#i still like lumity

[themadauthorshatter]

FIRST OFF, SO I CAN MAKE IT CLEAR AND I DON'T GET ANYONE MAD:

1. Even if I have my gripes about The Owl House, I still love the show to bits and pieces and have immense respect for its creator and the team behind it.

2. So I don't get any replies on it, I know that Lumity is canon and Huntlow is heavily implied to be/is canon, but I still like Lumity because I think it's cute even if it has its problems. I can see what it was trying to be and I still enjoy it as a ship.

So I'm more or less making this because I've had the idea for a while now and, honestly, I'm just going to make a post on it, maybe two if the people want it

This is not a full-blown rewrite, I don't have the energy or time to really do that

That out of the way, the post is below the cut if you want to read it

So, I and a fair few others enjoy the Lunter ship in TOH and there is some unrest in that side of the fandom. There has been some "rewrites" from @lunterfans and other posts from them and @theprinceandthewitch that's more speculation. Go check out their blog because they're pretty cool.

This is more or less an AU/rewrite of TOH, but if Lunter was canon.

I will reiterate it now: I'm perfectly happy with Lumity even with its issues. I'm just making this post to scratch an itch and because I have to get it off my chest

With that said:

The Owl House, BUT LUNTER!

For starters, a lot of the show stays the same, but Belos and the Golden Guard are introduced MUCH earlier, like in the first or second episode and faces off with Luz momentarily in the dungeon before she, Eda, and King escape.

The introduction of Amity, Willow, Gus, and Hexside remain the same, save for a student named Hunter who sits away from the other students and silently glares down Luz, though she doesn't know why. He is also present when she and Willow escape detention and Amity.

In the coven-vention, the Golden Guard is present once more, attending with Lilith to promote the Emperor's Coven. He is also witness to the duel between Lilith and Amity and Luz and Eda. Maybe we get a moment where Amity smirks at him before getting ready to fight Luz, but after it ends and she looks back at him, he shakes his head and walks away, disappointed in her.

We don't see much of the Golden Guard, but we do get more Hunter as he sees the shenanigans. When Luz ultimately enrolls as a student in Hexside, she runs into Hunter and he simply tells her to watch where she's going. The two do run into each other more, but Luz ultimately "befriends" Hunter when he is getting picked on for not being able to use magic by Boscha and maybe Amity, emphasis on MAYBE for the sake of Amity's redemption. She asks about why he can't do magic and Hunter can only say that, "It's complicated."

To try and loft his spirits, Luz shows Hunter a glyph and the two meet up later to practice using glyphs, Hunter amazed at seeing and using wild magic.

He is not present for Grom, but is there at the season 1 finale as the Golden Guard, fighting Luz as she tries to rescue Eda. The two would essentially duel, Hunter using his staff and Luz using Eda's staff. There would be quips thrown by Hunter while he's dressed as the Golden Guard, and it gets Luz more and more suspicious as to who he is. By sheer accident, Luz would knock his mask off and the reveal for her would be saddening, but not completely devastating, Luz glaring at Hunter amd using an ice glyph to keep him from following her as she goes to save Eda, Lilith, and King.

The seasom 1 finale ends the same way it does, but Luz and a masked Hunter spot and glare at each other, neither happy that their friendship might be destroyed, but ready to fight, if they see each other again.

[transiconlink]

Luz’s face here is the epitome of “me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic.”

[sunnyirry]

post full of gay people [click pic for better quality]

[yardsards]

the true lumity dynamic is just

(luz is the btw and amity is the tbh)

[nefelibatat]

Luz: “Is your name Mittens? Because I am smitten with you.” *Amity.exe has stopped working*

[crimeronan]

I think it’s eternally funny that even when Luz and Amity think the other doesn’t like them, they still are each other’s “Lovingly Bullying Hunter” partner.

Thinking about Hunter and Amity arguing over something innocuous and Hunter’s getting a big head about the subject or other so Luz just naturally takes Amity’s side and starts backing her up without any background knowledge in the subject

Hunter, autistically frustrated: “You’re only taking her side cause you think she’s pretty!!

Luz, tackling him with supersonic speed: “SHHH!!! Shut up shut up shut up! Hey Amity don’t pay attention to him it’s Shutting Up Time for Hunter!!”

i LOVE hassling and annoyance as a form of affection. it's so funny and good every time.

also a sign of how far she and amity have come in trusting each other!! luz being like "okay, you're hunter's best friend even if you're being tsundere about it, i can play around with you without worrying too much about being poised" and amity being like "actually i don't think you have any ill intentions toward hunter. or toward me. i briefly did for a minute there but yeah let's terrorize him together :3"

luz tackles hunter and amity says "actually, she's taking my side because i'm RIGHT" before his words actually process

and then she goes.

What.

[rosemarytrash]

theyre kismesises

[talaofthevalley]

I have no clue why they didn't make Amity more akin to a rival character instead of a bully. Because it would have solved A Lot of problems in regards to Amity and Willow, and Lumity becoming a thing.

The thing is that Lumity feels Super Weird at the start when Luz is trying to befriend Amity long before the girl shows any remorse for bullying Willow and making up for it. And it's not something easily brushed off when Amity is introduced being condescending and a dick to Willow. The bullying isn't something of the past, it's still going on.

Willow comes off as an afterthought in this dynamic, when she's the one who's been wronged by Amity the most. Their arc never feels like it resolves itself either, it just kinda peeters out.

If you've watched Little Witch Academia, Diana is who I think Amity should have emulated more. Diana is the top student at the school, she's stern and no-nonsense, a bit stuck-up, she comes from a prestigious family, she gets in conflict with the protagnoist, Akko, not because of bullying but because they have very different personalities and butt heads because of it. Akko considers Diana her rival, but this is one-sided on her part.

Willow and Amity could still have been friends in the past, but Amity instead pointedly ignores Willow's existence after their friendship has ended. She doesn't call out her friends for bullying Willow(that would make it seem like she cares) but she doesn't participate or encourage it. She's still not a good person, she still has to apologise to Willow, but changing their relationship from 'active bullying' to 'pretending Willow doesn't exist' would do a lot going forward for them I think. Still terrible, but more palatable in my eyes.

[waywardsunlight]

Lumity is kind of like... when you get a swirly cupcake with sprinkles on it for your birthday. Raeda is like being held in somebody’s arms as an explosion rocks the world behind you. Huntlow is like when you get hit in the face with a dodgeball during gym and your team targets the person who hit you. Wittethorne/Eveleb is like keeping a secret picture in your locket that nobody can ever know about but it’s always close to your heart. In this essay I will-

[antisocial-author]

Soul Eater 🤝 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 🤝 The Owl House

implied but not explicitly canon girlboss x malewife ship that is central to the plot

[basofy]

more unposted toh stuff from long ago !!!! farewell !!

[theprinceandthewitch]

"TOH's narrative is constructed in a way where Hunter is meant to be viewed as Luz's sibling" has the same energy as "Marceline never loved Finn romantically" even though Bad Little Boy was literally Marceline's Finnceline fanfic.

[gothic-soda]

I just love them so much, shaking and crying fr because of that finale.

[itslilacmoon]

will you guys still love me if i make the occasional lunter shitpost

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

dana terrace knows how fandoms work. she knows if you show ppl even the barest hint of an m/f couple, especially one involving an angsty white boy, ppl will jump on that shit like rabid dogs and itll completely overshadow whatever queer rep you want ppl to actually pay attention to. that’s why she introduced hunter the way she did. first they have an episode where luz gets kissed by a girl and it’s made clear to the audience that they’re on track to be each others love interests. and only then does she introduce hunter’s angsty blond YA love interest looking ass.

and even then they tried SUPER hard to hammer in how much hunter is NOT luz’s love interest. they make luz lean in as if she was going to kiss him and then smack him to show that she isn’t going to. and then they do that thing where hunter licks luz’s hand and luz wipes it on his face. which is something that has been memed to death with siblings. just so the audience immediately understands what kind of dynamic the show wants these two to have. if they skipped any of these steps they were worried the fandom would see luz have a close relationship with a conventionally attractive white boy and start foaming at the mouth for this ship to replace lumity. maybe if disney saw a boy and a girl who aren’t immediately sibling coded they’d also start foaming at the mouth for it to replace lumity. so the crew had to play it safe.

anyway my point is i hope the crew also knows what they’re doing with the huntlow ship. idk what they’re setting up but if the huntlow ship gets together and it’s not wedged between a full 10 minute clip of the raeda wedding and a full 10 minute clip of a sappy slice of life lumity date then every toh related tag is going to be INSUFFERABLE and i hope dana knows it.

[drbtinglecannon]

Remember how Boscha tried to persuade Amity to come back & stay in New Hexside with her while Amity was wearing a couple's cosplay with her actual girlfriend, Luz?