#owl 17

“Oh! Luz! You’re here! I mean, obviously you’re here, this is school, and you go here now. With, uh. Me. I’ve been talking too long.”

WHERE DID YOU GET THESE KIGU

THAT IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIGU THAN YOU WORE LAST EP

“Wait, me, on a team? With you? Running around in-- cute uniforms-- and-- sweating??”

AMITY BABY

I’m losing my mind at the “weh!” noise Luz made after Amity fell over

Glasses isn’t proof, but I think a lot of things just slotted into place for me.

Lily as the one that cursed Eda... I’m not gonna lie, my first reaction was to feel a little betrayed by the narrative, like ‘oh of course the sister has to be responsible for this too’ but the more I think about it the more it makes sense and the better it works, because it answers the biggest question I had really well. 

Curses imply intent. Who could have such a grudge against a child that they would do something so terrible?

The answer is another child.

Eda implied she was really quite young when she was cursed, and it looks like she and Lilith are at most a year or two apart. Lilith, who looks sour and sad in the background of this photo, has probably been building up resentment her whole life. Eda was a delinquent, sure, but she’s also outgoing and cheerful and clearly has at least one good friend, going by Mysterious Bard there (who, yes, has the same glasses, but we’re two and a half episodes from the end of the season, they’re not gonna introduce her Old Jilted Bard GF now). All we really know about Lilith’s childhood is that 1) she described herself as coming from ‘humble beginnings’ back in Covention, and 2) someone stole her lunch one time and Eda went ballistic food-fight nuts in revenge.  Maybe I’m projecting too much as a floofy-redhead who had round glasses in high school and whose big sister was way more social and successful, but... damn.

I wouldn’t have done anything to take my sister down, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t have sympathy for Lily.

So Lilith gets in deep. I don’t know how she figured out how to cast such a nasty curse-- whether it was sneaking around reading books she wasn’t supposed to have access to or help from an adult witch (we’ve seen pretty strongly today that the teachers aren’t really authority figures to be trusted, at Hexside), she does something awful and potentially irreparable at a very young age. What does she do? 

She ties it up inside herself. She genuinely worries about Eda-- that moment of sorrow for her state at the covention definitely wasn’t faked-- and she pushes forward. She won’t blame herself, she’s too brittle for that; she can’t acknowledge she’s done anything wrong.

So she pushes, pushes, pushes to get Eda to follow her into the Emperor’s Coven, the one way she might be able to right her wrong.

“Oh, please. You know, I used to be like you, Boscha-- obsessed with status, threatening the competition. I grew up. When will you?”

holy shit