#u know i love me some drama though. luz reacting to hunter having like gotten stabbed thru the chest and collapsed...

[crimeronan]

How competent is Luz with her artificial staff/glyphs in princess AU? Like if she were to for some reason spar with someone like Hunter/Amity/Willow ever, or if she were to ever get into a situation where Hunter either couldn’t protect her outright or it was unobjectionably the best play for him and Luz to fight together instead of hiding her away in the corner while he took care of everything, how would she do?

luz is pretty competent with her staff and Wildly competent with glyphs, despite the fact that she can't use them in public. glyph magic to luz is like having a hyperfixation on a language you can't actually speak with anyone around u but you listen to immersion podcasts anyway and write in it to learn the grammar and it's a completely useless skill until it randomly helps u kill ur dad one day

luz is pretty good at protecting herself with her staff and at using her staff to make up for human-related disabilities. but she's a lot better with defensive artificial magic than offensive. most of what she's been officially taught is related to keeping herself safe and letting other people take care of threats. if she sparred with amity or hunter or willow going their hardest without being able to use glyphs, she'd lose For Sureee and she knows it.

she could level a place with what she knows about glyph magic tho. it's just that she'd have to believe everybody's fucked (or possibly see hunter get horrifically injured) to let loose. bc she only has the element of surprise Once.