I always see Raeda wedding fanart with Raine in a black suit and Eda in a white gown.
NO!
I want RAINE to be the one wearing the dress. Look me in the eye me tell me they would not look absolutely STUNNING! And we all know that Eda can rock a suit like there’s no tomorrow. Also, I feel that the color red should be incorporated into the wedding outfits in some way. I will not be taking criticism. Good day.
This is not really a criticism, but I can’t help but feel like “Raine was pretending to be mind controlled all along!” is not the most interesting narrative direction the Owl House could have taken there? I love me some competence plot twist, don’t get me wrong, I love heist movies, but in this case it barely works because we don’t really… know Raine? They’ve shown up a whooping three times, including TTBK. The entire flashback was needed to (re) set them up as this magical badass because without it, the plot twist would have fallen absolutely flat, me thinks.
And now that Raine is trying to keep Eda out of the rebellion by not communicating, which, as many people have pointed out parallels Eda’s behaviour about her curse, it feels like the plot is leading up to this non-communication causing problems for Eda and Raine, if not on the DOY directly then at least in an important episode leading up to it. And it’s definitely a thing of personal preference, but I’m rather tired of such miscommunication plots used for drama, never mind that it feels redundant with Eda chewing herself out for not letting Raine in all those years ago about the curse. Like, the two have been there, and sure, now it’s Raine’s turn to do the thing, but…
Call it trope preference, but Eda maybe being forced to decide to try to keep reaching out to a mind controlled Raine, versus just letting them go (for now), but ultimately deciding to pursue them anyway and help them fight past the mind control, be that via magical-shared-memory-adventure or Raine simply thinking about what she said at the parade, maybe starting to find holes in Terra’s story on their own, or realizing the EC treatments are all wack and should be stopped, and therefore breaking out of the mind control because they still trust in Eda even after all these years apart, or Eda finally reaching out and not letting go, having to make herself vulnerable and open to reach Raine because she’s let them go once and is not willing to do it again and watch them destroy everything they’ve built for themselves that’s… yeah, Imo just way more dramatically satisfying long term than the short satisfaction of “Haha, fooled you, I had a plan all along!”
(Especially because now the EC barely feels like a threat anymore. It’s Belos + Terra + maybe Kiki, as seriously as she can be taken these days vs Raine + Darius + maybe Eber + Owl House crew + plus Hunter at some point later and uh, yeah, one of those sides is clearly outnumbered. Idk what about the other coven heads. At the conversion rate we’re looking at, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out half of them are also rebelling and the other half turn coat as soon as the whole Draining Spell is revealed to them. I’d be disappointed about that, however. Either way, until the other Coven Heads get lines that indicate any narrative staying power, I’m not considering them for these kind of threat assessments.)
The horrible thing about writing fic for ongoing shows is that you get a week to finish them before all your headcanons and theories get debunked so hard you want to write more fic but also can’t believe you didn’t see that coming and -
Well guess I won’t be finishing up that post-S2E11 Raine centered one shot *grumble grumble*
Obsessed with the fact that Darius had one positive interaction with the Golden Guard and immediately decided that actually, the whole operation sucks, he’s rebelling now.
Even if that’s not what happened, there is no explanation that is not outrageously funny here:
Darius was always a rebell? So Eda and Raine tried to kill the (only, haha, unless) guy that was actually on their side all along, causing growing confusion on all sides.
Darius deflected after Raine was captured, thinking the mind control to be tasteless? Cool, villain with surprisingly high and yet bonkers standards. “I can excuse draining all witches of magic to merge the realms but I draw the line at petty mind control.”
Darius noticed Raine broke the mind control, and is just keeping an eye on them in his own way, meaning he will turn coat/reveal his true colours on the Day of Unity again? Our lad is rocking the heck out of those heel face heel turns, freaking superb.
If Darius (and by extension probably Eberwolf) is truly rebelling now: How many Coven Heads will actually show up for the Day of Unity? Between Wrath and some others already doubting the Agenda, Hunter’s crisis of faith and a whooping 1/3 of the Coven Heads (that we know of!) opposing the Emperor outright, does Belos even have anyone left? Especially by the end?
Sad brit Philip will go down how he lived: with absolutely no one on his side, cursing the nature of witches out for their betrayel, completely ignorant to the fact that he was totally planning on betraying them all first.
