i’m still blown away by raúl’s art project. the planning. the precision. the care put into it. i like to think it was dedicated to his mom— i think one summer day he intended to take her up that hill and she would get to see how much he loves this town that he’d want to make something special for the few people left, how much he loves her for loving him. what an incredible kid.
To appease the Wendell and Wild fandom and the Owl House fandoms…
I made Kat, Raúl, and Siobhan Hexside students. Kat’s in the Bard and Oracle covens and has Bearzabub as her palisman (let’s say it was a gift from Sister Helly), Raúl is in the Abomination and Illusion coven and has an axolotl palisman, and Siobhan is in the Healing coven with Gabby Goat as her palisman.
I didn’t know what to do for Sweetie and Sloane, but if y’all have ideas, please comment and let me know.
-father bests never found out which of the demon brothers were which
-kat’s hair is naturally green
-someone manberg knew (most likely a relative) was a hell maiden
-bearz-a-bub is tethered to rust bank, obligating helley to stay at RBC and keep watch over it rather than put distance between it/her and manberg. other locations have similar plot devices
-manberg was born with phocomelia, rather than having lost his legs to a demon attack
-siobhan is encouraged to wear contacts and relax her hair by her parents; post-movie kat helps her relearn how to put in braids
-delroy was in a garage band in college and wilma was working on a master’s in molecular chemistry
-hell maidens (if not humans in general) are to demons what guardian angels are to humans, and coming to the living world is the closest demons get to ascension (though it’s treated more like moving to a vacation state than that)
-helley and manberg have gotten in at least five slapfights, four tug-of-wars with bearz-a-bub, and two HR interventions over the years
-bearz-a-bub shows significant bias to any hell maidens near it and its answer to if it missed manberg would’ve been “no”
-raúl came out to marianna by asking if he could get that trans sticker he has on that composition book
-wilma and marianna were good friends in college and did regular mixtape exchanges
need to yell a little about the existence of raúl as a trans character in wendell & wild. there's something so deeply comforting about seeing trans rep in modern additions to media i grew up loving - henry selick movies shaped a lot of my childhood (i fixated on coraline for years, and still watch the nightmare before christmas every december) and seeing someone who's trans like me in his newest movie... it felt like going home. it felt like being seen. it felt like it was looking at me and saying "you're part of me now"; it felt like love. maybe it won't have that same effect on people who didn't grow up with these movies, but it was enough to make me genuinely emotional.
obviously i can't talk on behalf of all the other communities who were represented here, but still. i can only hope they got the same feeling. i'm really, really glad this movie was made with so much love in it.
I NEED more fanart of Kat being like Wendell and Wild's cool older sister, and headcanons of Kat, Raul, and Siobhan all hanging out together and being friends. I also need people to start making AUs where Coraline and Wybie are also part of the group, and Coraline and Kat are best friends