#teenage collector toh

[apiculturegal]

The Collector but just a little bit older and Possessed Luz (they’ve been on my mind a lot lately and I can’t seem to get rid of them) (take it before i implode) (click for better quality)

[qcoded]

I've seen concepts of like. an Adult Collector BUT i propose and idea!!! Teen Collector. I'd feel like he'd be more chill if anything, but more annoying 😭😭 like constantly teasing

I had zero clue what I was doing with his design I just made him look like he grabbed whatever they had in their closet xd

[pageofheartdj]

Every time I think about Owl House and Rise crossover, there is always one meme barging into my mind xD

[aromanticasterisms]

wait some of y'all don't think that death was narratively satisfying??? he spent the entire season rotting away and sloughing off of (and OUT of) bodies he was not meant to be in, grasping at a life he had outlived because he was unwilling to let go, literally got ripped out of the HEART of the world he tried so hard to destroy and then that world summoned up a 5 second rainstorm to boil him alive and burn away his facade of humanity so he could grovel at the feet of a witch and then get stomped into nothing by the denizens of the world, symbolizing the people he hurt by enforcing the covens, people ostracized and punished for not conforming, and the titan he used to manipulate people with by claiming he knew its will. what's not clicking

[francforever]

Willow and/or Hunter for the hc ask game!

I love both of them smm! 🥹 I tried hard but can’t think of anything for Willow rn so I am gonna do Hunter.

I really love the hc that when he starts attending Hexside, he studies all the tracks just like Luz. It just makes so much sense for him, considering how much he loves learning and considering he said he wants to study wild magic.

I also love the idea that he and Gus start a Cosmic Frontier book club? Much like Amity’s and Luz’s Azura club. It’s just the two of them but they just absolutely love talking about the books, analyzing them, doing cosplays, everything! I also like the idea that they are occasionally joined by Willow (who has borrowed and read the book :) )

[sepublic]

So in Willow’s debut, it’s established that Abominations is considered as having better career opportunities than Plants. And in hindsight, it makes sense now; Abominations are valued by the coven regime in the way Blight Industries does them, as industrial Abomatons that can be controlled, as a means of military power and not magitech medicine as Alador shows in the epilogue. Belos buys them from Odalia, he practically assimilates Blight Industries.

This is because Abomatons don’t think for themselves, they’re servants that can replace covenscouts in areas that would challenge morality, and they lack the sapience to be targeted. They’re beings Belos can control without having to learn more of the magic he despises to do so; All of this is in contrast to how Darius or Amity use Abominations as a reflection of their own skill, the individual.

We see how the Abomatons aid the coven regime, and esp see through the Day of Unity; The Abomatons can be programmed, and do nothing without orders; They’re not going to become witches and demons in their own right, they’ll maintain those walls and then do so for the end of time.

They don’t need to be targeted for genocide as victims of the draining spell who would be incapacitated, so they can do their job while that happens. They keep witches corralled because the closer to the ritual, the faster the covenbound die. Of course, those who haven’t collapsed might try and stop the spell by removing the coven heads, which would place them within weakening proximity anyhow…

But that paranoia over covenbound who aren’t yet unconscious is justified; The Abomatons’ own creator rendered their role in the Day of Unity and the regime as a whole obsolete, because he had the strength away from the ritual to help the kids reach the skull, which allowed King to free the Collector and undo everything.

Plus, Belos is loathe to the isles; He depletes its natural resources, he wants all life to die and devastating the ecosystem is another way to do so. Hunter suggests growing Palistrom wood and he’s furious at the idea. So of course Plant magic is devalued, because it’s focused on life, on sustainability, with keeping others alive.

It’s the exact opposite of the cold industrialism that will make the Day of Unity happen and leave the land barren afterwards because the Abomatons themselves are barren in that sense, lacking magic and with little to contribute to the ecosystem, if anything. Plant magic is half of nature, the other being Beastkeeping, I wonder if that is also devalued by the regime?

Makes sense the Demon Hunters have to resort to menial city jobs instead of their traditional livelihood, forced to assimilate into an urban society if their environment has been depleted by colonialism. Adds to Darius and Eberwolf being rebels. And with Terra, it shows how much she’s willing to throw her fellow witches under the bus for utopia.

I remember speculating it since I was a Teenage Abomination; Abominations really is STEM, down to being used for military applications. Given TOH’s critique of the American education system, you can see how this metaphor extends when the work of creating a sustainable society and environment is secondary to destroying enemies and establishing supremacy and capital (As established with CEO Odalia’s motives).

Because it’s fun and easy to destroy, rather than do the banal yet meaningful work of actually building and healing and feeding people, thinking of how society can be sustainable. It’s easy to talk about how you can destroy witches zombies in an apocalypse, instead of how to keep a community of survivors alive; All that talk about how dudes bored with their lives dream about being an action hero at the expense of society’s collapse, without understanding what the world really needs is builders and not destroyers, and that they’d be nothing without the people who do this ‘boring’ work, is so very Belos.

[let-us-cultivate-our-garden]

Do you think TOH made people care and then ripped them apart for it?

I was still in high school when I started watching the series and I loved it. I didn't have good grades, I am neurodivergent and bisexual and was thought of as a weirdo and bullied and condescended for crying at school or acting like I was younger than I was and things along those lines. I related to Luz SO HARD. I wanted to be in the Boiling Isles. I imagined myself finding a way there. I had little 'imagine spots' and loved the mystery and the wild and unconventional aesthetics and I even got into some of the stuff you see on r/WitchesVsPatriarchy because of it. I couldn't wait for more story. I was sure everything would be resolved by the end.

Somewhere along the lines, the characters were no longer characters to me. They were real, and had real feelings and struggles and experiences. And somewhere else along the line, the Collector came, and Hollow Mind happened.

I was terrified. I kept watching, though. I wanted to know what would happen to everyone I loved. Hollow Mind was a great episode though, and I thought it and the rest of Season 3 were building up to something big.

They were not. They were building up to something extremely poorly explained that was erased in the last episode. No flashbacks. No face reveals. Caleb and Evelyn do not speak. We still have no idea what happened. How old were he and Philip? What made him trust Evelyn? Why was Evelyn in the human realm? What were the circumstances of the knife fight? WHY did Philip kill Caleb? How long was he looking for him? So many unanswered questions hand-waved in the finale, and anytime someone complains the response is 'but thuh shortuhning.' Boo fucking hoo. They had the time to explain things and they did not. If you weren't knee-deep in fandom and didn't read social media, you may not even know Hunter was a Grimwalker. You'd be left extremely confused about what Belos is and what the hell he wanted. And yet people use 'blame the big bad Disney' as an excuse. Less wasting time in Hexside tormenting students, more on what we give a damn about.

Speaking of Hexside.

I know all that shit with the puppets was supposedly 'necessary', but imagine if you'd been hiding from a potential genocide and suddenly everyone you love has been turned into nonsentient dolls by some unknown god and you're forced to hide and your remaining loved ones are missing and you're barely surviving, your life has been flipped, everything you knew is a lie and you don't know when or if it'll end. That's what it was like for them, and it is not treated like the traumatic and horrifying event that it was. It is joked about and used as a punchline and at best is unneeded filler that creates problems. And then there's Boscha - a girl treated horribly by the fandom and show both. Her friends have been turned into puppets and she is being used by Kikimora, she doesn't know what's happening, it's the apocalypse, she's sad and scared and confused and doesn't know what to do. She lashes out at people because of it. Perhaps she was so clingy towards Amity because her friend had vanished for ages and she finally knew she wasn't a puppet or dead. She is laughed at. Treated as an obstacle for Amity to overcome. Abandoned at Hexside. Given no real redemption. Just left to cry alone. And outside the show, fans will treat her like garbage. I have known people who wanted to tear her head off, or wanted her expelled from Hexside after becoming the least popular girl in school and losing all her friends. This is a teenager going through an unspeakably horrible event that will leave her with PTSD. She deserves exploration. She deserves more from the show and more from fans. Even Dana was asked once if she'd be redeemed - she said 'I think some people don't deserve redemption'. Or something along the lines. Bravo, Dana. Bravo, everyone.

And then the aesthetic switch. I praised the unique aesthetic. All reds and dusty colours and widespread. It made me really think of something abandoned. Someplace really wild. The Collector took over and turned it all star-themed and pastel, and it stayed that way. The Archive House stayed up. They call it the 'king's crown'. It remains a bland galaxy aesthetic with no trace of what they had in Season 1. They might as well reward the Collector for destroying the Isles.

And finally, Luz having to go back to human high school where she was bullied and had bad grades and didn't fit in. I used the Isles as an escape. I wanted to attend Hexside *so bad* and it was clear the show wanted the viewers to want it. So to have Luz go back and spend three years rebuilding the Isles whenever she went there - it broke me. It felt like my guts being torn to pieces. Everyone having to rebuild the Isles. Bland construction. Luz missing three birthdays. If I wanted child labour and bland construction and a horrible high school experience, I'd look at the world today. Luz was forced away from her home and into the place she deserved to escape from. High school is hell. And to top it off, what with current events, I truly do not want Luz abandoned here, among the rise of the far-right and schools doing jack-all for their students and some days when it seems everyone wants to kill each other. Luz does not deserve to be abandoned here, going to human high school and spending all her time in the Isles rebuilding it. No more fun. No more fantasy. No more adventures. Just construction. Everyday construction and a bland pastel star aesthetic replacing what I love. It's not weird anymore. I have lost the Boiling Isles. I feel this is reflected in the door redesign. The wooden Titan Eye design was all wooden, rough, mysterious and possibly alive. The new design is just a blah plastic pastel star design. It's boring.

Maybe I'm being a bit extreme, but I have held onto this for ages and no one shares my sentiments and it hurts like hell. If you could respond, that would be wonderful.

But yeah. TL;DR: This show made me care and then killed my escape and broke me and every character I love.

The Isles is dead, and this show has hurt me in the worst possible way.

I'm sorry that the show has had such a negative effect on you; it absolutely sucks to become so emotionally attached to something only for it to all fall apart in the end. It can feel like all that time and energy was wasted and that you were foolish to like it at all. But no, you did not waste anything. I think it's helpful if you reframe your thoughts because I am concerned about how much this show has affected your mindset.

The show did not break you. Its ending did not meet your expectations and you were disappointed by it. That's ok. A lot of people felt the final season was lacking, even when taking the cancellation into account. The joy and connection you felt in the early seasons still matter. They still helped you in a time when you needed it. Hold onto the happiness you felt and use that as a source of strength instead of blowing your disappointment out of proportion.

It also seems like you're connecting your experiences with Luz. Luz is fictional. She can't be affected by the real world. Within the context of the show, rebuilding the isles is necessary because the Boiling Isles is her home, too. It signifies a new age in which wild magic can flourish. She's choosing to be there as part of the community to rebuild a place that was nearly destroyed. Luz achieved her dream of becoming a witch. She can study and live in the Boiling Isles and visit her mom whenever she wants in the human realm. There is still fun. There is still fantasy.

Going back to the idea of reframing your thoughts: if something has upset you in a story, take a step back and look at it from the author's perspective. What were they trying to achieve? Does this fit in with the established world building and characterization? Did it upset you for narrative reasons or personal ones? So much discourse in fandom can be traced to the fact that fans have their own ideas of how characters should act instead of what is established in the story and what makes sense for that world. You need to look at a story from a narrative point of view instead of a personal one, that way any potential disappointment is not so emotionally-loaded.

Finally, to answer your question, no I do not believe that TOH was made to disappoint fans. Quite the opposite, actually. In the Post-Hoots and on social media, the crew talk about how much the show means to them and how touched they are about all the fan support they have received. Toh is a show made with love and a desire to please its audience--much to its detriment.

I really think the crux of your issue is that the show deeply disappointed you while everyone else loved it. That can feel incredibly isolating and as a Belos fan, I can relate. My advice is to find like-minded individuals so you all can healthily vent together while coming up with goofy head canons of your favorite characters. That's what I do (and endlessly complain about the lost potential. There is catharsis in it). Finally, move onto other shows and other communities, you will find better stories that will enrich you.

Stories can have a profound effect on people but not to the point that they make you feel "broken." My old mentor once said to "take the meat and throw out the bone." Basically, take whatever is useful for you and ignore the rest. You can do this with TOH, take whatever "meat" you found valuable and don't let the "bones" get you down.

I hope you take whatever meat you can from my advice. Please take care of yourself and surround yourself with people and things you love. Explore new stories, meet new people, and continue to grow.

The fantasy is not dead.

[mdhwrites]

"In the first episode, Luz brings wild animals and fireworks to school without permission or without any regard to safety."

Isn't that just a case of Early-Installment Weirdness?

Boy there are so many problems with accusing this of that. See, Early-Installment Weirdness IS a thing. In TOH, one of the best examples of that is how in the same episode that Amity goes "I've never seen a spell like that cast before" you also have the power glyph. A famous one from another cartoon is how Andrea of Molly McGee starts as an EXTREME bitch but quickly shifts to more so being unaware and selfish, rather than actively malicious. Hell, I know one of my own series has it where I have a transmuter in the first chapter change pancakes into a pot of flowers which I made WAY too casual for the amount of energy shifting to something living should take.

A common thread between all of these though are that they don't show back up. Andrea's characterization becomes consistent AFTER the shift to it and she never goes back to being as bad as she was in her first appearance. The power glyph is never mentioned again, MAYBE visually it's seen like once on the coven head but glyph magic is just Luz's. And yeah, my own story sticks to its power costs better afterwards. That is the biggest sign of Early-Installment Weirdness because in the long run you can see that these elements were dropped because they were incongruent with the actual goals of the show.

But do you know what does keep appearing? This characterization of Luz. S1 is filled with times when Luz will disregard other people's feelings, fuck something up because of it and then have to make amends. Episode fucking two reinforces the idea that she treats the world as fantasy. Yesterday's Lie actually HINGES on the idea that Luz is actually selfish and uncaring of those around her because she could not appreciate what she had and that she had to be special. This is what Vee calls her out on. It's also why, in the blog you're referencing with this, I bring up how in S3 she has a dilemma where a decision that she made on her own blew up in her face. In response to that, instead of thinking ANYONE else should comment on it, she makes a drastic, big deal decision... That also gets her out scott free from all consequences which is exactly what she did when she ran to the Isles. I'm not even exaggerating. In episode 1, Luz decides to stick to the Isles because otherwise she has to go to a camp she doesn't want to where she'll actually have to put in the effort to improve as a person and respect reality so she sticks to her fantasy world. In S3 Episode 1, she decides to abandon AN ENTIRE WORLD to their fate, that she believes is her fault, so that she can stay at home and live with her caring mother and new sister while she will also send her friends to ostensibly their deaths because of how big of a deal this is. And like in that blog, S3 E2 only reinforces the idea that Luz only cares about what is important to Luz when her goal on the Isles is not beating the Collector, she says that to everyone who doesn't know the truth, but instead to find Eda and King, make sure they're safe, and leave. She tells that to her mom, the only person who knows already she doesn't give a fuck about this place.

That's also without bringing up btw the signs that reference her early montage that appear in S3 E1, meaning the show wants you to remember it, especially when Luz sighs at the sign. It is NOT an element that is just one and done and a whoops on the writer's part. It is the first action in a long, LONG line of selfish, unthinking, uncaring actions for our 'protagonist'.

Our protagonist who is told that she has never, ever, done anything wrong. That's abhorrent. See you next tale.

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[spacehareart]

TOH x MCYT au

Philza ;

Witch

Cursed / Crow Beast

Wild Witch but is mature about it.

Enjoys Potions and Beast magic.

Crow Palisman

Tommy ;

Grimwalker mix of Philza and Techno. Philza does know, Techno sorta knew. Tommy Doesn't know.

Philza's student.

Enjoys being a wild witch, immature about it.

Pig Palisman from Techno, Bee Palisman.

Ranboo ;

Witch

Disabled Witch, teleports glitch-ingly.

Uses illusion magic mainly. Uses it to appear more like a demon featured witch to hide from others. Also uses Oracle magic.

On the run.

Sphinx Cat Palisman.

Techno ;

Demon/Witch mix.

Traveled while Tommy was a kid, past away by saving Tommy from a Titan.

Had a Pig Palisman.

One of the few wild witches left.

Philza's and Tommy's Adoptive Brother.

Slimecicle ;

Human

Secretly Cursed

Uses illusion magic and Abomination magic.

No one knows much about him. They don't know he's human or cursed. He keeps Juanaflippa a secret.

No Palisman..

Villain

Tubbo ;

Witch

Not a wild witch. In the healing coven against his will.

Prefers Plant magic.

Has a wolf Palisman.

Quackity ;

Witch

Not a wild witch. Forced into Oracle. Prefers Beast.

Has a duck Palisman.

Other

Eggs ;

All eggs are Titans ( but are stylized to look a bit more different from each other ) except for Code Flippa and Gegg. Which are both Collectors.

Other: not a swap AU, literally just them as their characters. I will be updating with more ! ( not exclusive to just qsmp/dsmp ( which i havent watched dsmp anyway ) members, will be including ldshadow lady and stampy; etc :)

Some newer additions, the first stuff was a bit older as of 6 / 17 / 2024.

Philza, Schlatt and Slime made a Grimwalker from a bit of Philza and what was left of Techno. Thus, making Tommy. Grimwalkers in this AU age fast until teen years, where memory actually starts. Tommy doesn't know what he is. Tommy is 20 when things begin.

Tommy will get wings later after some arc or smth. Same with Philza, he too has a bird beast, a Crow form. He also gets a Crow harpy form.

Philza is a long distant cousin of the Clawthornes.

Slimecicle is one of the antags, he also has a curse where he becomes a slime beast ( similar to Belos ). He learned how to make grimwalkers because of Schlatt and Philza. After losing Flippa he lost Mariana, and made Grimwalker Flippa. He pretends to be a shopkeeper and restocks Philza's potions. He is a human while every one else is a witch.

Philza only has Chayanne and Tommy, but eventually finds Tallulah.

Ranboo bumps into Tommy and adventure begins tldr.

And before someone asks in case they dont know: the grimwalker thing is a HEADCANON, the owl house never showed us, but its assumed they are born as teenagers or sped up aging until teen years. But that being said, Tommy is chronologically ( and technically bilogically ) and mentally 20 by the time the story begins. Tho there won't be any shipping , i just wanna make that clear.

( i do not support dream or wilbur thus they will not be in this AU at all. )

This AU is still new so its lore is a mess, sorry abt that.

[rileyclaw]

number 7 & 19 for toh ask game heheho :)

7. Favorite palisman?

something about clover makes me laugh. look at her. I laugh at the version of her that exists in my head where she is just so tired. she has this teenage witch who is a little silly and i think that's great

19. Favorite piece of music from season 2?

Oh it's GOTTA be "If We're Gonna Play Owl House..." from King's Tide- the soundtrack that plays as the Collector is tearing apart the skull. it left SUCH an impression on me when kings tide premiered

[childlikegoblinqueen]

Hi All! I'm GoblinQueen (AKA ChildlikeGoblinQueen) and I write TOH fan fiction

cover art by @lovemoroporo !

A few things about me:

I have been known to stick with a fandom for a VERY long time, so I'll be riding this train for quite a bit.

Fan fiction has become a really important outlet for me. I have been lucky enough to make some great friends within the fandom -- and I enjoy engaging with folks regarding TOH, fan art, headcanons,fics, books, and general geekery.

That said, I am an adult with a full time job and a young family. So just keep that in mind. This is something I do because I enjoy it! I appreciate everyone who puts effort into their writing and am not in competition with anyone.

The fear of burnout is real.

I am an avid reader, a big fan of music and pop culture (I incorporate both into my story telling).

Below is a Master List of links to my current and past fics.

CURRENT PROJECTS!

Bittersweet Symphony (A 90's Human AU with @threegoblinart)

Criminal (A post SCOMverse story.) -- A bit whumpier story featuring retrieval of lost memories and early parenthood. Don't read unless you've finished SCOM. It won't make sense if you haven't.

Sweet Child O' Mine

^^ Link ^^

Years after Belos' defeat and the alliance with the Collector, things have settled into a new normal. Amity and Luz are married and have a young daughter named Azura. Hunter and Willow have also married and have just found out that they are going to become parents!

Hunter looks back on the events leading up to the birth of his and Willow's first child.

Triggered by outside influences which stir fear and doubt within him, Hunter wonders if he is incapable of being a good father given the nature of his own upbringing.

As the pressure builds, Hunter will need to lean on the support of his found family and friends to make it through unsolicited advice, planning a surprise baby shower and the public’s fascination with his past life under Belos in order to protect what is most precious to him.

SCOM is COMPLETE! Below are links to some in-universe stories that do not spoil the main plot.

SCOMVERSE Prequels:

(Before the main story, generally featuring the characters as teenagers developing their relationships and familial bonds.)

Hunter's Trauma One Shots etc:

Back to the beginning. There's one way back to home again. To where I feel forgiven (collab)

The Future's Overdue (collab)

Words like violence (Vee's POV)

If you’re sinking like a stone, carry on. (collab)

Take these broken wings (collab)

I knew the reason I felt hollow.

Early Huntlow relationship stuff. Some fluff and angst etc :

You, Strange as Angels

I Remember skies, reflected in your eyes

Sun says you fly

But traditions I can trace against the child in your face.

Thank You Consequence (Longer, multiple POV story about Hunter's first Thanksgiving after becoming a Noceda)

Huntlow Week Shorties 2023

Parenthood! (Sort of) One shots involving Hunter and Willow being new parents but the baby is yet unnamed.

Believe it or not, hands on a miracle

I Climbed a Mountain and I Turned Around

My Father's Eyes (collab)

Misc:

I'm Telling Y'all it's Sabotage! (Noceda Sibling Shenanigans)

Learn to Fly (Hunter gets used to being a regular kid while Willow is away with her dads)

My Myspace page is all totally pimped out, I got people begging for my top 8 spaces. (Hunter and Gus surprise Raine with tickets to one of the Human Realm’s most talented bards — and a custom made Hawaiian shirt.)

Here's a waiver for you to sign (crack fic involving Hettie Cutburn being obsessed with House M.D.)

Monster of the Week: (SCOM Askew-niverse)

Pre-Scomverse stories where the Hexsquad deals with monsters across realms -- and adolescence (think BtVS ). Some continuity might be a little off, but its basically prequels.

Grimwalker Stories (Scary Tales and other stories involving pre-Belos Grimwalkers.

Older:

Stranger Tides: (My first TOH fic. A Stranger Things inspired retelling of Thanks to Them.)

cover art by lovemoroporo

cover art by @threegoblinart

[creativia10]

TOH request! Willow, who’s got coccinellidaephobia (fear of ladybugs), finds herself face to face with a monstrous ladybug beast one Halloween night [would this make a cool Halloween special?]. Angst is obvious and so is fluff.

Willow versus Fear

Pairing: Willow/Hunter, background Lumity

Wordcount: 4483

Notes: Takes place the next Halloween after "Thanks to Them". So I like to write a Halloween fic every year. This is my first time writing one for Owl House though.

Oftentimes I end up posting them later in the month though. Last year I actually took part in a prompt month event and wrote multiple Halloween fics. So I was glad to not only get a Halloween prompt, but to receive it way ahead of time. Makes it easier to be sure I get to post it before Halloween this time. I welcome fanart of the squad in these Halloween costumes, and would like to see it if anyone makes any.

Let me know if I've missed needed warnings.

For some reason, Halloween felt like more of a novelty in the human realm. A lot of the costumes and decorations reminded Willow of the Boiling Aisles. Which was comforting in a way. She was glad she wasn’t the only one of their friends who actually wanted to spend it in the human realm with Luz this year. There were some traditions Willow had been curious about trying.

Now that she had the chance to explore them without the constant worry of trying to get back to the boiling aisles.

The collector’s portal between worlds was new, and not open to everyone yet. But it seemed to work well enough.

There was a tradition mostly among human children that Luz had called trick-or-treating. They would dress up in costumes, something Willow remembered from last year. And then they would go up to houses and beg for candy. Willow was a little bit surprised the quest for candy wasn’t more dire, as the name would imply to her. But, she wasn’t going to complain. Food in the human realm was different, but she did like the candy. Willow thought most of them liked the candy. Even the kind Luz claimed was considered to be widely disliked. Willow didn’t understand that, but she would gladly take on the candy other children didn’t want.

Willow wasn’t the only one curious about this trick-or-treating Luz had talked about. Luz told them some people thought teenagers were too old to be trick-or-treating. But we could still do it if we wanted to. How could you be too old to get candy? Plus, Willow had seen plenty of teenagers in costumes at the Halloween event last year. So Willow thought it probably didn’t matter.

The trick part it would seem was related to pranks. Willow had already seen Gus whispering amongst some of them no doubt planning a prank. Willow would definitely want to be in on that. It would probably come after the trick-or-treating though.

Gus was hopping in place as Mrs. Noceda poured candy out into the candy bowl. Willow smiled at his excitement. He was wearing a ghost costume. He had painted his skin with a paler color to make him look more dead. His face was uncovered but he still had a ghostly hood on. They were itching to go. Some of them took longer to get ready than others though. Even after Vee had told them to tone it down and not scare the kids. Apparently human kids scare easier than the ones in the demon realm. Which was why Vee had also asked Gus not to enhance any of their costumes with his illusion magic as well.

Amity smoothed out her vampiress costume as they waited. Willow was wearing a simple bat costume herself. It was fun to flap around the fake wings attached to her sleeves.

After a bit, Luz came in with a bounce to her step.

“Okay! We’re ready to head out!” Luz was dressed as something she had called ‘Frankenstein’s monster’. Willow hadn’t ever seen something like that in the Boiling Aisles. A creature made from the dead body parts of others. (Not withstanding grimwalkers, but she wasn’t going to think about that.) According to Luz, this creature was unique to a classic story though, so maybe it was supposed to be unique. Fitting for Luz all things considering.

She had green painted on her skin, drawn on stitches, and had some fake bolts on the sides of her neck. After her came Hunter. And oh, Willow already felt so proud and happy for him. Hunter had a big smile on his face. He clearly did not care how the fake fangs sticking out of his mouth made his smile a bit more awkward.

He appeared to have big light brown hair (probably meant to be fur). There was some sort of prosthetics on his face to make him look more wolf-like. Willow was so glad Luz had access to that kind of Halloween costume details. Willow could already tell how much the getup made Hunter happy. Of course he would pick something relating to one of his favorite animals. And oh, he wore it well. As the pair of them walked over to the rest of the group, Willow walked up to Hunter. She smiled and held his wrists, mindful of the fake claws.

“You make a very good werewolf,” She said. Hunter blinked and then glanced away with a blush.

“Oh, uh thanks.” He cleared his throat and looked back at her.

“I like your bat costume as well.”

Willow smiled and flapped her wings.

“Thanks! It’s fun to pretend like I can just flap away. Plus, I can smack people with the wings when I feel like it.”

Hunter chuckled at that and gave Willow a soft look.

Amity clapped and startled them both.

“Okay! If the lovebirds in the back would exit their tunnel vision please, we were about to head off.”

Hunter looked away with pink cheeks. Willow pouted at Amity.

Luz gave Amity a scolding look, but it looked too fond to hold any weight.

“We’re coming,” Willow said.

Willow held Hunter’s wrist and tugged slightly so they would go rejoin the others as they left the house. This should be a fun night.

*

This tradition was so fun! Willow was used to most special events in the Boiling Aisles having some form of danger to it. But it was nice to be able to just expect candy for once.

Hunter especially seemed enamored by the concept. Candy like this was new to all the Boiling Aisles kids. But Hunter especially seemed surprised by how sweet it was. You would think he had never had any type of sweet treat before. Which, now that she thought about it…she decided to sneak some more candy into his bag when he wasn’t looking. He clearly deserved it more. Simply going out like this with friends was Willow’s favorite part.

In between houses they would discuss things like the candy they got. They also talked about the reactions to their costumes and how tame this tradition was. Luz didn’t seem to mind the tameness though. Neither did Vee, who had joined them this year. She was in her human disguise and wearing a mummy costume.

It was a couple of houses in that they noticed a crowd stopped on the sidewalk, before the next house.

Luz tilted her head and came forward.

“Hey, what’s going on?” She asked.

The group of kids and adults turned to their group. One of the littler kids in a princess dress was trembling and being hugged by one of the adult women.

“I saw a monster at that house!” The little girl cried.

Willow’s friends looked at each other.

“Was she just scared by a really good decoration at that house?” Vee asked. The girl didn’t seem bothered by any of their costumes though.

Apparently there were sometimes big groups who traveled together on Halloween. So it was possible this whole group stopped just to comfort this one little girl. Looking over them though, Willow saw it wasn’t only the littlest one who seemed freaked out though.

Some of the group members looked at each other.

“We don’t know,” One of the women said. “The outside lights have been flickering constantly.”

Willow looked over at the house and did indeed see there was only light, and it was flickering. Made it hard to assess any of the decorations.

“I don’t actually know if anyone even made it to trick-or-treat before running away screaming,” Another person said.

“Libby here is the only one who has actually said what scared her there,” One of the teens of that group said.

“We were warned not to go to this house by the previous group,” The first woman said.

“But the kids have been too scared  to even pass the house. We’ve been unable to console them.”

Luz frowned, and their friends looked at each other.

“Could it just be a Halloween trick? I don’t know what a monster would be doing in the human realm,” Amity said.

“She seems too young to be trying to trick us. Kids are not great at lying,” Luz said and then continued,

“Eda has opened the portal who knows how many times. It’s completely possible a monster from the demon realm slipped in unnoticed. That’s how Vee was able to come here after all. Uh, No offence Vee.”

“None taken,” Vee said.

“Plus Belos,” Hunter reminded.

Willow was still looking over the area as her friends talked about this.

Amity knelt in front of the little girl, Libby.

“I know what you saw was very scary. And you’re very brave for telling us about it,” Amity said.

Libby sniffled and nodded.

“Do you think you could describe what the monster looked like to us?”

The adults seemed surprised by the question, but Amity didn’t pay them any mind. She gestured to their friends and continued,

“My friends have experience busting monsters from scaring little ones like you. So we may be able to help,” Amity said.

Libby sniffed again and rubbed her nose.

“Really?” She asked in a small voice.

Amity nodded with a gentle smile.

“Really. So knowing what it looks like could help us figure out the best what to get ‘em to go away.”

Libby nodded.

“Okay. Uh, it was kind of hard to tell what it looked like. It was a weird dark shape that was moving around a lot as I got closer. I ran away and screamed before I could see much else though.”

Amity nodded, “Thank you.”

She stood up and turned back to the others.

“That could be so many things,” Hunter grumbled.

Willow looked around the house again. It sounded like something that must be hiding in the dark. There was a shift in a shadow right next to the front door area that caught her attention. She felt drawn to check it out. Maybe Willow should have waited on an agreed upon plan before doing anything. But Willow had always been protective of her friends. She could usually handle herself.

She started to creep over. The others too caught up in discussion to notice her leaving. Her hand hovered over the palisman staff that sat on her waist. Even if they were in the human realm, most of the witches took their palisman staffs with them. Except Hunter.

Willow continued to look around as she approached the weird inky blot shadows near the house. It was quiet aside from the mutterings of the groups on the sidewalk. Yet she could feel the off-ness as she got closer.

With one hand still hovering near her staff, she felt her other start to glow. She was ready to draw forth plants at a moment’s notice.

When she was a few paces near the front, but still in the side yard, she could faintly see the shifts of a dark blob.   It was also making some rumbling and burbling noises. The face was indiscernible at first, so she had no idea if it had noticed her.

Once she was within a few steps in front of it though, the creature began churning and moving around faster. It shifted into a new shape where it wasn’t one before.

Willow took a startled step back but held her ground for now to see what it would become. As she watched it grew much larger, almost bigger than the house. Which brought the question of how the monster was even fitting where it was beside the house.

Willow drew a circle in the air to make a light orb float and give her light to see it. The creature stepped forward allowing her to see its new form.

Looming over her was a giant ladybug monster. Her previous plan forgotten, Willow just froze and stared up at it. The ladybug then leaned forward and made a terrible screeching sound. It’s open mouth showed it had large spider-like pincers and rows of sharp teeth. Reminding her of the giraffe they had found at the zoo.

That seemed to jolt movement back into her. Willow jumped and then screamed as she ran back over to her friends. They turned to her with startled expressions and all started talking to her at once as she came back to them. She made sure she was on the other side of their group. Farthest from where she had just been with the terrifying ladybug monster. She leaned forward with her hands on her knees, panting hard.

“M-..-L…Ladybug Monster!” She finally got out.

They continued to barrage her with questions. But she was still struggling to get her breathing under control.

She thought she heard a shushing, and out of the corner of her eyes saw her friends move back.

Hunter knelt in front of her.

“Hey, Willow. It’s going to be okay. Can I touch you?”

Willow gasped and nodded.

Hunter carefully reached forward and set a hand on her shoulder.

“You’re okay Willow. Everything is going to be okay. Can you breath with me?”

Willow doesn’t bother nodding, she just started following his slow exaggerated breathing. He wasn’t holding his fingers up like the breathing technique she had taught Gus. But she still recognized the pattern of it.

She started to take some deep breaths on her own and then stood up again, Hunter standing with her. He gave her a comforting smile.

Willow blinked as her eyes got warm, and then she sprung forward and pulled him into a clinging hug. After a second he wrapped his arms around her too. The hug felt very nice and comforting. She could almost forget about the awful scare she’d had while in his embrace.

They stood like that for a moment.

“How are you doing, Willow?” Luz then asked.

Willow sighed and leaned her head against Hunter’s.

“Well…I could be better. That was terrifying and unexpected.”

Luz nodded with a sympathetic look.

“Okay, so the creature was formless before being around Willow. That makes me think this creature could be like Gromethius at Hexside,” Amity said.

"A monster under the Hexside grounds that shows people their greatest fears," Luz clarified for Vee. As her adopted sister had not gone to Hexside.

“Isn’t he only able to attempt escaping on grom night though?” Gus asked.

Amity hmmed.

“It’s possible this is another creature like Grom. I have never heard of any others though.”

 She turned to the group of trick or treaters who didn’t seem to know what to do with themselves now.

“Don’t worry,” She said. “We can help get you safely past this house.”

She got out her palisman staff and held out a hand that glowed purple.

“Just walk past it with me, I’ll be your barrier.”

The group members’ eyes widened. They started to hurry past the house, barely waiting for Amity to walk by with them.

The monster didn’t go after that group. It did start to inch out from the side of the house though.

Willow gasped and trembled. Hunter stepped back from the hug and turned to face it. He held her hand and moved to stand protectively in front of her.

They all got their palisman out and readied for a fight. The ladybug monster made that awful screech again.

It stomped forward, the feet looking sharp as it lifted them up and stomped down. It lifted them up again,  revealing the indents left in the ground before. The monster continued to grow larger. When it flapped its wings, strong winds and vibrations sounded around the area. It started to lift off.

“We can’t let it fly around. Who knows what it would do!?” Luz exclaimed.

“So what do we do with it?!” Hunter asked them.

“We fight it, of course,” Amity said. She hopped on her staff and flew up and in a sideways arc right around it. The monster gnashed it’s pincers and looked around trying to chomp at her. \. As Amity flew around it in circles, she flung abomination goo at it, obscuring it’s eyes and mouth. It tried to shake the goo off. But she moved the goo around and from side to side. Her power with the goo there wasn’t strong enough to keep it away for long though.

“I mean like specifically, how do we get it out of here!?” Hunter called back, but Amity was a bit preoccupied.

Gus also hopped on his staff and joined Amity with circling it as a distraction. He took more angular routes around the creature though. He was also a much faster flyer. The monster could not keep up. Gus even added to the confusion by making many illusions of him fly around it in varying directions. Those didn’t last though with the way the monster was wildly lashing out around itself.

Luz pointed her staff at the monster and started shooting blasts at it. The creature screeched out again and started trudging towards Luz. Amity and Gus’s distractions slowed it down, but weren’t able to keep it from going towards her.

Hunter frowned. He looked like he regretted not bringing a staff with him. Even if he had no way of expecting he’d need it in the human realm. Willow took out hers and offered it to him.

Hunter blinked and looked at her.

“Are you sure?” He asked.

Willow nodded.

“You need one more than me right now. Besides, if I need to, I can always just make a plant shield to protect me.”

Hunter nodded. He squeezed her hand once before letting go and almost gliding into the air as he slid onto the staff. He zipped from side to side, using the speed gift Flapjack had left him with. He spun in the air and used the momentum to keep himself up as he also blasted the creature using the palisman. For a moment it seemed like the monster was slowing down.

But then it shook with an ominous rumble and rapidly turned side to side. It got close enough to each of the flyers to knock them out of the air and send them tumbling away.

Willow gasped.

“No!”

Luz tried to catch them with palisman magic, but only had time to catch Amity, And only just before Amity would hit the nearest surface.

Willow managed to make a soft plant bed under Hunter where he landed a few houses down across the street.

Gus thankfully was able to move fast and spin through his momentum. He got his palisman to hover just enough to save him, but he still hit the ground pretty hard where he fell.

Willow looked around at her friends completely spread out in the area from the monster’s attack. Amity had landed across the street. At an angle from the house they were in front of, the opposite direction of where Hunter had fallen. Luz ran over there to check on her girlfriend. Willow wanted to run over to Hunter, or really all of them. But she was the only one by the ladybug monster now.

She couldn’t even tell if their blasts had done anything to the creature. It let out another screech and started flapping its wings to hover again.

She narrowed her eyes while still trembling. No. This was not going to all be worth nothing. She was the reason the creature had taken on a ladybug form. A fear she had been made fun of for years, mainly by Boscha when the other had discovered it.

Willow had faced many things from the fight with Belos. She was not going to let this stupid fear ruin everything else. She knew she was much more powerful now than when she was a little girl. She had to do something. For her friends. And for the little Willow who never thought she would amount to anything.

Willow took a deep breath and let herself feel so she could bring that strength into her powers. She didn’t need a mirror to know her eyes were probably glowing green.

She moved her hands down. They trembled with uncontained power. Then she drew up from the ground with everything she had and brought up some of her strongest vines. They rose far above the height of the house. Then she moved her hands in and brought the many vines to wrap around the giant ladybug monster. It screeched again, but the force of the vines pulled it back to the ground. She continued to summon more vines to wrap around it so there was no chance of wiggling out.

Her arms shook as she pulled down with more strength. More than she had ever used with her plants before, and started to drive the creature into the ground. She let it go under deep enough that now vines and the ground were pinning it unable to move.

She was so tempted to try destroying it. The many years of being bullied and repressed anger started to bubble at the surface.  But, she figured that was something she needed to discuss with her friends first. She wasn’t the only one there after all.

So she decided to do the next best thing to make things easier on herself. She grew a specific flower, lucky it was still able to grow in the human realm. A flower that gave off a specific type of poisonous fume that knocked creatures out. She grew the flower right in front of its face so it didn’t take long for the fumes to hit it. The monster slumped soon after.

She knew it wouldn’t be kicking any time soon. But the recent events made Willow unable to relax at all while she could still see it there.

Willow wasn’t sure how long she stood there like that until all her friends made their way back over. All of them, aside from Vee that was, who must have gone back home when the fighting started.

Willow’s friends stared in awe. Which made Willow want to perk up with pride. She always loved it when she could protect her friends.

“So…what do we want to do with it?” Willow grit out.

They turned to each other. Amity added some abomination goo to where the vines met the ground. As a precaution to help keep the monster down.

“I feel like we should let Eda know about this,” Luz said. “She would know what to do.”

They nodded as Luz called up her mentor on her scroll.

Hunter walked over to Willow. Willow turned to him.

“Are you okay?” She asked.

He nodded.

“I’m okay.” Then he smiled.

“That was amazing, Willow,” He said.

She smiled back, though she could feel she was sweating.

“Thanks.”

He hesitated before leaning forward and pecking her on the cheek.

“I’m really proud of you,” He said.

She just gaped at him, long enough for him to blush, but he didn’t back down.

“T-thank you,” Willow got out, quieter than before.

“Of course, Willow. You are just incredible.”

Willow made a muted noise. She was so going to kiss him when she no longer had to keep this thing restrained.

“Okay,” Luz said, “Eda is going to send Darius over. So he can transport the monster with his abomination goo to somewhere better suited for it. Away from where it could cause harm.”

“He can do that between realms?” Amity asked.

“It would seem so,” Luz said with a shrug.

Willow was honestly relieved when the purple goop surfaced, It engulfed the sleeping creature and sunk back into the ground. As soon as she could no longer see it she slumped her shoulders and let go. She didn’t even bother bringing the vines back into the ground.

Once the monster was gone the flickering light by the front door went back to just being on. They heard footsteps though and then the light was shut off. She didn’t really blame whoever lived there for being done with Halloween for the night. They had heard screaming outside for who knew how long.

Hunter wrapped his arm around Willow and let her lean her head against his shoulder.

Luz turned to her friends with an awkward smile.

“So, that didn’t go how I expected it to. Do any of you still want to keep trick or treating? That was not a normal occurrence.”

The others looked at each other, and most of them agreed to keep going.

“Do you want to head back?” Hunter asked Willow quietly.

Willow hmmed and nodded.

“Hey guys, We’re gonna head back after all that,” Hunter said.

Willow frowned and moved her head up.

“You don’t have to-“

“I want to,” Hunter said. “I’d much rather spend the night with you.”

Willow made another muted sound. The amount of times this boy said something that made her want to kiss him.

Luz nodded at them.

“Of course. You can hang out at my place as long as you want. We always planned to hang out there a bit anyways. Unless you just wanted to go home.”

Willow shook her head.

“No. Chilling at your place sounds nice.”

“Do you want to fly there?” Hunter asked. “I can see how tired you are.”

Willow blinked.

“I thought Luz said-“

“After the chaos that happened tonight, there’s no way talk of supernatural will be avoided. Besides, Halloween is probably the easiest night to get away with magic stuff. Do what you want,” Luz said.

Willow laughed a bit at that. So she rode with Hunter on her palisman staff back to the Noceda home.

There was already a big bowl of candy on the coffee table in front of the tv, separate from the own by the door. Turns out, Mrs. Noceda had bought extra candy for their later hangout.

Originally Willow would have wanted to watch horror movies, but she wasn’t in the mood anymore. So, Hunter introduced her to the new show version of Cosmic Frontier. They proceeded to watch the Halloween episodes as they cuddled on the couch.

When the rest of their friends got back later, their bags were full of candy. Which they then poured a good amount of into Willow’s bag, despite her half-hearted protests. They claimed to be getting extra for her the entire time.

“We told them you were traumatized by a monster earlier. Most of them were sympathetic, if a bit awkward about it,” Luz said.

“Plus,” Gus added, “I may have demonstrated my pranking abilities to threaten them into giving us more.”

“I tried to stop him,”  Amity added.

Willow couldn’t help but laugh at their shenanigans though. It certainly wasn’t how she would have expected Halloween in the human realm to go this year. But at least it did end up becoming a good night in the end.

[tyrantisterror]

You've said that you love TOH's message that the collector for all his powers and amoral behavior "is still just a kid" and only needs some guidance from adults to learn how to behave appropriately, but there are children and teenagers who've done truly messed up things, like murder and abusing other kids (incl sexually).

Do you think that it's still worth trying to reach out and rehabilitate those kids? There are many people who react to cases of violent crime committed by juveniles with calling for violence and revenge, which honestly disturbs me, or stating that rehabilitation is useless because supposedly"some people are just born evil" which I strongly disagree with.

That is a very heavy question to ask with a children's cartoon show as a lead in.

I am of the general opinion that all people who've done horrible things deserve rehabilitation if it's possible to do so without putting innocent people in danger. I'm also aware that it's very easy for me to believe, since, you know, I don't routinely deal with murderers in my life or whatever. I'm also of the firm opinion that a little magic boy who turns people into puppets and makes folks re-enact Pac-Man is not really an equivalent to, like, an emotionally disturbed child who stabbed their sibling in the head with a fork.

[pageofheartdj]

[villain-championship]

[specter-writes]

I take requests both here and on Wattpad (https://www.wattpad.com/user/specter_writes)

Characters I write for:

(Romantic or platonic)

-Luz

-Amity

-Willow

-Hunter

-Eda (teen or adult)

-Raine (teen or adult)

(Strictly platonic)

-King

-The Collector

-Gus

-Lilith (we love our aro/ace queen)

-Camilla

-Darius

-Alador

Rules for requesting:

I do not write smut because everyone except eda and raine is a teenager and that's kinda weird, G.

So, please limit yourself to angst and fluff.

I won't do:

1. Incest

2. Paedophilia

3. Racism, even for the sake of plo

4. Once again, smut

-Reader will always be gender neutral unless it's relevant to the plot (for example, trans masc reader, or femme reader and amity coming out to readers homophobic family, although they/them pronouns will still be used). 

PLEASE BE SPECIFIC.

THIS IS A BAD REQUEST:

"raine x reader please :D"

THIS IS A GOOD REQUEST:

"(Teen) Raine x reader oneshot in which reader is trying to learn to play acoustic guitar but can't quite figure out how to stay on beat with their metronome, so their lover stops their own practice and helps them please :D"

THIS IS A BAD REQUEST:

"I'd like to request an amity x reader please?"

THIS IS A GOOD REQUEST:

"I'd like to request an amity x reader where she and y/n have been together in secret for a while and they're finally ready to tell everyone, until a fight starts brewing over Luz and they break up please?"

THIS IS A BAD REQUEST:

"I want a preference with everyone"

THIS IS A GOOD REQUEST:

"I want a preference with everyone, where LGBTQIA+ reader is disowned for being who they are and shows up on the character's porch crying"

I will try to fill all the requests, but if I just have a character there isn't much I can do for you

With that, onto the owl house brainrot!

Masterlist:

I ALSO WRITE MCYT NOW

Characters I'll Write For:

-Wilbur Soot

-Niachu

-Eret

-Karl Jacobs

STRICTLY PLATONICALLY:

-Tubbo

-Ranboo

-Tommyinnit

-Philza

-Slimecicle

Same rules as above apply

MASTERLIST