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Bee and Puppycat Theory Part 1 (Includes spoilers from season 1)
Theory: Puppycat stole the elixir of life from his the space king for a girl (Violet) he is close with (friend, sister, etc), because she is dying and terminally ill. That is why he is an outlaw.
Puppycat and the King’s daughter meet afterwards and fall in love. She knows he is an outlaw, but doesn’t know why. Eventually, though, she finds out (maybe she was traveling with Puppycat and Violet and she overhears them talking bout it??). She thinks Puppycat only wants to marry her so he can get stuff out of her/the kingdom, and she’s jealous of Violet. So, she tricks him into an ambush and turns him in.
These scene implies they were close, but then Violet (symbolized by the trademark origami) got in between them. He gets away disfigured and is on the run for a while (weeks, months, maybe even years). He eventually goes back to Violet for sanctuary. She now has a young child and is learning magic.
They are visually similar, though clearly years apart, and the 4-petaled diamond symbol appears often with Cardaman’s mom and this woman. She has naturally strong magic, and offers to change his appearance so he can stop hiding.
(To be Continued…)
Part 2 Here
Bee and Puppycat Theory Part 2 (Includes Spoilers from Season 1)
However, in the middle of the (complex) spell, they are found by the bounty hunters (they detect and destroy magic.) I have a hunch these dark hands are either the bounty hunters, or a tool/spell used by the hunters to find and take/destroy all magic. Note that crystals *magically* grant wishes. And the music box (from the comics) they are wrapped around tells a story about a *royal* family and the princess ahs the same head thing as Puppycat’s fiance.
So, she opens a portal and transports her son to safety. The girl is under magical strain as she tries to put up protection spells, physical barricades, and maintain the momentum of her spell casting. She slips up and accidentally turns him into a, well, puppycat. At this point, she knows she does not have enough magic to change him again. She puts on her necklace with the elixir of life vial and uses her waning magic to open another portal to the land with no magic, where her son is, and where the Hunters won’t be able to find them. This drain on her magic breaks her protection spells. She pushes puppycat through the portal. The hunters break through the door. She is halfway through the portal. She gets shot by a curse dart. A sleeping curse dart, meant to stop her.
Note that Cardamom doesn’t say she’s sick or in a coma, despite being a very proper character with a large vocabulary. He says she’s SLEEPING. Additionally, there are no tubes connected to her stomach or mouth to feed her, yet there are plates of food that have not been touched. So if she’s not eating, how is she alive? The elixir of life. But she makes it through the portal just as it closes. She uses the last bit of magic she has to go to her son, destroying the portal stream. Puppycat is dumped on some strange planet, where he ends up finding the temp agency and works hard to find someone with magic who can help him get back to Violet. This takes a while (months, years), backed up by the fact that Puppycat says he’s done some jobs before and has a maxed out save on the video game.
Meanwhile, on earth, as the curse starts takes effect, the boy frantically grabs the closest stranger he finds, and rambles madly about magic and curses and hunters and his mom. The stranger, an old charitable lady who rents out her estate, takes them to the hospital and takes in the boy. The mother goes into a coma, and the boy stays with the old lady and her dog for a few weeks. While not unkind, she is rather sensible and strict, and absolutely forbids him from talking about “nonsense” involving magic and spells and bounty hunters. She tells him he was just traumatized by what happened to his mom, and he eventually believes it. After a few weeks, the hospital says they will have to pull the plug or transfer her somewhere else, so the rich old lady sets up a room in her apartment, buys the medical equipment necessary, and keeps the mom in her home. The old lady raises the boy until he is 4, teaching him about the apartments, the world, and being a landlord. Then, she goes on an extended vacation with family. She allows cardamom and his mom to stay, as Cardamom faked a “letter” from his “aunt” saying the aunt would come and house sit and watch him until the old lady came back. At this point, Puppycat has found a way to “the magic-less planet”, but he is transported somewhere random. He lands right on top of Bee’s head (see the pilot episode)! And so, the boy takes up landlord duties to keep the money coming in for his mom’s life support. This is evident by the way Cardamom says he is their landlord NOW, implying this is something new, and doesn’t seem to know Deckard.
(To Be Continued) Part 3 here