PERIL!!!!!! (GOLDEN GUARD OC!!!)

MY GOLDEN GUARD OC (FROM HIT SHOW THE OWL HOUSE)!!!! this page will have spoilers for The Owl House if you haven't watched it I recommend so much it's so very dear to me. (((((this page is so very much in progress so. bear that in mind))))) peril is the bestest girl ever and I love her so fucking much so she gets her own page

THE OWL HOUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TOH!!! the show is set in the demon realm, a magical dimension that exists alongside the human one. In the demon realm there are these creatures called palismen which are basically witch familiars and this is very important in regards to my daughter.

ALSO ITS RULED BY THE WORST GUY EVER (EMPEROR BELOS) who is actually secretly a centuries old, sustaining himself by Eating Palimsen, human who wants to kill all witches (everyone there)(he's a witch hunter) ermmm so. He's also been creating clones of his dead brother (WHO HE MURDERED) and killing them one at a time, over and over and over again. for like a century. These clones (grimwalkers) usually act as the golden guard, which is like the emperor's right hand. AND THIS IS WHAT PERIL IS!!!! so as you can see. shes off to a Great Start. There's nothing fucked up in her life

OKAY SUMMARY OVER I PROMISE THAT WAS RELEVANT!!! peril is like way way way back from the canon timeline. so the only Big Character to know about is Belos. and a few others ig BUT YEAH

BACKSTORY!!!

tw abuse and manipulation and injury (belos is the Worst as Usual)

Peril is a grimwalker from well before canon, although the kingdom has been established. Because she's one of the earlier grimwalkers, she is a lot more creature-y (hence the wings and stuff) and is very palismen like, having the ability to turn into a hawk. Because of this, she acts as the golden guard half the time and also as belos' palismen (hes not openly hunting them yet so it helps him fit in better).

In her palismen form she does a lot of sitting looking intimidating (shes much larger than a normal palismen) and flying around the isles gathering infomation. in her witch form she more acts as a representative for the emperor for like, trade deals and treaties as stuff (the kingdom is much more fractured at this time) and does patrols, gets palismen, arrests people... kills people. golden guard stuff.

She also knows shes a grimwalker from the start, seeing herself as a sort of, better, more advanced palismen (or i mean thats basically what belos tells her). less of a real person and more just like... an extension of her emperor.

HOWEVER!!! this changes when she meets this owl palismen in her hawk form who is really nice to her. and they become friends! beccause shes basically a palismen. she can understand them (regardless of if they are bonded to her) and starts to make more friends as the owl introduces her to more palismen and she slowly starts to begin to see herself as one of them.

And because of this. everytime she gives a palismen to belos she begins to hate him just. just a little more. and she also begins to lie to him more as well, first like, omiting things and then just full on lying. AND ITS. SUPER STRESSFUL!!! but she finally feels what love is when she's with her friends (and what love Isn't) THEY'RE ALSO THE ONES who help her realise that shes alive and not just part of belos - because theyre alive, even made of palistrom, so she must be too and He must have Lied.

SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY she ends up running from belos. I'm still deciding how this quite plays out but maybe he caught onto her... tried to force her to kill a palismen as like a test and then she decides to Run Far Away. she runs to her owl friend (NAME STILL PENDING I CANT FIND. A GOOD ONE.) who brings her to the bat queen, who kindly takes her in - although under the impression that she was just the emperors runaway palismen. and not also the golden guard who has murdered hundreds of their kind. anddd im still figuring out how that's going to go. BUT ITS NICE FOR A TIME!!!! probably the safest shes felt ever. (belosisprobablydreamstalkingherthoughI MEAN WHAT? WHAT? anyway)

Somehow. somewhen. Belos manages to kill her owl friend and leaves them as a nice little warning for peril. at this point shes just kind of done and shes knows shes probably going to die but she goes on a little revenge quest on belos anyway. and dies. SHE DOES GIVE HIM A HORRIFIC SCAR?? SO ITS NOT ALL BAD??? okay shes dead but. SHE GETS SOME HITS IN!!!

And thats my daughter everypony. this is stil very much in progress and will get edited later

MODERN AU!!!!!

SO IN ADDITION TO THE NORMAL TIMELINE!!!! there is also a modern au I made with some friends and their golden guard ocs. it's still very much being created but I will give a little summary...

THIS AU IS SET IN A UNIVERSE WHERE THERE'S NO DEMON REALM!!! however. belos does still exist and surprise he's running a cult again. In addition to Peril, my friends' Golden Guard ocs Nicholas, also known as Cole, and Hope are also there (all alive at the same time!!!!). HOPE IS FAIRLY NEW so i dont have too much on them yet but Nicholas has a toyhouse page if you want to learn more about them (YOU DO.)

so peril is still Belos' right hand in this (she's MAYBE actually related to him this time idk. figuring this out) and its horrible and terrible as in canon. SHE'S ALSO TASKED WITH TRAINING COLE who shadows her a lot of the time. at first she hates him... originally because why does she have to look after this small child, and then later because Cole is actually Really Good at things and she has worked her whole life to be where she is. She feels like shes training her own replacement

HOWEVER EVENTUALLY SHE WARMS UP TO THEM!!! and then. okay going to be real we are So Murky on the details here BUT THEY END UP RUNNING AWAY TOGETHER!!! maybe to get away, or maybe to help the cult (and then they discover its Bad when they're out of there)

Things at first are very Bad. they're just trying to get as far away from belos as possible. then at some point someone takes pity on them and they're able to get shitty jobs... and eventually a home AND THEN A LOT OF THE AU IS JUST them trying to learn how to Live. they obviously have So Many Issues they're trying to work through. um they're both very emotionally repressed. so codependant. I've talked in detail about this in the Fun Facts section.. which okay maybe their trauma isn't very fun um. BUT. BUT THAT'S OKAY!!!! BECAUSE THEY HAVE EACHOTHER!!!!!

Peril ends up working in a bird sanctuary, run by bat queen, and one of the birds she ends up looking after is her owl friend! (the logo for the sanctuary is flapjack btw) MODERN AU PERIL IS OBSESSED WITH BIRDS!!!! MEANWHILE nicholas works as a tour guide for a space mueseum. big on space that guy. definately yaps about the stars to her

They also manage to get Belos arrested. unsure how. They're both untrustful and also have been trained to avoid the authorities. BUT IT HAPPENS!!! JOY AND WHISMY!!!!! (untilthey visit him in prisonmaybe i mean what)

I REALLY NEED A NAME FOR BOTH AUS. writing modern au and normal peril over and over again is. I NEED A NAME.

FUN(?) FACTS!!! um. most of these are miserable (some of these apply to one au, some for both)

She was created to be about 17 or 18 (this is around the age modern au peril runs away) and dies in her early 20s.
The scar across her face was from the time belos tried to carve her ears so they looked human haha (like he did to his own). but she struggled and then belos got angry and decided she wasn't human enough anyway to even bother!! and the knife. slipped. across her face instead!!! so now she just has one wonky ear
The way she talks is very similar to Belos (she's also very good and lying and manipulating people) and. and she knows this and she hates this. This leads her into not talking very Much Ever. although she can when she has to and she can be very good at Dealing with People. this is a bigger thing in modern au as her sibling is ONE OF BELOS' VICTIMS AND and her acting like him sometimes. obviosuly isn't Great!! i wrote a one-shot about this the other day. i might put it here. Following along with this she definately has issues controlling her anger which also isn't wonderful for her self esteem and everyone around her!
This also applies to modern au a lot but back with Belos, the only person she had to listen to was Him (and being terrible was encouraged and part of the job). So she'll follow Belos'every word without question, but everyone else. she just struggles to see the point in respecting their authority or even being particularly nice to them. LIKE SHE'S CIVIL but not particularly welcoming (bar like Cole and a few other peopel she's close with)
Belos Does Not Like her wings, or talons, or her tail, or any of her bird traits (i know who would have guessed). when she's in her hawk form it's one thing, but he has her hide her bird features in public (also it stops connections being made between her and her hawk form). Her gloves and cloak are mostly effective but sometimes she has to bind her wings. HOWEVER!!! when she finally starts experincing joy and whimsy with her palismen friends she relearns how to do bird things... embraces her bird insticts... which is joyful and whimsical. she probably slips up a few times with Belos though
HOBBIES!!! (mostly for modern au but this could apply to normal peril too) she probably likes a lot of pyhysical things - she'd be big on rollerskating and iceskating. maybe bouldering. and some kind of fighting... helps get her anger out in a Less Destructive Way. SHE'S A BIG BIRD WATCHER!!!! she and Cole go bird watching together. I don't think she's particularly creative (her hands get shaky sometimes and it fustrates her) but i do think she's perfected her realistic bird drawings and she likes making stuff if Nicholas is involved

SONGS THAT REMIND ME OF HER!!!!!!!!

SO. SO. I LOVE HER SO DEARLY!!!! DONT KNOW IF YOU COULD TELL. I actually originally made her back in July 2024 around the time for artfight but for some reason Now is the time im super obsessed with her (its December 2024 as of writing this)

GIGGLING if you go back to my rambling page of my website I know I have quite a bit on her old backstory there.