#it honestly reminde me of how Dana said one her influences when writing/conceptualising Belos was conservative relatives

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Lmao was watching the fight scene between Luz and Belos in YBOS and the lines that stuck out to me were "okay, I'll play" and "go be a hero".

Because both are spoken with a bit of amusement and condescension, which is appropriate when you realise that, in Philips mind, his little genocide plot and especially the detour with the Clawthorne sisters in s1 really is a bit of a game to him. A game that's important to him, that he's determined to win, but a bit of a game nonetheless.

Like, he doesn't see any of the isle's inhabitants as people, he's framed the whole thing as a game to the collector to get them to help him, he's essentially been continuing his childhood game of witch hunters this whole time on a bigger scale, complete with a "Caleb" and everything.

And then the line "go, be a hero" is SOOO funny to me, because the reason he's so dismissive of Luz is because, in his mind, he's the hero of this story. No one else, not even the other human, him. He's painting Luz and naïve and delusional here for thinking she's doing any good WHEN THAT'S EXACTLY HOW HE THINKS. Get a load of this guy!!!

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #I'm obsessed with how belos perceives his relationship to luz bc it reveals so much abt how much of a dick he is #he acts like he's treating luz especially well compared to the other witches and demons on the isles by letting her live #trying to get her to buy into his worldview that it's them as humans vs the rest of the demon realm as non-humans #but he barely treats luz like a person with agency! he just treats her like some brainwashed kid who can't think for herself #(which like. compare that to how he treats hunter- a kid who's actually brainwashed but whom belos perceives as like. especially malicious- #-in his intentions bc he's always looking for reasons to take his anger towards caleb out on the grimwalkers) #tbh not viewing the ppl he treats as important to him as ppl with their own agency and desires is a theme with belos #it honestly reminde me of how Dana said one her influences when writing/conceptualising Belos was conservative relatives #if you're different in a way you can't/dont want to hide (like the witches) then you're treated overtly poorly by them #but if they perceive you as ''one of the good ones'' or as the ''us'' in us vs them #they'll dismiss any of your own feelings and opposition and act like they speak for u #anyway. i wanna kill this guy. i can't for someone to kill this guy i hope it's as narratively satisfying as I've dreamt it'll be <3