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I don't want people to see me as a big scary monster anymore.
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~ King to Steve.
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Luz: We gotta stick together. We gotta stick together! King: I'm sorry, not this time. But I can keep you safe. Luz: No...! King: Luz, I'm so happy I had you as a big sister.
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~ King before sending Luz and her friends to the Human Realm while he stays with the Collector.
King Clawthorne is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Eda Clawthorne) of the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
He is a juvenile demon who is the roommate, and later adoptive son, of Eda Clawthorne and the best friend of Luz Noceda. He believed he was the "king of demons" as his name suggests, and sought to restore his title and his glory. He is later revealed to actually be a baby Titan and none other than the son of the Titan himself, whose corpse has made up the entire Boiling Isles.
King is an almost canine creature. He has mostly dark gray fur, although its torso and the tip of its tail are covered in light gray fur. His eyes are pink with a yellow sclera. He has three fingers and two toes which (excluding his thumbs) look like white claws. His mouth only opens when he eats or yawns, and he has a purple tongue. He wears a red collar with a yellow tag.
The highlight of his appearance is a dog-like skull with horns, one of which is broken off. He eventually regains that horn in Season 2. He also obtains a golden medallion with a Titan crest upon it which he now wears on his collar, allowing him to appear invisible to the Collector.
Under the Collector's partnership, he now wears a blue and white robe, nightcap and white-bobbed slippers with purple rims and celestial patterns, as well as a beige necklace with a basic white tag and a plaster on his cracked skull.
In the epilogue 4 years after the series' events, King looks similar to his standard appearance but has now grown up to be slightly taller and his limbs are more stretched out than before, not to mention his horns have also grown slightly. The medallion on his collar now displays his initials and his skull plaster is now replaced with a cyan star sticker.
Personality[]
At the height of an ancient king, he is accustomed to acting like a monarch, treating people and objects as servants, commanding others, and acting greater than himself. He sometimes manages to assume leadership of some form, but loses it due to his negligence and ignorance.
King hates being called "cute" and having people treat him like a baby, but due to his small size, he has to rely on accessories designed for infants, such as a high chair and baby carrier. King has a huge love for food. When Luz offered to stay to become a witch, King first wanted Eda to agree so she could make them snacks, and whenever he is against doing something, the mention of food can easily change his mind.
King is shown to be lazy, often hanging out for naps instead of working and sometimes has to be forced or blackmailed into working much to his annoyance. When he is really tired, his body becomes limp and can be picked up without a problem.
However, upon realizing the true nature of his past, King shows a more insecure side of himself as the glamorous past he believed he once had was all a lie. Fortunately, after being reassured that he would still be accepted by his friends he remains friendly and jovial to everyone. After learning that he is the son of the Boiling Isles Titan, King temporarily becomes somewhat brooding and sad after realising he's the last of his kind, as well as being somewhat disturbed by Lilith's subservience to him. After a period of introspection with Steve, King realizes that his true desire was for friends after all and decides to drop his monarch-like attitude, though he does remain a little arrogant. However, to his end he would sacrifice himself to save Luz and her friends in order to pacify the Collector and keep him occupied.
Biography[]
Background[]
Millions of years before the start of the series, King was born as the youngest son of the Titan along with thousands of other siblings. However, at the time the titans were embroiled in a war with the Collectors, who had massacred almost all of them including King's siblings. Fearing of his son's safety, the Titan would hide the infant King on an isolated island inside a castle filled with protection runes, as well as multiple golems. As his final act, he would also seal away the Collector, mistakenly believing him to be evil along with his own physical body, keeping King safe.
Roughly 8 years before the events of the series, King would finally hatch from his egg and would be looked after by one of the golems Jean-Luc. Sometime later, a younger Eda would arrive on the island, seeking shelter from both the boiling rain and Emperor's Coven. As she adventured into the castle, she would come across the infant King and would decide to take him in after being pursued by Jean-Luc, though in the process he chips his horn. While initially believing him to be a regular animal, Eda hears King say his first words and play amongst stacks of objects like a monarch among his subjects, causing her to christen him King. The two would play make-believe with him as a monarch but as he grew up King would mistake these playtimes as genuine memories of a royal past, leading him to believe that he was the fallen king of demons.
At one point, King had a "crown of power" that he lost to Warden Wrath, who locked it away behind a barrier in the Conformatorium.
Season 1[]
One day, Eda brings home a human girl named Luz Noceda, who can pass through the barrier, so the three sneak into the Conformatorium and hide from Warden Wrath in an empty cell. Though Luz successfully takes the crown, the warden catches them and crushes it. When he asks Eda on a date, she spits in his face and the three escape. The fight between Eda and the Warden in the courtyard blast a hole in the cell block and King and Luz rally the prisoners, who attack the Warden and the trio escape back to the Owl House. Just when King and Eda are about to say goodbye to Luz, she chooses to stay in the Demon Realm to learn magic, so Eda puts her in a spare room and King sleeps beside her.
The following morning, Eda rejects Luz's request to learn magic, so King and Luz go around town giving deliveries to the Bonesborough residents. When they finally stops by a grand manor, Adegast tells Luz that she is the chosen one, but Eda dismisses that claim when they returns. After Luz runs off, King and Eda return to the manor only to find multiple maps like the one Luz was given, and later Luz herself facing Adegast, who turns out to be a demon who wants to remove Eda as a business rival. Together, the trio defeat Adegast and Eda puts King and Luz on her staff, before showing them an aerial view of the Boiling Isles.
A few days later, when King, Eda and Luz are searching the remains of a trash slug, Eda mentions magical school and Luz slips away soon after, leading King to question Eda's teaching skills. Eda then gives him a trash slug egg and makes a bet with him: if he fails to train it, he will change his name to Mr. Wiggles, but if he succeeds, she will wear a dunce hat and live in the shed behind the Owl House in shame. While he is feeding the slug treats, the two realize that Luz has gone for a while and Hooty tells them to go north. After Eda learns that Luz is at Hexside School of Magic and Demonics, King says that he wins the bet, but the slug has grown to the size of a cart and turns on him since he has ran out of treats. He begs Eda to help him and the two douse the slug in salt to shrink it. Luz then returns alongside Willow Park and Gus Porter.
King later teaches Luz about demons but struggles to hold her attention. Soon a boiling rainstorm happens and everyone are forced to take shelter. After Eda puts a barrier around the Owl House, Luz once again asks her to teach her magic, so Eda shows her how to cast a light spell, only to pass out and forcing King and Luz to drag her to bed. Despite King's effort to make Luz learn more about demons, she only cares about how she is unable to perform magic so he advises her to drink an elixir he saw Eda drank to do so, since he theorizes that it is what makes her powerful to begin with. Just when Luz is about to drink the elixir, she gets startled by the storm and drops it, and the light goes out. The two then hears Hooty in panic and learns that he has been knocked out, having been attacked by a monster that immediately runs to Eda's room. King thinks it's a snaggleback and the two follow it, and later separate. King then finds a snaggleback in the closet that doesn't resemble the monster at all, just when the actual monster shows up and eats him before chasing King. He then finds Luz hiding in Eda's room and sees the tag of the elixir which reads "An elixir a day keeps the curse at bay", making him realize that the monster is in fact Eda herself and the elixir is meant to keep her curse at bay. When Luz's phone falls to the ground and its flash of the camera stuns Eda, the two hide and Luz throws a pot to lure Eda away.
As Luz is telling King that she is ready to learn more, King realizes that Eda's eyes is black and black-eyed demons are sensitive to light, but they have no way to generate enough light until Luz watches a video she took of Eda performing a light spell and sees its glyph. She traces and taps it which creates an orb of light, while King lures Eda to the hall, finally subduing Eda. After Eda returns to normal, King gives her back her elixir, and despite berating him for stealing it, she is also amazed at how Luz has learned light magic on her own. She then tells them that someone cursed her as a child and she is still struggling to manage it.
Season 2[]
TBA
Season 3[]
TBA
Powers and Abilities[]
Titan magic: As a Titan, King possesses a tremendous potential for magic that can cancel out Collector magic, though due to his young age and being clueless about his origin for most of his life, he hasn't demonstrated it in full yet. He manifests his magic through glyphs rather than casting spells with spell circles like witches and biped demons.
Glyph creation: King can create his own glyphs and manifests his magic through them.
Barrier projection: King can create spherical barriers of his own glyphs to protect himself and people around him, as shown when he uses this ability to protect himself and the Collector from Belos' attacks.
Sonic shout: King can break barriers with his own screams, which can generate expanding rings or arcs that can damage if not destroy outright anything that they come across.
Echolocation: King demonstrates this ability when he is trying to find Eclipse Lake at Knee.
Heightened sense of smell: King can discern subtle scents.
Empowered form: King can assume a more bestial form under intense emotions that enhances his magical abilities, as shown when he witnesses Luz's death.
Trivia[]
He also knows how to bake cakes as shown in "Agony of a Witch".
King's vocal powers were possibly hinted at by the fact he doesn't need to open his mouth to speak.
While King's skull is a part of his face, Dana Terrace has drawn art of him hypothetically taking it off, revealing that his eyes would simply fall out and rest on his tongue. This is referenced in Disney's Tiny Tales series in which King does in one instance, take off his skull resulting in exactly that happening.
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