#emperor caleb

[angstyhikka]

Doodle pack from magma with the girls!^^

[ludwiglasy]

Toh Axe AU Masterpost

Short summury: Caleb is alive, he has become an emperor, and Philip is his right hand, the Black Guard. They have a terrible relationship, somewhere between slavery and domestic violence. But Philip has a son, Hunter, and almost adopted daughter - Luz, and they are going to save him.

Fanfic "Where the war axe is buried":

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Early access to unpublished chapters and some sneak peeks on my Boosty

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Lore posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Refsheets: Caleb and Philip, Caleb's beard timeline, Hunter, old disigns, Eda and Lilith, Caleb and Philip again, side charecters

Comics: 1 (1,5), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Arts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27

Memes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

AUs (yes, AUs on AU, I know, we are productive): 1, 2, 3

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[the-enchanted-archivist]

The show should have focused on the Wittebane lore. I'm glad they didn't since it sounds like the would have gone the good brother/bad brother route, but if you actually think about the show itself and its villain, none of this would have happened if Caleb never met Evelyn. None of this would have happened if Caleb didn't run off to the Boiling Isles, leaving the future villain to follow him under the impression he was saving him.

Caleb is the catalyst of the Owl House. Luz may have had her own issues, but they have nothing to do with what has been going on in the Boiling Isles long before she was born.

And you know what could have been utilized to show this?

TIME POOLS. If Luz found the time pools to Philip's time after he killed Caleb, she could have found the ones for Caleb. Hell, Luz is the type of person who would think that if she saved Caleb, none of this would have happened only to find that she fucked up the future.

That's where an AU of Caleb being the Emperor instead can happen, where Luz distracts Philip in the fight only to be the one killed. Luz didn't realize how much Caleb actually loved Philip either, she was only focused on keeping Philip from becoming Belos by any means. She could have thought that because Philip attacked Evelyn, Caleb wouldn't have any feelings left for his brother. It would use very black-and-white thinking before showing how complicated things actually are.

Emperor Caleb may not have it in for the witches, but he may have it in for humans, thinking back to how he and Philip grew up, how he was forced to make Philip be a certain way in order to keep him safe. Luz may realize she's dealing with a genocidal maniac hellbent on destroying humanity instead of witchkind. People she was once friends with are now against her due to Caleb's teachings.

In order to even fix this, Luz would have to find another set of time pools by herself using what Lilith taught her because things were too different and let the situation happen naturally to Luz's heartbreak.

[marzipaninii]

Im thinking a LOT about grimwalker Philip and emperor Caleb ngl

[try02line]

THE OWL HOUSE: CALEB&HUNTER ANIMATION

Hihi, here we are with another small animation for my lil the owl house AU, Charis!AU!

This time, I will give you a small snippet of the relationship between Caleb&Hunter (yes Hunter still exists in this AU, and he is still a Caleb Grimwalker). Rather than being the emperor’s nephew, he is the emperor’s “son” and well, they di nit really have a positive relationship what can I say. Caleb isn’t going to win the award for father of the year any time soon.

Let me know if you’d like to know more hope you enjoy this! 🦊

[spells-potions-and-books]

Emperor Caleb of the Boiling isles in his first year on the throne. He was 27 at the time

Emperor Caleb of the Boiling Isles on the last year on the throne. He is 70 at the time.

Runaway au

[asherisawkward]

So…

I was doing an rp with @sad-boy-coven and a few others where young Caleb and Philip (I was Caleb) fell into the Boiling Isles and then fell through a time pool, eventually meeting Lilith and Eda.

Caleb is initially friendly, though internally suspicious, and Philip is outright antagonistic at times. I’m a big fan of the idea that Caleb used to be as into witch hunting as Philip (and maybe even introduced him to it) but later realized it was wrong, so he suggests to Philip that niceties would be a good manner to win over the witches and capture them off guard.

Then, Philip likely being the child who caught the common cold every year since he was two and nearly died each time, gets the common mold.

See, the thing about time travel is that going back in time could create a plague from all the viruses, bacteria, etc. that you developed an immune defense that the people of the past would not be able to fight (see the Spanish Influenza as well as the growing resistances against antibiotics). Meanwhile, going to the future could kill you due to the aforementioned reason.

So Philip gets absolutely messed up by the modern common mold, so Lilith, not knowing better, gives him the medicine for it. The medicine that is made for witches, not humans. This would likely be toxic, so Philip becomes even more sick, and Caleb panics.

Prior to this, Caleb had been slowly opening up to the idea that witches weren’t as bad as Gravesfield and the Bible suggested. He had been slowly bonding with Lilith of older sibling issues and trauma.

After this, Caleb immediately reverts back to his “default programming” and assumes that everything the connected over was a trap in order to lower their guards to kill them. He then attempts to find his way through time pools to get back to town and see the minister/priest to beg him to save Philip.

He finds the time pool as Lilith catches up to them, but Philip is incredibly weak and at the edge of death.

In the rp, Caleb’s desperation to do anything to save his brother overcomes his distrust of Lilith, and he allows her to administer an antidote for the toxins that Philip ingested.

But…As soon as that happened…

If it matters to anyone, they ended up going to the demon realm because Caleb wanted to take Philip to the beach like he had wanted as a child. So cue feelings of guilt for the unintentional death of his brother.

This is the first post as I do not have character designs drawn up yet. In the actual canon of the AU, I might make it a Clawthorne ancestor (probably Evelyn) that the brothers meet (so they simply fall into the Isles rather than the future as well.) to make it more sensible and not have to worry about “the Bloodyfly Effect” as Lilith put it.

So now Caleb has been left entirely alone, been abandoned by the church when he needed it most, “tricked” by witches, and forced to bury his brother. Caleb would grow up to go on a full blown crusade to destroy witches.

In the most recent episode, For the Future, we see that Philip’s lies are slipping through his fingers—even the ones to himself. Caleb would not have that feeling because of how his brother died. (I am not sure how/if grimwalkers will be integrated.) However, his relationship with the Collector is more positive because it reminds him of Philip’s gremlin energy as a child.

More updates will come in the future.

Welcome to what I call the Relapse Au.

[angstyhikka]

Caleb’s first thought when he saw Sleepy was: "More of his experiments. Damn sadist." His second thought: "What the hell is that thing anyway?"

Unsurprisingly, Philip didn’t disappoint—it was indeed an experiment. To be precise: a chimera. Even more precise: the first successful practical result of Philip’s research in chimerology (before he moved on to attempting grimwalkers, something Caleb wouldn’t learn about for a long time).

When they explained where the little creature came from, Caleb joked, "So, am I an uncle now?"—throwing Philip into stunned silence. [ahphph]

That said, Sleepy (originally dubbed "Sleepwalker" by Philip) was too scrawny and sickly as a pup. Caleb didn’t think she’d survive the winter.

She did. Then she grew to the size of a large dog. And that became a problem.

This comic covers the period when she still lives in Philip’s basement-workshop, sleeps on a cot, and occasionally haunts the castle whenever Philip isn’t keeping an eye on her.

Art by @levshany, colors by me. So glad we’ve finally started doing backgrounds (just Lev for now, but hopefully I’ll catch up too, haha).