Toh Belos - Blog Posts

belos' va has that very nice vocal tone that makes my brain go brr, it matches the easy condescending tone that belos hones so well.

that uh-puh-pup sound he makes in young blood, old souls (00:16 in this clip of it) at the beginning of his confrontation with luz is just so nice. the demeaning, mocking ease of it. the okay. i'll play of it all, when luz attacks (first! first! going to talk about that soon too), like he has time to waste on seeing where she's at in battling with her glyphs.

bc it is just a game to him, then. he'd been there the whole time, after all. waiting, expectational, like he'd knew lilith would betray their cause and lead luz there for their rescue. that it was going to happen just like this, the plan of it, and how everything just falls into place, like - how much of this could be seen so clearly? all of them acting like good pawns along a predestined path?

and there's this removed amusement while he fights luz, if you can even call it a fight. he plays with her, toys with her, lifting only a finger the entire time. it's the joy of the catch, the thrill of getting closer to his hands on the portal, what he wants, but there's no rush. how he knows it's going to happen eventually, soon, so he can just chill and go with the flow of things?

it makes me wonder how long he's waited, how comfortable he is now with patience when things are in the works, steadily moving on.

we don't see belos use magic like this in season two. it's a controlled flame, without the anger and emotion that is central to it in king's tide. it's as if here, in s1, he knows what's happening before everyone else, and he flits and melts like light, liquid, almost effortlessly.

there's no reason to try if no one is actually going to test your ability.

it is a game to him, and there aren't any real consequences to any of it until the portal door goes up in flames. he got what he wanted out of lilith, and now he's near enough to reap the rewards of it. but it isn't entirely upsetting either, when he loses it - it just changes the game.

it's similar to this ominous voice trick he does a couple of times - how the visuals turn negative and double themselves atop one another to show the effect - we don't see it again.

it's as if he is a kind of omniscient being, that lingering i will know while they steal borrow the relics, and again during the fight. i love the idea that he has such a control over this artificial magic that he can make his voice actually sound like it is coming from everywhere; that his knowledge, his control, is so overwhelming that it must come from the titan itself / how there are no other possibilities.

go on then. go be a hero, he mocks, but it's such a soft thing. one look, a few words and some oversight and he knows exactly what makes someone tick. i imagine it's why we see hunter do it so well to amity in eclipse lake. he manipulates, so he must know the heart of you.

what a villain! even when we barely know anything about him or his motivations, he's still so powerful and intimidating. and that's good writing. to know just enough to be curious, just enough to be afraid.

Wowza just look at him!

Holy fuck YES!

Ok, I'm like...high as a kite right now, HOWEVER- I fell in love with The Owl House recently...and thought of a Servamp AU with The Owl House!

Mahiru taking Luz's place, and Tooru taking Luz's mother's spot.

Kuro takes Eda's place, and is 'cursed' with black cat.

The Servamps are the coven leaders. The ones that go behind Belos's back.

Tsurugi takes Hunter's spot as the Golden Guard.

Dunno what to do with C3. Maybe they're the coven members? The ones the don't go behind his back...tho are also unaware of what's really going on.

I feel like the Subclass are just the towns people. Blissfully unaware of the threat of C3/the coven.

Germaine is Belos.

The other Eves are Luz's friends

Misono takes Amity's spot.

Licht takes Willows spot (only he's way more violent than Willow 😅)

Either Tetsu or Iduna for Gus.

Nicco for Vee? Idk if he'd fit Vee, but I also have 0 idea on where he'd fit in at.

With the Servamps, I full heartedly feel like Greed would be Lilith. Like Lilith was super hard core with the Coven in trying to lure Eda in. Up until she realized what they were doing. Greed would have been the same way, tho their purposes wouldn't be for the same thing.

...Gear takes King's place for fluffy baby syndrome 👌🏻

Should I actually try turning this into something?

I’m honestly rooting for Belos to get back to the human realm, just so that we can see him have twenty separate fits. Like imagine:

“AAAAAA SO MUCH LIGHT SO MANY NOISES WHAT THE-”

“Wait… women and Black people have RIGHTS now??”

“What are furries? They seem nice!”

“You’re telling me those infernal flying cylinders are MANMADE? And they go HOW FAST??? IN THE AIR???”

BIGGEST shoutout to the Collector pointing out what we’ve been saying for weeks: that Belos, a 17th century man, will not be going back to the Earth he knew (and maybe he won’t like how it’s changed):

I recently rewatched the owl house and it's making me wonder,

Do you think Belos named all the Grimwalkers "Hunter" or do you think they all had different names?

Personally, I wanna say he named them all different names but knowing Belos' he likely called the first one Hunter as a cruel joke then realized how quickly he'd be replacing them and just stuck with Hunter bc he found it kinda funny

*Meanwhile in the theraprism*

Absolute solver: so how did you guys end up here?

Bill: defeated by some kids a thousand years ago

Belos & the core: ditto

Absolute solver: …by any chance did they have a weird girl, an idiot or a trained soldier?

Eyeball trio:…

The core: you have got to be kidding us

Belos:*sigh* titan why

Bill: do weird uncles count?

*During king’s tide*

Belos: I thought I killed you

Collector: my murder was greatly exaggerated

Boscha: so you’re telling me that little fuzzball is a titan *points towards king chasing a bug*

Luz: yep

Boscha: and you gained the powers of a titan to use against Belos

Luz: that’s right

Boscha: and you both befriend the literal demigod that took over the isles

Luz: pretty much

Boscha:…..

Boscha: should I be afraid

King: very much so *munches on bug*

Fuck yes 🙌🏾

Belos/Philip didn't have a 400 year vendetta against witches because Lilith broke his nose (which she did with her fist and not with magic at all). He's a Puritan colonist whose community had a deeply held fear and hatred of witchcraft, devilry, and demons, things that define the Boiling Isles down to its very roots. At the same time, the magic clearly intrigued him, so much so that he let it consume him. More appropriately, he may blame wild magic for his affliction because it tempted him, and not that he brought it upon himself.

I have a feeling that he has some grand sense of duty to destroy the Boiling Isles and purge the world of its evil, warped even further by whatever is corrupting his body and mind.

Carve your Own Path, Hunter.

I'm-

I'm sorry, what???

HE CAME PRE-TRAUMATIZED ALREADY, COME ON, THERE'S NO NEED FOR THIS.

It took me a minute but now all I can hear is the Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no thing on loop

YOU SEE WHAT IM GETTING AT?????

it's sad trauma boy time!

Please, do not go...

SOMEONE STRAP ME DOWN HES SO COOL LOOKING😭😭😭😭😭

//TOH SPOILERS

omg ok so like what the fuck happened??? DANA??? anyways look at him 🤭🤭 the scene came on and i was like omfg i have to draw him