#toh darius

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New leaks from the TOH novel and more DARIUS

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“Stress relief”

on my 3rd rewatch of the owl house and I’m feeling things..

“The goggles stay on during sex” -Alador probably

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Hii

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I’m almost done with part 3 on that Puritanism essay (writer’s block on the last couple paragraphs), but mostly, I got distracted by other ideas.

By “other ideas,” I mean “side-project fanfic.”

It’s younger Darius and Hunter’s predecessor. He goes by “Reb.” Belos also calls him Hunter, because at a certain point he decided he liked the “witch hunter” reference name too much and stopped bothering with naming subsequent Golden Guards anything different. I already headcanon that “mentor” was an obfuscation regarding the relationship between these two. They were absolutely romantically entangled, but Darius wasn’t about to admit that to Hunter at that moment. Kid was still completely in Belos’ thrall. “Mentor” was the word that would lead to the fewest questions.

I saw a theory once that the little abomination in “Them’s the Breaks Kid” was Darius’ palisman, and that he hid them on his head. While I don’t think the palisman wig is the actual case for what we see in the show, I liked the idea and decided to use it. Darius also has purple eyes like we see in the flashback bit in “King’s Tide.” We do see the green eyes as well, but I’m saying he got the green eyes when he figured out the abomination form.

Regarding story background:

My brain started jumping to what their relationship actually looked like when I was exploring some ideas for the grimwalkers in general for my main fic. It got dark. I think it works for how things have been developing, but it’s pretty bleak. I felt like I needed to explore those ideas with characters who don’t die horribly. I mean, obviously, Reb does, but the central idea for the fanfic is Hunter learning to cope with both the grief of Flapjack’s death while Darius is now finally able to safely actually feel the grief that had been shoved down before. Hunter’s also starting to process just how much Belos had hurt him, something forced by Flapjack’s magic causing some …interesting… trauma responses. Look, when your fight or flight response gets triggered unexpectedly, having teleportation magic you haven’t learned how to control is not the best thing in the world.

The present storyline is juxtaposed against Darius and Reb’s story. It is incredibly dark (the fic is absolutely in Dead Dove territory), but their romance is adorable. Reb was never an official mentor, but Darius did learn a lot from him. First off, he figured out his abomination form because of his relationship with Reb. But, most importantly, Reb knew exactly what sort of person Belos was better than anybody, even Belos himself. Didn’t change that he was powerless to escape him, but it did inform his survival strategy. He knows just how sadistic Belos is, but also that Belos refuses to admit it to himself. He tries to use that, as well as Belos’ ego, to cope. His “mentorship” of Darius is teaching him that, which allows Darius to operate inside Belos’ inner circle without getting caught, eventually getting Eberwolf appointed head witch of the Beast Keeping Coven as well.

I have a couple more Reb designs here:

The light skin on Reb’s shoulder is part of the reason why the Golden Guards generally didn’t look as much like Caleb. Caleb had a genetic mutation that Belos had no control over how it expressed. The light ends of his ponytail is because Belos likes to force the Guards who end up with darker hair to bleach it. Reb managed to get away with that only happening a couple times.

I did structure the files to be able to draw other looks on them, so I may post others when I have looks I like. I have a few variations on boots for Darius and some other clothing pieces I didn’t use for this first outfit. This does give me what I need to hopefully get the first couple chapters finished and posted. Darius cares about fashion, so I did need to know what I was trying to describe. I’ve been taking a lot of influence from J-Rock and Visual Kei fashion. It seems like a good vibe for him.

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Who's your favorite Owl House Character

A favorite? None. /sarc

It’s Darius!

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Darius from Owl House. Does he need to wash his hair because it all goo it would be hurt to do? Or like get hair cuts (Be awesome to just magical form your hair into any style and keep it like that) Can you even brush your fingers in his hair, would you get covered in goo.

I think it was confirmed a while ago that the Abomination goop is actually his Palisman that he hides in plain sight. So theoretically if he needs to wash his hair, he’ll just reform her into her normal shape and then do it. My personal headcanon is that it’s kind of like oobleck and won’t get on your skin because it’s solid and liquid at the same time.

EDIT: It was not confirmed, I have once again fallen for misinformation on the internet. I think for this we should fall back on Occam’s razor (the simplest explanation is most likely) and assume he can make his hair go back to normal.

Look at how gorgeous he is in this gif, by the way.

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Another screen cap redraw! This time Darius (we stan)!!! Man I love this guy. He lives rent free in my mind. I'm so sad we didn't get more screen time with him, especially his dynamic with Alador!! (I'm a big proponent of the bitter exes to lover Hc)

[ID: Screencap redraw of Darius Daemonne walking menacingly out of the wreak-age of his air ship. Back light by green flames, murderous intent in his gaze. End ID.]

This is the screenshot this was based off!