#eda has ptsd

[newwwwusername]

Heyyy :D

Could you do a Raine/Eda cuddle/comfort fic?

I was thinking something along the lines of Eda having a nightmare (about her past with Raine and all the damage the owl beast has done etc.) and Raine comforting her about it?

Thanks :)

Raine woke up to the feeling of Eda thrashing in the nest next to them. They sighed to themself- Not out of misery, no. They were just concerned for their girlfriend.

"Eda" they said soothingly, reaching over to shake her gently while still firm enough to actually work. "Wake up, Calamity" they muttered, getting a pitiful whimper from the wild witch in response. "Come on"

Eda shot up with a strangled yelp, panting heavily from the residual panic of the dream that had plagued her only moments before.

"Hey, hey, hey" Raine soothed, wrapping their arms tight around her, which she appreciated. The pressure helped to ground her back to reality. It reminded her that Raine was there with her and that she was safe and okay.

She halfheartedly noticed some feathers poking out around her neck and blindly grasped around the outside of the nest til she located her night bottle of the potion- She always kept one potion near her nest in case of stuff like this.

She drank a bit of it, slightly miserably as it didn't taste that good, and sighed in relief as the feathers went away. Then she remembered that Raine was still there with her, their arms no longer locked around her.

"Hi" she said timidly, avoiding their gaze. They chuckled.

"Exciting dreams?"

"You could say that" she smiled weakly before yawning. It was still the middle of the night, and her nightmare had taken a lot out of her.

"Do you wanna talk about it?"

"The usual" Eda shrugged. "The owl beast, Lilith's whole bullshit, and... You" she listed off, scanning Raine's face for anger over the last part but getting nothing of the sort. They just nodded in understanding.

"Lie down" they instructed. Eda raised an eyebrow.

"Raine, I don't think this is the best hour for-"

"Not like that, you pervert" Raine teased her. "I wanna cuddle you" they continued. Eda smiled at them and complied, lying on her side next to them and nuzzling her face into the crook of their neck as they wrapped an arm around her.

"This is nice..."

"See?" Raine smiled. "I knew this would work"

"You're a genius, Rainestorm"

"I know"

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[hadesisqueer]

Top 4 comfort/fave characters that couldn't be more fucking different to each other but all of them ended up having a particular thing in common

[thousandyearphantombunker]

CW: I'm mean here about shows and stuff people like

syndrome from incredibles, Thanos in the comics, mad hatter from Batman, tighten from Megamind, frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame, Red Hulk, parasite from superman and Ozai all of these villains are pathetic but they work for some reason I cannot place. A lot of stories try and write villains that are pathetic but also scary and it doesn't work- I love Starscream he can be an amazing character (he can be sympathetic or a straight up monster he can be lame but still threatening etc) and I like most versions but God can writers screw him up and he can fall flat (i love tfp i swear but god i hate their starscream! He just didn't work for me! Megatron and knockout are cool tho) Belos for some reason doesn't work for me at all- I know he should be scary while the fandom is wrong about him being a colonizer/cult leader/a dictator (he's not stop using words you dont understand the meaning of)and how insane it is that he's in a kids show (watch more cartoons there's villains darker than him) he's still trying to commit genocide and he's abusive and he's at his core got very little depth or complexity- he's really just an isekai character gone wrong- a pathetic guy with a hero complex and emotional baggage who becomes a villain- but he just didn't work for me. Neither does Jacob Hopkins- he's just Ronaldo from SU if he was written to be a straight up hate sink. I'm a lesbian latina with autism and was raised with a different sect of christan beliefs from him- I know historically this guy would have murdered me and i know he should work but something about him didn't stick the landing! The main thing I think about with belos isn't 'wow this guy is a great villain' it's 'can y'all stop being weirdly ableist toward this old man' or 'why do so many of y'all wanna fuck this man he's ugly' and dont get me started on mcu villains - their version of the mandarin, she-hulk's dumb men rights activists on reddit (seriously that's the scariest villain you can come up with? Like revenge porn is evil but really? I don't like the term man-baby- I have personal issues with how the term has been used in ableist ways- but yeah erm man babies on reddit are the best you can do for a villain? That's freaking stupid) and OMG Sutur in Ragnarok was terrible etc etc- these villains all suck!

How do you write villains that are pathetic but still work? How do write villains who are at their core whiny insecure losers but still work as detestable threatening villains? Like marvel made a character whose whole thing was that he's an incel work but so many other stories fail to write that stuff. Part of me thinks it's because these stories are desperate to make their villain into a hate sink joke but still make them scary and it fails but Tighten and Red Hulk are right there and there's no way the writers weren't purposely writing hate sinks with them! And they work! Why doesn't belos?

[red-l1ke-roses]

I made a thing 

[ito-itonomen]

Say what you will about Lilith's straight laced tendencies on screen, I feel deeply in my soul that she has absolutely wrecked her body in pursuit of a way to alleviate her guilt and PTSD.

If Eda tried to smoke tho she'd literally ground her. Bc smoking is bad.

[purpledisastertwin900]

One of the things I love about TOH is that they portray a lot of different types of trauma, and not only that but they also show how everyone’s trauma is still trauma, even if it’s “not that big”. You have physical and emotional abuse portrayed with Hunter, right next to bullying and loneliness with Gus and Willow. You have years of built up trauma and emotional manipulation with Amity, along with loss of a loved one and the trauma that comes from being different with Luz. You have years of chronic pain, disability, and possibly ptsd with Eda, right next to being a kid during a war with King and The Collector. Not to mention the packages of pain that are Raine and Camila!

And nobody’s trauma is portrayed or treated as less than or unimportant, and I really like that because I think too often people will dismiss their struggles because “oh well, someone out there has it so much worse”. When like, yeah that one person may be drowning in an ocean of trauma, but people can and have drowned in pools or even buckets. So don’t think you’re struggles aren’t real or that it’s not enough suffering to be addressed-you deserve healing too.

[crimeronan]

princess luz fics ranked by how choice the hunter & luz cuddling is:

because in the car i started thinking "wait, is there a single fic where i HAVEN'T found an excuse for them to hug??" and then started laughing. here are the results!

why did love put a gun in my hand

this one's the main plotty one and also the best snuggly one, on account of there being a 10k chapter that's literally just hunter and luz in bed together. snuggling. and arguing with each other. also several snuggling moments prior to that, except they inevitably turn into fights ����

2. strong enough to stand protecting both your heart and mine

camila fic! she gets to the isles just in time to witness her daughter's case of Holy Shit PTSD. luz has Scary Dog Privilege and hunter is also being her service dog. best of both worlds. he wants to kill for her and also holds her through an emotional meltdown to end all meltdowns. A+

3. the fragile facade you show to me

amity POV of hunter finding out belos is dead! features an extremely choice scene where hunter hugs luz with all the "I Fucking Thought You Were Dead" fervor in the world & amity is like um. this feels indecent to watch. i can't even look at you two anymore

4. pulling up the nails that hold up everything you've known

eda meets luz! hunter is absent for most of this one because eda decides she doesn't like him. however he comes in clutch when luz has a panic attack & eda is like oh. huh. maybe you aren't the devil. face touching as allyship forever

5. i've never let a damn thing get to me (this time it's personal)

this one's a shorter version of the plotty fic, which i wrote first & then had to expand upon bc i had brainworms. the snuggling is short because of this but hunter does hold luz while she cries into his chest. kiddos

6. some synergy had fallen in place

you'd THINK this fic wouldn't have hunter and luz snuggling in it, because luz isn't actually present. this is the only fic luz isn't in. because it's amity POV and about her changing relationship with hunter. however i actually did manage to get some snuggling in there through amity thinking about what it's like to sleep in the same space as hunter & luz. it's like. nauseatingly tender. waow

7. i'm saying agony is not your prayer

0/10. absolute shitshow. no cuddles here to speak of. all we get is a nasty dead-ass corpse hunter haunting luz's mindscape. and she doesn't want to cuddle him for some weird reason. sad! 😔

....that's it for stuff that's published right now. thank u for joining me on this journey.

[bobbydagen24]

Luz's scar is Honestly an annoying detail to me for how pointless it is.

Because it literally serves no character or story purpose but it technically exists so we can call attention to it but its kinda pathetic tbh if it was meant to represent a battle scar

like its more comparable to this scar I've had on my lower lip due to an accident I had when I was a toddler that left me with a scar that's a straight line that goes down on my lower lip

but like this scar is just the type of thing that's literally had no impact on my life in terms of psychological scars or self esteem or just societal judgment.

soooooo frankly I don't see what the point of it was? if they wanted Luz to have some type of battle scar and maybe have it tie into her having ptsd or something then that'd be great

but giving her a tiny eye brow scratch just seems like the definition of pointless tbh like Eda can lose a fricking arm Hunter can get severe scarring over his face and body

and Raine can get facial scarring but with Luz they just give her a tiny scar that isn't even mentioned and doesn't effect her character design at all.

like I said my opinion is they should have either gone with something big and had it mean something like have her end up with something a lot more noticeable and have it serve to help her development

like if it kept reminding her of her role in helping Belos and thus played into her depression at the start of season 3 until she eventually learned to live with it.

or just don't bother but having it be there so people can make some BS claim that she has a battle scar as a physical reminder of her experiences when she really doesn't just kinda screams pointless to me.

Its the same issue I have with Hunter's scarring and Eda's arm its just pointless injuries the impact of which on the characters doesn't actually get explored

making them nothing more than angsty moments and different character designs and in Luz's case its just strange giving her this tiny permanent scratch

like I said they should have either gone big and had her get scarring that actually meant something and tied into her character arc or just not bothered.

[existencebringsonlypain]

do you have any TOH neurodivergent HCs?

I mean. they're all ND to me. Luz with the obvious ADHD, but I'd also tack on autism, anxiety, and depression. Amity is autistic, from her father's side. Hunter I'd pin as autistic, and the clear PTSD, though that's an acquired trait. Maybe anxiety or depression as well, but those might just be symptoms of said PTSD. I also like the idea of him having BPD or another personality disorder, though I wouldn't say it's canon-based. Gus as autistic, maybe also ADHD. Willow actually seems pretty normal? Maybe depression.

Who else... I'm thinking Camila is also autistic and has anxiety. I really love the idea of Belos being autistic, but he channeled that into really horrible outlets. I think King is probably neurotypical and just a child. Eda has ADHD. That's pretty much it.

this is a lot of diagnosing, but hey, this is a very neurodivergent show

[pizzaboat]

Might as well make a list of fun (sad/horrific) things to explore. Headcanons for the motivation I have to write with. Like a reminder list.

TW I suppose

Eda has C-PTSD from all the shit that's happened to her, and maybe BPD too

She still struggles with depression after the show. Her life just doesn't suck half as bad anymore

Massive SI pre-ending that got worse in the time skip

All she has is nightmares, she doesn't dream (that's basically canon)

She's always tired and fluctuates between insomnia and extreme exhaustion that makes it hard to keep her eyes open.

She has had so many panic attacks. Eda is pretty prone to them. She's actually quite an anxious person

What Gwen did for all those years was abuse. Like, emotionally that would fuck anyone up. Same with Lilith

Eda forgives easily in perspective to the crime done to her because she's terrified of being alone. She doesn't see anyone putting in the work to actually make things right with her and stay with her because she's so "difficult to love" so she leaves the door open to her heart constantly

Having detachable limbs has saved her from her mother's "cures" more than once

She's had so many horrible exs, and she chose to date some of them to feel something other than alone and numb. Eda thought she really deserved it with some of them

Eda has spent so long not crying or getting angry when she really wants to, so when she can cry or be angry, it surprises her

She's touch starved and gets separation anxiety from her family now

Eda doesn't feel pain the same anymore. Her threshold is so high that she could break a rib or have internal bleeding and not notice. Really not notice. That's not a curse thing, that's her body adapting to agony for decades

She flinches at loud noises behind her. She flinches during arguments with people. She's on the offence so she doesn't have to be on the defence and Raine points that last bit out to her because they're determined to show her she's safe with them

Eda will start crying over something and not be able to stop. She's super emotionally disregulated

Eda can't sleep for the longest time after the events of the show without being held. Doesn't matter who. She has to hold or be held and not be alone.

Raine spends a lot of nights spooning and doing protective cuddles because Eda falls asleep the fastest that way, and they're worried about her sleeping

Making money was hard at multiple points in her life, even with the door, so she was used to skipping meals to let King, and then Luz, eat and she doesn't see anything wrong with skipping multiple meals in a row. Raine, Lilith, everyone is so concerned, and Raine has to insist that she's maybe making the curse worse this way from the stress of starvation

Raine gently pulls Eda aside to talk about what she tried to do in the woods that day and they check to see if she still feels the same and Eda starts crying. Not because she is, but because she's overwhelmed

Eda always feels overwhelmed

[raspberry-and-friends]

Name: Princess Luna Sparkle

Gender: Genderfluid (she/he/they/neos)

Sexuality: Lesbian

Partner(s): Princess Twilight Sparkle

Children: Princess Raspberry Sparkle (19) and Princess Ophelia Supernova Sparkle (16)

Headcanons and disclaimers below the cut 👇👇

💙 Is a biiit of a comic book/superhero geek. She and Twilight attend the San Deneighgo (get it??? San De-neigh-go!) Comic Con every year, as well as every Marevel (Marvel) event they can. Her favorite character is Loki, which is precisely why she just about lost her mind when Celestia announced that their son was to be named after the Norse deity.

💙 Has severe PTSD from her time as Nightmare Moon and being imprisoned for 1,000 years. Twilight often wakes up to her wife sobbing on their balcony as she lowers the Moon each night. She never blamed Celestia for what happened to her, though, and believes it would be unfair to expose her sister to even more guilt and stress on top of all the horrors she’s had to withstand for so long. Twi is easily Luna’s biggest supporter through it all, and will comfort and stand beside her partner ‘till the end of time. The Mane Six was incredibly supportive of the pair when they first announced their relationship publicly. After all, the moon and the stars are meant for one another : )

💙 Despite the controversial origins of the holiday, Luna has grown to thoroughly enjoy Nightmare Night. She’s super competitive during the games and challenges presented during the celebration, especially Ponyville’s annual costume contest. The more extravagant, time-consuming, and creepier the costume is, the better. She’ll start prepping it weeks, even months in advance to ensure her spot as number one.

💙 Her mane is like a black hole. She can store whatever she pleases inside it, similarly to Eda from The Owl House. The issue that comes with this unique feature is... it’s never guaranteed you’ll get your stuff back after it’s been consumed by the Almighty Hair God. She’s pleaded with her kids numerous times not to use her mane as a fort during hide-and-go-seek—who knows if they’ll ever come back out.

***DISCLAIMER: In this AU, The princesses DIDN’T hand off their powers to Twilight, and still remain the primary rulers of Equestria during the course of this story. The illustrations and writing (the latter of which has since been revised to fix previously missed grammatical errors and to more closely align with my current headcanons) were done back in 2020-2021 and posted to my now-inactive DeviantArt account. The signature ‘Hun’ reflects the name I went by at the time, Hunter.***

[whisperwillyou]

Do you have any good Hunter fics that are long and non romantic up your sleeve? Super not asking for a friend it’s for me

*rolls up my sleeves* oh buddy DO I EVER

Fair warning, I’m an angst gremlin so these all contain a healthy dose of the Sads™ but considering you’re also a Hunter fan, odds are you also enjoy the angst lmaoo

Most of these are Luz and Hunter-centric bc I love the Noceda Siblings and I’m nothing if not predictable 😌

Let us begin…

What We are is the Sum of a Thousand Lies

Ongoing 59k+

FAV FAV FAV FAV FAV my all time favorite fic, they captured both my FAVORITE flavor of Hunter characterization, AND my favorite flavor of Luz & Hunter interactions (+bonus Eda, Darius, & Flapjack!) it’s just *chef kiss* PEAK content. I reread it regularly

Contingency

Ongoing 108k

Inside you there are two wolves, one is a sad lil boy and the other is the psychological embodiment of the obedient, brainwashed, soldier you were created to be, which your uncle programmed into you when he built you in his evil lab.

Burnt Out

Complete 3K

This one’s a short one but it’s one of my favs so I had to include it. ✨Sic fic✨

Even Sad Birds Still Sing

Ongoing 54k+

Hunter gets turned into a cardinal by a cursed gemstone. Ngl when the first chapter of this fic came out I thought it was gonna be more of a crack fic. I was unbelievably wrong and it is so SO good.

La Gaundière

Complete 12k

This one is some really good post Hunting Palismen Golden Gaurd era Hunter

To be or Not to Be

Ongoing 28k

Hunter takes some ‘me time’ after Hollow Minds and camps. He has a horrible time.

Peak traumatized Hunter seasoned with some great Noceda siblings content and a garnish of Hunter and Hooty friendship. 👌

Blood Moon

Ongoing 48k

Honestly I don’t know how to summarize this fic without spoiling anything, so just trust me, it’s so good.

Your hands do more than Hurt

Ongoing 27k

Darius and Hunter-centric, mind the tags though, this is a sad one

With Clay and Star Scraps

Complete (open ended) 48k

Hunter discovers that being a grimwalker comes with some super fun, funky, and not at all distressing side effects.

Enough to Leave Scars

Complete 14k

Post King’s Tide shenanigans of a former child soldier. ie ptsd

Oop hit the link limit lol rip

Learned Response

Complete 11k

Hunter fabulously misinterprets Luz’s relationship with her mother like the traumatized autistic he is.

With His Beak He Tries to Soothe Me

Complete 10K

Some really sweet Hunter and Flapjack content

Refuge

ongoing 10k+

Camila adjusting to having four new kids under her roof and is unsure what to make of Hunter being… the way he is.

The Golden Brat

Complete 5k+

Coven Scout meeting the Golden Guard for the first time in person: “what’s with this sassy lost child?”

Hopefully you enjoy these!

Special thanks to all theses authors for the platonic content. You’re doing the lords work, feeding us starving lil’ AroAces 💕💕

[baby-mystery-twins]

💜Complete MOGAI Head Canons💜

Dipper Pines is a straight trans boy and uses He/Him pronouns, demiplatonic and allofamilial, a toddler regressor, autistic and has GAD. His caregivers are Stan and Ford. He is in a trans for cis relationship with Pacifica.

Mabel Pines is a demigirl that uses neopronouns She/Mew/Sparkle/✨, panromantic asexual alloplatonic and allofamilial, a toddler regressor and AuDHD. Mews caregivers are Stan and Ford. Sparkle prefers romantic relationships.

Pacifica Northwest is a straight cis girl and uses She/Her pronouns, alloplatonic and afamilial, aesthetickin and has depression. She is in cis for trans relationship with Dipper.

Ford Pines is an aromantic vinician cis man and uses He/Him pronouns, demiplatonic and allofamilial, a caregiver and a pet caretaker, autistic and has C-PTSD. He is in a cis for trans queer platonic marriage with Fiddleford.

Stan Pines is a GNC birose cis man who uses He/Him pronouns, polyamorous, alloplatonic and allofamilial, a caregiver, AuDHD and has depression. He prefers familial relationships. He is in a throuple with Eda and Rick.

Fiddleford McGucket is birose trans man that uses He/It pronouns, alloplatonic and demifamilial, a raccoon therian and raccoon regressor, and has C-PTSD. He is in a trans for cis queer platonic marriage with Ford, his caretaker.

Luz Noceda is birose bigender and uses neopronouns She/He/😺/🐾, alloplatonic and demifamilial, cat therian, a toddler regressor and has ADHD. His caregiver is Eda, her found mother. She prefers platonic relationships, like her found cousins Dipper, Mabel and Morty. 🐾 Is in a relationship with Amity

Amity Blight is a lesbian cis girl and uses She/Her pronouns, alloplatonic and allofamilial and has GAD. She is in a relationship with Luz.

Eda Clawthorne is a birose trans woman and uses She/Her pronouns, aplatonic and allofamilial, a caregiver and has PTSD. She is in a throuple with Stan and Rick.

Lilith Clawthorne is an aroace trans woman and uses She/Her pronouns, demiplatonic and allofamilial, autistic and has PTSD.

Morty Smith is a bicurious cis boy and uses He/Him pronouns, alloplatonic and allofamilial, dog therian puppy regressor and toddler regressor, has GAD and AuDHD. His caregiver and caretaker is Rick.

Rick Sanchez is a demiromantic pansexual trans man and uses He/Him pronouns, aplatonic and afamilial, caregiver and per caretaker, autistic and hypersexual. He is in a throuple with Stan and Eda

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Transmasc, Straight, Demiplatonic, Familial Atraction Flags, Trans Loving Cis, Toddler Regressor, Autistic Flag, Anxiety, Demigirl, Neoprnoun User, Asexual, Alloplatonic, Panromantic, AuDHD, Girl/Woman, Aesthetickin, Depression, Aromantic, Gay Men Flag, Queer Platonic, Caregiver, Pet Caretaker, C-PTSD + PTSD, Man/Boy, Gender Non Conforming, Bisexual, Polyamorous, Throuple, Demifamilial, Raccoon Therian, Raccooon Regressor, Bigender, Cat Therian, ADHD, Lesbian, Transfem, Aplatonic, Bicurious, Dog Therian, Puppy Regressor, Demiromantic, Pansexual, Hypersexual.

Divider one, two. DNI

[mogai-headcanons]

icon id: 14 icons in 7 pairs. in each pair, both icons have the listed flags in order in the background and the left icon has an image of the listed character with a white outline and a black shadow. end id.

banner id: a 1500x150 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting’ in large white text in the center. end id.

Luz Noceda from The Owl House is an autistic GNC futch bisexual genderfluid catgender person with ADHD and PTSD who uses she/her, he/him, and they/them pronouns!

They're dating Amity Blight, an autistic femme lesbian witchgender demigirl with general anxiety who uses she/her pronouns around her mother and she/her and they/them pronouns around their friends and loved ones!

Hunter Noceda is an autistic bisexual boything trans boy with PTSD who uses he/him and they/them pronouns!

He's dating Willow Park, a pansexual plantgender girl with general anxiety who uses she/her pronouns!

Eda Clawthorne is a disabled bisexual woman with ADHD, chronic pain, dream anxiety disorder, and PTSD who uses she/her pronouns!

She's dating Raine Whispers, a trixic nonbinary transmasculine person with social anxiety who canonically uses they/them pronouns!

The Collector is a stargender demiboy who canonically uses he/him and they/them pronouns!

Lilith Clawthorne is a romance-repulsed sex-repulsed aroace person!

dni link

[ajthedumbass]

The World’s Not Perfect (But It’s Not That Bad) (30433 words) by arinthealien Chapters: 7/? Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hunter | The Golden Guard & Camila Noceda & Luz Noceda & Vee, Hunter | The Golden Guard & Luz Noceda, Luz Noceda & Vee, Hunter | The Golden Guard & Vee (The Owl House), Amity Blight/Luz Noceda, Masha/Vee (The Owl House), Hunter | The Golden Guard/Willow Park, Mattholomule/Gus Porter, Camila Noceda/Manny Noceda, Evelyn/Caleb Wittebane, Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers Characters: Luz Noceda, Vee (The Owl House), Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Camila Noceda, Amity Blight, Gus Porter, Willow Park, Philip Wittebane | Emperor Belos, Caleb Wittebane, Evelyn (The Owl House), Mattholomule (The Owl House), Masha (The Owl House), Edric Blight, Emira Blight, Darius Deamonne, Eda Clawthorne, Raine Whispers Additional Tags: Human AU, Hunter | the Golden Guard and Luz Noceda and Vee are Siblings, Good Parent Camila Noceda, Bad Parent Philip Wittebane | Emperor Belos, Caleb and Evelyn are Hunter’s parents, Luz Noceda has ADHD, Vee Has ADHD (The Owl House), Hunter | The Golden Guard has PTSD (The Owl House), Autistc Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Hunter | The Golden Guard Needs a Hug (The Owl House), Luz Noceda Needs a Hug, Vee Needs a Hug (The Owl House), Trans Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Trans Willow Park, Trans Mattholomule (The Owl House), Hunter is pagan, dont tell Philip, Paganism, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Child Abuse, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Cigarettes, Underage Smoking, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Character Death, house fire, Hunter has burn scars, Hunter and Vee have Ocular Albinism, Grief/Mourning, Depression, Past Stillbirth, Adoption, Abandonment, Homophobia, Transphobia, Bullying, Dissociation, unsafe binding, the author is a theater kid, Musical References, Kind of a drama club au?, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Jacob is a creep (The Owl House), ace-spectrum characters, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm Summary:

The Noceda family has been followed by tragedy for years. After too many death anniversaries clumped together in a singular month, Luz and Vee are anxious to finally leave August behind them.

Hunter Wittebane hasn’t felt fully happy since he was 7. Plagued by loss, abuse, and an unstable living situation throughout the Bible Belt, he feels weird being back in his hometown after nearly a decade.

One fateful bus ride brings the trio together.

~Noceda Siblings Human AU~

Fic title from If We Have Each Other by Alec Benjamin.

Please check tags and chapter notes for content warnings.

[crimeronan]

It feels unlikely given the way you structure the series but it would be SO funny to me if Willow properly stumbled into their not too long before the dying basilisk situation and for whatever reason happened to Be There.

Like imagine you're a bitter anarchist young adult who's been reluctantly drawn into the web of the entirely too kind Empress and you still really don't trust her or her overly aggressive bodyguard, and then you all stumble into a dying basilisk, a creature that you narrowly avoided being killed by at school that one time and then the Emperor's Coven carted them away and they were clearly terrified.

And then you react first, of course you do, why would the Empress and her stooge care about a member of what your research since you dropped out suggests is an extinct species (and you figure the Empire probably is the reason they aren't and not for anything good). Of course, what you don't know so that the Empress is only slower to react because of her extremely pertinent to this bizarre situation PTSD, and it's a moot point because she does arrive at your side a moment later.

Having presumably never gotten a coven mark, you know some healing magic, but not enough for a situation like this, and it's all you can do to buy the basilisk a minute at a time—and then the Empress calls her mom??? The human one????? And you write her off as useless right now because what help is human going to be here but then the human offers VERY specific guidance that helps you save the basilisk's life.

So now you know that 1. The Empress knows her human mom, 2. The Empress' mom knows exactly how to save a basilisk's life, 3. The Empress is genuinely as compassionate as she seems and oh now that you're able to think about it that complete loss of composure seems REALLY out of character for her; did this strike some sort of personal note?

Now for all her cleverness, I don't think Willow is the sort to be able to extrapolate anything beyond that given her limited knowledge of Luz's life compared to someone like Raine, but! I think it's possible Luz in her panic could let things slip about the Grimwalkers still.

On the one hand, Willow is an unknown who Luz doesn't trust yet and normally Luz is good at secrets.

On the other hand, Grimwalkers are possibly the only thing where Luz is LESS likely to tell Hunter than she would a whole lot of other people she knows, AND we've seen with Eda that Luz gets a lot worse at compartmentalizing information when she's Doing Rough which. Damn she sure is doing rough here, isn't she?

SHE SURE IS DOING ROUGH HERE.

i love all of this. LOVE the concept of willow as a bystander like "well, this is some out-of-touch rich people nonsense. can i actually do something useful here or"

willow, arriving at the correct conclusion pretty much immediately: ....your human mom knows a basilisk already??

camila, who probably isn't even here yet but has materialized out of thin air for the bit: AHAHAHAHAH NOOOOOO. I'M JUST. A MAGICAL CREATURE.... ALL BY MYSELF.....