Hunter

* Costume
* Earth
* Resistance
* Unmasked
* Debut

To figure out a way to help Belos' condition through studying wild magic (formerly)
To stop the Day of Unity (succeeded)
To study wild magic for himself (suceeded)
To learn how to carve palismen (succeeded)
To defeat Belos (succeeded)To keep addy safe(kinda failed)

### Home

Emperor's Castle, Boiling Isles, Demon Realm (formerly)
Noceda residence, Gravesfield, Connecticut, USA, Human Realm (temporarily; formerly)

### Relatives

Emperor Belos (creator, adoptive uncle)
 Addy Whittebane(cousin)
Past Golden Guards (clone predecessors)
Caleb Wittebane (template)

### Pets

Flapjack (palisman; deceased)
Waffles (palisman; epilogue)

### Allies

Flapjack
Luz Noceda
Willow Park (love interest)
Gus Porter
Viney
Skara
Darius Deamonne
Amity Blight
Principal Bump
 Edric Blight
King
Alador Blight
Camila Noceda
Vee
Matt Tholomule
The Collector
Dell Clawthorne
EberwolfAddy whittebane(cousin)

Cookie(addy’s palisman)

### Minions

* Coven Scouts (formerly)
	+ Steve (formerly)
	+ Severine {formerly}

### Enemies

Kikimora
Eda Clawthorne (formerly)
King (formerly)
Lilith Clawthorne (formerly)
Amity Blight (formerly)
Adrian Graye Vernworth
Odalia Blight
Emperor Belos

### Likes

Wild magic
Authority
Rules
Helping Belos (formerly)
Ruler's Reach
Wolves
*Cosmic Frontier*Addy

### Dislikes

Being powerless
Displeasing Emperor Belos (formerly)
The inability to choose his own future
Not having a purpose
People calling his voice "annoying"
Belos consuming palismen
The Emperor's coven and castleAddy getting hurt by belos or anyone

### Powers and abilities

Teleportation (Inherited from Flapjack)
Other forms of magic (via his palisman, Waffles)

### Weapons

Artificial magic staff (formerly)
Cardinal staff (formerly)
Blue jay staff (epilogue)

### Quote

"Bye-eeee!"
"I am your superior, and I can prove it!"
"What's about to happen should be relatively painless, if you just do what I say."
"Long story short, this is my grave! Want me to make you one too?"“Hey cousin how is your day doing”“Addy what are you hiding from me”

**Hunter**, formerly known as the **Golden Guard**, is a major character in *The Owl House*, initially depicted as an antagonist. He was the right-hand man of Emperor Belos and the former head of the Emperor's Coven. Hunter was presumed to be the nephew of Belos and as such, he was dedicated to his cause of ending all wild magic in the realm, but in reality, he is the latest version of the Golden Guard clones created by Belos to serve him faithfully in his mad quest.

After becoming the head of the Emperor's Coven, the Golden Guard acts as the main enforcer for Emperor Belos and antagonist to the residents of the Owl House. However, a chance encounter with Luz Noceda and the meeting of a mysterious palisman named Flapjack, who chooses Hunter as his partner, gives Hunter a new perspective to life outside the Emperor's Coven. This soon culminates with Hunter learning the truth of his origins. Upon this discovery, and realizing he can never go back, Hunter abandons Belos and the Emperor's Coven altogether. Following his desertion, Hunter relocated to Hexside School of Magic and Demonics in order to hide from the emperor's reach. There, he found acquaintances in Hexside's students, and after coming to terms with his identity, Hunter made it his goal to help them stand against Belos' plan to wipe out the Demon Realm.

Following the Day of Unity, Hunter and his friends were stranded in the Human Realm and spent the months working away to return to the Demon Realm. Unbeknownst to him and everyone else, a remnant of Belos returned to possess Hunter, who nearly killed Flapjack in the process. However, this gave Hunter the courage to stand up against his uncle, but suffered heavy injuries from the possession. Flapjack sacrificed himself to revive Hunter. Vowing to honor Flapjack, Hunter accompanied his friends to the Demon Realm to save everyone trapped by the Collector. After the group escapes capture by the Collector, Hunter helps evacuate the trapped residents from the Boiling Isles' destruction. Following the defeat and death of Belos, Hunter chooses to stay in the Boiling Isles to help rebuild it back to its natural self.

Four years later, Hunter becomes an accomplished palisman carver bonded to a blue jay palisman named Waffles. He remains close to his friends and Flapjack, whom he builds a memorial for to remember his late palisman.

## Appearance

### Body

Hunter, like many of the Golden Guards before him, was created with the likeness of Belos' late older brother, Caleb Wittebane. He is a humanoid boy sharing the physical traits of a witch such as pointed ears. He has a fair complexion, a slightly hooked nose, dark magenta eyes, thick black eyebrows, a gap between his front teeth, bags under his eyes, and ash-blond hair that is shaved below the top, with a long, jagged forelock. He has a notch on his left ear and scars on his right cheek, upper left arm, two on his right kneecap, forming an X-mark, and one on his left calf. He additionally has a sigil of the Emperor's Coven branded onto his right wrist. He is described as scrawny by Amity in "Eclipse Lake", although he has a larger build compared to characters like Luz.

He is described as looking sickly by Emira in "Labyrinth Runners", though this may have been due to his living conditions at the time.

While staying in the Human Realm, Hunter had his hair and forelock trimmed by Willow, giving him short bangs. When Belos possessed him, parts of Hunter's skin, left ear, and face became basil-green that spread to his arms, turning them into the ones of Belos' corrupted form while also gaining the blue eyes and antler-like horns of the latter. His hair also grew longer, which restored his forelock bang. After being healed from Flapjack's sacrifice, Hunter received tissue scarring in the areas Belos corrupted and his eyes became brown.

In the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming", Hunter's hair has grown out slightly further, and he no longer has bags under his eyes. Additionally, a red tattoo of a cardinal covers the place on his right arm where his coven sigil had previously been, to symbolize the loss of Flapjack.

### Clothing

During his time in the emperor's court, Hunter wore an ivory-colored hooded cloak with a golden triangle clasp, like other members of the Emperor's Coven. Under the cloak was a dark yellow long-sleeved tunic with a golden-yellow short-sleeved shirt over it and a dark brown belt, black leggings, dark brown gloves, and boots. He wore a golden pauldron on his left shoulder and a pointed two-faceted mask with a thin eye-slot across it. Underneath his tunic, he had a blueish-gray shirt and golden chest armor with brown straps.

In "Eclipse Lake", he disguised himself in a standard Coven Scout uniform during his excursion to the Knee.

In "Any Sport in a Storm", Hunter disguises himself as a Hexside student, donning a Hexside school uniform consisting of a gray tunic with a dark gray belt, cowl, and boots. His sleeves and leggings of his uniform are colored yellow to suggest he is affiliated with the Potions track. Part of his Golden Guard tunic can be seen hidden underneath his uniform, seen notably at the collar. Hunter also wore red socks with bird-like designs on them.

While hiding from the Emperor's Coven in "Labyrinth Runners", Hunter gets rid of his tunic and dons the shirts of his sports uniform again, albeit tattered and dirty, alongside a dark blue cloak with red patches.

After joining with the resistance in "Clouds on the Horizon", Hunter wears a pale rose-colored undershirt covered by a collared light brown shirt bearing a cross-stitch in the center, as well as a brown belt bag. He keeps the same gloves, leggings, and boots from his Golden Guard uniform.

Over the course of his stay in the Human Realm, Hunter typically wore a variety of short-sleeved button-down shirts, khaki shorts, no show socks and white crocs. By late October, he would constantly wear a yellow sweater with a left breast pocket but alternated his pants, which would either be blue jeans with a blue patch and red patch on the right and left knees, respectively, or blue pajama pants with a watermelon pattern. He either wore white or purple socks and for footwear, red sneakers and the crocs.

During the Haunted Hayride, Hunter dressed as "Chief O'Bailey" from *Cosmic Frontier*, with the costume consisting of a black and yellow long-sleeved shirt with a planet symbol on it, a utility belt, black pants with cuffs and yellow edges, white socks, black and dark yellow shoes, and a robotic eye attachment. However, after being possessed by Belos and returning to the Demon Realm, he discards the robotic eye and removes the shirt, tying it around his waist, revealing a custom-made black wolf t-shirt underneath it.

In the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming", Hunter wears a dark blue collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up, gray pants, an orange apron, and red sneakers with yellow lighting patterns across them. The apron features two pockets, one smaller on the torso and one larger at the waist, along with multiple sewn-on patches; a purple patch with the abomination symbol, a light blue patch with the illusionist symbol, and a yellow patch with the logo of the Emerald Entrails.