The original pilot episode for The Owl House.
Goodbye TOH! Working on the show from beginning to end has been a hoot. I feel humbled by the amazing talent of the crew I got to work with, and just extremely thankful to have been part of it all. I hope you’ve enjoyed the series and the designs I’ve uploaded over the years. Thanks for watching and thanks for all the love!
Do you ever think about how King seriously had been living his entire life before Echoes of the Past thinking he was a genuine adult?? He never got a chance to be a real kid until after that episode, because he didn’t KNOW he was a kid. Yes, we see him act like a kid, of course, but from his point of view, everything he was doing was probably perfectly justified and logical.
This goes into the realm of headcanon territory, but it also gives more possible reasons for why Eda calls King her ‘roommate’ in the first episode, even when she literally raised him. King doesn’t pursue Eda legally adopting him until after the episode because it’s never anything that’s ever crossed his mind, at least not consciously. And Eda didn’t want to destroy his fantasy, because that’s what made him happy, so she might have given up thinking of herself as his mother (which is why it takes Luz to really get her to consciously realize she IS a mom, and she has KIDS and she LOVES THEM). Emotionally, in King’s heart, though maybe he didn’t want to admit it, Eda was always him mom, but logically, he was the king of demons!! He had better things to do than get attached to others like that!!
It makes their interactions after the episode so much more tender, too. That’s the turning point for Eda and King to fully accept that they ARE family in that mother-son way.. this idea makes me a bit insane. Eda wanting to love her kids so they don’t feel as alone as she did when she was young.. King learning he isn’t some powerful royalty and realizing it’s ok for him to be small and vulnerable and young, and to be loved, and that it doesn’t make him weak. And how childlike it is that as he looks for his dad, all he wants to do is play catch with him (which he gets to do with his mom instead). Apparently they mean more to me than I thought because I am actively tearing up as I type this, whoops!
Here’s a funny little gif for your troubles
Eda starts of the story being badass and disabled, and by the end, shes even more badass and more disabled
I wonder if in the boiling isles if a child's first spell, for the ones that can cast magic of course, is up there with like first steps and first words.
Cause Eda looks so proud and like she's having so much fun in this moment, which could be a teacher aspect of course! But it also happens after Eda had really started calling herself a mom. And if it is an important moment for the Isles then Eda got to experience it with both her kids!
She missed the first glyph Luz ever did, not her fault, of course, and she still gets to see the results. But she did see King's first shout powers, and got to help with Luz's first real spell circle!
Awojfie I'm just not going to be over this little found family.
Shout out to Raine Whispers who got thrown into all the crazy, and took it all like a champ, and just accepted that Eda's kids had some weird things going on and moved on from it with minimal questions.
Also what a way to learn that one of your paramour's children is the child of god after witnessing said god in a fashion.
You can recreate the same experience by not paying attention to the news for a week then looking it up!
There’s something really heartwarming about ToH’s ending that’s just like. the show was shortened drastically and the crew had to work to find a good, unrushed storyline out of it, and in the end, everyone’s okay.
Everyone.
There’s something really hopeful about this show that was essentially cut off at the heels but was still able to have a comprehensive and good ending. In the end, everyone was okay. In the end, they live happily ever after. All of them do.
Dana Terrace is a genius.
I just finished watching the new Owl House episode, and afoiej so much to process, but like can I say how much I love this look?? The build up to it was so nice but it's all the little connections to Luz's family that is shown here that get me!
Like you can still so of course that Luz is human and she looks like Camila. That wouldn't change of course cause those are such a big part of who Luz is.
But you can see so much similar to King too! Fitting since it's a gift from the Titan. She has the bone claws and horns like King, plus the general skeleton look and similar color schemes. Plus her hat looks like his tail!
Then she has the same eye set up as Harpy Eda! With yellow eye iris and dark sclera. She also gets her own fang that hangs out the whole time, on the opposite side of Eda's, and hair probably big enough to store things in.
All of these people were a big influence on Luz and her journey to become the Good Witch Luz. It's only fitting that they all be represented some how in the strongest form Luz gets.
We haven't seen them together in so long. 😢💔
Thinking about how Eda helped Luz carve her palisman egg and Camila is the one who helped it hatch
In light of the recent "For The Future" Leaks fiasco going on, have a few heartwarming Owl House Screenshots for a little breather.
I still think it's funny how much of Eda's identity just whooshes out the window the second children are involved.
The Owl Lady is a reclusive potion-and-human-junk seller who other than a few dates has no friends and lives in the woods. She's the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles. She hates school. Her house is alive and it eats people.
Eda the Owl Lady is an awkward crime mom who has an open door policy to her Cool Secret Hideout to basically anyone. She once adopted a child after breaking up with her ex. She's a PTA mom who helps organize events at school. She has two adopted children, at least three latchkey kids, and a baker's dozen of others she's got the paperwork around for if/when they decide to say fuck the man. Her son adopted her. There's footage of her bawling on Penstagram. She once put herself through AA so her kid could eat foods she prefers when the money was low. She gives her living house forehead kisses.
The almost incredulous way that Raine asks Eda about having kids was so great - it really highlighted just how much Eda grew over the years. Raine left Eda because she was closing herself off from loved ones, and for most of their time apart that was still true. But then Eda comes across a baby Titan (by chance? nudged by the Titan of the Boiling Isles?), and her heart starts to open up a little more despite herself. And Eda has so much love to give.
We are officially weeks away from seeing them again :)
By the way, there’s a digital walkthrough for the ToH art gallery on YouTube now, so if you haven’t gotten a chance to see all the amazing crew art yet, this is all of it one place!!
Actually, you know what’d be a super cool way to start off the next episode?
The group comes out of the portal, which faces the backside of an old-looking, somewhat familiar house. They go inside - maybe it’s abandoned, maybe not - but the pictures on the walls tell them exactly who lives here.
Because you know what’s interesting about the archway in this scene, and where the Titan’s Blood was found at all?
It resembles the archway behind the Clawthorne home, which is also where Eda found the Portal Door for the very first time. Hiding under the dirt, just like the Titan’s Blood in the Human Realm. Almost as if these are the places in both Realms where the two collide. Almost as if these are the places in both Realms where two people met.
So the first thing Luz and co come into contact with in the Demon Realm would be Eda’s childhood home.