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I am manifesting this for S3E2

Guess we got that beach episode after all for Lumity...

“did you hate living with me that much?”

on a more serious note in regards to the whole philip-possessing-a-deer thing. the deer already seems to be in a mostly skeletal state by the time he leaves it.

however the accident had clearly happened pretty recently at that point in the episode. given that the car and family involved were still at the scene, it probably happened less than a couple of hours ago. that isn't nearly enough time for a corpse to decompose to that degree. this leaves us with two implications:

1) the deer was already a corpse/skeleton when he possessed it

or

2) philip's possession has some kind of effect on the bodies of those he possesses that harms them or makes them decompose more quickly after death

im inclined to think that it's a mixture of both options. in one scene we see him possess a clearly dead rabbit (?) that's already skeletal in appearance, so possessing corpses is definitely something he's capable of.

but then when he possesses hunter, hunter's scars visibly grow afterwards, which could be caused by philip's possession i.e., getting possessed by philip damaged his body.

so perhaps both things are true? either way, it does seem like philip needs the body he's possessing to be injured to be able to enter it, although it doesn't need to be a particularly grave injury since he was able to get into hunter through the cut on his finger.

i wonder if hunter being a grimwalker made it possible/easier for philip to possess him too, since he is technically "undead" after all. we haven't rlly got to see yet if philip is capable of possessing a "normal" human/witch/demon/animal. perhaps he's limited to just the dead/undead...

help me make the most of freedom/and of pleasure/nothing ever lasts forever/everybody wants to rule the world

~hunter and flapjack

hey remember in that very sad scene when camila called hunter baby? you can't tell me she hasn't been his Mom™ for all the time they've been stuck in the human realm. god if we'd have gotten a whole s3 we could have had a scene of camila teaching hunter how to use a sewing machine :(

I was just thinking about how Hunter tells Gus "the weekends [in the Emperor's Coven] were nice" because he "got to leave the castle for missions." Hm. Really recontextualizes how cheerful and excited he was as the Golden Guard in Separate Tides and Hunting Palismen... because it was the only time he got to do stuff and see other people outside the castle :(

Camila “I’ll never understand anime” Noceda having a secret closet of old sci-fi memorabilia and old cosplays that she did with her husband in her basement is PEAK older nerd culture. Like, our girl is out there being confused about the latest trends in nerdom while having her own nerdy stuff hidden away in the darkest corner of her house. Iconic.

the "average gravesfield resident has killed their own brother at least once" factoid is actually just a statistical error. the average gravesfield resident has not killed their own brother. Fratricide Phil, who is a pile of goop and has killed his own brother at least 200 times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I wanna see this scene so bad. Gus being a big pro wrestling fan. The boys messing around as they get ready for the Haunted Hayride and Gus decides to test some of his moves out on Hunter. But he's got scrawny noodle limbs and his technique is terrible but he's so theatric about it anyway, acting like he truly has Hunter at his mercy that Hunter is powerless to do anything about it because he's laughing too hard at how lame Gus is. Then Willow hurries down the stairs to see what the boys are up to and her eyes light up because you KNOW she was absorbed in wrestling too ("Drama! Flair! And face paint!") and she's like "oh FUCK YEAH" and she dives in to rescue the damsel in distress, completely oblivious to the fact that her enthusiasm is probably going to flatten them both.

Anyways Belos refers to Hunter as Caleb because "Hunter" is a stupid inside joke of a name he gave him to amuse himself because of the irony but he has always always always thought of the grimwalkers as Caleb, and once that secret is out, there's no point in pretending that he thinks of Hunter as his own person when he created him to be the perfect version of his brother

S3 Gus, Basically

(I am still coping)

Gus, trying to drop hints: MAYBE this character ALREADY KNOWS the other guy is a clone!!

Hunter, king of missed social cues: NO SPOILERS!!

Thank you to everyone who made my original post even more painful! I want to stab Belos so much more now :)

I was just thinking about how Hunter tells Gus "the weekends [in the Emperor's Coven] were nice" because he "got to leave the castle for missions." Hm. Really recontextualizes how cheerful and excited he was as the Golden Guard in Separate Tides and Hunting Palismen... because it was the only time he got to do stuff and see other people outside the castle :(

Hunter and Luz relationship in S3 - Original dialogue from this post

so that episode huh?

I'm still kinda fucked up by the line "and never set foot in that throne room again."

That's where Belos almost struck him in Hunting Palismen and is heavily implied to be the place where almost all of the mistreatment took place. All of that happened behind closed doors. Nobody knew. Just the fact that Hunter has such a strong aversion to that room in particular that he makes a point to say they he will never go there again.

I feel like a lot of people misread Willow as being the mentally stable friend. 

She’s not, she just puts up a good front. Her goals aren’t about her. She doesn’t consider her own emotions. Everything’s about others. 

Willow is someone who tries her best to appear put together and stable on the outside. She won’t let you see her crack. Because to her her friends are 1000x more important. Many witches state a goal that involves their career or deepest wish for themselves when they chose a palisman or make one. Willow doesn’t, and she’s one of the few we’ve seen who makes this choice. She doesn’t want to be strong to help herself gain power, she wants power to protect those close to her. 

Willow isn’t one to let her emotions get the better of her. But when they do she breaks. She can’t put up with all the pressure, she has a breaking point. And this breaking point usually stems from this insecurity of her not being good enough. She needs to be good enough for others. And she is. But she’s not good enough for herself. 

Willows an amazing friend but she’s in no way less mentally ill then anyone else. She is unsure of herself and always needs to prove herself to others. It’s not quite as obvious as it is with Hunter; he’s always running around trying to prove his worth and having panic attacks because of it. But it’s still there, she just does a good job of keeping it all inside. 

With Hunter we see this aspect of him a lot. It’s a huge plot point in Eclipse Lake. He’s scared of rejection from Belos. He’s scared of being replaced. He’s scared of not having a place in the world. He puts the needs of others over his own constantly. But Hunter can’t put up a front like Willow can. The only time we get to really explore Willows insecurity’s properly is when we literally are seeing inside her head. The episodes literally called Understanding Willow for crying out loud:

As someone who was bullied mercilessly for years when I was the age Willow is in this memory I really understand this whole episode on a very personal level. The things people said to Willow got to her. Her inner self says she’s just “finishing what (Amity) started.” Even when she heals her relationship with Amity she still has moments of insecurity. She calls herself, “half-a-witch.” She gets mad when Amity trys to protect her. She gets upset when she is captured by someone she trusted. All these things resurface old familiar emotions for her. 

Willow has been trying her whole life to help people and for so long it didn’t work out. Amity calls her a “weakling.” She vows to be a powerful witch. Amity tells her she causes problems. Willow says she is going to protect everyone she loves. Amity rejects Willows friendship and picks on her. 

Willow is scared of rejection. 

Scared of disappointing people. 

She is upset when Amity replaces her with new friends and lets them pick on her. 

She can’t deal with any of these emotions - similarly to Hunter - so she combats it by constantly comforting and prioritizing others.  

Willows incredibly powerful and strong. And amazing friend and a force not to be taken lightly. 

But in no way is she over these deep rooted anxiety’s of losing her friends, not being able to protect people, or being a nuisance and a problem. 

I really want this to be an aspect of her that is focused on sometime in the future, because its a problem she has that is never really solved. 

She’s not completely indestructible. 

It's so fucking funny to me that Belos walked extremely slowly and dramatically backwards into the portal. Like. What was going through your head in that moment. Were you trying to be a classic evil villain? Is this some self-awareness I sense? Or do the dramatics just come naturally? What if you walked backwards right off a Boiling Isles cliff? Or into the y'know BOILING SEA?? Anyways yeah I want to know how your mind works buddy. I want to pick it apart like a bug tell me what you were thinking.

this love is alive back from the dead, these hands had to let it go free, and this love came back to me

(this love, taylor swift)