Emira: Welcome to Fucking Applebee’s, do you want apples or bees? Hunter:Bees? Emira: HE HAS SELECTED THE BEES! Hunter:Wait- *Edric approaches, shaking a jar of bees menacingly*
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
hey!!! i have uploaded some fanmade owl house merch on RB! it’s mostly stickers/magnets but there a few other things too :) (altho the main page doesnt show it. it’s there.)
this scene was so powerful. the owl house has always done a great job at showing the effects of toxic parenting, but actually seeing the extent to which odalia goes, how much she will sacrifice for high status, was jarring. im so glad that kids get to see amity fight back against it, and choose happiness over her mothers negligent demands.
Really want to see someone do the “prepare for trouble” thing from team rocket with the blight twins, edric and emira, and then have Amity as Meowth at the end as her siblings try to have her say the line “Meowth that’s right” and she really doesn’t want to and seems annoyed but reluctantly does so at the end much to her siblings enjoyment. I’ve had that in my mind for a bit now but I can’t draw
