#willow knows

Just a normal day at the Owl House 

Amity: D-did you mean gu-

you want so badly to be soft. to take the hand that you are offered instead of baring your teeth. and it might be hard to believe, but you are soft. you're the softest one out there.

I... really think about this sometimes. I think about how Phiona wants so desperately to be seen as soft, but always has her guard up. Because she has to. She has to bare her teeth, but in her world, if she doesn't, she dies. Either she dies or someone she loves dies defending her. And she can't let that happen.

Never again.

I think about her desires to dress hyperfeminine and her utter disdain for her bat wings. How she wishes she could turn bat wings into butterfly wings, or just do away with her wings altogether. How she envies Seelie Fey, and by extension her friend, Willow, for their butterfly, but never says anything because that's not fair to Willow.

Her insecurities shouldn't be her friend's problems.

She wants to love herself. She wants to think that there's nothing wrong with her! Plenty of mythical creatures have bat wings! Plenty of Fey have Bat wings!! But... she can't. She can't be happy with herself.

Willow Knows