#future plant coven head

[artinclined-jointheartside]

Can I have Terra Headcanons pwease 🥺🥺🥺

SO! With no direction to go, I'm just gonna toss out all sorts of sheeat! Disclaimer, though should be obvious – most of this pertains to my story After the End. However, a lot of it I've just accepted as personal fancanon because I can't see it any other way. As such, I'm stuck with it! And now so are you~ I hope you enjoy!

Terra Snapdragon~

The long-standing, and believe it or not quite loved and adored, Head Witch of the Plant Coven.

A lot of people have a bone to pick with her. Some hate her for something she may have done or said, some may dislike her because she has her own way of doing things, but no one can deny she does get shit done and has an energy about her that never fails to catch attention.

That energy has been present since the very beginning. Spunky even from her childhood, she was always excited to do things and happy to learn. Mostly about Plant Magic, but believe it or not, that isn't where she had her start.

In an ironic parallel to another plant witch we know, she actually had her start in Abomination magic. She wasn't bad at it, exemplary in some cases, but her real passion was plants. Alas, that wasn't The Plan and she had to sequester that passion, only practicing it when the rare opportunity to sneak away from her studies (and home) presented itself. Life was hard, harder than her bright smile let on, but she found her ways to have fun and make it bearable.

A series of unfortunate events befell her however, and while her passion never died, her life became … harder. More and more she had to hide her true desires and bury what she really wanted, as The Plan became more and more restrictive. We all know what it feels like to be caged by life occasionally, and well, she certainly felt it.

Fake smiles and poised poses hid sleepless nights and anxiety ridden days as things got worse and worse for her, and not just in regard to her endless studies, oppressive obligations, and harsh "punishments" for her failures. Finally, after a particularly grievous setback to The Plan for her life, and a punishment taken too far even by comparison to prior instances– she snapped.

Even to this day, if one were to look into the records, they would make it quite clear that no one really knows who or what wrecked the home on the outskirts of town, leaving the youngest member of the family alive, but in bad sorts. Visiting the devastated estate when released from the healing ward, she seemed to those observing to be in shocked disbelief. And she was, to an extent. But it was rather disturbing to say the least when the young woman of twenty suddenly sliced her hair off with an old dagger pulled from the debris and started laughing like a lunatic. She collected one other item and proceeded to walk away, telling them to do what they wanted with the ruined home, it was nothing to her now, and disappeared into the forest.

When she reappeared days later, it was far from where she'd grown up and the people who'd failed her, and with very little evidence of her old life.

Not even her old name.

And right up to a Plant Coven tent she waltzed.

Now, they didn't know this strange young woman who seemed oh-so-eager to join. Which was odd, because usually they see an aspiring plant witch at intervals through their life, even if said intervals are irregular. But this twenty-year-old who looked like she'd just come from a fight with a tree was something else. Luckily, the older adult in the tent was a laid-back guy and decided to see what she was about – despite the others' fears of her being dangerous. See, the Plant Coven was surreptitiously on good terms with witches of all trades and kinds – wild witches, included. However, only eight years prior there'd been an incident with a wild witch that was especially heinous, and they were more feared and hated than ever as a result. The Plant Coven, while accepting of many creeds, were still wary of danger. And with most young witches having some sort of interaction with the people of the craft they wanted to follow, it was odd that no one had ever seen this woman at least once over the last two decades. So, was she wild? And looking a wreck and sporting a wicked smile, was she safe to be around?

These fears aside, his seniority won out and Terra got to camp with the Plant Coven. Soon enough, that wicked smile turned excited again and her eagerness to learn and help won over those more questioning of her motives. Besides, Hildevard, the Head Witch at that time, seemed to like the spunky stranger, and if Hildevard liked her, she had to be alright. Though, more than one person was curious as to why, when finally receiving the Plant Coven sigil, the woman seemed relieved of all things.

Nevertheless, the strange and curious Terra Snapdragon was now an official member of the Plant Coven.

And she took to Coven Life quite well. "Back in the day" as they say, the Plant Coven didn't have any permanent locations or structures. Instead, their "official" locations were mere tent encampments dotted about the Isles. And their motto, which is still the Plant Coven motto to this day, was "Do what you will." Which basically means "Live and let live." So long as no one gets hurt and everyone involved is of age and accepting, well, do what you will!

And an awful lot of that included dancing~

Terra knew dancing. But she knew the waltzes and ballroom dances and poised and proper with structure and control. Not wild and unrestrained with passion in every step and fire at your feet.

And, you may have heard, in the Plant Coven, everyone dances. You'd think the Bards would have them beat, but living free among the forests and the valleys, with warm fires lighting the night and all sorts of tasty things filling the veins with all sorts of rushes, you gotta do something with that energy~ She took to dancing just as ardently as plant magic itself, and was soon outdancing even the most enthusiastic of partners. And she still does, even to this day. Don't challenge her unless you're ready because even at 75 years young, she'll have you under the table in no time!

And of course, as time ticked by, she grew in may different ways, not the least of which being her dedication to the coven and propensity for the craft. As such, no one really thought it odd in any way when, after a few weeks away from the encampment that she never quite went into detail about, she came back with a plant. A flower, specifically. A well sized one. Very pretty color. On her head, though?

At twenty-seven, she'd accomplished a lot for herself and a great deal for the coven, but this flower, for some odd reason she never really would say, seemed to fill her with a great deal of satisfaction and pride. And while she would eventually admit that the plant ending up her head was, in fact, an accident of sorts, she rather liked it where it was so she had no plans to remove it.

It did have an unforeseen side-effect, of course. Over time, her hair gained a more leaf-like quality, whole sections of it standing separate and almost stiff. What she came to understand, and hardly minded, was that the flower was, in a manner of speaking, nesting. Attached to her scalp by fine, vein-like filaments, it was stimulating her hair growth and altering the consistency, allowing for a buildup of soft material to bed itself against. Over time, whole sections of hair came to be attached more to the plant than to her. However, it was hardly a concern to her and still isn't. After all, she'd gained two new appendages in return for the honor of nesting atop her head, and they've come in quite handy many times, so it was a fair enough exchange in the end.

That said, if the happy accident that landed the flower on her head had never happened, she'd hardly have the patience for such a huge quantity of hair. Short of shaving it all off, the less the better would have been her preference.

That said, the flower did end up on her head after all, but what if she were to take it off? Because she actually can. Even after all these decades, she could remove it at any time. If she just so happened to get tired of it being there one day, what would happen to that iconic hair of hers?

Well, she'd lose most of it. Whole sheets would fall away, detaching from her and the flower. However, the bulk of her real hair is still attached to her and healthy as can be! Albeit, sapped of color due to the flower's influence, and losing more as a result of removal. And while she'd had naturally straight hair before acquiring the flower, the impact of it's presence is never-ending it seems, as she'd be left with rolling waves and curls in it's absence. Now, how long the long hair lasts for someone who's never had to upkeep curls is a question worth betting on.

Appearances aside, Terra has always been passionate, both about her craft and the people in it. See, found family really does have meaning on the Isles, and the Plant Coven became her family. They accepted her, crazy and all; they trusted her intuition, despite questioning change; appreciated her dedication, as single-minded and intense as it could be at times; and supported her whole-heartedly when Hildevard announced she'd be the new Head Witch – and sooner, rather than later.

Reality was, there wasn't anyone who fit the role better.

Since the time she'd arrived at the young age of twenty, to the time of the announcement when she was only twenty-nine, she'd gone from offering helpful suggestions that were just what was needed, to straight up making whole-coven impacting decisions that only bettered life for everyone in it. From building the first large-scale greenhouse, to organizing the way everyone grew their plants amongst each other, to standardizing how any product produced was inventoried and sold, to keeping actual track of coven funds and using them to further build up the coven's structures, she eventually grew the Plant Coven's encampments from simple tent villages on unclaimed land to actual physical locations on properly coven-claimed land – allowing for all the legal rights and protections such a validated claim afforded.

How she'd had the starting funds for such endeavors and where she got any knowledge of the legal system, no one asked.

Especially not with the beloved old Hildevard, mysterious and sagely as she was, supporting the young woman at every turn.

So, she was inducted as Head Witch, done so just after turning thirty, the youngest age allowed per the legal stipulations for Coven Heads. And still so far the only witch in history to actually be inducted at that age. While some might consider becoming Head Witch to be the height of accomplishment, to Terra, it was just another happenstance, one that simply allowed her to better work on improving her coven.

As far as she was concerned, she still had a lot of work to do, and it wasn't going to do itself, now was it?

What she built, she preserved. What she grew, she maintained. And what she gained, she protected.

But more on that in another post~ Stay tuned for part two!

[mcybree]

BEASTLIFE QUICKLY EXPLAINED by Bree “the breester” mcybree (navibree)

Beastlife is a fan-hosted life series by unidingo. It is currently on its fourth season. There are two leagues that run simultaneously; this summary covers Saturday League only.

SEASON 1

standard 3rd life rules. I actually know very little about this season, so we’re going with bullet points based on what I’ve gathered:

The Mountaineers (four person alliance) is formed.

so is the opposing team: Jungle’s Edge (violent three person alliance)

Kiwiibird (Kiki) and Fishiecomics of the Mountaineers get minecraft married. They wear salmon heads around and do crack. I think.

overlyechidna is the first out. A peaceful funeral is held, which sets the precedent for future seasons.

Ohnoitsoak plants wheat wherever people die, as part of “the Harvest.”

Sonicmike7044, Johnsonofdonut, and unidingo of Jungle’s Edge carpet bomb the entire server.

Kiwi dies in front of Fishie in said carpet bombings

Sonicmike wins 👑

SEASON 2

Double Life rules, with some adjustments: health bars are not linked, only lives. Additionally, all players are given the choice between a handful of animals, and are paired with whoever chooses the same one.

In direct contrast to S1: Fishie and Dingo are paired (the Camels. They get along just fine), and Kiki and Sonicmike are paired (the Cats. They beat each other up)

navibree (ME!!!!) and occultwhiskers (Oku), or the Pandas, arrange a server-wide potluck. John johnsonofdonut kills Oku and blows up the potluck.

Kiki and Sonicmike kill the cat of the Cows (spacetrashpile and nullifi3d_), and also start an endless raid due to their villagers’ close proximity to a pillager outpost.

In my frantic revenge plans for John, I fall to my death twice in a row, making the Pandas the first out. John plays piano through his mic at the Pandas’ funeral.

Echidna takes Oku’s head home with her.

I go to death limbo (referred to as Elysium after death. yeah like the song). I fall to my death to prove a point, killing limbo!Oku by mistake.

In the midst of endlessly grinding for wither skulls and hearing Oku’s ghostly voice in his head, Kiki “became catholic,” reciting prayers in hopes for salvation.

The final few players listen to some tunes. (captions by spacetrashpile)

The Cats are the last pair standing. Sonicmike flips a coin and kills themselves. Kiwiibird is dropped by god. Kiki wins! 👑

SEASON 3

🛸🔮👻🐟

OR: Ratastrophe. Last Life rules, except everyone is one rotisserie tall. Additionally, if a life is transferred to a spectator at spawn, in the same session that the spectator died, each player can be revived once. This is where shit starts to get insane.

Teams are formed: the Anthill (🐜), the Coven (🔮), and the Lillies (🥀, kept secret until session 9).

When the Coven and Anthill meet to trade, I (🐜) see Oku (🔮) and lose my shit. We meet up in private for a date / bookclub meeting, and I find out that Oku, in addition to looking completely different than they did in S2, doesn’t remember anything from previous seasons.

Mei (meikyowo, 🐜) proposes the “Oku Alien Theory”— the idea that the original Oku was abducted by aliens and replaced by “Broku,” an alien clone. I think Mei is a genius.

I try to put Oku in a cage to run experiments on her. Oku escapes and tells the Coven. Kiwi (🔮) tells me I can’t be doing that, and grounds Oku from seeing me. After 15 minutes of arguing about Oku’s origins, and being interrupted by Mei boogey-killing Phia (🔮) and blowing up the Coven’s house, the Coven and the Anthill are firmly enemies.

Enraged by Mei’s crimes, Sonicmike (🔮) trades all but one of her lives to Kiki, and dedicates the session to hunting Mei. Consequently, Kiki’s skin inverts its colors, and his disposition flips entirely. He becomes the “anti-kiwi”— later dubbed Peregrine.

Fishie (🥀) throws a birthday party near spawn. As a birthday gift, Peregrine gives Fishie a salmon head, as a callback to S1.

Mei shows up to the party. Sonicmike shoots and chases her, but Mei uses an end crystal to obliterate Sonicmike.

Kiki revives Sonicmike, trades all of his lives back, and “goes back to normal.” Peregrine continues to make the occasional appearance, however. (After some discussion, Kiki is later canonized as a system.)

I take the Anthill over to the Coven to make friendship bracelets. While I’m there, Kiki tells me that Oku can’t be an alien clone, because Kiki already knows exactly what Oku is. When questioned, Kiki says “a ghost” told him, as he is a medium. I assume this ghost is s2!Oku, and beg for medium lessons. Kiki reluctantly agrees.

Fishie puts on the salmon head she got from the party. She acts strange, as if she were still in Season 1, reliving every session one by one.

Kiki and the Anthill hold a séance and contact what is, supposedly, the ghost of s2!Oku. Kiki “gets possessed,” but the ritual explodes before a conclusion can be reached.

Kiki, fed up with S1!Fishie, takes the salmon head off by force. Fishie “goes back to normal.” Big quotes.

Fishie and Kiki have a talk that, in their words, concludes their arcs. Kiki “no longer has problems.” Big quotes, again.

I realize that if Kiki was possessed by S2!Oku, this means that Oku really did just die. Rather than accept it, I freak out and declare that I’m going back to the alien theory, and decide to build a giant pillar into the sky, so that I can reach the moon and talk to Oku (who, as abducted by aliens, must be on the moon) directly. “Broku” begs me to reconsider, but I instead throw her stacks of cobblestone, so that she can tower up with me.

Oku falls off on the way up. Oku comes back with renewed determination to reach me.

Oku falls off on the way up. Again.

Oku, now red, finds me and tells me that I must be right about the theory. Oku wants to build a machine to send them back to the moon. I agree.

Echidna (unaligned) convinces me to go to the Coven while we wait for the moon to rise. A few others follow me, and we all huddle around a sign. The boogeyman, Fishie, takes the opportunity to set off a tnt minecart, killing six people at once. This includes Oku.

Oku, once revived by Oak (🔮), builds the moon machine with a concerning amount of explosives. Echidna, worried about my wellbeing, tries to stop this. I almost kill her about it. Echidna logs in next session with a bandaged eye, implying that I slashed it in this attack. I don’t comment on this.

Once the machine is rigged up with Oku in the center, Echidna presses the button. Oku explodes.

At Oku’s funeral, it’s almost unanimously decided that things will be better for everyone, now that they’re gone.

At some point in all of this, Fishie realizes she doesn’t actually remember S1 and S2 like she did before. She keeps this a secret.

Feeling lost without Oku, I look for employment opportunities. Fishie hires me.

I change my mind and die trying to kill Fishie for vengeance. Sonicmike gives me several firework crossbows for a second attempt, but I accidentally blow myself up instead.

Echidna revives me. I immediately try to kill him for pressing the button that killed Oku, but fail.

Mei, unable to attend the rest of the season due to real life circumstances, hosts a will-reading where they distribute all of their valuables before dying forever, including an end crystal and netherite armor.

I ask greygery (🐜) to help me build a grave for s2!Oku. Kiki wears my player head to give me a talk about grief. Joetagonist (🐜) plays clangen the whole time. Really awesome conclusion wouldn’t have it any other way.

Fishie writes Kiki a note that’s actually very important but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was about. I’m not a fishiekiwi expert you’ll need to watch the videos or talk to one of our two awesome fans for that one.

Sonicmike leads a small party of red names around in hopes to land a kill. The plan is to kill Fishie, but I get so fed up with Sonicmike’s leadership that I launch an attack on Dingo (🥀) instead. Unbeknownst to me, Dingo has a gun*.

Dingo shoots me point blank. I lose all of my health instantly.

Sonicmike kills Dingo in return. Dingo, freshly red, also shoots Sonicmike. Sonicmike dies for good.

Echidna messages me an apology, for (assumedly) letting me die. I see an opportunity, and possess Echidna (double-clicking on a player in spectator mode allows you to talk to them and see through their eyes) for the remainder of the series. Echidna tries to kill himself about it. Twice. It got awesome, what can I say.

My best friend, Joetagonist (🐜), gets bored without me around and kills himself about it. Joe waits until the very end of the session, so that nobody can revive Joe and Joe can die for good.

Inexplicably, Joe silently stalks the server in a bloody creepypasta flesh horror rendition of Joe’s skin. This makes Kiki catholic again.

Dingo reveals the existence of the Lillies. She’s then hunted down as a team effort between the Coven and the Anthill.

The Coven and the Anthill strategically coalesce into Team Chimera.

Kiwi decides to turn against Team Chimera, and gets multiple kills before dying himself.

It’s looking bad for Team Chimera.

Oak, unable to attend the final session, kills himself. This is accompanied by a will and several paintings in the beastlife discord art channel. She leaves their yellow life to Echidna, in the form of a totem.

The Lillies (fishiecomics, moch_ila) and Team Chimera (overlyechidna, greygery, spacetrashpile) meet up for the final showdown

Fishie accidentally shoots Moch with her gun. Moch dies forever.

Echidna and Gery get shot. They also die forever.

Space lands a kill on Fishie, but Fishie’s still in it. Fishie shoots Space.

Fishie crawls into the grave she dug for her allies and places a wither rose. Fishie withers away.

fishie wins! 👑

*power v bow. It’s referred to and used like a gun. It is a gun. ———-

This summary is still more bree-centric than I’d like it to be, but So Much happens to everybody all of the time that an all inclusive summary is near impossible. A lot of the fanart is of fishie or kiwi specifically, if that gives context. Hope this helps 👍 @taievieu

[s1zar]

I rewatched Owl House.

First season is so average, like they make it by a notebook

Lilith get off the hook too easily

Fucking body swap plot is annoying in anything but Gravity Falls and Adventure Time

Willow and Amity reconciliation is too quick

Titan Trappers are exist only to exist

Who the fuck put this magic door in Titan’s skull and then put Collector Dish there

How did witches have information to tell legends about the Collector?

When Amity and Hunter are cut off from they Evil Pumping Stations they are lost all personality

Belos is boring as fuck. His only character trait is that he is evil, which is laughable for the show that tell us people are complex. That’s why he only will be referred as Evil Dude

Odalia is so stupidly evil that it’s impossible to take seriously

Lumity is not developed further than “Girlfriends” and the only reason why Lunter could be better is because it’s just easier to develop

Luz and Evil Dude’s parallel starts and ends with the fact that they are humans

Evil Dude is an idiot

Collector could be named Plot Device

Raine is very meh. They only personality is that they are hero

Evil Dude is said to be the strongest witch ever, but he almost looses to five teenagers

What was the point of standing against coven system if in the end we have a squad from a fucking RPG game. Character form plants, character for illusions, character for abominations, character for teleportation

Evil Dude have as much super powers as the plot need

Characters have zero reaction of learning they arch enemy story

Evil Dude looses all small glimpses of being an actual character and become villain of the week

Absence of chemistry between Hunter and Willow can cause physical pain

For the Future is one of the most useless things created by a human being

Caleb Wittebane appears for reasons and never affects anything, so he will referred as Fan-service Background

Collector is an insult to God

I hate Collector

“One character hears half of what other character says and is offended by it, only for the audience learn that other character didn’t actually mean what first character thought they mean” plot line is a violation of Geneva Conventions

Evil Dude spending 98% percent of his screen time in finale as giant roaring green blob is a final shot from a shotgun in a head of his characterisation

Luz is Chosen One now. Message of the show is annihilated by Atomic Bomb

Titan is an asshole who assaulted a child because there was no one else to assault

There two villains. One looks like a child, have sparkles in his eyes, and flies and a star with happy face. Second is goopy skinny, rots in real time, have eyes in places that supposed to be without eyes, and he shrieks like an Alien. Who of the two is going to be redeemed?

The moment Evil Dude is dead Boiling Isles is an utopia. If you take this seriously, I don’t feel sad for you, I will laugh at you

Hunter becomes Caleb 2.0, and that’s why you dig up in the fact that you are a clone, my boy. You never know if your actions are actually yours

Evil Dude’s death better than Toffee’s only because this time main antagonist dies by the end of the series

The fact that Owl House doesn’t redeem it’s main antagonist like Steven Universe or have a better ending than SVTFOE is not an argument

Fuck Collector

I could write what I liked but it would be boring

[darrowfire15]

Random Coven Head HCs

Just for fun, and I'm avoiding HW.

Mason and Vitimir are both perfectionists. Mason because he accidentally constructed one of his school projects wrong and he had to start all over the night before it's due. Lil' Mason got his first few gray hairs that night. Vitimir because he wanted to try and get his parent's attention by being top of his class. Even thought that didn't work, it's also so he doesn't have his potion blow up in his face. Literally.

Hettie has multiple "projects" going on, involving some TF2 Medic-like abominations. Belos is glad, yet terrified to have her on his side, or else his heart may not be his own one morning. Also literally, she is insanely fast.

Adrian has a 2 hour morning and night routine that rivals Darius' 30 minute morning routine. When in college, his suite mate and roommate had to time their trips to the bathroom very carefully. That, or try to convince Adrian to wear a concealment stone.

Osran briefly had a job of being a fortune teller. He was fired for seeing the customer's future all the way until their deaths. He still does it and knows when and how Terra will die. And has told her. She might as well drop there with how close it is.

Eberwolf has brought fleas into the palace not once, not twice, not even thrice, but a total of 15 times. No one knows how, but it's a week of hell each time. It takes Mason, Vitimir, Darius, and Osran to just hold him down while the Scouts try to quickly draw a bath. All but Osran get fleas since he uses his spirit hand and they envy him for it.

Terra tried to poison Hettie out of spite by putting crushed up poisonous berries in her drink. Well, what she thought was Hettie's drink. It was actually Vitimir's, but because of his corrosive breath/acidic saliva, it had no effect. But he says it made the drink taste sweeter!

Raine and Eberwolf have this "duet" where Raine plays their choice of instrument and Eberwolf howls along extremely off key and off beat. Raine tolerates it because it agitates Terra in the morning and karma is a bitch.

Mason, when overwhelmed, curls up in a ball and makes a sort of "cave" around himself for a bit until he feels better. The one downside is that he forgets to deconstruct these "caves", so there's just nests made from the ground all around the castle grounds. He gets overwhelmed by his students mostly, so Raine lends him some sympathy.

Darius accidentally told Adrian to "try and relax" after Adrian realized he has a cowlick. In a nutshell, it wasn't a pretty sight.

Kikimora almost got eaten by one of Terra's plants. No, obviously Terra isn't sorry. No, the plant isn't sorry either. No, the plant didn't want to eat her after tasting her. Yes, Kikimora taunts it after that.

Adrian and Vitimir hate each other. Adrian has rearranged Vitimir's messy, but organized potion room multiple times. Once, all of his ingredients were in alphabetical order, another time was by color, and the last was by the height of the containers. Vitimir gets his revenge by switching his shampoo with hair dye. Adrian's hair has been every color of the coven system.

[thisbelongsto-nohbodys]

So, post-series headcanons on Luz, Amity, Willow, Gus, and Hunter?

I'm mostly waiting on any creator/crew post-series Q&A interviews to really dive into major headcanons but here's a few off the top of my head that I have atm:

Luz: After finishing University (with flying colors), Luz became a writer/comic artist in the human realm and both a writer and explorer in the demon realm. With King's new glyphs, Luz got not only to see which old glyph combos still work but also test out new ones that she thought of in the 3+ years that she had before King figured out his Light glyph.

Amity: Due to taking over her dad's factory and working on both new abomi-ton inventions and exploring Amity got buff, her muscles are not as large as Willow's but Amity could dead-lift Warden Wraith's weight. Amity got to meet Mildred Featherwhyle at a human convention Luz took her to, Amity got all of her books signed and keeps them behind glass cases guarded by new abomi-tons she designed.

Willow: Willow is a coach for the new Hexside's Flyer Derby team and really likes helping the kids, she still plays with the original Emerald Entrails but as they have their own thing she's had to remake the team and will have her team skirmish against the Hexside team to help them get better. She helped Dell and Eda rebuild the Palistrom Woods with the help of the Plant Coven Artifact (before turning it over to the new Plant Coven Leader). While not the Plant Coven head now, rumor has it that many are considering suggesting her in a future Coven Head election.

Gus: He and Vee run the University of Wild Magic's Human/Witch Exchange Program, however it's less sending witchlings to human school and more an extended summer field trip (less likely to be hounded by authorities for kids not in school in summer as Luz and Vee points out early on), Gus and Vee help show witchlings around the human town of Gravesfield and teaching them about human things. He has yet to make peace with the Giraffes but he's getting close.

Hunter: After doing some digging into the history of Caleb he discovered that he's related to the Clawthornes, Eda tried to make a "little nephew" joke but Luz pointed out that since Hunter is a Grim Walker clone of Caleb that he's actually Eda's Great Great Great (insert more) Grandpa. This new family connection brought him to Dell who taught him Palisman carving alongside Eda also helping. Hunter considers both Darius, Eberwolf and Camila as his parents, all of whom consider him as their kid.

[tartsinarat]

here’s the redesigned and rewritten boyyyyyy, so meet Olly or Oleander Snapdragon, he’s a massive tsundere and the grandchild of Terra Snapdragon.

He’s really passionate in the arts and theatre, but unfortunately it’s to the point that he can’t stand mediocrity and will say it to that person’s face if they don’t meet what he believes is the standards of a good actor or artist. This is because he puts extremely high standards on himself due to the expectations of his family name, so he expects everyone else to also do the same. But he does believe that anyone can act if they try hard enough, also his advice as blunt as they are is his way of being helpful and he even offers to spend his time helping who ever he deems needs his help whether they like it or not.

He’s actually apart of the Oracle track and not Plant, Terra wasn’t really into the idea and is constantly bugging him to change tracks so he can be like her. That probably won’t ever happen because he enjoys Oracle too much. (Fun fact, him doing oracle magic is because of his name, oleander is believed to have been the source of the oracle of Delphi’s high priestess’s premonitions as the plant is a hallucinogenic because of its high poison so it’s a neat reference) Olly is really gifted at prophecy magic, he randomly goes into dream like dazes where he mentally and physically feels as if he’s inside the events going on but because of that he struggles with figuring out what’s real and what’s not which tends to cause panic attacks because of the horrifying events that may happen in the future but he never truly gets the context of it until it happens.

The thing about oracle magic is that you can know the future, but it may not be the future that eventually happens. This is because there’s multiple pathways that can happen which causes change and so it’s hard to hone in on all of them without going mad (which is why the head of the oracle coven couldn’t predict the future and Belos’s plans. He was too overconfident in his abilities and saw the one future that what Belos had originally said was going to happen during the day of unity happened so he was completely blindsided)

Olly and Pip were originally pretty good friends when they were younger because Pip used to sneak into the theatre when nobody was there to escape from Boscha and Olly would stay late after acting class to practice even more so they both ended up scaring the shit out of each other and they become buddies because Olly needed and audience and Pip needed someone who Boscha doesn’t dare to bully (Olly is insanely good at bullying boscha right back) so he gets left alone. This was until Olly had a prophecy moment and realised that Pip is cursed and could attempt to attack him at one point in the future, they ended up having an argument and what he predicted ended up happening but in a different way to what he thought would happen. Pip’s curse does act up due to the high emotional levels going on but it’s only after Olly gets closer that Pip pushes Olly away and runs out. The way that Olly thought it would go is that Pip pounces on him and attacks him.

After that drama both Olly and Pip refuse to interact with each ever again; Pip because he’s mad that Olly stopped being friends with him because he thought he was going to attack him and Olly because he thinks he was still in the right because it could have gone that way.

They eventually do talk with each other but that’s only after Luz does wacky hijinks and Pip gets involved completely by accident as Luz first meets Olly when she finds out that Hexside offers a theatre club and meets him. Luz originally thought Olly was pretty mean because of how blunt and critical he is, Luz manages to join the club much to Olly’s dismay because he thinks that Luz isn’t actually serious about it so they butt heads a lot. This was until Luz becomes patient zero of a musical zombie apocalypse at Hexside because she found a phantom of the opera like mask in the box of forbidden props and puts it on because she was being silly and then gets possessed by the evil spirit of the mask who wants to control the whole world through musical theatre lmaoo

here’s possessed Luz btw but its a really old drawing because I drew it before the revamp because this a rewrite of an idea from the og Golden heir au before I redid it to post it on tumblr, so she’s based more on the og show design rather than my au version, I was too lazy to redraw it rn soz :{

Pip and Olly end up having to work together as the last two people left in Hexside who aren’t apart of the musical theatre hivemind in order to save everyone and the boiling isles from being a mindless singing zombie. they end up being buds again after talking through it as they run away from the singing dead

Think “the guy who didn’t like musicals” but Paul succeeds through just his pure hatred of musicals and that’s Pip’s experience of this situation

[somewhatgoodatart]

Redesign edits for my OpenMind!AU

Context

Hunter

currently training as the Golden Guard under Darius' care after his father (the previous Guard) passed away

bonded with Flapjack before he even started training

Luz

taken in by Phillip after landing in the Conformatorium when she first arrived on the Isles

quickly befriended the Collector

gets trained by both Phillip and Eda (cue antics)

Willow & Gus

they ran into Luz and Hunter seperately and had Coven Scouts show up at their door a few days later, delivering two mentorship offers from the Plant and Illusion Coven

aside from their usual lessons they usually shadow Hunter along with Luz to prepare for future Coven duties

Amity

still gets mentored by Lilith, though mostly in the workings of the Emperor's Coven

her Abomination & combat training gets handled by Darius

Phillip/Emperor Belos

takes one descendant from every Clawthorne-Wittebane generation as an apprentice, which turned into generations of Golden Guards serving him through his rise to power

anominously helped Eda get the treatment for her curse, though there's only so much he can do since he can't exactly show up on her doorstep and Gwendolyn is very stubborn

compensates his own lack of children by adopting every teenager in sight, regardless of whether or not they already have parents

handles his curse through an elixer he invented

Lilith

Head of the Emperor's Coven

shared the curse with Eda after Belos' let it slip that that's possible

still keeps trying to recruit her sister because she would love to work with her sister again, instead of against her

slightly less annoyed by Hunter, actually takes the time to nerd out with him and Luz

loves teaching Amity, basically shares custody over her with Darius (bc f her parents)

Eda

low-level criminal (since wild magic isn't outright banned)

mostly annoys Coven Scouts, her sister and Phillip

ordered to train Luz since her ending up on the Isles is mainly her fault (she quickly grows on her)

she wouldn't have to follow the order but she loves the opportunity to corrupt her many-times-great uncle's ward

[gamerwoman3d]

Magus as the Goetic Demon, Bifrons: A Duh Moment.

Because Magus is a man I would have married when I was 12.

Above image credit here

[Personal note 📝 eep.. sometimes I suspect that my crush reads my blog or that my posts influence his algorithm at least. Can't help but worry that posting about demons and blasphemy kinks is gonna be the thing that finally makes him "nope" out. "Pray" for us, y'all.]

Okay so.

For funsies, I've been reading about the Goetia/Goetic "demons"[1],[6], and their angelic counterparts, the Kabbalah/Kabbalistic Angels of the ShemhaMephorash. It's a complex set of 144 beings. Supposedly these beings are organized by zodiac/time. So I choose to read a little about each angel and their corresponding demon during the time that a particular website[2] says the angel commands/physically manifests during.

The current angel is Ariel. The counterpart to Ariel is the goetia, Bifrons.

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ WARNING: Any links I post past this point may lead you to some charlatan bullshit. Don't buy shit from these links and claim I endorsed it. Use good judgment and proceed with caution. Spoilers, GIFs⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️

The dancing lights and flowing hair and cape made this pile of pixels the sexiest thing ever according to 12y/o me.

According to Black Witch Coven[3], Bifrons is the demonic Earl of Hell, commanding legions of demons. He is associated with graveyards, necromancy, geometry, astrology, and his name originates, without any doubt, from the Roman god Bifrons (Janus). Bifrons was also one the names given to the baphomet allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templar, and which description was as a statue with two heads, one looking towards the left to tell the past, and the other looking towards the right to tell the future. Bifrons can transport corpses from their original grave into other places, sometimes putting magic lights on the graves that seem like candles. He appears as a monster, but then changes his shape into that of a man. He teaches Astrology, Geometry, other Arts and Sciences, the Virtues of Precious Stones, plants, woods, herbs, astrology and planetary influences. He excels in geometry. It is he who lights the strange corpse lights above the tombs of the dead.

Magus just chillin' with a Baphomet.

So let's break that down a little bit. Bifrons is...

Janus. BIFRONS IS JANUS. Magus is also named Janus. Roman Janus had been renamed Bifrons, which is just a fancy word for Two Faced gods (Two-Fronts.) Chrono Trigger's Janus had been renamed Magus, which is just a fancy word for a Magician. Both are associated with time, time travel, the past, and the future. Both are associated with the Baphomet.

Baphomet is a statue of a demon with the naked torso of a man but a horned, goat-faced head. The statue is usually depicted with an exposed hard-on, or a wand/rod where the hard-on would be. The phallus or phallic symbol is often wrapped with snakes, depicting the caduceus, or healing rod of Hermes. Here we see a stylized candelabra used as a censor for Magus' four-armed Baphomet.

Bifrons is the guy who lights strange dancing candles and "corpse lights" in and around tombs and gravesites. Magus has these dancing lights all around his place, and each light sometimes turns into a skeleton monster. There are tombs, coffins, corpses, all over Magus' lair, associating him with gravesites and necromancy, just like Bifrons. And Magus' powers are based on GEOMETRY and ASTRONOMY and PLANETARY INFLUENCES. Just. Like. Bifrons.

Magus commands monsters in the game and is effectively treated like the king of monsters. Bifrons commands legions of demons and is effectively treated like a king of demons.

Bifrons and Magus are both royalty: Bifrons is an Earl of Hell and Magus' is revealed the son of Queen Zeal, the young Prince Janus.

Image credit: gamerant[4]

According to GameRant, The name Magus itself has several meanings aside from the obvious allegories to magic. It's the singular word for the term "Magi," which lends further weight to his allure and proficiency as a spellcaster. Magus' Japanese name, Mao, is far more sinister. It effectively means "Demon King," which was pretty much Magus' identity before Crono and his friends have the chance to rope him into their quest to save the world.

Ooh. So, "Demon King," you don't say? Hm.

In addition to this, Magus was sent to the past, and is constantly aware of the future and looking forward to it. Janus is far far into the future, staring into the past. if we think of Bifrons' baphomet having one face looking to the left to see into the past and one looking to the right to see into the future, we get further inclination that Magus might have been based on Bifrons.

Image credit, almarockero

If that's the case, then imagery of Magus could in fact be a fairly effective, and attractive, altar image to utilize in pathworking, if you believe in such things. But what do practitioners of those crafts say about Bifron's appearance?

We know Bifrons first appears as a monster, but depending on the bravery and the request of the practitioner, he will "take the shape of a man well versed in astronomy and geometry." So how does Magus appear to us?

As far as game logic is concerned... Magus first appears to us as a monster! Then depending upon the bravery of Frog and the decision of the player, he either [spoilers ahead] remains a monster and does not help you...

Or [spoiler] joins your party, effectively becoming a man by game logic. He's a player character, no longer a mob. It's fascinating to me that this is so parallel to Bifrons.

Once he's in your party, you can literally have him help you save Chrono's life by [spoiler] having him transport a kind of doll of Chrono and swap places between Chrono's corpse and the "corpse" of the doll. Very Bifrons energy.

According to Pitch Black Craft[5] Bifrons changes the placement of the dead and puts them in another place.

Bifrons is a necromancy demon and he can help you to communicate with the dead. This spirit can be called upon during a funeral, because he can help the dead to leave the physical plane faster and more easily.

Bifrons can be called upon during rituals to honour and to keep in touch with dead ancestors.

He rules 6 ( but actually maybe 60) legions of spirits. [Also says 26].

So we have a guy that can swap the dead's places swapping the places of a man who is about to die with a "man that is already dead" or a doll.

Image Credit [6]

"Wait whaddaya mean already dead" I hear you asking. Well, this is a theory so we're off the rails, but I'll explain. Take the following with a grain of salt because it's just a headcanon.

The Chrono doll came from Norstein Bekkler's creepy ass tent - the one with the skull-shaped entryway. Inside this silent creepy space, you can play games with creations of his, such as a type of 3 shell game featuring identical Guardia Soldiers, Biggs, Wedge, & Piette. Or another game that utilizes a creepy clone of you... That you have to pay 30 silver for... just like you'd pay the devil in certain contracts... and he accepts no other currency. For a doll of you. That IS you. And can/will be delivered directly to your house no matter where in time and space the house is, instantly. Bekkler is therefore another time traveling "devil" with a creepy front door to a creepy lair and a wicked widowspeak hairline.

I've always suspected Bekkler and Magus could be the same character, as Magus can be anywhere at any time. Bekkler's Biggs, Wedge, & Piette dolls function like the guardia knights that turn into skeletons in Magus' lair. If I'm correct, then the cloned "dolls" from Bekkler's lab are some kind of similar necromancy, possibly of closely related similar looking ancestors, such as Leene to Marle. Magus even made a Leene clone for you to fight in his castle.

MAGUS, not Bekkler, cloned Lucca's dad and Chrono's mom. Instantly. In a completely different era in time. Just to harass Chrono and friends in the castle. So as far as we know, only Bekkler and MAGUS have this unique necromantic cloning ability.

Meaning... what if the dolls you win at Bekkler's are made out of the characters' own ancestors bodies, using Magus' necromantic and time-bending magics? What if Marle's doll was made out of Leene somehow? With the same kind of necromancy that Magus used in his castle to make skeletons and monsters look like healthy Guardia citizens? With the ancestor's body being swapped out or graverobbed shortly after death?

This guy can by anywhere everywhere all over the place at once anytime all the time. Image collage done in phone app with game recources.

It's not cannon to the game, but would certainly link Magus more closely to Bifrons, if Magus were to have swapped a "corpse" with Chrono's body at the point of Chrono's death.

But it is not my headcanon alone that I will be using; I will also cite the goetic artist coffeeatus[7], who describes Bifron's human shape as "the Tall man with the very long blond hair." Which sounds enough like our man, Magus to me. (Marle in game describes him as the blue-haired one, and Ayla asks if the blue-haired one is more tasty. But in many arts, he appears platinum blonde to lilac.)

“Bifrons who appears as a wolf like monster, but at the Will of the Sorcerer, will change shape to a human male. Bifrons is a necromantic spirit, who governs the realm of shades; he may bring one close to various shades of the dead, but often they are not who they claim to be. Be cautious but be indulgent with this spirit as well. Bifrons may change the place of dead bodies, being the binding of ghosts to various fetishes or pots, and lights witch fire on the graves of the dead.”

~From the Luciferian Goetia by Michael Ford[8]

Similarly, I think certain pots and objects in Magus' castle had monsters in them of some sort. He also turned 4 children into shadow monsters who were guarding a treasure. The children, and in fact all of the "people" in Magnus' castle were shades of some sort, and "not who they claimed to be."

And finally...

“Another necromancy demon. Work with Bifrons to communicate with the dead. This would be the daemon invoked for a funeral ceremony to help usher the dead on their journey. Also invoke during rituals to honor ancestors or to learn to accept death.”

~From the Daemonolatry Goetia by S. Connolly[8]

Magus is a character who simply cannot accept the death of his loved one. So it is interesting that Bifrons is a psychopomp who also assists others in accepting death.

Magus' character design is top notch, thanks to Akira Toriyama. I can only assume he was aware of the lore surrounding demonic royalty like Bifrons. He did put demon kings in many of his works, such as Go! Go! Ackman which was all about demons, and DragonBall which features Piccolo as a demon king.

Should Toriyama have intentionally modeled Magus as an homage to Bifrons, that could make his artwork one of the best-known and most powerful representations of this entity. Theoretically his image would make for powerful meditative pathworking and spellworking ⚠️⚠️⚠️I'm giving links below, DO NOT get sucked into a cult goddamnit⚠️⚠️⚠️ for magics involving astrology, geometry, herbs, plants, necromancy, arts, sciences, or possibly curses[9].

But as for me, I just wanted to bang him in the middle of a giant glowwy summoning circle because I thought that was hot. Whether I write smut on the topic might depend on interest- Chrono Trigger is a fairly inactive, old fandom.

Below are a handful of links to some good fanart, followed by citations and links. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

ART SOURCES:

GIF SOURCES:

WARNINGS CITED:

[1] ["Demons" is in quotations because some claim they are not demonic but angelic in nature. Some may claim they are fallen, or demonic, or simply refer to them as "goetic spirits." I have no preference.]

[2] [Not linking that site because I believe they're charlatans; the website changed fundamentally recently from a normal wiki style site to a more commercial website that appears to be re-built with AI, just using the data scraped from the wiki.]

CITED SOURCES:

[3] https://blackwitchcoven.com/demons/bifrons/

[4] https://gamerant.com/chrono-trigger-trivia-magus/

[5]https://pitchblackcraft.com/2019/08/27/demon-bifrons-from-goetia-and-how-he-can-help-you/

[6] https://www.occult.live/index.php/Kabbalistic_angel

[7]https://www.72goetia.com/2020/04/bifrons-earl-of-hell.html?m=1

[8]https://demonsanddemonolatry.com/demon-of-the-night-earl-bifrons-night-demon/

[9]https://www.tumblr.com/caidenthewitch/762443442631720960/how-to-set-a-curse-upon-anyone?source=share

[greater-than-the-sword]

For @rabbits-of-negative-euphoria

The fate of animals after their death is unknown, and not specified by the Bible. My best evidence is this verse in Ecclesiastes 3:20-21: 

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.  Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Obviously this doesn't tell us much. This was before the time when much had been revealed about the afterlife of humans. In the New Testament we learn much more about what awaits humans after death, but the fate of animals is not so revealed.

However, what we can gather from this passage is that an animal has some sort of spirit. It may not be like a human spirit at all, but apparently still qualifies for use of the word. Before you get ahead of me, obviously animals do not have the Imago Dei like humans do, and were not even created on the same order as humans or to have the same spiritual capacities.

In the Bible the word "spirit" is also used as "breath", and we see higher animals described as having this sort of spirit in Genesis:

Genesis 6:17

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

and likewise in 7:22.

Now for your claim that it is quite enough for animals to have their short and limited existence, perhaps you can assume that when you are thinking about pets and their nice cushy life, but many animals live a short and quite horrible life, suffering the whole time, and then die brutally. All of this is by no fault of their own since animals don't have the capacity to sin against God.

The Bible makes it clear that animals suffer from the effects of a fallen world brought on by humanity, since we are - as it were - (and i know this imagery will appeal to you as a Presbyterian even more than it does to me) its covenant heads.

With that in mind I fail to see how Romans 8:22 can be referring to anything else.

 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And before you say, "well, Evelyn, even the plant world suffers from humans' evil, but no one would claim that trees have spirits."

Trees don't think or feel, but animals do. I simply choose to have faith that God didn't lie to us in creating the material world, and when an animal seems to be aware and feeling; it really is to the degree that it appears to be, rather than as a cleverly designed automaton. To say otherwise is a form of faithlessness and even solipsism I might argue.

So what else does Romans 8 say about the creation?

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Clearly then there are other parts of the creation besides man, which are waiting eagerly for God to reveal a new humanity in future glory. Once their covenant heads are redeemed, they get to tag along. And the generations of breathing, bleeding, feeling animals who have suffered since the fall hardly seems the least important among the things that were created. It hardly seems like they would be left out of this. But I don't necessarily hold this view dogmatically. It just gives me hope that God cares about the least of his creatures.

[baghassavocados]

So, like, first Tumblr post 😌😌😌

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Right now, I wanna list out my AUs and their summaries cause I may make some into fanfics or ask blogs in the future (some currently being made 👀) and I wanna list them out for y'all to know, for me to keep track of them, and for y'all to keep an eye out for mayhaps (or help me out even, pls-)

The hyperfixations are also strong but they're everywhere and I need to write them all down; the notes app isn't enough.

Anyways... (Legit, no order to this whatsoever)

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FNAF Ghosts- The concept of Ghosts (CBS) using FNAF SB characters

Gregory and Cassie search through an abandoned arcade/mall for reasons (idk). Vanessa's there acting as a security guard to make sure no one, y'know, trespasses or gets hurt. Well... that fucking fails... cause Greg FALLS through the BROKEN FLOOR.

He's ok, tho :)

Vanessa isn't :(

Greg can see ghosts now! :0

Hijinx ensues >:)

(this is gonna be a fanfic. Maybe an ongoing comic, too, but I've not got the energy nor time to do another ongoing comic).

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Funtime Performer AU- The FNAF SL animatronics are actual human performers! (And the Aftons aren't dead! :D Willy still sucks, tho). That's honestly it... well, Elizabeth is still Circus Baby, but it's not because she...I did just say that nobody died, so I don't think I need to explain.

(This is gonna be an ask blog!!)

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Tangled TAZ- I put Taako, Lup, Kravitz, Barry, and John (as well as others but these are the main guys) into Tangled. Taako and Lup are Rapunzel, Barry and Kravitz sorta act as Flynn, and John is Mother Gothel. Garyl is in it too! And Taako and Lup get a mongoose named Daryll instead of Pascal :))

(THIS IS AN ONGOING FIC ON AO3! It's called "The Lost Twins" and currently is only at chapter 2... it's been like that for a few months now ;-; stupid school and procrastinating and non-TAZ hyperfixations).

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DanganTAZ - I put the TAZ characters into a Danganronpa situation... there's angst :)) I've hurt myself emotionally with this shit :,))

(THIS IS ONGOING ON INSTAGRAM!! DanganTAZ is the account! it, too, suffers a hiatus similar to TangledTAZ ;-;)

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Millie and Delilah (names subject to change) - They are my BATIM OCs! Basically, Millie is a combination of all the main toons of BATIM and Delilah is an unfinished character; all and nothing :)) [Ooh, that's a good title name :0]. I still need to fix up this stuff and figure more things out (since I originally made them back in, like, 2018, so... yeah), bUT it will be an ask blog, so y'all can help 😎

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Edit 11-11-23: I've another AU

RTC Goosebumps -I put the Ride the Cyclone characters into the new Goosebumps TV Series on Disney + (but I did switch some stuff up and am gonna use inspiration from different Goosebumps books).

A few years ago, a girl fell off of a rollercoaster and died. She lost her head in the process from the cart running into her as she hit the track. No one, not even by the passengers in the cart who miraculously survived, were able to identify her. Because of this incident, the amusement park has been abandoned. Most of what it had remains in ruin. However, strange happenings occur after 5 teenagers enter the now haunted amusement park and come out of it with some souvenirs.

...and some chilling scares.

Here's also some one offs that I don't think I'll make in full, but they deffo came up in my mind at one point:

(again, no particular order)

TOHTAZ (Lup and Taako as Eda, Angus as Luz, Barry as Raine, Kravitz as Darius, Mags is the Construction Coven Head, Dav is the Illusion Coven Head, Lucretia is Oracle Coven Head, Merle Plant Coven Head, Pringles Potion Head, Carry might've been Beast Keeping, and John is Belos. That's as far as I got, I think)

RTCTAZ (I have a few pics explaining this better-)

[scribbled to blur out my face 😬]

Anyways ummm ooh, my BATIM chapter 5 theory before chapter 5 came out, that one's actually kinda neat. (The Ink Demon and Bendy are separate, Joey's the Ink Demon, Bendy was hiding around at the bottom of the studio, making tapes to hopefully lead Alice and Boris in the right direction and having to hide or pretend to be the Ink Demon, Allison, Tom, and Henry find him, later on Allison and Tom turn on Henry and Bendy, and that's all I remember)

Ooh, and my other au where the loop didn't happen but the Ink Demon actually came back as a chill, toon Bendy (who was slightly deformed), that one's kinda cool, too.

Had a BATIM and Cuphead crossover at one point, barely remember anything from that (I primarily figured that out through RPing with myself and didn't draw any of it out ;-;)

Penny revives the choir could be a oneshot.

Losttale

Oh, Danganronpa characters in an Undertale situation (yes, I did put Nagito in Sans's position, it genuinely fit very well). That one's neat, too. Tis a shame I'm no longer into Danganronpa enough nor do I really know how to continue it... although, maybe I could, idk, that one also seems like a potential ask blog. It's honestly neat. Gotta fix it up a bit, tho.

Which reminds me of the fact that I put Alice and Bendy into Frisk's situation, imagining that as an ask blog as well.

Ooh, another DR AU I might not finish (but have written a bit and have occasionally thought of finishing it) is "What if Hajime got the Despair Disease and it carried on into chapter 4?" Nagito was slightly out of character in all the things I made of it, but it's still really good every time I look back. Came up with a whole new motive to replace the files (cause Hajime got them instead).

I actually might make this a thing, I might not, but Spiderman Bendy :)) (he has inky spider powers and he's "Spider Demon." It's actually kinda more "Venom-y" except the suit/ink isn't sentient. Also, the toons are human. Alice is like MJ, Boris is like Ned, Joey could be J. Jonah Jameson due to how much he looks AND sound like him, but it might be more fitting if it were Sammy, Audrey and Bendy are siblings [she might act as "Aunt May" despite, y'know, being his sister], I think Henry's Uncle Ben, sad 😔, dunno where the Butcher Gang fit, they're just bullies or possible villains, idk... actually, that might be it)

Oh, I also used Crybaby songs and made a story outta that using BATIM characters (Bendy was Crybaby)

Edit: I forgot my Taako Hanahaki au. Honestly, this seems plausible for a fanfic because of the juicy angst that comes from lost bonds.

Edit 6-2-24: I've got an Ace Attorney AU for ya: Apollo Spiderman. Maybe I'll make it a fic, who knows, I sure don't. He'd use his spider powers in court rather than fighting villains (but maybe he comes around to helping out with crime fighting). The WAA and Klavier definitely figure it out pretty quickly.

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I think that's it

Well, I hope y'all enjoy the possibilities :))

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Bonus AU:

Twisted/Reincarnated JatGP AUs:

Backstory time: so, I did the James and the Giant Peach Jr. musical a few years back and a few members of our cast managed to come up with funky AUs out of it. I want to ask them for permission to write it into a full on fic and publish it on AO3 first, but here's me at least teasing it. I'm kinda hyperfixated on it atm and I wanna write it out entirely before it fades away in the back of our memories and the crevices of our Google Docs.

It's so fun, actually :)) (and so twisted >:)))

[artinclined-jointheartside]

Screencap redraw below the cut!

Well. I’ve seen For the Future now. Thanks, I hate it. XD But hey, I think we can all agree there were some funny moments, right? Right? Right~ Literally laughed SO hard while watching and it's forever stuck in my head. XD "I LiKe MuSiCiAnS!"

[fallen-gravity]

I love Willow, but what makes her so special to you? People have their own takes on characters. What’s yours for her? :)

I have a lot of emotions attached to Willow and a lot of different reasons why I love her, but I think at its core the biggest reason I love her so much is how unapologetically herself she gets to be.

Like, when we first meet her, our first impression is that she's just this shy, bullied kid who had trouble standing up for herself and controlling her emotions.

At a first glance, she seems like she needs rescuing, which is where Luz comes into play, and thus the whole plotline of her pretending to be Willow's abomination for her school project. But as time goes on, even within the same episode, she starts to show more of her true colors, and we learn that she's incredibly powerful when she wants and/or needs to be

She has all the power to be an overly-confident, stuck up top student who thinks she's better than others, but she isn't because that's not who she is. She's a soft-spoken kid who loves her friends and her plants and her dads and she's not afraid to show it.

and these are just examples from season one. Even as the series progresses and she becomes more and more self-confident and as she feels more in-tune with her powers, she's still the sweetheart we know and love. She doesn't have a concept of superiority because she just wants everyone to be friends and for everyone to get along.

Even when confronting Amity, when she has the opportunity to give her the cold shoulder and give her a taste of her own medicine, she doesn't, because she knows how much that hurts and doesn't want to inflict that on someone else.

Time and time again, Willow has continued to prove that sometimes the answer is to love and nurture, and there's nothing weak about that. Part of the reason she got through to Hunter so quickly is because where Luz and Amity's first instinct was to (rightfully) put up their guards and attack, she chose to love, to treat him as just another kid their own age, even after she learned the truth of who he really was.

It's this sort of kindness that gets the cogs turning in Hunter's head that maybe oh, maybe there is something wrong with how the Coven treats me, maybe I do want something more in life. It's Willow's kindness that drives a good chunk of his story into motion, and therefore the story of the show, as well.

It's almost ironic, really, that her downfall in For the Future is because she's holding so much in. She's so kind to others that she forgets to be kind to herself. But even in the end, the message she receives is not to stop being so kind, or even that others being unhappy are okay as long as she is happy, but for her to extend that sort of kindness to herself.

She's allowed to be a kind soul. She's allowed to be soft and sweet, even when the world is turning upside down around her. Nobody is telling her that she needs to put a protective case around her heart, because that's not who she is.

I love her so much because she so had the potential to be a cookie cutter Strong Girl Who Never Cries and Only Cares About Herself, but instead we have a girl who talks to plants and is terrified of tiny ladybugs and dresses up as the devil for halloween just so she can poke people with her trident and sobs when a cute boy says something nice to her. I love her I love her I love her I hope she never changes

[swampstew]

A Magical Christmas Day

This is the first installment of Rowena's Future Vision - a compilation of short stories and character building for my OC fic "What's the Magic Word?" a romance novel between Rowena the Witch and Eustass 'Captain' Kid. These stories don't have a firm place in the main story timeline, take them as bonus stories to build up my fic.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate ~ Word count: 2.6K CW: SFW, fluffy Christmas celebration story, super soft/romantic Kid, some suggestive content, cursing, and OC background lore. Minors do not interact with my posts or blog.

Rowena awoke freezing her ass off. The Victoria Punk had been sailing for days and the weather had changed overnight to more ice-like conditions. Shivering under the duvet cover, she peeked through her lashes to see if Kid was awake. His face looked peaceful, no creases or angry veins disturbing his handsome, scarred face. Strands of his gorgeous red hair covered his face and if she wasn’t so damn cold she would have reached over and gently brushed them aside. Maybe plant a sleepy kiss on his soft lips.

“What’re you starin’ at?” his deep voice startled her.

“Your beautiful face,” she whispered back, tucking the cover over the lower half of her face.

That made his eyes shoot open, glaring at her but she saw the corners of his mouth twitch upwards. “We talked about this,” he growled quietly.

“Yes and we’re in the privacy of our room. I’ve broken no rules.” She mentally prepared herself for what was coming. Kid’s hand shot out from under the covers and wrapped around Rowena’s waist. Before she could protest, he dragged her body to his, tucking the Witch under his chin.

“Shut up smartass. Too cold to argue with you.”

Rowena chuckled, her face pressed into the column of his throat, her laughter reverberated against him. “It is too cold. I don’t want to get out of bed but I’m hungry.”

“It should always be cold on Christmas. Plus, Killer’s probably already making a good stew and eggnog. Everyone is off today, we’re gonna drink and celebrate!”

“Kid?”

“Hmmh?

“What is Christmas?”

Kid pulled the Witch away from him, eyeing her to see if she was joking. “Your coven didn’t do a celebration during Winter?”

“We had a weeklong celebration but not ‘Christmas.’”

“You ain’t ever seen big obnoxious trees and blinking lights covering up every hallway and grand ballroom or whatever the fuck they got up in the ‘holy land of Mariejois’?” he mocked the last bit of the sentence.

Rowena searched his eyes as she thought back. “Oh. The big pines?” Kid nodded. “Yeah I saw them but didn’t really understand what was going on. Wasn’t all there, ya know?” she pointed to her head. Kid pulled her back under his chin, planting a firm kiss on the top of her head.

“Killer’ll tell you all about it. Don’t worry about the gift exchange. Those are always drawn the day after the Christmas party so the crew has an entire year to get a gift. Obviously you weren’t here for the last one but hey, that means you’ll have one with us!”

“That sounds nice, I look forward to participating,” she kissed his throat. “Still too cold to convince me to leave this warm bed.”

Kid pulled back and gave her a large grin. “Well let me warm you up,” he purred as his large, calloused hands began to wander over her body.

“---and then as time went on, the story became watered down until it became a fat man in a red suit that delivers presents to children all over the world. For those of us who didn’t have stable families or homes, we didn’t get that so we make our own tradition of it. Kid makes the tree, I make the meal, there’s a gift exchange and we party all day.”

Killer relaxed against the table, sipping his eggnog through a straw while everyone huddled around the newly made heater Kid had made. The Captain was spooning delicious lamb stew in his mouth; Rowena sat next to him, enjoying a glass of spiked hot chocolate.

“With my coven we celebrated the Yule, a multi-day festival to celebrate the winter season. We would sacrifice game animals and roast it for a meal. Throughout the week we would give out blessings to one another and ritualistic offerings. The first night was the best night – we would have a massive bonfire and dance in the snowfall!”

“That’s what we’re missing – snow!” Kid coughed out, finally emerging from his bowl. “All we’re getting is icy sleet and harsh winds. Just like back home!”

The crew muttered disappointed agreements, Killer loudly sighing. Rowena’s head swiveled to each face, then turned to Kid’s. He didn’t look mad and he didn’t look sad either. More like…dejected acceptance. Like he was used to being disappointed. She didn’t like it, didn’t like the way it threatened to break his previous excitement for the annual traditions. Rowena’s fingers grazed Kid’s cheek lovingly until he looked at her, mild annoyance and curiosity in his eyes.

“I can do that for you. Hold my hot choccy.”

The Kid Pirates stood in the hallway of the ship with the door open, watching the raven-haired Witch thumbing through her Grimoire and muttering to herself. After a few moments she snapped the book shut handing it to Killer, she grinned widely at Kid. She took her cup back and drained it quickly, placing it back in his flesh hand and jumping up to kiss him on the cheek. Rowena walked away so she didn’t see the red blush creep over his face and ears, nor the steam escaping his ears from how flushed he felt.

“One Christmas snow day coming right up, amorcito.” Kid’s head sunk a little as his crew looked to him, not understanding the affectionate nickname. Killer understood though, he always did, and his mask took on a pink hue from hearing the sentimental regards being shared.

The wind sharply tugged on her clothes, threatening to blow off her furs as she walked to the middle of the deck. She raised her hands and wand up, as if she was reaching for the massive nimbostratus clouds that loomed over the sky. The dark colored layers shifted at the same time the light pink crystal on her wand began to glow – it pulsed as the Witch began to chant.

“Muta formam tuam ad voluntatem meam - glacialis lacrimis pulveris nivis!” She shouted towards the sky twisting her wand in her grasp, her empty hand sort of grappling in the air as if she was trying to shake the cloud into submission.

Kid found himself smirking with fondness despite the silly way she looked while she tried to call forth a snowstorm. He heard whispering behind him and he was quick to snap around with a murderous glint in his eye, trying to find the perpetrator. Zeroing in on the pirate next to Wire, Kid stomped to him and towered over the smaller man.

“Pomp! Mind sharing with the rest of us what’s so fucking interesting?”

The little man broke into a light sweat. “I-um…was remarking on how sweet your lady is Boss. That she’d make a whole snow day for you and us just because it would make us feel better.” The pirates were quick to affirm their mate’s words.

He gave Pomp a warning glance before grinning, “of course she is! And she deserves another hot choccy. Fill ‘er up,” he dropped Rowena’s glass into his subordinate’s hands.

“Haikei, Rekt, Wire – go bring the tree from my workshop. Everyone else place your gifts under the tree when it’s done. Get the party set up in the meantime. And for fucks sake, wear warm clothes. Don’t flood U.K.’s infirmary like last year cause you all got fucking hypothermia.”

Kid made his way back to the door threshold in time to see Rowena’s efforts pay off. The sleet had stopped and the wind has lessened to a soft breeze. Craning his head up, the Captain could make out flurries descending from the gray clouds. He smiled as the first snowflakes melted against his skin; he stuck his tongue out to catch a few. Chuckling to himself, he looked down to see Rowena was also catching snowflakes with her tongue – that made his chuckling morph into gleeful laughter.

Kid made his way to the Witch. The masked pirate watched him go, struck by how bewitched his best mate was with his new…partner. Killer was happy for him; Kid deserved to love and be loved in return. Killer hoped he would be lucky enough one day to find someone who would love him like that. He kicked off the doorframe to help the crew prepare for the party.

The powdered snow lightly coated Kid’s metal tree, crowned with a skeletal angel of course. The presents sat crowded underneath, and there was even a small snowman next to the tree, weapons in place of its arms. Snowballs were flying across the deck and music was blaring loudly as the pirates enjoyed the holiday.

A snowball hit the back of Killer’s mask and Kid laughed hystrerically as the snow fluttered to the ground.

Killer’s aura felt menacing as he turned to Heat. “Motherfucker, I’m taking your gift back!”

“No wait, I’m sorry!!”

“Aw have a heart Kil!” Kid slapped his best friend’s shoulder.

“Yeah don’t be a Scrooge!” Wire called from his snow wall fortress.

Killer waved his arms down in defeat, “back off I didn’t mean it!! It’s a good time as any to start the gift exchange.” He picked up his gift and tossed it to Heat. “Here you go, buddy.”

As everyone exchanged their presents, Rowena sat on a bench sipping another boozy hot chocolate. Each version had a different spin on it and Kid was apparently going to reward whichever crewmember’s boozy recipe Rowena liked best. Heat’s offering had a dash of cayenne pepper to the drink and it was delightful.

Kid sat next to her holding out a small box. “Merry Christmas Rowena.”

“Aw Kid! I wish I had known so I could have made you something!”

He smirked, “I know you would have that’s why I didn’t. Figured I could get away with it this year. Let me spoil you a little,” he nudged the gift into her trembling hands.

Kid’s gut coiled with anxiety as he watched her tear away the paper and open the box lid. Her soft gasp made him feel hopeful, searching her face for confirmation of something. Her hands lifted the metal trinket, it was shaped and designed to resemble a small treasure box. Rowena’s eyes lit up as she opened the lid – inside was a small version of the Victoria Punk sailing on the ocean; on the underside of the lid, a small witch figurine riding a broom stretched forward and sat just above the ship sail.

He reached his flesh hand to wind up the lever, “enjoy the show,” he whispered.

A soft melody began to flow through the air, the waves inside the treasure box began to sway and the ship started to rise and drop in motion. Finally, the witch figure began to fly around the sky in a preset pattern, often flying low enough to be next to the mini-ship’s railing. Kid watched her face as it went from shock and then to adoration as she met his gaze. He was pleased he found the confirmation he was looking for, that she loved it.

“Kid this is so beautiful, I’ll treasure it forever,” leaning in to kiss him passionately. “What is the song?” she asked when she finally pulled away from him.

“I don’t know. It was a song I remember hearing as a baby but I never heard it again. Can only remember the tune.”

Rowena cupped his face, her eyes twinkling. “You are so special to me, thank you for sharing that. I love you Kid.”

“I love you too Rowena,” he leaned into her touch. “Alright our first Christmas together! When’s your Yule?”

“Don’t be mad, it started a few days ago.”

Kid’s eyes widened, “why didn’t you say anything!?”

Rowena cradled the lulling music box to her lap. “I didn’t know how to bring it up? I don’t know how to do it without my coven…is it still valid if I do it completely alone? I haven’t wanted to think about it so I was content with letting it pass by.”

He frowned at her words, she sounded so lonely in her head sometimes and it irked him that she seemed to forget that he was Right There. He can get her anything she wants that she couldn’t get for herself, so why doesn’t she just fucking ask?

“You said y’all hunt game and make a feast, and you have a massive fire and rave party. I can do all that. Blessings? I’ll take any you wanna give me. Don’t hold yourself back because of us.”

Rowena smiled at him before taking his hand, “I appreciate that so much, I’m just not sure it would be the same without other Witches to help me with the ritual offering. It’s not just a sacrifice, it’s more nuanced than that. The point is to try and call –”

Kid gripped her knee before shutting her up with his mouth. “Tell me what you need and I will make it happen.”

Sighing, “ok yeah you can throw me a party for Yule and I’ll bless you, your crew and your ship. No ritual though, not safe here.”

Kid grinned, “I’ll find an island and dock there so we can do your ritual then, mark my words.” She nodded and he kissed her again. “Just wanna help my girl be her best self. Now, what’s so dangerous about sacrificing a pig.”

“It’s not the animal you’ve got to be concerned with. It’s the Sea Devil who will probably not be too happy to see you if He accepts the offering.”

Kid’s jaw dropped. “Sea…Devil? That’s a real thing?”

“Well yeah. Where did you think your power came from?”

“Th-the fruit I ate…”

“The Devil Fruit…Kid. Your power comes from the same place as mine. I’m just blessed with it.”

Sighing, “of course you are princess. And let me guess, legend lore bullshit et cetera, I’m cursed?” She nodded. “That’s the way she goes, ‘Ro. Always something or someone trying to fuck me up but fuck it and fuck Him. Do your thing – if He wants to fight me, He can confront me Himself.”

Rowena cuddled into him, “if He wants you, He’ll have to go through me first.”

“Augh your self-sacrificing attitude is so annoying!” he grunted out, turning his red face away.

“Yeah but you love me anyways,” she quipped; the music box song ended and she quickly rewound the lever. Clutching it to her chest, “And I love you. I will protect you the way you protect me, you’ll just have to deal with it.”

Kid rolled his eyes, “shut the fuck up,” he muttered as he stood up, gently placing her gift on the table. Rowena brought her drink to her mouth but before she could sip the last of it, a pile of snow was dumped over her head.

“EUSTASS KID!!!!”

The monstrous redhead was already dashing away, laughing triumphantly as he manipulated his metal shovel to drop another pile of snow over his Witch. Rowena gave chase, using her magic to vault snowballs at him, cursing his use of Observation Haki to dodge her throws.

He was so focused on his game of chase that he didn’t notice Killer making a massive snow boulder that he vaulted at the Captain. Kid fell backwards on the snow-covered deck in shock. Rowena and his crew took advantage of his dazed state, bombarding him with snowy projectiles. Killer tossed and caught a firm snowball in his gloved hand as he strode up to this long-time friend.

“Merry Christmas, you filthy animal,” the Massacre Soldier chuckled as he hurled the snowball with inhuman speed at Kid’s face.

Translations: Amorcito - sweetheart. Muta formam tuam ad voluntatem meam - glacialis lacrimis pulveris nivis - Change your form to my will - icy tears of snow dust

[angxliquel]

TOH AU!!

Quints a human who magically ends up in the Boiling Isles (to be determined exactly how he gets there) and wants to learn magic because. of course he does. He's overall fascinated by the coven system but also just how magic in general works. He falls into the care of (you'll never believe it) Yursl!! I don't know if she'd be something different than the owl lady, but the owl lady would be cool because imagine Johnny Steve as Hooty or something 😭

I don't know if there'd be a "King" in this au since it's technically just if the tlkoe kids were inside the TOH universe, and it's not necessarily a "Quint is Luz" or "___ is King" AU. Quint IS kind of like Luz but their motives for learning magic are slightly different, and besides Yursl being a bit of an insert of Eda, that's kinda where it ends. (watch me contradict this in like two seconds) Mainly what I'm trying to say is that this storyline doesn't follow either the toh or tlkoe cannon ones to a tee, but still has elements of both

Jack is in the Illusion Track, but I feel like later on he would start to dabble in Abomination (since it's the closest thing to his zombie powers). He's still an orphan lmao, and lives at the Boiling Isles Orphanage. He transfers to Hexide from another school about a year previous to Quint's arrival. He comes across a poorly disguised Quint who was on a supply run for Yursl, and is absolutely AMAZED by him. The boys get along immediately and begin to hang out. Jack then tries to convince Quint to enroll in Hexide, which Quint finally does later in the future. Jacks Palisman would def be Rover, who, when not in palisman form, can (maybe,idk) switch between the normal palisman size and normal Rover Size.

For June, I'd say she'd be In Abomination or Beast Keeping. I say Abomination because 1: it's cool, and 2: Blasty could be like the spiky abomination glove Amity does in Eclipse Lake when fighting against Hunter. June wouldn't keep it on as near often as she does with Blasty in the books, but she would bring it out for fights. And if she WAS in Abomination, she'd be able to help out Jack when he starts to get into it (again, doesn't follow the tlkoe canon). She's still head of the Newspaper Club, and her Palisman would be Neon

Dirk is easily the Plant Track. He COULD be Construction, but idk I just see Plant more. Imagine him doing the Plant/Whip thing Willow does in the beginning of "Any Sport in a Storm." Almost like how he was into lassoing and cowboy stuff in Book Three (I wanna say three) His palisman is Drooler!!

So basically, how everyone would meet:

Quint arrives at Hexide under the disguise of a regular witch with Jack's help. (Quint pretends to be a witch during the entrance exam, in which he barely scrapes by. Obviously this only makes him more determined) Jack brings Quint to the newspaper room (since jack is still in the newspaper) and introduces him to the club. Quint catches Junes attention cause Quint sucks at lying and she can tell somethings up. She doesn't pry into it then and there, but still keeps it in her mind. At Lunch, June talks to Dirk. Dirk and June are friends; they have sort of a sibling dynamic and confine in each other. Dirks not really a bully per say, but he still gets into trouble and June's always there to get him out of it. (As she'll do with the rest of the group, until later when she unmasks a bit and gets a lil silly too) June proposes her theory to Dirk, and of course, she's right. At first, Dirk's like "You're ridiculous", but then he REALLY starts to look at Quint and thinks it may be possible. They both decide to look into it and go full sleuth mode- or rather June does and Dirk enables it- and find out that Quint is, in fact, a human. Chaos ensues.

"You're HUMAN??"

"Uh- yes."

"I knew it!! Dirk, see, I told you-"

"June. Not the time. "

"Right, sorry."

More Chaos- June and Dirk both swear not to tattle, but uh oh! Someone else overhears the conversation and gives the principle (tbd) the headsup. All four of them are called to the office and interrogated, before Quint's disguise falls apart and they make a run for it. Like in "I was a teenage abomination", the school goes on lock down and the gang has to use their magic to get them through the school and out the exit. After all is said and done, they don't really go like "we should be friends!" but rather they start hanging out with one another more, and soon they're thick as thieves and getting themselves into all sorts of shenanigans.

(Quint is still allowed to stay at Hexide, but he tries to stall getting assigned into a coven for as long as he can. This half-works because since there's no inspector like there was in "The First Day", there's not really a need for him to pick a track immediately.)

[cutesharkstudios]

Lumity Comfort Ch.3: This Clown Again

Luz's menace walked towards her with a smug smile and a high head. She leaned directly into Luz's face, practically sneering at the now scared girl. Amity put her hand on Emma's sholder, making herself clear that she won't let Emma mess with Luz. As she was backing up, Emma noticed the pride flags the couple was wearing, and hatched a plan.

Emma: So the weirdo is into girls, why am I not shocked.

Luz: Why yes, I do like girls, particularlly this angel.

Emma: I thought you didn't belive in this stuff.

Luz: Okay a) you're and atheist, you don't get to tell me about my beliefs. And b) there is evidence that the one verse you know was mistranslated, and actually ment to not date KIDS, not those of the same gender.

Emma: Whatever, I just see you being happy and wanted to stop it. You're just so weird, and weirdos don't deserve happiness.

Amity: Don't talk to my girlfriend that way! You put her through enough!

Emma: You're not the only one with a partner. Hey Jack, come here.

Entering the room was Emmas boyfriend, Jack Rocksforbrains. He looked like a genderbent Emma, but taller, more muscular, and a snear so brazen that it was hard to look at. Jack walked up to his girlfriends side, and looked at Amity.

Emma: Jack, fix her. (snaps)

Jack was about to approach Amity, but he then felt a hand on his sholder. Turning around, he saw the owner of the cafe, looking absolutely livid, as he knew what was about to happen.

Owner: Leave. Now.

Emma: Excuse me?

Jack: I was about to fix her.

Owner: You listen to me! They were just minding their own business, and you walk up to them to do horrible things! I heard about you buffoons from Luz! You two are not welcome here! You, and you, GET OUT!

Jack and Emma left, but that won't be the last time they try to ruin a relationship.

Owner: (sighs) Allah give me strength. Are you two okay? I hope those two leave you alone. Have a good date.

After the owner left, Luz sat down, more than a bit rattled, and Amity began to worry.

Amity: Are you okay Luz? What did Emma mean by "fix me?"

Luz: Knowing Jack, he probably would have tried to kiss you against your will. Wouldn't be his first time. At my 10th birthday party, he tried to kiss me, even though I said I didn't like him. He backed me into the wall and tried to kiss me, only to be stopped by my mom, who proceded to scream at him. That is the one time I have ever seen mama angry.

Amity: Well, what about when you make a mistake?

Luz: She just explains my faults, shows me a better option, and takes the time to guide me through life.

Amity: Sorry that Jack did that to you. Say, you mentioned some people not liking it when people of the same gender are together. Maybe some time in the future, not now but later, you could explain it to me?

Luz: Sure. Anyways, what are you learning with Mama?

Amity: I am learning about mechanics. I didn't realize just how AWESOME machines are until I met your mom. She even let me create stuff from her old junk. Side note, I may have accidentally made a robot cat out of your old toaster and some magic. Oops.

Luz: Say, I know you use a lot of abomination magic, what other kinds of magic interest you.

Amity:(blinks twice) Huh, I never actually stopped to think about it. My mom always wanted me to join the emperors coven, but I only really use abomination magic since my dad taught me most of my magic. I guess I could try plant magic, maybe bond with Willow over that……

The two continued their conversation well into the evening, just enjoying eachother's company. They only stopped when the owner asked them to leave due to the closing for the night.

Luz: ….and that't why I love the Azura franchise so much.

Amity: Well your dad would be so proud of you. He's in a better place now and-

Owner: Um, excuse me.

Luz: Oh hi, is everything okay?

Owner: Just a heads up, we close in 30 minutes.

Luz: Wait. (Checks the time, 7:30pm) OH SHOOT! I am so sorry, Amity probably had plans this evening.

Amity: Not other than spending time with you. Again, sorry, we'll head home. This was lovely.

Owner: Come back soon.

When they got home, Camilla tackle hugged Luz and Amity. She asked where they were, since she didn't want to interupt their date, Luz explained, and Camilla got a good laugh from that.

Camilla: Well I'm just happy you two are okay. Maybe set a reminder next time. And I'm sorry THOSE idiots crashed your date. Here's hoping it doesn't happen again.

Luz: Well I have an idea, we know where she usually hangs out, so let's just avoid those areas when we're alone.

Amity: Good idea.

Outside their house, a certain figure stood in the shadows. It was Emma, taking notes of her victim, and how to ruin her happily ever after.

[rappaccini]

tbh in my opinion the Biggest Issues with toh aren't actually that disney cancelled it before it could finish its story. even if the show had gotten a fuller run it still would've fumbled because the issues are endemic to the plot and were since the start.

specifically the show took too long to understand that it's not actually a fluffy slice-of-life story. it's plot-driven. in this regard it took the wrong lessons from its spiritual predecessor gravity falls. toh needed to introduce the plot and the main players much earlier and make consequences last if the sudden plot turn was going to have weight. not to mention make sure its character dynamics are prioritized by story importance and not fanservice yes this is about lumity aka wlw kataang happening instead of amillow/lunter, the ships that have far more relevance to plot and character development.

easiest ways to do that: introduce belos and hunter much earlier, give stakes to eda being a fugitive and luz being The First Human To Be Here In Hundreds of Years, and make amity and hunter one character to streamline the plot.

in this essay i will

so. season 1 au.

eda being a wanted fugitive has stakes:

they have to be sneaky when moving in public, possibly even disguised. getting chased by coven members. the owl house moves around constantly to keep them from detection. play it lightly/for laughs this season.

luz wants to go to witch school, but no one can know eda is her guardian. cue the golden comedic potential of them shoving king and hooty in a trenchcoat to pass them off as her parent.

luz wants to make friends, but she has to be evasive so no one can learn who she's living with. no taking friends to her house after school. no discussing her guardians.

they have to hide that luz is a human and pass her off as a powerless witch (... don't you think The First Human To Be Here In Hundreds Of Years would be a bigger deal??? especially to belos??? and even if belos wouldn't target her, eda has no way of knowing that.)

give her some like... fake pointy ears or something. a disguise she has to maintain that can be a source of comedy.

(+the dramatic irony of human-world luz being her authentic self and getting rejected for it, coming to the isles to not have to do that anymore, and doing nothing but lie about who she is)

in general, luz has to realize that running away to the isles to be automatically accepted wasn't feasible; the isles are just as flawed as the human world, there is no easy world where she instantly belongs, and even if being yourself might not make everyone like you, it's still worth it because the people you do bond with are the ones who'll love you most, and you'll have a much better relationship with yourself.

introduce belos MUCH earlier.

starting off with light fluffy episodic fun is good. it helps the viewer get to know the world and characters. but we have to get the ball rolling much faster. it's insane that the show's main antagonist has no physical presence onscreen before the end of season 1.

we need to meet belos himself before episode ten, even if it's just in a brief cameo. and in the latter half of the season, keep giving us glimpses of him, leading up to luz's first meeting with him in the finale.

introduce the coven leaders as early as covention-- an easy excuse for them to be there: meeting their future followers.

and only have as many covens as you can use in the plot. ten was too much. bring it down to five or six (off the top of my head: emperor, plant, illusionist, abomination, potions, bard. construction can be divided into plant and abomination, potions can absorb healing (or be the 'powerless witch' magic option), beastkeeping can be an occupation instead of a magic track, oracle never did anything so we can cut it).

introduce the golden guard halfway through season 1 as a semi-regular antagonist. those Everyone Knows About The Golden Guard bits of detail from season 2? move that shit up! give them a presence in the worldbuilding in the first half of s1 through references in dialogue and background details and introduce them formally in the second half, maybe even in the same ep as belos.

do not unmask the golden guard yet because--

[pause for an aside. read this if you haven't already: amity and hunter are essentially two versions of the same character.

have you read it? okay. now ask yourself: how do we keep from repeating ourselves? how do we keep amity from falling into stagnation? how do we avoid rushing through hunter's development? how do we enhance lumity's narrative importance and remove the risk of it being overshadowed whenever willow and hunter wander onscreen, while also diving deeper into luz and hunter's connection and following it through to its fullest narrative-relevant conclusion?

here's the answer: combine hunter and amity into one character.

aside over.]

-- amity and hunter are one person.

from the original canon: since the golden guard is a legacy title, everyone already knows about them, but not who's under the mask. that works. that stays.

this golden guard is fresh out of the grimwalker soup. they have no history with any of the hexside kids, and were sent to the school specifically to spy on luz, using 'amity blight' as a disguise. dual reason: keep tabs on luz and give hunter the Loyalty Test to see if this one doesn't need to get pulped like the others.

listen. making a wood golem to spy on a kid by befriending them, and naming said golem amity is too good.

we just move the willow-bully-past plot to boscha (and probably the blight family drama if it really matters that much to keep; tbh you could cut the blight twins from the story and not miss much but if they really need to be here, they could just be boscha's siblings), and/or have amity-hunter (amter?) immediately suck up to the popular kids and participate in kicking willow around like a football, because that's the environment they're used to.

yes, amter is here for a Purpose, but they've also never been around kids or in a school before, and they're being distracted by how much they love it. as in canon, we establish that it isn't just luz that's going to motivate their turn; it's just as much the potential of having friends, going to school, enjoying extracurriculars, having a life, being a person.

spend that first half of season 1 with amter being one of the bullies, then shaping up. this smooths over the issue of luz Suddenly Forgiving the Longtime Bully Of Her Best Friend: now there's no years-long shitty history of amter targeting willow; they're a new student who was shitty for a minute, then shaped up. far easier for willow to forgive.

being a fellow 'powerless witch' is going to be a source of bonding for them and luz. they have to learn magic in the same ways. luz can learn what emperor-approved methods there are for powerless witches, and amter can get a glimpse of the wild magic luz is playing with.

also to achieve the best of both worlds, this character is trans.

either a trans boy -- (we'll make belos's brother his sister in this au)-- with amity being the performance, and hunter who he actually is-- i like the irony of a mask being a better reflection of his true self than his actual face.

OR a trans girl, with hunter liking being amity far better than being hunter. i don't mind which one is used. both could be promising.

as such, 'amity' gets the crush on luz first, but luz doesn't reciprocate until she encounters the golden guard. because luz (has a type, and that type is bad-but-sad rogues, so you know her ass would be into it, and more importantly, she) likes amter for who they really are.

and since 'amity blight' is a performance designed to appeal to luz, hunter can't be their real self around her. the only time that can happen is when they're behind a mask, quipping away as they face off, in the rare times when they're out of the palace/hexside and away from anyone who can report back to belos.

anyway we meet the golden guard in season 1, but the interactions are brief. amter does the dirty work sometimes, but is primarily still being amity (especially since lilith is still belos's number two at this point).

and near the end of s1, the audience gets to learn that amity and the golden guard/hunter are the same person. luz doesn't.

since the s1 finale still has luz live on tv interrupting a public execution, she can't exactly hide who she is or who she's with anymore.

season 2 builds on that:

all luz's friends and classmates know she's a human, she's with the owl lady, and they have to spend time processing that she lied to them and coming to understand why she felt she had to do that, and that she had no bad intentions about it.

they also have to sneak around to stay friends with her.

luz can't go back to witch school now that she's been outed as a fugitive. she has to do independent study with eda and her friends, which means the audience can get more context on wild magic and eda's circle of peers.

the hexside rebellion subplot of the truncated s3 can have a few threads here: now that the entire student body has realized that new kid luz was a human and a wild witch the whole time, they start to question what other lies they've been told.

more expansion on belos as antagonist.

take him more seriously as a threat: more moving around, more disguises in public places, now played less for laughs. even if he's holding back to lure her into a false sense of security while having amter get close to spy on her, eda doesn't know that. she's a longtime fugitive; she should probably act cleverly enough for us to buy why she kept evading capture. if eda thinks he has even more reason to go after luz, she should be putting more measures into place to protect her.

furthermore, luz's history with belos is great. as humans from bonesborough who came to the isles chasing magic and gained status among the witches, they have a lot in common.

we need more time spent digesting that. if he'd found her instead of eda, would he have initiated her into the emperor's coven? does he still want to? does he see her as a younger version of himself? a student? an heir or successor? when he interacts with her, is he a cold and frightening emperor, or warm, 'vulnerable' kindred spirit who wants to offer her all the power she can't reach with palismanless magic.

or given that she literally time-loops her way into giving him the power he needs to take over, does she hold a sort of spiritual importance to him? it'd be hard to believe that a puritan encountering the exact image of the girl he received divine assistance from wouldn't be A Certain Way about her.

and if luz isn't interested in living up to the mythology he's constructed in his head about her... he's not going to be happy about it.

additionally, we need to establish them more as foils (luz loves magic, belos hates it. luz bonds with and liberates the witches, belos dominates and subjugates them. belos abuses and confines amter, luz is going to set them free.)

luz's homesickness gets more focus.

generally, luz has to deal with the consequences of running away from home. she's genuinely homesick, and the situation with belos has her nervous about staying; this isn't fun anymore. she spends the first half of season 2 wanting to come home.

when luz does make it back, and sees that a basilisk has all but replaced her and her mother seems to get along with them better, she... gets upset? and when her mother realizes her child has been off in witchland instead of adult camp, has quadrupled down on the behavior she sent her to camp to get rid of, and is now in actual danger because of it.... she also gets upset?

it's wasted potential that such a big moment between luz and her mother (realizing that your mother seems to have replaced you with an imposter that lacks everything you like about yourself, and she seems to like that imposter better + realizing that your child disobeyed you, ran away from home and is doing all the things you don't want her to do and those things have put her in life-or-death peril) flatlines so hard in the show.

so here, instead, there's a messy fight. luz, being a teenager, decides that she's going to stay in the isles and makes her way back... only to learn that her significant other is a spy for the enemy. and spends the second half of the season All In on the boiling isles and proving herself as a true witch.

finally, when luz and the crew land in the human world at the end of the season, there's tension to her reunion with her mother and the basilisk that gets a cathartic release when they hug and apologize

on the amter end:

lilith's out of commission, and the day of u is approaching, so belos pulls amter out of school and gets them to work as the guard full time. plus, luz isn't there anymore, so there's no point. let amter miss hexside life.

i like the moment luz starts to crush on amity, so let's keep that. amter's first act of rebellion is, as amity, saving luz's ass. naturally, there should probably be a punishment for it, and a juicy ~but it's only part of my con~ excuse that definitely isn't true anymore.

i like drama, so let them get together at the same time as they do in canon. give them the nice fluffy first date and mutual admission of feelings, and a little honeymoon phase where they're a cute little couple...

.... and then, halfway through the season, comes the unmasking.

right as luz learns that her mom has 'replaced' her, she discovers that one of her closest friends/her romantic interest is lying to her and working with the evil emperor and has been this whole time.

they break up and we spend time dealing with the fallout. luz is upset and stays upset, and amter Has Serious Doubts about belos-- yes, because of luz, but also because of the support system, friend group and world she exposed them to while they were close.

near the end of s2, luz and amter learn all the golden guard grimwalker details. give them like. actual time to reflect on it together rather than having amter run off into the woods, luz inexplicably decide not to comfort someone she cares about at a time of extreme emotional distress and move on without saying anything, and amter randomly show up two weeks later with their shit handled.

with them being exes, luz not pursuing amter makes more sense. and with amter having history with willow and gus, having gone to school with them and dated their friend, so does them hitting it off.

since s1 spent time establishing the golden guard/amter as an antagonist, s2 can explore how conflicted they feel. there's now time built in for that disillusionment with belos, building a connection with the hexside kids, and face turn that were so rushed in canon.

end on the same note as s2: amter joins the hexside kids in the escape from the isles.

season 3

playing fast and loose here, imagining we get an actual third season with 15-20ish episodes instead of a handful of specials.

first half:

the standard 5-ish episodes of the kids settling into human life, luz going to high school. time to breathe and prepare them to finish their arcs.

(let's see high school luz bring some of her personality development back to a normal school setting. contrast her now with who she was at the start)

then a 5ish-ep miniarc of the hexsiders tracking down the way back and warming up to vee. specifically luz, the girl vee replaced, accepting their presence in her home and amter, the direct relative of the person who caused vee's refugee situation, getting to bond with them, experience a further level of deprogramming, and have an even more personal reason to want to later depose belos and fix the isles.

give gus all the human world exploration joy. let's bring vee's human friends into the story more. let the bonesborough kids meet witches, encounter magic, and respond with excitement and understanding, to fix the puritanism that drove the worlds apart originally.

amter and luz spend the first half of the season being Awkward around each other. the unmasking betrayal sting has faded, they're no longer upset with each other, but now they don't know how to act as they're sinking into their respective major worries. at this time amter's mostly bonding with willow and gus, and luz with her mother and vee.

luz's main concern is, as in canon, all her guilt about the collector catastrophe and whether she should never have gone to the isles in the first place.

amter's main concern is, as in canon, all that trauma about belos and determination to face and destroy him slowly consuming them. they still have to deal with all hunter's possession trauma.

since amity's role at this point in canon is to Be Luz's Gf, we're gonna go all in on the hunter stuff from here on out. and since amter is trans, work in some dysphoria theming here. maybe amter decides to Keep Being Amity because they've grown to love that name. maybe they ask the gang to start calling them hunter. maybe they decide to be someone entirely new. idk, seems like the right time to let that plot culminate.

(in fact, pair amter's coming out to themselves/the group with luz's to her mother. make this the moment where they stop being cool to each other and make the effort to be friendly again.)

around episode ten: the halloween special where the group heads back to the isles, aka the bulk of the first special but given room to breathe. make it a two-parter.

before we get into the meat: we need bonesborough to find out about magic at this point. philip and caleb were two small parts of a larger society, espousing that society's views. caleb was capable of change. why can't the town be too?

specifically belos needs to see that his bigotry isn't welcome here anymore. it's entirely possible for the town, and humanity as a whole, to embrace witches and magic.

they can only do that if they find out about witches and magic. so spend the first half of the season with vee's human friends and luz's high school peers interact with the hexsiders and slowly catch on that Something's Up, and have belos's attack during the halloween festivities reveal it to everyone. and have the town protect the kids and assist in beating belos back.

this is the point where amter and luz are comfortable around each other again.

and also probably where we should do something with the caleb-and-evelyne-are-symbolically-amter-and-luz's-past-lives thing? complete with flapjack having been evelyne's palisman? wild that canon drops that nuclear bombshell and proceeds to refuse to elaborate and pair them off with different people.

anyway. the takeaway needs to be that luz and amter will succeed where evelyne and caleb failed because they've learned what they need to solve the problem that undid c&e.

here's what we know about evelyne and caleb: wild witch evelyne gave caleb a reason to leave the puritanical world of bonesborough and embrace a better, freer life, but philip refused to let them go, caught up with them years later, killed them, and used their magic to remake the boiling isles in his image.

i'll reverse-engineer from that the crack in c&e's story that turned it into a tragedy: the first time around, caleb and evelyne didn't confront philip about being a puritanical witch-hater. they thought it would be enough to just distance themselves and move on about their lives with the hopes that he'd get over it and leave them alone. you know, kinda like the situation amter and luz are in right now, being stuck in bonesborough hiding out from belos, full of guilt and shame about associating with him.

and here's the issue: the hate that philip and his empire represents will only ever regenerate, grow and thrive if it is ignored or avoided (see: belos getting goopy in s3, and slowly scheming his way back into power). it will follow you until it's destroyed all your hiding places, killed all your protectors, and there's nothing to stop it from killing you and your loved ones too. you have to fight it head on, completely dismantle it and replace it with something better, to ensure that people won't fall back into the old system's arms when times get hard and uncertain.

point being: evelyne led caleb away from philip and helped him dismantle his toxic worldview... but in doing so they left the social contagion to fester and grow. luz led amter away from belos and helped them deprogram, but now she needs to lead amter back to belos to face, disown and defeat him, and replace his system of shame, domination and strict control with hers-- one of wild magic, love and acceptance. that's what makes the difference. that's the lesson they need to learn.

semi-nonsequiter but it has to go somewhere: vee needs a moment with luz and amter where they have to talk about the implications of going back and facing belos. vee not going is fine, but we need to flesh their motivation out as 'this isn't my fight to finish, it's yours.' it's not the responsibility of the refugee to dethrone their tyrant-- it's the responsibility of the people who enabled said tyrant: luz, amter, and the covens.

(as is it feels like vee only ever existed to provide an excuse for camila and luz to vanish for a while. they deserve better.)

second half:

part 2 plays out basically the same. let's expand on the collector-king connection, eda and lilith on the lam, belos getting progressively slimier and the hexside commune power struggle between boscha and mattholomule.

again, it's important for amter and luz to receive support from someone other than a love interest. amter and luz's respective bonds with willow-and-gus, and camila reassures them that someone understands them and doesn't blame them for their mistakes, which helps them let go of their respective guilts and inadequacies. this half of the season needs to be about their greater support group-- their friends and family.

speaking of family, idk where darius is, but let's add some kind of moment between him and amter. take the blight family divorce drama and scoot it over to darius, giving him a moment to shine, totally break from the coven, and show the audience the kind of family amter could have when this is over.

[aside: alador and darius. both abomination witches who have paternal roles to amity/hunter, carry out an evil system led by an abusive parent to amity/hunter, whose arcs both involve choosing to leave said parent and take the kid with them. ffs they're the same character too]

if boscha's getting amity's scraps, then let's do some rivals-to-crushes tension with her and willow when they're in the hexside commune. build to a moment where they fully bury the hatchet. plus add her to the moment where willow backslides back into anxiety and self-doubt. having her conquer it by both having her friends AND the person responsible for sabotaging that confidence present (who has told her she was wrong for doing that and is sorry) is far more significant.

plus, some kind of moment between boscha and amter where they acknowledge the brief friendship they once had. for all boscha's shittiness, she was also the first friend amter ever made. she might not have been a good influence, but for someone who's been alone all their life, what matters is that she was there. all the progress amter made first started with boscha seeing a friendless new kid at school and taking them under her wing. give her some credit.

finale:

let's keep the collector delusion but skip the 'let's respond to the badfaith audience who think luz is bad' and focus instead on channeling those insecurities through her status as belos's foil. since it's been built up in s2, we can get a glimpse of that world where luz WAS his apprentice.

and amter needs to have their own delusion too. look, the show decided to make the original sin evelyne AND caleb. it can't just show us luz, then show us hunter, and say 'oh, only luz needs to take part in this fight.' it has to be both of them.

both of them want to be understood and embraced by the people they care about. so does the collector, and belos uses that instinct against people to manipulate them.

and per the culmination of their arcs: they're 1) affirmed enough in who they are that they don't accept the illusion of acceptance in exchange for compromising themselves and 2) they understand how important it is to face belos and what he represents, so they resist the urge to hide from their guilt and fear to break through the illusion and face him head-on.

keep the collector being empathized with, forgiven, and the show refusing to give belos a pass.

that's the moment of change that evelyne and caleb weren't capable of. they couldn't recognize that philip was a problem that had to be addressed and removed. they dismissed it, forgave it, and ran away. luz and amter won't, and now we've switched from tragedy to comedy.

being that this is the climax, and it's time for arcs to pay off, amter and luz both must sacrifice something significant in order to tie off their arcs.

the strongest sacrifice amter can make is their life. it's the thing they've been seeking all this time-- a life, a future full of happy memories with people who care about them, where they are free to make their own choices-- that they finally have, and it's time to put it to the test: what's the point of having that life, if these people aren't in it?

given redemption arc standards, amter needs to face belos, denounce him, and literally or symbolically die fighting him and protecting luz and/or someone she cares about. it's how we set in stone that amter has changed for the better, their loyalties are with luz, won't fall for belos's manipulation and will face him without backing down.

i'm gonna dust off the old theory about luz sacrificing her palisman wood and using it to resurrect hunter and put it here.

if luz's true motivation was finding someone who understood her and she's convinced being a witch is the only way to get it, the strongest sacrifice she can make is giving up her pathway to be a 'true' witch to save the person who understands her best, because she knows now that she doesn't need to be a witch to be a good, valuable person who is accepted by the people she cares about, and that it isn't worth becoming a witch if these people aren't here to see it. it's the best way to show she's finished her arc successfully and completely forgives amter.

additionally, this brings us back around to the belos connection and definitively shows her as his opposite. when the chips are down, belos chooses power and isolation over humanity and community. luz chooses humanity and community over power and isolation.

+luz's method of palismanless magic is fine on its own. i feel like her getting a palisman after all takes away from the validity of palismanless magic. like all the work she put into developing a magic system all her own is less impactful, because it was just a placeholder all along until she could trade up for something flashier and a cute animal sidekick.

.......... (side effect being that amter gets the full powers of a palisman... but also has an empathetic connection to luz)

anyway all this to say i think this connection can be applied to titan-magic luz. it's wild magic at its wildest and most inventive, a totally new form of magic combined with the most ancient one in a way never seen before.

so luz's Ultimate Sacrifice? i mean i love it, but to be more efficient and align with the changes in this rewrite, let's give that to amter. they need to perform one, and there it is. so, they 'die' protecting the collector-- another lonely misguided kid being manipulated by belos who is rescued by luz-- and meet the titan in purgatory. as the reincarnation of the guy who helped cause this mess, i think the titan needs some words with them.

and luz using her palistrom wood to save them is what brings them back from the dead, and she can talk to and see the titan in purgatory too on account of that palisman connection she's accidentally forged. it works.

fuck yeah let's have eda and king help out, but amter has to help fight belos too for reasons already said many times at this point.

and belos ultimately dying undignified after being stomped to death by his former subjects and boiled by the natural state of the islands. as said elsewhere, smart sidestep of the kid protag can’t kill rule, and it lets the island itself have the final say.

let's keep the archive rescue. just pluck amter out of that scene and swap them out with, say, boscha and mattholomule.

keep the denouement. families reuniting. the isles abolishing the coven system and establishing a new college of wild magic. taking many years to rebuild and it still being a wip. vee has a life in bonesborough as a noceda. gus being a human culture scholar and willow playing grudgby. especially amter and darador becoming a little family, and amter getting a quiet life. and ending on luz returning to the isles (hell yeah let's keep that luz/amter kiss).

[scribbles over hunter and draws boscha under willow's arm instead. perfect!]

the most i'd do is add some mention of luz not entirely leaving the human world, or of freer travel between the two. maybe luz finishes high school in the human realm, and so do the hexsiders since their school is a pile of rubble. maybe some of the witches who moved to the human world to have somewhere to live during rebuilding want to stay. maybe more humans are entering the isles, the same way luz once did.

the isles and bonesborough get to exist together, aware of each other and everyone gets to expand their horizons, not just luz and camila. the owl house is a house for everyone.