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Gus and Jinx: A Story of Two Prodigies

If there is something that I could notice is that thanks to Labyrinth Runners I noticed that Gus has some similarities with Jinx from Arcane.

They are both considered prodigies despite how young they’re (Gus is a prodigy with illusion magic and Jinx is a talented inventor and mechanic).

They both have so many insecurities about themselves that they even doubt the perception of their reality and their ability to trust others, believing that people will betray them at the slightest opportunity.

However, Gus has positive and healthy support from his friends who value him for who he is and genuinely care about him and don't want to take advantage of him

while Jinx never had a healthy support system so her paranoia doesn't stop to grow and ends up harming herself

and those around her.

It's pretty scary and sad to think that Gus could have ended up as Jinx if he hadn't had friends who really appreciate him for who he is regardless of his talent.

Has anyone else noticed that Belos wants Eda petrified right away in jail but specifically wanted Luz to be sent to the castle? Belos could have ordered Luz to be killed but instead he ordered to sent her to the castle also keep in mind that when Raine also requested to be informed if Eda had been caught before doing anything but they don't mention Luz, Raine knew that Eda was in the warehouse, but they didn't knew that Luz was with her and Raine only knew that Luz and King are Eda's children but they didn't know who Luz is and they didn't know that Luz is human and when Darius pulls Luz out of the carriage that was going to take her to the emperor's castle, Raine tells Luz that Eda told them about her so Raine only knew about Luz when Eda told them about her after everyone rescued Luz so the order to bring Luz to the castle was given by Belos.

We know that Belos also wants Hunter because he wants to kill him to create another grimwalker but why would he want Luz? Well, we know that she has already completed the time loop and knows about his past and could have ordered the scouts to kill her apart or petrify her with Eda, but he didn't. We also know that he has a small fixation on her because she is human.

All of this makes my concern for Luz greater than before.

The Collector's Loneliness

We all know that The Collector wants revenge but he are also desperate to get out of his prison and that is why he sought to sacrifice titans and later allies himself with Belos to kill all the witches but what if he chased the titans because he blames them for his confinement and for leaving him abandoned and at the same time to somehow make a ritual similar to what he did with the owl beast for that they were going to keep him eternal company?

Maybe he just helps Belos not only to be free but also to somehow get the souls of the dead witches from Day of Unity to keep him eternal company?

If he caught beasts like the Owl Beast and used that ritual as a way to create an eternal companion that would always keep him company?

When King has that strange dream where The Collector's prison is, the latter desperately asks him not to go and it sounded quite honest and desperate on his part. The Collector really is like a child: he doesn't know right from wrong so he has no idea how bad his actions are and he doesn't want to be alone so he seeks company, even if it was by force (as he did with the Owl Beast).

It also explains why he persecuted the titans and it's because he blames them for having left him locked up inside the titan's bones (it could be because the titan himself imprisoned him for being a threat or he simply ended up imprisoned by accident) and trust me that spent indefinite years in solitary confinement he would drive anyone crazy.

An example of how harmful extreme isolation can be and how it can negatively affect someone is Aqua from Kingdom Hearts series.

In Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep she in her final fight against Terranort manages to defeat him and her heartless creates a portal that takes them to the Realm of Darkness and Aqua sacrifices herself giving him her keyblade and armor to help him escape.

And although Mickey tries to get her out, he doesn't succeed since she tries to stop a swarm of heartless and is taken by them to a false version of Destiny Islands and is forced to remain in the Realm of Darkness.

but with the hope that one day someone would rescue her and take her back home.

however, so many years of isolation end up taking its toll on her: Ansem, the seeker of darkness (or as I call him the false Ansem) tries to attack the real Ansem but Aqua defends him, which makes the false Ansem attack her and makes her submerged in the sea of the Realm of Darkness

and the darkness that is corrupting Aqua makes all the negative feelings that she has been repressing explode and turn her into Anti-Aqua, the living representation of all the Aqua's negative feelings of frustration, anger for feeling that her friends abandoned her, despair to get out of that world, loneliness for having lost her friends and only having some monsters as company that seek to kill her.

and when Mickey and Riku interacted with her, all Aqua does is lash out in anger at them because she blames them for her imprisonment as she feels that they abandoned her for so many years.

and she was only able to return to normal and leave the Realm of Darkness because there were people who loved her and cared about her.

If Aqua, despite having friends who love her, succumbed to the negative feelings she's been repressing from being 10 years alone and trapped in an isolated place felt frustrated, lonely, desperate and resigned to her eternal confinement and attacks her friends for thinking they abandoned her for years, imagine how The Collector would feel who spent indefinite years isolated in his prison, probably spending MANY MORE YEARS than Aqua in the Realm of Darkness, looking to kill titans because he thinks that they're responsible for his imprisonment also, unlike Aqua, The Collector doesn't have friends and anyone and the only person he thinks is his friend is a person who's probably just using him.

I'm not justifies him, I'm just saying that The Collector probably captured and collected beasts because he wanted to have fun and turn forcibly anyone he meet into his friends in the worst possible way and he didn't care if this ended up hurting them but once he was imprisoned he spent so many years of loneliness and isolation that drove him crazy to the point where he wants to free himself at any cost and is also desperate to have any kind of company in anyway without caring if the others want to be his friends or not.

He may have been bad before his confinement, but what the isolation and loneliness he had while there did was amplify his defects (fear and hatred of loneliness and abandonment, not realizing the impact of his actions), making him even worst what he was before.

The fact that the deal Belos made with the Collector was made with a PINKIE SWEAR only emphasizes the fact that the Collector is really just a kid with too much power on his hands.

I can't help but think that Belos is weirdly and playfully obsessed with Luz in some way due to the fact that Luz is the only human Belos has ever interacted with and the way he interacts with her is oddly fondness and playful, he doesn't seem spiteful towards her like he was towards Lilith, he really seems to enjoy messing with her and talking to her besides that Belos tells Luz that he is a witch hunter and proudly tells her that "i'll do anything to save humanity from evil" as if he wanted to impress her and get her on his side besides that he wanted Luz would agree with his plans, there is also the fact that Belos ordered Kikimora to arrest The Owl House family possibly to capture Luz and the fact that she shares some similarities with Wittebro (they both came to love the Boiling Islands and see them as a second home, they both have an affinity for magic, either through glyphs or carving of palismans, and they both fell in love with a witch) only makes this possible obsession worse.