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probablyhuntersmom · 7 months

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I hadn't spotted these a year ago:

Oh my god, guys???!!! Parallels:

2. These are the same face - the Depression Face.

It tugs at my heart like nothing else, because...

3. Oooh never paid attention to this:

4. These lil' guys were moving and animated while sleeping here, aww:

5. The screenshot below, to me, is foreshadowing that Hunter may have expressed his wish to study at Hexside...but once that wish is actually granted, he too is gonna be depressed - at school, specifically - for months, and frustrated that he simply cannot be enthusiastic about classes the way he initially hoped. He'll push and push himself and judge himself for why he "can't even" enjoy lessons he's supposed to be excited about:

6. Do you think they took Hunter to the zoo's bird hall, before he carved Waffles (I personally view it as a good element of exposure therapy)? :

7. People usually put the S1 screenshot of Luz drawing light glyphs, next to the one with Flapjack fading away...but I saw this too:

It makes me wanna chew extra recycled cardboard about Luz and Flapjack parallels, specifically. Because of what they both offered to the world, if you think about it:

8. If Camila went through an outfit change like this in her nightmare:

Imagine the mayhem of Hunter's many nightmares with his many outfits :S

9. A really good reference for how Hunter healed pre-timeskip, is this sequence, where the order has been altered a bit below:

(who knows, maybe Willow recorded a lot of vids of him on her scroll T___T)

10. Wow this sums up the show doesn't it:

11. Ugh you can't tell me that...they wouldn't have had a similar-ish mirror scene with Waffles and older Hunter to these, if we had a full S3 or more seasons:

Him approaching a mirror with no palisman beside him...I can't imagine how that was in those horrible months. (Maybe he does this before heading out to conduct a Palisman Adoption Day)

12. I feel really happy, confidently believing that he unlearned this body language:

in the presence of adults, especially his new parental figures. Coercive control wasn't a dominating theme in his life anymore. And while we didn't see it onscreen, he would've found the space to even initiate connection via physical touch with his parents, like what Luz naturally does here:

I say "physical touch" specifically, because to quote @idlescree's amazing video analyses, Hunter's own physical body - not just his mind - was the ultimate and most intimate battleground for Belos to exert control, by possessing Hunter and using him as a puppet in the most direct way possible. So for Hunter to get physically close to family to express love after Flapjack's death, in spite of terrible spooky thoughts that he might still gravely injure others...that isn't a small feat at all.

13. I think his casual sweater is a plain gold colour, and his cosplay outfit has its yellow colour: because he's still influenced by Belos.

The black of the wolf tee and in the cosplay, feel to me like foreshadowing of his post-possession grief. Even after Flapjack is gone, Hunter still thinks about Belos and is still walking around in the same cosplay outfit. His newfound freedom and healing is reflected in his timeskip design (calm midtones of orange and blue): when Belos has no more hold on him via a painful history. We would see a progression from the predominant darkness of the black colour to those peaceful midtones on his clothing.

14. Best one saved for last! It's a headcanon, but I draw a few connections. @childlikegoblinqueen and I were talking about him likely returning to the place where poor Flapjack was slain, even if it takes a number of years before he can do so. Waffles will be with him.

Imagine...instead of running frantically in the night:

he calmly strolls during a beautiful Halloween evening, with autumn leaves blowing in the wind once again:

There are no horrors awaiting him, and very importantly, he can believe that.

And he visits the spot at the lake, and puts his hand to his chest:

but for once, he can smile while doing that specific gesture. All the times that he has put a hand to his heart in the show, he wasn't smiling (link). He then leaves and then returns to his family (walking in the opposite direction of the portal above) to have an actually joyful Halloween celebration.

#for flapjack #Thanks to Them anniversary #the owl house #thanks to them

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somewhatgoodatart · 1 year

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Post-series concepts for Hunter

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Some thoughts below the cut:

Love the idea of him with glasses as shown in Dana’s art at Gallery Nucleus. Also firmly on the ‘Hunter with dyed red long hair’ train, because it means acceptance of his identity and it looks really good (did not mean to give him a mullet I just noticed I did when I had to draw his hair down whoops-)

Also, I’m personally not the biggest fan of Hunter carving himself a new palisman. Especially when the concept for his artifucial staff and Alador are right there and he would totally add something like retractable wings (for better aerodynamics but enough stability for flying)

Based on his outfit in Dana’s art at Gallery Nucleus, a few more patches added at the front: an Emerald Entrails patch on his sleeve, an O’Bailey/’Cosmic Frontier’ patch on his right, ‘Bonesborough Historical Society’ patch on his left side + the inner lining of his jacket corresponds with the sleeves of his Hexside uniform

very cool idea for the Emerald Entrails letterman jackets by @rileyclaw, with a wing patch for his sleeve to match the one he has on his jacket

I know in an actually healthy environment and after proper conversation Hunter and Lilith would get along great, being the nerds that they are, working/helping out at the museum. Also, someone pointed out that Lilith’s bag looks like she made it out of her old dress and I would love for Hunter to do the same with his old tunic!

I love the design concept of Hunter’s black Grom suit as much as the next person but I’m discovering that I might like earthy tones for him even more. Anyway Hunter with a bun-

Really channeled the Clawthorne vibe for his woodcarving lessons with Dell and Eda. unrelated: petition to get Hunter a service dog, specifically an Alaskan Malamute, based on an anon suggestion (ask answered by @sergeantsporks who hopefully won’t mind me tagging them). His name is Pancake :)

Hunter would probably stick to tracks he knows he could execute both theoretically and practically. Oracle or Abomination might not be impossible (he does carry a small sphere in the first design) but he could prefer tracks that more closely follow his character/ interests > nature-centric, often with a direct connection to the Isles (Bard, Plants, Construction)

the flapjack socks and watermelon pants make a reappearance, along with a Hexside binder (the merch we all want) and a wolf squishmallow that Vee got him

(This was actually just a de-stressing sketch between exams but I actually had fun designing these. Might do Luz at some point)

#the owl house #toh #toh fanart #toh hunter #hunter wittebane #hunter noceda #hunter clawthorne #character design #hexside #grom outfit #outfit design #emerald entrails

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