Hooty

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“
A good friend would respect her wishes, but a better friend would help no matter what!
”

—Hooty

**Hooty** is the titular character of *The Owl House*, being a house demon attached to the door of the Owl House, he serves as its protector and as the house itself.

## Appearance

Hooty has a wooden light beige owl face with a darker orange upper side, brown eyes and an orange beak. Behind the door where he is placed, there is the back frame of his owl body with wings and two peepholes attached where his eyes normally are. While Hooty has been described as a house demon, his specific type was revealed to be a bug demon. As a bug demon, owing to his extensive brown "*neck*", Hooty can stretch and move around in worm-like fashion, and extend his mouth to allow visitors entry to the house or swallow items for storage. His overall appearance is similar to a barn owl, as in "Hooty's Moving Hassle", his legs can be seen underneath the house. His anatomy has a peculiar nature, as in "Echoes of the Past" suggests he is at least partially an organic creature when separating himself from the door reveals veins and organs spilling from the gap. "O Titan, Where Art Thou" later reveals he has several rows of teeth inside his mouth running down to his stomach, along with a second "head" that is obscured at the back of his mouth.

Hooty's skin is able to be removed, and when done so only his skeleton can be seen, and his skull resembles that of an owl's skull.

## Personality

Hooty is shown to be a jovial and very welcoming creature, often greeting visitors to the Owl House and trying to be accepted as part of a group activity. He is rather talkative and claims to have many stories of his experiences to share, but he rarely, if ever, gets to share them since most people, including the inhabitants of the Owl House, consider him to be annoying.

King refers to him as being desperate for attention which he doesn't deny. He is easily annoyed by the neglect which Eda and King throw at him, but nevertheless offers help if needed. Hooty can also be passive-aggressive at times. In "Adventures in the Elements", King refused to let him into his boot camp, causing Hooty to play "hard to get" when King comes to him for help later. Because of his station in life, being bound to the house, most of his activities and hobbies involve talking, telling riddles, listening to music, and rolling around in the mud.

Much like Eda and King, Hooty also has a cheeky and mischievous streak to his personality, occasionally being amused by seeing people getting hurt or poking fun at other people's bad luck. However, Eda also claims that despite his annoying tendencies, he still finds his way into her heart.

Like real owls, Hooty is also aggressive and territorial. In the short "Art Lessons with Luz", he mistakes Luz's painting of himself as another owl trying to take his territory, prompting him to freak out and tear up the drawing. Despite this, he usually won't make this mistake if he sees the person creating the art of himself.

Hooty can also be quite emotional at times. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", he cries and pulls himself away every time when he thinks he failed to help King, Eda, and Luz. After thinking he failed for a third time, Hooty has a nervous breakdown. He decides that everyone in the Owl House will be better off without him and tries to leave, going so far as to ripping himself out of the door in an attempt to get away from the house, all while crying hysterically. It is only until Eda and King convince him that he did end up helping them and seeing Luz and Amity hold hands together that he finally calms down and cries happily, knowing that he did help everyone.

## Abilities

### **Skillset**

* **Baking**: According to Eda in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Hooty is an exceptional baker, making delicious cookies that look like his own face (even though they were spiked with sleeping nettles). He also made a crumble (that was mistaken for a cake by Tinella Nosa) for King's party that was accidentally ruined by King's sonic shout.

### **Unique Abilities**

* **House manipulation:** Being the demonic component of the Owl House, Hooty has control over the architectural facets of the house. This extends to utilities, as Hooty can control the house lights.
	+ **Door manipulation:** Due to him being part of the front door, Hooty can open it at will. One method of opening the door involves Hooty stretching his mouth to encompass the entire surface of the door, thus allowing people to walk inside before shutting his beak back to normal size.
	+ **House alteration:** Hooty can change his body, and therefore, the location's structure, in any way he wants. Notably, he can add pipes and electricity to the house.
		- **House transportation:** Hooty has demonstrated the magical ability to transport the Owl House by sprouting a pair of bird legs from the house's foundation and walking away with it. The full extent of this power is not currently known and was only used while under the influence of a Moonlight Conjuring, as shown during the events of "Hooty's Moving Hassle".

* **Elasticity:** Hooty's most commonly used power is his ability to elongate his head, being able to stretch himself enough to enter the house, interact with his immediate surroundings or ensnare intruders. His elasticity makes him incredibly versatile in combat, allowing him to stretch circles around enemies, as seen when he fought Lilith and several members of the Emperor's Coven in "Agony of a Witch". He can move himself to great lengths effortlessly, and it is currently unknown what his limit is, or if he even has one. In "Escaping Expulsion", Hooty can stretch himself as a means of transportation, as he uses his elasticity to transport Luz to Hexside.

* **Owl physiology:** Being an owl-like demon, he possesses all physical traits revolving around real owls, such as being able to puff his feathers when excited or alarmed, or even shedding feathers off his body.
	+ **Beak:** Just like real-life birds, Hooty can use his beak as a means of attacking enemies. It is at least sharp enough to cut and tear through various objects, such as plush toys and papers. It is also strong enough to lift up a person as seen in "Escaping Expulsion".
	+ **Owl pellets:** An ability that stems from his owl physiology, Hooty can sometimes regurgitate objects and beings within brown-green owl pellets.

* **Demonology:** Being a demon himself, Hooty appears to have extensive knowledge of his fellow demons.
	+ **Communicative dance:** As a bug demon, Hooty is able to understand the comitative dances used by fellow bug demons.

* **Enhanced strength:** Despite his cheerful demeanor, Hooty is deceptively strong. He is able to lift Amity, Lilith, and a coven soldier off the ground with his neck, quickly smash his way underground for a surprise attack, and hit Lilith hard enough to send her flying into a tree.

* **Enhanced hearing:** Hooty has excellent hearing, as seen in "I was a Teenage Abomination", where it is shown that he can hear Luz's footsteps despite her being quite some distance away at Hexside. Because of this, he is a very light sleeper, thus he can quickly react to a threat when the Emperor’s Coven was trying to raid the house in “Agony of a Witch”, even when they were several hundred feet away from him.

* **Portability**: In "Echoes of the Past", it is revealed that Hooty is able to remove his head from his hole in the door and move to a cuckoo clock-like enclosure to make himself more mobile. However, he leaves behind some guts and veins in the hole in the process, since the house is a part of his body.
	+ **Protection:** Hooty is able to coil his body around something to protect it. His body is very durable, meaning he can withstand a large amount of force. This can be used in his "Porta-Hooty" form, as seen in "Edge of the World".
	+ **Flotation:** Hooty is able to rotate at fierce speeds like a helicopter propeller, and lift objects he is attached to up into the air. This is primarily used in his "Porta-Hooty" backpack, and is able to lift up people, as seen with Lilith in "O Titan, Where Art Thou."

* **Storage**: Hooty can store things within himself and regurgitate them with ease.

* **Longevity**: According to Amity in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", house demons tend to act strangely after a few thousand years. While Hooty's exact age is unknown, this statement at least confirms that house demons can live to be a few thousand years old.

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## Trivia

* In a Disney Channel music video, Hooty is shown in a band called *Hooty and the Parliament Owls Angelic*.
* The whole house, not only the door he resides in, is a part of Hooty's body, so he can feel pain if the house is damaged (such as Eda cracking a wall in frustration).
* In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", it is revealed that Hooty can remove his skin.
* As seen in "Art Lessons with Luz", Hooty cannot distinguish between a real person and a drawing and very easily freaks out as a result.
* As a demon, Hooty is both a living creature and an object. In the episode "Something Ventured, Someone Framed", Hooty can be seen trying to catch flies in his beak and he mentions that he enjoys eating them, thus implying that he needs to eat in order to survive. This is further emphasized given that the Owl House is alive.
* He, along with the Bat Queen, are the only known characters to be identified as being both sentient objects and demons at the same time.
* In the Polish dub, he is portrayed as a female for unknown reasons despite being voiced by a male actor.
* In an AMA Dana Terrace hosted, a fan asked a question regarding Hooty's complete length. To which the creator responded with "There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty." This implies that Hooty's neck is infinite.
* According to Dana Terrace, Hooty has an evil twin called "Booty".
* He is 20% mucus as stated in "Once Upon a Swap".
* Hooty is very likely inspired by the Slavic tale of Template:W, who is said to live in a hut on chicken legs. This is supported by him growing legs in "Hooty's Moving Hassle".
* Lilith's nickname for Hooty, "Hootsifer", is a reference to "Lucifer", one of the many names given to the Devil.
	+ It might as well be a reference to "Calcifer", the fire demon from *Template:W* that similarly, is bound to their witch's house, and keeps it running.
* He is able to remove himself from the door.
* He hates wearing clothes.
* In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Amity mentions that house demons tend to act weird after a couple of thousand years, which could suggest that Hooty is at least a thousand years old.
	+ However, it's unlikely that Amity knew the actual age of Hooty, and therefore considered this possibility simply as an explanation of Hooty's behavior.
	+ If Hooty actually is a few thousand years old, he would be one of the oldest known living characters in the series to date, the other one being the Bat Queen.
* Based on Hooty's anatomy diagram posted by Ryan Andrews on his Twitter, Hooty has teeth inside his stomach.
	+ This was confirmed in "O Titan, Where Art Thou" in the scene where Hooty is eating some fire bees by the campfire - he has teeth in his mouth, deep into his throat, making him look similar to the mouth of a Sarlacc from *Star Wars* episode VI.
* In "Watching and Dreaming", the Titan's right optic nerve is sticking out of his right eye socket. This optic nerve bears a resemblance to Hooty, this may suggest that Hooty and the rest of his species are organisms burrowing in Titans.
	+ When inquired about the connection, Dana Terrace declined to say, but did state that a theory made by YouTube reviewer TheThirdBill about Hooty was correct. Although not named, it is likely TheThirdBill's "Hooty Hole" theory, wherein he speculates Hooty can travel around the Isles in a tapeworm-like fashion, and due to having internal access to the Titan's wild magic through its blood, then Hooty, or something associated with Hooty, could be the conduit to the portal's technology like the portal's eye is.

## References

1. ↑ The Owl House: Hooty and the Parliament Music Video (December 21, 2019).
2. ↑ Dana Terrace's AMA. Reddit (September 2, 2020). “There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.”
3. ↑ Dana Terrace's AMA. Reddit (September 2, 2020). “Yes and it's Booty, bc that's what keeps autocorrecting whenever I text about Hooty.”
4. ↑ Andrews, Ryan (August 1, 2021). Here's a close-up of that Hooty anatomy diagram. Not sure what lies past the 2nd set of intestines but I imagine it's equally impressive. #TheOwlHouse.
5. ↑ Cissy Jones (April 28, 2023). The "watching and dreaming" PostHoot with the one and only Dana Terrace! (13:13).