CollectKing

CollectKing is the friendship between the Collector and King Clawthorne from The Owl House fandom.

Canon
Even though the Collector had no knowledge that his older siblings planned to kidnap the baby titans he befriended, the angry adult titans wanted to keep the last titan egg far away from the child from the stars. Who simply wanted to play with the baby titan inside it, and gets imprisoned by the egg's father. Because there were no titans to warn the last known titan of the Collector, King grew up never knowing anything about them, or that the symbol he carved on his collar's tag is keeping him safe from the child's gaze. After King's run in with the titan hunters, who made him take part in a ceremony that would have freed the trapped Collector, King began to hear the child's voice from his prison. King's first interactions with the Collector are through a psychic link formed when King interacts with the Titan Trappers' broken tablet.

When King felt powerless to help his friends in "King Tide", Kikimora tells King about the Collector and how he's the only one who can stop the draining spell. As a result, King goes to find this being and King goes towards the Collector's tablet. The Collector doesn't want to speak to him, thinking its Belos, but realizes that someone is there and he can't feel it. King takes his collar off and realizes that it is the titan's kid. He is excited to meet him and mentions that he has always wanted to play with him. King asks the Collector to stop the draining spell and makes up a game to get him to do so. The two pinky swear and King frees the Collector. King stops the Collector from doing more harm, after seeing what the powerful child did to Belos and didn't want him to do the same to Luz and the others. The Collector gets angry when he sees King almost leaving and mentions their promise.

The beginning of "For the Future" shows what happened after the Collector prevented King from escaping into the human realm. The Collector pulls King towards them, they then asks about the game "the owl house", King mentions pretend. Lilith tries to protect King from the Collector, which causes them to turn her into a puppet to protect King. The Collector is seen playing the game with King, who told them about the adventures he has had with Luz and Eda. Along with having the wear matching robes One of the end credit illustrations of the Collector seeing King hugging Owl Beast Eda, subjects that they allowed Eda to stay with them and then made Lilith Eda's caretaker, to please his new best friend. While being unaware that King and the Clawthorne sisters were secretly planning to fight the Collector and free the Boiling Isles from their never ending game. Even though King didn't originally think of the Collector as a best friend, like they do with him, his view of them changed once they truly began to grow closer as friends. Realising that their both kids, King decides to reason with the Collector rather than harming him.

Before this could happen, however, Belos possessed puppet Raine to plant the seed of doubt in the child's head. The Collector already felt jealous of King's friendship with Luz and was upset that the little Titan wouldn't let them hold King's favourite plush, Francois. Along with the Collector partly hearing King's plan to betray them, through the link of their matching robes. The Collector didn't want to believe "Raine's" claim of King's betrayal, until they saw Luz and her party. Fearing that King would leave them for Luz, the Collector decided to play a new kind of game with them.

Trapping King in an illusion of him being captured by Titan Trappers, while believing that it would get King to see the airer of his ways; like "Raine" suggested to them. Seeing that it didn't work after Luz freed King and Eda, Collector knew their actions would have King hate them for what they did. Still wanting to be King's friend, the Collector agreed to "Raine's" other suggestion to play with them in person. Thinking that playing a few games would remind King of the fun they had together. King wasn't happy to see the Collector, who has failed to see the wrong in their actions towards them and the other people they had trapped, and tells them so. Before the Collector starts to play those games with them, until they had enough of losing to King and his allies.

King allows Luz to approach the Collector, knowing that she'll be able to reach out to them. When the Collector revealed what happened to the titans and how it was King's father who trapped them, while the Collector was unknowingly tricked into gathering the baby titans for his older siblings who feared their magic, King felt sorry for them. All that the Collector ever wanted was to be King's friend and was happy when they finally found him. Before learning that King had lied to them and in their mind King was no better than Belos and his siblings. Until King brings the Collector to the places in Luz's photos and slowly helps them to see the airer of their ways.

Moments

 * On one of the final scenes of the show, King gives The Collector his plush "Francois" and whispers "I hope I see you again" as heard by Luz.

Quotes
"That's my best friend you're talking to. Hands OFF!"

- The Collector defending King from Lilith

Fanon
At first, some thought King was going to be possessed by Collector, similar to CollectLuz. After the second episode of season three came out, The Owl House’s fandom fell in-love with King's friendship with the Collector. As it showed the powerful child to be a lonely kid, who doesn't want to harm King. Easing the fears of those who first believed the Collector to be danger to King, after learning that the Titan Trappers worship the Collector's kind; while thinking at the time that it was only the child they looked up to. With their kinds believed to be enemies, from what the Collector's siblings did to the titans, some people like to think of CollectKing as a forbidden friendship.

Fans of the friendship were happy when King's father appeared to approve of King befriending the Collector. When the titan sadly admitted that he ended up punishing the wrong person to protect his child, it subjected that he may have learned who the true villains were when checking up on his son. The Collector also appears to be the only living person who could help King gain an understanding of his Titan heritage and powers.

There are a small number fans that ship the pairing romantically, due to them being the same mental and physical age. However, it is more preferred as a platonic ship and there are some who disagree with this. Mainly due to the possibility of collector and king have a sibling-like bond and the Collector living longer than King.

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Trivia

 * Because King is a titan, the Collector's magic has no affect on him.
 * The Collector sees Titans as amazing and cute.
 * The friendship name "StarSkul" comes from the Collector being associated with stars and King having the skull of the titan.
 * The friendship name "Platinum Bones" originates from the alchemical symbols for gold and silver — the sun and moon, which represent King and the Collector respectively.
 * In the epilogue, King has a star sticker which is implied to be given or inspired by the Collector.