Cartoons of the Cosmos

✨fuck the blight parents✨ 

Based off of all the fanart I’ve seen, I feel like the fandom has collectively decided what the Blight parents look like, despite us having never actually seen them. If their faces are revealed to be completely different than how we’ve been picturing, chaos will reign.

YO I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING

So remember when Dana did 2 lies and a truth for season 2? And I predicted that the truth was that Camila was going to beat someone up?

What if Camila beats up one of the Blight parents after seeing how they treat Amity? 

that would make my fucking YEAR

Owltober Day 18: Oracle

I know that there is still some disagreement in the fandom as to what coven Odalia is in based on this photo. However, to me it looks like Alador’s uniform is definitely pink, meaning he’s in abomination, and Odalia’s uniform is intentionally colored a darker shade than Alador’s, meaning that she is in the purple track, which is Oracle.

If I’m right and Odalia is in the Oracle Coven, that could be VERY BAD. We still don’t know that much about the Oracle Coven, but in The First Day we saw that oracle magic can be used to look into someone’s future. If Odalia has been using her oracle magic throughout the series so far, then it’s possible that she knows everything Amity is hiding and has been waiting for the right moment to act. I don’t think Amity told her parents that she befriended the human, or that she rekindled her relationship with Willow, or that she cut ties with her former “friends.” But what if Odalia already knows all that, and just hasn’t let Amity know yet? It would be just like Odalia to spy on her children in their day-to-day lives. If she’s been watching, she’s probably been getting progressively angrier as Amity strays farther and farther from the person her parents want her to be. All that anger might one day release itself in the form of Odalia doing something horrible to Amity, Willow, Luz, or all three.

I’m not sure if I’m quite ready to accept this theory yet, because honestly, it scares the shit out of me. But regardless, I think Odalia is in the Oracle Coven, and I think that could be very bad for our protagonists.

Every one of the lines from Amity’s diary is kinda heartbreaking in one way or another, but the one that hurts the most for me is “I don't wanna come off as cruel. I just can't show weakness.” The first time I watched that, I thought it was just Amity being careful to maintain her reputation, but no. Amity has probably been given several lectures on how she isn’t allowed to show weakness of any kind. Being nice to Luz is literally against her parent’s rules. Damn it, Amity needs a hug.

Owltober Day 2: Least Favorite Character(s)

I had two ideas for characters to do for today. I couldn’t choose which one to do, so I decided, hey, why not both.

Character 1: Odalia Blight

Ah, the Blight parents. The true villains of TOH. Even from the little we know about them, I already hate both of them, especially Odalia, with a passion. They have thoroughly messed up Amity and her life. They canonically emotionally abuse her, and like I talked about briefly in another post, I think there is evidence of physical abuse as well. Gah... I am not a violent person, but I would punch Odalia in the face without a second thought. And there is no evidence Alador is any better.

Fun fact: while most of the fandom was still wondering if Amity dyed her hair because of Azura or to look like her siblings, I theorized that Amity was forced to dye her hair by her parents as soon as I knew they were jerks (Understanding Willow). By that point I had no idea which parent was doing it, but I definitely thought it was one of them. But, as I’ve mentioned before, my theories are almost NEVER right, and I was absolutely shocked when it was confirmed. I had already disliked the Blight parents at that point, but that was probably when my hatred for them skyrocketed. I mean, who would do that to anyone, let alone their own child?

Point is, the Blight parents are assholes. Right now, I hate Odalia more because she's the one who did the hair thing, but maybe Alador is worse, who knows. I personally hope that Amity decides to cut them off entirely.

Character 2: The Bat Queen

The Bat Queen just makes me... uncomfortable. I feel uncomfortable whenever she’s onscreen. I don’t know exactly what it is about her, but there is something about her that just makes me feel uneasy. Maybe it’s her appearance, or her voice, or the fact that she’s basically a face with legs and wings. And what’s more, it’s become obvious that she does have sort of role to play in the larger story of The Owl House. I wish I could convince myself that I won’t have to see her in any more, but I can’t. No matter what I do or say, she’s gonna be back. She has a cryptic backstory that we need to learn more about.

As far as Bat Queen theories, I would like to know why she is called “queen.” Is she actually a queen of some sort? If not, how did she get the title? I know it’s a semi-common theory that the Bat Queen was the Titan’s palisman, but I don’t really believe that. For one thing, it seems like too obvious an explanation, and it also doesn’t really seem to make sense proportions-wise. Let’s say the Bat Queen is, I don’t know, 100 times Owlbert’s size. The Titan is way, way more than 100 times Eda’s size. The Bat Queen would be a really tiny palisman for the Titan. Her royal title makes me wonder is she belonged to some sort of monarch or authority figure instead. I’m really not sure, though. I don’t think she belonged to anyone we’ve met so far. She’d be way too big for any of the characters. This might not be the most well thought out theory, but I frankly don’t wanna spend any more time thinking about the Bat Queen than I absolutely have to. She freaks me out.

well i didn’t expect to be absolutely destroyed by fanfiction tonight but fanfiction doesn’t care what i think does it

I’ve made a lot of angsty Amity posts recently, so have a compilation of Amity looking adorably happy while reading to kids. She deserves to be happy.

Taking these pictures made me think of a cute theory: what if Amity just really likes reading to kids, so she told her parents that it gave her extra credit while it actually didn’t? There’s no way her parents would let her just read books to children because she wanted to, so she had to make up a lie about getting extra points. For an extra credit assignment, she seems to be having a lot of fun.

After Luz says “I'm not a witch” in Covention, Amity’s face instantly says “oh no, what did I just do?” It’s telling right there that she doesn’t really want to be mean, she’s just trained to act that way.

The same thing happens after “just leave me alone!” in lost in language. It’s clear that Amity isn’t intending to be a bully. She’s flustered and she “can’t show weakness” and she’s acting the way she’s been taught to act.

If I had been paying attention to these little details from the first time I watched the series, I would’ve realized earlier that Amity was never actually a bully. She feels bad whenever she hurts someone’s feelings. She’s just got it drilled it in to her mind that showing compassion or kindness means showing weakness. All she needed to do was unlearn that idea.

Remember when Amity ran off after Eda caught her cheating during the witches’ duel? At first, I thought she had run off crying, but when I looked at the picture of her curled up against the wall again, I realized she isn’t crying. She doesn’t even look sad. She just looks exhausted.

She looks like she could almost fall asleep. She’s just so tired of being taken advantage of. She always has be on her best behavior, and her best always has to be better than everyone else’s best. Her parents use her to get more attention and clout for the family name. And now Lilith, who she actually admired, just used Amity to make herself look like a better teacher, with no regard whatsoever to Amity’s wellbeing. Amity has been taken advantage of so many times that she isn’t even that sad about it anymore. She’s just so, so tired of it. 

amity’s diary’s line “i wish i had somewhere to go” just... punched me in the gut. i imagine that amity wrote that entry after something rough happened to her, probably involving her parents, and she just felt so fucking trapped. i don’t have anything near amity’s home life, and i’ve absolutely felt that way before. my heart just aches thinking about how she must have felt writing that.

I think (and hope) that the Blight parents will end up being homophobic coded. I kinda headcanon them as being homophobes, but I also think that homophobia isn't a thing on the Boiling Isles. For those of you have seen SVTFOE, you know that although there is no actual racism in the show, there’s a major plotline that serves as an extended metaphor for systemic racism. I want them to do the same kind of thing with the Blight parents. They’ll say that Amity can’t date Luz because she’s a human, or because she lives at the Owl House, or because she can’t do magic, but it will all be a metaphor for homophobia. I think that would be a great way to address homophobia in the show while still maintaining the accepting atmosphere of the Isles.

I initially thought that Blight was a family name on Alador’s side, but now that I think about it, I get the sense that the name more likely came from Odalia’s side. Some of this is based upon fan theories that Odalia is the worse parent of the two, but it also fits in with the green hair thing. I’ve imagined that having green hair is a staple of being a Blight, which means that Odalia is the one with the Blight family blood. 

Also, it was a bad assumption on my part to think that the Boiling Isles has the same old-fashioned “take the man’s name” we have on Earth. Given what we’ve already seen of how progressive the Isles are, I bet they just have a “take whichever name you like” norm. Of course, Odalia and Alador would take the name Blight because of the power associated with it. I bet if Amity gets married she’ll lose the name in a heartbeat.

OH MY GOD THE BLIGHT PARENTS NAMES I’M FREAKING THE FUCK OUT

ODALIA AND ALADOR

WOWZA

honestly? good names. they sound like the evil villains with dark secrets they are.