Wait Wait Wait Wait

wait wait wait wait

Ok- so i’m going through the owl house hashtag on twitter and only realised it now but- 

THIS SCENE, THIS SCENE RIGHT HERE

NO. STAFF.

Now some might say that it’s an effect of the illusion and that we can’t see the staff because Gus hid it!

No. No he never HAD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE

NO. STAFF. Now i dunno where flapjack is, but he’s not there. Not in staff form at least. I’m guessing he might be with King or hiding in Hunter’s pocket or somethin but I doubt that cause Flapjack kind of has a mind of his own and would of popped out and become a staff the moment the Illusion fell. 

Nor does it seem thats likely considering in this scene:

Where everyone else is doing magic! In this situation Luz would have grabbed a glyph, and Hunter should have-and honestly would have, grabbed Flapjacks staff but during this entire bit he never grabs flapjack. We know he’s a good flyer because of Every Sport in any storm considering that made Willow notice him and helped him ‘save’ the emerald entrails from Darius but not once during the entire scene of Luz being taken away does he get on his staff and fly after her. He noticed only then something was wrong, 

Normally he 100% would have flown after her! I mean it might have to do with him no longer thinking he has to do everything himself or thinking going after Kikimora would also put him in danger but I don’t think so. 

But even after the illusion falls Flapjack isn’t there.

No. Flapjack.

So once again, what the heck happened earlier? Hunter is supposedly a magicless witch but he clearly just did magic. 

Soooo...did Belos do something to keep his magic from showing? I wouldn’t doubt it. He wants a good easy to control version of his older brother to be his amazing little solider. He probably kept his magic from showing because all of the past grimwalkers had magic and it made him hard to control it. How would Belos be able to control something he doesn’t even HAVE?? Hunter is made from the following ingredients (according to a book we saw once) 

Now what i want you to pay attention to is the first two. A Galdorstone and Palistrom wood. Now mixing those two should create something crazy strong right? Magical conducting wood that can come to life when carved, and then a Galdorstone, an item so rare that the only time we’ve seen or hear it it has to do with the illusionist grave. It makes someone magic strong as hell! 

So how could magic wood and a magic enhancing stone create someone with no magic AT ALL!?? All of the things hunter is made of is magical and boiling isles-ey as fuck but he has no magic?? 

Buuulllllshitttt

If Belos wanted to control Hunter, the best way to do that would to be to make Hunter feel like he can only trust Belos, and he has to rely on Belos. If Hunter knew he was stronger than Belos that would get to a kids head immediately. 

I wouldn’t put it past Belos to do some sick shit to Hunter to make him not have magic anymore. If the Owl Beast curse getting to Eda caused her magic to be corrupted and practically gone, I wouldn’t doubt that theres a curse out there that gets rid of magic for a temporary time. Now that Hunters been away from Belos, the curse isn’t being put on him constantly.

I mean we even know it exists because Lillith went out looking for one!  

It might even be a more passive version of the draining spell considering Hunter has a sigil (not to mention the way his hands seem to hurt from the smallest of things he might have the glowy vien thing in his hands specifically)

That gives me another thought- what if Hunter can’t control the magic in his hands and we just guessed he’s magicless cause I don’t remember that ever being dlibertly stated we just kinda guessed. Cause the speed glyph doesn’t seem to need a spell circle just magic of some kind. 

TLDR: Hunter has magic, and it’s slowly coming back as Belos isn’t able administer the curse to Hunter, possibly being the draining spell or something. Might not even be magic-less!