#Ferb is the absolute best wingman

[galaxina-the-pyro]

The word you are looking for, I believe, is BroTP. 😁

Ferb is very supportive of Isabella’s crush on Phineas.

[dragonofthedepths]

I’ve only watched the first five minutes of episode 1 of The Owl House but this is what I came up with:

(I’ve also seen a few clips on YouTube to be fair, so I’ve got some random bits of foreknowledge jumping around in my brain. Also I can’t remember Luz’s surname so I used Garcia-Shapiro as a stand in because I knew it was Spanish and I watched Phineas and Ferb when I was younger. Edit: Learned it’s Noceda, fixed it.)

Luz is abused 7.9.21 horrible parents? Foster family? Idk, but Luz was abused in the human world, and Eda cares. So much angst and hurt/comfort.

Eda gets captured 7.9.21 Eda first visit to the human realm get her captured by human traffickers. Eventually she gets rescued/out/ends up with Luz and her mom, but it’s been a few decades.

The owl house is a dystopia 7.9.21 I mean, I bet in Canon the land of witches of fine, but in Luz’s first few seconds there she saw what looked like several people get eaten so I thought 'Ooo! Cool dystopia wourldbuilding opportunity!'

Chuunibyou 7.9.21 With the occasional declarations of herself being the strongest and the allusions about being from a high standing family with many mysteries (combined with the fact that Eda is, indisputably, a trash gremlin), Luz has long accepted that her second mom- mentor has a little touch of chuunibyou herself, even though she actually is a witch. Then Eda is called and forced to fight a dual, and she proves she actually is the strongest witch in the kingdom.

Safety or Scintillation? 7.9.21 Luz manages to grad her book and book it back through the door without ever talking to Eda, and she goes to boring camp with a less than a minuet long but absolutely terrifying encounter with absolute proof magic is real. She does her best to fit herself into the mold at camp boring, try to tie herself firmly to reality with memory of  how terrifying magic was. Then there’s a fire, just a small one, and for a few moments there’s the adrenaline of her life being in danger again. And Luz discovers for certain that she’ll pick the scintillating draw of adventure over safety hands down. Now she just has to find her way back that that magical world she saw. ¿Enter demon summoning?

Princess and the pauper ourselves 8.9.21 Owl house is a more traditional YA hidden world story with things in the magic world possibly being a threat to her mundane family if they can trace where she came from, Vee solves a lot of Luz’s problems if she can keep her mother convinced she is Luz in the forthcoming future. “Hi, my name is Luz of Darkness, formerly Luz Noceda.” “Uh, hello. My name is Luz Noceda, I suppose. Formerly #5.”

Then I watched the first few (5? 4? 6? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t know) episodes with my best friend and came up with all of these:

Luz takes the weirdos with her 11.9.21 Taken seriously. In episode 1 when Eda tells her to flee Luz does, and she takes those she just freed from prison with her back through the portal. On the Boiling Isles side of things, Eda and King get captured and imprisoned.

Quest powered by her imagination 11.9.21 Episode 2. You know those illusions that reflect exactly your desires and thoughts back at you in order to trap you? The wizard/quest/whole thing in episode 2 is one of those. It can only draw from one person at a time which is why King sees Luz’s reflected world.

Quest is real 11.9.21 Episode 2 AU. Taken seriously. The quest in episode 2 is real, and I re-write it to be more in-depth and whatever the adventure version of slowburn is.

Quest is supposed to be a death trap but Luz rocks it so hard as a quest she passes anyway 11.9.21 Episode 2 ficlet. Exactly what is says on the tin. Crack without a smidge of angst in sight, Luz just accidentally avoiding death-trap after death-trap without even knowing that they’re there.

Luz rescues Neveroth 11.9.21 Episode 2 AU. Just like puppeteer tried to trap Luz within himself, Neveroth is a person he did trap. Luz rescues him before bonking the puppeteer with a sword one last time, now she has a gay wingman who needs some reintroduction to society and some help getting over his trauma and possibly depression that got him trapped there in the first place.

Luz is trapped 11.9.21 Luz is actually trapped in the magic world from word go and there is no portal home, at least not one Eda and King know how to find.

King teaches Luz 11.9.21 King is Luz’s main teacher instead of Eda. Secretly old and powerful King. Demonology.

(103/100) @the-wip-project

[looney-mooney]

You know, that makes sense. I think maybe Phineas just thinks Isabella’s out of his league, somehow? Like he just assumes she’s too good for him and would never be interested in pursuing a relationship with him.

With this taken into account, I don’t think Phineas would have ever tried to tell her he had a crush on her. While everyone takes “Isabella has a crush on Phineas” as a law of the universe, Phineas takes “Isabella is amazing and too good for me” as a law of his universe. And because the Mysterious Force works the way it does, Phineas might not have ever realized this misconception was wrong if it hadn’t come up in casual conversation like this.

I always thought there was this bizzare disconnect in this scene, like the expectations of his friends is completely clashing with who Phineas is, as a person. They’re gossiping about how weirdly obvious her crush on him was, and the bizarre impossibilities that resulted (like literally changing the shape of her pupils), and also like. What to have for lunch, how the rest of their friends are moving on, etc, and not really taking into account the idea that Phineas just. Didn’t know. Like it’s just factual information to them, has been for years, meanwhile Phineas’s entire worldview is being turned upside down from this realization.

Phineas straight-up doesn’t feel like he’s one of the guys right now. How could he, when they didn’t even think to tell him? When their excuse is “guys don’t talk about their feelings” - something that, I think they meant as “we don’t really have to, right? We bond in other ways,” But which Phineas obviously takes as “we are Adult Men and emotions aren’t important enough for us to discuss, even when it means keeping important information from you, and you do not Fit In with us as Adult Men if you think otherwise.” (Bonus points for Buford and Baljeet exchanging a little glance of Repressed, Unexpressed Homoromantic Emotions as they say this, but that’s getting off topic.)

And Phineas extracts himself from the situation, because like. What the fuck else is he supposed to do after a conversation like that?? When they’re talking about Lunch, and Irving’s New Car?????

I think maybe his friends trying to get Phineas and Isabella together is them realizing they’ve fucked up on some level, and trying to make up for it. When like, what they SHOULD have done is probably just fuckin apologized and offered their help, you know? Communicated like the adults they’re supposed to be now. But they’re only like in their early 20s (if that) so I can forgive them for not having the emotional intelligence to, and this is a cartoon sitcom so we need cartoon sitcom style shenanigans damnit.

I don’t think it makes sense for Ferb to NOT know - I mean, if Phineas knows about Ferb’s crush on Vanessa even when they’re kids, then Ferb DEFINITELY knows about Phineas’s crush on Isabella. He’s way more emotionally observant about this sort of thing than Phineas is. But I can also see Ferb not really wanting to get too involved in that, wanting it to progress naturally, and then going along with this crazy plan because if they don’t do SOMETHING about it fast it might be too late and then his brother, his Best Friend, and his other close friend, who he thinks of almost like a sister, who he’s known for YEARS and been a supportive wingman to this whole time, might end up absolutely mutually miserable while he’s off halfway around the world in fucking London, not able to do a thing about it. He’d be inclined to drastic action, I think.

Meanwhile, Candace is supportive but also always thought of the idea of anyone having a crush of either of her brothers as kind of weird and gross anyway, and has shot to do. She’s in fucking law school, you think she’s got time for this teenage relationship drama? No thanks.

Also WOW this got longer than I thought it would lol

riddle me this

phineas has a crush on isabella in high school

we know he never confesses then, but he probably wanted to

but he wanted it to be really spectacular every time

so he would build these huge inventions for her

and then

they would disappear

before

she could see them

i’ve been brainrotting about this and i was gonna draw it before sharing the idea but i have to get it out of my system