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I decided to do something a little bit insane. I sat down and typed every word spoken in revenge of the Sith so I could then hand write every word to create this scene redraw. I am very pleased with the final result I’m not gonna lie.
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Okay, so this is a revision of that huge asf Lunter post i made before FTF aired:
Here's how the Luz/Caleb parallels don't work: here
So, for this one I'm going to point out all the... totally Sibling symbolism... between the two of them and specific details that tie them to Caleb/Evelyn.
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Okay so before I even begin...I just want to show you these images of Hunter's early designs:
Hunters early designs:
Early research on "The Owl House", the Disney TV series created by Dana Terrace.
God... I really need to know whats in the TOH bible... He may have been conceptualized as a friend of Luzs before he became her enemy...
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Witches Before Wizards: Luz crushing on the prince character. First of all, you do know Nevareth didn't have to be a prince right? He could have literally been any other archetype. Also, Hunter is nearly identical to him character design wise, because:
He's older than her.
2. The angsty, warrior teen prince archetype
3. Has a compelling and tragic backstory.
4. Is on a quest of vengeance with Luz [after the events of Thanks to Them].
5. Had an animal sidekick.
6. Very similar shoulder armor Hunter has when he's in his GG uniform. There's no reason for him to wear gold shoulder armor so similar to the only other prince character in the show. it's also on the same shoulder Hunter wears his on.
7. Their hair length is the same and the hair on the top of their heads is slicked back [after Thanks to Them].
8. Nevareth and Hunter now have the same eye color.
9. I thought Nevareth's anime sword was just a anime reference, but we can see Hunter was initially conceptualized as a sword wielder
The curvy sword he used to have was repurposed into the dagger Philip uses to kill Caleb. You can also see this dagger in Hunters room in ASIAS and HP. And the character in the stain glass window is Hunter because they have the same profile:
10. This one is self explanatory.
I also want to show you the way their first appearances are contrasted... cuz I think it's neat
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The hints that will forever haunt me in Sense and Insensitivity:
"Luzura's tears fell on the frozen prince bringing him back to life."
So, I just wanted to highlight the dialouge here:
King: Luzura's tears fell on the frozen prince bringing him back to life? It feels a little unrealistic.
Luz: I see what you're saying, but in your version Ruler just destroys everything. I think a little romantic tension can help the scene.
2. Luz's drawing of herself kissing a prince that looks like Hunters early design in a story she wrote about her self-insert character. This is very suspicious because this episode actually does spoil some plot points that happen later in the series. The example i used in the first point foreshadowed Hunter dying and coming back to life. Im also going to include King's dialogue while this kiss is in the foreground, so you can see why this scene drives me fucking crazy
3. Look I know Huntlows are gonna chug their copium and pretend like this kiss is supposed to be between Hunter and Willow. But if they actually payed attention to this episode they'd realize that the story the lizard man is holding is about Luz's self-insert character. Here's what her self-insert character looks like BTW:
As you can clearly see, her self insert has POINTY EARS, not round ones! So this kiss is obviously supposed to be Luz and Hunter and not Willow and Hunter lol.
We ALSO know Luz has a thing for princes as this was presented in Witches Before Wizards [kind of suspicious its being brought up again... in an episode that foreshadows other events that have come to pass in the series]. So this is... obviously supposed to be Luz and not Willow.
This kiss is extra sus when you remember this card is in the episode:
This isn't Luz - it's Amity. In this episode, Luz and King are writing a story about their self-inserts. So the Prince and this girl on the heartbreak card are stand-ins for Hunter and Amity... because they are her Love Interests... Again, this episode spoils some plot points that happen later in the series... so you can see why this is something Im going to be wondering about for years to come. Why is Amity on a heartbreak card?
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"The First Day"
"And maybe [I'll] meet a hot yet vulnerable upperclassmen."
Look... this show is filled with shit that makes no sense to me in hindsight. I dont know if this dialogue was hinting at Hunter appearing at school at some point, but Im taking this line for the Lunter shippers since Hunter's the only kid in the main cast thats older than Luz. He's the only one who qualifies to be an upperclassman.
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Hunting Palismen:
Okay so before I even get to the fakeout kiss moment I want to tell you this is what Hunter looks like when he teleports back to the ship...
People say this is just him being confident... but idk man this looks more firty than confident. He also says "Hiiiiiii" in a sus manner... Later in the episode he talks to Luz in a way that sounds confident and weirdly flirty... and he never sounds like this again... I cant upload more clips and I dont really want to make separate posts just for those clips... but like, just go and watch these parts of the episode to see what i mean.
Fake Out Kiss moment:
This...
Is literally a callback to this (proof of concept video)
Despite this biphobic fanbases insistence Luz is a lesbian and think the story would somehow be "better" if she was one... she is not and she will never be one. Cry about it. Luz is also into boys - and she's into boys like Hunter - the angsty warrior princes who are older than her. So you can see why I think people who headcanon them as siblings are weird as fuck. Especially after they see this obvious fake-out kiss moment. Like seriously, people who draw them as siblings are fucking weirdos - this is something ill never EVER change my mind on lmao.
Moving on....
2. Flapjack connects Luz and Hunter the same way he connects Evelyn and Caleb:
Without Evelyn, Caleb would have never received Flapjack. If Evelyn never showed him how magic wasn't this evil and dangerous thing that should be feared and destroyed, Flapjack would have never been created. We still dont know WHO carved Flapjack. What Dana said in her post series Livestream was just her HEADCANON. This is something we'll never know most likely. As i doubt TOH is going to get a spin-off. But the point is... without Evelyn, Caleb would have never received Flapjack.
Hunter was taught to fear wild magic because it's dangerous. Wild magic is the reason why his family was wiped out. Luz's and Hunter's meeting in Hunting Palismen was integral for Hunter's growth. If Luz didn't show him wild magic wasn't dangerous, Hunter would have shunned Flapjack. Without Luz, Hunter would have never received his greatest source of emotional support. Without Flapjack, Hunter would not have gone back to save Willow and Gus from Darius. Hunter only went back to save them because he knew Willow's and Gus' palismen would get killed by Belos.
Flapjack is also the physical representation of Caleb and Evelyns love... So, now do you see why Luz giving Flapjack to Hunter is inherently a romantic gesture? Like lol...
3. Hunter could have taken the palismen from Luz
Hunter can teleport... he could have literally teleported to Luz as she was flying away on Kikimora's dragon and restrained her with ease if he really wanted to... like he did literally at the beginning of the episode. He could have also sent scouts to retrieve the palismen at the school. BUT HE DIDNT.
Hunter willingly disobeys the man who gave him everything knowing full well his physical safety could be put at risk. In Hunting Palismen and ASIAS it is implied Belos gave him his cheek scar. In the past, Hunter did something that required him to "earn" a second chance from Belos. Whatever this was we dont know - but Hunter's cheek scar is most likely something Belos gave him to teach him a "lesson".
Again, Hunter is choosing to disobey Belos - his abuser - for Luz even though he barely knows her, she's a wild witch, she's the protégé of a notorious wild witch AND he has the power to take those palismen away from her. Like... this is a big fucking deal lol. ESPECIALLY when you remember Caleb "betrayed" Philip for a witch. A witch - a.k.a a person that was considered evil and dangerous during Philips time period. Wild Witches are considered evil and dangerous in Hunter's time...
Hunter has been raised to believe wild magic wiped out his family, so him helping out a wild witch knowing his abuser could physically harm him for failing to bring him any palismen is FUCKING HUGE. This is why its weird to me when people call Hunter selfish... like the kid literally let Luz go and didnt bother to send any scouts to the school to get the palsimen... it didnt benefit him at all to show Luz this kindness.
4. Hunter tells Luz his name after she expresses disappointment in him and he protects her from Kikimora. Again, he doesnt have to protect Luz but he does... cuz hes not completely devoid of humanity.
It really is funny... like people dont realize Luz needed to be written out of ASIAS and Eclipse Lake because Hunter would have folded like an envelope the moment Luz expresses disappointment in him.
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Any Sport In a Storm:
When looking for a first and last name to call himself by, Flapjack coins in the name "Caleb". Which Hunter uses for his first name. Again, Luz is forced into a b-plot because if she was there, Hunter would have joined her side right then and there LOL.
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Hollow Mind:
We have the Grimwalker that looks the most like Caleb running away from Philip with a witch from another world... Both at the end of the episode and during the episode. You might be thinking, " but that monster wasn't Philip"... but... it doesnt matter because that is what Philip's monster form looks like...
2.) The jacket Luz wears in Hollow Mind has a big ol' "E" on it. It's a jacket that belongs to Eda... a Clawthorn... Evelyn also begins with an "E"... Golly, I wonder what the significance of an "E" on Luz's jacket could possibly mean in an episode that directly parallels Luz and Hunter with Caleb and Evelyn... It really is a mystery! [If you cant tell im being sarcastic]
Here's a picture of Luzs jacket:
Another thing... Look at whats going on here in this scene...
^ This portrait is in the the background of the above scene just so you know. And the scene with Luz, Hunter and "Philip" looks nearly identical to this painting...
3. This is the episode where we get these portraits, which by the way were not shown in this order during the episode. Someone on reddit put these images in this order. Again, TOH was made for nerds who like to look for the hidden details and find out how they fit together (me, im the nerd this show was made for.):
... The first portrait in the second row is a memory of Caleb choosing to go with Evelyn over Philip... shown to us in an episode where Hunter - the Grimwalker who looks the most like Caleb - runs away from Philip with a witch from another world... Like Hunter literally turns around to look at Philip as he's running away with Luz just like Caleb turns around to look at Philip when Evelyn is leading him away. Haunting, absolutely haunting.
4. I just want to say: in the painting where Caleb and Philip meet Evelyn for the first time, Caleb looks around Hunter's age - I'm basing this on how young Philip looks here and that he's holding the mask Caleb carved for him. Actually,, Here's the updated Hollow Mind portraits posted on TWT so you can see what Im talking about:
[link]
So, while the play in TTT and the book in Yesterday's Lie implied they met Evelyn as adults it actually looks like they met her when they were teenagers.
OH WAIT, I need to point out that they did these parallels WHILE LUZ IS DATING AMITY. This episode comes after Knock Knock Knockin on Hootys door, the episode where they officially start dating.
5. Another connection Hunter has with Caleb is that he's also a witch-hunter... His name is a short-hand for witch-hunter... Belos has been training him to be a witch-hunter because he expects every clone of his brother to be a witch-hunter... because you know... Caleb WAS a witch-hunter before he "betrayed" Philip...
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Kings Tide:
This is the first instance where we get Philip calling Hunter "Caleb".
2. Both Caleb and Hunter run away to another world with an expecting witch. Philip crosses worlds to track down both pairs.
Luz counts as an "expecting" witch because she is waiting for her palisman to hatch... Evelyn was pregnant when Caleb chose to "run away" with her
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Thanks to Them:
Okay where do I begin with this one... Let me say this again, pretty much confirm Hunter/Luz = Caleb/Evelyn AND they confirm these parallels WHILE LUZ IS STILL DATING AMITY.
First of all, they didnt need to give Hunter Calebs hairstyle. It's the same length but Hunter's is more unkept. They could have done that trope where the possessed characters hair returns to normal after they're unpossessed. Like... WHY did Hunter need to have a change in eye color and hair color if it wasnt going to go anywhere?
2. They did not need to make Luz look like Evelyn. Like... why does Evelyn have brown hair lol.
3. The framing on the carriage ride is really... interesting. First of all, they make Hunter sit next to Luz and not Willow as Masha is telling everyone The Tale of The Brothers Wittebane... a story where Caleb and Philip meet a witch from another world.... as Hunter is dressed as a human character and Luz is dressed as a witch character... and we know from Hollow Mind that Calebs and Evelyns relationship was a romantic one...
Oh right, and they only frame Luz's and Hunter's reactions to hearing Masha say how the brothers met a witch from another world name Evelyn... And Luz is the only character in the cast who fits the whole "witch from another world" theme
This is exactly how this scene happens btw
AND THEN Luzs and Hunters reactions are framed again while Masha says that maybe Philip is still chasing his brother, caught in a cycle of horror and strife...
Also in the storyboard version of this scene only Hunter and Luz have a negative facial expression.
Oh right and Flapjack is in this play... Evelyn is presenting Caleb with Flapjack, which neatly ties in with Hunting Palismen where Luz introduces Flapjack to Hunter
4. Philip calls Luz Evelyn before he tries killing Flapjack right in front of her. Then moments later, when Philip leaves Hunters body, he calls him Caleb AGAIN.
5. So, this isn't a parallel but I still want to talk about it: When Hunter asks Luz how she feels after what happened in Hollow Mind, she gives him a straight answer and even tears up in front of him. This is a big deal because when Luz has been prompted by other people, including her own girlfriend, about how she feels after a great emotional upset, she'll be vague, make something up, or tell them not to worry about it. Which is very fucking strange given what happens in FTF - where Luzs and Hunters bond is completely discarded even though TTT focuses on their relationship. Like Hunter literally asks her to help him fight Philip and he died and came back right before her eyes... but they treat each other more like strangers in FTF. Also in FTF Luz is the only one to ask Hunter if hes okay after Willow shows him the picture of Flapjack. Luz asking Hunter if hes okay comes a little to late in the episode to feel natural, but its still so fucking funny how LUZ asks Hunter if he's okay and not Willow... Like Willow deadass shows hunter a picture of his dead friend and for some reason HUNTER has to be the one to apologize to Willow when she gets upset over Hunter not responding the way she expected him to... Like my god... Anyways here are some links examining how Luz tends to keep her real feelings bottled up with other people vs Hunter.
(more in detail here. and here, aaaaand here. one more)
6. Hunter has his most vulnerable moment with Luz and not the girl he's crushing on. This writing choice makes no sense given what happens in FTF, where they focus on Hunter's relationship with Willow... but they dont actually canonize Huntlow. You... kind of have to make one character confess to the other in order for a relationship to start. Very, very strange to me... Yes even if its m/f you have to have a confession because... that's romance 101, buddy.
Again, FTF makes no sense with the context of Thanks to Them. In Thanks to Them, they focus on Luzs and Hunters relationship and bring Caleb and Evelyn to the forefront. So you think FTF and WAD are going to focus more on Hunters and Luzs relationship because theyve been established as Caleb/Evelyn.... they do not. All of Luzs scenes with Hunter could have gone to Willow in TTT considering what happens in FTF and WAD.
Like seriously, why didnt they make Huntlow canon is TTT and give all of Luzs scenes to Willow? Fanservice thats why, lol.
7. While I don't know every single detail about Hecate (the goddess) i do notice some similarities between her and Hunter. I also want to point out that the wolves on the shirt are Luz, the Hexside gang, Vee and Camila.
... People do not fucking get that this shirt didn't need to look like this... but they went out of their way to make it pretty clear this is supposed to be Luz, Camila, Vee and the Hexside gang.
The wolf with red eyes is obviously Hunter, the one behind it is Luz, the biggest one on the bottom left-hand side is Camila, the brown one is Vee, the blue one is Gus, the magenta one is Amity, and the greenish one is Willow.
But isn't it suspicious that the wolf representing Luz is right behind the one that represents Hunter...
Also just so you know, Luz's school team is called "Wolves". AND this scene at school comes BEFORE Hunter shows Gus his wolf shirt:
As of WAD this choice to color-code the wolves on Hunters shirt AND to put the wolf that's obviously Luz behind Hunter AND to call Luz's school team Wolves is going to haunt me for the rest of my life :)
8. Hunter has the same death pose as Caleb:
9. Philip : "Caleb, you would stab me in the back?"
Luz : "You did it to him first."
... Please just look at the painting of dead Caleb...
10. Flapjack only let Hunter and Luz use him. And he flies to Luz when he's mortally wounded.
11. They also made sure Luz was the one to express the most worry over Hunter drowning and not the girl he's crushing on. Luz was about to jump into the water to get Hunter if Camila wasn't faster on the response. I also need to point out Luz was the ONLY ONE who couldnt fight Hunter. She was the only one holding back. Im not counting Vee in the same group as Luz because while she didn't throw anything at him her magic absorption abilities could have damaged him. Hunter is a GRIMWALKER, Vee's attempt to such the magic out of him could have had negative consequences on him.
Sooooo.... again... Why did Thanks to Them focus on Luz's and Hunter's bond if they were going to pretend like it didnt exist in FTF and focus on Willows and Hunter's dynamic instead? So fucking weird.
The fact that they dont even show us Evelyn is very suspicious. I still do not understand why her appearance is kept in the dark. She couldnt even appear as a "ghost" in FTF. "They didn't have time" BULLSHIT - they had time, they just wasted it on FUCKING BOSCHA and school shit that exists specifically for Huntlow bait. They had the time but focused on the wrong shit because they didnt have the spine to show us Evelyns face.
Also i want to point out that Caleb's ghost is him when he was a teenager. Caleb died when he was a grown ass man and he didnt have a pony tail when he died. So like... Why does his "ghost" look like that?
12.) Evelyn was a Clawthorn
The way she is depicted in the play in TTT is heavily inspired by Eda. Her name is very similar to Eda's actual name: Edalyn (who is an actual Clawthorn by blood btw)
Luz is not a Clawthorn, but he is heavily associated with the Clawthorns - she is Eda's protégé. Also Luz does count as a witch even if she is not an "actual witch". God damn, do I really need to explain how Luz doesn't need a bile sac to be considered a witch? Im sure the people who are reading this have paid enough attention to TOH to realize Luz is considered a wild witch since she practices wild magic. She is also the ONLY CHARACTER who shares the whole "witch from another world" theme with Evelyn.
I also want to point out Hunter and Luz's costumes again: Luz is dressed as a witch while Hunter is cosplaying as a human... A witch and a human... gee that sounds familiar dont it?
I also want to point out that Willow's costume takes design cues from both of Evelyns INNACURATE and STEREOTYPICAL appearances. She has Evelyns devil tale from Jacobs book [Yesterdays Lie. Theres a picture of this depiction in the point that comes after this one] and she has the striped green tights from her depiction in Thanks to Them.
I also want to point out another thing that makes Evelyn a Clawthorn: the vial of titan blood has an owl head on it - which is another symbol that associates her with Eda. Also all the Clawthorns we've seen in the show have bird themed palismen
13.) Flapjack belonged to Caleb and not Evelyn: Flapjack was searching the house for the rebus... because that was Caleb's house... he knew Caleb hid it somewhere under the floorboards, but couldnt remember its exact location. Flapjack was with Caleb enough for people to record him of him in a "history" book:
there he is sitting on Calebs shoulder
14.) Oh right, So another obvious detail that connects Hunter to Caleb is that during the carriage ride, a piece of animation from Hollow Mind plays with Masha voicing over it. This piece of animation is the part where Belos flicks Hunters hair before he tries killing him. Masha address Hunter as Caleb during this voice over... like i have no fucking idea how yall could have missed that detail lmao.
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Just a random plot idea while thinking up Lunter ideas: "what if Luz was forced to stay in the castle in exchange for freeing the others?" :3
Luz peered out the window of her room in the Emperor's castle, taking in the sights of the Boiling Isles she'd once been free to explore.
It had been several weeks since Luz had "agreed" to join the Emperor's Coven and hand over the portal to the human realm, in exchange for the freedom of her friends. By Belos' orders, she was to remain at the castle indefinitely, until "the right time". At which point, he promised her safe return to her world. She'd asked him why he didn't just send her back now, if that was the case. He'd simply chuckled and said he had much to teach and show her in due time. She feared whatever that might be.
The knowledge that her friends had managed to escape gave her some hope. Small lights in the darkness, which had spurred her on to try and escape the fortress with the portal again... during the first week, at least. She had been allowed to wander the castle, presumably because there was no hope of escape for her. But that didn't stop her from trying.
However, Belos had anticipated this, and she had been repeatedly foiled by his Golden Guard, who had now been assigned to be her personal security detail. In Belos' words, anyway. To Luz, he was more of a warden. With all hope of escaping unnoticed now crushed, Luz had begun to give in to the inevitable.
But... as time was passing, an unexpected light in the darkness had appeared. A rather golden shade of light, by the name of Hunter. At the sound of her door unlocking, Luz couldn't help but smile.
The Golden Guard strode in. "Good morning, human."
"Good morning to you, freaky mask guy!" Luz shot back, projecting her voice loud enough for anyone in the hallway to hear. "I'm gonna get out of here, you hear me?!"
Hunter closed the door as Luz hurried towards him, gently but quickly lifting off his mask and immediately pressing her lips against his, the mask still being held in one hand as she pressed him to the door. The mask slipped from her hands with a clang as she wrapped both arms around his neck. Hunter showed no care for the mask, slipping his arms around her body.
As they broke apart, Hunter spoke in his teasing tone he reserved mostly for her, "You were overplaying your part again, Luz the human."
Luz rolled her eyes. "I agreed I'd help keep us a secret, Golden Guard. I never said I was a great actress." She pecked him a few times before speaking again. "Why are we even doing this? I thought you said Belos knows about us. Who cares what anyone else thinks?"
"I said he might know, because he tends to just know everything going on around here," Hunter replied with a shrug. "And if he does... well, I'm not sure why he hasn't said anything. I'm still not allowed to be doing this, you know. So maybe he actually doesn't know. I'm not sure. Oh... and to answer your question... me. I care. I still need to give orders sometimes, you know. I don't need soldiers making fun of me for dating the human girl."
Luz frowned, then smirked. "You know, you're lucky I absolutely love the forbidden love trope."
"The what?" Hunter tilted his head cutely in confusion.
"And that you're such an adorable dork," Luz added, kissing his nose and prompting a blush to form. "Or I wouldn't be going along with this."
It had started as antipathy. A rivalry as Luz repeatedly attempted escape, and more specifically, to elude his gaze. During her third escape attempt, she'd managed to draw a glyph in dust upon the floor when he'd thought her cornered, knocking his mask off unexpectedly. He'd instantly immobilized her with his staff and brought her close with an enraged glare. It had been intended to frighten, and had instead bewitched Luz with pools of dark magenta.
The next time he'd cornered her, she'd surrendered, agreeing to follow him back to her glorified prison cell they called her room. As they walked, she'd snatched his mask right off. He had angrily grabbed for it as she held it out of his reach with a smug grin. It had been an act of anger, at least mostly. Seeing his face again was its own reward, but she kept that thought in the back of her thoughts.
On the fifth day, he'd finally been specially ordered to keep an eye on her at all times. Just in time for Luz to feel no drive to escape again. So instead she'd spent half the day with an awkwardly silent Golden Guard... until she'd started speaking. Again, she'd been met with mostly silence, occasionally managing to bug him enough for a response. In the end, little had been said, but she called it progress.
On the sixth day, she'd tried to escape again... or at least, she'd made a run for it which forced him to bring her back with a bit of magic. As she'd floated back to him, she had a smirk on her face. And so the game had begun. Every time he turned his gaze from her, she'd run, and he'd bring her back, silent as a statue. It continued until finally, he lost his temper and dragged her back to her room, closing the door roughly and demanding to know what her problem was.
An intense argument had broken out, Luz saying she had friends out there, Hunter reminding her of her choice and promise to Belos. It was then, faced with the ludicrousness of Hunter considering that a genuine promise, that Luz had found a weak point in the golden armor.
"You don't even have friends out there, do you?!"
A silence. "...I serve Emperor Belos and the Emperor's Coven. I have all the friends I need here."
"Do you?" Luz asked. "I've never seen anyone here treat you like a friend. Does anyone even know your name?"
"Nobody needs to know my name."
"Friends know each other's names. That's like... friendship rule number one!"
"Maybe in the human realm. But not here, alright?"
"Hmm, that's weird! Because my friends out there that I just told you about know my name, Golden Guard." She slurred out the name in a goofy sounding voice.
"Do not refer to me like that!"
"Give me something to refer to you by, then, you masked weirdo!"
"....I'm leaving."
He exited the room as Luz watched him, satisfied deep down that she had clearly rattled him. A small victory. It was then, before he shut the door, he whispered. "It's Hunter, human. Hunter."
And just like that, the fire of victory was extinguished by an all-consuming sense of the unknown. Why would he tell her that? Why give in now? Why?
Those questions would never be answered. Though as the days went by, they'd also ceased to matter as Luz and Hunter, as she now called him all the time, had begun to speak more and more. Hunter had, of course, been the more reticent of the two. But soon enough, Luz had broken through his defenses. Or at least, that's what she liked to think.
It was either that, or he'd just been that bored, literally trapped in a room with her for long periods of time. Since Luz had decided if there wasn't much to do wandering the castle, she might as well spend the time annoying Hunter.
In the third week, annoyances became genuine laughs.
"Come on! It'll be funny!"
"No, Luz. Come on, give me the mask back-" A bright flash. "Ah! Luz!"
Luz giggled, having taken a picture of him with her phone. Some time in the previous week, she'd expressed sadness over her nonresponsive phone. Hunter had then secretly brought her a jar of electric bugs from outside the castle, hiding his face behind the mask the entire time. With them, she'd been able to charge her phone on a regular basis. And now Hunter was starting to regret his kind gesture as Luz wanted him to do cute poses for her.
"Come on, just one? I promise. The pose I showed you. Please? For your new human buddy?" A catlike smirk was on her face as she said it.
Hunter rolled his eyes. "If I do it, will you give me the mask back?"
"Promise."
Hunter sighed, leaning to the left until he was on his side on the bed in Luz's room, supporting his head with his left palm as one leg stretched out and the other was bent upwards like a model pose.
"Perfect!" Luz took a picture, giggling at the flash blinding him again. "And another!"
"Hey!" The process of Hunter getting up and chasing Luz for the mask was soon documented on the phone as they both sat on the floor, leaning back against the bed, laughing.
"You... are ridiculous, human," Hunter said, taking a few breaths after the chase and playful struggle for the mask. Spots still danced in his vision and he blinked several times.
Luz chuckled. "I'm telling you, Hunter. Golden Guard glamour shots! You'd convince the Isles to join up in less than a week."
"I'd rather look at a painbow."
Laughs became more quiet and reserved talks.
"Yeah. The rain doesn't sting, it's cold and it could be uncomfortable at first, but once you're in it long enough, it's fun to just run around in it."
"Huh. I... can't even imagine it. I guess you must be eager to get back."
Luz didn't answer for a moment. "There are reasons I want to go back. And... also reasons I want to stay. It's complicated."
"You say that a lot whenever I ask about the human realm. Why is it complicated?"
"...let's just say I never really fit in back there. Coming to the Isles... it was the first time I'd found a place where I felt like I belonged. Well... until..."
"Until you joined us," Hunter finished, a touch of bitterness in his voice.
"I'm not going to pretend being here is what I want, Hunter. This is a prison. He's keeping me prisoner here."
Hunter looked away. He didn't seem angry. More... thoughtful.
"But... for what it's worth?" Luz placed a hand on his shoulder as he turned to look at her. "You've made this place a lot more bearable for me. Yeah, it was kinda rough early on, but... I really do like talking to you. And I consider you... a friend."
A shared silence. "But... with Belos, and the Coven, and my friends... this is all still..."
"Complicated," Hunter finished again.
Nothing more was said. Nothing more needed to be. The two sat together, in companionable silence.
A quiet talk one night became a vulnerable moment.
"No."
"All this time, everything we've talked about... and you still don't see why I need to get out of here?" Luz demanded, her voice hushed but tight with anger. "Or that it's just wrong to hold me here like this?"
"So that's really all this was? Trying to be my friend just so you could get me to set you free?" Hunter challenged back, his voice cracking. "I guess you were right all along. I don't have any friends here. You know, for a while there..." He stood up, picking up his mask sitting beside him. "For a while, I actually started to believe you were different. Different from anyone else I know."
He made for the door, where he'd left his staff lying. No longer on guard around her. In that instant, Luz sprang forward, shoving him to the side. She grabbed the staff, turning around just as he grabbed it himself, shoving her against the wall with his weight as she clenched her teeth from the impact before staring directly ahead.
Brown met magenta. They glared at each other past the staff as they struggled against the other's grip, their faces inches from each other. In an absolute spur of the moment... Luz leaned in and captured his lips. His grip went slack immediately, utterly shocked. Luz pulled back about two seconds past the point of her brain telling her to pull away.
One kick at his knee later and a powerful yank backwards freed the staff from his grip and brought him to the floor as Luz moved away from him, creating space between them before pointing it at him, a blood-red glow immediately illuminating the dark room. Hunter didn't move, only glared at her. Waiting for her to make the choice. "I could do it," Luz whispered. "I could blast you, and then try to make my way out. Maybe he'd catch me. Maybe the rest of the Coven would catch me. But I could still try. Because I'd finally have a real chance." Luz brought the staff up to a vertical position, the glow fading away. "But I'm not going to do that." She handed it to him as he quietly took it back. Her eyes didn't reach his, staring at the floor. "Yeah, I admit it. I was hoping you'd eventually let me go. That was always in the back of my head. But it wasn't the only reason. You don't have to believe me. I don't think I would. But..." She looked up at him, then. "I don't want to hurt you. I never did." She took a step closer to him, separated by inches. He didn't tense or move away. Seizing the moment then, Luz gingerly placed her hands on his cheeks as she leaned in and kissed him again. Honestly, this time, and truly. Hunter shut his eyes as well. This was entirely alien to him, but... he couldn't pull away. Neither of them knew what would come next. What would transpire as a result of this. What the future held. As she pulled back, their lips separated by inches, all Luz could say to sum up her feelings in this moment, with the ever-present questions and dread surrounding the Emperor still weighing on her, was...
"Whoa... crikey."
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bonus round: my other favorite is when they think all charlastor fans are all cishet
THIS!
i myself am nonbinary, bisexual, and demisexual and i know there’s a lot of other queer charlastor shippers. so it’s funny when haters say we don’t actually care about queer people when we are those said people lol.
That relatable moment when you dress up real cute for the family reunion but your dad still tears your jacket apart and cuts off your hand. Commission by @afraid-of-thunder
RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) Dir. Richard Marquand
It occurred to me that I'd never actually drawn these two together, so I decided fixing that would be a good way to end Pride Month.
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GRETA GARBO and ELIZABETH YOUNG in Queen Christina (1933) | Garbo plays the eponymous monarch, who true to the real historical figure, shares a passionate intimacy with her lady-in-waiting and lover Ebba Sparre, played by Young.
I seem to be slightly popular again (thank you 8 people who liked my plurality rambling). Oh also, both. Show some love to the lesbians in your life today. This is a sign. -fellow lesbian
