#sidenote it's great to look up what orgs in your area provide legal aid / resources/ shelter / support to undocumented and at-risk people

[crimeronan]

Worst timeline AU, but Vee never made it to Camila’s. Camila’s absolute despair at seeing her Luz return but completely shattered and then seeing this weird red-eyed point ear boy appear at her doorstep. What in the world would she think?

GOD. i think camila would assume that hunter's appearance is just the result of some genetic condition she's not familiar with -- there are plenty of humans with unusual appearances who are definitely 100% human. i don't think she'd jump to "fantasy creature" immediately

i think luz would be completely hysterical about the importance of Keeping Hunter Here & camila would just assume he'd been held captive alongside luz. the assumptions she makes are probably closer to what actually happened to them than you'd expect, even if neither hunter nor luz was actually imprisoned in a murder basement. you think about the shit both of them went through in this AU and it's like. yeah you might as well have been in a murder basement

camila would want to find out how old hunter is and if there's any chance of anybody coming to the house looking for him and if he Wants to go to the police about all of this.... but it becomes apparent Very quickly that hunter is undocumented and a legal adult and deeply mentally ill and wholly uninterested in finding his own family.... and camila is like. yeah we're not calling the cops about this. they would not help and also would make this situation 100000x worse. you can stay as long as you like and we'll figure out the rest as we go along, ok?

camila figures out pretty fast that luz thought hunter was dead & that hunter is Desperately important to her. there is not a single molecule in her body that would ever even Consider separating them, or arguing with them about whether their relationship is healthy. that is So Low on the list of priorities.

i think she'd be privately and quietly doing a LOT of reading & reaching out to local aid groups that explicitly work with situations like this. just like. how do i get these kids help without putting either of them at risk of institutional violence. Pls.