#the cardinal house au

[robroshaker9000]

So I like

Started the owl house (currently at s2 lmao, even tho I've consumed the whole ahh thing on tumblr already)

And I uh

I did a thing

Welcome to my swap au, The Cardinal House, where Hunter takes Luz's place and, as a sucker for huntlow, I couldn't not make this (*´∀`)♪

[luxu-loveskh]

wow i ended up colouring this haha

swap au belos my beloved (Even uf ive never really talked about my au here)

[strawbebehmod]

Tiny bird boy au time once again

[sergeantsporks]

Cardinal beast Evelyn has green eyes, btw, the little bit of green around her pupils expands and takes over her eyes, kinda like tapetum lucidum but on her whole eyeball.

[southernbaphomet]

tch poster sketch :]

[phobylee]

My half of the aggie with @//oneandonlygarlicbread :))

[unfried-mouth-wheat]

Gazes at you so sweetly... Tell us of the au! 🐈‍⬛

OKAY so its like a kinda generic Role Swap idea with Belos and Caleb, right? But the thing is, it's not so cut and dried as that as everyone else has pretty much the same role, or one very adjacent to canon. The idea is what if Philip and Caleb got lost in the Demon Realm while they were still children?

Philip, struggling to be accepted by the populous of Gravesfield, follows the first sign of witchcraft he can. That ends up being a teen-aged Evelyn who isn't supposed to be in the human world. Ultimately, Caleb is the one who chases after his brother in hopes of saving him from the grasps of a witch. When he finally finds his brother, he realizes that they are both trapped in this unfamiliar land, and he ends up blaming Evelyn for it.

The search for a way home is similar bout now Caleb and Philip are a united, albeit younger, front. A key incident involved a Crab Maiden and her guardian while they were at Bonesborough. The Crab Maiden shows Philip how to use magic without having been born in the Demon Realm through the use of a light glyph. However, the guardian begins to act strangely, with the added oddity of feathers and fangs. Ultimately, the woman ends up busting Philip's nose and severely injuring his arm before vanishing. Caleb ends up hiding the extent of his injury and his resentment of witches grows, while Philip is left with an intense interest in finding more glyphs and understanding the demon realm.

When Caleb's arm becomes fatal if he leaves it, he replaces it with one made of palistrom wood, binding it to his body with what he doesn't know is Titan's blood. The entire altercation has made him fearful for the survival of his brother and himself. He vows that he will find a way to return to the human realm no matter what. Even if it means finding a way to keephis brother frozen in time while he works. Even if it means cultivating Grimwalkers from the remnants of his arm.

Even if it means bringing the Isles to ruin. After all, it's residents have proven time and time again that they aren't worth sparing. They're dangerous, just like the people of Gravesfield said.

He just needs to live long enough to see this through.

[has-brain-rot]

My Owl House AU

I'm thinking that I'm going to start talking about my Cardinal Hunting TOH AU (name open to change). SO that's what this post will be about!

The AU contains two main concepts. First that Hunter runs away after the events of Hollow Mind, and second that the strength of one's bond with their Palismen can lead to some.. magical changes.

This leads to the premise of Hunter and Flapjack bonding, and the changes that come from that. The main focus is of Hunter's relationship with Flapjack and how that changes his view on the world and other people, and also how he evolves from "Golden Guard" to "Hunter". AND it's about how those changes aren't just mental, but there's some physical changes as well (the big spice of the AU lol)

The longer Hunter spends time with Flapjack the more he notices changes. At first it's simple itching and minor swelling along his lower arms, back, and lower legs. Over time he starts noticing small feather-like wooden barbs growing from these areas. Hunter at this point is still living in the castle (set between Eclipse Lake and Hollow Mind).

By the time the events of Hollow Mind happen Hunter is used to plucking stray feathers off his clothes. His behaviour/instincts has changed slightly (he believes it to be because he's "betraying the emperor by not sacrificing flapjack until later in the AU). These align with the developmental stages of real life cardinals.

Once he has officially run away after Hollow Mind these changes speed up as Hunter's main friend and ally during this period is Flapjack. The feathers grow more uncontrollably, his nails begin to turn to claws as the skin of his hands and feet toughen and scale up (similar to a real birds foot, though less extreme).

Hunter gains more natural affinity towards nesting and safety, at this point stumbling upon the Palismen Queen in the forest who takes interest in his situation. There it's explained that at one point, far in the past, the bond between Palismen and their witches/magic holders were stronger and that the magic of both would intermingle to create a representation of their bond. This could lead witches to gaining boosts to their natural abilities (for instance, a bond between an eagle-like palismen and a witch may result in the witch getting increased eyesight).

However such things "mysteriously" got rarer until it became more fiction than fact. Hunter begins living with the wild Palismen in the woods and acts as their protector (partly fuelled by his guilt of aiding in the deaths of many).

I have less planned event wise after this, just some vague stuff about Hunter becomin a sort of guardian of magic and somewhere along there meeting back up with Luz and Eda, but YEAH that's the rough outline!

There's some differences for other characters too in the AU. Like Gus getting better at tricking people's senses when it comes to illusion magic as he bonds with his Palisman, fuelled by the nature of his palisman being a chameleon. Willow getting a better sense of the sky due to hers being similar to an earth bee and possibly getting better at communicating with certain plants?.

And how the manifestation of the Owl Beast Curse looks. It is influenced by a witch's Palismen, which is this AU's reason as to why Eda's beast form is more like an owl and Lilith's is less owl like). And more that I haven't got figured out yet haha

If anyone wants to ask about it feel free! I am very open to engagement :)

[kryptonite-kisses]

Meet Superboy

if you want to read it in text form instead of this image you can find it here on AO3: The House of “L” (ch 4)

[amywritesthings]

I love the Hallo-sleepover idea! Can I request "my friend abandoned me at this halloween party and I don't know anyone. But you look as miserable as I feel" at a bonfire with Levi (:

hallo-sleepover '24!

of course!! this was the most requested prompt in 5 separate asks, so of course i wanted to present you a little levi on halloween day. xo hope you enjoy!

homemade.

pairing: levi ackerman x reader word count: 1.2k tags: modern au, adult language, halloween parties, first meet, levi ackerman as ghostface, reader as bride of frankenstein, mention of annie as your friend credit: dividers by @saradika-graphics

read on ao3.

Everyone’s too loud. The Halloween music keeps repeating.

Not even swirling the bright orange plastic cup in your hand can salvage the separation of pineapple and white rum.

At least the warm crackle of the open fire pit in the backyard feels nice.

You’re not sure why you agreed to come to this Halloween party with Annie — you knew she was going to see one solo cup and run for the pong table to demolish the competition — but you’d worked tirelessly on your costume this year.

Not that you had anywhere to go to show it off — cons got too expensive this year, work days blurred into nights, and before you knew it the date of October 31 was sitting impatiently on your doorstep. 

Waiting on your front porch handing out candy to little ones wasn’t a bad idea.

Trick or Treaters are cute.

(Except you can’t imagine any of the kiddos willingly taking a Snickers bar from the hands of a screen-accurate rendition of the Bride of Frankenstein.)

So you'd get dressed up, fill a pumpkin bucket, and hang out for the night, right?

Wrong.

That plan wasn’t acceptable to your friend, Annie Leonhart.

The moment she arrived at your doorstep in full costume, Annie acted as if staying home was a cardinal sin.

“You didn’t have a plan for this?” Annie asked incredulously. “Are you joking, dude? Come on. This costume is sick.”

Before you stood an elaborate (see: terrifying) rendition of Lady Death: Annie’s blue eyes were sunken in by copious black eyeshadow, her lips cut into the illusion of teeth under a terrifying black veil obscuring most of her face. On her body was what looked to be a dyed thrift store wedding dress, dark as the night sky above.

She gestures to your wrapped mummified dress and large cylindrical white-and-gray wig — all hand-sewn, all homemade — with equally blackened fingertips, gooey with fake blood.

“What?” you murmur, looking down at your dress like something has gone astray.

“What?!” she repeats with a snort. “Oh, no. You’re not wasting this on sitting on a porch. C’mon, we’re going to Reiner’s thing.”

“Annie,” you groan, giving her a pleading look. “You know I hate parties.”

“Yeah? And I hate idiots who waste good costumes,” she retorts, grabbing your hand with hers to fly into your house. “What do you need? Grab your keys and phone, we’re going.”

(Yeah, you’re used to her bulldozing by now.)

It’s what brought you here — stuck at a bonfire, waiting for an appropriate time to ditch and call a Lyft back to your house.

Annie’s no doubt in the semifinals of the competition, so you can’t imagine you’ll see her for the rest of the night.

It’s fine.

It’s fine, you’ll just wait another ten and—

A flash of black clothes shuffles past you to flop unceremoniously into a lawn chair. With a grunt, their legs extend towards the bonfire, the tip of their boots tapping the brick surrounding the pit. 

Slumping into the chair, you recognize the costume right away: it isn’t a traditional Ghostface given the dark denim jeans and the black henley shirt with rolled-up sleeves, but the elongated white and black ghoulish mask is unmistakable.

Unable to help yourself, you watch as the fire illuminates the veins in their forearms. His gloved hand palms the entire mask and rips it off of his face, causing your whole body to have a hot flash.

Oh.

Oh, no.

The Ghostface at the party is hot.

Immediately his bluish-gray eyes find you when he sits back in his chair once more. The black fringe of his hair clings to his forehead like the mask had been suffocating him to a sweat, complimenting his high cheekbones. 

Lips parted, you note the way he gives your costume a once over before speaking in the most rumbled, honey silk voice.

“Bride of Frank, right?”

Blinking twice, you continue to stare. When a few beats of silence pass, the stranger’s chin drops closer to his chest, brow expectant with an arch.

“You’re looking at me like I missed a reboot this year.”

Wait.

He’s talking to you.

Clearing your throat, you sit up taller and absently reach for your tall wig to make sure it’s in place. 

“No, you’re right. The Bride from the 1935 film.” 

You try to smile, though it gets lost somewhere in your anxiety. 

“And you’re Ghostface, right? From the movie Scream?”

The stranger nods. 

“Sort of. Found a mask half-off at the store, but I wasn’t wearing a damn nightgown.”

“The black clothes still fit the look,” you try to reassure, and he snorts.

“You’re far more forgiving than the Michael Myers I came here with,” he states, “but that friend abandoned my ass at this Halloween party, and I don’t know anyone else here, so.”

Crossing his legs by the ankles and his arms over his chest, he continues to observe your costume. From the flicker of the fire, his expression almost seems appreciative of your work.

“You did a damn good job,” he adds, “which is a shame, because you look as miserable as I feel.”

The surprise praise causes your face to heat up.

“I wouldn’t say miserable.”

“Bored?”

“Oh, definitely bored.”

He snorts. “Yeah, me too. I hate this shit.”

“Parties?”

“Halloween parties,” the stranger clarifies. “If everyone showed up to this shit dressed as elaborately as you, then I’d probably eat my own words.” He tosses a thumb back to the house. “I can’t tell you how many goddamn half-baked Jokers there are in that house.”

Somewhere in the midst of his rant is another compliment.

Toying with one of the ends of the mummified dress you wear, you find yourself shrugging a shoulder. “Not everyone has busybody time like me to make a costume, to be fair.”

“Wait.” He sits up more, sitting the Ghostface mask on his lap. “You made that?”

When you nod, you feel your body match the bonfire’s temperature. Annie gave you compliments by the plenty, but that was Annie. Everyone else at this party had been too busy getting drunk or too occupied to notice.

But he did.

“How’d you do it?” he asks with what seems to be genuine curiosity, though you wave it off.

“It’s boring.”

“Doubt it.”

“No, it really is,” you state, but the stranger leans closer with intrigue. You can’t move away, too mesmerized by how damn gorgeous he is. “And knowing me, I could ramble on for hours, so—”

“Hey, I have time.”

The man clears his throat and holds up the Ghostface mask as if it’ll somehow convince you.

“Might as well make the most of this damn thing while we’re stuck here, right? If anything, you’d be saving me from another goddamn Scary Movie reference inside, so you're doing me a favor by rambling for hours.”

The mention brings a slow and relaxed smile to your lips.

Right.

The ye ol’ wasssssaaaaaap to anyone with a Ghostface mask.

“Fine,” you relent, and you swear your mind is playing tricks on you when it sees a half-smile form on his own face, but the fire swipes it away just as fast. “But at least tell me your name — unless you want me to call you Ghostface.”

The man shakes his head, the fringe of his black hair following with him.

“Levi,” he introduces, softer this time. “Just call me Levi.”

[robroshaker9000]

Forgot to post these two ( T∀T)

May I (finally) present the Wittebros in my au, with,,, Caleb- alive ( ﾟ∀ﾟ) as Eda! And Belos (here just Philip) as Lulu!

Feat. Hooty, who's not really an owl, and even tho he doesn't say hoot hoot in this au there's no way I'm changing his name

[were-wolverine]

the eldritch Guardians of gotham notice batman when he first emerges- they see how he protects their city, so they gift him the abilities of a bat: wings, night vision, enhanced senses, fangs

bruce wayne becomes a shut-in after his parents die. then he travels the world only to come back the same old shut-in. he works from home, and doesn’t leave the manor. every window is covered. only lucius fox and alfred pennyworth ever enter or leave the house

one night the bat follows sirens to a circus tent, and he watches as a young boy is escorted out, crying for his parents. the next day alfred pennyworth shows up at gotham’s social services and requests to become a foster parent. a month later (money might speed the process along) dick grayson is out of juvie and the orphanage and into the safety of wayne manor

bruce tries to hide his wings when the boy arrives, but dick is fascinated by them and thinks they’re “awesome”. bruce explains how he got them, and that he is batman.

later, when batman gains a partner- robin- the Guardians of gotham bless the boy with gifts similar to his mentor: robin wings, enhanced senses, and nails that sharpen into talons

dick grayson becomes a shut-in like bruce, and is home-schooled by alfred. he doesn’t mind, he didn’t have friends his age in the circus either, and alfred and bruce are good company. bruce does let him get pets, though, a three-legged puppy he names Haley and a bloodhound named Ace

when he grows out of robin and away from gotham, the Guardians give him different wings (steller’s jay) to show they support his independence. he lives at titans tower for a while before moving to blüdhaven with his best friend donna troy. dick remains a shut-in, but takes online college courses and goes out often as a new hero- nightwing. he goes out in the mask during the day, something he never did in gotham, and spends most of his time as nightwing- not that he minds. (troia is only his nighttime vigilante partner since donna has an actual day job)

the cycle repeats with jason. however, when jason claws his way out of his grave, the Guardians guide him back to the manor where bruce finds him. when it seems like jason may never recover from his comatose state, the Guardians show bruce a lazarus pit beneath gotham, and despite his hesitation they assure him no harm will come to jason if they have a say in it

jason is revived without the nasty side effects (thanks, eldritch beings) and dick moves back to gotham. jason also leaves robin behind for a different name- red hood- and is gifted new wings (cardinal). in this au the bats & birds are more morally grey and will kill people, but only the worst of the worst/repeat offenders. jason still becomes a crime lord but he only kills when necessary and has no pit madness.

dick and jason notice their young neighbor tim drake is often home alone/without his parents and convince bruce to let him in on their secret and have him stay over at the manor. bruce eventually agrees and they later adopt tim. tim never becomes robin but he does know about their vigilante identities (og way- recognized dick as robin and connected the dots).

tim will help out on comms and basically this au’s Oracle. babs does not become a vigilante in this, instead she becomes a lawyer, but she is still paralyzed by the joker as a civilian (pre-jason’s death, bc bruce kills the joker after that)

steph works with the bats as Spoiler, and is eventually let it on their identities. she and tim bond over being the only ‘normal’ ones

when cass comes along, she is gifted the same powers as bruce, including bat wings. she goes by Black Bat and mostly communicates using sign language

bruce is never lost in time and damian eventually arrives in gotham. damian is given robin and the gifts that accompany it

since duke already has powers, the Guardians don’t give him any, but they protect him as their own

JUST. CRYPTID BATFAMILY <3

[rockymountainqueen2]

Hunter has wings now and none of his clothes fit him anymore.

Request time? [When Flapjack gave his life in exchange for Hunter's, he didn’t just give him brown eyes - He gave him wings.] Winged!Hunter is different from Harpy!Hunter, yes?

its a dadrius piece sorry

[strawbebehmod]

Accompanying willow in the garden

[sergeantsporks]

Why hasn't Evelyn told Caleb about her being a witch if they're been dating for a couple of years already? Surely she realizes that that vast, vast, vast majority of humans aren't witch-hunters?

Most of this is gonna be covered in the comic, but a few reasons. 1, his brother is the only person in all of anywhere who thinks witchhunting is a good plan. She doesn't think Caleb shares that mindset, but it makes telling him... weird at the least, dangerous at the worst. 2, even if he doesn't outright want to kill her, she's scared it might be weird enough to make him want to break up with her. She's not human, she's from another dimension, and, worst of all, she's been hiding all that from him. That last part obviously gets more and more daunting the longer she hides it, unfortunately. Finally, telling him about her witch life means eventually... telling him about the Cardinal Beast. Even if being a witch doesn't turn him off, the giant feathery monster that can and does eat people probably will (at least, that's what she figures). Telling him she's a witch is opening up that door, and it's a door she wants TIGHTLY shut and locked.

[southernbaphomet]

another au in which the wittebanes and clawthornes are swapped