#Luz going to college is canon now

[drachenfalter]

I predict a lot of College AU (except it's not AU but canon compliant) fics for the Owl House fandom.

[snows-2am-thoughts]

Uh so Gravity Falls x The Owl House is canon?! This is the best moment of my life guys

I'd like to think Luz decides to investigate anomalies on Earth when she can since Eda had told her weird stuff on Earth was just magic leaking from the Boiling Isles. She decides on Gravity Falls because it seems that's where the biggest traces of weirdness are. Mabel and Dipper decide to go back to Gravity Falls or attend college near there after high school because it's their home and they've already been away for long enough (and lets be real, everyone besides the stans are probably still there because it's a small town and families hardly ever leave those). Dipper studies paranormal sciences or an applied research major or both and helps continue studying Gravity Falls after he graduates since Ford is off on adventures with Stan. Mabel is studying Fashion Design or Graphic Design with a minor in Photography (the sweaters and scrapbooking stuck) and is now determined to make something (I'm thinking like a fashion line, plushies, or even a cartoon/comic series since she's very creative) inspired by the weirdness of Gravity Falls. 

Luz and the twins end up meeting by chance when they're researching some of the more elusive creatures and they just kind of pause when seeing each other.

Luz: *is sweating nervously because she thinks the twins are freaked out*

Dipper and Mabel: *are sweating nervously because the last time someone found out about the weirdness the FBI got involved*

I think after a very long and awkward conversation they'd actually be really excited to know there are other humans who are open to the weirdness! Luz spent her life not thinking she'd be able to fit in around other humans and the twins have probably felt a little outcasted since they'd been through something no one outside a select few in Gravity Falls can relate to. 

Hijinks ensue. Luz and Mabel feed off of each other's bubbliness and high energy personalities. Luz and Dipper are now combining their research with Luz's knowledge of the Boiling Isles and Dipper's knowledge of the mysteries of Gravity Falls. Luz ends up taking them to the Boiling Isles to introduce them to everyone and suddenly the twins feel like they're at home. Everything is going great until they recognize Eda as a woman from one of Grunkle Stan's old pictures and now they're on a mission to locate their grunkles from whatever adventure they're on to bring them to the Boiling Isles. Stan and Eda reunion (very awkward at first because they're cautious of lingering feelings from the other but they're both well established in life now and so the awkwardness fades, chaos buddies are back) as well as both sets of twins getting to explore the Boiling Isles.

Luz now has a human based support system that isn't her mother which helps her feel ok in her humanity. The twins are able to talk about their experiences with someone who understands and even thrives in the weirdness. 

Dipper and Luz experiment and find new combinations of King's titan glyphs while Mabel and Luz work on a campaign to introduce the two worlds to each other while preventing the creation of more witch hunters or the FBI from being scared because yeesh they don't wanna repeat their trauma. 

Dynamics between the gangs! I think Hunter and Soos would be an awesome pair of bros and I could totally see Amity and Wendy being the cool and composed duo of their respective groups. Luz, Willow, Amity, Mabel and Wendy having a girls night because lord knows they need it. The boys (Hunter, Gus, Dipper and Soos) simultaneously have a boys night but it’s Dipper introducing them to BABBA and Hunter having them carve wood while Soos and Gus try to spook them. Somehow the two groups end up combining and now it’s just a big sleepover with everyone getting into shenanigans. 

King and Mabel would be besties and I can totally see her making little sweaters for him so they can match. Luz catches on and now we have three matching besties. Eda and Stan fuel each other’s gambling habits while Ford and Raine stand on the sidelines getting ready to bail them out. Dipper and Willow would totally get along and I can see them researching the more unique plants of the Boiling Isles together. Gus and Dipper discuss the differences in the worlds of witches and humans. Hunter would introduce the palismans to Mabel and she’d start sprucing up their homes and making them little sweaters. Waddles meant everything to her and if she could help them find homes then she would. 

The Collector visits and all of a sudden the GF group gets PTSD from Bill because ‘oh looks its another all powerful interdimensional being.’ When questioned about it the Collector gets concerned and decides to look into it.

The Collector: *concerned because he knows how he was when he didn’t understand human mortality and thinks this ‘Bill’ just needs to be informed* “YEESH nevermind this guys a mess, you don’t have to worry, he’s being forced into interdimensional therapy. I wouldn’t put it past him to try his old tricks though so don’t make any deals or trust anything triangular’

The GF crew: “HE’S ALIVE????”

The GF group is lowkey paranoid after that because they risked so much to make sure Bill couldn’t hurt them again and the TOH group has to comfort them because they understand. The Collector is assuring them that he’s watching out for them so they don’t have to be too paranoid. The groups go back to doing what they're doing. 

I lowkey wanna see Mabel learning magic while Dipper is lowkey just fine studying and researching since actually doing the magic stuff lost its appeal when Bill possessed him. I haven’t even thought of what Mabel’s palisman would end up being

…. WHO AM I KIDDING, IT'S PROBABLY A MINI WADDLES

OR A LLAMA

Or maybe like a squirrel or beaver, Stan’s would definitely be a crow but he and Ford probably are a little put off of doing magic themselves because of similar reasons to Dipper. Actually, maybe Stan would be a little more open since Eda is there and he knows that while she’s mischievous and a troublemaker, she’s nothing like Bill. If Ford and Dipper did wanna learn magic I think Ford gives off hawk palisman vibes while Dipper’s is definitely an owl. I just realized that all the Pines besides Mabel have bird palismans in this. That’s actually pretty good angst potential. 

I COULD WRITE SO MUCH MORE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT TO WRITE A FIC

I AM GONNA WRITE A FIC

[pinksilvace]

A few weeks back, I made a comment to the effect of, "Belos views himself as the single human character in a muppets production." It has since then spiraled into an entire AU in my head that refuses to leave me alone. A few weeks back, I made a comment to the effect of, "Belos views himself as the single human character in a muppets production." It has since then spiraled into an entire AU in my head that refuses to leave me alone.

The basic premise:

Caleb and Evelyn found a weekly children's program ("The Boiling Isles") that features puppets; little Philip is featured as the one human, and since the episodes with him do much better than the ones without, he grows up into the role and eventually becomes a big part of the production staff as well

When Caleb and Evelyn die in an accident, Philip inherits the show

Some of the main (puppet) characters are named Luzura, Willow, Amity, and Augustus (you can see where I'm going with this). Philip would be able to stand these puppets on their own BUT

In promotional materials and interviews, he is ALWAYS asked what it's like to "work with" Luzura/Willow/Amity/Gus. Philip is absolutely INFURIATED by this because they're PUPPETS why can't anybody see that they're PUPPETS don't you care about the STAFF or the ARTISTS or the LIGHTING MANAGERS why does everybody pretend that the PUPPETS are REAL PEOPLE and why does HE have to pretend that the PUPPETS are when he responds??? He's convinced that some of the interviewers genuinely believe that the puppets are alive and tries to patiently explain that, no, they are just puppets. The interviewers always refuse to break the immersion.

Expanded AU thoughts are under the cut.

Caleb and Evelyn meet at an arts college. Evelyn is a film student, and the show's prototype is her capstone project. Caleb offers to bring Philip in as an actor and it sticks. Caleb also helps make some of the first puppets.

Little Philip's identity is protected by 1) the presence of a mask, and 2) the stage name "Belos". The name sticks around for his on-screen appearances.

While sticking around the set, Philip learns a lot about the different areas of production. He especially likes building sets, backdrops, props, and puppets, though he finds the writing process interesting as well. When he's old enough to help out with paperwork, he takes over the logistical side of things because tbh both Caleb and Evelyn are helpless when it comes to that

By the time Philip takes over, he's basically the head supervisor of every single department. His management makes the show's popularity explode

Philip is definitely the best at building and controlling puppets. Every now and then, he makes an extra-large "final boss" sort of puppet that only he is physically capable of controlling, and some of them end up in museums

Philip raises Hunter, but he's sort of the neglectful sort. He's ultra-focused on keeping the show his brother put so much thought, effort, and love into alive, and it makes literally any semblance of life he might have had outside of the show suffer

Similarly to Philip, Hunter grows up on set, but not as an actor. The production staff looks after him. When he's old enough, he also becomes a part of the test audience

The production staff is composed of the Emperor's Coven members in canon; i.e. Darius is in charge of lighting and wires, Raine is the sound director, Eberwolf is the lead puppet master, Hettie is the on-site medic, etc.

Luz and Camila are also a part of the test audience. I'm going to pretend that Philip and Camila are good buds in this AU. Philip inserts Luzura into the show as a character based on Luz

Basically most of the ire that Philip has in this AU is directed toward the puppets because they're not REAL why are THEY getting the GLORY can we PLEASE not pretend that these PUPPETS have thoughts and feelings and personalities???

He also doesn't leave because 1) the aforementioned attachment to something Caleb loved so much, and 2) he's put too much effort into this show already and he knows that no replacement could ever be so proficient at his job

Let's be real, Philip's work ethic is super unsustainable, and it DEFINITELY keeps him from grieving properly

When Hunter reveals that he does not, in fact, want to inherit the company that Philip has built, it's CRUSHING to Philip, who feels like giving it up would be disrespecting Caleb's legacy, unaware that he's staring Caleb's legacy in the face

Ideally Philip's arc (which I have hardly described here) would end with wealthy retirement and him being able to say "goodbye Boiling Isles" and never having to appear alongside those godforsaken puppets ever again

[fruity-phrog]

Owl House headcanons, timeskip edition:

Lilith basically adopted Amity. They go on adventures together, mapping the Isles and documenting any and all changes that occurred when the Left Arm became the highest spot. Lilith is basically Amity’s mom now and they continued to heal their trauma from the Emperor’s Coven together.

The Emerald Entrails still play together often, now as a professional team. It’s still more of a hobby than a job, but they remained close.

Willow coaches flier derby to students at Hexside with the help of Skara, who works as a teaching assistant.

Hunter was officially adopted by Darius and Camila (separately) almost immediately after Watching and Dreaming and spent alternating weeks in the Human and Demon realm until he took up the job of palisman carver.

Gus and Vee, despite neither of them attending college, teach in the Human Realm course at Eda’s university. In between King’s Tide and Thanks To Them, Vee gave Gus detailed lessons to correct his misconceptions and they mainly teach the truth. Gus refuses to admit that the ocean doesn’t sound like a paperclip.

Luz and Lilith constructed the entire Glyph course on their own. Eda helped, obviously, but she was busy overseeing the entire building of the university. Luz is mainly taking that course for nostalgia.

Hunter tries to keep himself to himself and most people don’t even know he’s the Golden Guard. 

When Darius and Alador began to become friends again, Hunter hung out a lot with Edric and Emira while Amity was off with Lilith, so they’re close friends now. Hunter taught Edric about wolves and Emira about their healing processes in the Emperor’s Coven. They, in turn, taught him to be a teenager, because while the Hexsquad are great, they’re...not too knowledgeable in that category.

Amity is the strong tall girlfriend from her adventures with Lilith. This is actually semi-canon in that Ams is canonically taller than Luz now, but I just wanted to include it.

Hunter and Willow eventually got together nearly a year after Watching And Dreaming. They were even more drawn-out than Lumity. Amity was yelling at Willow to make a move, Gus was yelling at Hunter, Luz was yelling at both of them but it was eventually Waffles and Clover than got them to get their shit together.

Hunter, with Darius and Dell’s help, eventually carved an egg (like Luz’s) a few months after Watching And Dreaming, which hatched into Waffles. This was when the Hexsquad promised to get matching tattoos the second they were able to (Eda offered to do it then and there but they politely declined).

As I mentioned in pretty much every headcanon list I’ve ever made, Marcy went to Luz’s school once she moved. Marcy would not shut up about how amazing Anne and Sasha were, and Luz would not shut up about how amazing Amity was, but Marcy also spoke a lot about Luz to Anne and Sasha and so they got jealous.

Luz dyed Hunter’s hair red when she was sixteen and he was eighteen, but it went terribly and ended up light pink. He still kept it until it faded out.

Darius nearly fainted when he saw it.

Vee showed Masha the Demon Realm and they absolutely love it. Sometimes they’ll be a guest in the Human Realm course at the university and they go on dates to the Knee and Skull and cool BI places. 

Waffles bites Hunter. A lot. She’s a biter.

They all got therapy <3

[crimeronan]

i can’t remember if this is something you’ve already established but about how old was vee when she found camila? how many years has it been since she finally had a daughter again?

at what point did vee finally start calling her mom?

vee escaped at around the same time as in the canon timeline, so she was fourteen! camila has had her for about three years & has been trying to figure out a way into the isles for at Least two. (the exact amount of time depends on how long it took vee to put two-and-two together about camila's dead daughter being the princess. i'm still playing with a few different concepts there.)

as for when vee started calling her mom.... it's probably going to end up in a fic, but i'm pretty sure it was after vee had a breakdown about how she can't be a replacement for camila's real daughter, she can't live up to that, she can't be a real person for camila. & camila is like. honey. i don't want you to be luz. i just want you to be safe and warm.

i've made timeline errors talking about it before but the official canon i'm working with is that vee was 14, she's now 17 or 18, very close in age to luz. i'm Likely to have her be in her freshman year of college instead of high school, but haven't 100% settled on that yet.

when camila first met vee, it would have been 10-11 years after luz disappeared.

[mdhwrites]

Could you please explain the difference between the goal and the objective to me? English is not my first language, and when i opened translator, i found out these two things mean the same in my native language, so i don't understand it well enough. Thanks in advance

This is EXTREMELY reasonable, especially since when I first read it I had to pause and think about it for a second, and I kind of wish I'd thought ahead about it because I don't blame you at all for this. For those missing context, I posted this quote last night saying that I could expand on it but that it was a perfect phrasing of how Luz and Amity see their relationship, or bare minimum how they treat it.

So the simplest way I can explain it is that: A goal is the final destination. The end point of a plan or desire. An objective needs to be achievable and needs to be clarified as 'final' if it's the last one. It is the steps in which you take to reach a goal.

For Amity, improving herself, becoming better, etc. like that are all objectives to serve the goal of being an awesome girlfriend because her goal, as far as the two are concerned (and kind of in life in general but that's at the point where this gets depressing), is to be an awesome girlfriend and never stop being one. It's not a goal that she can ever cross off though because being an awesome girlfriend means continuing to put in the work towards the other person.

Luz meanwhile treats "Get a girlfriend" as an objective for her larger goal of "Live out my ultimate witch fantasy." Remember the fervor she had about befriending Amity no matter what? And then how she blatantly ignores her being in danger or in pain once they're together? That's because once they're together, she considers the work to be done. It's like she completed a sidequest for the emote "Spin girlfriend" and now she has more important things to do than talk to an NPC with no treats left for her.

If you think this is overkill... It's what happened to Willow and Gus. She befriended Gus and Willow and then literally never sought them out again once they unlocked Hexide for her unless it was for key items required to progress the Amity quest chain like the library card. Gus and Willow always had to come and see her. And how does it go with Amity once they're together? Amity keeps coming to Luz minus Clouds on the Horizon where Luz has to get talked INTO going and seeing her girlfriend.

This disparity (let alone what it did to Amity's character) is what makes canon Lumity so sad to me. No, neither of them should only care about their girlfriend but one frankly cares too much where as it becomes her only real worry while the other doesn't care at all. It's just an ugly situation and yes, very real to being a teenager but I also think entirely unintentional seeing as they are still together to go to college.

It also makes me wonder if Luz living in the human realm for three years is the only reason they're still together. No human girl can compete with Amity because they don't have magic and she isn't spending enough time with Amity to get bored. They're effectively in an endless honeymoon period where Luz can do whatever she wants and be rewarded with the fun parts of a relationship.

When she has to find out she has to grind to get her next reward though... Is she just going to find a game with faster to achieve objectives? Just find a new project to work on? Or will Amity finally stop caring about the lying because it hurts her ability to be an awesome girlfriend and instead just realize that being lied to constantly sucks?

Or would those two collide into something truly sad because Luz won't admit she's playing a new game?

*sigh* I'm now just thinking about a quote I once heard. "The worst thing that can happen to your ship isn't that it doesn't become canon. It's that it becomes canon and then is done poorly." And blogs like these make me wonder why I've put over half a million words into these two.

Because they sure did become canon and sure were done poorly.

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[sakebytheriver]

I have written another Huntlow piece to drop right before the new episodes drop so as not to contradict anything in canon.

This is basically just the concept of "Hunter's been flirting with Willow for an entire year and she couldn't tell" if it ran off a cliff, enjoy

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The past year will probably go down in history as the most eventful year of any of their lives, from Luz first finding her way to the Boiling Isles to getting trapped there to finding her way home with several witches in tow, being stranded in the human realm until they could find a way back and then having to do battle with an eldritch god when they finally did, but now life seemed to settle down. Things were back to normal, or as normal as they could be on the Boiling Isles. Hunter and Luz had officially joined the student body at Hexside with Camilla giving Luz the caveat that she supplement her human education with online courses so she'll still be able to attend a human college one day. Meanwhile Hunter's transition to a normal student had gone over pretty well even if sometimes his unfortunately puritanical upbringing would rear it's ugly head at the wrong moment.

Over all the past year had changed all of their lives in ways none of them could have ever imagined, but now the world had slowed down and they were all able to be regular teenagers again.

As of now the Emerald Entrails had just finished another successful practice before their next upcoming match. Skara and Viney sat on the bleachers reviewing the footage from their practice while Hunter, Gus and Willow gathered up the equipment on the field.

Once everything was put away Hunter had Flapjack turn into his staff form and turned to the other two

"I gotta get to the library, I'm gonna be late for my shift," he said letting himself hover a few inches off the ground.

"Of course," Willow smiled. "I'll see you later, try not to get any papercuts." She teased.

"Well, if I do you'll have to kiss it better." Hunter smirked and Willow giggled before he took off into the air.

Watching him fly off Willow was suddenly struck by just what exactly he'd said. Her head cocked to the side and her eyebrows furrowed as her face shifted into a confused pout. She turned to Gus standing next to her the uncertainty obvious in her voice.

"Wait. Was Hunter just flirting with me?"

The reaction to her question was not at all what she expected, but it was instantaneous. Gus blinked and quirked his head as if he'd been slapped, the expression that had taken over his features full of disbelief.

"What?" Willow looked around her as if that could explain her friend's reaction, "what's with the face?"

Gus stayed silent and just continued to stare at her, his eyes narrowed and he seemed to be studying her face for any kind of deception. When he seemingly found none his face changed again into one of surprised delight.

Instantly he turned towards their two teammates sitting on the bleachers.

"Hey, guys!" He called out as he jogged his way over to them. "Guess what Willow just asked me."

"Okay, Gus, I get it," Willow rolled her eyes her cheeks looking pink as she followed him.

"She just asked if Hunter was flirting with her," he grinned as Viney and Skara both looked up from Skara's scroll.

"You're kidding," Viney said in disbelief.

At Gus' little headshake the two girls burst into laughter with Gus following suit not too long after. Willow's cheeks were firmly on fire now.

"Okay, fine he wasn't flirting with me, will you all stop laughing now?" She crossed her arms over her chest pouting as she knew her embarrassment was clearly written in her every move.

The three entrails left on the field stopped laughing immediately to look at her with wide eyed expressions as if she'd just sprouted a second head.

"Ok, now you have to be kidding," Viney looked at Willow as if she was waiting for the plant witch to say she was.

"Willow, we're not laughing because Hunter wasn't flirting with you," Gus explained. "We're laughing because he definitely was."

Willow felt like someone poured a bucket of ice water on her head.

"Wha- tha-s he- no-" she spluttered looking quickly at each of them back and forth.

"He's been flirting with you since the moment he met you," Skara said.

"Wha-! No he hasn't!" Willow's arms fell away from her chest in shock.

"No, you're right he started flirting with you after he let us go after kidnapping us." Gus interjected.

Willow looked to Skara and Viney feeling like she was grasping for straws as they both met her eyes with matching matter of fact nods. The ground felt like it had opened up underneath Willow right where she stood.

"Bu-but that was over a year ago." When she spoke her voice felt a million miles away from her.

The three entrails eyes met as they noticed how lost their captain had become. Gus turned back to Willow taking a cautious step towards her.

"Willow?" In an instant Willow had snapped turning Clover to her staff form and launched herself into the air leaving the others behind.

"Um," Gus watched her fly away with wide eyes. "Should we follow her?"

"Eh," Viney wvaed her arm dismissively. "She probably just needs some time to process."

"Hm," Gus looked back up to the sky where his best friend had disappeared with a worried look while Skara and Viney got lost in the recording once more. He hoped Viney was right.

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Hunter was behind the library's front desk stacking books onto the cart to be reshelved. He bent down to grab a couple books from under the desk and when he stood back up straight Willow had appeared standing on the other side stealing the breath from his lungs in surprise.

"Ah!" The reaction jolted out of his chest as he took a step back clutching the book in his hand to his chest before he settled with a chuckle rolling his eyes at his own expense. "Hey, did I forget something at practice?"

"No," Willow bit her lip unable to say anything else. Her heart felt like it would leap right out of her throat, but all she could do was stare at the blond in front of her as he grew more and more confused as the time passed in silence.

"Do you need something from me?"

"I don't know if I wanna ask you yet," Willow let the words spill out of her mouth knowing that she wouldn't be able to ask him the questions swimming around her mind, but that she could at least tell him that.

Hunter's eyebrow rose to his hairline as he took in her odd behavior.

"...Ok, well, I have to reshelve these books," he spoke slowly as if talking to an animal that might get spooked if he made any sudden moves. Willow honestly couldn't blame him even she had to admit she was acting strange.

"Ok," it was the only word she could make herself say. Hunter narrowed his eyes at her.

"So... I'm gonna go... do that now," he pointed awkwardly towards the stacks behind her.

"Ok," Willow could only imagine how weird she must have looked to him at that moment as he blinked and cocked his head to the side with a curious smile.

"Ok," the confused smile on his face as he parroted her word back to her asking Willow a thousand questions she didn't want to answer at once.

She followed him to the stacks as he rolled the book covered cart into place, she settled leaning back on her hands folded behind her against the bookshelf next to the cart as Hunter began to reshelve.

"You ok?" He stole a glance at her as he put the books back into place. Willow could hardly tear her eyes away from him just taking in every detail feeling like she had to examine him like a bug under a microscope.

"Kinda?" Willow winced at her own response.

Hunter's only response was to give her a weird look opening his mouth to say something before thinking better of it shaking his head turning back to the books on the cart. Willow stood back leaning watching him reshelve books all along the aisle.

She watched as he reached the other end and a witch she recognized from Hexside approached him. Willow couldn't hear what they were saying, but she could see the way the other girl was leaning in close to him, how she twirled her hair around her fingers, batted her eyelashes at him, and the slight dusting of pink on her cheeks. Willow would be lying if she said a hot curl of jealousy didn't settle in the pit of her stomach as she watched them. It didn't help that the witch was also beautiful, tall with long shiny hair, and a figure Willow would never admit made her more than a little insecure in her own.

And yet as Hunter talked to her his body language was all business. He pointed to different parts of the library in response to her questions, when she leaned in he would take a small step back, the smiles he gave in response to hers were tight and didn't quite meet his eyes. Even though the witch's interest in him was clear there was no reciprocation on Hunter's side.

Hunter stole a glance towards where he'd left Willow standing against the bookshelf and was almost surprised as their eyes met. But not as surprised as he was at her reaction to the eye contact. Willow's eyes grew wide and her cheeks turned red, she looked away from him almost as soon as he'd looked at her towards the cart of books pulling a few off and returning them to their place on the bookshelf in front of her.

Hunter had to admit she was really acting strange today, but even with her odd behavior he found himself getting lost just watching her. She hadn't even changed out of her practice clothes yet, her hair still up in a messy bun with flyaways sticking out from the force of the wind as she flew on Clover, and dirt smudged on her clothes from when she dove down to snatch a falling flag. He barely registered when the witch he'd been talking to walked away, his eyes were locked on Willow as she attempted to put a book on the tallest shelf. She was standing on her tiptoes even hopping a little bit, her arm fully outstretched, he couldn't help but chuckle at her behavior. He watched her for only a second more before he made his way over to her.

"Here, let me," Hunter said as he made his way to stand right behind her taking the book from her hand focusing on sticking it back in the right place rather than just how close he'd gotten to her.

Unfortuantely Willow was left to notice how close they were now standing to each other. She had turned around to face him as he took the book from her, they were so close she had to press her body against the bookshelf to avoid touching him, she never really realized how tall he'd gotten over the past year until just this moment. Willow hadn't grown an inch, but Hunter on the otherhand, her stomach was a mess of butterflies as she had to tilt her head all the way back to look up at his face, she felt like she was surrounded by him, boxed in by the cart on her side and the bookshelf at her back and as he leaned over her his arm stretched further than hers could ever go and yet still bent at the elbow Willow was struck with just how much she herself had developed feelings for him over this year. She couldn't believe how oblivious to her own feelings she had been and the fact that it had taken the realization that he might have feelings for her being what woke her up.

Willow had to admit she was a little embarassed, but not as embarassed as she felt a second later when Hunter finally looked down from the top shelf and made eye contact with her. She watched as the realization of how close they were and the fact that he'd been the one to put them into this position hit him like a truck. His face and ears turned into a tomato and his eyes widened to the size of saucers, every muscle in his body tensed, his eyes darted to her lips before he stumbled back away from her.

"Ha- I was- um- I just- I yeah..." he spluttered running his hand through his hair nervously as he turned back to the book cart avoiding her eyes that remained locked on his every movement.

Wow, I've been so blind. Willow thought watching as he picked up more books to reshelve.

"Thanks," she said stilted from her own nerves. "For the help. I can see why they hired you." She watched as her joke had the intended effect breaking the tension in his shoulders as he let out a breathy laugh.

"Yeah, that was the first question on the application. 'Can you reach the tallest shelf?'"

As the two of them fell into an easy laugh letting their friendship take over the awkwardness that had settled between them Willow's mind was still buzzing with everything that had just happened.

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Gus was woken up by a loud rapping against his bedroom window, before he could even get up to open it Willow had sped through on Clover landing on her feet as the palisman quickly transformed into a bee.

"How did I not see it?" Willow plopped down on Gus' bed as he sat up. Gus responded as his still half asleep brain processed the last couple seconds.

"I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is about Hunter, yeah?" Gus asked and Willow groaned dropping her face into her hands pushing her glasses up to her forehead.

"You guys were right, he likes me," she whined into her hands. "What am I gonna do?"

"Well," Gus spoke slowly feeling like if he moved too fast he would send her into a breakdown. "I'm just spitballing here, but you do like him back, right? I mean, I haven't misread that?"

Willow sighed picking her head up from her hands to look at him.

"No, you haven't."

"So, why don't you just ask him out?"

From her reaction Gus felt like he'd just asked her to get a ladybug for a pet, panic taking over her every feature.

"I can't," She shook her head. "I just- I mean- ugh-"

Willow looked away from Gus' gaze looking down at her hands and when she spoke next her voice was so low Gus was sure she didn't want him to hear what she said next.

"Why me?"

Gus could hear every latent insecurity in her soft voice. He'd known Willow at her best and at her worst and he knew deep down some part of her never felt good enough, no matter what anyone else said or what her own experiences showed her.

"Willow," Gus sighed wrapping his arm around her and pulling her close to him. "I could probably spend an entire day telling you why Hunter is completely and utterly gone on you," Willow groaned and Gus chuckled. "But I can tell you're not quite in the right mind to really hear 'why you'. So I'll just say that you're amazing and Hunter would have been insane not to fall for you."

Willow sighed as she wrapped her arm around Gus' waist burrying her head into his chest.

"Thanks, Gus. I mean, I have no idea what I'm gonna do, but I'm glad you're here for me."

"Well, whatever you decide to do I'll support you, but I'll warn you Luz told me Hooty has a plan for you two." Willow sat straight up panic returning to her eyes.

"What?!"

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Willow had successfully pushed all thoughts about mutual crushes and asking boys out to the back of her mind, even if Gus' first move after she admitted her feelings was to tell Luz and Amity about it, the betrayer, and now the Emerald Entrails were in the middle of their championship match and Willow absolutely refused to let her head get distracted from anything but the giant trophy waiting for them.

Maybe that was why she didn't see the other player coming until it was too late and she was falling through the air instead of securely on Clover. But just as soon as she'd started falling she was caught by someone. Someone with really strong arms, someone she knew when she looked up would bring every thought she'd been respressing straight to the forefront of her mind.

As she let her eyes slowly drift up to look at Hunter's face, her breath left her in an instant. His gaze was focused and intense, his jawline sharp and tensed as he focused on the game, the sun behind him giving him a halo and lighting up his blond hair like it glowed. He looked down at her and Willow could swear her heart skipped a beat once that intense gaze was focused on her.

"You ready?" Hunter asked with a confident smile and Willow finally realized Clover was hovering nearby. She grinned at him and nodded her head once before he was launching into the air where she easily caught Clover as she turned into her staff form the two of them slipping back into the match like it was second nature.

The Entrails flew their way into another victory and Willow let herself get lost in the celebration as everyone came together in a giant group, cheering, hugging, and congratulating. After separating from a hug with Gus, she found herself instinctually shifting into a hug with Hunter. As they pulled away Willow couldn't stop herself from speaking.

"Thanks," the word blurted from her lips before she could stop it, at his curious look she continued. "For catching me- earlier- in the game." She stumbled through her words suddenly feeling awkward.

"Oh that," Hunter smiled. "Well, I had to make up for last time."

"Last time?" Now it was Willow's turn to be confused. Hunter laughed and shook his head.

"Of course you didn't know," he said smiling at her.

"Didn't know what?"

"Our first game together?" He spoke hoping to jog her memory. "You were falling and I went to catch you, but you gave me the flags instead."

"You were trying to catch me?" Willow asked completely shocked.

"Yeah I was, but then you caught yourself which I should have guessed, but at the time I didn't know you that well, so," he smiled as the realization dawned on Willow's face.

"It didn't even occur to me that you would be trying to catch me. I just thought you were obviously going for the flags," Willow said with wonder in her voice like she couldn't believe it. Hunter just chuckled at her reaction.

"Of course it didn't. It's your one blindspot, Park," he leaned down to be eyelevel with her putting his hand on her shoulder. "You never think of yourself." He grinned at her as his eyes darted to something just above her head right before Willow was hit with the ice cold juice from the cooler her other teammates were currently dumping on her.

She let herself get caught up in everyone else's laughter and the celebration of their victory. Taking pictures with the giant trophy with red juice dripping down her glasses wrapped up in her teammates grinning from ear to ear. Yet all the while Hunter's words kept ringing through her mind.

You never think of yourself

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It was the day before Grom and somehow Luz had yet to grompose to Amity. She claimed that she wanted everything about it to be perfect, but Willow knew it was just her overactive brain adding more and more spectacle to the gromposal until she had somehow roped all of them into the process. Willow stood in her ending position breathing heavy as she held up the sparklers with Gus and Hunter, grinning from ear to ear as Amity obviously said yes and Luz picked her up, the two of them twirling and laughing cheeks on fire.

Willow, Gus, and Hunter let their arms drop and finally caught their breath from the ellaborate routine Luz forced them all to memorize. Gus took Willow's arm pulling her away from the group as Hunter made his way to the happy couple.

"So?" Gus started. "When exactly am I gonna be helping you with your gromposal? Time's running out." He stole a glance to Hunter.

"Shush," Willow turned to look over her shoulder beford pulling Gus even further away. "For your information there is not going to be a gromposal."

"What? Willow, come on."

"Do I need to bring up a certain duel track witch named Matt?"

"Hey, I asked Matt to grom," Gus said pointing his finger at Willow accusingly. Her only response was to raise an eyebrow at him. "Ok, fine it was as friends, but it's still more than you."

"Look it's just... not the right time." Willow looked over her shoulder at Hunter.

When he interrupted the happy couple Hunter wasn't expecting to be bombarded about his own failing love life, but the second he made his presence known Luz turned on him.

"So you gonna ask Willow to grom or what?" Luz put her hands on her hips as Amity rolled her eyes at her girlfriend's instant switch.

"What- I-" Hunter looked behind him at Willow hoping she couldn't hear anything before turning back to Luz with a stern look. "Are you crazy? I can't ask Willow to grom."

"Why not?"

"Because not only is she Willow," he emphasized her name as if the awesomeness of her identity was explanation enough. "She's also going to be grom queen tomorrow and oh yeah, she's Willow freaking Park."

"Oh come on," Luz rolled her eyes at him.

"I kinda see his point," Amity spoke up for the first time. Luz turned to her with her jaw on the ground. Amity shrugged. "Well, I mean, she is Willow and he's well..." she gestured at him with her hand before trailing off. "A very good friend of mine." She said looking into Hunter's unimpressed eyes with an insincere smile.

"Nice save," he said flatly, making her insincere smile turn into an insincere grin.

"Look, you've been in love with Willow since you met her make a move already," Luz said pulling Hunter's attention back to her.

He winced and looked over his shoulder at Willow feeling the butterflies come to life just at the sight of her.

"I can't. It's not the right time," he said keeping his eyes on Willow.

"When will it be the right time, Willow?" Gus asked her as she turned back to look at him. She sighed feeling her shoulders drop as she pouted at her best friend.

"I don't know," she said.

"Don't know what?" Hunter's voice answered from behind her as he walked up to the pair. Willow jumped surprised at his sudden appearance.

"I- um-" she choked out before her mouth snapped shut unable to say another word just hoping he hadn't been there long enough to hear what they'd been talking about.

Hunter gave her a confused look as Gus raised his eyebrow at his panicking friend's behavior. He rolled his eyes before turning to Hunter with an excuse to save her.

"She doesn't know how she's going to carry all the bags of fertilizer from the market back to her garden now that I've got plans with Matt."

"Oh, I can help." Hunter offered easily. Gus clapped his hands together turning to make eye contact with Willow's narrowed eyed expression which told him she knew exactly what he was doing.

"Great!" Gus said with a grin. "You see, Willow it was an easy fix." He smiled at her tight lipped response.

"Yes, thank you, Gus."

"Anytime, Willow."

Hunter looked between the two of them even more confused at the way Gus batted his eyelashes at her with a self aware innocent smile and how Willow looked at him with narrow eyes and pursed lips.

"So...?" Hunter said just to break the tension. The two of them snapped their attention to him and suddenly he wished he'd never said anything at all.

"Let's go," Willow slipped her arm through Hunter's pulling him away from Gus.

"Bye! Have fun you two," Gus called after them with a self satified grin plastered to his face. Willow refused to look back.

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After the two of them had made their way back from the market with bags of fertilizer slung over their shoulders, Willow had made her way inside to change into her gardening overalls expecting Hunter to leave, but when she came back out he was in the middle of her garden talking to Clover and Flapjack getting the bee to tell the cardinal how Hunter should work with the plants in front of him. Willow watched him for a minute with a fond smile before joining them kneeling down in the dirt greeting them all and getting to work.

The two worked side by side chatting idly here and there for hours even as the sun started to go down they were still kneeling in the dirt.

"So," Hunter started. "You nervous for tomorrow?" Stealing a look from the corner of his eye as Willow sighed letting her arms drop to her lap.

"I mean, a little," she turned to look him in the eye as he did the same. "But after everything we've been through this past year, a grom doesn't really seem that scary anymore."

Hunter laughed, "Yeah, after facing an actual ancient deity a Grom monster doesn't seem so bad."

The two of them laughed the air around them feeling relaxed and warm.

"I am excited about my dress, though. Luz and Amity helped me pick it out, they said I look good."

"Of course you do," he said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Willow couldn't help how her heart started jumping in her chest.

"Well, you haven't seen me in it yet," she said nervously looking away tucking a lose hair behind her ear as she felt her cheeks warm.

"I don't need to, you always look beautiful."

Willow looked up at him with a slack jawed expression before snapping herself out of it laughing through her next words. "Y-yeah right." She kept her eyes on the plant in front of her.

"I'm serious," Hunter doubled down and Willow couldn't help her eyes drifting back to his face. "Even now, in your ratty old gardening overalls, with dirt smudged on your face," he chuckled and started pulling his glove off his hand Willow's eyes glued to his movements as he raised his hand to her cheek. The warmth radiating from his finger seeped through her skin and as she could only focus on the rough feeling of his thumb on rubbing the dirt smudge from her cheek, he could only focus on the softness of her skin. "You're the most beautiful witch I've ever met." He let the words slip out of his mouth before he could second guess himself.

Willow couldn't tear her eyes away from Hunter's holding her breath as she waited for his next words, the colors of the setting sun lighting up the world around them in pinks and purples. Something in her said, this is right, but her voice caught in her throat.

"Willow, I- I wanted to-," Hunter cut himself off swallowing before looking away from her eyes slipping his hand from her cheek and back into his glove. The air around them shattering like glass. "Um- I just wanted to say, good luck tomorrow. You're gonna kick that grom's butt." He looked back at her with a nervous smile. Willow took a shaky breath in before schooling her face into a matching smile.

"Thanks," she said hoping her disappointment didn't come through her voice.

"Well, um it's getting late. I should probably get back to Darius' place before the sun goes down." He said hurredly standing up, feeling like he had to run away from the situation he'd created. Willow followed his movement standing to face him. "Goodnight, Willow."

"Goodnight, Hunter," the two stood in front of each other for a long moment neither knowing what to say next while Flapjack cheeped directly into Hunter's ear making the blond wince before transforming the palisman into staff form and flying away.

Willow watched him disappear into the horizon, her shoulders dropping once he was out of sight, her face falling into her hands as she groaned at her own stupid behavior.

Why didn't I stop him?

She rubbed her eyes before turning to stomp back into her house ready to collapse into her bed and scream into her pillow, and about a boy no less! Her plan was thwarted however by her dads swarming her the second she walked through the back door.

"So? Did he ask you?" Harvey asked excitedly.

"What?" Willow looked at her dads as if they'd asked her if she loved ladybugs.

"To grom," Gilbert interjected. "We saw you two in the garden, did Hunter finally ask you?"

"You two knew?!" Willow threw her hands out to her side in exasperation. "How long have you known Hunter liked me?"

"Well, honey he called us 'sir' when he met us," Gilbert cringed.

"And he was incredibly formal about the whole thing," Harvey added.

"So, you two knew when you met him?" Willow felt like her world had flipped upside down once again. Her dads looked at each other with matching cringes. "Oh my titan, I hate this day." Willow said with all the melodrama of a teen with a crush before she pushed past her dads to make her way up to her room.

"Wait, did he ask you?" Gilbert called after her.

"No!" She shouted before closing her door solidly behind her.

Harvey and Gilbert winced.

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Despite last night's disappointing ending Willow was ready to face the grom that night especially after her dads came up to comfort her with eye-scream and cheesy crystal ball comedies of the three Strzygi from back when crystal ball films were still in black and white. Now she was enjoying the high of getting dressed up with her best girls Luz and Amity, doing their makeup and hair together feeling beautiful in her soft green dress with a skirt that twirled so smoothly when she spun around making her feel more like a princess rather than a grom queen. Amity and Luz wished her luck before they left her by the door to be introduced by Gus, the emcee for the second year in a row.

Gus took her hand tightly in his and looked deep into her eyes, "You got this."

They smiled at each other before he pushed the doors open stepping onto Emmiline as she took her staff form lifting him into the air easily as he announced Willow's entrance.

As she walked through the open gymnasium doors the sea of students and teachers parted to give her space. As the floor opened up and she walked down the ramp to where the grom was waiting for her Willow was suddenly hit with all the eyes on her, how all of her deepest fears would be on full display in front of every person she ever knew. Titan, she hoped she wouldn't be making a fool of herself tonight.

Before she could fully climb into her own head about the upcoming ordeal the grom monster's gooey form took the shape of the Emperor in his most monstrous moments and Willow found herself instinctually falling into the fight.

The grom took many forms that she hit with thorny vines errupting from the ground, using Clover at other points to fly away as the grom shifted and merged into many different montrous shapes, from ladybugs to the collector to any other monster Willow had ever fought. The two of them almost fell into a pattern like a dance, her beathing had grown heavy at the exertion each new spell, dodge, and fight move caused her and just when she felt like her muscles would give out on her from exhaustion the grom shifted again into someone she really should have expected earlier, the taunting voice all to familiar as it sing songed the words that had been hurled at her during her weakest moments.

"Half-a-witch Willow," the grom stood on the ground at the height of her biggest bully, Boscha. Standing behind her a faceless mass of the grom taking the shape of a crowd of kids all taunting her with the name she lived with for years.

Willow drifted to the ground to stand right in front of the Boscha lookalike, trying not to think about how the real thing was probably in the audience right now. Dropping Clover as the palisman transormed back into a bee and flew off to the side letting Willow handle the fight on her own.

"I'm not afraid of Boscha," Willow said confident that her statement was the truth.

The grom grinned making Boscha's three eyes glow green as she took a few steps towards Willow.

"You're right, you're not scared of her," the grom spoke as its form shifted and changed once more turning into Willow from two years ago dressed in an abomination goo covered uniform and short disheveled hair. "You're scared of her." The grom grinned at the little step back Willow took in surprise at the sight of her own face and the sound of her own voice. Of every form she expected, her own wasn't a face she expected to be staring back at her tonight. "You're scared you will always be me," the grom spoke with Willow's voice as it took slow steps toward her making Willow unconsiously step back each time. "Scared that they were always right about you, that you will always be half-a-witch Willow. The weakling. The failure. The-"

"Stop!" Willow shouted her eyes clenched shut tight, planting her feet throwing her arms out to her side as twisted brown vines looking more like roots sprouted from the ground in response, the green glow of her eyes spilling out of her closed lids.

The grom actually stopped moving caught off guard by the violent reaction of the plant witch. Willow took a deep steadying breath before opening her eyes, the green glow long gone, she took a small step towards the grom.

Willow took the grom's hand softly, a hand that was technically her own hand looking into her own eyes with a softness so different from just a moment ago.

"I'm not scared of you," Willow spoke gently gazing into her own green eyes knowing exactly what she needed to say. "I love you. I just wish I loved you when I was you." She smiled before pulling her younger self into a hug, letting her eyes slip closed for a moment. Willow wanted to experience this moment for herself trying to let the gym full of witches dissolve away.

The grom's arms stayed outstretched at its sides a shocked look on its face, as Willow pulled back from the hug she took the grom's wrist before putting her other palm on top of the grom's as she lifted it again underneath was a small pink flower right in the center of the grom's hand. As Willow let go even more small pink flowers began to sprout along the grom's body until the entire thing was covered in them for just a moment, before it burst into an explosion of little pink flowers raining down over the entire gym.

The crowd stayed silent for only one second of processing before errupting into cheers as they were all covered in flowers. Willow could only laugh as she watched im wonder as the flowers fell around her like rain, the crown of grom queen coming into place on her head.

Across the gym Luz, Amity, Gus, and Hunter stood in a group watching her each with pride on their faces. Hunter couldn't tear his eyes away from her as she laughed and spun in the flowers she'd created, she looked like a dream. The world around him felt miles away as he watched her.

Gus tore his eyes away from Willow to steal a glance at Hunter next to him. He couldn't help but nudge his friend teasingly knocking Hunter out of his trance lighting his face up like a tomato at being caught.

"Try not to look too lovesick," Gus teased before he hopped onto Emmiline in her staff form holding the mic up to his lips as he flew towards Willow.

"And that's your grom queen, witches and demons! Let's hear it for Willow Park!" Gus announced into the mic as he scooped Willow up to sit on the end of his staff lifting her into the air to be cheered on by the other students in the gym. The flowers from the grom still falling through the air as she laughed at her friends antics.

"So, you gonna ask her to dance?" Luz asked sliding up to Hunter's side as he watched Willow fly through the air with Gus.

"After that there will be a line of people asking her to dance," he responded without taking his eyes off Willow.

"So be the first in line," Luz pushed him gently in Willow's direction.

"Luz," Hunter stumbled forward before turning to face her instead. "It's just it's not the-"

"The right time," Luz rolled her eyes finishing his sentence for him. "Listen, take it from someone who was always looking for the right time, it doesn't exist." She slapped her hand down on his shoulder. "Also Eda's been doing her best, but she found Hooty's plans for your own version of his tunnel of love and she can't hold him off forever."

Hunter cringed looking back to Willow still in the air with Gus hyping her up.

"Ok," he turned back to Luz. "I'll do something- something soon."

Luz looked like she was about to say something more before Amity noticing the look of a caged animal written on Hunter's face took pity on him and stole her girlfriend away to dance. Hunter met Amity's eyes and mouthed a 'thank you' to her, she nodded and mouthed a 'you're welcome' back.

Gus brought Emmiline to hover a few feet off the ground to allow Willow to step off gracefully her hand in his. Once she was securely on the ground Gus let Emmiline turn back into her chameleon form and landed on his feet next to Willow.

"So, grom queen, can I have your first dance?" Gus took her hand with a toothy smile.

Willow giggled and almost said yes before she spotted someone else over Gus' shoulder behind him.

"Well, unfortunately, mister emcee, I think your dance card is already punched." She smiled at his confused reaction before a finger was tapping him on the shoulder.

Gus turned around to find Matt standing behind him with a nervous smile on his face.

"Hey," Matt said the one word and Willow watched as Gus' entire body tensed up.

"H-hey," the response stumbled out of his lips.

"Wanna dance?" Matt asked gesturing with his thumb at the dance floor over his shoulder hoping he came across as casual.

"Yes!" Gus blurted out excitedly. "I mean, yes, yes I would." He grinned taking Matt's hand without even looking back at Willow as if the second Matt came into veiw he forgot she existed.

Willow rolled her eyes smiling fondly as her friend walked away from her. Although she almost chased after them once the crowd decsended upon her.

Witches approached her from every direction, some congratulating her others asking her to dance and others just trying to get through the rest to speak to her. She felt like the walls were closing in as she tried to stumble through responses to everyone, until in an instant someone had grabbed her hand and pulled her over to the dance floor that had taken the place of the grom fighting ground.

As her mystery rescuer and/or kidnapper pulled her in wrapping his arm around her waist and holding her other hand out starting to sway to the music Willow was face to face with Edric Blight.

"Sorry, you looked a little overwhelmed felt like you could use a hand," he smiled at her and Willow immediately felt all the tension melt from her body.

"Thank you, I needed the rescue," she placed her other hand on his shoulder falling into the easy sway of the slow dance.

Edric chuckled, "Anything for Mittens' best friend."

Willow grinned at him and Edric's face shifted into a more serious expression before he spoke once more.

"You know, back when all that stuff went down with you and Amity, I don't think Emira and I really knew you existed until you were gone, but for whatever part we had in it we just wanna say we're sorry."

Willow smiled, "Thank you. I don't blame you guys, I think Odalia had a lot more control over all of our lives than we really thought. I mean we were all kids back then, but thanks it means a lot to hear you say that."

"Of course," Edric smiled. "And hey it all worked out in the end you and Mittens are best friends again and anytime you need an expert illusionist Emira and I are always here for you, although considering who your other best friend is maybe you won't."

Willow laughed and Edric easily joined in. As she caught her breath Willow looked around her at the crowd watching the two of them dance, knowing the second this song was over they would be swarming her again and an idea popped into her head.

"Actually, Edric, I think I could use the help of an expert illusionist right now," she grinned at him as his face shifted into a conspiratorial smirk at her words.

Hunter watched as Willow danced with the male Blight twin wishing that he'd been the one to take her hand and lead her to the dance floor instead, but then the Blight twin was twirling Willow around and lifting her into the air with complicated dance moves that captured the attention of everyone else in the gym and Hunter felt like something wasn't quite right with the image in front of him. The dancing didn't really feel like Willow, then from the corner of his eye he caught as one of the side doors to the outside balcony was seemingly opened by the wind. As he focused on the door Willow came into being through the glass, the Blight's illusion falling away the second she was through the threshold. Willow smiled thinking she'd escaped without being seen.

Hunter smirked, now that felt like Willow.

He took a glance around him making sure nobody was watching him as he made his own way to the same door Willow had escaped from. Slipping silently out the door he caught her leaning against the railing looking up at the night sky, as he closed the door behind him the music faded to the background almost leaving the two in complete silence.

"Neat trick," Hunter said breaking the silence. Willow looked over her shoulder to smile at him.

"You caught me," she said as he made his way over to her.

"Yeah, well, I know how you are with crowds," as he spoke he absentmindedly slipped his jacket off placing it on her shoulders without really registering what he'd just done as he went to lean against the railing next to her.

Willow on the otherhand felt her brain start screaming and her cheeks light on fire at the first touch of his warm jacket enveloping her.

"You were amazing out there, by the way," Hunter spoke stealing a look at her through the corner of his eye before turning back to the view in front of them. "But I'm sure you already knew that. I was right by the way, you look gorgeous in your dre-"

"Why didn't you ask me?" Willow interrupted him turning to face him head on letting her hip still touch the railing.

"I- huh?" Hunter stuttered as he turned to her in surprise.

"To grom. Why didn't you ask? I would've said yes," she said looking up into his eyes feeling her nerves race through her veins.

"I- you-" he blinked before letting his body untense shaking his head. "Right, as friends, yeah?" Trying to give her an out.

"No," Willow shut down his insecure reasoning in an instant. "As a date."

Hunter's eyes widened to the size of saucers and his cheeks lit up like a stop light as he kept his eyea locked on her steely gaze.

"You- me- I- huh?" The words that spilled from his lips felt more like sounds than actual responses. Willow couldn't help the breathy laugh that left her lips.

"Remember when you said I had one blindspot? I think you might have the same one," Willow shifted closer to Hunter watching as the realization finally hit his eyes. Unconsiously he leaned in closer to her too.

"And what exactly would that blindspot be?" His voice had taken on the flirty tone she instantly recognized from that day after practice and Willow knew her next move.

"Let me make it obvious," she spoke quickly before placing her hands on either of his cheeks pulling him down to connect their lips in a kiss that felt a year too late.

Hunter only stalled for half a second before he let himself melt into the kiss wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her body flush to his. Willow's hands slipped from his cheeks to wrap around his shoulders.

She pulled back just far enough to speak her lips brushing Hunter's the whole time, "Did that clear things up?"

Hunter laughed, his head falling down to her shoulder as he gathered himself.

"I feel like I've been thinking about that for a year," he spoke into her shoulder.

"Yeah," Willow cringed. "I heard."

"What?!" His head snapped up to look into her eyes, the panic in his own clear. "Who told you?"

"Well," Willow bit her lip. "Remember that day after practice when I showed up at the library?"

"I knew you were acting weird that day."

"Yeah, well I kinda noticed you were maybe flirting with me and when I asked the team they kinda sorta said you'd been flirting with me since we met." Willow cringed as she finished speaking. Hunter groaned and let his head fall back eyes closed in frustration.

"Of course," he looked back to her and smiled. "Well, at least it got us here, right?"

"I'm just sorry it took me so long to realize things," Willow pouted at her own blindness.

"Yeah, that is on you, I have it on good authority I was extremely obvious the entire time," Hunter responded smiling as Willow laughed at the joke made at his own expense. Hunter took her chin between his fingers lifting her face back to look him in the eye. "Willow Park, will you go on a date with me?"

She smiled, "I would love to."

Hunter matched her smile before leaning down to connect their lips once more.

"Finally!" A shout at the door startled them out of their kiss and the couple turned to look at where the exclamation had come from finding Gus standing there with Luz and Amity and basically every other person in attendance at the dance watching the pair of them. Gus turned back to the crowd. "Ok, who had grom at exactly 9:21pm?"

"Gus!" Willow yelped in surprise. "You had a betting pool on us?"

"Of course we did," Amity interjected. "And I did, Gus." The purple haired witch turned to the emcee.

Willow let out an offended noise as the crowd turned their attention towards settling up their bets with Amity and Gus just as quickly as they'd had their attention on the new couple. Luz separated from the crowd as they all started to turn back to the dance inside the gym.

"Congrats you two," she slapped a hand on either of their shoulders. "Can't wait to be your maid of honor at the wedding." Luz slapped a sloppy kiss to Willow's cheek before running back to the rest of the grom crowd.

"Wha- that's- Luz!" Willow spluttered yelling after her best friend as a she threw a mischevious wink over her shoulder closing the balcony door leaving Hunter and Willow alone in a much more awkward silence.

The two of them stared at the door for a moment in silence unsure how to move on from that before they turned back to each other. Willow realized as she looked back up into his eyes that her arms were still wrapped around his neck and his still around her waist.

"Well, that was humbling," Hunter finally broke the silence and Willow found herself giggling despite herself. Hunter smiled at her, "You wanna go back in and dance?" He asked.

"Eh," Willow shrugged. "I'd rather talk about where were gonna go for our first date."

Hunter matched her grin and the two of them got lost in each other, happy to forget that the rest of the world existed even if just for a moment.

[acaciapines]

Uhhhh how about 17?

<3

doing these how i usually do! story above cut, commentary below.

 All I Need to Know - Thousand Foot Krutch

it’s underneath the shade of the palistrom tree—palistrom tree, and isn’t that something luz never thought she’d be able to say again—that mari, with her paws crossed in front of her, tilts her head into the sunlight that casts her edges in gold and says, “did we ever figure out how to make sure mami survives us graduating?”

luz pauses. “huh. i mean, i think she’s used enough to the boiling isles by now?”

mari stares at her for a long moment. “gus said they dump boiling water on the audience.”

“okay,” says luz, “but consider. do we actually believe him? ‘cause that doesn’t just kill humans, that kills, like, everyone. unless you’re king or sraf—most of the time—or firefly, i think? i think she could survive a little bit of boiling water.” luz nudges her daemon’s side. “what’s your real issue?”

mari huffs, turning away. “you can’t read my mind.”

“yes i can!” luz sing-songs, and mari rolls her eyes, but lets out a long whuff, tilting her head.

“fine,” she says, “i guess i’m just…i mean, all of this,” and she gestures with a paw to the palistrom around them, which is pretty much the best representation of how far they’ve gone in the past four years, “has been great, and i don’t want to let it go. but—we graduate. we do witch college. and then…what?”

“aww, mari.” luz flops down across her daemon, and mari grunts, trying to bite at her hair. “look at you all worried about the future. things are going to be good. we’re going to major in literally everything, continue to learn about how magic and glyphs and all that works, and king is going to follow in our footsteps, and we’re going to cry and be so proud. and wrestle him if he ever dares to usurp us as world’s coolest glyph-user. i don’t care if he’s a titan.”

mari rolls her eyes, but there’s something fond, there, too, that’s soft against the edges of luz’s mind, where their sharp bits don’t poke out so harsh anymore. “fine. fine! you’re right” she hauls herself standing and ignores luz’s giggling. “but we are reminding principal bump to not like, accidentally kill our mom somehow. quite frankly i’m still surprised hexside doesn’t have a higher body count.”

luz reaches a hand up to the sky, framing the fragile palistrom leaves between her fingers.

“it’s doing pretty good,” luz says, and she means hexside, sure, but everything else, too: at all the ways their world has changed, since they were fourteen and fighting and scared. “i’m glad we get to graduate here. together.”

“yeah, yeah.” but mari lands, small and fluffing out her feathers, on luz’s chest. “me too.”

Commentary

genuinely forgot this song was on my playlist. anyways.

post-canon stuff! now that i have the entire story written (I HAVE THE ENTIRE STORY WRITTEN, WHAT THE FUCK) i know exactly where i end in the owl house timeline, which is actually earlier than owl house canon does! as of now the fic ends about 6 months after belos's defeat. so here i decided well, let's do a lil thing around the time owl house proper ends! right before luz-mari graduate hexside.

its really interesting to write these drabbles now that the fic is done. bc like, before i was just testing things out--now i know exactly how everything goes, you know? unless i choose to ignore canon, all of these are now canon to how my fic will end! wild.

i think witch college is such a fun and cool idea. i feel like luz and mari probably will end up teaching there, at some point...glyphs are already sort of a language in owl house proper and i push that even further in my fic, so i like to think that adult luz-mari is out there teaching classes on how to translate witch-magic to glyph-magic and all the overlaps.

theres a LOT of knowledge gaps post-belos-defeat, basically. lots of stuff that was destroyed and has to be rediscovered.

also i think the idea of luz-mari king and sraf (the collector) all collabing on like, an academic paper is literally so funny. these three children are the most prominent scholars on glyphs in the entirety of the boiling isles! they do get into month-long fights over what they're suppose to call dust. stardust? sraf? dust? magic? some new word? who knows!! not them!!!

[galwaygremlin]

owl house season three notebook reactions:

S3E1 -oh these are ALL Camila's kids now -NEW INTRO. IT FUCKS. -LOL DUOLINGO -[struggles in Spanish] -BELOS DEER -BELOS RABBIT -BELOS HUNTER -Flapjack Knows Some Shit -Belos quit fuckin everything up

S3E2 -"She's so determined to make herself sad" -"0 days since major injury" -BASEMENT GRIMWALKER -CAMILA GLYPH -CAMILA BAT -Willow's a little stressed out guys -oh I saw art of that King-Eda moment that was cute -NOCEDA NERD OUT TIME -it's a bird it's a plane it's an orb- wait what -the magic of Flapjack IS the magic of friendship -I love the evolution of Willow's magic -"That's a robot, Matt" -Eda don't eat Luz's palisman

S3E3 -LUZ COSTUME CHANGE -LUZ-LIGHT-1ST GLYPH SHE EVER LEARNED- I AM GOING MAD -"Thank whoever" -BELOS FUCKIN BIT THEM. feral -"the ball can bite you and the rules are nonsense" -MY. FUCKING. HEART. -No Dead Luz Particles I Refuse To Believe It -THEY HAVE A BAD GIRL COVEN SHIRT -Luz loves the Boiling Isles and the Boiling Isles love her back -Supersonic Baseball From Hell -11th hour Eda mentorship! -FLUFFIER -DARIUS. COOL DAD DARIUS -college Luz! -THE HOOK IS CANON?! -BYEEEEEE

S1E1-10 S1E11-19 S2E1-10 S2E12-21

[halcyon-hyacinth]

toh fanfics to keep you busy during hiatus, a thread.

A/N: If an author has a (*) by their name, PLEASE check out their other works!!! After combing through the toh archive, I now follow the skilled writers I've found rather than checking ao3 tags. This list could be longer but I really wanted to highlight these writers.

Finding Home Amongst the Infinite by DontDoHeroinKids * Multichapter, ongoing. Adventure/Action, Canon Divergence, Found Family, Friendship.

Mini Summary: Luz is a planes walker, and has spent years stumbling across the multitudes of realities, desperately searching for a way to return to her abandoned home with little success. She winds up in the Isles where she'll find answers and allies to help her on her journey.

One of the best multi chapter fics I've had the pleasure of reading. Luz's dynamic with all the characters is handled extremely well. Unlike other multi chap fics I've read, this is almost entirely done from Luz's POV.

Holding You Back by @FoolsSee *

Canon-Compliant Character Study, completed.

Recommendation in honor of Yesterday's Lie. Pre-season 1 one shot that captures Camila and Luz's relationship really well + strong characterization. Fools has written 27 other toh fics- PLEASE check out the authors other works!!!

Breaking Point by SquirrelWriter *

Canon-Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, completed.

My favorite Luz and Amity oneshot. Not a lot of writers can effectively capture what makes their friendship work and this one knocks it out of the park.

Your Name by SunshineChildx

Multichapter, Slow burn, Friends to lovers, ongoing.

lumity fic based on the move of the same name. Not yet completed, but this is one of the most well written fics I've ever read. The prose and narration are beautiful and I've cried reading it.

Eda Clawthorne's Pro Skater by A_Big_Old_Skeleton

Series, Skateshop AU, Fluff, Angst, Humor, ongoing.

This is the only beta fic I support tbh. The characterization is off the charts and I adore how the author handles everyone's relationships. The comedy and storytelling are superb.

Postcards from a Place Named Threshold by incoherent_icarus_works *

Series, Character Study, ongoing.

A collection of standalone character study oneshots each centered around a different character from The Owl House (atm Luz, Willow, Boscha) . Luz one shot was inspired by @woozywonder art!

Curse Me Goodbye by Lumitations *

Canon Divergence, Comedy, Urban Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Romance. Multichapter, completed.

One of the most fun fics I've ever read. The mystery/intrigue is INCREDIBLE as are the kick-ass action scenes. Lumity centric.

Heir of the Jedi by @whatisurowlpolicy *

Multichapter. Ongoing. Action/Adventure, Star Wars AU, Angst, Fluff, Humor, Enemies to Lovers

I don't know shit about Star Wars and I am begging anyone who is dissuaded by the AU tag to READ THIS FIC! Green is extremely good at handling the ensemble cast of toh along with writing top tier development for every character. It's also lumity centric, and I think y'all will enjoy their take on them.

Our Stories Burn Bright, Hung Like Stars in the Sky by AtticusKaine*

Series, ongoing. Action/Adventure, Romance, Found Family, Humor.

What the hell are you doing with your life if you haven't read this series? Hands down my favorite toh canon divergence, it fleshes out every single character in ways you wouldn't believe.

make my heart your home by @tiredandjaded*

Ongoing series, found family, hurt/comfort.

Takes place in between s1/s2, I take it as canon. The relationships between Luz, Eda and Lilith post YBOS are handled beautifully-- the character dynamics and found family vibes are off the charts.

Hold Me Close by @the-lone-witch-and-secret-room

Oneshot. Completed. Jerbric Hurt/Comfort.

She writes the well-known Locked Out ALONG WITH several god-tier one shots y'all HAVE to read oh my god. This is one of my favorites. The characterization of Jerbo and Edric's relationship is super sweet.

learning how to be (with you by my side) by uniqeusernamegenerator*

Multichapter. Completed. College AU, Romance, Comedy

Atm you can only view it if you have an AO3 account and if you haven't read this masterpiece already YOU MUST! It's easy and free.

This is one of the best lumity fics of all time. The slice of life feel is otherworldly, as is the author's INCREDIBLE prose. Hits you right in the feels along with their skarscha fic windows up, walls down.

Transcendence by rhysanity

Oneshot. Soulmates AU. Completed.

This is what I like to call a ship conversion fic. If you've never considered skarscha before, read this fic. It will hit you in the feels and have you rereading over and over again for eternity.

Golden written by @whatisurowlpolicy / story by both of us *

Multichapter, ongoing. Golden Guard Amity AU. Action/Adventure, Found Family, Drama, Comedy, Hurt/Comfort

Shamless plug, this is one of my favorite ideas I've ever thought of and I am beyond hyped to be co-creating it with Green. We're doing a role reversal following a lot of the same beats of season 1 but putting our own spin on it. You'll see a lot more of the dynamics we haven't seen a lot in season 2 like Amity and Lilith along with Willow and Gus. Gonna go ahead and @anguigenus because Gus and Amity's relationship is one of the major focuses of the fic.

[sergeantsporks]

Some more College AU stuff, mostly about Eda

- Eda wrote her dissertation on owls

- Owlbert is a rescue owl that couldn’t be rehabilitated into the wild because his wing didn’t heal right. Eda took him in and he lives in her office

- She calls her eco terrorist alter ego the owl lady. Sometimes she spray paints an owl face (looks like hooty :D) where she strikes.

- All of this makes it PRETTY DARN OBVIOUS WHO THE OWL LADY IS since Eda’s entire office is covered in OWL STUFF WITH A LIVE OWL IN THE CORNER, but. That’s circumstantial, and no one can find any actual evidence leading to Eda.

- Lilith, looking around Eda’s office: Edalyn. Edalyn, please, they are going to figure out it’s you. Why. Why are you like this.

- Lilith has a doctorate in World History, but has CRIPPLING STUDENT DEBT, most of which is owed... directly to Belos. So he holds all of the cards over her, which is how she ended up working campus police despite being WAY overqualified. She helped Eda pay for her college “so that she wouldn’t end up in debt to Belos,” but, unbeknownst to Eda, Lilith took out more loans from Belos to do so, putting them in her name instead of Eda’s. She got Eda the job at the university, buuuuuuut she is also trying to hunt her alter ego of the owl lady down, so relationships are... interesting. Especially since Belos promises to forgive big chunks of her debt if she figures out more about the Owl Lady.

- Eda takes meds for her chronic pain (Gwendolyn treats them the way she does the elixirs, but Luz helps her come around, just like canon). Some days are worse than others. Until Luz showed up, she would get reckless, do missions when she was hurting

- She’s still a bit of an alcoholic, just like she is in canon. At this point, I think Luz is the only character who isn’t.

- She babysits King, as previously mentioned. A lot of the time, he hangs out in her office with Owlbert. Some days when her pain is really bad, she hands him the clicker to her powerpoint presentation and lets him teach her class. The students think it’s adorable, and he’s been in her class often enough throughout the years to actually sort of know what he’s talking about, so they only mildly miss out on instruction.

- Her relationship with Luz is essentially the same as canon, except that she includes Luz in a lot more law-breaking stuff on purpose because, hey, they’re eco terrorists together now! Luz hasn’t picked an alter ego name yet, she’s waiting for the right one (tbd whenever we find out what her palisman is)

- Eda and Hunter have an... interesting relationship. At least, on her end. He thinks Eda’s neat, she has a lot of interesting stories and lets him sit in on her office hours with Luz, and she’s also the only teacher who doesn’t keep their distance from him because of the whole Belos thing. Their technical first meeting was when she was trying to sneak into Belos’ house to spy on him as the owl lady, and he was trying to sneak OUT, and she knocked off and broke his glasses so that he wouldn’t be able to identify her. He’s blind as a bat without them, so he had to go back for spares and nearly got caught by Belos. Needless to say, he isn’t fond of the Owl Lady. He also blames the Owl Lady for a lot of his home problems, since Belos usually starts drinking really hard whenever she strikes. So, on his end, he’ll complain about the owl lady making his life a living hell (he sort of admires what she’s doing, but at the same time hates her for what it does to him) and then be like ‘you’re a pretty neat lady, Eda, thanks for listening :)” while Eda sweats nervously in the corner. 

- It does put a bit of a strain on what she and Luz do, because Luz will start questioning whether the little setback they set on Belos’ plans is worth what Hunter will have to go through. Eda feels guilty about it, of course, but insists that it’s important

- Raine is head of the theatre department. Eda happily pines after them. They pine after her. Mutual pining, neither of them are doing anything about it. Raine, as head of the department, has a little more access to Belos’ stuff, and figures out some of his plans, which they pass on to the Owl Lady (they’re also 99% certain Eda’s the Owl Lady, but aren’t saying anything).

[animerunner]

Okay let’s talk about Social Isolation and Luz again-

Because I just saw someone going well if Luz destroys the door than Dana is giving into haters!

And I just want to scream.

Some of y’all do not know what the absolute hell it is like to be completely isolated by your peers. Your teachers. Etc.

And I’m not bashing you on that.

However the issue becomes since you don’t know what it’s like. You make a lot of assumptions that are not quiet right.

So let’s start with me being blunt: It is a freaking hell.

While the idea of the camp may have been ish flawed. Camilas heart was in the right place I’ll give her that. She was trying to get Luz out of that situation.

Since I can almost guarantee you that if nothing changed Luz would have gone away for college once she came of age. Not because of Camila. But because of her classmates and teachers (because oh boy when you are that far down the ladder yeah I can guarantee the teachers were 0 help)

Because as you get older you notice more issues. You notice more of the toxicity. And if it was still going 4 years later?

Yeah she definitely would have been aware of it. Or if she wasn’t Camila would have noticed. And probably in a sorta camp 2.0 scenario probably would have encouraged her to get out to try and make friends.

Sometimes the happiest and healthiest place is unfortunately not with your family. And again I can’t say this enough. This is not me saying Camila is bad or abusive. There are a lot of factors that make something happy and healthy. And your family is only part of it.

However when it’s two people against a class of god knows how many?

It’s a losing uphill battle.

Also let’s not forget by all accounts that in canon. Luz isn’t just becoming a witch. She’s becoming a good powerful witch. Some issues aside like the food there is evidence to say she’s not just living she’s thriving on the Isles.

Bump seems to be a fairly resonable principal from what I have seen. I can’t imagine him allowing Luz to take 9 majors worth of course load is she wasn’t doing well.

There is a phrase that I think applies here.

‘Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is let them go.’

And for Camila and Luz that might mean realizing at some point in Season 2 or 3 that Luz is unfortunately better off long term on the Isles.

Of course if something changes with how Luz and the Isles interact I could be wrong. But just speaking as of right now (2/2022) Luz is thriving in a way on the Isles that she almost certainly wont back on Earth.

And I can’t emphasize enough this is NOT on Camila. Or even Luz. But rather the surrounding situation in Gravesfield.

[blehblarghblah]

Update:

It's been awhile since the last update, so let's talk!

So, L&L is up and going! As I've said it will go all the way to Episode 10, "Something Ventured, Luz is Framed" then go on a mid-season hiatus, wherein I'll start cracking down on the later half of season 1 and early season 2 and begin getting them ready for their bi-weekly updates. Until then, Loyalty & Light will continue its schedule!

As for MBTMS? Another update will be coming soon! Late March, to mid-April, there'll be another MBTMS oneshot (and it'll be College AU!). But no promises for any other chapter updates after that! Sorry, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As for what else is to come? Maybe y'all could help?

The Owl House, Lealtad Noceda big sister AU, multi-chapter story (Title: “Loyalty & Light”). Chapters upload biweekly basis. [ONGOING]

The Dragon Prince, Rayllum oneshot collection, multi-AU & canon compliant stories (Title: "Magic Between the Moon & Sky"). Next update is late March to mid-April. [ ✔ ]

TBFL Oneshot (?) [ ]

TBFL Oneshot (?) [ ]

If you're wondering what happened to the other listed fics from the last update, they're still in my WIPs but I decided they'll just take a backseat even further for now. As always, what's listed here can be subject to change by the next update!

As you can see, the To Be Filled Later oneshots are just slots I have in case I think of a fic I wanna write. I have a couple WIPs I do wish to finish and publish eventually, but for now? I guess I'm open to suggestions?

Take a look at all the fandoms I'm into and hit me with any ideas y'all would like to see! Keep in mind too, doesn't have to be a ship-fic. But I will say no NFSW content or anything explicit like that, if you're familiar with my work, you already know what my general rating is. No guarantees I'll write 'em or even finish, but I'd welcome the ideas. And it can be a collaborative experience if you wish! DM or Ask, go ahead!

By the way, in case you're confused, these are all tagged with "bleh update" so you can keep track of all incoming fic posts!

Until next post,

- Bleh

[ordinaryschmuck]

What I Thought About “Separate Tides” from The Owl House

Salutations, random people on the internet who most likely won’t read this! I am an Ordinary Schmuck. I write stories and reviews and draw comics and cartoons.

...>A-hem< F**KING CALLED IT!

I said that the earliest that The Owl House would return would be late June and early July. And some of YYYOOOUUU sons of witches doubted me by saying it would be fall or winter. Well, guess what! "Separate Tides'' has come and gone, the show is back and better than ever, and we are all happy about it! You see how it pays to be optimistic, you persistent PACK OF PESSIMISTS!

...Sorry. Got a little hot there. I'm just so happy it's BACK!

10 MONTHS! It's been nearly 10 months since this show began its hiatus, large in part because of the pandemic. It was painful. BOY, was it painful. But I can already tell that the new season is going to be well worth the wait just by this episode alone.

But beware you mangey sea dogs! Thar be spoilers ahead when discussing such a premier.

And I swear to you that it's only spoilers for "Separate Tides." I haven't seen "Escaping Expulsion" either, and I promise you will be safe from anybody ruining it for you. But maybe don't read any responses from this post. Thar may be d**ks in these waters. So let's review, shall we!

WHAT I LIKE

Mirroring Season One’s Opening Scene: First off, this is a neat callback to what is the perfect first impression of the series. That scene perfectly introduces us to the type of show The Owl House is, while this one acts as a reintroduction to the world we left for way too long.

Second, this is also a well-hidden character moment. Luz is finally living the life she dreamed of, but it isn't exactly all that she expected. It's a great showcase that despite literally running away to a fantasy world, Luz is still getting a regular dose of reality. And I still love the irony in all of that.

(Plus, King eating the bounty is just funny).

The Recap Recording: This is a smart way to recap events from the season finale. It might be weird that Luz says things that the audience already knows, but she's not talking to us. She's talking to her mom. So she's going to explain all that she can in a way for Camila to fully understand. Besides, not every fan had repeatedly watched The Owl House Season One over and over again like a bunch of frickin' lunatics...You know who you are.

Plus, as an upside, Luz gets to explain new events and concepts for how she and the rest of the Owl House are making a living. In no way does it feel like forced exposition because, again, she's trying to describe as much as she can to her mother. It's a reasonable and natural way to talk to the audience in order to catch them up while also showing what's been happening since we've last left this show.

Luz Can’t Send Texts to Her Mom: ...Well, Texts to Home, it was fun while it lasted, but the current canon has decided that you're done. I'll miss you and appreciate all that you've done for me, but, yeah, this is the end. Sorry.

Alright, now that I got my jokes out of the way, allow me to explain how this is really a heartbreaking moment. Because the fact that Luz is forever cut off from her mother, even through texts, is an idea that just twists the knife in your heart when you really sit down to think about it. Luz's little goodbye at the end of her video does nothing but makes it worse.

On the upside, we get some solid character development as Luz doesn't even hesitate to send the video to Camila, learning her lesson from "Enchanted Grom Fright" about being more honest. She finally faced her fear, even if it was a fruitless effort.

They’re Doing Odd Jobs Now: This is a smart workaround for how the Owl House residents are making money. Some fans guessed that maybe Eda had so much junk piled up that they wouldn’t worry, but this seems more of a logical direction. Even if Eda had enough garbage to sell, she’ll can and will eventually run out at some point, meaning that they will all have to take the odd jobs anyway. So I appreciate the writers used that plot point sooner rather than later, as a fun romp as bounty hunters is something you want to do early in the season instead of later on. Especially with how Dana Terrace confirmed that s**t’s gonna go down in the future.

Lilith: ...I'm still willing to hold off--What the f**k did I say his name was? *looks up past review* Frederick Ulis--Frederick Ulisinsburg!

I am willing to hold off Frederick Ulisinsburg, for now, because Lilith is...sort of on the right track. I mean, I don't like how quick she was to playfully mock Eda or rudely yell at Hooty. But I do think that there is potential for her character. She feels genuine guilt for what she's done, and there's a chance that the new season will explore that further if the writers are smart (which they are). On top of that, there's a possibility that every time Lilith tries to act cocky or full of herself, she will be treated as a proverbial punching bag because of it. Like how her poster got burned down after boasting how impressive she looks. Or how Golden Guard's poster magically sealed itself to her face when Lilith tried to throw it away. It's the latter that primarily got me cackling like a madman due to how deservingly hilarious it was.

And, well...she happily clapped like a schoolgirl! Which was adorable! I can't hate characters who have the potential to be adorable! It's not in my nature!

So, while I am a little hesitant in liking her, I think there's a chance for improvement in her character in the future that I look forward to. We just have to wait and see if the writers pull it off.

(By the way, to the person that came up with Lilith wearing a "battery low" shirt...you're a genius in visual gags/storytelling.)

Greg’s List: Have I ever mentioned that this show is funny?

Who's Greg? Why does he organize a list of perfect bounties?

I don't know, but the idea of some random person in the Boiling Isles is putting it on himself to set up a list to make bounties...I'm sorry, but that's funny to me. It's also probably for how Craig's List was made, but when you really think about it, Craig's List is a funny idea as well.

Eda Isn’t Feared Anymore: I sort of guessed that this would happen, but seeing it is a whole different level of sympathy to feel for the character. Eda's main schtick was being the most powerful witch on the Isles, and that's gone now. She's forced to adapt to this new normal, which she's quick to do, but still. Tt's got to be a rough kick to the ego now that no one even cares about who she is anymore.

It's a low moment for her character that hopefully sets up her own arc for the rest of the season.

Luz Feels Like She’s a Burden: I will demolish her with love and kindness if she even CONSIDERS talking so poorly about herself again! Because Luz is not a burden. She is a beam of light that literally brightens up the lives of nearly everyone she meets. Eda already explains how her life is better because of Luz (through a heart-tugging speech that almost got to me, by the way), but it's not just Eda.

King now has his first real friend who admires him and treats him like the king he wants to be.

Willow has become much more confident and cheerful because Luz was always in her corner.

Gus learns more about the humans he appreciates with his whole heart while also having a friend that treats him like an equal rather than a kid.

And do I even have to say ANYTHING about Amity?

The Boiling Isles wouldn't be better off without Luz. It's better because of her. And shame on this girl for thinking otherwise...even though I fully understand where she's coming from.

I'm about to get personal for a second, so strap in. Because I am a twenty-somthing-year-old who is currently living with his mom. It's as pathetic as it sounds. But it's because I'm still attending college, and she says school comes first and jobs and apartments come second. Despite that, I feel like trash for just...living here as she still takes care of me and pays for the food I can't afford. She says that I shouldn't worry about it, but I still wait for the day I can finally pay her back for everything. Not some things, but everything. And that's Luz's mentality in this episode. The overwhelming guilt she's feeling for thinking she's inconveniencing Eda's life is something that hits really hard for me. It doesn't matter if it's true, but that she believes it's true. It's a heartbreaking character arc she's forced into for this episode that also adds more to why she's one of the many characters I heavily relate to.

Lulu and Hootstipher: Whoever thought of this idea...I f**king love you.

This is similar to when Noah and Owen became friends in Total Drama World Tour. Seemingly one-sided at first, you see a cute friendship that you would have never expected, but it works! Hooty is this happy and naive character who hardly understands what's going on half the time, and Lilith is...Lilith. Their chemistry is instantly fun as their dynamic is quick to understand.

This also shines with potential for character growth, for it could give Lilith a chance to be more caring and Hooty a chance to be more than just the comic relief. If you were to tell me that this is what was going to happen when the season premiered, I would have thought you were crazy. But now, after seeing it in action, I'm genuinely excited to see where this cute friendship between these two goes.

(As long as it doesn't involve fans shipping them. Because Hooty can do better)

Luz Getting Better with Her Magic: Our little bisexual princess is growing up! And, man, is it awesome to see. Luz going from just barely knowing how to do magic to full-on using her spells like second nature just warms my heart with all the character growth it presents. Now, some people might want an explanation for how she's able to do said spells, to which I say: "Who the f**k cares?"

If you ask me, Luz's magic is one of those things that doesn't need a direct answer because it doesn't matter as much. But if you're going to be a baby about it, here's what I can offer: As far as I can tell, it's equal parts having the glyph and mentally picturing what the spell should do. It's much like how Willow draws a spell circle and can either make giant jungle vines or a patch of flowers to land on. Luz's glyphs are her own spell circles. As long as she concentrates hard enough, she can make the glyph do whatever she wants it to.

There. You have your explanation. Now let's just all appreciate the fact that Luz can now throw fireballs and make vine whips like the superpowered teenager she most likely fantasized of being. Ok? Ok.

A Pirate Losing His Head...Literally: ...And I'm gonna go ahead and add that to the list.

I mean, for f**k's sake, WE SEE BONE! He puts his head back on, but we still see the bone!

Eda in a Pirate Outfit: ...That is all.

The Golden Guard: This guy shows up for only a few minutes, and I'm already beginning to like him. He seems just as threatening as Belos while also coming across as a guy who loves his job and being a ton of fun to watch because of it. I adore villains that find that balance of being funny and terrifying. The result is a character who makes me laugh on top of making me scared of what they could do to our protagonists. So far, that's the Golden Guard in a nutshell, and I can't wait to see what the rest of the season has in store with him. Whether it involves seeing him play with food as he did with Eda and Luz in this episode or seeing him getting kicked in the crotch like a little punk like him deserves, I am all for it.

(Bonus points if it's Amity who does the crotch kicking if he ever makes an advancement on Luz)

Eda Wanting to Protect the Selkidomus: I love this. It plays into the idea that Eda cares about things being wild and free and despises how Emperor Belos would want to control everything, including the most insignificant of animals. It shows just how kind Eda really is rather than someone motivated by greed...even if she does end up filthy rich in the end.

Emperor Belos’ Brief Cameo: Yup, still terrifying!

And if it turns out that Belos can see the Scrying Potion that Lilith made...we're going to have some problems.

Much like the actual problems that I have with this episode!

(Like that transition?)

WHAT I DISLIKE

King Being Stupid: King has two different personalities in this series. Either he's a pathetic wannabe ruler who seems intelligent or an idiotic Disney comedic sidekick. That latter version of King is what we get in "Separate Tides," and I don't like it (obviously). I don't care how cute it is to see him cling onto Luz's leg and exclaim how he won't let her leave. The same character who helped Luz break into a prison to save Eda shouldn't be the same one who falls asleep when a sheet covers him like a dumbass parrot! King's at his best when he's as intelligent as the rest of the characters. And not as dumb as someone like Hooty.

Eda Being Too Nice Around Lilith: This one bothers me the most. After being cursed for thirty years and having her life ruined by the person she thought she could trust the most, Eda is still all smiley and jokey when talking to Lilith. Yeah, sorry, but I don't buy that. No one in their right mind would be that cool with a person who did all of what Lilith did. It's a major misstep that squanders what could have been a fantastic overarching story of Eda learning to forgive her sister and Lilith trying to earn it. We'll at least get Lilith's guilt, but as is, I feel Eda showing genuine anger towards her would elevate that story by a lot.

IN CONCLUSION

But that's about all the bad things I have to say about "Separate Tides." As is, it is a well-earned, solid A of a season premiere. It introduces new concepts and characters I can't wait to see more of, continues old storylines and character development instead of ignoring them, and still proves that The Owl House is as charming and funny as it always was. Maybe the rest of the season could continue to be great, or maybe things might get worse. Time can only tell. For now, all I can tell you is that "Separate Tides" is a great and fun episode that makes me excited as we set sail to this new season.

(And Scared. Mostly scared)

[isabellehemlock]

Endless Ocean - An Old Guard AU

Nicky Di Genova is home for the summer after he graduated college - except, things are tense and strange.  His Dad, a big shot lawyer who works for Merrick Enterprises, has hired extra security, and seems a bit miffed he came home for the summer instead of touring Europe like he had wanted him, too.  But Nicky was just trying to spend his summer in the pool while he figures some things out . . . 

Joe is hired as extra security to watch over a guy who knows nothing about life.  This is his last job, and then he’s done - he’s out, and can just focus on what he wants to do next.  But what was supposed to be an easy job of watching a rich kid sunbathing while his Dad coordinates his grand jury testimony with the DEA, turns into something much more dangerous.  It’s not just Nicky’s Dad who is in danger - it’s Nicky, too. 

Because someone has decided he wants him all to himself . . . and it’s not just Joe.

Rating: Explicit

C o m i n g i n J a n u a r y [ the live post - with link - is here, reblogged with updated chapters every week 😘 ]

Tags/Tropes and Author Commentary under the keep reading break!

Author(s) Commentary: Clarita Luz and I are ecstatic to finally share a project we have been working on for a while ❤ We used this fantastic prompt, and after an enormous amount of brainstorming - and like a twenty page Google doc of timelines, outlines, backstories, and character drafts 😅 - later, we are excited to announce our little WIP arriving in January!

Though it starts as a bodyguard AU, we decided to expand/change a few key points from the prompt - namely no homophobia, or drug use, no mafia (but there is corruption and DEA agents abound), and made Nile Nicky’s childhood best friend vs one of the security team members.  And it has evolved into something quite deep with themes of loss, grief and recovery from trauma.  It’ll definitely be a multi fic and we cannot wait to see what y’all think of it!!

Because of it’s heavy, angsty, themes, we are also sharing the content warnings and tags/tropes so all our readers can make an informed decision in regards to reading it.  It does have a happy ending though, so we hope you’ll hang in there till the end!

Content Warnings: Tears, emotional pain/angst, Violence, Blood, guns, shootings, kidnapping, stalkers, panic attacks, anxiety, trauma, tragic backstories that involve familial death, and DEATH

Tags/Tropes:

bodyguard/rich guy

does-my-Dad-even-care parent trope (spoiler, yes - he’s just got legal troubles right now, son)

tragic backstories for dayssss

emotional walls that are Mt. Everest high

NO homophobia in this world (yay!) 

but we do have stalkers, like - I’m going to kidnap you-level stalkers

we got found family too! 

and as always - Nile is the most emotionally mature one who sees through everyone 

the cat is the emotional support animal we all need 

Someone stutters when they panic - they panic a lot in this fic

you will never look at the ocean the same way again - 

or listen to the song, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow" the same way again.

Mutual pining that takes like half the fic to figure out 

like CRAP man, there’s a lot of angst in this fic.

There’s ONE candle lit for a deceased member of the family, but otherwise NO religion discussed or really reflected on - so it’s a blink and you’ll miss it reference.

Slow burn but with IcePrince!Nicky teasing the CRAP OUT OF JOE

There’s someone is sick, so I’m going to take care of them while they have a fever - trope

Kisses in front of a fireplace trope

One bed trope

Accidental cuddling - "accidental"

The LooksTM

Nicolo Di Genova's look for this one is his character, "Gabrielle" from Waves

And Joe/Yusuf Al Kaysani's look is based on the now infamous Men's Health Video/Interview 😅

As for the rest of the team, they're all serving Canon movie looks and we do have a few original characters but we can't really share more than that without giving away plot points 🙃

We will definitely reblog this post once it's L I V E - until then, much love to you all ❤

[bob-events]

Friendship Bonanza Prompt List!

International Friendship Day is right around the corner, and our AO3 collection is going out to our authors any minute! That means we are excited to announce the prompt list for the friendship bonanza - which we have hidden under the “keep reading” because it’s ridiculously long. If you’d like to make a “gift” for any of the prompters, you are welcome to, and we just ask that you either post it to the AO3 collection and tag them (but please mark it as a “gift fill”) or post it on Tumblr and tag them AND us so we can share it! Happy Friending

@nowinnablewar AO3: unseelieCollapsar Will Accept: Fanfic, Other types of media Prompt 1: Skip bounces ideas off Easy Company for the letter he wants to send to Faye. Prompt 2: Easy Company craft a plan to get back at Sobel without getting caught. Prompt 3: A Yank staff correspondent (Reader or OC) interviews the officers at the Eagle's Nest. Prompt 4: Three Musketeers AU with Toye, Luz, Guarnere, and Buck

@softspeirs AO3: sunlightdances Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart, Other types of media Prompt 1: Speirs being soft (either gif moments from the show, art of your choice, or platonically with a canon character, or paired with an OC!) Prompt 2: Nixon + "I wish I didn't care about it" - gifs showing him caring about other characters canonically or fic with platonic friendship or background romance with an OC Prompt 3: Lipton being Easy's Mom and Dad. Fanart, a fic of a missing scene, or gifs from the show! (Post-war AU feat. a background romance is also ok too) Prompt 4: Any happy, smiley moments between Easy boys. Gifs of happy moments, fanart, or a fic of a moment we didn't see on the show! DNW: Character/character slash fic, modern AU

@serasvictoria AO3: Caren80 Will Accept: Fanfic, Other types of media Prompt 1: Chuck and Babe are supposed be doing guard duty at Membury airfield. Chuck takes Babe to a pub instead (this genuinely happened by the way). Prompt 2: It’s Christmas and since Easy is still stuck in Bois Jacques in Belgium, Joe Liebgott decides to share a Hershey bar with Chuck and Tab as a present. Prompt 3: We all know that Luz and Perconte ended up in a barn to steal eggs, but what happened before that scene? Who even came up with the idea to begin with? Prompt 4: It’s 1946 and word reaches Bill that Joe Toye is really struggling with the loss of his leg. He decides to show up at Joe’s place unannounced with Babe and together they will do their utmost to make sure that Joe cracks a smile. Prompt 5: After hearing Joe say that he could use some brass knuckles right before D-Day, Bill finds some for him.

@josephtoye AO3: corawrites Will Accept: Fanfic Prompt 1: Joe Liebgott & Floyd Talbert, one is trying to set the other up, or some other banter-y kind of situation Prompt 2: Johnny Martin & Bull Randleman, any historical AU Prompt 3: Buck Compton & Joe Toye, do with that what you will Prompt 4: Shifty Powers & Carwood Lipton, anything wholesome DNW: Any other characters, angst is okay provided it has a happy ending, no romantic pairings please

@churchkey AO3: churchkey Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: Don Malarkey & Skip Muck. Canon-era. Don's not in love with Skip , he just wants to spend the rest of his life with him. Maybe the two of them talking about their plan for being "together" (as besties) after the war. Maybe some cute "I've never told anyone else this before" intimate self-revelations. Maybe Don's reaction to Winters splitting them into different platoons. Basically I just want any chapter in the epic love story of their friendship. Prompt 2: Don Malarkey & Skip Muck Post-War Fix-It. Don's the best man at Skip and Faye's wedding, wondering how this is going to change things and if anyone will over love him the way Skip loves Faye (bonus points for background Don/Joe [Toye that is]; pining, long-distance flirting, whatever) Prompt 3: Dick Winters & Harry Welsh. Post-VE Day. Dick is crestfallen after Nix leaves. Harry feels bad for him. He really does. He's also kind of like "now you know how it feels, don't ya?" Still, he hates to see his friend suffer. Just a couple of sad, lovelorn bastards being miserable together. Prompt 4: Dick Winters & Kitty Grogan/Welsh. Post-war or Modern AU (hence you decide if she takes Harry's name). Would super love these two just doing some GBF things together, shopping, getting coffee, complaining about their husbands and trading gardening tips. Maybe the convo gets a little spicy after dark. Maybe they've each got some private dilemma the other helps to solve. Or maybe they just wander around a flea market looking for good deals on Fiestaware. Prompt 5: Lewis Nixon & Harry Welsh. Post-War. ROADTRIP! (Bonus for background Winnix but it's not necessary). DNW: anything sci-fi/fantasy; OCs; xReader; Tab

@how-are-those-nuts-sarge AO3: whoahersheybars_3up3down Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart, Other types of media Prompt 1: Historian AU - one character worked at a museum/was a historian before the war and geeks out over a few things while deployed to their friends = any character/s. Prompt 2: Penmanship - one character has lovely handwriting, but something/s hit them HARD during the war and they write much less pretty; with one of their friends' support, however, their hand steadies and they heal (lotsa metaphors there I know 😅) = any character/s. Prompt 3: Chess - one character teaches the other to play chess = any character/s. Prompt 4: Bicycle - one character finds a tandem bicycle in Austria and convinces the other to go on a ride with them = any character/s. Prompt 5: Anything with Bill & Babe, Malarkey & Skip & Penkala, or Dick & Nix, I love their friendship dynamics so much.

@speirstookmysoul AO3: speirstookmysoul Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart, Other types of media Prompt 1: mentor/mentee bonding Prompt 2: shoulder clasps Prompt 3: overdramatic arguments about non-important subjects Prompt 4: "getting mistaken as family and not correcting whoever’s mistaken”

@kmorecoffee AO3: vintagelavenderskies Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: gene and renee: diasastrous, chaotic cookie decorating! the rest of the gang can be involved too for extra chaos because who doesn't love chaos. anyways: gene and renee try to make holiday cookies but something goes awry. too much salt and not enough sugar? distracted and accidentally burn the cookies? luz plays a practical joke and switches out sugar for salt? go crazy! Prompt 2: gene and renee: stargazing!!! all the stargazing :) just two friends, vibing, talking about life and whatever comes to mind Prompt 3: can be modern au: chaos in the coffee shop! just the gang's shenanigans at the local coffee shop. mayhaps there's an ongoing bet of how long it takes luz to get banned? DNW: speirs. i mean, i guess he can be like mentioned or featured. but not too much speirs.

AO3: Muccamukk Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: Renee & Augusta/Anna: Any backstory about how/if they knew each other before, their different points of view on things. AU where Renee doesn't die and what they do after the war. Would prefer racism not be the focus of the story, though it can be an element. I like it when there's queer characters and romance isn't the focus. Prompt 2: Winters & Guarnere: Something with them getting to know/respect each other better set early in their relationship, especially between Day of Days and Bastogne. They have such different outlooks, but in the end very similar values, and I'd love to see that explored. Maybe they get stuck together and have to survive? Prompt 3: Randleman & Garcia: I'd love to see more of Bull mentoring the replacements, especially Garcia, and how their relationship changes as the replacements get combat experience and integrate with the company. Would love to see growing respect for each other. I like it when there's queer characters and romance isn't the focus. Prompt 4: Guarnere & Martin: They have matching tattoos! They got in so much trouble with each other and were so ride or die even post war! Bill went to Martin's wedding! Pat and Frannie wrote too each other during the war. I would love them getting to know each other, or small moments of affection. Or just write about Pat and Frannie. That's fun too. Or Bill & Bull & Johnny. Or Bill & Joe Toye. Basically any configuration of this is great! Prompt 5: Powers & McClung: Basically them chilling in the woods silently understanding each other? Healing through chilling in the woods? Comparing their experiences as country boys on opposite sides of the country? Post war stuff where Shifty's so badly hurt and Earl's PTSD? I like it when there's queer characters and romance isn't the focus. DNW: Focus on character death (mention of canon stuff is fine), graphic sexual violence, hopeless endings of utter sadness, character bashing, zombies, AUs that change the setting (turn left AUs fine, AUs that add magic etc fine). PoV characters having strong racist or homophoic views.

@papersergeant-pencilsoldier AO3: papersky_pencilstars Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart, Other types of media Prompt 1: Airborne OT5 (Liebgott, Grant, Mcclung, Ramirez, Babe) missing scenes - can be fluffy or angsty (fallout from Chuck getting shot?), dealer's choice! Prompt 2: Mortar Trio - Early days at Camp Taccoa Prompt 3: Dukeman & Perconte & Tab (bonus Trigger?) teasing the replacements Prompt 4: Renée LeMaire  & Gene Roe- (everybody lives AU) connect postwar (I would die if this was a letter fic, but it absolutely does not have to be!) DNW: webgott (platonic or romantic background)

Prompter # 11 Will Accept: Fanfic Prompt 1: Dick, Nix, and Harry being involved in some shenanigans during their downtime in Mourmelon. Prompt 2: Bill and Babe reminiscing and sharing Philly stories. Prompt 3: The friendship between Smokey and Lip because I think it deserves more hype :) DNW: Nothing NSFW

@dansssks​ AO3: danesaber Prompt 1: Dick & Nix: The time they offered to protect Kitty for ice cream and Vat 69. Prompt 2: Spina/Babe/Gene: College AU? Prompt 3: Spina & anyone: They show Spina all their booboos Prompt 4: Mortar Squad: Any au, cannon or modern Prompt 5: Harry and Moose: Go sheep shopping as a present for Winnix on their new farm.

@anthrobrat AO3: anthrobrat Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: Any of the Last Patrol OT5 (Chuck, Babe, Lieb, McClung, Ramirez) owning a business together - coffeshop, bar, accounting firm? Don't care. Can either be a post-war or modern AU setting. Prompt 2: Skinny Sisk and anyone being bros during the war. Maybe him and Frank deleted scenes in Bastogne fox holes Prompt 3: Shifty & McClung shenanigans during leave. The cat story is hilarious, and I'm sure there are more, and I just love these two because they are so calm and collected but McClung is a total wild card. I would also take a modern AU of them being besties. Prompt 4: Shifty and Popeye being best friends after the war maybe? I just imagine them at each other's weddings being disasters. I would also take the two of them as friends in a modern AU Prompt 5: Any friendship prompt that gives life to the lesser known characters would be awesome imo. DNW: Speirs or Lipton as main protagonists.

Prompter # 13 Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: shifty powers and floyd talbert - mermaid/fisher au Prompt 2: babe heffron x reader - ice hockey/team manager Prompt 3: dick winters x reader - college au! tutor au Prompt 4: easy company boarding school au DNW: pwp/smut

@mercurygray AO3: mercurygray Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart, Other types of media Prompt 1: Harry + Nixon - marriage, divorce, and everything in between. Prompt 2: Shifty + Smokey - Guess we're not in Kansas anymore - or Mississippi, or Virginia. Prompt 3: Tab + Grant - Chuck's really just here to keep Tab out of trouble. Prompt 4: Bill + Babe - First jump's the hardest - and while the jump into Holland is easy, what comes after it is not. Prompt 5: Tipper + Luz -  Tipper's pretty good at impressions, too. DNW: Liebgott and Webster (as a unit; individually they're fine.)

@lyselkatz AO3: Lysel Will Accept: Fanfic Prompt 1: Any group shenanigans/friendship fluff including Skip, Smokey, Nix, Bull. Prompt 2: "The guys are stranded on base without pass (or requisitioned to work overtime to meet an important deadline/exams, if modern AU) Prompt 3: Smokey does his best to cheer his brothers up with his peculiar brand of silly (Valentine) gifts. Extra ❤ if Skip and George offer their help. Chaos and ensemble fluff ensue. (+ playing Cupid/background ships if you like)" Prompt 4: "Lieb and Hoobs are bored so they decide to troll Web. Since it's valentine's day soon they'll play crack!cupid for fun. Prompt 5: Web is a shark nerd and Pat has a great shark smile. Infallible logic, right? (Input from the other guys /ensemble shenanigans are welcome)" DNW: Nothing I can think of, since it's a friendship fest

Prompter #16 Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart, Other types of media Prompt 1: found family taking care of each other (feat. liebgott being happy and content <3) domestic fluff Prompt 2: anything fluffy coffee shop AU or flower shop or tattoo parlour or bakery or anything along those lines Prompt 3: university AU but they are the professors! DNW: webgott, fantasy AUS, omegaverse, mpreg, anything mafia related, not too much angst

Prompter #17 Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: Era switch: take the boys and put them in the Vietnam War. WWI? The Korean War? The American Revolution? Any conflict that you're comfortable with. Prompt 2: The Pacific AU? Put the BoB men in the Pacific. How they get there or why they are there is all up to you. Maybe their parachute infantry regiment was simply assigned to the PTO instead of the ETO after training. Maybe Japan didn't surrender as quickly as they did. Anything. Prompt 3: Supernatural AUs are my favorite. Preferably I'd love to keep them based in the WWII era, but you can switch it up if you'd like to -- I'd be fine with that! Any type of supernatural is cool with me. I'm aware this might be super vague but I really don't mind whatever you go with :) Prompt 4: Role-switching scenarios: putting men from within the series in each others' positions. DNW: Romantic shipping, characters (Cobb, Sobel, any higher ranking officers above Winters like Sink), modern-day AUs, aged-down AUs (high school/middle school/college with the purpose of aging down = no); a/b/o trope; nsfw (no sexual material; show-level gore okay).

@mariamegale AO3: mariamegale Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: Babe and Julian being best friends. They are snarky, excited, happy and having a good time together. Bonus if their boyfriends are Eugene and Spina, accordingly! Prompt 2: Baberoe. They're dating, but they're dating their own best friends. With romantic feelings taking the back seats, I'd love to see a healthy relationship of two people in love but doing normal platonic things because they're also each others' best friends in the whole world! Prompt 3: Roe and Spina being tired doctor friends, meeting up in between shifts or calls, being tired and exasperated and just having their sandwiches and a moment of god damn peace. Prompt 4: George Luz and Babe Heffron being best friends. They'd be a disaster, but that disaster that also knows how to step the fuck up if shit gets serious. But mostly they're a disaster. Prompt 5: Joe Liebgott and Eugene Roe. They're roommates, they're pals, Joe likes smoking weed, playing mario kart and complaining about whatever dipshit he's gone out with now, Eugene is trying to make it through med school and enjoys the soothing background chatter of Joe blabbering on about this guy's shirt, or whatever. DNW: Canon era (Ambiguous era is fine if you don't like writing/drawing modern!), Carwood Lipton, OCs, xReader stuff

@mizunoir AO3: mizunoir (but I use 49thpersona for reblogging stuff) Will Accept: Fanfic, Other types of media Prompt 1: Hogwarts AU! Would be lovely if it would include Babe. I leave it up to the artist if they would like to portray one specific house endeavours or all 4 houses befriending. Prompt 2: Stargazing, can be set in modern times or in the original timeline. For angsty interpretation it would be nice to read/see some Eugene and Spina bonding. Prompt 3: Stargazing (original timeline or modern times). For more crack-ish one it could include for example: Luz, Toye, Guarnere, Babe etc. But I leave it absolutely open - include whoever you want! Boys share their music taste. Bickering and reminiscing of the good times free of war ensues. Can be platonic, can be slightly shippy, AU or modern - up to the artist. Preferably including Babe with Eugene.

@thrillingdetectivetales AO3: ThrillingDetectiveTales Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart, Other types of media Prompt 1: Bill & Babe: Bill talks Babe through gay panic about his extremely obvious crush on one John T. Julian, convinces him to ask Julian out, and demands to officiate their wedding (not necessarily in that order) Prompt 2: Harry & Nix (with bonus Buck?): commiserating about trying to keep Dick out of trouble Prompt 3: Blanche Nixon & Ann Winters: they know each other because their idiot brothers are """"friends"""" but they both know what's up and cover for Dick and Nix at various times throughout their lives Prompt 4: Kitty Grogan & Franny Guarnere & Pat Martin: they meet because their fellas are on the line together and keep each other sane throughout the war Prompt 5: Floyd Talbert is everyone's best buddy DNW: No mpreg/pregnancy in general, no rape/non-con (dub-con like drunk!sex or sex pollen or hatesex is fine), no modern AUs, no ABO/dynamics, no kidfic.

Prompter #21 Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: Speirs & Shames: These stern, "unlikable" men are just not very social or nice, but they get each other. Outcast gay solidarity. Prompt 2: Kitty & Nixon/Winters: Nixon and/or Winters gets to meet Harry's special girl at last. Harry's made her sound like the romantic lead of a novel and really cool, and they are completely unprepared for the tall, awkward chess club captain. Prompt 3: Babe & Guarnere: Post-war readjusting of a friendship. Disability, marriage, kids on the way, Babe is gay. You know, the usual. DNW: xReader, OCs, hopeless angst, AUs, heavy focus on heterosexuality

@aloraundomiel AO3: ElfLadyArwen Will Accept: Fanfic, Fanart Prompt 1: Dick admires Eugene’s medical skill and always shows interest in learning from him while he’s on the job. Eugene uses it to his advantage, making sure Dick takes care of himself (because shaving doesn’t count) under the guise of ‘teachable moments.’ Any battlefield setting would work. Prompt 2: Nix and Harry are joined at the hip, two class clowns who wind each other up.  When one gets them into deep trouble, the other one is always there to get them out again. Prompt 3: Dick Winters is jealous of Ronald Spiers ruthlessness/ability to detach and athletic prowess. Ronald Spiers is jealous of Dick’s empathy and ability to earn loyalty through compassion. Each man agrees to give the other lessons in order to be more well rounded leaders. DNW: Please no Blithe. Never Blithe. You can leave out Compton too.

@bandofmorons AO3: bandofmorons (pseud for sonsofmahal) Will Accept: Fanfic Prompt 1: Babe & Lieb friendship!! I don't have a ton of specifics for this, I just want them being friends and getting into shenanigans but also being supportive of each other... like they're just guys bein' dudes but they're also pretty close ya know! They take care of each other when they need to! Ideally this would be a modern AU, maybe they're college roommates or something? Prompt 2: But mostly I just want to see them goofing off but also being helpful when shit goes down or something, because that's what friends are for. Prompt 3: Some kind of traveling AU with the 5 officers (Winters, Nix, Harry, Lip and Speirs) all as friends and how going on a big trip like that can strain a friendship when something goes wrong or just from people being tired from traveling so much... maybe it's a cross-county roadtrip, maybe it's spring break in Europe, maybe they're going backpacking in New Zealand or something.. I just wanna see how all those 5 boys' different personalities interact on a big logistical venture! Prompt 4: I'm not picky about who necessarily but I want to see Webster getting close to & forming a close friendship with someone in Easy! I feel like in the show/fandom he gets a bad rap for being pretentious (which, fair) but I think it would be awesome to see him becoming good friends with someone and feeling more accepted among the company bc of it. This could be a canon-compliant thing or it could be a modern AU where the boys are all friends. Background Webgott would also be cool as long as Lieb is supportive of Web befriending more people. DNW: explicit sex