not been a very dramatic change. Perhaps that’s coming soon, though, which results in King snapping his collar and having to leave it. 

This promo, which I believe is from the art director, strikes me less as foreshadowing something that will actually happen and more like just a broad statement of some of the main characters. With how much has to happen in this episode already, I don’t see how all these characters would be able to find each other so quickly, but it would be very cool if they do. 

God. I hope this is a scene from the episode. I would be so happy to see these kids all fighting together against something. Amity, Luz, Willow, Gus, Hunter, and King all in one fight?? I would die. Please let this happen. Please. 

Then there’s our very own Rebecca’s promo! A full animation this time, of dripping blue blood, picking King, Luz, and Eda out of the darkness. Notably, they all look fairly traumatized, which is just. Great. 

King’s got the same crack on his skull from the other promos, and he seems to be backing away from whatever is confront him. Meanwhile, Luz and Eda both share the same expression; shocked, heartbroken, and terrified. This simply doesn’t bode well. Notably, Eda is clutching the same arm she was branded on, so I assume her inability to produce Wild Magic anymore is going to be brought up at some point, which, considering that there will definitely be fighting involved, probably also isn’t a good sign. 

Next up is Ms. Terrace’s own; once again, King seems to be pondering what his role will be in all this by looking at his father’s skull - a skull that is going to be the turning point in this entire war, being that the Day of Unity is taking place there. There’s also the bloodred crescent moon floating eerily and pointedly above the Titan’s head, and the airships in the distance really hammer in the bleakness of the situation. This will be the final stand. 

(Something something Collector killed Titan something something)

Then there’s THIS bullshit. So.... the sky is bluer than it is usually. Which probably isn't ideal. But also, this frame just scares me in general. Philip looks far too smug for my tastes, and Eda (or I suppose it could be Raine) seems to be backing up, away from him as if he’s either figured her out or said something else equally horrible. 

Darius looks shocked as well, and I think that’s Eber who’s partially behind Philip. Overall, not an uplifting image. Does Philip’s plan work, and is that why the sky is blue?? Terrified, but we’re not even done yet. 

Then there’s the (assumed) thumbnail! Luz fighting someone, and looking fairly confident about it as well. Given how we left her in the last episode, being on her way to Philip, this place she’s in may very well be the skull. Either she broke free of any restraints or she wasn’t retrained at all (which would be concerning), and she’s either fighting Philip or some more Coven Guards on her way to Philip. 

Also... there doesn’t seem to be any glyphs in her hands. I guess this could just be a frame where the papers have already burned away, but with the fact that Luz seemed to be using spell circles alongside her glyphs in CotH... I have a feeling her palisman may be helping her with this fight as well, given that she seems to still have her backpack on. 

Lastly, we have... traumatized Luz. Sighs. 

Here, it looks like this and the last one aren’t very far apart from each other. God only knows which one’ll come first. Does Luz start out confident and turn to denial, or is it the opposite? Given how she chose willingly to go with Kikimora, I have a horrible feeling that it’s going to be the former. 

Welp. That's it, at least at the time of writing this, and I, for one, am absolutely terrified. Season finale soon, guys. 

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It would be cool if after unknowingly helping Philip nearly end the world with the draining spell, the head witches purposely help the Owl House crew save the isles from the Collector.

They don’t want to screw up twice.

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@secretly-of-course A fic to go with your art of Darius with Eberwolf in his purse!

This fic also features Dadrius!