Annoying Dog!hooty

### Occupation

To stop the Day of UnityProtect and support the inhabitants living in the Owl House

## Appearances

### Debut

The owl housetale

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## History

Annoying dog!Hooty is the character of The Owl Housetale. A house demon attached to the door of The owl house, he serves as its protector and the house itself.

## Appearance

Annoying dog!Hooty has white skin, with dark eyes and an dog ears. Behind the door where he is placed, there is the back frame of his Dog body with wings and two peepholes attached where his eyes normally are. While annoying dog!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 white "*neck*", annoying dog!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 Annoying Dog, his legs can be seen underneath the house. His anatomy has a peculiar nature, as suggests he is at least partially an organic creature when separating himself from the door reveals veins and organs spilling from the gap. 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.

When Annoying dog!Hooty's skin is removed, only his skeleton can be seen, and his skull resembles that of an Dog's skull.

## Personality

Annoying dog!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!temmie refers to him as being desperate for attention. He is easily annoyed by the neglect which Eda!undyne and King!temmie throw at him, but nevertheless offers help if needed. Hooty!annoying dog can also be passive-aggressive at times.King!temmie refused to let him into his boot camp, causing Hooty!annoying dog to play "hard to get" when King!temmie 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!undyne and King!Temmie, Hooty!annoying dog 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!undyne also claims that despite his annoying tendencies, he still finds his way into her heart.

Like real Dogs,Hooty!annoying dog is also aggressive and territorial. In the short, he mistakes Luz!frisk's painting of himself as another Dog 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!annoying dog can also be quite emotional at times.he cries and pulls himself away every time when he thinks he failed to help King!temmie, Eda!undyne, and Luz!frisk After thinking he failed for a third time, Hooty!annoying dog 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!undyne and King!temmie convince him that he did end up helping them and seeing Luz!frisk and Amity!red hold hands together that he finally calms down and cries happily, knowing that he did help everyone.

## Background

### History

Hooty!annoying dog's origins are currently unknown. When talking about his past, Hooty!annoying dog mentions that it all started with a hunt and the skies were blood red. He supposedly has a mother, but it is unknown what happened to her or if she is still alive. Eda!undyne met Hooty!annoying dog prior to stumbling upon King!temmie on an island, and they have been together for at least eight years. Hooty!annoying dog mentioned that Eda!undyne acted as a teacher to him sometime in the past, but the events of this interaction are vague at best.

What is known about Hooty!Annoying dog is that he is widely considered to be annoying and is often the butt of many jokes. At the same time, Hooty also acts as the guardian of The owl houseand protects the inhabitants from being attacked by enemies, such as Coven scouts from the Emperor's Coven.

### First days with Luz!frisk

Not long after Luz!frisk first arrives in Demon realms, she/he is brought back to the Owl House by Eda!undyne Clawthorne after the duo escaped from a Coven Guard. There, Eda!undyne describes Hooty!annoying dog as a "*state-of-the-art defense system*". When Hooty!annoying dog asks for a password, he is poked in the eyes by the Owl fish Lady instead.

A day after Luz!frisk's arrival, Hooty!annoying dog greets the human, but accidentally startles her/him into karate chopping his head. He later tells Luz!frisk to have a nice trip when she/he leaves with King!temmie to do some errands for Eda!undyne. Later, Luz!frisk goes on a quest given to her by Adegast on her own. When Eda!undyne notices Luz!frisk's disappearance, she/he asks Hooty!annoying dog where the human went. He tries to give her/he the answer in a riddle form, but the annoyed Owl Lady smashes one of the house walls with her fist. This causes Hooty!annoying dog to yelp in pain and tell Eda!undyne that Luz!frisk went to a forest towards Bonesborough.

Hooty serves as the sentient doorknocker located on the Owl House's front door, but is also the house itself and controls several of its utilities, such as the lights. When Luz becomes frustrated at her lack of magic powers, King mentions that Eda drinks some sort of special elixir every day, and suggests that maybe it's where Eda got her magic powers from. He then proceeds to stole the elixir from Eda's room for Luz, not knowing the true purpose of the potion. Without the elixir, Eda transforms into the Owl Beast and rips Hooty off his hinges, causing the lights to go out. However, once Eda returns to her normal form, Hooty is tended to by Luz, and is welcomed into the "Boo-Boo Buddies" club by her.

During the Moonlight Conjuring, Luz, Willow, and Gus accidentally animated the entire Owl House, making it mobile. The trio then proceeds to take Hooty on a joyride, passing through Bonesborough and causing residents to run away in fright. After the trio got captured by Animal Control, they were almost killed when they got thrown off a cliff. Luckily, the teenagers were able to get back up and get inside the house, then returning the house to its original location.

Throughout Luz!frisk's first few weeks in the Isles, her, Eda!undyne, and King!temmie treat Hooty!annoying dog with neglect on account of his "annoying" demeanor and his tendency to get himself exceedingly filthy while playing in mud. Every once in a while, someone in the house will be tasked to clean Hooty!annoying dog, a task which Eda!undyne calls "house cleaning duty".

Hooty!annoying dog would often guard the occupants of The owl house from the Emperor's Coven, fighting off the Coven scout trying to attack the house. After defeating the scouts, Hooty!annoying dog would throw a tea party with them. It is unclear what happens during the event, but these tea parties would often traumatize the scouts.

### Befriending Lilith!muffet

After Lilith!muffet took on half of Eda!undyne's curse and started living in The owl house, Hooty!annoying dog would constantly try to befriend her. When Lilith!muffet was gathering ingredients for a scrying potion, he followed her around against her wishes. He notices that Lilith!muffet has issues trying to gather the fire bee honey, and offers to help. However, Lilith!muffet refuses the help, and berates Hooty!annoying dog instead, causing him to leave sadly. Later, Lilith!muffet realizes that she can't really carry out the task alone when she got surrounded by the fire bees, and calls out for help. Immediately, Hooty!annoying dog comes to her rescue and fights off the bees, successfully helping Lilith!muffet acquire the honey for the potion. The two then slowly bond as she tends to his stings. Eventually, Lilith!muffet accepts Hooty!annoying dog as her BFF and gives him the nickname "Hootsifer".

One day, while Lilith!muffet is experimenting with glyphs, Hooty!annoying dog offers her a cup of tea. Soon after, when King!temmie starts ranting about his glorious past while he was still the King of Demons, both him and Lilith!muffet show disbelieve at the story. To prove himself, King!temmie leads Hooty!annoying dog, Lilith!muffet, and Luz!frisk on an expedition to an uncharted island. After seeing some drawings on a wall, Hooty!annoying dog and Lilith!muffet start to believe that King!temmie's rants about his supposed grandeur might be true, until they are attacked by a guardian entity. Eda!undyne arrives just in time to rescue everyone, and later reveals that she told King!temmie everything he believed in, which are all made up. She gives King!temmie his chipped horn back, which jolts his memories after he put it back on. Shocked, King!temmie has a mental breakdown and runs away. Hooty!annoying dog is saddened by this and starts crying when everyone failed to find him. Luz!frisk finds King!temmie a while later and suddenly remembers that there's an unexplored space on the top inside the building, so after bringing King!temmie back, she comes up with a plan with everyone to go back inside. While Hooty!annoying dog and Lilith!muffet distract the guardian, Luz!frisk and Eda!undyne uses glyphs to create an explosion and remove the barriers blocking the entrance to the top. Once there, King!temmie accidentally unlocks an entrance to a secret room. There, he learns that his father might be still alive, and Luz!frisk promises to help him find his dad. When King!temmie requests to take the guardian home, Hooty!annoying dog excitedly agrees, despite the others coldly rejecting the notion.

When Gwendolyn!undyne comes to visit, Lilith!muffet is ignored by her and she is more focused on Eda!undyne. Dejected, Llith!muffet starts binge eating ice-cream with King!temmie. Hooty!annoying dog becomes concerned at this, but is told off by Lilith!muffet. A while later, Hooty!annoying dog becomes horrified when Lilith!muffet transforms into her cursed form. After Gwendolyn!undyne and Luz!frisk turn the sisters back to normal, Hooty!annoying dog tearfully says goodbye to Lilith!muffet as she returns to her parents' house to catch up with them, but the two become pen pals instead.

### Helping his housemates

As the residents of The owl house struggle with personal issues - King!temmie trying to figure out who he really is, Eda!undyne struggling to figure out a plan to stop Belos!gaster, and Luz!frisk attempting to build a new portal while also wishing to ask out Amity!red, Hooty!annoying dog takes it upon himself to help them with some encouragement from Lilith!muffet. After eating King!temmie and regurgitating him in the tower behind the Owl House, Hooty!annoying dog tries to help him find out what kind of demon he is: bug, biped, or beast. For the first test, he instructs King!temmie to perform a dance to show if he is a bug demon, but this backfires when he unintentionally insults Hooty!annoying dog's mother. To test him being a biped demon next, Hooty!annoying dog has him fight Tinella Nosa, only for King!temmie to last not even five seconds with her potent magic. Tinella Nosa takes a blood sample from King!temmie to check if he is a beast, but the results come back inconclusive. While Hooty!annoying dog reassures him that he is who he is, King!temmie berates him for lying about having answers, causing him to let out a sonic scream that ripples around the tower and surrounding area. Hooty!annoying dog, having failed miserably, sobs hysterically and leaves King!temmie alone.

To help Eda!undyne, Hooty!annoying dog gives her cookies spiked with sleeping nettles. While Eda!undyne is out cold, she makes an alliance with Owl beast and gains a new harpy form, a hybrid between her normal body and the Owl Beast's. However, Hooty!annoying dog is dismayed, and believing he has failed again, dashes away.

After overhearing Luz!frisk's desire to ask Amity!red out, Hooty devises a plan to motivate the human. He creates a cheesy tunnel of love and kidnaps Amity!red, leaving a note for Luz!frisk to head to the basement. Once she/he finds Amity!red in an owl pellet, Hooty!annoying dog opens a trapdoor, and the girls fall into the tunnel of love. While Amity!red is impressed and likes the idea, even blushing at how cute it is, Luz!frisk freaks out and destroys the ride, not wanting Amity!red to believe that she is weird. This ends up hurting Amity!red, who now thinks that the idea of them dating was stupid all along. Hooty!annoying dog, firmly believing that he can't help anyone, tries to pull his entire body out of the door of The owl house.

In his distress, Hooty!annoying dog causes a slab of rock to almost crush Luz!frisk and Amity!red, but King!undyne uses his sonic scream to break it. Eda!undyne seizes an opportunity, urging Luz!frisk to ask Amity!red out now while she/he and King!temmie settle Hooty!annoying dog. Despite her nervousness, Luz!frisk gathers the courage to speak to Amity!Red, and straight/girls finally ask each other out, starting their relationship. Hooty!annoying dog sobs happily, now knowing that he has helped the residents of The owl house. He informs Lilith!muffet of these events in a letter and mails it out just as a figure resembling King!temmie approaches and gives him a letter for the latter. However, Hooty eats it when a bug crawls on it and disregards the letter as junk mail.

When Luz!frisk contracts the common mold, Hooty!annoying dog, Gus!napstablook, and Willow!Betty look after her while Eda!undyne, Amity!red, and King!temmie go to ecilpse lake to try and find Titan's Blood. After Amity!red saves some blood from the portal key on her glove, Hooty!annoying dog, Eda!undyne, and King!temmie manage to construct a portal and hold a safety rope tied to Luz!frisk as she/he goes inside. They pull her out when the portal starts to implode.

### Coven Day Parade and Titan Trapper Island

During the Coven Day Parade, Hooty!annoying dog and King!temmie pilot an effigy to distract the Coven scout while Luz!frisk and Eda!undyne grab Kikimora!river person and Raine!alpyhs. He watches with the rest of his companions as Emperor Belos!gaster addresses the witches of the Boiling isles about the Day of Unity being a month away.

Shortly after, Hooty!annoying dog hosts a party for Lilith!muffet after she becomes curator of the Supernatural History Museum and speaks with Dell.

After Luz!frisk and Hunter!chara are trapped in Belos!gaster' mindscape, Hooty!Annoying dog puts the Owl House on lockdown and talks with Flapjack about Hunter!chara. Hooty!Annoying dog soon gives Eda!undyne and King!temmie a potion prepared by Raine!alpyhs, Darius!Grillby, and Eberwolf!spamtom to free Luz!frisk and Hunter!chara. Once they are freed, Hunter!chara runs away.

Some time later, Luz!frisk tells Hooty!annoying dog, King!temmie, and Eda!undyne about Belos!gaster being a human witch hunter. As Hooty!annoying dog and King!temmie hug Luz!frisk to comfort her/him, Lilith!muffet arrives, and overjoyed, Hooty!annoying dog vomits up the letter addressed to King!temmie that he previously swallowed. After King!temmie convinces Eda!undyne to let him head to the location of his kin, Hooty!annoying dog goes with King!temmie and Luz!frisk to the location and are transported to a land known as Titan Trapper Island. As King!temmie appears to bond with others of his kind, Hooty!Annoying dog goes with Luz!frisk to ask their leader, Bill, to help them defeat Belos!gaster. Bill brushes them off and claims that Titans are the greater threat, happy to have his people vow to take down the Last titan in order to free the "Grand Huntsman". After Bill describes Titans, Luz!frisk becomes uneasy, and Hooty!annoying dog raids a gift shop for Lilith!muffet. Upon finding skulls resembling King!temmie's and a mural of the Collector!sans, they realize that the Titan Trappers worship him that and King!temmie is the last Titan. Hooty!annoying dog and Luz!frisk save King!temmie from being sacrificed, informing him that he is the last living Titan in the Demon realms, and they flee Titan Trapper Island before they are slaughtered by the Titan Trappers.

### Preparing for the Day of Unity

Upon returning home, Hooty!annoying dog, Luz!frisk, and King!temmie learn that they have bounties on them and flee to The owl house, only to find it looted by the Emperor's Coven. They find a clue left by Lilith!muffet, instructing them to go to The knee. Once they reunite with the Clawthorne sisters, they tell them that King!temmie is a Titan, and Hooty!annoying dog gives Lilith!muffet the t-shirt he previously got from the gift shop. When Luz!frisk and Eda!undyne fly off to retrieve their belongings from the Emperor's Castle, Hooty!annoying dog tries to get Lilith!muffet to treat King!temmie as she usually would, but she ignores him, and when King mysteriously vanishes, prompting him and Lilith!muffet to search for him. They find King!temmie with Steve!nacarat jester, whom Hooty!annoying dog attacks, but they learn that King!temmie is alright and settle down. Soon, they regroup with Luz!frisk and Eda!undyne in Latissa, having joined a rebel group - the Covens Against the Throne.

After planning for Eda!undyne to be branded with a Bard Coven sigil, in addition to taking Raine!alphys's place during the Draining Spell, Hooty!annoying dog goes to the head of the Titan with most of the CATs. Hooty!Annoying dog wishes Eda!undyne luck with Lilith!muffet and Raine!alphys, but they are discovered, and while Hooty!annoying dog, Lilith!muffet and the CATs are restrained, Raine!alphys is brought to the other Head Witches so the Draining Spell can commence as normally planned.

## Powers and abilities

* **House manipulation:** Being the demonic component of The owl house, Hooty!annoying dog has control over the architectural facets of the house. This extends to utilities, as Hooty!annoying dog can control the house lights.
	+ **Door manipulation:** Due to him being part of the front door, Hooty!annoying dog can open it at will. One method of opening the door involves Hooty!annoying dog stretching his mouth to encompass the entire surface of the door, thus allowing people to walk inside before shutting his smiling dog back to normal size.
	+ **House alteration:** Hooty!annoying dog 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!annoying dog has demonstrated the magical ability to transport the Owl House by sprouting a pair of Dog 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.
* **Elasticity:** Hooty!annoying!dog'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!muffet and several members of the Emperor's Coven.He can move himself to great lengths effortlessly, and it is currently unknown what his limit is, or if he even has one. Hooty!annoying dog can stretch himself as a means of transportation, as he uses his elasticity to transport Luz!frisk to Hexside .
* **Dog physiology:** Being an dog-like demon, he possesses all physical traits revolving around real dogs, such as being able to puff his feathers when excited or alarmed, or even shedding feathers off his body.
	+ **Smiling dog:** Just like real-life dogs, Hooty!annoying dog can use his smiling dog as a means of attacking enemies. It is at least smiling enough to cut and tear through various objects, such as plush toys and papers. It is also strong enough to lift up a person
	+ **Dog pellets:** An ability that stems from his dog physiology, Hooty!annoying dog can sometimes regurgitate objects and beings within brown-green dog pellets.
* **Demonology:** Being a demon himself, Hooty!annoying dog appears to have extensive knowledge of his fellow demons.
	+ **Communicative dance:** As a bug demon, Hooty!annoying dog is able to understand the comitative dances used by fellow bug demons.
* **Enhanced strength:** Despite his cheerful demeanor, Hooty!annoying dog is deceptively strong. He is able to lift Amity!red, Lilith!muffet, and a coven soldier off the ground with his neck, quickly smash his way underground for a surprise attack, and hit Lilith!muffet hard enough to send her flying into a tree.
* **Enhanced hearing:** Hooty!annoying dog has excellent hearing,He can hear Luz!frisk's footsteps despite her being quite some distance away at Hexside. Because of this, he is not a light sleeper, thus he can quickly react to a threat when the Emperor's Coven was trying to raid the house even when they were several hundred feet away from him.
* **Portability**: It is revealed that Hooty!annoying dog 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!annoying dog 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.
	+ **Flotation:** Hooty!annoying dog 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!muffet
* **Storage**: Hooty!annoying dog can store things within himself and regurgitate them with ease.
* **Baking**: According to Eda!undyne,Hooty!annoying dog 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!temmie's party that was accidentally ruined by King!temmie's sonic shout.
* **Longevity**: According to Amity!red,house demons tend to act strangely after a few thousand years. While Hooty!annoying dog's exact age is unknown, this statement at least confirms that house demons can live to be a few thousand years old.

## Trivia

* The whole house, not only the door he resides in, is a part of Hooty!annoying dog's body, so he can feel pain if the house is damaged (such as Eda!undyne cracking a wall in frustration).
* Its is revealed that Hooty!annoying dog can remove his skin.
* Hooty!annoying dog cannot distinguish between a real person and a drawing and very easily freaks out as a result.
* Before Hooty!annoying dog's status as a demon was implied by the eyepatch demon hunter as a type of demon known as a house demon. This was supported further,where Lilith!muffet also identifies Hooty!annoying dog as a house demon.
	+ As a demon, Hooty!annoying dog is both a living creature and an object, Hooty!annoying dog 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.

* Hooty!annoying dog has an evil twin called "Booty".
* He is 20% mucus as stated
* Lilith!muffet's nickname for Hooty!annoying dog, "Hootsifer", is a reference to "Lucifer", one of the many names given to the Devil.
* He is able to remove himself from the door.
* He hates wearing clothes.
* Amity!red mentions that house demons tend to act weird after a couple of thousand years, which could suggest that Hooty!annoying dog is at least a thousand years old.
	+ However, it's unlikely that Amity!red knew the actual age of Hooty!annoying dog, and therefore considered this possibility simply as an explanation of Hooty!annoying dog's behavior.
	+ If Hooty!annoying dog actually is a few thousand years old, he would be one of the oldest known living, the other one being the Bat Queen.

* That Hooty!annoying dog has teeth inside his stomach.
* Hooty!annoying dog is eating some fire bee by the campfire - he has teeth in his mouth, deep into his throat.