So at first, I thought Belos’ interaction with Luz didn’t impact him much beyond losing Hunter, something he already expected. But in this episode, it looks like Luz’s reaction after his speech on his goal actually marked him. Not in a good way.
This is his first time interacting with a human since he killed his brother for loving a witch, something he believed was a sin. And here is another human, someone who should agree with him, who even unknowingly helped him back when he was Philip, calling him evil. After his first reaction in Hollow Mind -which was to attack Luz and deem her crazy- he had time to think.
Belos met two humans -one being his own brother- who disagreed with him, and no matter how in denial he seems to be, this doesn’t bode well for him and his delusions of saving humanity. What if things in the Human Realm really changed, like the Collector said? What if they didn’t agree with him, even though he was saving them from evil? His conversation with Luz seems to have disturbed him more than he wants to admit.
This could also be why he wants Luz to be brought directly to him. He has doubts, not about his goal but about what humanity will think of him. And he wants to ask her how humanity is now.
I’d like to be able to call Philip an idiot for putting Glyphs, which consume the thing they’ve been drawn on, onto his own body, but I have to admit, that had I been him I would’ve either:
A) Have gotten Curious and drawn them on myself to see what would happen
B) Wanted to know if putting Glyphs on myself would give me magic, and would have done it despite all of the obvious risks (I know it’s stupid but It’s for science and maybe the slightest bit of curiosity)
or
C) Absentmindedly doodling on my arm, deciding to draw a glyph. Which is quite possibly the dumbest way to get yourself cursed
You know what is delicious irony? That Belos in his last act of backstabbing the Collector, throws him down to the pit with the Golden Guard bodies, the other victims of his lies. Only for the plate, in the unlikeliest of chances, to be “caught” by them. The GGs symbolically doing one last bit of defiance against Belos, one that ultimately ruins him.
Kikimora knowing what happens to Golden Guards who are deemed failures by Belos, puts all her interactions with Hunter in a new light. Cause she was straight up rooting for Hunter to fail, knowing that he’ll be brutally murdered and disposed of…
“Steve, kindly put those here and close the mail box I believe that I’m drowning in all these queries”
“You got it,Boss!”
// Hi!! Closing the inbox for now because there are just too many questions hahaha I will open it up once I have more elbow room again. Thank you so much for all this support! I’m honestly very flustered at the amount of people that follow this blog ^^)/
[ID: Two drawings based off Belos’ memories from The Owl House. The first one is child Philip and his brother in a dull brown color palette. They’re standing in front of trees, smiling and holding sticks. Philip looks eager and exited. His brother’s face is scribbled out, but you can still see him smiling. The second image is in a color palette consisting of dark reddish-purples, and bright orange and yellows. His brother is standing in a defensive pose, holding a knife to the side, and his hand up in front of him, as if not wanting to fight. His expression looks upset. Fire and smoke fill the background behind him. End ID]
I’ve been reading everyone saying that Flapjack was the pallisman of Caleb(Belos/Philip’s brother), but I don’t think so. I think Flapjack is the pallisman of the woman Caleb fell in love with.
While we’re at it, despite the few images we have of that woman (a darkened profile and another with her back turned), to me she looks a bit like the Clawthorne family, plus the Clawthorne’s are the only ones with bird pallismans.
