Hunter the Golden Guard is a Fairy Tale Character

            …It’s quite the epiphany that has occurred to me, but Hunter is HONESTLY such a fairy tale character???

         Like his name, it evokes the woodlands ‘Hunter’ of stories such as Snow White… And of course, his whole motif of being in a gilded cage! He’s a trapped bird in a gilded cage, in a tower/castle like Rapunzel or Sleeping Beauty… And Hunter wants to break free! He wants to spread his wings and fly, and he fittingly has bird motifs, specifically an Owl and a Cardinal… Which, I have to wonder if the Cardinal is more true to Hunter, and the Owl an imposed identity from Belos!

         Speaking of, Belos is literally that Evil Uncle archetype, who locks away his nephew and abandons him! Kikimora is also kind of like that jealous Evil Aunt, the kind you’d see in Cinderella… Trying to depose and even get rid of Hunter, for her own power and schemes! Hunter has to deal with an evil dragon, and he’s got a golden motif and lives in a castle, and he’s beginning to talk to animals like some Disney Princess!

         Even the way his face is revealed is very fairy tale-esque, taken straight out of Sleeping Beauty, only to be subverted because Luz ain’t interested in him THAT way! Hunter actually IS kind of a subversion of those fairy tales, a twist that’s turned around… He’s the prince, but the prince that needs to be rescued! He’s the evil hunter who chases down the fair and innocent maiden (in this case the palismen), but like the hunter, he has a crisis of conscience and does the right thing, looks the other way.

         You could even compare how the hunter from Snow White offers a heart for the evil queen to devour, and how Hunter provides Palismen for Belos to absorb! He’s got the golden hair and motif, akin to Rapunzel… When Luz finds Hunter, she has to deal with a dragon and an evil, jealous ‘stepmother’ archetype to protect him!