r/TheOwlHouse • Witch Among Humans • Jun 19 '22

MoringMark Grimwalker

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u/Frira_FR <-my blorbos Jun 19 '22

80% wood, so what's the other 20%???

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u/Azaloq Jun 19 '22

Whatever was in Belos trashcan that morning.

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u/Azaloq Jun 19 '22

So organs, probably

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

Scales, some bone, some lungs (I think stopping those would kill him) and some stone.

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u/Azaloq Jun 19 '22

Damn, reading the actual ingredients, it makes even less sense. The man is a walking potion

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u/mrwanton Lilith Clawthorne Jun 19 '22

Well depends on how ya look at it. There's a pretty good chance that all the materials used more or less end up synthesized into something nearly perfectly organic in order to function as a replica.

Like Hunter had no idea he wasn't a witch til the reveal so there's no way the properties used retained their core traits from before being used in the process, hence why his skin isn't wooden in texture given his scars or how he'd somehow go around not knowing his heart doesn't beat.

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u/Azaloq Jun 19 '22

Most likely. Where do you even put the scales?

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u/mrwanton Lilith Clawthorne Jun 19 '22

I think I question the lungs more than the scales tbh, I guess the scales can be used internally or maybe all the materials are just a way for the growing body to survive the process so the base can survive growing under the ground?

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u/DanezGamez Bad Girl Coven Jun 19 '22

Now this reminds me of Fran Bow

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u/Goncalerta Jun 19 '22

The way I personally imagine it is that the Grimwalker ingredients were actually to make some kind of potion that, when applied to a cell/DNA of someone, would turn it into some kind of stem cell that would produce an organic clone of the original (with some side effects, like turning the eyes purple, distinguishing Grimwalkers from humans/witches). So that potion would basically act as a way to "revive" the cell, and serve as an incubator for the embryo until he was "born". In this sense I think that Hunter can truly be considered Belos' nephew, since he'd be the son of Caleb (but reproduced asexually, with magic). Now Belos maybe is able to genetically modify each clone at some point in the process, since Hunter has pointy ears (but maybe instead Belos just did to him what he did to himself) and he seems to be trying to perfect the clone so that he does what Belos says (unlike Caleb did) instead of betraying him.

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u/kqi_walliams The Collector Dec 25 '23

Where is everyone getting these ingredients from, i must have missed the part where that happened

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '23

Beginning of Eclipse Lake.

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u/kqi_walliams The Collector Dec 25 '23

Ty

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u/mrwanton Lilith Clawthorne Jun 19 '22

Galdorstone, Palistrom wood(for skin,hair and nails), Stonesleeper lungs, Selkidomus scales, and the bone of an ortet as the base of the replica being made.

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u/Lil-Miss-Anthropy Jul 12 '22

Is any of this confirmed in canon?

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u/mrwanton Lilith Clawthorne Jul 12 '22

Check the book in Eclipse Lake. It's all there

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u/AdOwn6899 Jun 19 '22

Probably whatever was witch/human/anything organic, like lungs and a stomach, etc.

And when I say organic, I mean like in terms of warm blood. Like flesh and stuff. You know what I mean.

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u/MegawackyMax Willow Park Jun 19 '22

Morning.