#ask me about skarlow

[thewickedlorchqueen]

Usually I don’t like to talk about shipping as personally I see it as something that’s based on one’s personal opinions or tastes, like asking someone what their favorite ice cream flavor is.

That being said Lily criticizing Huntlow being canon, because it was rushed and Hunter is somehow abusive, yet still ships Skarlow is wild to me. As Skara was one of Willows bullies. Maybe it wasn’t shown but she was apart of Bosha’s crew, was described as mean by Amity, and had no issue with joining in their antics. It’s not hard to read between the lines that Skara was just as cruel as Amity and Bosha were.

And I’m saying this as someone who also likes Skarlow, it just feels ironic that the woman known for telling people to beat up their bullies, ships a victim with one of theirs.

[desmondkane-of-ao3-fame]

So a couple days ago I wrote this post about Skarlow at the University of Wild Magic and one of the things I talked about was Skara helping Willow during a rough patch by bringing her into class as a special guest and I can’t stop imagining just how cute that would actually be.

Skara introducing her to the whole class as ‘The most #1 Flyer Derby Captain this side of the Titan, the Strongest Plant Witch alive, AND the single cutest girlfriend EVER! Also helped save the Isles or something, I can’t keep track of all her amazing accomplishments!’

The kids raising their hands and asking stuff like ‘Is it true you single handedly destroyed Belos?’ And ‘Are you really strong enough to arm wrestle The Collector?” And Skara has to admit she may have added a bit of Willow-centric flair to a couple stories.

Willow introducing the kids to Clover, and them all thinking they’re the cutest Palisman ever, making Daisy jealous and earning a laugh from Skara as she has to reassure her own Palisman that she’s really cool too.

Willow teaching the kids how to play Flyer Derby, and explaining some of her favorite moments playing it in Hexside, occasionally veering off into just talking about how cute Skara was in her uniform or how smart her strategies were, making Skara blush.

The two college kids setting up a friendly match with half the class each, playfully trash talking/flirting with each other while coaching their kids through the game in the most encouraging, down to earth way possible. Skara’s team winning, and Willow exclaiming that now she has to kiss the winner, and the kids getting grossed out as Willow pulls Skara’s face in for a surprised, but very welcomed smooch.

Willow being given a ‘Thank You for Saving The Isle’s’ card by one of the kids, signed by the whole class, and her opening it with a tear in her eye as she makes out words in the scribbles, like ‘HERO’ and ‘AWESOME’ and ‘GREAT,’ including the message from Skara in the original post.

Willow flying off after an hour or so, waving goodbye as she and Clover leave. Skara waving back until a student tugs on her pants to ask if Willow’s gonna be coming back, cause they all like her and her Palisman, and Skara making a mental note to ask Willow if she wants to come again.

Willow arriving to Skara and Luz’s dorm after Skara gets back to kiss her awesome girlfriend and thank her for the huge pick me up. The two cuddling up on the couch, Willow teasing Skara by saying that she’s jealous Skara gets to hang out with so many awesome kids, and now Willow wants a kid herself, which makes Skara sputter like an idiot, just as Luz walks in, and turns right back around to tell Amity that it’s possible that that they’re gonna be aunts soon!

Titan if that’s not the fluffiest post cannon piece you could make idk what is!

[fruity-phrog]

🍊🍎🍌🫐🍍🍓🌶️

Hellooo thank you for the aaaask

🍊 - Do you have a trusted beta reader? Titan, no. Sometimes I send my girlfriend the darling @thisisaname-whatahappyname my ted lasso fics but that's just because I love hearing opinions of people who aren't in the fandom.

🍎 - Past tense of present tense? I usually write in past but occasionally I do enjoy the good present.

🍌 - How long do my fics tend to be? I usually write anywhere between 1,500 words to 2k+ because I have ideas that I don't have the patience to fully flesh out, but i do have an ongoing toh fic that I really need to update that is currently at 64k and nowhere near finished.

🫐 - Multi-chapter or oneshots? Like I said, most of them are oneshots save for my ongoing longfic.

🍍 - Rarepairs? Hell yea, I love rarepairs. I have a couple of Skarlow wips, for example, and I love me some background character shipping. But also platonic rarepairs - like Lilith and Willow or Luz and Skara - are really fun for me.

🍓 - OTPs? Right now, in terms of fanfic writing, my OTPs would be Lumity, a couple of witchy girls from a childhood book series of mine (Lexy and Raven from the Dragon's Green series) and a hero/villain side ship from another book series that flies way too low under the radar (Riley and Nitro from the Hero's Agenda series).

🌶️ - Do I enjoy angst? In fanfiction? It depends. I tend to write a lot of short-term hurt/comfort, but I get impatient if it's a hurt/comfort slow burn. I mean, I love watching shipping angst to the moon and back, but if I write or read angst, it's gotta be a hurt/comfort oneshot.

Thanks for the ask, that was very fun, I enjoy talking about myself.

[desmondkane-of-ao3-fame]

Skarlow.

Man, imagine how cool it would be to see Skara develop from a bullies lackey into her own person with Willow's help. Maybe an alt version of "Any Sport" where instead of focusing on Hunter, it was about Skara being told to join the Entrails by a belligerent Boscha so she can take the team down from within, only for Willow to be a better friend to her then Boscha ever was. Imagine Willow telling Skara how cool her strategies are, how smart she is, and Skara being stunned at being complimented instead of put down. Imagine Skara asking Willow why she let her on the team after everything she's done to her, and Willow telling her that it's because she believes in second chances, because she see's a part of Skara that's kind and good, and that Willow believes she can be more then a bully. And imagine Boscha near the end of the defining game, yelling at Skara to knock Willow off her staff or drop the flag or lose and Skara just finally tells her to shove it as she and Willow lead the Entrails to victory!

And imagine all the potential drama afterwords. Imagine Skara starting to fall for Willow, but trying to suppress her emotions because she doesn't think someone as cool and wonderful as Willow could ever feel the same way about her, especially after being friends with Boscha. And imagine Willow developing feelings for Skara, knowing she bullied her and still feeling hurt, but unable to deny how nice and fun and cute she is now. Imagine interchanging scenes of Skara and Willow talking to Viney and Gus respectively, the two rambling about their complicated feelings as their friends don't really know what to do but listen and think "Wow, she has it BAD!" Imagine the pair becoming more and more distracted during Flyer Derby games, Skara's strategies revolving around Willow doing the big plays, Willow always giving Skara the flags to score with.

Imagine if the show lasted till Sophmore Grom, and Skara and Willow, now head over heels for each other, stay on the field after their latest practice, both wanting to talk to the other. Imagine Skara telling Willow how much she means to her, how sick she is at how she treated her for years and how she knows she doesn't deserve Willow, and Willow has every right to say no, but Skara would be eternally grateful if Willow accepted her Gromposal of a bouquet of PRoses (flowers that whisper love poems). And imagine Willow, teary eyed, hugging Skara and telling her of course, of COURSE, she wants to go to Grom with her, as Viney, Gus, and now Hunter fly over the stadium, forming "SKARA, WILL YOU GO TO GROM WITH ME? -WILLOW" in the air.

The angst of Boschalow. The adorableness of Lumity. All in one perfect pairing...

[samcat0925]

Here is my list of OTP and OT3 ships that I love the most:

Goldric

Lumity

Skarlow

Gustholomule

Raeda

Emira X Viney

MiriTama

Kiribaku

Tododeku

Erasermic

Shinkami

Momojirou

SeroIida

Karma X Nagisa

Ishimondo

Naegami

Kirigiri X Celeste

Norray

Virgil X Roman

Logan X Patton

Remus X Janus

Basil X Sunny

Mari X Hero

Hiccup X Elsa X Jack Frost

Adrinette

DjWifi

Julerose

Marcnath

Mylene X Ivan

Luka X Felix

Darry

Madoka X Gingka

Kyoya X Hikaru

Kappa X Siren

Lumine X Kody

Phenix Wright X Miles Edgeworth

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There’s probably more but these are the ones that came to my mind. Also please don’t tell me anything about some of them not being canon or something like that, I am very aware but that’s not going to stop me from shipping them since there is nothing wrong with these ships(since they’re not bad, illegal or pedo ships).

If anyone has any questions or headcanons for any of these ships, please ask or tell me. I’d love to hear them.

[the-lone-witch-and-secret-room]

For the ship ask game: skarlow

I’m not tagging this anything, I don’t have the energy to discuss this anymore. I hope it doesn’t show up in the ship tag because anon used the shipname.

I actually cannot believe you guys. I can’t believe I got four people asking me my opinion on bully/victim ships after I’ve both made a very clear stance on both of these ships and stated multiple times that I was bullied in school and am still dealing with the aftermath.

Do y’all think it’s funny to keep asking a victim of years of bullying to address how the entire fandom is constantly romanticizing her experience???

It’s bad enough that it’s happening at all, even though I’m not surprised whatsoever since this is everywhere. Whenever I enter a fandom of a show where someone gets bullied it’s read as romantic. That doesn’t mean I want to see it??? I don’t want to be reminded these ships exist. I’ve literally blocked the ship tags everywhere I could and unfollowed people for making art for these ships because it’s triggering for me to see those. I don’t want to to talk about them. I don’t even want to think about their existence. I’ve made my stance, loudly, so please STOP FUCKING ASKING ME TO DO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN! I’m tired of talking about this! I’m sick and tired of constantly having to explain why bullying is shitty and shouldn’t be romanticized!

Also no, Skara/Willow is not better than Skara/Boscha in the slightest, I’ve addressed this before:

https://the-lone-witch-and-secret-room.tumblr.com/post/651329228782075904/breathe-in-breathe-out-yeah-no-that

The only thing that would make me okay with these ships would be if there was no bullying in canon. I don’t want to see a victim dating her bully, ever, but especially not because of how keen most of y’all are to either just ignore the bullying ever happened in the first place or just treating it as fucking flirting. I don’t get it. I’ll never get why anyone finds the idea of being bullied hot, the only thing it is is in fact fucking traumatizing.

If anyone read this entire post and is somehow tempted to try and convince me otherwise? Do us both the favor to spare me and get off my blog. This isn’t up for fucking debate! I spent hours on end crying in bed and I am still super insecure because the whole thing permanently destroyed my confidence! That being bullied made my life hell and that seeing the experience romanticized makes me physically sick isn’t gonna be changed by anyone going “but it’s just fiction, don’t take everything so seriously” 🙃

Please just… leave me alone. Leave me in peace. I’m exhausted. I don’t wanna talk about this anymore.

[criticaaaaaaaal]

If you are doing the ask game then - A, B, C, J, R, S, X, Z. If not how are you doing?

A - Your current OTP huntric ... if it isn't obvious *sweats nervously*

B - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind i mentioned skarlow before but another one i find cool is skarney (viney x skara)! didn't really think about that one until i saw some posts about it

C - A pairing you have never liked and probably never will huntlow...... im so sorry ... DONT GET ME WRONG its cute but due to canon interference my enjoyment of it has uhhh... decreased. but im a multishipper ill ship basically anything

J - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr dracula & our flag means death. i still haven't interacted with those medias (yet) but i see them ALLLLL over the place, i think about them occasionally. also columbo

R - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships scatter & wilt from rwby :pensive:. i feel like i am the only scatter & wilter here. anybody wanna talk about it? bc i will listen ...

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon hmm.. ill use toh for this since its the fandom im most active in atm. personal headcanon of mine is that vee is aware of grimmwalkers and that her & hunter have an awkward relationship. she knows them to be belos' right hand, so she thinks that hunter is out to get her. hunter's aware of the basilisks and feels really bad about not putting a stop to it

X - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms ryuko/senketsu (idk their shipname.. kill la kill), bkdk (bakugo/midoriya, mha), kbdn (raihan/leon, pkmn)

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go I THINK hunter needs a friend that... isn't willow for him to get close to. someone that isn't his 'superior' in any way, and is on the same level as him of being a normal teen. luz, gus, & amity are way better fits than willow

[gnomeantics]

Ok so for the ask game,i've got two😌✋🏼

✨Goldric(Edric Blight x Hunter from TOH)✨

and

✨Skarlow(Skara x Willow Park from TOH)✨

ooh this should be fun!

goldric:

ship it

1. what made you ship it?

honestly, the sheer amount of fanart and people shipping it and animatics and stuff has Converted me (they're adorable)

2. what are your favourite things about the ship?

i love that it's not canon at all (have hunter and edric actually met in canon at all??) so it's so open to interpretation, and the fandom have 10000% taken advantage of this asdgfkjgk

3. is there an unpopular opinion you have on this ship?

i don't think so tbh- (i'm sorry im boring akgsgk)

skarlow:

don't ship it

1. why don't you ship it?

i feel like we don't see enough of skara to get a very good idea of what her character would be like if she wasn't following boscha tbh

(also idk i feel like this doesn't describe it properly. i have Thoughts and i don't know how to phrase them help)

2. what would have made you ship it?

if we saw skara more!

3. despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

fanon!skara is pretty awesome actually

[f1uffy-turtle]

Fanfic Writer Asks

[SOURCE: criminal-minds-fanfiction: Most of the writer ask posts I come across are only like ten or so questions long so I thought I’d try to make a longer one because we like talking about our writing! Feel free to reblog!]

I got this from @wickedobsessed101 and copied and pasted the questions so I can fit my own answers too. You can find the post I got from them here.

1) How old were you when you first starting writing fanfiction? I started around 2011, so I was around 13 years old at the time.

2) What fandoms do you write for and do you have a particular favourite if you write for more than one? I am currently writing for The Owl House fandom, but I am intending on broadening my scope to She-Ra as well as Lord of the Rings, Zelda, and ATLA bc gay fantasy brain go brrr.

3) Do you prefer writing OC’s or reader inserts? Explain your answer. I prefer to write original characters myself. Y/N stuff is not exactly my forte. It gives me more control as to how I know the characters will act depending on their own characterization and backstory.

4) What is your favourite genre to write for? I actually really prefer to write really tense stuff, despite my misleading username. I live for the conflict of the moment and it does lean into some pretty angsty stuff sometimes. I mean, look at Soul Bound. However, I also do like writing light-hearted comedies as well as some fluff whenever I can get around to it. My heart yearns and so too must the romantic tension.

5) If you had to choose a favourite out of all of your multi-chaptered stories, which would it be and why? I really only have one that is published, but it is definitely the one that I do like the most. Soul Bound was originally a story that was going to stand on its own. It was set in a world that I created meticulously from the ground up, taking inspirations from Lord of the Rings, Legend of Zelda, ATLA among other things. I do have other multi-chapter projects in the works that I absolutely love, however out of my published babies, it's SB 100%.

6) If you had to delete one of your stories and never speak of it again, which would it be and why? The Legion of Lenny Faces was a crack fic that I just posted for funsies. I wouldn't mind getting rid of that.

7) When is your preferred time to write? Since I am starting to work again, I'm thinking about starting work on my writing around 2PM. It's normally around that time that I start anyway, so it works out.

8) Where do you take your inspiration from? Movies, music, sometimes even my own songs that I write. Inspiration really comes from anywhere that hits me. However, it hits especially hard whenever I make a playlist for a particular mood that I want a story to have.

9) In your xxx fic, what’s your favourite scene that you wrote? In Soul Bound, my current favorite scene that I have written was the scene in the chapter Confrontations with the scene between Amity and Odalia. I essentially channeled everything I ever wanted to say to my abuser into Amity's words and it was the most cathartic thing that I ever wrote.

10) In your xxx fic, why did you decide to end it like that? Did you have an alternative ending in mind?In The Bean that I wrote for April Fools, while it definitely is a crack fic, I still wanted it to read like an Owl House episode or at least an Owl House short. However, I did think of an alternate ending in mind where the bean just kept on multiplying until it flooded the entirety of the BI. However, That would mean by those rules, duplicating all non-living things on the isles.

11) Have you ever amended a story due to criticisms you’ve received after posting it? I split an entire chapter into two pieces and rewrote another one just because of criticisms that made complete sense to me. In all honesty, I did blame the burnout, however all of that and the small break I did take helped a lot to reinvigorate my love for this story that I am writing.

12) Who is your favourite character to write for? Why? Skara. 100%, she is babey and I love her.

13) Who is your least favourite character to write for? Why? Gonna be honest, while I love King as a character, I don't exactly like writing him. I feel like if I wrote him as more of an active part of the story, it would detract entirely from the whole thing. Second would be my OC, Robert Almade solely because I feel like he can be much more fleshed out, but also because there are parts of his character that I did write that just don't make complete sense to me. This should be worked out later.

14) How did you come up with the title for the xxx? - You can ask about multiple stories. For Soul Bound, I literally asked a Discord server for ideas because all the titles I did think of were shit XD. However, I recently came up with the title for my Skarlow punk band AU, Skara and the Wallflower, based on the book/movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower as well as band names in general.

15) If you write OC’s, how do you decide on their names? I normally think about the themes the character embodies and how they may change and grow throughout the story, and then I translate specific keywords into different languages and trim them in a way that sound like a name.

16) How did you come up with the idea for xxx?[Ask me about a specific story]

17) Post a line from a WIP that you’re working on.“Oh, sure! Protect me from him, but let Amity take the brunt of it and possibly die? What if she is dead, Eda? What if I can’t see her again?”

18) Do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them? I'd rather not talk about it.

19) Are there any stories that you’ve written that you’d really love to do a sequel to? Possibly I may have one for Skara and the Wallflower if I feel up to it, however Soul Bound is going to be a one-and-done deal.

20) Are there any stories that you wished you’d ended differently? Yes!

21) Tell me about another writer(s) who you admire? What is it about them that you admire? @lunanight2012 @quirkquartz @descendantofthesparrow

22) Do you have a story that you look back on and cringe when you reread it? Any story that I haven't published.

23) Do you prefer listening to music when you’re writing or do you need silence? I do listen to music just to set in the general mood and once I get going, I can go either with or without it.

24) How do you feel about writing smutty scenes? I can write smut. However I don't ever feel comfortable publishing smut. It really just isn't for me.

25) Have you ever cried whilst writing a story? YES! I ABSOLUTELY HAVE!!!! SO MANY TEARS BECAUSE OF THE ANGST!!!

26) Which part of your xxx fic was the hardest to write? This most recent chapter was actually the hardest to write because I was already so scared when writing Scrying of the Soul that when I started writing this one, I didn't know how to settle down with this whole thing. I knew Luz needed to process her trauma before I introduced the ghost, but exactly how I felt like I had trouble with.

27) Do you make a general outline for your stories or do you just go with the flow? I have a varied mix of ways I outline. Yes, I do have a list of bullet points about what major plot points go where, but really that's all that comes together before I start writing. Soul Bound is completely plotted out in the very broad strokes, but the rest is just improvisation.

28) What is something you wished you’d known before you started posting fanfiction? That writing would be the single most fun thing that I have ever done and to be fair while I do want my stories to be the best they can be, just the fact that I'm getting them out there makes me happy.

29) Do you have a story that you feel doesn’t get as much love as you’d like? Gonna be honest, my one-shots don't get a lot of love, but it is entirely understandable.

30) In contrast to 29 is there a story which gets lots of love which you kinda eye roll at? Ya know, Imma just say a song title that I wrote that many people love that I've grown to just not like. Ticking Time Away.

31) Send me a fic recommendation and I’ll post it for my followers to see! (The asker is to send the rec, not the answerer)Yeah, sure!

32) Are any of your characters based on real people? The way I characterize Odalia is based on a mix of what is already established. That and a heavy doseage of my abuser and their mindset. Which is kind of why it felt cathardic writing that scene in Conflicts.

33) What’s the biggest compliment you’ve gotten? Honestly, whenever I make a revision and it is heavily praised by either a reader if I edited an already published chapter or a beta reader if I had revised a particular scene they didn't like. I thrive off of any good critique and it makes me want to do better.

34) What’s the harshest criticism you’ve gotten? I mean there are people who wouldn’t read just because what I wrote was a ghost fic, but tbh it wasn't even that harsh.

35) Do you share your story ideas with anyone else or do you keep them close to your chest? I normally share with other writers when I'm really excited so I can bounce ideas off of them, however specific story elements I keep close to my chest because that part feels like my personal touch moreso than the general idea.

36) Can you give us a spoiler for one of your WIP’s? HAHA NICE TRY BEYOTCH YOU JUST HAVE TO READ IT!! (Other than the fact that Amity does get her body back, but that's already been promised.)

37) What’s the funniest story you’ve written? The BEAN

38) If you could collab with any other writer on here, who would it be? (Perhaps this question will inspire some collabs!) If you’re shy, don’t tag the blog, just name them. I would honestly be willing to collab with anybody from the Good Witch Society on Discord. As well as my partner which we already talked about quite a few ideas that we had for stories.

39) Do you prefer first, second or third person? So, I do love writing inner monologue, however if I was ever staying in one character's perspective, it would just feel way too limiting. I prefer third person omniscient so I can at least give the reader insight into what's going on in everybody's heads.

40) Do people know you write fanfiction?IRL, yeah. But I have established that I am using this to exercise my own writing skills.

41) What’s you favourite minor character you’ve written? Emira I would actually consider a minor character in the grand scope of my story, however I absolutely adore writing her.

42) Song fic - What made you decide to use the song xxx for xxx.I write my own songs and to be completely fair, it was really spontaneous in Soul Bound, but I found out a plot point that could definitely weave in extremely well within the story.

Skara and the Wallflower being a punk band AU will definitely be a songfic with all original songs.

43) Has anyone ever guessed the plot twist of one of your fics before you posted it? Actually, nobody has ever really guessed a plot twist yet.

44) What is the last line you wrote? This really can't be good.

45) What spurs you on during the writing process? I already really adore the stories that I write and my goals are to write them and get them out there. I think about how the characters react and how things can go wrong in a way that makes sense.

46) I really loved your xxx fic. If you were ever to do a sequel, what do you think might happen in it?[Ask me for a specific story]

47) Here’s a fic title - insert a made up title. What would this story be about?[Ask me]

48) What’s your favourite trope to write? Friends to Lovers, hands down.

49) Can you remember the first fic you read? What was it about? To be completely honest, the first fic I read was a Zelda fic. I forgot what most of the plot was about, but it did involve Link and Zelda going into Termina and meeting up with this original character who did everything he can to fuck with the both of them. It's very vague, but I absolutely loved it and I never remembered it updating.

50) If you could write only angst, fluff or smut for the rest of your writing life, which would it be and why? I'd have to cave and say angst. I like to have conflict in my stories, but I never like to have it be complete brooding. Just some light trauma, you know?

If you wanna read my stories, they’re all right here: F1uffyTurtle

[desmondkane-of-ao3-fame]

So how would Skara and willow become an actual couple? I’m only asking because you have a few different answers.

Unfortunately, I'm not certain what to say, because if you're asking me 'How canonically would Skara and Willow get together,' it's kind of difficult one to answer.

The reason I've given so many answer's as to how Skara and Willow become a couple is because A) People asked often for different variations of it, and B) The show itself doesn't give a lot insight into their relationship, so a lot of speculation's can be made. We know Skara bullied Willow in the past, and we know now the two are friends, but a lot of specifics and nitty gritty details are less clear. The show never even gives a hand-wavey explanation for why Skara and Willow became friends, for Titan's sake. It can make for pretty fun speculation fodder and fan theorizing, but it also means creating a perfectly 100% show accurate answer to how Willow and Skara start dating involves a great deal of headcannoning, and also would involve explaining how Huntlow would break up since it's fairly obvious the intention at the end is that the two are in some form of romantic relationship.

I dooooooooo have something of an idea, a potential outline for a long-term Skarlow focused post-timeskip fanfic I'd be happy to see someone tackle, but with life, GS, and another project, there's too much for me to ever do it myself. So if you would like to take up the challenge of writing it yourself, feel free to take the idea and do it yourself. Hell, I might even beta-read it for you.

It starts from Skara's perspective as it follows her developing feelings over Willow while the pair are at Hexside. Over the years, Skara can't help but grow fond of her team captain and friend, eventually realizing she likes Willow a lot more then she should. She refuses to act on her feelings though, both because of her past as a bully and the fact that she's dating Hunter, so Skara mostly just vents to her bestie Viney about it all. After Hexside, Skara becomes a teachers aide and thinks she's fully gotten over her feelings for Willow until Hunter's 21st birthday, where he proposes to her in front of all their family and friends. Willow runs off, panicked, Luz and Amity follow after, and the party attendee's, unsure what to do, try either to help cheer Hunter up, or slip away before things get bad, which is Skara's method. Later, she hears that Willow broke up with Hunter, and a tiny, selfish pang of hope in Skara's chest reminds her that she hasn't given up her feelings for Willow. Even if she wishes she really had.

Later through Willow's perspective, we see how her relationship with Hunter was like. How she always liked him, cared about him, but never felt the same way for him as she did for her. How she always saw Amity and Luz and her dad's and wondered if she would eventually feel as happy with Hunter as they seemed with their partners. And how she never wanted to hurt Hunter, but after he proposed to her, she just didn't know how to react other then to panic. Essentially, she'd always love Hunter, but never felt in love with him, which leads to a lot of her personal conflict in the story. How she never wanted to hurt her friends, but now seems to have created this painful awkwardness in the Hexsquad because she could never be honest with Hunter or herself...

The main focus would be on both girls and their complicated emotions, both regarding their respective situations and, after a while, their feelings for each other. It would also feature a number of subplots, such as Skara being a teachers aid, Boscha and her relationship with Maya, and Hunter's own journey of self discovery after the breakup.

Not all the details are worked out perfectly, but I think there's at least something here, ya know?

[desmondkane-of-ao3-fame]

I've been looking through some skarlow stuff recently and I've seen your stuff a lot, I really like it and think it's very cute, but I was wondering what got you into Skarlow in the first place?

I don't know if you've answered a question like this before, sorry if it's repetitive.

I’ve actually noticed you liking and reblogging a lot of my stuff today and honestly it makes me smile to know there’s still skarlow fans out there.

I have answered this question before, but I don’t mind answering it again;

Basically, I wrote a story called The Wrong Blight, and decided to work in a minor running gag/character point that Skara was secretly crushing HARD for Willow. It’s not a major thing sadly, just a few jokes and Skara eventually apologizing to Willow about her bullying. But this was also back in the days of the hiatus between seasons 1 and 2 (the last chapter was released a day before Tides), so the only real Willow ship was Boschalow. Anything aside from that was considered rare. I had friends who asked me why I included it, and I made a joke about how ‘Willow deserves the best, and Skara is the best, so.’

I didn’t think too much of it until one day two of my friends, one being Quartz (the writer of Valleween, if you know that one), writing the first chapter of their fic, Guitar Strings and Flower Petals. And all because of my little Skarlow mentions.

Eventually the other writer dropped out and so I took the reigns, working on GS with Quartz. And ever since I’ve been ride or die on the Skarlow train!

Sadly, Skarlow has never gotten the love it really deserved. I honestly think it could be a great fandom ship still, combining the awkward and angsty emotions of Boschalow with the sweet adorableness of Lumity. But alas, it never got its due, not even when MoringMark shipped it. But at least I have GS and a few friends who see the potential. And hey, it’s kinda cool being part of something so super niche.

But still, thank you for your love and support. It means a lot you like my little silly ship!

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I don’t know if you’ve answered something like this before, but what causes willow and skara to develop feelings for each other respectively?

I actually don’t know if I’ve answered this one before. At least not directly. I’ve done an ask or two about Skara and Willow growing close before confessing, and one about a soulmates au, but nothing like, ‘What made Willow and Skara fall for each other’.

Well me and my friend Q are still working on our long-form skarlow fic (we are I promise) that will answer this, but it’s basically become non-cannon compliant by this point, so maybe there’s a version that works closer to cannon then…

Skara falls for Willow first. How could she not? Willow was so sweet and strong and fun to be around and bright and just… an entire dictionaries worth of positive adjectives that Skara could go through! Of COURSE Skara would fall for her!

Which she did, at the end of one of their Flyer Derby games. Skara assisted Willow with getting the winning score, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat! As the announcers called the game, the two girls, giddy with excitement, hi-fived: a simple act that changed Skara forever.

The truth is, Skara always had some feelings for Willow, at least as far back as Grudgby. She’d always have this momentary feeling of light orbs tickling her heart whenever she saw Willow, this small, silly sensation that made Skara want to hang around the glasses-wearing girl more. When she was still friends with Boscha, though, she lied to herself about it to stay on the triclopses good side. And when she left, she thought it was simply a weird combination of… she didn’t know. Friendship and guilt?

But when her hands touched Willow’s, and she saw the Plant Witches beaming and glowing smile, that feeling of light orbs blew up inside of her, scattering it’s warmth across her whole body. In that moment, she just wanted to interlock their fingers and never let go.

Sadly, she had to point two seconds later, but it was right then, floating several feet off the ground, hand still held up like an idiot, that Skara realized that her feelings weren’t just platonic friendship niceness: she liked Willow. A lot. Like… a LOT a lot.

And that’s how Skara fell.

Willow would come later, a few weeks after Skara. In which time Skara was barely able to hide her feelings. Hiding her face in the halls, barely paying attention at practice, almost falling over the railing once as she walked past Willow in the hall. At that point, everyone was seeing it: Viney, Gus, even HUNTER noticed stuff was up! The only one ironically who didn’t was Willow herself.

Though, for good reason; Willow wasn’t the overly romantic type. She didn’t really have a lot of crushes growing up, and what few she had… well, didn’t work out. So Willow didn’t think too much about romance. She was always open to the idea, and maybe she liked the story of how her dads grew close through Flyer Derby, but Willow never wanted to force anything: if she found someone she liked and they liked her, it would happen. If not, she could live with it.

Thankfully she did, in the form of Skara, sitting on the Derby field before practice, strumming on a guitar while trying to blow a tuba and using magic on drum sticks. When Willow asked just what was Skara doing, she told her, flustered, that it was a school assignment to write a love song. In reality, she was trying to come up with a good way to confess to Willow, but no song she could come up with felt right. Every rhythm felt too choppy, every lyric too played out. She wanted something to wow Willow, show her just how much she meant, and she couldn’t even imagine anything remotely worthy of her.

It wasn’t an immediate ‘love at first sound’ moment. But gradually, as Skara continued her song, strumming along with whatever her heart thought of, Willow began to feel her emotions… shift. She noticed how Skara got into the zone, how her furrowed brows relaxed, and how her doubtful frown shifted into a cool, confident smile. How her hair shone silver in the sun. And how the Star makeup she’d applied early today really did seem to suit her face…

But that wasn’t enough. Willow always knew Skara was cute, she’d have admitted it even when she was a bully. It was obvious. But it wasn’t just Skara’s cuteness that Willow thought about in that moment. She also thought about how cool Skara was, how funny she was. How fun it was to play alongside her, how nice it felt to listen to her babble on about strategies. Or, in this case, play music.

Willow realized how much she liked Skara’s love song.

And how much she wished Skara would play it for her.

At THAT revelation, Willow could have been mistaken for a Bard. Or, her face could be, anyway.

When Skara finished her song, her serene expression turned to panic as she noticed Willow’s face, also now panicking. Both girls were eternally grateful that the others showed up a moment later, ready for practice.

A practice Viney would famously describe as, quote, ‘the single most awkward and hormone-driven practice in the history of the entire sport of Flyer Derby,’ end quote.

Which made sense, given how Skara smacked herself against the scoring post staring at Willow and Willow’s first instinct was to shove Viney aside as she rushed over to cradle her like she was dying. Among other stupid hijinks.

Thankfully Skara and Willow both would recover from their injuries. And one week later, Skara would confess to Willow with a cleaned up version of the song Willow helped her make. And Willow, smiling, would yell out for the entirety of the Boiling Isles to hear, ‘yes!’

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You have a favorite legends of runeterra champion?

I... have never been asked anything about LoR before. Huh... Honestly, kinda throwing me for a loop here. But ya know, what the hey! My blog, my questions to answer!

(Note: To my Skarlow fans, unless you play LoR or LoL, prepare to have nothing I say here make sense until the very end.)

So I don't actually play a lot of LoR outside of Path of Campions these days. Competitive just got really unfun for me, sadly, so if it's not a PoC champion from sets before the release of Runeterran champs, there's a good chance I haven't played them.

However, I do have to say, out of all the champs, my personal favorite to play has to be...

THIS LITTLE SHIT!

Not because he's super good or anything, actually, but because I love the thrill of watching your opponent draw a card, grinning as you watch the mushroom count on the card grow so high it reaches into the hundreds, and your opponent loses a game they probably deserved to win.

Hehe.

Runners up include, but are not limited to:

Jinx (With the right build in PoC, she literally can't lose.)

Caitlyn (Similar to Teemo, but I feel less flashy. Bonus points though for being an obvious closeted lesbian in Arcane.)

Pyke (Loved him in the Ruined King game, love his giant sea monsters fantasy, and love the idea of tearing apart my opponents entire board with a 4 mana spell that summons me a 20/4.)

Seraphine (I literally have never played her, have no interest in her, and am fully aware that everyone hates her. HOWEVER...

Tell me you couldn't imagine a Skarlow League of Legends AU with Skara as Seraphine! Skara would fit right in as her!)

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How about a beach day adventure with Skarlow?

Ooooh! Now this is a cute idea! Sadly one we won’t see cause we don’t have 20 more adventures, but, well, it’s still worth exploring.

Normally, the sea surrounding the Boiling Isles is… well, boiling. As such, beavers are not exactly a romantic hotspot for Witches. But, during an exceptionally low tide, an event called a ‘low boil’ happens, where the Isles oceans don’t burn on contact, and certain couples like, say, Willow and Skara, like to go and have fun get together.

Skara eagerly asks Willow to go to the beach during the next low boil, which Willow is more then happy to accept. Luz and Amity plan to go as well, specifically to a small private piece that the Blight family owns, so they make it a double date. So when the perfect weekend roles around where a low boil occurs, both pairs of couples grab their cutest swimwear, hop on their Palismen, and fly off to Blight Beach for some low boil fun.

The four decide to start their date with a fun game Luz shows them: Chicken. Luz takes Amity on her shoulders, Willow does the same to Skara, and they spend a half hour playfully trying to push one another around. Skara eventually stumbles off, but they’re deep enough that she’s fine, and it’s a good excuse for Willow to carry her in her arms back to the beach, so she doesn’t complain.

After the game, Amity and Willow decide to chill on their beach blankets, while Luz and Skara attempt to build the worlds biggest sand castle, because of course they do. Amity and Willow provide some assistance, such as using Abomination goo to make the castle more sturdy and Willow summoning a flower wall to keep any troublesome beach creatures from messing with it. Eventually, Skara and Luz proudly unveil their little castle: a lumpy, misshapen wreckage of a castle that Luz said USED to be the worlds biggest, until an intense battle. Still, the pair are proud of their creation, and their respective partners reward them with a kiss (Amity on Luz’s cheek, Willow on the tip of Skara’s nose).

The pair of couples decide to split up for a bit, with Luz and Amity deciding to go for a walk while Willow and Skara stay where they are. As their friends leave, Skara spots a big conch shell and decides if Gus’s weird idea about humans hearing the ocean in them was true. Unfortunetly, she didn’t take into account the idea of a SpiderCrab inside, and is met with a pinched ear. It’s not enough to draw blood thankfully, but it still stings. Lucky for Skara, Amity planned for such a catastrophe and brought a Healers kit Emira gave her (or was it Em’s girlfriend? She’s not sure). Willow quickly rushes to apply a soothing cream to it, not realizing how sensitive Skara’s ears actually are. When Willow touches them, Skara squeaks and try’s to pull them down on instinct. The Plant witch quickly realizes her mistake and rushes to apologize, but Skara tells her she was just surprised, and she doesn’t mind Willow touching her ears if she asks. Willow asks this time, and Skara nods, and Willow applies the ointment carefully while Skara sinks into it, happy and content to be so close to Willow. When the ointments fully applied, Skara asks Willow to carry her to the blanket to cuddle, and Willow gladly does. It feels so nice and soothing to Skara that she falls asleep within five minutes, while Willow just lays next to her partner and wonders what she did to be lucky enough to get a girlfriend who’s so wonderful and cute.

After an hour or so, Skara wakes up groggily to Luz excitedly rushing over: Apparently Eda sent over Owlbert with some stuff for human smore’s and a bonfire (she sent maybe a little too much lighter fluid, but Luz was able to measure it out). And now that the suns getting low, the four decide to have one! After it’s all set, Luz shows her friends how to cook a marshmallow for a smore, which instantly becomes a massive hit with all the Witches (Willow has to stop Skara from pouring the entire marshmallow bag into her mouth). The four girls chat, cook smore’s, laugh, brag about their partners. It’s a fun, easygoing end to the night.

Sadly, all the girls have to make it back home soon, and Luz and Amity take off to the Owl House, holding hands on the way. Skara and Willow both have to fly separately back to their own homes, though, so they sadly can’t leave holding hands. Instead, Willow gives Skara shell that had pinched her earlier, now SpiderCrab free and holding a bottle of ointment for her ear. Removing it, Skara confirms that she CAN, in fact, hear the ocean in the shell. Giggling, Willow asks if Skara needs a little more ointment, to which Skara lies yes. Willow then asks Skara if she’s ok with her applying it, to which Skara truthfully responds yes. Willow does, and in Skara’s delighted haze, she asks if she can kiss Willow. To which Willow has the only reaction the Plant witch could have: a solid, all consuming blush, followed by a swift shake of her head, and an enthused nod. And Skara does, in fact, kiss her. And the two girls smile, promise to message each other when they’re home, and wave goodbye on their Palismen, giddy and happy and grateful for their magical day on the beach. 

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Don’t mind me, just losing my mind over a potential Hadestown Beta Skarlow AU I’ve been thinking about for some time.

Commissioned from the wonderful M00nDreewed on Instagram. Check them out here: https://instagram.com/m00ndreewed?utm_medium=copy_link

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Have you done a skarlow thanksgiving prompt? Cause if not, how about one where Luz invites everyone, Eda, Raine, King, Amity, Gus, Willow, Skara to spend thanksgiving at the Noceda household

I’ve never really thought about a Noceda Thanksgiving. But honestly I like to consider these holiday ones, so thanks for the suggestion.

Also, I don’t know if you meant for me to include them, but I’ll be adding Hunter and Vee to the list, since both can be considered adopted Noceda’s, and Viney, since she’s the only Entrail that would be unaccounted for.

•The day starts with the Noceda’s all cooking together, trying to create the best meals they can for their guests. Camilla cooks the turkey, Luz is in charge of baking empanada’s, Vee helps make a few other meals, and Hunter is in charge of decorations, because while Camilla may love the boy he isn’t exactly a great cook.

•A few hours before the dinner, the Witches start arriving with their own dishes. First Eda, Raine and King, carrying the best meal they could: a bunch of ‘borrowed’ sandwiches from Luz’s favorite shop (Raine went back to pay for them, but only had a couple dozen Snails). Luz is excited, but Camila makes a mental note to apologize and pay for Eda’s theft later.

•Next, Amity, bringing along a home made Appleblood Pie! It’s… edible, and doesn’t kill Luz in one bite, so she takes her girlfriend into a big hug and puts the pie next to the sandwiches. Amity also brings her brother as a surprise for Hunter, much to his nervous chagrin.

•After that, Gus, Willow, Skara, and Viney arrive with their own dishes. From Gus, a traditional Witches desert known as a Giraffes Head, made out of Slitherbeast meat. From Skara and Viney, Meatza with a Fairy-stuffed crust. And from Willow, a salad.

I think you can safely assume which of the three was the only one Luz and Camila ate.

•The gang spends the time before dinner hanging out. Willow and Skara try out a game of roller hockey in the streets versus Gus and Viney, while Amity and Luz cheer them on and King plays referee. Hunter and Ed go for a walk, enjoying the crisp autumn air. And inside, Vee helps Camila finish up the turkey while they talk with Eda and Raine. Both Camila and Eda tell a few stories of taking care of Luz (though Eda has to edit hers lightly to make it look like Luz didn’t almost die at least once a week) while Raine asks about human bands and music, given permission by Camila to scour her record collection to play. She finds one, a gift from Camila’s dad, from a band AB/CD, which Raines falls in love with, which explains why heavy metal rock is what’s being played over the speakers at dinner later.

•By the time Willow scores the final goal and a lovestruck Hunter and silly Ed return from their walk, dinner is ready! The gangs all run inside for the biggest meal Camila and the Noceda’s have ever prepared, all for the wonderful friends and family Luz met in the BI. It required all the tables and chairs in the house to form the dining and food tables, but from the smiles and laughter from everyone, it was worth it.

•Later that night, as all the eating was finished and the night wound down, everyone from the BI helped take care of the dishes and tables, thanking the Noceda’s for the lovely time. As the gang all left (not before one last kiss from Ed to Hunter though), Luz have each of her friends a hug on their way out, vowing to make next Thanksgiving even better for everyone!