Can we talk about how different Odalia and Darius are when they’re around kids?
Like seriously, we have Odalia, a psychologically abusive mother who would put her children into positions that they don’t want to be put in rather than let them discover what they want to do on their own…
…and then you have Darius, although not necessarily an actual dad (that we know of in canon yet), his response to Hunter defending the Emerald Entrails and treating him more like the kid he should be speaks volumes on how drastically different they are around kids!
Like seriously, why did Alador marry Odalia instead of Darius?
Not only is Alador recently realizing how crappy of a father he is for neglecting his children, but he straight-up gets told by his youngest child that he just follows whatever Odalia wants him to do
If he married Darius, he probably would’ve been a better father and be more involved with his kids rather than neglecting their problems
But, of course, that’s just a theory from my shipping ass
Because I’m ✨fruity✨ my theory is that Darius and Alador use to be best friends. Darius developed a crush on Alador and Alador was probs too oblivious to notice. Then here comes the bitch from hell-I mean Odalia. We all know she loves power and to be at the top. These two guys were probably the strongest witches in their track, thus Odalia wanted one of them. My guess is maybe Darius at first but he saw through her bs. So she went after Alador instead, it worked obviously. Darius tried to tell him but Alador didn’t want to hear any of it. Darius didn’t want to see his friend, and crush, with someone who doesn’t actually care for him. So instead, Darius pushed him away and they became rivals.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
Additional, the boring, non fruity way: they both wanted Odalia and somehow Alador won. Darius was mad and now they rivals
Odalia used a telepathy spell on Amity in Escaping Expulsion and yet it took me seeing her in whole uniform to realize that yeah, of course she wasn’t an Abomination witch, but an Oracle witch, like -
SO YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT THE REASON ALADOR WENT ALONG WITH ALL OF THIS IS BECAUSE ODALIA WAS GOING TO GET THE KIDS INVOLVED IF HE DIDN’T WHAT THE FUCK
Just like how Amity only went along with being distant to Willow, because Willow herself was threatened…!
I do like that, in spite of this new revelation on Alador’s situation to the audience, Alador himself still aknowledges that he can’t blame Odalia for everything he let happen to the kids, that he still could have been a better father to the kids and connected with them better in spite of it all.
I just want to say that I have my money on Darius and Alador being confirmed to be exes next episode.
You know sommat, I wanted to say I bet Alador and Odalia break up today after seeing the poster Rebecca Rose shared for today’s episode but I wasn’t sure how strong a theory it was.
I also let myself be convinced Lumity wouldn’t become canon during “Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door” by someone even though I knew “Eclipse Lake” wouldn’t make sense without it being canon.
So yeah, I’m trusting my gut that we’ll get a confirmation that Alador and Darius are exes next episode.
rip
i also wished for it
i wished for it deeply
hope it would get confirmed
Well it’s not over yet. I’m sure it will be confirmed in Season 3
I just want to say that I have my money on Darius and Alador being confirmed to be exes next episode.
You know sommat, I wanted to say I bet Alador and Odalia break up today after seeing the poster Rebecca Rose shared for today’s episode but I wasn’t sure how strong a theory it was.
I also let myself be convinced Lumity wouldn’t become canon during “Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door” by someone even though I knew “Eclipse Lake” wouldn’t make sense without it being canon.
So yeah, I’m trusting my gut that we’ll get a confirmation that Alador and Darius are exes next episode.
Okay, so I sadly was not on the money with this particular theory. It would be the time I decide to trust my gut wouldn’t it I do still have faith that it will come to fruition next season though.
I’ll post my thoughts on the overall episode later today.
So I planned to make a post on this last week but life - such as quitting one of my jobs - got in the way.
Anyway, I mentioned this in my thoughts regarding the episode “Them’s the Breaks, Kid” but I feel like this deserves it own post. So my theory is that I strongly suspect before Alador got together with Odalia, that he was in a relationship with Darius. This train of thought originally got going when I saw this clip of them.
Like you have Alador and Darius sat together, laughing and having fun. And while Odalia sort of joins in, with how she is stood there not looking like part of the group but being sorta on the outside looking in. It kinda feels like she is inserting herself where she is not wanted.
Odalia and Alador’s marriage doesn’t particularly strike me as a happy one either. Throughout “Escaping Expulsion”, Alador seems to defer to Odalia to a ridiculous extent and only stands up to her when the Blight name is being put at threat by her attempting to go back on her word.
Which brings me to another point, as to why Alador would leave Darius for Odalia in the first place. In “Understanding Willow” it is Alador who initially is portrayed as the more villainous of the two Blight parents. He is the one who lays down the law on what is expected of a Blight to Amity and that they “only associate with the strongest of witchlings”. They lined up friends for Amity they felt were more appropriate, Boscha and Skara and pushed her towards them despite her objections. Maybe Alador’s parents had a similar discussion with him. Maybe it took time for Darius to come into his powers and so Alador’s parents decided he wasn’t a suitable partner for their son to be with and pushed him towards Odalia instead. Someone they feel is worthy of carrying the Blight name.
In “Reaching Out”, when Alador finally notices him and Odalia are forcing things on Amity she doesn’t actually want, he actually does seem to finally take pause and seem to realise what he is doing to his child. This has me wondering if this takes him back to his own childhood and the things his parents may have forced on him which he doesn’t want. I also just gave this scene a rewatch and he mentions how he likes Amity’s new hair colour because it is abomination coloured. So far Amity has been forced by Odalia to dye her hair green, so it matches the hair of Odalia, Edric and Emira. Amity dying her hair abomination coloured would make it more reminiscent of that of Darius. Maybe he is imagining in that moment what his kid could have been like if he had stayed with Darius.
Finally, Darius and Alador have a rivalry. In “Eda’s Requiem”, Darius tells Kikimora to tell “Alador that he’s a hack”. If Alador had broken up with Darius due to his parents, it may explain his coldness towards Alador. Meanwhile Alador may feel resentful of Darius, that after leaving him, he has since grown into his powers and then possibly became Head of the Abomination Coven over him.
And hey, maybe it holds no water but this is my theory and I am standing by it
I’ve noticed that this post has been getting a lot of attention since the airing of “Clouds on the Horizon”. I wonder why
I seriously am so confident in the fact that Aladarius is or at the very least will be canon. I can just feel it. And hopefully the Blight siblings can get the two loving dads they deserve
I just want to say that I have my money on Darius and Alador being confirmed to be exes next episode.
You know sommat, I wanted to say I bet Alador and Odalia break up today after seeing the poster Rebecca Rose shared for today’s episode but I wasn’t sure how strong a theory it was.
I also let myself be convinced Lumity wouldn’t become canon during “Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door” by someone even though I knew “Eclipse Lake” wouldn’t make sense without it being canon.
So yeah, I’m trusting my gut that we’ll get a confirmation that Alador and Darius are exes next episode.
“Clouds on the Horizon” Incomplete Thoughts (Spoilers)
I think I’m gonna post my thoughts on “Clouds on the Horizon” next week along with my thoughts on “King’s Tide”. I have some thoughts on today’s episode especially given the Blight showdown we have just witnessed, something I have seen coming for quite sometime. And OMG!!!! Can I just say how happy I am to see Amity just expressly cut Odalia off. Just that, “I am never talking to you again.” And you know something, I actually believe Amity. I am 100% sure Amity will not talk to Odalia again.
Odalia has throughout been shown to be a person who only cares about money and status and she seems to think money and status will fix everything. Like she laughs off Amity’s declaration with, “Oh, you’ll be thanking me when you’re a literal princess, Princess.” Like getting her daughter a title would erase all the evil and crap she has and is about to do.
I do also think it is interesting here that Alador quits. Like I thought he had a stake in the company, but it turns out he is just an employee and Odalia is just like, “I’ve been meaning to find a more competent business partner anyway.” Somehow I think the latter part was effectively Odalia and Alador breaking up, as from what I can tell Odalia and Alador have a pretty loveless marriage. Their relationship does seem to be a business arrangement and Odalia seems to treat her family turning against her with a cavalier attitude. As long as she has her money and power she is happy, and she doesn’t need her family to get that. Meanwhile she seems to be under the delusion her family will come crawling back on broken glass to her when this all over. She puts way too much stock in money and power.
Also I find it interesting that Odalia accuses Amity of being the one to cause Edric and Emira to “act out”. A lot of blame gets thrown on Amity throughout the course of The Owl House, even though Ed and Em have been shown to be the rebellious Blight children, while up until recently Amity was the obedient perfect Blight child. Why is Amity then being blamed for Ed and Em acting out? Why aren’t Ed and Em blamed for corrupting Amity? I mean, I know neither is true. But why does the blame always fall on Amity? I thought I had an idea as to why Amity had more pressure placed on her, but now it is clear it isn’t just pressure and that Odalia is actively placing blame on Amity for faults in her family.
And yes, I acknowledge I am being very Blight focused here but as those who follow my blog will know, I have had a lot of theories regarding the Blights and at present those theories seem to be reaching their fruition. So I do have a lot of focus on this right now.
Interesting how when I finally gave up at writing a thoughts post, thoughts came out In all honesty though, I don’t think I’m done. I mean so far I have just started commenting on the Blight side of this and there is Luz, Hunter, King, Lilith, Raine and Eda who have all played very important roles this episode. Not to mention I have theories about Darius that I feel are going to come in to play extremely soon, theories I have already posted.
So at present, without next week’s episode my thoughts feel incomplete. Oh and before I go, I just have to say that I absolutely adored Amity and Luz’s kiss and I so hope we get to see Luz and Amity go on a date eventually as Luz promised Amity. Obviously that probably won’t happen this Season but maybe in the 3 X 40 min episodes that will be the entirety of Season 3.
This episode pretty much changed entirely the way I see Alador.
Learning that one of the main reasons he neglected Amity and the twins was actually because he had a deal with Odalia to not to force their kids into literal child labor (mostly Amity because she’s the one on the abomination track, but also the twins, who she’d probably force into joining the abomination coven even if they don’t want to) as long as he did all the work himself and didn’t step out of line. He really overworked himself for years hoping he’d take most of the abuse and the kids would be left alone, or at least to be able to study what they wanted.
This also makes me see the moment when he told Odalia to leave Amity and their friends alone in Escaping Expulsion in a different light, if I already saw it differently after Reaching Out: he actually wanted Amity to be happy and hang out with their friends. And he did use the whole “she’s strong enough to become a coven leader” thing to convince Odalia to let her be, even if he actually did hope she would get to join the Emperor’s Coven and one of the reasons why is because he thought she wanted to (and when she was finally able to talk to talk to him and tell him in Reaching Out that nope, she didn’t want to… he didn’t seem to care). The other reason why he’d probably want her to be a coven head is because if she didn’t, maybe Odalia would force her into working for the company, and he didn’t want her to end up like him.
He still wasn’t a good parent and none of this really excuses him but, learning he was actually a victim all along as well made me feel terrible for him, to be honest. He kind of reminds me of Willow (Schnee, from RWBY, not Willow Park): not really an abusive parent as much as a neglectful one—and an abuse victim too—, who’s too scared to stand up to the abusive one. But he finally did and I’m happy for him.
Congrats on the divorce, dude, hope you can be a better father now and be happy.
Also props to him apologizing to Luz and telling her she’d always be welcome into their home lol even if it was actually Hunter lmao
wait one last thought. the Blight parents are really funny 2 me bc their relationship reminds me so much of my parents’ relationship. my parents have been divorced for over 15 years<3
i dont have anything in owlhouse that i am obsessed with strongly enough to write a fanfic but i want you to know that if i was forced to write a fanfic about anything for TOH it would be Blight Divorce
Yello hello! SO SORRY for not posting a while now, some things just keeps happening or some things just distracts me ಥ‿ಥ I tried what i can in the video part ｡:ﾟ(;´∩`;)ﾟ:｡
So yeah she’s fucking terrible and I truly wish her the worst but being honest? Being really honest here? Odalia thicker than country gravy so I can’t blame Alador too much because I toohave awful taste in women.
