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[yukiizzyhere]

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[talkingtamagotchi]

Alright, buckle up, because Cody from Total Drama is one of those characters people love to flatten into a single joke, and that drives me absolutely insane. (English is not my first lenguage so it may have bad writing.)

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Everyone wants to reduce Cody to "the awkward simp", or "Sierra's puppy" and that is such a painfully shallow read of his character, it honestly feels like we didn’t watch the same show. Cody is messy, contradictory, insecure, surprisingly capable, and emotionally layered in a way that Total Drama rarely gives its male characters, especially not the physically unimpressive ones, since it usually just focuses on characters like Duncan or Alejandro.

First of all, Cody is one of the only characters whose confidence and insecurity exist at the same time. He thinks he’s cool. He genuinely believes he’s charming, smooth, and capable of pulling off romantic gestures. But the world around him constantly reminds him that he’s not perceived that way. That disconnect is crucial. Cody isn’t some self-aware “haha I’m pathetic” joke character—he’s a guy who wants to be seen as cool and mature but doesn’t yet understand why his behavior backfires. That makes him painfully human.

And yes, his behavior toward Gwen is uncomfortable at times. That’s the point. Cody represents that stage of adolescence where someone mistakes persistence for romance and attention for entitlement. But here’s what people conveniently ignore: Cody learns. He backs off. He apologizes. He acknowledges when he’s crossed a line. Compare that to other Total Drama characters who repeatedly manipulate, insult, or emotionally wreck others and never grow at all—yet Cody is the one who gets permanently branded as "the creep". One thing that breaks this kind of thoughts is that Gwen does like Cody, she acknowledges him as an "annoying little brother", and by the end of the first season, she says that Cody was one of the only five sane people that she met on the show along with Bridgette, DJ, LeShawna and Owen.

He also defends Gwen's honour at Playa-Des-Losers when Lindsay says that she didn't want him back, saying that, even if he wasn't her dream guy, she was, indeed, his dream girl, and that if she was happy, he would be happy too.

We don't see much of him on Action since he wasn't nominated for the season, yet he stays on Gwen's side after all, as he said on The Aftermath. But then there’s World Tour, which completely reframes his character if you’re actually paying attention and trying to understand every character and not only glazing the ones that look badass. Cody is physically weak, constantly injured, and emotionally exhausted, yet he keeps going. He survives not through manipulation nor toxic alliances, but through endurance, adaptability, strategy and quiet resilience. He doesn’t win challenges by turning down his teammates; he wins by lasting and by trying to keep the group together. That’s a wildly underrated narrative choice. Cody becomes a character defined not by control, but by survival and being not only one of the greatest teamplayers, but also by being a good friend.

But a really important part of Cody's character in this season is (sadly) Sierra, so let’s talk about her for a second, because the double standard here is unreal. Cody’s earlier behavior with Gwen (who claims him to be one of his bestfriends) gets dragged endlessly, but Sierra’s obsessive, invasive, harrasing fixation is played for laughs—from actions like knowing his birthday and childhood memories, wearing his mom's favorite colour on her hair and the same brand of jeans as her when anything was ever mentioned on the show before, to kissing him without consent, massaging his feet or watching him on his sleep being completly ignored. He’s uncomfortable, he’s scared, and he’s stripped of autonomy when he has showed that he's perfectly capable of winning on his own. Yet instead of having his teammates to support him and turn her back, they just accept this behavior. She's never confronted about it by anyone who isn't Cody for the whole season.

Cody remains terrified of Sierra for most of the season, but neither her or the others seem to notice. In "The AM-A-ZON Race", despite Sierra knowing all of Cody's allergies and even sucking the venom off his finger when he's bitten, Chris reveals that Cody voted for Sierra that night, just as every other night.

This is a fact that at least for me, wasn't surprising. He's totally conscious of what he's going through, and he knows that, clearly, that's the only way to get out of it. Sierra was heartbroken by these events even when she didn't have any right to it, and even when he hates her, Cody still tries to cheer her up in the next episode, but she doesn't listen and continues to cry. Surprise to no one, it's eventually revealed that Sierra just wanted Cody's attention.

It takes nothing until she reverts to her old habits and Cody to his usual responses when the two are paired or left together in upcoming episodes, Cody still displays his attraction to Gwen in a way somewhat more platonic, but even that annoys Sierra. He also manages to win the tiebreaker challenge in "Pieces of Greece", despite Courtney and Sierra's protests to leave the challenge to eliminate Gwen that night, showing that not only because of his friendship with Gwen, he's the only one that tries to work as a team. Although he does nothing to stop Courtney's hatred of Gwen, he is the only one who seems to support her in "The Ex-Files", remaining silent during the episode's song and sacrificing his candy to help them cross the minefield, promising to eliminate Courtney (or rather, Sierra, which is what I wanted tbh) if they lose. He's so empathetic that it physically hurts me to see him not achieving almost anything he wants.

When the teams merge in "Falling into Niagara Falls", Cody is still mostly paired with Sierra, and things only get worse when Sierra gives them both an "official" marriage in the same episode, but anyone seems to notice how weird this is and how Cody is slightly loosing his mind. Promising to help deal with Sierra, Heather tries to form an alliance with him in " Chinese Forgery" and tries to tell him that the two aren't actually married, that all of it was just Sierra's trickery.

Moments after, Cody tries to tell Sierra that he only likes her as a friend, he mispronounces it, and Sierra misinterprets his statement as him loving her too. Cody is invited to first class by Sierra and forcefully drinks her "love tea" while the others do the first challenge, but too much tea causes him to hallucinate, and he's unable to complete the "African Lie Safari" challenge.

Despite this, he advances to the final four and is invited to first class by Alejandro. Cody is grateful to Alejandro for keeping him away from Sierra on "Rapa Nui!", but Alejandro is only doing this so he can gain Cody's loyalty and get rid of Heather.

Alejandro uses Cody's sweet tooth on his favor and gives him the reward he had from the previous episode so he can fully win his trust. Unlike other episodes, Cody works alongside Alejandro, who he totally hates. Cody uses his candy basket to carry both his and Alejandro's eggs.

Then he believes Sierra is eliminated that day, so Cody thinks she's finally gone. However, Chris announces that no one will be eliminated, and Cody once again has to share first class with Sierra.

Despite their night together in first class, Sierra is upset with him in "Ahhhh, Drumheller", much to Cody's confusion. He is, however, touched to learn that Sierra remembers it's his birthday when no one else. Not even himself nor his parents. This is SO IMPORTANT to his character. No one seems to understand that Cody is like this, so confident yet so insecure because his parents didn't care about him, he was probably mocked at school and had to prove his worth for all his life.

Cody doesn't physically appear in "Hawaiian Style", though he appears in images and as a hallucination on Harold 's surfboard while competing to help Cody in the final. A large portion of the gallery is shown to be rooting for him to win over Heather and Alejandro because he's the least evil of the three. He doesn't really believe it but he was the most loved semi-finalist.

He doesn't think he'd win even when he was so so so close, honestly I was so delusional I also thought he would. But he's injured by a shark and gets disqualified.

What really makes Cody complex is that he wants to be better, even when he doesn’t know how. He wants that validation, affection, and respect every other contestant has, but he hasn’t figured out how to earn those things without performing a version of masculinity he clearly doesn’t fit into. He’s not Justin, he’s not Duncan, and he’s not Alejandro—and the show quietly punishes him for that, even as it lets him reach the final stretch. He's said that "he was born to be humiliated", and not even sad, but accepting. He knows this and tries that it doesn't affect him. But the thing is that he's not that guy, as much as he wants to. He wants to be just as much as a "tough guy" as Duncan is, he's kind, empathetic, and that's what gives us those different vibes. For Alejandro, we see him and perceive him as a man, we think of him as that. But with Cody it isn't exactly the same. Yes, we know he's a man, we percieve him as that, but same as Noah, they're not this ladies-man, Don Juan, big guys. In Noah's case, it's because he's sassy and sarcastic, yet if that was Duncan's personality, he'd be praised for it due to his design. With Cody it's the same, he's sweet, kind, a good friend and such a calid boy. If it was Alejandro's personality, he'd be the green flag guy everyone wants, but Cody's build, desing and voice aren't as stereotypically manly for it.

Cody is a character caught between who he thinks he should be and who he actually is. He’s not a power fantasy. He’s not a villain. He’s not even a hero. He’s a teenage boy stumbling through social expectations, romantic failure, and self-image issues in front of a national audience, and somehow people are shocked that he’s awkward and flawed.

So yeah, Cody is awkward, inconsistent, and too good at times. That’s not bad writing, that’s realism. And the fact that he still shows kindness, loyalty, and growth despite constantly being mocked, injured, or harassed makes him one of the most quietly complex characters Total Drama has ever produced, but people try to turn his whole character into a helpless, submissive twink at ALL his ships, and even alone. He's reduced into the thing he most hated about himself, the whole plot of his character was how he tried to get out of it and actually DID IT. Reducing him to a punchline says way more about the audience than it does about Cody. So yeah I just wanted to rant about that, I'd write more but I have to study for my french exam so yeah.

That being said, Tamagotchi out ✌️

[yukiizzyhere]

I feel really bad liking superjail bc of Alice's design,,, the worst part is that I love her 😭 i just don't like how stereotypical she is (ik it's probably for comedy and she's not intended to be a good mtf rep)

[yukiizzyhere]

Hi, figured I'd post this here

Meet Yukka, my ocxcanon w/ Lobo :)

I don't have much lore tbh. Yukka used to be a sw because she didn't have any way to pay for her parents' debts. Lobo was sent after a target n Earth and wrecked the city Yukka lived in, so she had to improvise. Some friends offered an experimental program to make her have powers (idk, I've not thought this out) and she gained super strength. Some time after, Lobo was sent after her, but soon found out he wasn't actually gonna get paid and was being scammed, so now he and Yukka stuck together.

Their relationship is very toxic and idk if it even classifies as one (they sleep w other people, cheat and beat each other up) soo

(also idk how to draw lobo yet, sorry if he looks weird 😭🙏)

Btw if you'd like to see more of my art go follow me on Insta :) (frost_pierrot)

[procrastinatingtitan]

Making that post about Luz and Hunter's dynamic in Thanks to Them sort of made me realize that this isn't the first time the series showcased the idea of a character struggling to help someone they love about their problems.

Camila's dynamic with Luz pre-show alongside pre-show Willow and Gus also sort of fall into this category I think.

Camila clearly cares so much about her daughter, and wants the best for her. But it is also true that she did struggle to really help Luz ever since Manny passed, largely because she was being influenced by a lot of her own unresolved issues that she had faced as a kid as well as external societal pressures pushing her towards an undesirable choice. She didn't want Luz to go through the same thing she went through and thought the best way to do so was to send her daughter to Summer Camp and all that would have entailed. She really meant well, but those unresolved issues had an effect.

Willow and Gus are best of friends, they've been so for years as suggested by the show. They care a lot about each other, and also got each other through a number of pretty bad situations at school and taught each other ways to cope with the situation. But despite that close bond, neither of them were really able to change things long term for the other. Both still kept getting bullied and both still struggled with their self-esteem and magic for years. It wasn't until Luz came along that the two were finally able to make progress with themselves.

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Combined with Luz and Hunter's dynamic in Thanks to Them that I explained in further detail in an older post, that sort of sets up this underlying theme of feelings of inadequacy to help someone you love. That despite caring so much about someone, no matter how much you try to support them, you are unable to really make their lives truly better, only more manageable for the time being.

There's also the fact that all the character duos in question generally share the same sort of unresolved trauma, which causes issues with trying to help each other. Camila's issues were the same as the ones Luz is facing now, Willow and Gus are both victims of bullying and broken bonds, Luz and Hunter are linked together by their trauma in Hollow Mind. Normally this could give a sense of solidarity knowing there are people in the world who understand what you are going through, but if the other person also hasn't been able to resolve their own issues on the matter, then they may not be in the best position to help the other deal with this specific issue. In the worst case scenario, they may even perpetuate the problem by trying to pass on their own unhealthy ways of dealing with the issue because it was the only one they ever felt was a solution.

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Now we did get this sort of thing touched on in the show with Camila. We got that whole ending scene in Yesterday's Lie where she felt she was inadequate after finding out Luz left Gravesfield would be considered an example of this. But we didn't really get this for the other two examples I've mentioned, probably because both time and not being the general focus. But bringing it up does make me wonder about how the characters in those other two examples would have acted.

How did Willow and Gus feel about the fact that Luz was able to help them overcome so many of the obstacles each of them faced in a matter of weeks while they struggled to give each other the confidence to do so despite years of being by each other's side?

How did Luz feel about being unable to make Hunter feel comfortable enough to share his secret and heal like she had with so many of her friends?

How did Hunter feel about being unable to ease Luz of the guilt and grief she was carrying like how so many others have been able to do?

I think again this also ties into the TOH's theme of how important extensive support systems are. With more people to rely on with more diverse backgrounds, people are much more able to make progress regarding their issues. They may meet people who have dealt with the same issues as well but managed to accept and move on in a healthy manner, or others who are unburdened by those experiences but nonetheless provide the sort of support, companionship, and insight to help make progress on yourself as well.

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But just because other people have managed to make more progress helping your loved one than you ever seemed to have doesn't mean your presence and support for them has become any less invaluable (I am NOT trying to call anyone in this post a "bad person" nor trying to diminish each of these very important relationships where both characters genuinely care and want to one another). And in fact, the very thing that allows your loved one to truly make the great step forward towards truly, properly healing can come from you reconciling with your own trauma.

And I think that's a nice segway into one of the show's best moments: Camila and Luz's heart-to-heart in For the Future.

Remember when I said that Camila's unresolved problems and issues made it hard for her to connect and help Luz in a way that a lot of other characters were able to do throughout the show? Well it's also true that after recognizing and reconciling with her childhood issues, Camila becomes perhaps the most important person in the narrative to getting Luz on the path to finally healing. Despite being surrounded by so many new people who loved and accepted her, Luz still so very much cared about her mom's perception of her, and Camila recognized that even with everyone helping Luz all they can, in this particular instance, she was the only person who was gonna be able to help her daughter through this.

I have way too many thoughts about this scene as a whole, but this post is already getting pretty long so I'll just leave it at that.

[gayowlsntitans]

HAPPY FIVE YEARS TO THE BEST LINE IN THE WHOLE SHOW AND HOW I SPOILED THE TWIST TO MYSELF BEFORE I JOINED THE FANDOM

THEN WHY WERE YOU SO EASY TO CURSE?!?!

[yukiizzyhere]

This is going to be a rant and I'm currently crying over TOH + English is not my first language so it's going to be messy sorry not sorry

ALSO SPOILERS!!! THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

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I don't think any of you understands how much this show means to me. I watched it for the first time in 2023, I think a few months later after it finished? Idk, what I know is that at first, I liked it A LOT, it became one of my all-time favorite shows ever. Even so, since I was going through possibly the worst era of my life, I didn't have the time to quite grasp everything that was happening in the show and didn't form a deep connection with it (for example when I finished it I felt empty for like 1 day and then I was back to normal and didn't think much about the show), but now, in 2025, I watched it again and OH BOY

It's always been hard for me to watch series consistently, like I could like something so much yet I have to stop watching it in the middle of a chapter to pace around my room or something and that interferes with how often I watch said show (idk if you can understand me), but the moment I decided to rewatch TOH I was SAT. I watched the first season in like... Three or four days? Which probably for you will be a long time but for me, watching ~19 episodes in such little time is a great feat. And I loved every single one. Even the body swap one, even the one where King becomes a writer. I loved every single one of the more slice-of-life episodes because I love the world and the characters

At some point I didn't even wanna continue with the series because I KNEW the tone change from season 1 to season 2 was insane, but it hit me ten times harder than the first time I saw it. I wanted to see more of Willow and Gus being all silly with Luz, more of Amity being the mean girl she was (tho I love her redemption), I wanted to see more shenanigans and most of all, I wanted to see more calmness before the storm.

Believe me when I say this is the first series where I don't mind filler if there even was. I don't mind 92748292 episodes of Willow, Gus and Luz's adventures where they blow up a classroom or something, I just want to see more. More about the Boiling Isles, about the people there, about the teachers (yes this goes for my man Hieronymus bump), about ANYTHING. How anyone could create a world so interesting is beyond my comprehension, and I know and dread the fact that we were robbed of so many episodes. We could've had so much more.

Talking about Willow and Gus, they're so special to me. For Willow, I love everything about her and how hard she tries to make sure everyone is okay while destroying herself in the process. We see this more in depth in S3 and I honestly couldn't love her more. She is cute, caring and very, VERY STRONG. And I love how, when she and Amity become friends again, they go slowly with ups and downs. For Gus, he's more complicated. I hate how he wasn't given too much importance outside the episodes dedicated to him (and even then, when the episode was over he just became a comic relief again). That will always be one of the things I don't like about TOH, Gus could've been so much more. Yet, with what he is, I love him so much. He grows confident on his illusions and proves to be extremely powerful (he even gave Belos some trouble) and I couldn't be happier for him. He's also funny, like really funny. I'm not one to laugh when watching series but some of his moments really make me either smile or giggle. I would 100% be friends with those too, and I enjoy the fact that they don't become lovers. I love friends to lovers but with these two, I can only say thanks to Dana for making their relationship stay platonic.

Let me get back to the yap about the season 😅✌️

In the S1 finale, when Eda and Lilith fight and Eda is almost petrified, I was GLUED to the screen. Not only it had insane animation (which is one of the things I love about TOH), it also was one of the chapters where Luz grasped how bad things were in reality (I'll talk more about Luz later BC oh boy do I have things to say). When Eda lost her magic and shared the curse with Lilith, I was also excited to see how they would develop (mind you I had already watched TOH, but I had forgotten almost everything), and I was even more excited to see more lore, even if it meant I would cry hard.

Season 2 is my absolute favorite. It has so much to unpack. First of all, Hunter is a great character and even if I didn't like him too much in his first appearances, he grew on me. Also Belos is one of the best villains I've ever seen and I LOVE how he is so irredeemable and how he manipulates Hunter into thinking he actually cares for him (also the scene where Luz and Hunter go into his memories and Belos says "out of all the grimwalkers, you looked the most like him" LIKE HELLO? AFTER FLICKING HIS HAIR?? WITH THAT SOFT VOICE?? I genuinely love this show and I love Belos as a character).

I'm gonna talk about Hunter in more detail because he's too good to skip. Like I said at first I didn't like him that much. I found him funny and I really liked his cocky and commanding attitude but it wasn't until Hollow Mind that I truly understood him and started to like him. The realization that he wasn't a witch, but a grimmwalker is haunting. Imagine discovering the only person you care about, the only one who has "cared" about you, is actually evil and has lied about everything. Your family wasn't killed by wild magic, HE killed them. You're not even your own person, you're a copy of a dead man. I love how Hunter's storyline is him discovering that he can choose who he wants to be and his friends will love him regardless.

Now, if I talk about Hunter I GOTTA talk about Belos. He's the best villain in cartoons because I say so/j. But he's really, really good as a character. He's beyond salvation from the moment he kills Caleb. He's so twisted he actually believes his own lies. He wants to be the "hero" of a made up story simply because he despises witches. He wants to save humanity from nothing, so he makes up a threat. And in the process, he looses his humanity and becomes wherever the fuck he is now. He manipulates and lies to EVERYONE, even to himself. I can't imagine how many lives he has ended simply because of his hatred towards witches (which honestly I don't remember if was justified or if he just hates witches bc yes). My favorite part of him is probably his voice. They couldn't have chosen another voice, it just fits him. It's soft and perfect for manipulation, paired with the empty compliments (?) he gives to characters like Hunter and Lilith. I also love how arrogant and egocentric he was. Lilith screwed up getting Eda to join a coven a million times yet he was so sure the Day of Unity was going to succeed and that he was untouchable that he let it happen. He gave opportunity after opportunity until he couldn't ignore the fact that maybe he wasn't as untouchable as he thought. And even then, he let Eda and Luz escape instead of ending them for good. 10/10 character, 10/10 design (he's handsome + I love his mask) and 10/10 story. If only Disney hadn't cancelled TOH we could've also gotten a bit more of Caleb...

Lumity was also great. It was actually what got me to watch the show in 2023 and it was so worth it. I've seen people say it doesn't actually make sense and honestly I don't see it. Amity started as a mean girl, not because she wanted, but because she was taught to be like that. She never wanted to hurt Willow and stop being her friend, but she had to do what she had to do to make her parents proud. Little by little she warmed up to Luz, and even then she still had her doubts (I would too if every time I saw a certain person something bad happened to me), but in the end, they became friends. She also started over with Willow, which felt organic, just like Amity's whole character, because they didn't immediately become best friends again. After some time Amity discovered that she had feelings for Luz and finally in S2 became her girlfriend. For me it felt SO organic and I actually liked that they became girlfriends in the middle of the show and not in the end, because we got to see how their relationship developed and how it had highs and lows. Lumity is one of my top 3 ships OAT.

Another thing that I loved about this season was the Day of Unity. The concept itself was great and I loved what little crumbs we got of the covenheads outside Raine, Darius, Everwolf and Terra. Idk I just love the concept of something big that the Emperor plans and how the convenheads were so brainwashed by Belos that they didn't even doubt him and even trusted him until the end. I KNOW that we would've gotten more of the covens if Disney hadn't cancelled TOH.

Talking about covenheads, the character(s) that got me to start writing this were Raine and Eda. In 2023 I honestly didn't have much to say about Raine. They were there ig, I liked Raeda but not much more. But i swear to all of you they're in my mind 24/7 now. I know Raine is kinda just development for Eda and they're not quite a full character blah blah blah, I DON'T CARE. They're my favorite covenhead along with Darius. I love their design, their voice, their mannerisms, HOW THEY CARE ABOUT EDA. When I started writing this I was crying like crazy over Raine's Rhapsody & Eda's Requiem, it such a beautiful song and the scene is even better. How Raine stops everything and says "Eda, do you have kids!?" Breaks me. They care so much. And the song is absolutely beautiful and memorable, I think if I heard it live I would start crying my heart out. AND WHEN THEY WERE WHISTLING THE SONG IN S3 FINALE??? I CRIED NO JOKE 💔 Also they were one of the few who didn't trust Belos at all, so props for that ( + mf was the best ragebaiter on the series and they just did it for the love of the game).

I love Eda, too. She was my fav the first time I watched TOH and she is still one of my favorites. I love her whole character arc, her voice, her design (she's PRETTY(, her development and how human she feels (which is weird cuz she isn't one but yk). She goes through so much and I feel so bad for her. The curse not only affected her by also her loved ones and I can only imagine how it was dealing with it for so much time. Just like Amity, I felt her organic. She wasn't perfect, she made mistakes and suffered. She went through many phases and in each one of them she learnt something new, yet she was still Edalyn Clawthrone. She still cracked jokes and still messed around with people. One of my fav moments, though, is when she realizes the day of Unity is something far bigger than her and starts crying with Lilith. She realized this was something serious, and for the first time, she wasn't alone, for good and for bad. She wasn't alone to suffer in silence, she had KIDS, FAMILY and people who cared about her. Her whole world was collapsing and I'm so glad Dana included the scenes of her crying and not acting super tough, because that just makes me lover her even more. Eda changed her ways for Luz and was even determined to commit suicide if it meant keeping Luz safe (in Eda's Requiem, when the dark (?) magic is consuming her and Raine, she was determined to go through even if it meant dying, just so that Belos wouldn't win). She is a great mentor and an even better mother figure. I could rant for about about her, I love her so, so, so MUCH...

Also, MAJOR PROPS to Dana for making each single one of her outfits iconic. I specially love her S2 look + her harpy form

Another thing that I loved in S2 was finally having some King development. He's cute, yes, but it wasn't until the revelation that he was a Titan that I started to really love him. And I feel so bad for him, he was just a kid. Imagine spending your whole life believing a story made up by someone to then find out that you're the last fo your species. Not only that, but the LITERAL ground you're standing in is your father. He stronger than me I would've gone MAD. And I love how, despite everything and wanting to know where he came from, he accepted that his real family were Eda, Luz and Hooty. He chose them, and with reason. I don't have much to say tbh but just know I love King sm

Following on with S2, the finale had me shaking. When Terra and the others realize that Belos wasn't actually good is haunting. Everything is going wrong, and then King frees the collector. I don't know how to explain it, but the scene of The Collector just doing what he wants, stopping the draining spell and building the Archives makes me shiver. If they weren't a childish kid, things could've gone WAY worse. Imagine if The Collector was an adult? Someone like Belos? There wouldn't be any hope left. And he moment where King just screams and sends Luz and the others through the door had my heart beating like crazy. I remember wanting to watch S3 right away but stopping myself because I had to have time to process everything.

Now with S3. This is probably going to be extra messy and probably worse than what I've written so far because I have so much to say but idk how to say it so

When I tell you I didn't want to start watching it because I knew only I started I wouldn't stop, I mean it. All three specials had me saving up tears for the finale.

Thanks to Them was really nice. I honestly enjoyed seeing more of Camila, Vee and everyone else in the human world. It felt like a nice stillness before everything went down when Belos appeared again. And seeing the impact everything had on Luz genuinely had me biting my fingers while trying to suppress the tears (I'll talk abt Luz in the end BC I wanna get this out of the way first). I also felt really bad for Hunter here, having lost Flapjack and still having to deal with the fact that he was a grimwalker and his friends knew.

For the Future was also really, really nice. I wasn't a fan of the Boscha and Kikimora plot bc I couldn't care less about them but I did like King's interactions with The Collector. The whole "play pretend" thing was so twisted (which is why I love the collector) and I also really liked the part where Willow folds under the pressure and Hunter has to calm her down. She wanted to make sure everyone was okay SO BAD she let herself go. And Hunter was the one to comfort her,, I love them so much. And I don't remember if this happened here or in Watching and Dreaming but when she and Hunter held their pinkies??? Hello??? "You mean a lot to me too" and the closeup to their hands??? That gave me everything I need to know I love Huntlow I love love love love them they deserve everything. And Belos taking control of Raine's puppet form to trick the collector is honestly so cool. I don't have much else to say other than Stringbean was so ugly I ended up loving it (for me it's a cute king of ugly but more cute than ugly idk if you get me)

Now for the strong part, Watching and Dreaming. It's a masterpiece, and for 45 minutes, I think everything closed nicely. Sure, it was a bit rushed but it came out good. The whole episode had me on edge. Firstly, I'm a sucker for reunions so seeing King, Eda and Luz finally together after so many months made me SO happy. I also loved the collector as a character even if we saw very little about them,, but what I really love (and honestly also hate because I had me crying) about this is the final battle. When Luz died and spoke with the Titan, I remember feeling it as a true calmness before the storm (and don't get me started on how everyone reacted when they saw the small light particles flying, and how Camilla's puppet cried?? I'm about to cry again). I really how The Collector tried to make everything better, too. He couldn't do it but he genuinely wanted to stop everything and stop the mold (?) Belos was making take over the Isles. The final battle was really good, I loved the animation and how everything unfolded and I WAS LIVING for the "now eat this sucka!" Luz said before ripping belos out of the Titan's heart. It was so satisfactory. I don't remember what was exactly happening but I do remember that exactly 12 minutes before the episode ended I started to cry. HARD. Like full on snot running down my nose and tears not stopping. I love the ending, even if thinking about it makes me want to cry and makes me feel empty. I love how Belos was rotten to the core and till the end. He tried to manipulate Luz even in the face of death. He's truly horrible, I love it. It's the best ending I could've wished for. It's so good. And seeing everyone reunite with their families and continue on with life moved me. I love this show.

I still have many other characters to talk about but they're honestly not that important or just have little screentime, so I'll finally talk about Luz.

First and foremost, she's relatable. I love every single thing about her. It makes my heart heavy thinking about her first appearances. How she was so excited to become a witch, how she CHOSE to stay in the Boiling Isles because she had no idea what she was getting herself into... Sigh. She's a really special character to me because I can see how things affect her. Normally, after the main character goes through a lot of heavy stuff, we don't see the aftermath of how it affects their brain, but we do in The Owl House. The only other example I can think about where this happens is SU Future. As Luz realizes what is really going on in the Boiling Isles, she starts to changes. She had to mature fast or everyone would be doomed. And you can't tell me she didn't spend nights thinking about everything. After Eda's failed petrification, I know for a fact she didn't dare to sleep, afraid of everything she had seen. If I'm not wrong she was only 13-14,,, so young and already with the weight of a world that she didn't belong to in her shoulders. What's worse is that from the first moment, she assumed she had to fix everything. One of her major flaws is thinking she has to face things alone, has and can fix everything, when it's not like that.

And despite everything, she managed to change everyone around her for the better, even if she gave up her own happiness. Willow became more confident and learnt to care for herself; Gus also became confident in his magic; Amity faced her parents and stopped looking for the right to live and started living; Eda started to care about her life because she had someone to protect and teach; Hunter accepted his roots and became his own person; and King finally found his family and what he was. She helped EVERYONE even when she was suffering so much internally. And because of that, she lost her light. There's a particular moment where everything I said before about her came to me, where I really understood that Luz was suffering because of everything she went through: when she's in bed, looking up at a caricature of a sun that resembles the collector and reaches out to it. I don't know why but that scene made me want to hug her so badly, because I could see in her face that she didn't know how to react (after all, how do you even process everything??)

When she died I was prepared to start crying. I'm so used to animes or series where the mc dies that I remember, back in 2023, thinking that this was it. Belos won. I know everyone on the Isles wanted to cry in that moment, because she had had such an impact and now,,, (but it's all good because she came back to life and no I don't wanna hear theories lalalala i can't hear you).

There's so much more I want to say but I can't find the words. If I do, I'll reblog this and add stuff.

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Sorry for the rant💔✌️ it's probably dogshit but I really wanted to talk about this series and I regret not interacting with the fandom when it was more active

This show has left me empty, and apparently I'm not the only one who feels like this. I'll rewatch it some time, but for now I gotta eat up every single thing in the community

[yukiizzyhere]

Okay I just remembered one thing I wanted to say. In Hollow Mind, when Hunter and Luz enter Belos' mind, the first thing they see are memories from Belos' lies. The things he made up. This is probably just to empathize that he's evil but I see it as if he was so far gone he believed his own lies and considered them true memories. He lied so much that he ended up believing he was a true savior. And honestly I love thinking of it this way, it just adds to his character.

[yukiizzyhere]

This is going to be a rant and I'm currently crying over TOH + English is not my first language so it's going to be messy sorry not sorry

ALSO SPOILERS!!! THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

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I don't think any of you understands how much this show means to me. I watched it for the first time in 2023, I think a few months later after it finished? Idk, what I know is that at first, I liked it A LOT, it became one of my all-time favorite shows ever. Even so, since I was going through possibly the worst era of my life, I didn't have the time to quite grasp everything that was happening in the show and didn't form a deep connection with it (for example when I finished it I felt empty for like 1 day and then I was back to normal and didn't think much about the show), but now, in 2025, I watched it again and OH BOY

It's always been hard for me to watch series consistently, like I could like something so much yet I have to stop watching it in the middle of a chapter to pace around my room or something and that interferes with how often I watch said show (idk if you can understand me), but the moment I decided to rewatch TOH I was SAT. I watched the first season in like... Three or four days? Which probably for you will be a long time but for me, watching ~19 episodes in such little time is a great feat. And I loved every single one. Even the body swap one, even the one where King becomes a writer. I loved every single one of the more slice-of-life episodes because I love the world and the characters

At some point I didn't even wanna continue with the series because I KNEW the tone change from season 1 to season 2 was insane, but it hit me ten times harder than the first time I saw it. I wanted to see more of Willow and Gus being all silly with Luz, more of Amity being the mean girl she was (tho I love her redemption), I wanted to see more shenanigans and most of all, I wanted to see more calmness before the storm.

Believe me when I say this is the first series where I don't mind filler if there even was. I don't mind 92748292 episodes of Willow, Gus and Luz's adventures where they blow up a classroom or something, I just want to see more. More about the Boiling Isles, about the people there, about the teachers (yes this goes for my man Hieronymus bump), about ANYTHING. How anyone could create a world so interesting is beyond my comprehension, and I know and dread the fact that we were robbed of so many episodes. We could've had so much more.

Talking about Willow and Gus, they're so special to me. For Willow, I love everything about her and how hard she tries to make sure everyone is okay while destroying herself in the process. We see this more in depth in S3 and I honestly couldn't love her more. She is cute, caring and very, VERY STRONG. And I love how, when she and Amity become friends again, they go slowly with ups and downs. For Gus, he's more complicated. I hate how he wasn't given too much importance outside the episodes dedicated to him (and even then, when the episode was over he just became a comic relief again). That will always be one of the things I don't like about TOH, Gus could've been so much more. Yet, with what he is, I love him so much. He grows confident on his illusions and proves to be extremely powerful (he even gave Belos some trouble) and I couldn't be happier for him. He's also funny, like really funny. I'm not one to laugh when watching series but some of his moments really make me either smile or giggle. I would 100% be friends with those too, and I enjoy the fact that they don't become lovers. I love friends to lovers but with these two, I can only say thanks to Dana for making their relationship stay platonic.

Let me get back to the yap about the season 😅✌️

In the S1 finale, when Eda and Lilith fight and Eda is almost petrified, I was GLUED to the screen. Not only it had insane animation (which is one of the things I love about TOH), it also was one of the chapters where Luz grasped how bad things were in reality (I'll talk more about Luz later BC oh boy do I have things to say). When Eda lost her magic and shared the curse with Lilith, I was also excited to see how they would develop (mind you I had already watched TOH, but I had forgotten almost everything), and I was even more excited to see more lore, even if it meant I would cry hard.

Season 2 is my absolute favorite. It has so much to unpack. First of all, Hunter is a great character and even if I didn't like him too much in his first appearances, he grew on me. Also Belos is one of the best villains I've ever seen and I LOVE how he is so irredeemable and how he manipulates Hunter into thinking he actually cares for him (also the scene where Luz and Hunter go into his memories and Belos says "out of all the grimwalkers, you looked the most like him" LIKE HELLO? AFTER FLICKING HIS HAIR?? WITH THAT SOFT VOICE?? I genuinely love this show and I love Belos as a character).

I'm gonna talk about Hunter in more detail because he's too good to skip. Like I said at first I didn't like him that much. I found him funny and I really liked his cocky and commanding attitude but it wasn't until Hollow Mind that I truly understood him and started to like him. The realization that he wasn't a witch, but a grimmwalker is haunting. Imagine discovering the only person you care about, the only one who has "cared" about you, is actually evil and has lied about everything. Your family wasn't killed by wild magic, HE killed them. You're not even your own person, you're a copy of a dead man. I love how Hunter's storyline is him discovering that he can choose who he wants to be and his friends will love him regardless.

Now, if I talk about Hunter I GOTTA talk about Belos. He's the best villain in cartoons because I say so/j. But he's really, really good as a character. He's beyond salvation from the moment he kills Caleb. He's so twisted he actually believes his own lies. He wants to be the "hero" of a made up story simply because he despises witches. He wants to save humanity from nothing, so he makes up a threat. And in the process, he looses his humanity and becomes wherever the fuck he is now. He manipulates and lies to EVERYONE, even to himself. I can't imagine how many lives he has ended simply because of his hatred towards witches (which honestly I don't remember if was justified or if he just hates witches bc yes). My favorite part of him is probably his voice. They couldn't have chosen another voice, it just fits him. It's soft and perfect for manipulation, paired with the empty compliments (?) he gives to characters like Hunter and Lilith. I also love how arrogant and egocentric he was. Lilith screwed up getting Eda to join a coven a million times yet he was so sure the Day of Unity was going to succeed and that he was untouchable that he let it happen. He gave opportunity after opportunity until he couldn't ignore the fact that maybe he wasn't as untouchable as he thought. And even then, he let Eda and Luz escape instead of ending them for good. 10/10 character, 10/10 design (he's handsome + I love his mask) and 10/10 story. If only Disney hadn't cancelled TOH we could've also gotten a bit more of Caleb...

Lumity was also great. It was actually what got me to watch the show in 2023 and it was so worth it. I've seen people say it doesn't actually make sense and honestly I don't see it. Amity started as a mean girl, not because she wanted, but because she was taught to be like that. She never wanted to hurt Willow and stop being her friend, but she had to do what she had to do to make her parents proud. Little by little she warmed up to Luz, and even then she still had her doubts (I would too if every time I saw a certain person something bad happened to me), but in the end, they became friends. She also started over with Willow, which felt organic, just like Amity's whole character, because they didn't immediately become best friends again. After some time Amity discovered that she had feelings for Luz and finally in S2 became her girlfriend. For me it felt SO organic and I actually liked that they became girlfriends in the middle of the show and not in the end, because we got to see how their relationship developed and how it had highs and lows. Lumity is one of my top 3 ships OAT.

Another thing that I loved about this season was the Day of Unity. The concept itself was great and I loved what little crumbs we got of the covenheads outside Raine, Darius, Everwolf and Terra. Idk I just love the concept of something big that the Emperor plans and how the convenheads were so brainwashed by Belos that they didn't even doubt him and even trusted him until the end. I KNOW that we would've gotten more of the covens if Disney hadn't cancelled TOH.

Talking about covenheads, the character(s) that got me to start writing this were Raine and Eda. In 2023 I honestly didn't have much to say about Raine. They were there ig, I liked Raeda but not much more. But i swear to all of you they're in my mind 24/7 now. I know Raine is kinda just development for Eda and they're not quite a full character blah blah blah, I DON'T CARE. They're my favorite covenhead along with Darius. I love their design, their voice, their mannerisms, HOW THEY CARE ABOUT EDA. When I started writing this I was crying like crazy over Raine's Rhapsody & Eda's Requiem, it such a beautiful song and the scene is even better. How Raine stops everything and says "Eda, do you have kids!?" Breaks me. They care so much. And the song is absolutely beautiful and memorable, I think if I heard it live I would start crying my heart out. AND WHEN THEY WERE WHISTLING THE SONG IN S3 FINALE??? I CRIED NO JOKE 💔 Also they were one of the few who didn't trust Belos at all, so props for that ( + mf was the best ragebaiter on the series and they just did it for the love of the game).

I love Eda, too. She was my fav the first time I watched TOH and she is still one of my favorites. I love her whole character arc, her voice, her design (she's PRETTY(, her development and how human she feels (which is weird cuz she isn't one but yk). She goes through so much and I feel so bad for her. The curse not only affected her by also her loved ones and I can only imagine how it was dealing with it for so much time. Just like Amity, I felt her organic. She wasn't perfect, she made mistakes and suffered. She went through many phases and in each one of them she learnt something new, yet she was still Edalyn Clawthrone. She still cracked jokes and still messed around with people. One of my fav moments, though, is when she realizes the day of Unity is something far bigger than her and starts crying with Lilith. She realized this was something serious, and for the first time, she wasn't alone, for good and for bad. She wasn't alone to suffer in silence, she had KIDS, FAMILY and people who cared about her. Her whole world was collapsing and I'm so glad Dana included the scenes of her crying and not acting super tough, because that just makes me lover her even more. Eda changed her ways for Luz and was even determined to commit suicide if it meant keeping Luz safe (in Eda's Requiem, when the dark (?) magic is consuming her and Raine, she was determined to go through even if it meant dying, just so that Belos wouldn't win). She is a great mentor and an even better mother figure. I could rant for about about her, I love her so, so, so MUCH...

Also, MAJOR PROPS to Dana for making each single one of her outfits iconic. I specially love her S2 look + her harpy form

Another thing that I loved in S2 was finally having some King development. He's cute, yes, but it wasn't until the revelation that he was a Titan that I started to really love him. And I feel so bad for him, he was just a kid. Imagine spending your whole life believing a story made up by someone to then find out that you're the last fo your species. Not only that, but the LITERAL ground you're standing in is your father. He stronger than me I would've gone MAD. And I love how, despite everything and wanting to know where he came from, he accepted that his real family were Eda, Luz and Hooty. He chose them, and with reason. I don't have much to say tbh but just know I love King sm

Following on with S2, the finale had me shaking. When Terra and the others realize that Belos wasn't actually good is haunting. Everything is going wrong, and then King frees the collector. I don't know how to explain it, but the scene of The Collector just doing what he wants, stopping the draining spell and building the Archives makes me shiver. If they weren't a childish kid, things could've gone WAY worse. Imagine if The Collector was an adult? Someone like Belos? There wouldn't be any hope left. And he moment where King just screams and sends Luz and the others through the door had my heart beating like crazy. I remember wanting to watch S3 right away but stopping myself because I had to have time to process everything.

Now with S3. This is probably going to be extra messy and probably worse than what I've written so far because I have so much to say but idk how to say it so

When I tell you I didn't want to start watching it because I knew only I started I wouldn't stop, I mean it. All three specials had me saving up tears for the finale.

Thanks to Them was really nice. I honestly enjoyed seeing more of Camila, Vee and everyone else in the human world. It felt like a nice stillness before everything went down when Belos appeared again. And seeing the impact everything had on Luz genuinely had me biting my fingers while trying to suppress the tears (I'll talk abt Luz in the end BC I wanna get this out of the way first). I also felt really bad for Hunter here, having lost Flapjack and still having to deal with the fact that he was a grimwalker and his friends knew.

For the Future was also really, really nice. I wasn't a fan of the Boscha and Kikimora plot bc I couldn't care less about them but I did like King's interactions with The Collector. The whole "play pretend" thing was so twisted (which is why I love the collector) and I also really liked the part where Willow folds under the pressure and Hunter has to calm her down. She wanted to make sure everyone was okay SO BAD she let herself go. And Hunter was the one to comfort her,, I love them so much. And I don't remember if this happened here or in Watching and Dreaming but when she and Hunter held their pinkies??? Hello??? "You mean a lot to me too" and the closeup to their hands??? That gave me everything I need to know I love Huntlow I love love love love them they deserve everything. And Belos taking control of Raine's puppet form to trick the collector is honestly so cool. I don't have much else to say other than Stringbean was so ugly I ended up loving it (for me it's a cute king of ugly but more cute than ugly idk if you get me)

Now for the strong part, Watching and Dreaming. It's a masterpiece, and for 45 minutes, I think everything closed nicely. Sure, it was a bit rushed but it came out good. The whole episode had me on edge. Firstly, I'm a sucker for reunions so seeing King, Eda and Luz finally together after so many months made me SO happy. I also loved the collector as a character even if we saw very little about them,, but what I really love (and honestly also hate because I had me crying) about this is the final battle. When Luz died and spoke with the Titan, I remember feeling it as a true calmness before the storm (and don't get me started on how everyone reacted when they saw the small light particles flying, and how Camilla's puppet cried?? I'm about to cry again). I really how The Collector tried to make everything better, too. He couldn't do it but he genuinely wanted to stop everything and stop the mold (?) Belos was making take over the Isles. The final battle was really good, I loved the animation and how everything unfolded and I WAS LIVING for the "now eat this sucka!" Luz said before ripping belos out of the Titan's heart. It was so satisfactory. I don't remember what was exactly happening but I do remember that exactly 12 minutes before the episode ended I started to cry. HARD. Like full on snot running down my nose and tears not stopping. I love the ending, even if thinking about it makes me want to cry and makes me feel empty. I love how Belos was rotten to the core and till the end. He tried to manipulate Luz even in the face of death. He's truly horrible, I love it. It's the best ending I could've wished for. It's so good. And seeing everyone reunite with their families and continue on with life moved me. I love this show.

I still have many other characters to talk about but they're honestly not that important or just have little screentime, so I'll finally talk about Luz.

First and foremost, she's relatable. I love every single thing about her. It makes my heart heavy thinking about her first appearances. How she was so excited to become a witch, how she CHOSE to stay in the Boiling Isles because she had no idea what she was getting herself into... Sigh. She's a really special character to me because I can see how things affect her. Normally, after the main character goes through a lot of heavy stuff, we don't see the aftermath of how it affects their brain, but we do in The Owl House. The only other example I can think about where this happens is SU Future. As Luz realizes what is really going on in the Boiling Isles, she starts to changes. She had to mature fast or everyone would be doomed. And you can't tell me she didn't spend nights thinking about everything. After Eda's failed petrification, I know for a fact she didn't dare to sleep, afraid of everything she had seen. If I'm not wrong she was only 13-14,,, so young and already with the weight of a world that she didn't belong to in her shoulders. What's worse is that from the first moment, she assumed she had to fix everything. One of her major flaws is thinking she has to face things alone, has and can fix everything, when it's not like that.

And despite everything, she managed to change everyone around her for the better, even if she gave up her own happiness. Willow became more confident and learnt to care for herself; Gus also became confident in his magic; Amity faced her parents and stopped looking for the right to live and started living; Eda started to care about her life because she had someone to protect and teach; Hunter accepted his roots and became his own person; and King finally found his family and what he was. She helped EVERYONE even when she was suffering so much internally. And because of that, she lost her light. There's a particular moment where everything I said before about her came to me, where I really understood that Luz was suffering because of everything she went through: when she's in bed, looking up at a caricature of a sun that resembles the collector and reaches out to it. I don't know why but that scene made me want to hug her so badly, because I could see in her face that she didn't know how to react (after all, how do you even process everything??)

When she died I was prepared to start crying. I'm so used to animes or series where the mc dies that I remember, back in 2023, thinking that this was it. Belos won. I know everyone on the Isles wanted to cry in that moment, because she had had such an impact and now,,, (but it's all good because she came back to life and no I don't wanna hear theories lalalala i can't hear you).

There's so much more I want to say but I can't find the words. If I do, I'll reblog this and add stuff.

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Sorry for the rant💔✌️ it's probably dogshit but I really wanted to talk about this series and I regret not interacting with the fandom when it was more active

This show has left me empty, and apparently I'm not the only one who feels like this. I'll rewatch it some time, but for now I gotta eat up every single thing in the community