#toh redesign

[anakinsimp]

What did I find... These are my old character redesigns from "The Owl House." Willow and Amity are half-monsters because I thought, and still think, that in a world populated by different creatures, the fact that all the main characters are humans with elf ears is boring.

And Luz just escaped from 2020.

I don't think these redesigns are good now. But I still wanted to post them. Otherwise, would I have drawn them for nothing?

Eda

Amity

Luz

Willow

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Hunter!

I think I changed him the most because he’s my favourite and it’s easier to find things id want to change.

Not just in appearance (e.g the GG uniform being more like Belos’ emperor attire and his hair being longer like Caleb’s was)

But also in like how his character is written.

For example: his original name being Abel but his chosen name is Hunter. Cause he found out his name was just a reference to Caleb and was like “nah we Hunter now”

And also I’d like if he was pushed to act more like Caleb. Cause I’d like it if Belos made him to be his nephew when he realised he couldn’t get Caleb back. So he’d say “You’re acting like your mother” when Hunter did something that reminded him of Evelyn and say “Just like your father” when he did something that reminded him of Caleb.

And I think Belos would have told Hunter that yes it was wild magic that took out our family but it was mainly your mother’s wild magic, she was the one who did it with her corruption so Hunter would stop doin things that reminded Belos of Evelyn.

This means that the line would be less “Out of all the grimwalkers you looked the most like him” it would probably be “Out of all the grimwalkers you acted the most like him”

I also tried to give his scar a blue tint but it just wouldn’t work.

Oh and red hair because he realised that even his appearance was a result of Belos’ conditioning and what he wanted him to be so Willow helped him cut it, Amity helped him dye it and Luz ans Gus helped pick the style and colour. It was a group effort.

This’ll probably be the last of my redesigns cause yeah. Just yeah.

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TOH redesigns: Lilith, Darius and Raine!!!

[beverlyofbasingstoke]

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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Amity <333

Was gonna do all the blights on one page but like Amity deserves the whole page.

Also wanted her fit to be kinda Lilith inspired cause Lilith is Lilith and Lilith is amazing.

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The blights!

Made Alador a little purple cause I feel like he goofy like that.

And put some makeup on Emira cause I like the idea of her seeing just how much she can get away with.

Oh and I made Odalia’s hair darker to match her kids like how I did with Amity.

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Very excited to post this one because Willow and Gus are awesome but specifically Willow.

Cause she’s strong and feminine and it’s not like “OH MY TITAN that girl is strong and so girl!” It’s more of “yeah that’s willow. She throws people sometimes” and it also isn’t just that she’s inherently strong it’s that she works out and actively improves herself.

It’s not some novelty that she’s physically strong and a girl. It’s just that she is.

The only times people were doubting her strength despite her being strong is because she wasn’t strong in the past, not because she was a girl.

Overall, the owl house is great in showing female characters. And characters overall (lgbtq+ characters, characters with non-nuclear families, characters who are feminine, characters who are masculine and ect).

And it does it by just letting the idea be there. It’s not shoved in your face, it’s just there.

And I’ll talk more about that when I get to Hunter but I’ll probably be doing Amity and the Blights next.

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More toh? Yes I think so