I still haven’t watched the last two episodes lol
Have a Noceda siblings sketch that I never finished
Luz really cartwheeled into the boiling isle and swiped the brother Belos has spent the last 400 years fine tuning and I have nothing but respect for her. 😌
Witte-Thorne doodles
Y’all ever think that Phillip was probably run out of town at first because of his homophobic and rascist views?
Oh and he was very obviously sketchy af but like ignoring that
Considering the CT colony was not known for being LGBT friendly remotely. And had anti LGBT laws on the book at the time Philip was alive.
And considering other factors of the time period.
That definitely played a factor in why Belos had to leave. Especially considering homophobia doesn’t exist on the Isles.
So his comments would not go over well
Caleb "I dress up as a boy only because it gets me better jobs" Wittebane
[Defanged Philip AU]
Extra:
not over the fact that killing Caleb was his worst memory
There’s something very scary and disturbing about a Luz that is legitimately angry and resentful. She’s usually such a happy-go-lucky kid, so compassionate and patient with others and everything. And yeah she’s gotten mad, but when she gets truly mad, something the show makes a point to use only whenever Eda is in danger...
It’s like, Luz never gets mad in part because she doesn’t think of herself as good enough to be angry on her own behalf, that she doesn’t deserve that righteous anger for herself. So when Luz is this decisive because she has to be, no longer letting self doubt hold her back because it’s serious and a personal pity party is gonna get in the way, it really does matter more than her self-deprecating feelings...
Like holy shit the way Luz grits her teeth and starts to lose control, like she’s about to scream. It’s like a neurodivergent meltdown which hits SO close to home, and hurts even more to see; Meltdowns born of anger just hit different and feel embarrassing and shameful, and just so overwhelming because that’s how much it is for Luz, it can make it harder to breathe and she’s had enough as is! I’m truly scared and concerned for Luz... But also a part of me wants to see her go apeshit and feral against others. Because she’s been so nice she deserves to.
I just want to see Luz go apeshit at Belos and somehow manage to spark up a strange, forgotten fear that he’d have when facing the absolute *wrath* of someone who’s enraged at having her loved ones endangered.
I just want to see Belos’s face having a very brief moment of “oh. I fucked up”, and that pure realization that he can’t escape her unaltered anger, that he’s not going to keep always escaping the consequences of his actions, and that just this once, something is going to happen. That shit’s gonna hit the fan and that he *will* be one of the casualties of her unstoppable rightful anger.
I just want to see that wrath hitting its target. Wildly. Savagely. Without reprieve.
And then Luz finally getting out of that state of mind and realizing what she’s done. And facing it, whether there’s regret or not.
Something cute like that :)
Philip gets an eerie sense of deja vu after another wild Clawthorne witch utterly destroys him in vengeance...
Uh hold up. Two siblings are raised together, have each other... Dream of doing an occupation together? And the more confident sibling accepts it because it’s all they have, their sibling is all they have?
And then they meet a witch, fall in love... And change their mind, even as the other sibling resents the two? Resents the witch for ‘corrupting’ their sibling, and hurts and betrays their own?
Must be genetic for Wittebanes, the lineage has heard that if they have more than one kid per generation it’s bad luck
Now seeing more of him, yeah this is definitely a man who'd name his palisman "flapjack "
How was he ever a witch hunter he doesn't look like he has an evil bone in his body.
He has such unconditional love for Philip
my take on hunter’s predecessor 🦢✨ he lived to be 27…
Another proof that Belos enjoys killing the grimwalkers he creates is when he tells Luz that thanks to her he will have to make another one, that is, Belos thanks Luz for giving him a justification to kill Hunter.
anon, i think you have misinterpreted the dialogue in that scene, tbh - imo he isn't saying "thanks to you" as in expressing gratitude towards her, he's saying "thanks to you" as in blaming her for forcing him to go through the hassle of making and raising another clone.
it's not really a demonstration of the pleasure he takes in hurting and punishing the clones. it's a demonstration of how he's a hypocrite who pushes the blame for his own actions onto everyone else and refuses to accept the consequences of his own behavior.
after all, he's the one who led Hunter and Luz into those memories. he was there the whole time, and therefore he heard Hunter asking to leave his mindscape immediately, heard Hunter defend him and justify his actions over and over again, etc.
on a metatextual level, we see those specific memories bc the writers are telling us, the viewers, a story about Belos and establishing his backstory, but in-universe, he could easily have just gone into like, a memory of himself in his workroom in the castle and raided a supply closet for everything he gathered for his trap. he took them into that series of damning memories on purpose.
he blames Hunter for 'betraying' him, but he's the one who showed Hunter all that stuff, and then when Hunter was understandably hurt and confused and tried to ask for clarification, he saw that as betrayal. he blames Luz for Hunter being in his mind in the first place, but Hunter asked to leave in his hearing and instead he decided to use them as bait for the palisman amalgam.
and going further back - this is a consistent pattern. he blames his brother for 'betraying' him as well, when what happened is his brother grew and changed and improved as a person, and it's clear from those memory portraits that he offered Philip the chance to be part of his new life.
he blames Luz and Lilith (and Witches In General) for mistreating him when Lilith breaks his nose, completely ignoring the fact that he tried to sacrifice them and then just blithely disregarded their pain and trauma.
he consistently treats everyone around him like absolute garbage and then acts shocked and appalled when they don't like him or retaliate against him or even just, like, try to avoid him. he manipulated, controlled, lied to, and abused every single one of those clones, then acts like he has No Idea Where This Came From when they separate from him.
it's just classic abuser logic. his feelings and desires are the full justification for anything he wants to do, but nobody else gets to have a full complex emotional inner life the way he does, because they only exist for him to do things to. they're toys for him to play with, not real people, and when they try to act like people or respond in reasonable ways to his actions and behavior, he sees it as horribly unfair and an attack on him.
nothing that happens is ever his fault. his behavior is never the problem. it's just everyone else refusing to understand him and maliciously attacking and hating him. that's the point of that scene.
Nobody talk to me I just now realised now that Belos is a Puritan, who were known for living simple lives and having very simple places of worship (for example no stained glass windows or anything like that), that has Catholic style imagery around him.
The stained glass, the tapestries, the white and gold, the theme of wings, the grand building, it’s all typically associated with Catholicism which I’ve seen a lot of people notice. He’s betrayed his simpler, Puritan origins. Maybe it’s intentional, maybe it’s not but it really says wonders about his character to me. He still holds his core Puritan beliefs, but he’s taken it to a point they aren’t recognisable anymore, buried beneath the thing Puritans like himself hated.
This also matches his whole human-witch thing. He still calls himself human, but he can hardly be compared to one anymore: he’s practically a witch. He, once again, still believes in something but it’s buried beneath the thing he hates, and in this case it’s witchcraft/witches.
I know I’m overanalysing but here me out. In this essay I’ll-
The responses I’ve gotten to this post almost make me genuinely want to hunt down the Catholic imagery we see with Belos and then stay true to the ‘in this essay I’ll-‘ comment and actually write an essay about 1600s religion stuff and how it effects Belos as a character as well as the importance it holds in his portrayal. But you know, that depends on how unhinged I am later today IWKWKWKWK
Italian and catholic here, I suggest you look at sacred Renaissance art for the composition, as for knives the only one who comes to mind is Caravaggio, who was more 1600 so unless Belos got his hands on art history books... Which is more likely than Belos being exposed to catholic art in 1400 Pennsylvania
unforgivable. kill his ass
