#toh hunter analysis

[reeve-in-a-suit]

Hey! Here’s a disorganized and poorly-made analysis about Jason Grace partially referencing Hunter (TOH) with minor spoilers!!

I just saw a post about sacrificial lamb characters and it got me thinking about Jason Grace and the irony that he fits the description to a T and was raised by wolves. In this really specific way he seems to remind me of Hunter from the Owl House, specifically in his first scene in The Lost Hero.

There’s this specific awkward teenage boy feeling that despite being clear is also quite muted. It’s his wariness from the get-go being paired with his quick line about finding Piper pretty and not minding that he’s holding her hand. It’s uneasy because he really doesn’t know why he’s holding her hand or even when he got into that position at all. It’s slightly dopey in a way that feels so right for a teenage boy out of his depth. It’s like the friendlier flip of the coin of Hunter’s sibling like arguments with Luz before he joins her side, the embarrassing “fail” moments. The forcibly stiff yet intentionally all over the place body language, it screams constricted puberty and you get a sense of who he is outside of the golden guard.

And then you realize that you don’t. Not at all. Before every aspect of his character is governed by who he’s meant to be. The plans Belos has for him. He has plushies in his bedroom but they’re neglected for Paperwork. He makes sarcastic remarks but they’re all informed by what is and isn’t acceptable by the Emperor’s standards. It’s this sense of “Kid gone wrong” to the point where, when you watch it in retrospect, you wonder if he can even be considered a kid yet. If you conclude no, you wonder if he’s to be seen as a tool.

Jason Grace feels like this from the start and as we go on he’s revealed to be more and more of a force to reckoned with. People talk about how different Percy Jackson is in his own POV when compared to in anyone else’s POV but no one seems to pick up on the shift between Jason in his POV and Jason in, say, Frank’s POV. If you wanna know what I think, it’s because they both know Jason is powerful. They were both introduced to him that way. Neither of them deny his strength or power or describe him in a light that makes him sound like he sees himself as unqualified in some way.

However, Jason presentation is just that of a kid. His bluntness of how he describes other people and his quick-fly moments of teasability (like him saying Piper’s claiming dress was low cut + plus him saying “woah” out loud). He’s very simpl to not a wolf. Not like the ones that raised him. I love and appreciate the Feral Jason headcanons and mannerisms but that isn’t what I’m talking about. I know he can function as a wolf I know he survives as one.

But he’s not one at all. He’s the sheep in its clothing. It’s why he’s such a tragic “sacrificial lamb” ; it’s not the fact that he was given as a gift or that he was led to his death. It’s that he was a sheep sacrificed to wolf’s clothing.

Bye!

[ghost-9ight]

Man, so you’re telling me Hunter not only had to hide out in the Hexside drama closet for like a week. But you’re also telling me that he most likely face planted while running through the forrest right after the events of Hollow Mind, and had absolutely no one to comfort him during probably the worst panic attack of his life. Not to mention he still hasn’t told anyone about the whole Grimwalker thing. Based off of some of his dialogue in Labyrinth Runners, I don’t think he even considers himself a witch anymore. And ya know, Belos probably now knows where he’s at, and he still has the coven sigil on his arm with full knowledge of what Belos plans on doing to every witch with a sigil on the Day of Unity.

Anyways. Talk about baggage.