#eberwolf is so coooool btw wish we had an episode that went into darius and eberwolf's past together

[roxannarambles]

What are your thoughts on Lunter Monster AU?

Also what are your headcanons on Lunter?

If you're referring to the one where Luz is the Titan-thingy and Hunter is distorted into Belos' form, I'm not a fan. (Mind you, I have not even seen S3 as I've mentioned, but I've of course seen screenshots and have some very vague concepts of what went on) I know folks of that AU of course conceptualize Hunter as being fully himself in that form, but it still doesn't seem romantic to me. Hunter would still hate to be in that form, imo. That form represents all that is foul to him. Luz's 'Titan form' doesn't carry the same negative baggage, so I don't really have any issues with that half of the equation, I guess.

But if I personally were craving a monster AU, I'd fashion something a bit different. Last night I was browsing a fan wiki for the heck of it, and it mentioned Beast Keeping magic including the ability to transform into a beastial form. When we saw Eberwolf transform into a spooky scary kitty cat, I had always assumed that was just a natural part of his species. But the wiki put forth the idea it was a part of Beast Keeping magic. Which makes sense, honestly (I think there even was a lil magicy noise when he did it, don't remember). Anyway, if that's true then that opens the door for goshdarn any character having a badass beast form if they wanted to.

In the "old days" (lol) there was a very popular Au where Hunter was cursed like Eda and had a similar bird beast form (except cardinal, not owl). That's a fun idea, although I feel a bit hesitant about AUs that take away a powerful, personal storyline from one character and giving it to another to drum up extra angst. That happens in another fandom I'm in, Moomins. There was a girl, Ninny, who has a magical condition that's a metaphor for something (she turned invisible due to being emotionally abused by her caretaker). Folks love to have Snufkin turn invisible too. Always felt a bit cheap to me, I dunno. Eda's storyline with her curse is a metaphor for learning to live with chronic illness, and I would personally hate to take that away from her or lessen its impact, especially when that storyline means so much to me personally.

But uhhhhhghhh I dunno, I also totally understand the appeal, and it's not like the idea of a werewolf-esque storyline is copywrited by Eda (& Lillith). I'm not saying you suck if you do this, heck I've certainly daydreamed sometimes about Hunter curse AU (especially Hunter instinctively building a nest 'cause that's just adorable), guess I'm just saying I feel mixed over it.

I'm rambling. The point I wanted to get to-- if Hunter used Beast Keeping Magic, instead of a curse as the reason to have a beast form, it would make me personally feel a lot better about not borrowing too heavily from Eda's storyline. And like, we know SO little about Beast Keeping magic, so it would be cool to explore it more.