-No longer canon in my fan series! Updating my pinned comment just to say that this animation was made before we got the HD portraits and it was really hard back then to piece together ages and such - at the time of making this I imagined Philip being around 20 and Caleb maybe 24, but the portraits show that Philip was a LOT younger than Caleb left (14 in my hc), so this video is no longer canon in my series ! I'll still leave the video up tho because I had spent a ton of time on it ahah
Hey man, I had an idea. Why don't you make a crossover video with Owl House and madagascar where people are dancing to I like to move it from the first movie credit version only this one will have king singing and dancing like mort and Hunter dancing like Alex and Gus hunter Matt tholumule king dancing like the penguins
If the creator of the show, after the end of the show, published on the internet her discarded beta ideas and episodes that she could never do, this channel could encourage them...
The fact that he's in a horse stable when his name means "lover of horses"- also love the Luz parallel! Everyone in this did an amazing job (as usual)!
It’s kinda scary when you realize that when he was Luz’s age, Philip was so much like her. All that caused them to take irreconcilably different paths in life is what era they grew up in, and the values instilled into each of them. If only Philip grew up in an environment that encourages critical thinking and doesn’t hate witches and outsiders as much, he’d never have become Belos. Likewise, if Luz was told since her formative years that certain people are bad and she should never question her elders, she would have become just like Belos. Something similar is with Amphibia and its lead Anne Boonchuy and its primary antagonist King Andrias. Like Luz and Belos, they’re put through identical situations, but their upbringing means that they react differently to them. Anne was raised by working-class immigrants who are humble and warm people, which encouraged her to forgive friends who betray her. Andrias wasn’t so lucky. He was raised by a cold and arrogant monarch, and his childhood friends’ betrayals and his father’s toxic pressure caused him to give up on friendship as a whole, for 1000 years.
First Ending: Gosh, can relate to that feeling of needing to grow up but not wanting to leave a sibling Second Ending: .....you know, can't relate *that* much
Yeah, at the beginning of it all being revealed it seemed to me that Philip keeps jumping back and fort between a clone of him and one of his brother but I don't know if Disney would put something like this in the series or at least while being really clear about it.
You've no idea the amount of joy I feel watching this. Also, the dark ending: "Okay. You just changed the music to sound edgier. How is thi- NOooOoOOOOoOOoOoOoOooOOoOOOO!"
I just realized the similarities between Philip and Luz in this little animation, mostly because of the fact that they both like snakes and are fascinating by them, and the fact they they were not well liked by their peers because of their interests
It's hits pretty hard given their similarities, and knowing the outcome. As Pyp begs for his life to Luz, he tells her she will become him, they are the same, and she just looks at him without a word, ignoring his ignorant plights. While he grew bitter, she always kept her spirit. *Granted, she was 13 when discovering the boiling aisles and he grew up in the in a far different era when absolute zealotry was the norm. He denied himself to fit in, and then witnessed the man he looked up to most commit "heresy" in his eyes. Jeeze, it's like a character can be complex and misunderstood, but the past doesn't excuse your actions, and those actions have consequences.
Philip was a bit of a weirdo who liked snakes but couldn't fit in and was constantly misunderstood by his community and felt like the only person who ever understood him wanted nothing to do with him. Ugh, I love the "two sides of the same coin" trope
This is so beautiful! I honestly forgot I was watching a fan animation and not a canon one because this is so well made. The backgrounds really blow me away though. I can see the amount of effort put into every scene. I feel blessed to be able to see this incredible animation.
Yeah Phillip is definitely Anakin Skywalker, evils created by the society they live in. Emperor Belos is a mixed of Darth Vader and Palpatine.@@VanNessy97
It’s a beautiful parallel of how Belos fit in by becoming the enforcer of rules and standards, and how Luz instead embraced making new rules. I’m just feeling many emotions now.
This prequels are definitely worth watching. This here is our extra Owl House content Disney never given us. They have no imagination. Love this animation.
I feel like it's more of that they didn't have time to show so many flashbacks, because of season 3 getting cut sadly 😔. I feel like Dana definitely would have shown us stuff like this more if the show wasn't canceled. They just had no time.
This is amazing! I could totally see Philip is like Luz, since he and Caleb lost their parents. Philip has a hard time fitting in with others so he seek attention with his only brother that understands him. However Caleb see Philip as an adult and hope he can grow and do adventures without him around. It’s make me sad and wonder why he kill his brother in the end.. maybe it was an accident or he was full of rage that Philip will hate Caleb for leaving him for a witch.
I think it's more like he tried killing Evelyn and Caleb intervened and Philip ended up stabbing him, either on accident or when Caleb jumped in to most likely shield Evelyn. Though that's my personal theory, since it doesn't make a whole lot of sense fir Philip to intentionally kill Caleb, since he relyed on him so much and Caleb was most likely his anchor.
Both of them are Outsiders to the rest of Gravesfield, But only one of them found comfort in the boiling isles rather then destroying a place where he felt more out of place
@@Starwarsfanboy0928 i think it's the show's end goal and Camila obviously supports that idea so unless there're world drifting apart problems like SVTFOE or Amphibia which is a boring trend right now, Luz'll 100% stay at the boiling isles.
This perfectly plays into canon, in my opinion, especially since it's both highlights Phillip's role as a foil to Luz as well as what exactly Caleb meant to him. Like Philip, Luz never really was able to fit in with people her age, and her antics usually made her seem weird and even dangerous to others. Like her mom, Caleb seems to encourage Philip to go outside and make friends, but under the underlying pretense that he conforms to society and their expectations of what "normal" is. We all know how that turned out for both of them, for better (Luz) and worse (Phillip). With this fan animation, Caleb kind of reminds me of Camilla, Luz's mom, since both were likely carrying their own burdens of being unwanted and tried their best to protect their younger sibling/daughter, both of which causes undesired harm. All Phillip and Luz had were their family members, and all they wanted was to be understood, Luz by her mother-- which she finally got in "For the Future"-- and what Phillip/Belos is still fighting for in his murder of Caleb and creation of the grimwalkers-- a brother who would stand by him and love him unconditionally.
That's a very good perspective. I really like it. It's clear Caleb had good intentions, and that he sees Philip as someone who could do anything if he forged his own path, (And perhaps he noticed that Philip is overly dependent on him) but the way he's doing this wasn't the right way. And it became worse when Philip finds out the reason Caleb is avoiding him is because, around this time, he was likely already spending time with Evelyn. I really like your headcanon that one of the motivations Philip has for creating the Grimwalkers is because he desperately wants to be understood by his brother─to hear from him that he supports Philip no matter what.
Exactly! Philip before getting to the Boiling Isles is just as Luz at the start of the show, but the difference here is that one is a young adult, the other a teen, Philip at this point SHOULD be acting like an adult, but he still has this child like mentality, even after 400 years, he still hides under a mask similar to the one Caleb did for him as a kid, for when he gets scared, Philip never trully matured, Luz did, and she also had the support of the people around him, Philip on the other hand? Only had Grimwalkers created from the same bones of his dead brother, the amount of trauma Philip most have had from the Boiling Isles, all that effort to get his brother back, only to see him again, going against all he ever knew, it just made him snap.
Off topic of Phillip but I hope Luz found some humans during the timeskip that understand and accept her most likely Masha since I HC that Vee and Masha eventually entered a relationship after Vee reveals her true nature to them and that they were the Luz at camp they are shocked by this revelation but they accept Vee for who she is and after learning about the boiling isles from Vee and the real Luz they decided to start over with Luz as well to get to know the real deal and the two eventually become close friends and Masha becomes Luz’s first human friend. Eventually Vee tells Masha’s other friends the truth they also become Luz’s friends as well as they accept Luz and Vee, they all stick together throughout high school and the Noceda sisters eventually show them the boiling isles and introduce there witch friends to the trio(though Masha had already met them at the GHS before they knew that they were witches) Masha befriended Amity and after Grom 2.0 Lumity and Veesha went to senior prom at Gravesfield high and Masha and there red haired friend show up for Luz’s king-cenera after the collectors light show ended and Masha plans to stick around for a while and attend the human/demon exchange program at Eda’s school and learn magic with Luz while maintaining they’re relationship with Vee and goes exploring the isles with Luz and Amity.
Despite everything Philip will do in the series, I felt bad for him here. Caleb is avoiding him because he's spending time with the witch he met, isn't he? I like how this animation is building up to Caleb eventually leaving Philip behind to go to the Boiling Isles. Awesome work! Thank you so much for creating this and sharing it with us! Also, the voice actors are amazing!
Well they first grew up to become Witch Hunters to fit in, as being outsiders, it was hard for them to fit in with their Puritan Neighbors. And becoming Witch Hunters was a way for them to fit into their community then Caleb met Evelyn Clawthrone At this point, Caleb was simply trying to make space for himself and Philip to grow as they’re both young adults now But Philip still depends on his brother and refuses to be weaned off his his dependency on him
We missed so much of the owl house because of the season 3 cutdown. But we are blessed with amazing animators and voice actors from the fandom that keep the show alive.
How isn't this an official thing?! Voice acting is SO good and the originality of animations keeps surpsrising me! Thank you for your and everyone else's hard work on this and congrats on finishing it!
Dear God, I love these animations that expand on the scant amount of information we got on the Whittibane brothers' backstory. The loss of their parents both paralleling Luz losing her dad, but also setting Luz and Phillip apart because he chose to be bitter about the loss (possibly implying they were abandoned rather that strictly orphaned). Phillip and Luz both having been horribly outcast, with the circumstances of Phillip's life having reinforced over and over that hatred and bitterness to anything abnormal is good, driving Phillip to start witch hunting and also implying a deep-seeded self-hatred (which he then projects onto others who are different) since he was an outcast. How the Collector's meddling took that internal difference from the norm and unintentionally brought it to the surface, turning him into a literal monster that would have been persecuted just as much as the witches he hunted. This whole pseudo-canon storyline you've been putting together I'd say is a major breath of fresh air. It's obvious that the intention with Belos is that by the onset of the show, he's irredeemable since he's committed horrible acts and refuses to accept wrongdoing, but I love these because they show how much upbringing and circumstance can dictate a person's future. It makes it more apt to compare Luz and Belos beyond a surface level because these make it seem far more likely that had Luz been in Phillip's place, she very well could have become just as irredeemable. Belos deserved the ending he got, but Phillip was a victim of circumstance and of his upbringing. Phillip died when Caleb did and took anything human with him, leaving Belos.
It amazes me how well written Belos is, you just always feel like you learn every single little new thing about it. It just makes me so angry that Disney decided to shorten season 3 out of spite, we could've got more backstory about Philip and Caleb but nop but i still thank you for giving us a story for them. Hopefully you get enough rest and you are not overworking yourself but if you have more animation for come, i will always check them. They are all so interesting and voice acting is perfect
I simply love your animations. You even get just right the handwriting of Philip Wittebane's, his personality over the few videos of his lifetime even in this one and also his shadow designs. March 14th, 1629 "The boys I invited to see the snake shedding found the snake and killed it. They told me it was a sign of the devil. I know of another snake, I will try asking Caleb to come this time. I'm sure he misses the forest walks too". March 18th, 1629 "This is the third time this week I attempted to spend time with Caleb. It seems my suspicions were correct... he is avoiding me. I wish I knew how to joe it. I suggested bird watching, as I have noticed he enjoys carving birds the most. But he would rather be away from me. I miss having a family. I will try harder". And it was truly sad as you said it would be.
Thank you !! Absolutely ! Caleb needed space after raising Philip so young, but Philip barely remembered their parents and Caleb was his only family, and most likely had a hard time fitting in so I definitely see him as someone with huge abandonment issues. That and the fact he kept Caleb’s coat for over 400 years
@@MagpieInGravesfield Philip definitely suffers from abandonment issues, the fact that he did so many grimwalkers means that he did one every time another betrayed him, he needed that image of Caleb around him on a constant basis. Not to mention what you say about the coat
I honestly love how Philip is depicted being similar to Luz, it explains so much and works so well! I honestly would love to see them adopt this as canon.
I'm so upset about the finale. I really hoped that Dana would tell us more about Philip's story, and also come up with a much more interesting nightmare of Loos than what we were eventually shown. Yes, and the death of Philip, as well as the victory over him, I saw a "little" differently Т_Т
3:15 is just.. It hits different AND YOUR ANIMATIONS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH YOU CAN WORK IN THE ACTUAL SHOW OR VOICE ACT I SWEAR But the dark ending caught me off guard..
I love how the horses are looking sympathetically at Philip. This animation is absolutely breathtaking. Amazing work, I can’t wait to see what comes next:)
The fact at the ending scariest thing because Phillip just there with his brothers body and he was gonna dig up a hole and the music too that sent chills! but good animation!
Alt ending song by my friend Ash Bricky : th-cam.com/video/3atOacSTIv0/w-d-xo.html Full soundtrack by Kalamity Music here ! th-cam.com/video/4LIuG-AHfhE/w-d-xo.html The full script for the short is in the video description if you want it for translation / dubbing purposes :D
Philip Wittebane. The Boy who was always alone -Abandoned by his Parents -Abandoned by his Brother -And in the end, abandoned by the very world that taught him to hunt witches. Poor Philip, may thee rest in hallowed slumber. For now an Emperor rises from thine ashes, and his name means ‘Lord’ .
@@MagpieInGravesfield Philip/belos has a tragic backstory. I mean his parents died and his brother ditch him for a woman 👩. Bro wasn't born evil he just went down the wrong path..
I'm not crying you are. Oh my gosh this is so heartbreaking especially what Phillip wrote in his diary. Speaking of which your dedication is unmatched going and writing the diary in Phillips handwriting going above and beyond!
Thank you so much !!! I actually made a font just for the journal, I based it on the Belos letter we got in the show, I tried my best to make up the rest !
@Magpie no problemo. Pure dedication I love how dedicated you are when I saw that my jaw dropped! You should be very proud of your dedication i seriously admire it
For a moment i tought that the voices were the originals, also i love the paralel that both Philip and Luz had a hard time fiting in until they discovered the boiling islands (each one in their own and very different way)
Well done. I love seeing people willing to take the effort again to make things like this. The Brony Fandom did a lot and even then with mixed results. Then Gravity Falls, Star Vs, Amphibia all came and went with hardly any contributions from fans. To See Owl House get love and attention makes me happy.
I see so many parallels between Belos and Luz (the snake, not feeling like they fit in with the others). It's so cool how you're able to capture all of that in this short piece!! Keep up the amazing work :D
You’ve done it again! Love these animations, you bring so much more to the Philp and Caleb relationship. I also like how you drew parallels to Luz with the shed snake. They others killed one I see in the journal entry, showing he was an outsider like Luz.
I'm happy you're doing this. With the owl house ending, and I have a feeling we will never see an episode of Belus story of how he became Belus....you can finish the arc.
I'm in tears. The animation is gorgeous! And the story is simple yet stunning for highlighting both characters of Philip and Caleb. Dare I say you humanised Belos in some way? It is also very lovely how you draw parallels between Philip and Luz with their inability to fit in. Outstanding job.
I just finished watching the finale and I want to say I'll always treasure your wonderful video's and I really hope you'll create a new animation one day. Thank you so much for your amazing work and for sharing your work with us all!
Caleb: How'd you do your chores so fast? Philip: Well, you see... *doesn't explain at all* Caleb: You've grown up, and feel that you don't need me anymore Philip: So you're saying I'm a burden.
Everytime I see your lovely animations I just feel worse for Philip even tho he is a villain, he has a dark past that makes me feel bad for him each time and I may or may not get bullied for liking him as a villain, but ur animations are amazing keep up the great work!
Man this was so good! I love how the horses looked sad with him and loved the detail of the tears landing on "Caleb" and "Killed" - such a good detail :D also the alt ending was just :(
I believe that very few people are born evil. I think that even the most irredeemably evil of people work their way towards that status gradually. It seems that Philip's biggest mistake was not stopping and thinking that maybe there's more than one right way to live your life.
I LOVE THESE ANIMATIONS OF PHILLIP AND CALEB SO MUCH ❤ They seem like they could easily fit in with the canon material! Also, now that I think about it, Caleb and Phillip's relationship remind me of Celestia and Luna from MLP, only they had a happier ending than the brothers did.
-No longer canon in my fan series!
Updating my pinned comment just to say that this animation was made before we got the HD portraits and it was really hard back then to piece together ages and such - at the time of making this I imagined Philip being around 20 and Caleb maybe 24, but the portraits show that Philip was a LOT younger than Caleb left (14 in my hc), so this video is no longer canon in my series ! I'll still leave the video up tho because I had spent a ton of time on it ahah
Hey man, I had an idea. Why don't you make a crossover video with Owl House and madagascar where people are dancing to I like to move it from the first movie credit version only this one will have king singing and dancing like mort and Hunter dancing like Alex and Gus hunter Matt tholumule king dancing like the penguins
Huh I thought they were teenagers in this
Your animations never cease to amaze me! Voicing Caleb is always super fun too! Love seeing it come together!
TAMOTO SAUCE IM A BIG FAN
Thank you for your amazing work once again !! :D
You nailed all the emotions perfectly !
Yo Tomotasauce! What’s up, big man.
If the creator of the show, after the end of the show, published on the internet her discarded beta ideas and episodes that she could never do, this channel could encourage them...
HOW DID I NOT RECOGNIZE YOUR BELOS VOICE??!
The fact that he's in a horse stable when his name means "lover of horses"- also love the Luz parallel! Everyone in this did an amazing job (as usual)!
Yessss, I love the Philip being a horse boy headcanon 😆
It’s kinda scary when you realize that when he was Luz’s age, Philip was so much like her. All that caused them to take irreconcilably different paths in life is what era they grew up in, and the values instilled into each of them. If only Philip grew up in an environment that encourages critical thinking and doesn’t hate witches and outsiders as much, he’d never have become Belos. Likewise, if Luz was told since her formative years that certain people are bad and she should never question her elders, she would have become just like Belos.
Something similar is with Amphibia and its lead Anne Boonchuy and its primary antagonist King Andrias. Like Luz and Belos, they’re put through identical situations, but their upbringing means that they react differently to them. Anne was raised by working-class immigrants who are humble and warm people, which encouraged her to forgive friends who betray her. Andrias wasn’t so lucky. He was raised by a cold and arrogant monarch, and his childhood friends’ betrayals and his father’s toxic pressure caused him to give up on friendship as a whole, for 1000 years.
My name also means lover of horses. I'm a Pippa😰
couldn’t have said it better :)
I love the foil trope
The way Phillip's tears dropped on the words "killed" and "Caleb" just makes it so much better. Thank you for your hard work and creativity!🌺
Thank you so much for spotting that little detail !!! :D
Thanks so much for pointing that out, I didn't notice! :O
Wow that's awesome!
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omg thats so cool I never noticed that!
I love how Caleb’s job is a gatherer. Quite the inversion of Hunter.
Oh my god, I love this observation
First Ending: Gosh, can relate to that feeling of needing to grow up but not wanting to leave a sibling
Second Ending: .....you know, can't relate *that* much
And to the people who don't know
Philip dug up Caleb's body to use his bones to make grimwalkers.
Oh.. oh no.... he really is such a hypocrite isn't he?
Try absolutely psycho
@@mikaylahpease Yeah he's an absolute psychopath but hypocrites really get under my skin. I'm still hoping he gets Thanos snaped in the last episode.
Yeah, at the beginning of it all being revealed it seemed to me that Philip keeps jumping back and fort between a clone of him and one of his brother but I don't know if Disney would put something like this in the series or at least while being really clear about it.
Wait...did he really?? Like, canon in the show you mean??
You've no idea the amount of joy I feel watching this.
Also, the dark ending: "Okay. You just changed the music to sound edgier. How is thi- NOooOoOOOOoOOoOoOoOooOOoOOOO!"
I’m so glad you enjoyed it !! :D
@@MagpieInGravesfield What is the song at the end called? Love the animation!
@@GPowers10 this is the closest thing I can find th-cam.com/video/4LIuG-AHfhE/w-d-xo.html
@@mattmattmatt4879 Thank You!
Fr got me saying no like ENA in the temptation stairway ep
I just realized the similarities between Philip and Luz in this little animation, mostly because of the fact that they both like snakes and are fascinating by them, and the fact they they were not well liked by their peers because of their interests
Indeed.💯
Its so good
It's hits pretty hard given their similarities, and knowing the outcome. As Pyp begs for his life to Luz, he tells her she will become him, they are the same, and she just looks at him without a word, ignoring his ignorant plights. While he grew bitter, she always kept her spirit. *Granted, she was 13 when discovering the boiling aisles and he grew up in the in a far different era when absolute zealotry was the norm. He denied himself to fit in, and then witnessed the man he looked up to most commit "heresy" in his eyes. Jeeze, it's like a character can be complex and misunderstood, but the past doesn't excuse your actions, and those actions have consequences.
Caleb calls him Pip ❤
Idc what anyone says, that's freaking adorable
Uh….ig
I call him Pip too 💀
Philip was a bit of a weirdo who liked snakes but couldn't fit in and was constantly misunderstood by his community and felt like the only person who ever understood him wanted nothing to do with him. Ugh, I love the "two sides of the same coin" trope
*Philip
@@agusnicoletti3051 whoops, fixed it
This is so beautiful! I honestly forgot I was watching a fan animation and not a canon one because this is so well made. The backgrounds really blow me away though. I can see the amount of effort put into every scene. I feel blessed to be able to see this incredible animation.
Thank you so so much !!! :D
True
This would be a great TOH spinoff/prequel showing Philip and Caleb lives before they became what we know today
And I love how the horses looks at Philip and feeling sad for him
Phillip Wittebane is going to embody the definition of "Anakin Skywalker energy"
Yeah Phillip is definitely Anakin Skywalker, evils created by the society they live in. Emperor Belos is a mixed of Darth Vader and Palpatine.@@VanNessy97
It’s a beautiful parallel of how Belos fit in by becoming the enforcer of rules and standards, and how Luz instead embraced making new rules. I’m just feeling many emotions now.
but Belos also made new rules. He just imposed them on the boiling isles until they became established rules and standards.
I love the detail we’re his tears/the ink falls on the words “Caleb” and “killed”
This prequels are definitely worth watching. This here is our extra Owl House content Disney never given us. They have no imagination.
Love this animation.
I feel like it's more of that they didn't have time to show so many flashbacks, because of season 3 getting cut sadly 😔. I feel like Dana definitely would have shown us stuff like this more if the show wasn't canceled. They just had no time.
I don't blame Dana Terrace or her crew for the shortened season
In the end, it's Disney's fault, regardless of their reasons
@@DragonGoddess18 Same
@@DragonGoddess18 they wanted to show more wittebois
I hope they reconsider and give us some final specials at least depicting the Whitebanes life or something like that
This is amazing! I could totally see Philip is like Luz, since he and Caleb lost their parents. Philip has a hard time fitting in with others so he seek attention with his only brother that understands him. However Caleb see Philip as an adult and hope he can grow and do adventures without him around. It’s make me sad and wonder why he kill his brother in the end.. maybe it was an accident or he was full of rage that Philip will hate Caleb for leaving him for a witch.
I think it's more like he tried killing Evelyn and Caleb intervened and Philip ended up stabbing him, either on accident or when Caleb jumped in to most likely shield Evelyn.
Though that's my personal theory, since it doesn't make a whole lot of sense fir Philip to intentionally kill Caleb, since he relyed on him so much and Caleb was most likely his anchor.
@@lavenderrose82 I like that theory too! But anything can happen
This is absolutely amazing. I got goosebumps as I noticed the many parallels between Philipp and Luz
Both of them are Outsiders to the rest of Gravesfield,
But only one of them found comfort in the boiling isles rather then destroying a place where he felt more out of place
I believe Luz’s mom will understand that Luz loves the Isles so much that she will have to let her go and live her life as a witch.
@@Starwarsfanboy0928 i think it's the show's end goal and Camila obviously supports that idea so unless there're world drifting apart problems like SVTFOE or Amphibia which is a boring trend right now, Luz'll 100% stay at the boiling isles.
I’m convinced you’re secretly Dana making short clips that would’ve been in season 3 if it wasn’t canceled
Nah I’m not XDDD
These animations are insane! They feel just like the show!
The only why it could be better is if they could afford the resources for smooth animation quality still amazing what they did with what they got
This perfectly plays into canon, in my opinion, especially since it's both highlights Phillip's role as a foil to Luz as well as what exactly Caleb meant to him.
Like Philip, Luz never really was able to fit in with people her age, and her antics usually made her seem weird and even dangerous to others. Like her mom, Caleb seems to encourage Philip to go outside and make friends, but under the underlying pretense that he conforms to society and their expectations of what "normal" is. We all know how that turned out for both of them, for better (Luz) and worse (Phillip).
With this fan animation, Caleb kind of reminds me of Camilla, Luz's mom, since both were likely carrying their own burdens of being unwanted and tried their best to protect their younger sibling/daughter, both of which causes undesired harm. All Phillip and Luz had were their family members, and all they wanted was to be understood, Luz by her mother-- which she finally got in "For the Future"-- and what Phillip/Belos is still fighting for in his murder of Caleb and creation of the grimwalkers-- a brother who would stand by him and love him unconditionally.
That's a very good perspective. I really like it. It's clear Caleb had good intentions, and that he sees Philip as someone who could do anything if he forged his own path, (And perhaps he noticed that Philip is overly dependent on him) but the way he's doing this wasn't the right way.
And it became worse when Philip finds out the reason Caleb is avoiding him is because, around this time, he was likely already spending time with Evelyn.
I really like your headcanon that one of the motivations Philip has for creating the Grimwalkers is because he desperately wants to be understood by his brother─to hear from him that he supports Philip no matter what.
Exactly! Philip before getting to the Boiling Isles is just as Luz at the start of the show, but the difference here is that one is a young adult, the other a teen, Philip at this point SHOULD be acting like an adult, but he still has this child like mentality, even after 400 years, he still hides under a mask similar to the one Caleb did for him as a kid, for when he gets scared, Philip never trully matured, Luz did, and she also had the support of the people around him, Philip on the other hand? Only had Grimwalkers created from the same bones of his dead brother, the amount of trauma Philip most have had from the Boiling Isles, all that effort to get his brother back, only to see him again, going against all he ever knew, it just made him snap.
Off topic of Phillip but I hope Luz found some humans during the timeskip that understand and accept her most likely Masha since I HC that Vee and Masha eventually entered a relationship after Vee reveals her true nature to them and that they were the Luz at camp they are shocked by this revelation but they accept Vee for who she is and after learning about the boiling isles from Vee and the real Luz they decided to start over with Luz as well to get to know the real deal and the two eventually become close friends and Masha becomes Luz’s first human friend. Eventually Vee tells Masha’s other friends the truth they also become Luz’s friends as well as they accept Luz and Vee, they all stick together throughout high school and the Noceda sisters eventually show them the boiling isles and introduce there witch friends to the trio(though Masha had already met them at the GHS before they knew that they were witches) Masha befriended Amity and after Grom 2.0 Lumity and Veesha went to senior prom at Gravesfield high and Masha and there red haired friend show up for Luz’s king-cenera after the collectors light show ended and Masha plans to stick around for a while and attend the human/demon exchange program at Eda’s school and learn magic with Luz while maintaining they’re relationship with Vee and goes exploring the isles with Luz and Amity.
Despite everything Philip will do in the series, I felt bad for him here. Caleb is avoiding him because he's spending time with the witch he met, isn't he? I like how this animation is building up to Caleb eventually leaving Philip behind to go to the Boiling Isles.
Awesome work! Thank you so much for creating this and sharing it with us! Also, the voice actors are amazing!
Well they first grew up to become Witch Hunters to fit in, as being outsiders, it was hard for them to fit in with their Puritan Neighbors. And becoming Witch Hunters was a way for them to fit into their community
then Caleb met Evelyn Clawthrone
At this point, Caleb was simply trying to make space for himself and Philip to grow as they’re both young adults now
But Philip still depends on his brother and refuses to be weaned off his his dependency on him
@@christophersanchez7731 I hate Phillip and I wish I could feel empathy for him but he is too far gone.
I wouldn’t be suprised if dana terrace herself invited you to work with her! This is SO GOOD! Especially the voice acting! ❤
I absoulutely love the Luz parallels! Especially the bit with the snake, it's a minor detail, but it's one I appreciate!
Thank you so much for noticing that !! :D
We missed so much of the owl house because of the season 3 cutdown. But we are blessed with amazing animators and voice actors from the fandom that keep the show alive.
Thank god for moringmark
Wow- this is utterly fucking phenomenal as usual, sometimes I swear you’re on the animation team-
I wish XDDD
@@MagpieInGravesfield We should unite a few fan animators together, working together would make it easier, perhaps.
Rewrite the whole show from the episode it was canceled on.
0:15 Philip rn: ☺️
👉👈
Okay but her face at 1:28 😂
Your animations never let down!
Oh God... the darker ending caught me so off guard
How isn't this an official thing?! Voice acting is SO good and the originality of animations keeps surpsrising me! Thank you for your and everyone else's hard work on this and congrats on finishing it!
Dear God, I love these animations that expand on the scant amount of information we got on the Whittibane brothers' backstory.
The loss of their parents both paralleling Luz losing her dad, but also setting Luz and Phillip apart because he chose to be bitter about the loss (possibly implying they were abandoned rather that strictly orphaned). Phillip and Luz both having been horribly outcast, with the circumstances of Phillip's life having reinforced over and over that hatred and bitterness to anything abnormal is good, driving Phillip to start witch hunting and also implying a deep-seeded self-hatred (which he then projects onto others who are different) since he was an outcast. How the Collector's meddling took that internal difference from the norm and unintentionally brought it to the surface, turning him into a literal monster that would have been persecuted just as much as the witches he hunted.
This whole pseudo-canon storyline you've been putting together I'd say is a major breath of fresh air. It's obvious that the intention with Belos is that by the onset of the show, he's irredeemable since he's committed horrible acts and refuses to accept wrongdoing, but I love these because they show how much upbringing and circumstance can dictate a person's future. It makes it more apt to compare Luz and Belos beyond a surface level because these make it seem far more likely that had Luz been in Phillip's place, she very well could have become just as irredeemable.
Belos deserved the ending he got, but Phillip was a victim of circumstance and of his upbringing. Phillip died when Caleb did and took anything human with him, leaving Belos.
It amazes me how well written Belos is, you just always feel like you learn every single little new thing about it. It just makes me so angry that Disney decided to shorten season 3 out of spite, we could've got more backstory about Philip and Caleb but nop but i still thank you for giving us a story for them. Hopefully you get enough rest and you are not overworking yourself but if you have more animation for come, i will always check them. They are all so interesting and voice acting is perfect
Nice touch having him relate to Luz with the whole snake shedding it’s skin thing.
Phillip being characterized to not fit in and basically to be a direct parallel to Luz is my favourite thing ever
Love this!!! The expression change at 4:02 hits so hard
I simply love your animations. You even get just right the handwriting of Philip Wittebane's, his personality over the few videos of his lifetime even in this one and also his shadow designs.
March 14th, 1629
"The boys I invited to see the snake shedding found the snake and killed it. They told me it was a sign of the devil. I know of another snake, I will try asking Caleb to come this time. I'm sure he misses the forest walks too".
March 18th, 1629
"This is the third time this week I attempted to spend time with Caleb. It seems my suspicions were correct...
he is avoiding me. I wish I knew how to joe it. I suggested bird watching, as I have noticed he enjoys carving birds the most. But he would rather be away from me. I miss having a family. I will try harder".
And it was truly sad as you said it would be.
Thank you so much !!! I actually looked up what the potato planting season was, and that’s why his journal entries are from mid March 🤣
@@MagpieInGravesfield thanks for your reply👍
@@The-3rd.Dark_Lord thanks for your comment :D
Once again, I'm BLOWN AWAY by your animations and the voice acting. Amazing job everyone who helped making this!! 💜
This is amazing!
thank you so much !! :D
@@MagpieInGravesfield you're welcome!! ^^
0:57
All this part of the conversation should be canonical, I'm very sure there was a lot of emotional dependence on Philip's part in that brotherhood
Thank you !! Absolutely ! Caleb needed space after raising Philip so young, but Philip barely remembered their parents and Caleb was his only family, and most likely had a hard time fitting in so I definitely see him as someone with huge abandonment issues. That and the fact he kept Caleb’s coat for over 400 years
@@MagpieInGravesfield Philip definitely suffers from abandonment issues, the fact that he did so many grimwalkers means that he did one every time another betrayed him, he needed that image of Caleb around him on a constant basis. Not to mention what you say about the coat
even the horses are like "damn bro that's rough"
I honestly love how Philip is depicted being similar to Luz, it explains so much and works so well! I honestly would love to see them adopt this as canon.
I love the small details, like Philip switching from his left hand to his right. 1:57You are a true fan and a amazing animator.
I'm so upset about the finale. I really hoped that Dana would tell us more about Philip's story, and also come up with a much more interesting nightmare of Loos than what we were eventually shown. Yes, and the death of Philip, as well as the victory over him, I saw a "little" differently Т_Т
We seriously need this origin story
3:15 is just.. It hits different
AND YOUR ANIMATIONS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH YOU CAN WORK IN THE ACTUAL SHOW OR VOICE ACT I SWEAR
But the dark ending caught me off guard..
Almost 5 minutes??? Thank you for blessing my day with this, can't wait to watch it together with a friend later!
I love how the horses are looking sympathetically at Philip. This animation is absolutely breathtaking. Amazing work, I can’t wait to see what comes next:)
When I clicked this I thought I must of missed the scene from the TV show but wow you made this. Super duper impressed. Keep up the good work.
4:24 Jesus magpie Caleb's corpse is unsettling
Yup I was going for a dark alt ending :p
@@MagpieInGravesfield And I like it. As morbid as it is lol
At this point fandom just gona animate flashbacks with Phillip on their own
Oooo, the jumpcut RIGHT at "nothing can bring them back". Muah! Gorgeous
Definitely like the darker ending. Really connects to how he came to be
‘my name is phillip, but everyone calls me pip because they hate me’
2:01 the way the man held that snake reminds me of the way Belos held flapjack before flapjack died 😰
OMG YES I JUST SAW THAT😭
The fact at the ending scariest thing because Phillip just there with his brothers body and he was gonna dig up a hole and the music too that sent chills! but good animation!
Amazing visuals always magpie. You really captured the feeling of how Philip had no connections outside of his brother.
1:42
NOT THAT PHRASE *suffers*
Imagine having Luz read this! And then see that they’re so similar and yet so different
Alt ending song by my friend Ash Bricky :
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Full soundtrack by Kalamity Music here !
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The full script for the short is in the video description if you want it for translation / dubbing purposes :D
Oh this isn’t canon Wow great animation
Philip Wittebane. The Boy who was always alone
-Abandoned by his Parents
-Abandoned by his Brother
-And in the end, abandoned by the very world that taught him to hunt witches.
Poor Philip, may thee rest in hallowed slumber. For now an Emperor rises from thine ashes, and his name means ‘Lord’ .
Wow it sounds like the real belos
@@VanillaBeanYt1412 yes Nathan did an absolutely amazing job voicing him !! :D
@@MagpieInGravesfield Philip/belos has a tragic backstory. I mean his parents died and his brother ditch him for a woman 👩. Bro wasn't born evil he just went down the wrong path..
You never cease to amaze me with these animations. You're so talented!
I'm not crying you are. Oh my gosh this is so heartbreaking especially what Phillip wrote in his diary. Speaking of which your dedication is unmatched going and writing the diary in Phillips handwriting going above and beyond!
Thank you so much !!!
I actually made a font just for the journal, I based it on the Belos letter we got in the show, I tried my best to make up the rest !
@Magpie no problemo. Pure dedication I love how dedicated you are when I saw that my jaw dropped! You should be very proud of your dedication i seriously admire it
no stop you're making me feel bad for belos that's a crime /j
great job by the way almost made me cry, lovely animation too
The references/ Parrels to Luz are amazing
For a moment i tought that the voices were the originals, also i love the paralel that both Philip and Luz had a hard time fiting in until they discovered the boiling islands (each one in their own and very different way)
Throwing in the snake skin detail (because the same thing was an important find for luz during her childhood
Well done. I love seeing people willing to take the effort again to make things like this. The Brony Fandom did a lot and even then with mixed results. Then Gravity Falls, Star Vs, Amphibia all came and went with hardly any contributions from fans. To See Owl House get love and attention makes me happy.
I see so many parallels between Belos and Luz (the snake, not feeling like they fit in with the others). It's so cool how you're able to capture all of that in this short piece!! Keep up the amazing work :D
BRO STOP SCARING ME WITH THESE ANIMATIONS
This animation is amazing this should be a scene in the show.
Amazing, as usual! I always look forward to seeing your work.
Also I lost it at “Some Lady” XD
I wonder what kind of relationship it's like to have your sibling as your guardian and then
“I know ypu’ll always be there for me, right?”, fuck that hit like a brick.
You’ve done it again! Love these animations, you bring so much more to the Philp and Caleb relationship. I also like how you drew parallels to Luz with the shed snake. They others killed one I see in the journal entry, showing he was an outsider like Luz.
I'm happy you're doing this.
With the owl house ending, and I have a feeling we will never see an episode of Belus story of how he became Belus....you can finish the arc.
I'm in tears. The animation is gorgeous! And the story is simple yet stunning for highlighting both characters of Philip and Caleb. Dare I say you humanised Belos in some way? It is also very lovely how you draw parallels between Philip and Luz with their inability to fit in.
Outstanding job.
OMFG THIS IS JUST AWESOME, you all are so talanted❤️
I hope for all of you that you were able to avoid the spoilers
Belos: you must hate me for that
Caleb: no. But I am sad for you
Tomota’s Voice in HEAR is good
Thanks for having me on this Magpie! Your stuff always turns out great!
I really wished this animation could have been in the show. Dana would be glad to hire you.
I just finished watching the finale and I want to say I'll always treasure your wonderful video's and I really hope you'll create a new animation one day. Thank you so much for your amazing work and for sharing your work with us all!
IM SORRY??? THE ANIMATION??? THE VOICE ACTING????? IM IN LOVE!!!! Excellent work as always, always excited to see more!!!
STOP HE CALLS HIM PIP SHUT UP THATS SO CUTE
I hate it that what happened happened :(
seriously tho the job you did on that is AMAZING !!
IKR IF I DIDN’T WATCH THIS TH-camR I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS WAS CANON!
ALSO IT IS VERY CUTE!
1:36 I can see the edits 😭
Caleb: How'd you do your chores so fast?
Philip: Well, you see... *doesn't explain at all*
Caleb: You've grown up, and feel that you don't need me anymore
Philip: So you're saying I'm a burden.
Everytime I see your lovely animations I just feel worse for Philip even tho he is a villain, he has a dark past that makes me feel bad for him each time and I may or may not get bullied for liking him as a villain, but ur animations are amazing keep up the great work!
You're literally so cool for making this I...
It is interesting to see how simple life must have been for caleb and phillph in their lives in gravesfield colony minus the witch trials.
As always you never cease to me amazed and I hope you keep up the good work! I’m excited for the series.
Man this was so good! I love how the horses looked sad with him and loved the detail of the tears landing on "Caleb" and "Killed" - such a good detail :D also the alt ending was just :(
my jaw just hit the floor. That was so good??? (Also the darker ending almost made me spit out my tea)
This is amazing. Caleb looks so much like Hunter it hurts
wow, took me a while to realize tomotasauce was voicing Caleb, he does a great job at voices!
Voices really fits with them
The second version definitively is the best one. amazing work.
You really just walked in and dropped this bop like it was nothing
Philip is just luz but In a different place, time.
I believe that very few people are born evil. I think that even the most irredeemably evil of people work their way towards that status gradually. It seems that Philip's biggest mistake was not stopping and thinking that maybe there's more than one right way to live your life.
Once again beautifully animated!! Also the writing is really great, this entire conversation is just captivating
Damn not only is the animation amazing but the voiceacting too. This is just.... I cant... sooo good!!
It really is. There were moments I thought I was watching a real episode. And honestly, I wish this was real!
Philip’s voice is so spot on and the animation is great wow!
I LOVE THESE ANIMATIONS OF PHILLIP AND CALEB SO MUCH ❤
They seem like they could easily fit in with the canon material!
Also, now that I think about it, Caleb and Phillip's relationship remind me of Celestia and Luna from MLP, only they had a happier ending than the brothers did.