I don’t think the TOH fandom has talked enough about what Belos’s thought process/emotions are about recreating his brother over and over. It’s clear from the memories of kid Philip that he looked up to his big brother and loved him a lot, and then older Philip was hurt by Wittebro’s “betrayal” to the side of witches, and now here he is, a very old man, trying to bring his brother (who he presumably killed) back, over and over again. He didn’t have to do that. He didn’t have to recreate his brother over and over in the hopes that this time he wouldn’t betray him.
I think it’s very human of him. We know IRL people will do anything to talk to their deceased loved ones again (like paying fake psychics exorbitant amounts of money), so why, in a world with real magic, wouldn’t they do the same?
I want to see Belos’s pain. I want Luz to call out how fucked-up this is and then for Belos to go “isn’t there anyone you’d like to see again?” and then we see flashbacks to Luz’s father, and Belos tells her that he can bring her loved ones back. We see Luz tempted for a split second to figure out how to create a grimwalker, before realizing it’s not real and it wouldn’t be her father, it’d be a new person, and it’d be a fucked-up thing to do.
I want to see Belos, the most evil person on the boiling isles, tormented by what he did to his brother. I want to see him go full cold-emotionless monster. I want to see him have a mental breakdown. I just want to explore Belos’s fucked up little psyche. Yeah.
