History TearJerker / TheOwlHouse

* Once upon a time Luz would be beyond overjoyed by the idea of doing couples cosplay of ''Azura'' with her girlfriend, but now she is depressed the whole time. Even when she initially perks up, it's over once she overhears a scene from the ''Azura'' movie playing in the background, where Azura confronts her EvilFormerFriend, Lucie (who even ''looks'' like her, for Heaven's sake). Luz's sad reaction shows her [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt]] has gotten so bad she no longer sees herself as her hero but as the treacherous villain.

* Hunter goes through A LOT this episode:

** One overlooked aspect of this is Gus. He always wanted to go to the Human Realm, but he can't enjoy his dream coming true because it's just been fulfilled in the worst possible way. He hasn't ''gone'' there, he's ''fled'' there. Now, not only is there no way back home, there's no obvious sign that home even ''exists'' anymore. Keep in mind, while the others are all well into their teens, Gus is only ''twelve years old''. Nothing exemplifies this fact more than his bursting into tears and collapsing to the ground at the realization that he can't go back, and huddling into Hunter's side while hugging himself when the group arrives at Camila's house.

** The first clip is her optimism that the hospital by their new house is working better for Manny's health. Then the next clip is her saying in a low, somber voice that she just went through the worst week of her life after he passed away.

** Just the fact that he even has a sigil in the first place. It implies that either Belos didn't intend for him or any of the other Golden Guards to survive the Day of Unity, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness only wanting to keep them around until it happened]], or that he was planning to take his current Guard with him to the Human Realm where he would likely be an outcast because of his pointy ears (which are more prominent than what Belos did to his own ears).

** There may be hope as Augustus “Gus” Porter reviewed Phillip Wittebane/Emperor Belos’ memory during the Skull Fight as Gus remembers everything in Phillip’s past as unaltered and uncensored and it is trapped in his mind until he tells everyone the truth about why and how Phillip kills his brother and takes over the Isles. Gus will tell the truth someday.

--->'''Luz:''' Hmmm, what will you be, little palisman? A bird, like Owlbert? A cool bug? Maybe an octopus so we can hold hands? Maybe...Maybe, you'll never hatch. [[GuiltComplex And I messed up your life too.]]

* Doubles as Heartwarming -- Hunter is so un-used to love that when Luz tells him he's family now, he immediately starts to cry.
* Luz spends a lot of the episode watching over her egg palisman, which still hasn't hatched. She even wonders if her attempt to give the palisman the chance to choose what ''it'' wanted to be only consigned it to be an egg forever.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd0WkLkksAI&lc=UgwvglQG_nFGKUr1P4p4AaABAg The storyboard version]] of this ending just makes it worse. Luz tries to reveal what happened, but she's too shellshocked by what she saw that she instead races into Eda's embrace and starts to cry.

** When King leaves to go visit Eda and Lilith, the Collector pleads with him to let him hold Francois because he HatesBeingAlone, driving home how miserable the literal Child was trapped alone in an unbreachable prison with only one link to the outside world and companionship. It makes Philip intentionally casting the disk into the darkest reaches of the Titan's skull [[KickTheDog even crueler than it already was]], because he ''[[EvilIsPetty knew]]'' that the Collector would hate that fate more than anything. While King still refuses to let him hold him, he relents on putting him on the nightstand like he was watching over the Collector, just because of how sad the boy looks when he says he doesn't want to be alone.

** When King leaves to go visit Eda and Lilith, the Collector pleads with him to let him hold Francois because he HatesBeingAlone, driving home how miserable the literal Child was trapped alone in an unbreachable prison with only one link to the outside world and companionship. It makes Philip intentionally casting the disk into the darkest reaches of the Titan's skull [[KickTheDog even crueler than it already was]], because he ''[[EvilIsPetty knew]]'' that the Collector would hate that fate more than anything.

** Even more tragic, had it not been for Emperor Belos, the Boiling Isles wouldn't be the [[CrapsackWorld dog-eat-dog world]] it is today. And because of that, [[ForWantOfANail many lives in the present day might've been drastically different]]. Glandus's students wouldn't have been a callous survival-of-the-fittest types driven to bully one another. Lillith and Eda wouldn't have been pitted against each other, and thus, Lillith might not have ever cursed Eda or endangered their relationship. On that note, Eda's curse might not have alienated her from her parents. And assuming [[AbusiveParents Amity's parents]] would've been different under alternate circumstances, Amity and Willow wouldn't have been separated by the belief that "Blights only befriend the strongest witchlings". In between, so many witches who favored wild magic would never have suffered. This speaks volumes of how Belos's reign has caused ''so much pain and suffering in the making''.

** At some point, he hears a twig snapping in the distance and instinctively tries to summon his staff, only to forget that he can no longer do that and groans in frustration that this realization.

->''"Yes! This mama is ready for trauma."''

** Gus in particular always wanted to go to the Human Realm, but he can't enjoy his dream coming true because it's just been fulfilled in the worst possible way. He hasn't ''gone'' there, he's ''fled'' there. Now, not only is there no way back home, there's no obvious sign that home even ''exists'' anymore. Keep in mind, while the others are all well into their teens, Gus is only ''twelve years old''. Nothing exemplifies this fact more than his bursting into tears and collapsing to the ground at the realization that he can't go back, and huddling into Hunter's side while hugging himself when the group arrives at Camila's house.

* Despite having had more time to process and learn about his true nature, [[CloningBlues Hunter is still miles deep in an identity crisis]] after learning he's a Grimwalker, and he refuses to tell Gus and Willow anything about it. When Luz tries to coax him into talking, he claims that he's still not even sure ''what'' he is, witch or human. All he knows is that he's a ReplacementGoldfish for someone Belos made "[[DeadlyEuphemism disappear]]."

** In her nightmare, Luz is facing what she has been fearing since "Thanks To Them": her friends, including her beloved girlfriend, '''hating her guts''' for everything that has happened in her time in the Boiling Isles!
*** Hunter being added to the nightmare is even more gut-wrenching once viewers see his part. He was the first one to comfort Luz with her guilt after "Hollow Mind". Now, She feels like he blames her just as much since Flapjack's death.

*** Imagine the sheer pain the two are going through right now; they had just been reunited with Luz after months of separation, only for them to lose her '''again'''.

* The episode starts with Eda, Luz and King trapped in their worst nightmares. Eda is stuck in a reality where she maimed her dad ''again'' [[EyeScream rendering him blind]] and is seen as a wild beast by her mother and sister, King is shown the collection of skulls of his siblings in the lair of the Titan Trappers, with a nightmarish version of Bill preparing to sacrifice him too, and Luz is placed in the role of Belos in a reality where he ''won'', and her friends each take turns reflecting her worst fears back at her. Amity calls her just as bad as Belos, Willow blames her for the loss of her home, Gus calls her a hypocrite and tells her she's the reason he'll never see his father again, and Hunter breaks down as he tearfully asks why ''she'' gets to have a Palisman when he lost Flapjack trying to protect her.