Jerkass Has a Point: When Luz tells him her plan to prove the emperor is evil by interviewing Hunter, he starts laughing that she would think he would help her. While he's unnecessarily rude, it's doubtless that a plan hinging on Hunter betraying the emperor's secrets isn’t well-thought through, given he absolutely idolizes Belos. Conditioned to Accept Horror: Actually finds the Training from Hell for coven scouts fun, among other things.

Hopeless with Tech: Not so much tech in general given how his staff appears to be Magitek, and he can use a walkie-talkie but both "Any Sport In A Storm" and "Reaching Out" show that he has yet to get the hang of using a scroll. In the former episode Willow comments on how slow a typer he is, and his messages to Luz in the latter have periods in place of spaces, random capitalization, and a comma in the middle of an ellipsis. Last Episode, New Character: He showed up for a few brief seconds in "Agony of a Witch" standing beside Belos' throne, and in "Young Blood, Old Souls" when Belos nodded to him upon stating that they'd be keeping an eye on the inhabitants of the Owl House, hinting as his role as The Dragon for Belos upon Lilith's defection.

Dishing Out Dirt: When fighting Amity in "Eclipse Lake", at one point he uses an Earth spell to create a giant fist that punches them into the air. He also manipulates the sand Eda and Luz are on in "Separate Tides". Golden Guard: (ominously) Oh, and try to stay out of trouble. The Emperor is not a merciful man. (cheerfully) BYEEE!

The Needs of the Many: Hunter goes into denial upon seeing a memory of Belos revealing he bombed a town and blamed it on wild witches to scare people into joining his coven system. When Luz tries pointing out it's obviously bad and screwed up, Hunter tries to justify it as for the greater good. One night, while investigating criminal activity for Belos, Hunter encounters Luz again when the two accidentally enter Belos' Mindscape together due to a spell gone awry. Searching Belos' memories, Hunter learns the Golden Guards actually helped Belos orchestrate tragedies to build Belos' reputation. Hunter still denies these events until they discover the memories that reveal Belos was responsible for the Golden Guards' deaths. Realizing Belos was lying to him all along, Hunter confronts Inner Belos about his predecessors, but Inner Belos only remarks about Hunter being a grimwalker and states that Hunter looked the most like Caleb, to Hunter's confusion. Later, Hunter and Luz escape from Belos' mind, but with Belos now aware of what happened, Hunter abandons his title and goes on the run. [2] Belos doesn't appear to enjoy killing them, as the Collector asks Belos if he enjoys destroying the Guards, Belos denies it, but also was upset they "chose" to betray him. Clones Are People, Too: Played with. It's clear Hunter is an expendable tool in the emperor's eyes, as talks about replacing him and killed the previous Grimwalkers. However, Belos also says their betrayals personally hurt him, but phrases it as though Hunter and all the other Grimwalkers are all a single person. Hunter is also merely described as a 'better version of an old friend'. Luz of course, sees Hunter as a full person.Unwanted Assistance: Downplayed. He's determined to cure Belos of his curse, though Belos is only okay with having Hunter help by bringing him new Palismen to consume, getting physically abusive when Hunter suggests wild magic as a cure. Nevertheless, the Golden Guard decides he will learn about wild magic anyways to save his uncl More than Mind Control: Belos employs emotional and physical abuse to keep Hunter obedient, constantly holding the threat of replacement over the boy and convincing him he's worthless if he can’t carry out his uncle's will. This results in Hunter being fanatically loyal to Belos, to the point that it takes watching multiple memories of the emperor's atrocities firsthand for him to realize Belos is evil. Even after fleeing the Emperor's Coven, Hunter admits there's a part of him that still wants to believe the lies he was told. Any Sport In A Storm" reveals that he wasn't the first Golden Guard, and that the previous one, who could use magic, was Darius's mentor.

In Belos' memories, portraits of various Golden Guards are portrayed maimed or injured that hint at how they died:The Collector calls Hunter and the previous Grimwalkers "things", and talks about them like a child would about a toy. The Golden Guards are a line of entities known as "grimwalkers". Aside from this, little is known about the exact nature of a grimwalker or the origins of the Golden Guard title. The construction of a grimwalker seems to require the use of magic, and there are several known ingredients used to construct them: a Galdorstone (functioning as the grimwalker's heart and power source), Palistrom wood (serving as keratin), the lungs of a Stonesleeper, the scales of a Selkidomus, and the bone of an ortet. [1] In the event of a grimwalker's creation, they emerge from the ground. [2] [3] If they are removed from the ground too early however, they are not stable enough and fall apart. [3]