The Collector's Loneliness

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.

We know that Belos feels a solidarity towards Luz and always showed himself wanting to be close to her because she is human like him, but the fact that kid Belos was actually Belos the whole time just makes that his whole behavior so uncomfortable and creepy since while he was ignoring Hunter (someone he has known and lived with for years and that Hunter loved and admired) kid Belos was clinging to Luz or he hugged her or took her by the arm (considering that Luz is practically a stranger who considers him an evil monster).

A little comparison between Arkos and Huntlow

Despite the fact that Arkos is a romantic relationship and Huntlow can end in various ways (as a romantic couple, platonic or just as besties) I like both relationships a lot and both have something in common: both relationships are based on knowing each other not because of their background, but because they know each other for who they really are and in both relationships they respect the choice and autonomy of both members of both relationships.

In both relationships they are made up of the prodigies:

and the underrateds:

Both Hunter and Pyrrha share the theme of their fight against destiny, (even though they both want agency and to be seen as their own person for different reasons the desire remains the same).

On the other hand, Jaune and Willow are underestimated and they're teased for it to the point that they both doubt their own potential (Jaune for his lack of semblance and Willow for not being good with abomination magic).

Jaune and Willow have no idea about Hunter and Pyrrha's background (Hunter is the Golden Guard and Pyrrha is a recognized huntress prodigy) so they treat Hunter and Pyrrha like normal people and they value that so much that they treat Jaune and Willow in return with respect and recognize their potential (Pyrrha teachs Jaune about aura, she helps him unlock it as well as recognize his masive aura, courage and leadership potential and Hunter sees Willow as a powerful and brave witch and an excellent leader).

So much so that when they discover how Jaune and Willow see themselves (Jaune sees himself as a fraud for cheating to get into Beacon and Willow calling herself a half-witch), Hunter and Pyrrha is shocked by this but still their visions of Jaune and Willow don't change and they become more closer to them.

Hunter and Pyrrha are able to be seen and recognized as their own person outside of their roles and Jaune and Willow are valued as self-sufficient people with great potential that can unlock.

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