#noah cross

[blackcur-rants]

Okay, I don't know if Dana Terrace is a Stephen King fan or not, but there are certain elements of "The Owl House" that remind me quite a bit of the Kingverse. Obviously, the story of a group of misfits and oddballs becoming a found family together and fighting a monstrous person-entity who represents America's long history of horrific racist violence and bigotry is very "IT"-coded, and there's also the whole parallel between Mark Petrie and Luz Noceda using their knowledge of genre tropes and formula to deal with their respective supernatural menaces until those tropes fail them and they are forced to confront the uglier and darker realities of their situations.

However, I think the "Owl House"-Stephen King parallels that I find the most fascinating are the ones between "The Owl House" and "The Dead Zone". In the broad strokes, both "The Owl House" and "The Dead Zone" tell the story of a goofy and lovable nerd whose life ends up taking an unusual new direction when they discover a long-dormant form of magic (Johnny's psychic powers/Luz's glyphs) that enable to do wonderful and incredible things and eventually bring them into conflict with an evil ruler (Greg Stillson/Emperor Philip "Belos" Wittebane) who has been oppressing people across the land and whose machinations are threatening to bring about a cataclysmic apocalypse. Eventually, both Johnny and Luz are brought into conflict with this abusive tyrant and try desperately to bring them down for the sake of everyone they know and love.

Obviously, I am not saying that "The Owl House" is secretly a Stephen King adaptation anymore than "Kingdom Hearts" is secretly "The Lion King" to "His Dark Materials" as "Hamlet". I just think it's fascinating how "The Owl House" lifts from so many prior stories. Not just other previous cartoons like "Avatar: The Last Airbender" or "Gravity Falls", but also from classic books such as "The Dead Zone", "The Odyssey", "His Dark Materials", "A Wizard of Earthsea", "Great Expectations", and also the works of William Shakespeare, most notably "Twelfth Night", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "The Tempest" with just a few bits of "Macbeth" and "The Winter's Tale" added just for spice. And there's also a lot of comparisons to be drawn between Belos and not just Greg Stillson in "The Dead Zone", but also between Belos and Noah Cross from "Chinatown" and Harry Powell from "Night of the Hunter". And before you say that Dana Terrace was probably not thinking that many layers deep, I would like to remind everyone that Willow's dads are named Gilbert and Harvey and that it was Harvey Milk who commissioned Gilbert Baker to create the first-ever Pride Flag and Willow herself...is pansexual.

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[quinnelopee]

The music was loud enough to make the fairy lights tremble, but Quinnelope only heard the sound of his laugh. It still did that thing—lit her up from the inside out, like she was more candle than ghost. The wedding reception glowed around them in shades of amber and champagne, guests swirling in costume, but all she could see was him in those round glasses and rumpled shirt sleeves, hair just the right kind of messy for Milo Thatch. She tugged at the edge of her turquoise skirt, the fabric catching the light like water. “You know,” she teased, stepping close enough that her shoulder brushed his arm, “I think Kida would’ve charged you for a translation by now.” Her grin softened, all warmth and nostalgia. “But I’ll settle for a dance instead.” Her fingers slipped into his, tangible and sure, the faint shimmer of rainlight ghosting across her skin. “You still remember how to waltz, right, Professor?” @immcrtalsx

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[quinnelopee]

Quinnelope lingered at Noah’s side while the room hummed with clinking glasses and soft laughter, the kind that felt warm instead of loud. Candlelight caught in the champagne flutes, in the gold-threaded details of the decor—and for a second, it all blurred into something else entirely. Not this wedding. Theirs. She could see it so clearly it almost knocked the breath out of her. Noah at the altar, nerves tucked behind that soft, steady smile. Herself walking toward him, not as a ghost or a miracle or a maybe—but as his wife. The thought hit her like a bell rung deep in her chest. She smiled before she realized she was doing it. Her fingers slid into his, grounding herself back in the now. She leaned in, voice low and just for him. “I just pictured our wedding,” she admitted, eyes bright with something between mischief and awe. “And for the record? You cry first.” A beat. Softer now. “I can’t believe I actually get to do this with you.” @immcrtalsx

[quinnelopee]

Halloween 2025: Quinnelope Kirisame as Princess Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire ft. Noah (@immcrtalsx) as Milo Thatch

[coffeecakecafe]

found an old sketch so I freshened it up with Noah’s current design

[coffeecakecafe]

everything I’m drawing lately is pink lol

anyway more outfits! I need to keep working on them. Noah’s story is set about 15 years before Aerin’s, so the clothes need to be a little more set apart style-wise. also tho like they don’t share much beyond the pink key color in regards to like personality or kind of style, so hopefully doing the rest of both casts will help and then of course I’ll have to redo the first ones OTL

EDIT: transcript under cut:

from the top left corner:

NOAH CROSS

the left side of the page has a sword, a coat, a jacket, and a sweater. they have no labels.

the top leftmost figure has on a tank top and holey cuffed capries. a small arrow points a braided bracelet on her left wrist. it reads “one of those emergency cord bracelets.”

the center top figure has on a pink hoodie with the caption “Warning U: South Carolina.” An arrow points to her left arm, where the hoodie sleeves taper dramatically at the elbow. it reads “tailored to work with her vambraces.”

the top leftmost figure wears a t-shirt layered over a henley. the shirt has two stick figures on it and the caption “WIZARD HOCKEY FINALS [unintelligible] 2018.″ an arrow points to her right sleeve and reads “thumb holes.” to the left of her is a free-floating caption that says “every Tshirt Noah owns she got for free at some kind of event.”

text under the top row of figures reads: “owns like maybe 4 pairs of pants, all with holes in them.”

bottom right most figure has on leggings and a plaid top. an arrow points from her head to a side view of her hair, labelled “ponytail.” at her feet she is labelled “day off.”

the center figure on the bottom row has on mismatched pieces of armor. a label near her left shoulder, covered by a pauldron, reads “main body of armor is leather” and refers to the pauldron and chest piece. a caption near her right arm refers to her vambrace and includes a small side illustration of the elbow guard attached to the vambrace and reads “elbow guard.” the caption near her left arm is “vambraces have velcro closures.” a final caption points to her jeans, which are two shades of blue split across both legs, and reads “used to be two pairs of pants.” below this figure she is labelled “armor”

the final figure has no captions, but is labelled underneath as “formal (will this even come up? lol)”

[coffeecakecafe]

hey remember when I said I was doing the worlds slowest prompts bc here’s the next one lol