Agent of Chaos

Desecrated

So in Willow’s debut, it’s established that Abominations is considered as having better career opportunities than Plants. And in hindsight, it makes sense now; Abominations are valued by the coven regime in the way Blight Industries does them, as industrial Abomatons that can be controlled. Belos buys them from Odalia, he practically assimilates Blight Industries.

This is because Abomatons don’t think for themselves, they’re servants that can replace covenscouts in areas that would challenge morality, and they lack the sapience to be targeted. They’re beings Belos can control without having to learn more of the magic he despises to do so; All of this is in contrast to how Darius or Amity use Abominations as a reflection of their own skill, the individual.

We see how the Abomatons aid the coven regime, and esp see through the Day of Unity; The Abomatons can be programmed, and do nothing without orders; They’re not going to become witches and demons in their own right, they’ll maintain those walls and then do so for the end of time.

They don’t need to be targeted for genocide as victims of the draining spell who would be incapacitated, so they can do their job while that happens. They keep witches corralled because the closer to the ritual, the faster the covenbound die. Of course, those who haven’t collapsed might try and stop the spell by removing the coven heads, which would place them within weakening proximity anyhow…

But that paranoia over covenbound who aren’t yet unconscious is justified; The Abomatons’ own creator rendered their role in the Day of Unity and the regime as a whole obsolete, because he had the strength away from the ritual to help the kids reach the skull, which allowed King to free the Collector and undo everything.

Plus, Belos is loathe to the isles; He depletes its natural resources, he wants all life to die and devastating the ecosystem is another way to do so. Hunter suggests growing Palistrom wood and he’s furious at the idea. So of course Plant magic is devalued, because it’s focused on life, on sustainability, with keeping others alive.

It’s the exact opposite of the cold industrialism that will make the Day of Unity happen and leave the land barren afterwards because the Abomatons themselves are barren in that sense, lacking magic and with little to contribute to the ecosystem, if anything. Plant magic is half of nature, the other being Beastkeeping, I wonder if that is also devalued by the regime?

Makes sense the Demon Hunters have to resort to menial city jobs instead of their traditional livelihood, forced to assimilate into an urban society if their environment has been depleted by colonialism. Adds to Darius and Eberwolf being rebels. And with Terra, it shows how much she’s willing to throw her fellow witches under the bus for utopia.

I remember speculating it since I was a Teenage Abomination; Abominations really is STEM, down to being used for military applications. Given TOH’s critique of the American education system, you can see how this metaphor extends when the work of creating a sustainable society and environment is secondary to destroying enemies and establishing supremacy.

Because it’s fun and easy to destroy, rather than do the banal yet meaningful work of actually building and healing and feeding people, thinking of how society can be sustainable. It’s easy to talk about how you can destroy witches zombies in an apocalypse, instead of how to keep a community of survivors alive; All that talk about how dudes bored with their lives dream about being an action hero at the expense of society’s collapse, without understanding what the world really needs is builders and not destroyers, and that they’d be nothing without the people who do this ‘boring’ work, is so very Belos.

‼️cw: blood, horror art

"out of all the grimwalkers, you looked the most like him."

Cara mia

Wittober day 16, family ! Subtle detail, Hunter is looking up at his uncle but Philip is looking at Caleb instead

From this -

This post is mostly for those who don't want to have to click on the link in order to read the entirety of The Owl House's series bible.

I will forever be upset that we were deprived of so much owl house content

< The Hitchhiker (2/2)

A lot has been happening rn but I finally got this done!

He’s a little deranged in the lower one but I tried lol

Them getting ready to have a solo adventure and get in mortal peril (again)

No matter what, you got me, I got you ✨

Reblog for more answers

Hunter outfit from hunting palisman now drawed historically accurate! Based on this post

Bonus: here is my first silly try at drawing Hunter in the show style

❗ TOH SPOILERS AND TW: DEPICTIONS/MENTIONS OF ABUSE ❗

Every now and then I haven’t fully recovered from the S3 special and I finally just made this comic out of anger and so many tears fdkhdfg.

Half of the things Hunter said is the thoughts I deal with everyday in regards to some familial trauma I had. I suppose that’s why I was so upset with what happened to him. But hanging onto hope that he gets a good resolution. He deserves it.

I’d be genuinely pissed if he went through this all for nothing.