#otabin

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Luz loves the Good Witch Azura, who guides her not in a literal sense but metaphorically; It’s a reference to the Wizard of Oz, which has the Good Witch of the North and the Good Witch of the South! Luz is Dorothy, a young American girl transported to another world, who starts her journey with a magical item (Ruby Slippers/Portal) that is a way back to the home she misses. I guess you could say Eda and/or Lilith fit the Good Witch roles, too!

Remember her girlfriend Amity’s favorite book Otabin, whose titular protagonist found friends in the Tin Boy and Chicken Witch? Tin Boy, Tin Man; An anthropomorphic animal like the Cowardly Lion; And someone connected to sewing, such as the Scarecrow! I guess that also makes Amity a Dorothy of her own, given how much all three (who like in the film, aren’t exactly real) comfort her… Luz and Amity parallels!!!

King is Toto as the cute animal sidekick… And perhaps Willow, Gus, and Amity are the three sidekicks, representing their goals; Willow wishes she wasn’t so cowardly and could stand up for herself, Gus wishes he wasn’t so dumb for being tricked by others, and Amity wishes she had a heart to be a good friend!

And Hunter was Prince William at one point… Later in her journeys, Dorothy meets Princess Ozma, who is meant to be the rightful ruler of the land! Just as William is implied to be.

I’d also point out that Lilith dresses like the Wicked Witch of the West, during her tenure in the coven; She’s also the first ‘Wicked Witch’ that Luz has to face, so in that regard she’s the Wicked Witch of the East. She goes after Luz for the sake of the magical artifact that can bring her back home, though in Lilith’s case she doesn’t know this.

That’s because Belos is the true Wicked Witch of the West, a green witch who wants the magical item the protagonist starts the journey with, that is a way back home. He melts in water, a reference to real-life witch hunts drowning many of the accused in water. But he’s also the Wizard of Oz, a human man from the protagonist’s world who got stuck here before her, puts on the great facade of a powerful magic wielder ruling a city, but is in truth just a con artist who plans to go back home, and offers the protagonist the same. He wants witches dead…

[vickysaurus]

"Amity, wait!"

"First you embarrass me, then you wanna be my friend? I don't get you. Pick a side!"

"Please, just listen to me!"

"Just go away before things somehow get worse!"

*somehow things get worse*

[4cupsanxiety5tbspdepression]

[brushbuddybuggy]

You just want friends, eh, Otabin?

[psychopyro813]

*kicks down the door*

MOM HOLY FUCK

Okay. So. *Something* about The Collector seemed *strikingly familiar* but I couldn't place what until I started thinking about their rhymes. The sing-song nature is *not* the first time we've seen such a rhyming scheme show up in this show. Where else do rhymes feature prominently?

In Otabin the Bookbinder, of course. As I thought more about the rhymes we heard in Hollow Mind, and the ones we hear from Otabin's corrupted form in Lost in Language, I realized they both have strikingly similar and dark themes: the twisted nature of literally *making* friends, the celestial motifs (Otabin is brought to life by the Wailing Star; when we are first introduced to The Collector as a concept in Elsewhere and Elsewhen, they are surrounded by stars and have a half moon half sun face going on), the actual lilt in the voice acting (Amity has a lilt too but it *sounds* different. Corrupted!Otabin and The Collector have a *strinkingly* similar cadence).

These might be completed unrelated and I might just be going off on a Pepe Silvia Charlie-level tangent, but then again, this show is CONSTANTLY bringing back seemingly innocuous moments and motifs and making them pay off in a BIG way.

[tri-chan]

TOH - Immortal Devotion, Chapter 30, by @rohad93 and I

This is the end everyone! Hope you had all enjoy the story, It was for sure an adventure, and I leaned a lot through all the illustrations I did for this story. This illustration above was the most exhausting because of the number of characters + 2 wolves!!

You also see Hooty in this picture!!

Thank you for everyone who liked/reblogged the arts and read/comments for the story. 

Now that this story is finished, I can focus on another TOH story. This time we are moving from Norse Mythology to Greek Mythology!

So stay tuned!!

[duckapus]

Okay but I’m pretty sure they’re all wrong about Illusions being the “weak” magic type. I mean, Illusions have been shown to be tangible to a degree, and as evidenced by Gus’s clones can act independently of the caster, so that’s a one man army right there even if it’s easy to make them go poof. An illusionist can make any sound, any vision, any texture, possibly even smells, so eventually you can’t really rely in any sense except maybe taste, and if you’re relying on that in a fight you’re pretty fucked.

They can send messages across the Isles and recall them with what seems to be minimal effort(though maybe that’s just Gus). Create energy constructs like Ed and Em’s glowy rope spell or a light ball or the dragon whale ghost thing. Turn perfectly invisible. Heck, I’m pretty sure the Wailing Star’s effect on the library was supercharged illusion magic and Vandalized Otabin was a borderline reality warper if you consider what he almost managed to do to Luz and Amity. And we saw what Gus managed to do to that graveyard without even a single boost.

The only things that limit a master illusionist are their imagination and magic reserves. If anything it’s possible that illusions are the most powerful magic.

[pdaliceliveblogs]

the internet has destroyed me why was my first thought here “if the book closes, they kiss”