Can’t help but feel like these two were an intentional shoutout to the Boschlow ship. Which makes sense, since there was absolutely no way the actual ship could ever happen in the show (except as a joke).
I kinda want to know more about these two now and what their deal was. F**k Disney for cutting the show short.
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
Does anyone else absolutely love how Darius originally seemed to play right into the gay coded villain trope and then within like the last two episodes they have thrown that completely on it’s head by revealing he is in fact one of the good guys?
I don’t know if that was intentional, but I love how the show seems to play into that trope at first and then throws it completely on it’s head.
I mean given all the positive LGBT+ rep in The Owl House, I think I would have been willing to forgive them having a gay coded villain but I love this so much more.
@yardsards added these tags which I 100% agree with.
