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(CW: flashing, child abuse)
Huntlow Week Day 4: Childhood
I ripped my heart out while making this, and I’m currently bleeding out. 🥲
…Anyway, I’m releasing an animatic tomorrow, for Day 5! I worked really hard on it, and I’m really excited to share it! (Still have to make the thumbnail, though. 😅)
happy 4 years to one of my fav eps
⭐ kofi | comms | inprnt | shop ⭐
[Image description: a screenshot redraw of Willow from The Owl House, in the episode Understanding Willow. Her inner self from her mindscape is surrounded by pink flames, and her eyes are dark purple as she glares at Luz and Amity. Arms of flame hold up a burnt picture of Willow and Amity as kids.
Second is the original screenshot. End ID.]
Hunter's Mind
Idea from this post @findmeinthefallair
Understanding Willow
Six of Swords: Willow and Amity Begin Reconciling
Upright: Departure, transition, moving on, leaving behind, distance, accepting change, releasing baggage
Reversed: Unfinished business, unresolved tension, trapped, resistance to change, stuck in the past, avoidance
The Six of Swords represents a moment of transition, a movement from one stage of life to the next. The Swords suit deals with matters of the mind, which include one's thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and memory, as well as conflict and communication. The Six of Swords poses the question: what thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs do you want to carry into the future? How will you let your experiences, good or bad, inform the way you live your life going forward?
Amity and Willow certainly have unaddressed baggage at the beginning of Understanding Willow, and both are actively avoiding addressing it: Willow by putting the photo-memories of Amity "out of sight, out of mind," and Amity a bit more drastically by burning herself out of the memories altogether. This of course backfires on her, as the fire spreads to Willow's other memory-photos and damages Willow's actual memory in the process. This serves as a wake-up call for Amity as well as a microcosm of the state of their relationship: she has caused Willow harm, and must address it or lose Willow forever.
Going into Willow's mind and repairing their happy childhood memories reminds Amity what it's like to have a real friend, and having to confront the manifestation of Willow's rage and hurt makes her reconsider her priorities. She isn't fully ready to forsake her parents, nor does she fully cut ties with her friend group, but she apologizes to Willow, promises to treat her better, and swears to protect her from her friends' cruelty.
Willow and Amity both discover that while they can't quite go back to the way things used to be between them, they can't simply bury their past friendship and pretend it didn't exist, either. While damaging Willow's memory was dangerous and irresponsible of Amity, it gave them the opportunity to communicate with each other and decide whether and how to move forward. In the end, Willow decides that she wants to carry her memories of Amity with her into the future, so they have a chance to create new ones together.
Deck Order:
< Previous: Five of Swords | Next: Seven of Swords >
Show Chronology:
< Previous: Page of Wands | Next: The Lovers >
I never really recovered from how ass the "Understanding Willow" episode was by the sheer fact there wasn't really true accountability for Amity at all. "Oh but it was her parents that made her break the friendship-" Yes and it was still her choice to bully Willow the years after.
and not even that, bully her questioning her magic habilities in the demon realm, that is implied as HEAVILLY ableist against magical creatures that are not capable of magic; Bully her by making fun out of her struggles with the abomination course. And her being in a "queen bee" position it FOR SURE encouraged other students to bully her as well, which we see in the IWATA episode, it wasn't just Amity calling her "half-a-witch", it was other students too, like the whole student body perceived her like that. Also in "I Was a Teenage Abomination", the whole episode Amity was MAKING AN EFFORT TO BRING WILLOW DOWN because she could'nt fathom Willow not failing an assignment for once/her not being the better student. It was part of "school hierarchy" for Willow to be a bad student they can all gang up to humiliate, so she, MIND YOU WITH THE MEMORY THAT THEY WERE BESTIES BEFORE, made all that effort to bring her down. THEIR INTRODUCTION STARTS WITH AMITY TAUNTING HER. PRIVATELY. It wasn't for show or to keep a reputation, it just became natural to her to treat Willow like that. None of this is like ever adressed properly, none of this is trully recognized in the context of Luz being Willow's and Gus' (who also was bullied by Amity but not to that extent) friend and the half-assed progression to enemies to lovers. I love enemies to lovers as any good person and I understand a lot had to get rushed to be able to make it inside the limitations Disney execs gave them, but who the fuck in their right mind is going to date their best friends' bully, especially if they had no accountability? and LUZ from all people? that understands how impactful that is? At the end of the day I get it, the struggles production had and how a lot of things had to be put aside and cut down and yadda yadda yadda. But for a whole episode that proposed to be a resolution to the conflict between them in order to be friends again, this just sincerely felt half-assed because they just either raised the bar a lot when concepting their relationship and couldn't get it through in production, or just didn't gave a shit. Extra edit: 1. This whole thing even began from Amity trying to hide her connection with willow under the rug and her stance only changed after being chased down and having to face the things she did, now I'm just fully agreeing with people saying this was more of an Amity episode than anything. 2.People's reaction to this post (both /pos and /neg) actually made me realize that Amity had kind of the opposite of redemption/resolution in that and despite being called "Understanding Willow" is more "Here's how Amity traumatized Willow in childhood and since then joined other bullies and further isolated and traumatized her to levels of crippling confidence and interreliance issues that followed her through puberty, but it's all fine cause she *HAD* to do it in order to go to the school she wanted to go, *HAD* to keep the bullying after to maintain her social status and now that she sees the effect she caused (after only considering becoming a better person once she fell in love with someone her parents would make her pull that trick again), will try to stop the bullying post-almost a full decade of damage done" I still love Amity as a character but I'm just not the kind to ignore how that whole sphere of themes was awfully handled and how that does give her (and by extent of interpersonal relationships, luz as well) bad optics once you start caring for Willow beyond an npc level or her relationship with Hunter. A healthy relationship with enjoying a character is accepting the fucked up results of their actions and sometimes dunking on them for that and thats okay, call me anything but a dickrider.
Round of 32 Match 14: Understanding Willow vs Eda's Requiem
What's your favorite episode?
Understanding Willow (S1E15)
Eda's Requiem (S2E7)
Understanding Willow: Luz, Willow, and Amity take a trip down Memory Lane.
Eda's Requiem: A special witch from Eda's past enlists her in a rebellion against the Emperor.
Day in Fandom History: August 1…
After accidentally destroying Willow's memories, Amity, along with Luz, enters Willow's head to repair her memories piece by piece including moments of Amity and Willow when they once hang out as kids. “Understanding Willow” premiered on this day, 5 Years Ago.
