#Howl's moving castle AU

[maggie44paint]

Armand's moving castle or whatever kids call it these days ✨️

[hijacksecrets]

Howl's Moving Castle AU anyone? :> I was just in the mood to do one, hehe

also bonus very loose sketches of Old Man Hiccup and Jamie as Jack's apprentice! Not sure who would be Calcifer....

[aru-art]

mhin's moving castle...

[i-wish-i-were-softer]

I've been seeing so many howl's moving castle aus, here's mine, Andrew is howl, Neil is sophie, Kevin is calcifer.

[dreadwolfcosplay]

"I'm Starlight, from your future. One day you're going to meet me again, and when you do, I need you to hold onto me."

Finally got around to finishing these cosplays based off an amazing fanfic called Dazai and the Moving Detective Agency by forest_raccoon or @sensitiveheartless.

Dazai is @macaronni-girl

[gustadevinadivine]

*Grabs microphone* Don't you wanna read an eventual romance, slow burn, strangers to lovers Jayvik that also takes place after the series finale and gives Jayce and Viktor a happy ending and also very romantic and also has the plot line of memory loss and pining and subtle love??? Anyways, completely unrelated, I wrote this fic

The Herald's Moving Castle (Chapters 2/9)

Summary: On the outskirts of Piltover, a moving castle creeps forward, rocking the entire frame back and forth. Black soot bellows from its multiple mismatched chimneys and its insect-like legs maneuver through rivers, valleys, and snow. They say the Herald lives there, a thin, handsome man with a cane and powerful, magical abilities.

Piltover’s citizens believe the mage is looking for his other half— his lover.

[decarbry]

oh no he's cute

[xanthippe74]

Skybound (now complete!)

Drarry | Rated Teen and up | 61K words/6 chapters

Summary: No matter how much Harry Potter wanted to believe he’d left danger behind when the war ended, it found him again anyway. All he had to do was step out his own front door on a Tuesday morning. A Drarry re-imagining of Howl’s Moving Castle.

Tags: EWE, post-war, romance, HP canon setting plus Fire Demons, getting together, secret identities, curses, dark magic, house-elves, magical house, potions, banter, humor, light angst, disability, threats of violence, happy ending, offscreen mistreatment of magical beings, Harry as Sophie Hatter, Draco as Howl Pendragon

Read Skybound on AO3

Notes: This love letter to one of my favorite stories was long in the making. While it was easy to envision Harry and Draco as Sophie and Howl, it was something of a challenge to translate the plot into the HP-verse while keeping the romance and humor that make Howl’s Moving Castle so beloved. In the end, I took my favorite parts of Hayao Miyazaki's film and Diana Wynne Jones’ novel, cut them into little triangles, and sewed them back together again. I hope the finished product still has some magic in it.

Many thanks to @babooshkart and @onbeinganangel for their input while I was brainstorming back in 2021, the folks on Tumblr and the Drarry Discord who kept me motivated through the home stretch with their enthusiasm for this project, and (most of all!) @nv-md for being a stellar beta reader and all-around trusty cowgirl when I put out the call.

[theshenanijiang]

I present the character design I came up for for Howl!Xie Lian. This isn't even the final form! Next, I will work on Sophie!Hua Cheng and then I plan on making some art of them both interacting. This is all due to the post @unforth made about a Howl's Moving Castle AU HuaLian.

I had a lot of fun working on this. It has been ages since I have had the motivation to draw.

Some notes. I wanted to draw on some of the elements of Howl's design without just putting Xie Lian in Howl's clothes. So, we have the big coat, which I view as an affectation of Howl's to make himself bigger and more impressive and dapper of course. This coat has golden chrysanthemum embroidery. I usually pick my emblems for a meaning. In this case, the chrysanthemum is meant to represent nobility, new life, and longevity.

I looked at a lot of pictures of both the Fang Xin Guoshi and Crown Prince eras of Xie Lian to kind of figure out what sort of fancy feeling I wanted to go for. I really enjoy the peach to dusky rose ombre of his clothes and the mint accent was meant to keep it fresh. The touches of white are a nod to the main outfit we see him in in TGCF.

The earring is another nod to Howl's design of course.

I will probably reblog this when I finish Spohie!Hua Cheng.

[steddieunderdogfics]

A very sweet friends to lovers fic all mixed up in a howl's moving castle au, recommended for the theme weekend 💜

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52643542

The Boy Who Swollowed a Star by hititlikehammers

@hitlikehammers

Rating: Mature

9,951 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Warnings

Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Howl's Moving Castle Fusion, Alternate Universe - Wizards, Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining, Eddie as Howl/The Wizard Munson, Steve as Sophie, (kinda), Robin as Calcifer, Dustin as Markl, Platonic Soulmates Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, But What If Eddie Ate A Lost Spark-Of-Life To Save A Stranger, And Lost His Heart In The Process, And What If That Stranger Then Became His Best Friend and They Were In Love, But One Lost Their Spark and The Other Lost Their Heart, And Probably Robin the Very Powerful Fire Demon Was The Key To Fixing All of It, What THEN?!?, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Wizard!Eddie Sometimes Assumes a Bat-form So There's Also That, Hurt/Comfort, So Desperately Fluffy Though, Happy Ending

Summary:

The Wizard Munson is supposed to inspire fear and awe. A trickster, a devil, a power unmatched. Blah blah blah; Steve only sees the gangly boy who almost fell off the roof of the Harrington’s tailoring shop, trying and failing to be stealthy and mysterious when Steve was not yet ten—so where whispers follow down alleyways about the dreaded terrors of the Wizard? Steve really just sees the goofball. His Eddie. “Come with me, Stevie,” Eddie doesn’t even pause for pleading, dives right in and begs him as if Steve needs convincing; "if nothing else, come with me so I know you’re safe, so I can do what needs doing without splitting half of me always just worrying. Save me from scrying out endlessly, to make sure you’re okay.” Steve’s heart thumps painful, pathetic: pure and unvarnished in a way he thinks is only possible when Eddie’s nearby. Only possible for Eddie, at all. Which means the answer’s wholly obvious—the war’s getting worse, this is his Eddie—only one response was ever really on the table: “Alright.” --- A Howl's Moving Castle Fusion/AU

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[jjksugurugeto]

howl's moving castle/jjk crossover (satosugu)

satoru, your hair looks just like starlight. it's beautiful."

[sagegreenfrogs]

should i write a tdp howl's moving castle au? perchance?

[losingallchill]

when careful meets carefree

major tags: gillion/chip , howl's moving castle au , minor lizzie/ava , minor jay/ensa

word count: 74,901

summary: gillion didn’t miss the way chip’s nostrils flared, but chip only pressed his lips together, stepping closer to gillion, so he could finally, finally look at him like he was there, standing in front of him. “i’ll tell you what, gil. you’re really starting to get on my last nerve. call me a coward one more time, i dare you. i’m a lot of awful things, a liar, a cheater, but i’m damn well not a coward.”

barely breathing, gillion didn’t break his gaze. “then you’re selfish.” he spat. “the most unhonourable thing to be.”

aka gillion is basically cursed to have body dysmorphia and chip is the wicked wizard that everyone keeps talking about

[shiocreator]

Howls moving castle (I am looking at more the book but even THEN it's gonna change a LOT so there Might be a mix of both??) au with Idia as Howl and Prince Justine mix, Ortho as a sorta mix of Calcifer and Michael, "yuu"(I am placing my oc scarlette here) as Sophie but instead of an Old curse it's a monster curse (scarlette can become a monster in her regular Canon so I swapped some stuff around, monster idea is some sorta bird thing ironically enough considering what they gave movie Howl)

The reclusive wizard with several rumors circling about him, majority painting pictures of a terrifying ghastly man who'd no doubt steal your soul away and devour it or use it in potions and the like, all the while Idia Shroud is actually the runaway prince from the kingdom that's being searched for, with Ortho accompanying him to protect him but like. Also. He's worried about him and hoping maybe eventually he can make SOME friends, but that isn't too promising since Idias kinda purposefully driving people away....

Until a young woman gets cursed after bursting in to save a Neige LaBlanche from something the witch of the waste Vil tried to do (and the fact she barged in and saved Neige made him snap outta it and now hes horrified at what hes done), her running the fuck away in absentminded panic and when feeling a resignation to her fate, ends up finding the roaming castle, and kinda being allowed to break in by Ortho.

The deal, become Idia's friend and Ortho will do his best to help her with this curse that's turned her into a monster thing! Of course she can't say anything about the curse to anyone so she can't even tell someone else to get help...

Idia isn't too pleased about the unwanted guest which Ortho probably said she was staying here now much to idias confusion and horror, but also I feel like he would have an easier time talking to someone who doesn't necessarily look too human currently and ortho predicted this

Etc etc etc

First years should be friends of hers and should break into Idias castle to save her cuz they didn't know she forced herself into staying against idias will

Started thinking bout the book again so. Good ol au time...... not everything is fleshed out but I think it's fun

Idia leaves his castle once a month cuz ortho has him use it as a chance to touch grass SOMETIMES at least and he hates it

You know how in the book Howl essentially flirted with Sophie as his first appearance? Yeah well Scarlette accidentally spooked the poor fucker here actually apologized and ran off and Idia had to recover from short woman scare. This man has no game, he wouldn't gain Howl's playboy-isms

Unsure how Ortho fulfills roles here but I do feel the combo of calcifer and Michael is due to how Idia would NOT have more than his brother on his house + Ortho has limbs alongside being able to control the castle probably

I HAVE. NO IDEA ... HOW TO INCORPORATE HOWLS CURSE HERE... Vil is far more sympathetic than the witch and if anything I feel it's a book 5 overblot situation that left him cursing people and even then idk why IDIA would be on his radar, guess he doxxed him....

Book 6 reference of Rook using a spell to hunt down the monster Vil created tho to make vil and gang try to find her and the castle tho.... vil wants to find a way to remove the curse he placed on her by mistake out of remorse because even neige didn't deserve that as much as he hates him let alone the poor random

And how I'm incorporating Sophie being a powerful magic user? Scarlette being able to slowly over time control her curse, able to make the feathers and inhuman aspects disappear, eventually able to pop em out at will and such, much to everyone confusion how is she doing that. What the fuck

Theres prob more stuff but ! I have found this au fun to think about so sharing it

[officialdaydreamer00]

so last year, i promised @azulashengrottospiano i'd doodle another hmc!auburnazul fanart. i procrastinated for quite a while, but i did it :)

here it is!!! they're so cute im bouncing around 🥺💙💙✨✨

(so if anyone's a long time mootie of mine, you'd remember this hehe ^-^)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUBBIE!! I HOPE U LIKE MY SPEED-DOODLE >:D

and for my last trick!! i'm gonna pass out now, baiiii :3

[airgiodslv]

how about something inspired by the wing outfit? for @arewedoneyet

It's nearly sunset when the man in the military uniform comes down from the house.

You think later that he's been watching you for a while. Longer than a day, even. He stops beneath your tree and puts his hands on his hips, looking up at where you perch in the high branches.

"You're one of his," he says. "Sunshine's. I can tell."

"How?" you ask. You're curious about everything. Your voice is a hoarse croak you can't remember hearing before.

His smile is grim. "Because Sunshine likes to play god, but he isn’t one. Everything he creates comes back a little bit wrong."

You bristle and hunch your back, so your feathers puff up to make you look larger.

"Has he named you yet?" he asks. You don't reply, afraid of your own rough voice. He smiles again and says, "Then I'll call you Icarus."

There’s a boy sleeping under a tree near yours. You call down to him a few times, but he doesn’t wake. There are cuts on his hands and face. They’re the only parts of him that are still exposed. Flowers and vines have covered the rest of him.

You hope he’s only asleep.

You’ve been watching the distant house with interest. A truck came to make a delivery. There was a wooden box inside like a coffin.

The man in the uniform comes back after a few days. When he reaches the sleeping boy’s tree, you shout a warning.

He shakes his head and stands under your tree to look up at you again. “I’m not going to hurt him. He’s one of Rain’s, and I don’t have any quarrel with Rain. My fight is with Sunshine.”

“Why?” you rasp.

“I believe in science and progress. Sometimes that means experimentation, but not the way Sunshine does it. Sometimes it means war.”

He looks back at the house, or maybe at the barn, where the men in the truck took the coffin.

“I have to go. I have a shuttle to catch. Up there, to the stars.” He points toward the sky, then offers you a mocking salute. “I’ll see you when you learn to fly, Icarus.”

There’s another man at the house now. He’s warm and brown from the sun. He comes out sometimes to chop wood and ride down the dirt road. Dust rises up in clouds behind his horse, like the plumes of steam you saw on the horizon when the rocket launched.

He plants seeds for crops and new trees. He kneels by the sleeping boy’s tree to plant new flowers around him. The sleeping boy still hasn’t woken. You can barely see him now, hidden behind the blooms.

In the early morning, you’re woken from a doze by an impact that jars you all the way to your bones. The man stands at the trunk of your tree. He yanks his axe out of the wood and hefts it to swing again.

You scream at him, rough and panicked. He startles, gripping the axe in both hands and taking a step back. When he sees you restlessly shifting your weight and rustling the leaves, he relaxes.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there. My wife asked me to cut down this tree for firewood. She must not have known you were here.”

You’ve seen the curtains move upstairs in the house. You’ve felt eyes watching you, just as you watch the house.

You think she knew you were here.

There’s been a long drought, but clouds finally gather, rolling in from where you saw the rocket launch. The sky opens and rain pours down.

You shake out your feathers and hunch under the canopy to wait out the storm. It rains into the night, drenching you and the trees alike, all the way until dawn.

When the sun rises and the sky clears, the sleeping boy under the tree is gone.

A man with shining hair and bright, dark eyes dances through the moonlight to your tree. His movements are graceful one moment and disjointed the next, skipping and spinning between the trees until he faces you with a wide smile.

“Come down, come down,” he croons. His fingers curl slowly in the air, beckoning. “Have you learned to fly yet, little bird?”

It’s the first time you’ve left the tree. You descend, clumsily at first, gaining confidence by the time your feet touch the ground. You tuck your head to preen.

“Have you met him?” he asks. “Does he know everything you are?”

“He called me Icarus,” you say.

Sunshine laughs and reaches out for you with both hands. He cups your face to gaze at you. His lips are cool when he tastes you. His tongue curls the way his fingers had, teasing.

“We’ll see about that,” he sings. “We’ll see who falls from the sky: his planes and shuttles and war machines, or you. We’ll see who flies.”

The men come again with the truck. They take away the man who plants seeds. He fights them, but not well. He moves like you do, like Sunshine had, tentative and newborn.

There are no more new trees, no more flowers. The house is very quiet.

“Why?” you growl when the man in the uniform finally returns. You have too many questions to fit them into more than that one word.

He gazes up at you for a long time before answering. “Because the experiment was over. Because two of you in one place are dangerous. Because it was time.”

There’s a glass with brown liquid in the man’s hand. He takes a long drink. You don’t think it was his first one.

“Because Sunshine made you for a reason,” he says finally. “And I believe it was to destroy me.”