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Please enjoy this slowburn trauma filled nerd boy/jock girl teammates on a roller derby team AU where the author has no idea how to play sports or how to get a PhD ✌️

Hope you can all forgive me for my utter lack of roller derby knowledge and my lack of knowledge of higher education, I went to art school

The first time Hunter saw the girl boxing at his gym was about a year before he started working at Eda's secondhand store and introduced his new coworker Luz to his step-sister Amity, and they started dating. The girl was midfight gaze focused so hard it looked like it could cut steel, sweat dripped down her skin landing on the mat bellow her feet, and her movements were precise, practiced, and the strength behind them was obvious. He tried not to notice the way the muscles on her exposed arms and legs flexed with her every move, but he would be lying if he said he didn't end up watching her more than once while he ran his set on the treadmil. It was made even worse when she inevitably won the fight and turned into possibly the sweetest person on the planet, she helped her oponent up off the matt, thanked them for a good fight and asked for them to do it again sometime before she giggled and he could almost see cartoon flowers sprouting around her. Ever since that day, he went to the gym a lot more often. Amity and the twins referred to her as his gym crush and were absolutely relentless anytime they saw him in workout clothes. And now she was at the store he worked at looking through the jewelry just an aisle away. He was hanging by a thread.

"Hey, nerd," Luz said as she walked through the door of the shop. "Amity said she gave you her black dress. I've been sent to pick it up." She said as she approached the front counter.

"Yeah, here." Hunter said, reaching under the counter and pulled the duffel Amity had given him that morning. Luz nodded in thanks before turning and noticing the girl from his gym in the aisles.

"Oh, hey, Willow's here." Hunter's head snapped to her, and an expression of pure terror took over his face.

"What?"

"That's Willow, my roommate." She raised her hand to gesture to the other girl, but Hunter snatched her hand out of the air. "Hey-"

"You don't know her." He said frantically.

"What? Yes, I do," Luz said incredulously.

"No, you don't."

"Yes, I do."

"No, you don't."

"Hunter, she's literally my best friend, we've been roommates since college. I've known her way longer than I've known you."

"No, you can't know her. Because if you know her then I'm going to have to know her and I can't know her." As he spoke, he knew he sounded like a maniac, but at the moment, he didn't care. The woman he had been watching from afar for almost a year, the woman he had accepted he was never going to talk to, the woman who the mere thought of made him a blushing stuttering mess was suddenly the roommate of his sister's girlfriend and there was no way he was going to be able to be normal about it.

"Hunter, what the hell are you talking about?"

He cringed knowing that there was no escape and that he'd have to tell Luz exactly why he could never speak to her roommate. With the next words out of his mouth, Luz would understand the problem in an instant, but would also cause him a lot of grief in the very near future.

"She goes to my gym." Luz's eyes widened slowly, and her smile grew like the cheshire cat as she realized just what that meant.

"Wait, are you telling me, that my roommate is your gym crush?" She asked in stage whisper excitement clear in every syllable.

"I really really don't wanna say yes."

"Edric, Emira, and Amity are gonna love this."

"Oh, Luz," Willow's voice startled the two at the counter. Hunter jumped away from Luz, a blush covering his cheeks as he was finally face to face with the woman he'd been semi stalking at the gym for almost a year. She spoke as she walked up to the counter with a little bejeweled bee shaped barrette in her hands. "I thought you were off today."

"I am. Just had to pick something up for Amity. Have you met Hunter?" Luz spoke quickly, turning to Hunter with a mischievous grin. Willow turned to Hunter slightly put off by the weird behavior of her roommate.

"No, I don't think- Oh! Wait, we go to the same gym, don't we?" Willow slapped her hand down on the counter excitedly in realization.

Hunter swallowed his cheeks on fire, she recognized him, "Um y-yeah we do. I've seen you boxing. You're really good."

Willow grinned from ear to ear and he felt like he was going to melt into the floor, "Thank you! I know." She said confidently but not conceited.

"Oh yeah, she's got medals and trophies," Luz interjected. "And not just for boxing, for tons of sports. My roomie's a total jock." Luz turned to Hunter and in an instant her eyes lit up with an idea. "In fact, Hunter you roller skate, right?"

"Yeah, I do." Hunter said slowly, his brows furrowed, confused by the change of topic.

"Because you know I remember Amity said that you and Darius go like once a week." She turned to Willow, "It's a really cute story actually-"

"I don't think she needs to hear-" Luz continued on as though Hunter hadn't even spoken.

"When Darius first adopted him, he wanted to find an activity to do together and they tried all kinds of stuff before finding out they both liked roller skating and they've been going ever since. Hunter's gotten pretty good at it over the years." As Luz spoke Hunter made eye contact with Willow and she gave him a knowing smile and scrunched her nose at him in apology for her roommate. He prayed she thought his red cheeks were from Luz and not from her smiling at him. "Anyways, the reason I bring this up-"

"Is because I captain a roller derby team and just lost a player." Willow interjected.

"Exactly! So I was thinking..." Luz trailed off and gestured with her hands between the two of them. Willow giggled covering her mouth with her hand in a way Hunter absolutely did not find adorable. Willow pulled out her phone opening an empty contact page.

"Here," Willow held out her phone to Hunter. "I'll text you the info."

"Oh, I-I don't think I'd be very good at roller derby." Hunter said.

"Well, lucky for you, I'm desperate. We've got a match this weekend, so if you can skate, you're in." She pushed her phone in front of him even more, and he clumsily took it from her nervously typing his information, trying desperately not to think about the fact that this meant his gym crush would have his number now.

He handed the phone back to her, and she smiled, "Perfect! I'll text you." He could feel his cheeks light up, and his brain just kept replaying her words over and over again. I'll text you. Fuck. He was doomed.

She pulled a ten dollar bill out of her purse and placed it down on the counter. As she spoke, she slipped the bee barrette in place in her hair, and all Hunter could think was how pretty it looked on her.

"Keep the change. I gotta go to work," she turned to Luz. "I have to make sure the new guy doesn't kill any of the plants in the nursery." She glanced once more at Hunter as she started to walk towards the door. "It was nice to meet you!"

"Y-yeah, you too." Hunter watched her smile at him once more before slipping out the door. "I really hate you, you know." He said with eyes on the door, and Luz cackled.

"Oh, come on, bro, I'm totally wingmanning you the way you did with me and your sister."

"I didn't wingman you, she just gave me a ride my first day and you were so distracted staring at her that you knocked over a box of silverware then made a dumb joke about buying it to have dinner with her and for some unknown reason she laughed."

"Exactly, just follow my lead, and you'll totally be dating my roommate in no time."

"I feel like you don't listen to me."

"I hear you loud and clear, dude. I'm so gonna get you a girlfriend."

His phone buzzing interrupted them. He looked down to see a text from an unfamilar number.

"Is that Willow?" Luz asked smug.

"No." It was.

"Liar." Damn her.

Hey! It's willow 🌼 ^-^

Also if Luz is still being Luz remind her she has something to get to Amity and she'll practically run out the door

He smiled at her message and looked back up at Luz, "As much as I would love to continue this conversation, doesn't Amity need that dress?"

Luz narrowed her eyes at him and snagged the duffel off the countertop, "Tell Willow I am not as predictable as she thinks I am."

"So you're not going to leave now or?" He asked smirking at her.

"Of course I'm going to leave now, I just don't wanna give Willow the satisfaction." Luz walked to the door, stopping right before it would close. "And just for that, I'm so gonna show Willow those pictures of you from last year's Renaissance fair."

Hunter rolled his eyes as the door slammed closed behind her, turning back to his phone

Hunter:

You're a genius, she couldn't get out of here fast enough

Willow:

😂 idk if id say i was a genius just an expert in Luz

And im sorry we kinda pushed you into joining my team, you dont have to if you dont want to

But if youre in id be down to schedule some practices we can do some one on one so youre more confident before joining the team

Hunter stared down at the phone in his hands blush creeping onto his cheeks as he thought about what she'd just said. One on one practices with just the two of them. He knew he should tell her he can't play roller derby, that he hasn't played any kind of sport since high school, and most of his accolades now were all academic, but he also knew there was no way he was going to be able to say no to her. His fingers were typing before he could register he was doing it.

Hunter:

It's ok. I'm in

He bit his lip nervously as he typed the next message.

And I'm free tomorrow if you want to practice then

He hit send before he could rethink himself and then he panicked for the entire forty-six seconds it took for her to reply

Willow:

Perfect! Im free tomorrow too ^^

At that, Hunter promptly dropped his phone.

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Hunter woke up the next morning and instantly his nerves over the practice he had with Willow later that day flooded his system. He decided to just throw on a jacket and his reading glasses and headed out of his studio straight to the library. Losing himself in his thesis was always the best way to calm his nerves or at least serve as a good enough distraction. He had surrounded himself with books by the time a voice startled him out of his research bubble.

"Hunter?" He looked up to see Willow standing in front of him looking completely put together in cute overall shorts and a yellow crop top that matched perfectly with her gold wire framed glasses and little yellow sunflower shaped crossbody purse. While he was suddenly struck with the realization that he had left the house in his pajamas from the night before, with his hair a mess, his bulky red reading glasses slipping their way down his nose.

"Willow!" He said much too loud, his face and ears on fire. "You're here. At the library."

"What just because I play sports doesn't mean I can't read." She teased him.

"That's not- I didn't mean-"

She giggled at his reaction and slipped into the seat across from him. She put the book in her hands on the table in front of her, revealing the cover to be a cheesy romance novel with an oil painting for the cover.

"I know it's super low brow, but they're sort of a guilty pleasure, and a new one just came out so."

"So library."

"Exactly," she smiled at him and his stomach did somersaults. "What about you? What are all of these for?" She gestured to the piles circling him in.

"Oh, um, they're for my PhD. My thesis is about the history of witchcraft practices in European cultures and how witch hunters tie into religious fundamentalism today."

"Wow."

"Yeah, I know. You're bored already." He joked, keeping his tone light.

"What? No, of course not." She was sincere in her response.

"It's okay, an old coworker once told me that how bored it made her was only made worse by how annoying my voice is." Willow couldn't help it the comment surprised her so much she laughed.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, that's not funny, that's so mean. I shouldn't be laughing." She said through her laughter. Hunter was just focused on the fact that he'd made her laugh over anything else.

"It's okay. When I told the twins about it, they were a lot worse."

"For the record, I don't think your voice is annoying."

"Thanks, but you don't have to lie to me everyone says it is."

"I'm not lying, I'd actually really love to hear you explain your thesis."

"You're kidding."

"I'm not. Promise." She held out her pinky finger in front of him. He looked from her finger back to her eyes, and something he saw in them made him believe her. He smiled and locked his pinky with hers before launching into the research he had done that day. She just rested her chin on her hand and watched him with a smile.

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As he was fumbling with his keys at his apartment door with her right behind him, Hunter had no idea what compelled him to invite her back to his apartment other than that when he'd told her he needed to change before they went to the rink to practice, the fact that his apartment was right around the corner just slipped from his mouth. She had agreed to go back with him instantly with that adorable perfect smile, and now twenty-four hours after he had met his dream girl, she was going to be in his apartment. He felt like he was going to pass out, stuff like this didn't happen to him.

When he was finally able to open the door and reveal his apartment to her, Hunter realized he really should not have let her come over. It had been a while since anyone but him had been in his place and he'd forgotten just how many books he had, even with the two almost floor to ceiling bookshelves there were still piles of them all over the floor, opened books on his bed, books piled up on the couch, the coffee table, even some on the kitchen counters. But what he found himself regretting most were the figurines and posters and the multiple sided dice strewn all over the apartment.

"You could open another library in here." She said, looking over his shoulder through the open door.

He cringed, "Yeah, I haven't really had any visitors since I moved here." He said, rushing to clear some books from the couch, his route through the maze of book piles practiced.

Willow watched him from the door with a fond look before slowly following him, keeping her head down at her feet. She had almost reached the couch when Hunter snapped back up and turned to face her, knocking her off balance.

"Oh!" She reached out to him instinctively as she fell forward, he tried to catch her but was just as caught off guard by her as she was by him, his knees buckled under him and he fell back on the now book free couch with her on top of him.

It took a moment for the world to catch up with him, he got lost in the fact that he could feel her hands against his chest and the weight of her body against his own, her head down, her breath against his neck, his arms wrapped around her waist and as she slowly lifted her head to look him in the eye her warm breath fogged the edge of his reading glasses. He knew his face was on fire as he realized she was so close he had to cross his eyes slightly to look into hers. Hunter tried to stop himself, but he couldn't help the quick glance he stole down at her lips.

"Hun-" her voice snapped him back to the moment, and in an instant, he had moved her off of him standing up and leaving her sitting confused on the couch.

"Um- I- I should go- um go get changed and um... yeah." He said scrambling away from the couch tripping over a couple book piles making his way to his dresser grabbing the clothes he'd set aside for their practice and stumbled his way into the bathroom slamming the door by how hard he pressed his body against it.

He let himself sink to the floor and burried his face in his hands, he could feel how hot his face was, knowing the red blush was probably covering his neck and ears too. Hunter couldn't believe he'd just run away from her like that.

He stood up from the floor, trying to shove his embarrassment down and got dressed as quickly as he could, leaving his reading glasses behind on the sink. He opened the door only to be greeted by Willow standing on the other side, leaning against the doorframe, waiting for him.

"You okay?" She asked at the sight of him. He cringed at himself, feeling his cheeks heat up at the memory of what just happened.

"Yeah, I'm ok, that was- I mean I um... We should get going, yeah?" He pointed to the apartment door, hoping she would take the change in subject and let the other drop.

"Okay," she nodded before kicking off the doorframe and walking to the door. She stood by the door knob forcing him to stand close to her as he opened it for her, she kept her eyes on him the whole time and he wished he could ignore the way her gaze made his skin itch. The way she looked into his eyes as she slipped through the door, keeping eye contact with him the whole time made him feel like she knew exactly what she was doing to him.

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She changed into her roller derby uniform when they got to the rink, and he tried not to focus on how he could see the way her biceps flexed exposed from her tank top. He prayed she thought his red face was from exertion, and not all the times she had to touch him to teach the full contact moves as she went through the different tactics and strategies. Hunter had never been truly hopeless when it came to sports or anything like that, he had done martial arts as a kid and he could hold his own in the average gym class, but he'd never played a team sport before and even just working with Willow alone he could tell he was going to be out of his ellement. She promised that they'd practice with the full team before the match that weekend and that it would be easier to get the whole picture with them there and a little voice in the back of his head wondered why she would suggest a one on one practice if it would ultimately be easier with the whole team. Of course, then she'd grabbed his arms to correct his posture or something, and he got lost in the point of contact instead.

It was close to the end of the time Willow had reserved at the rink when it happened. She was skating backwards in front of him explaining the intricacies of different plays and Hunter had gained enough confidence in his abilities to let himself get lost in the sound of her voice and the green of her eyes. His skate caught on something he didn't see, pitching him forward, crashing right into Willow in front of him.

"Ack!" He watched as her eyes widened, realizing too late what was about to happen, as his body hit hers, he felt as her arms instinctually wrapped around his torso. He held out his arms letting them take the most impact against the ground, but he couldn't prevent the rest of his body from making a solid collision with hers as she hit the ground and for the second time that day one of them was on top of the other.

When Hunter opened his eyes next, he was staring straight down at Willow's, their noses a hair's breadth away from brushing. Her eyes dropped to his lips in a way that he couldn't not notice her doing it. In that moment, Hunter wished he was a different person, one who wouldn't feel like they were going to have a panic attack from being close to a cute girl. He pushed off against the ground fast, surprising her enough to break the lose hold she had around his waist, and he moved to sit up on the ground next to her.

"Sorry, I uh-" Hunter stuttered as she sat up, he could still see the pink dusting on her cheeks.

"It's okay," she smiled at him and his chest felt like it had been lit up like a forest fire. "People fall, especially when they're on roller skates." He couldn't help the smile that grew as she giggled. "We should probably get cleaned up anyway." Hunter felt like he was imagining it, but she almost sounded disappointed. "I'll schedule a practice with the rest of the team, they'll all be so excited to meet you." She patted his knee as she got up to her feet, she held her out to him still on the ground. He knew he was blushing as he took her hand and let her pull him up to his feet.

"Thanks," he let his hand fall from hers. "I hope I don't mess up this match for you guys." He rubbed the back of his neck self consciously.

"You can't." She said it so definitively that Hunter felt like he had to believe her. "Even if we lose and even if it's because of something you may or may not do, you won't mess up the match. Every game, win or lose, has something you can learn from and something you did right, there's value in the losses and failure in the wins. But as long as you try to do your best, you could never mess it up, it's just impossible." She patted him on the shoulder with a smile."Besides, what sport isn't already a mess?" She said before skating off to the girl's locker room.

Hunter felt stuck like someone had nailed his feet to the ground, and he stared after her. Flashes of memories and echoes of a voice playing in his head a direct contrast to what she'd just said. The life he'd had as a child before Darius had adopted him flooding back, the fear of failure that had been instilled within him, the pain that came with the smallest of mistakes, the almost daily affirmations that he didn't deserve anything good or to be happy or to hope for anything more than the life he had before Darius. It all bounced around his mind, swirling like a vortex threatening to pull him in, but in the center was her.

He couldn't believe a person like her even existed and that she wanted anything to do with him. After everything he had been through, everything he'd done to win the favor of a man whose favor was supposed to be unconditional, somehow Hunter had the attention of a woman who really shouldn't even know he exists.

The laughing conversation of the group who'd reserved the space after them walking through the door broke Hunter from his spiraling. He took a shaky breath before he skated off to the men's locker room, the last thing Hunter needed to think about right now was him.

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After an awkward goodbye at the rink door where she hugged him and he ended up watching her till she disappeared around the street corner the next time he heard from her was the next day when she informed him they'd be having a practice with the rest of the team the day before the match. He did his best not to focus on just how anxious the thought of meeting a group of new people and then having to learn how to play a sport with them made him, but he was very much not successful. He went to the library every free moment between then and the next practice, and on the day of, he showed up to rink twenty minutes early.

Sitting in the rink lobby with a library book he'd just picked up doing his best to tune out the world around him, a unfamilar voice pulled him back.

"Hey? Are you Hunter?" Hunter looked up to see a younger man in a roller derby uniform that clearly belonged to the same team as Willow's.

Hunter scrambled to stand up holding out his hand, "Yes, hi, that's me." The other man took his hand shaking it with a grin.

"Great to meet you! I'm Gus. Willow's been telling me all about you."

"All good things I hope."

"Oh yeah," the smile Gus gave him felt like he knew something Hunter didn't. "It's definitely all good things."

"Um ok," Hunter looked at Gus, thoroughly confused.

The door to the rink opened with Willow, pushing her way through stealing the attention of both men. Her face lit up at the sight of them, a smile instantly taking over her face.

"Gus! Hunter! You guys are here. I hope you haven't been waiting long."

"Oh no, don't worry," Gus waved his hand as if waving away her concern. "We've only just gotten to meet. I haven't had time to ask any incriminating questions yet." He smirked at Willow, and a light blush dusted the bridge of her nose.

"You talk like I don't have Matt's number." Willow said poking Gus in the side as she walked to him. He laughed and flinched away from her, holding his hands up in surrender.

"I said nothing, I swear." Gus laughed as Willow huffed at him, crossing her arms over her chest.

Hunter felt lost watching them bounce back and forth, wishing he knew what exactly was going on with them, but he just felt awkwardly out of the loop. In the presence of two people who were such close friends, they could probably communicate without words. Feeling like the third wheel until all of a sudden in one singular moment, something shifted, and they both turned to him involving him in the conversation, dragging him along with their casual teasing and easy topic changes. On a dime, everything had changed, and the two of them seamlessly integrated him into their dynamic. In just one instant, it was as if he'd known them for years.

When they were joined by Skara and Viney, the final two members of the team they got right into the practice. Watching Willow switch from sweet friend goofing around to serious team captain giving marching orders and correcting positions, zipping around on the rink to make sure everyone was doing what they were supposed to was a transition Hunter felt like he could addicted to.

Getting used to working with a team was difficult at first, but as the practice went on, he found the manuvers getting easier, and the teamwork became seamless. And after he'd successfully pulled off a new manuver throwing his fists up in the air with woop as the team clapped and cheered him the smile he caught on Willow's face almost made him fall on his face. It was such a revelation to him that even as they were taking their practice seriously, the team was laughing, joking, and having fun with each other. Hunter felt like he fit with them in a way he'd never fit anywhere else. It occurred to him that he might have to actually thank Luz for getting him to play on this team, he cringed at the thought.

"Alright, team, great work today. I think we really found a good rhythm with our new member. We're gonna crush tomorrow's match for sure." Willow said as the team skated to the benches, grabbing their water bottles and sitting to rest.

Hunter was the last to walk out of the lockerroom and as he approached Willow and Gus in the lobby the two were having a hushed conversation that seemed quite tense if the way Willow violently shushed Gus as Hunter joined them was any indication.

"Hey, Hunter," she said, turning to him with a tense smile.

"Hi?" Hunter responded, looking between them confused. Gus nudged Willow none too gently with his elbow.

"You live near the rink, right?" She blurted out.

"Um yeah, I do."

"Great! I'll walk with you." Willow smiled, taking Hunter's arm slipping hers in the crook of his elbow. Hunter knew he was blushing as he let himself be led to the door by her. "Bye, Gus!" She called over her shoulder.

"Bye, Willow! Don't do anything I wouldn't do." Gus said with a smirk as Willow separated from Hunter to open the door, she turned and stuck her tongue out at him. Gus just laughed before turning to Hunter. "It was great meeting you, Hunter."

Hunter smiled, "It was great meeting you too. I'll see you tomorrow, Gus."

"Yeah, I'll see you then, and I hope you'll decide to become a permanent member of the team." Gus clapped Hunter on the shoulder as he walked out the door, Willow still held open, walking the opposite direction of Hunter's place.

Hunter turned to Willow, "Permanent member?"

She shrugged as she walked out the door, "If you want the spot, it's yours." He followed after her the two walking side by side down the street. "The team loves you, and you're pretty good for a total beginner."

"Huh," he tried to sound casual even as her words made his insides feel like molten lava. "I'll have to think about it." He said as if he wasn't incapable of saying no to her.

"Yeah, no pressure. I know your thesis is probably taking up a lot of your time. I would hate it if this interfered with it." The way she spoke with such genuine concern and thought for his schedule and his thesis made butterflies swell in his stomach.

"Thanks, but uh, I think this might be worth making time for." When she smiled at him, he knew he would never get tired of the way it made his breath stutter.

The rest of the walk was filled with casual conversation and comfortable laughter Hunter barely realized when they'd reached his apartment building until they were standing right in front of it. He stopped in front of the door, turning to face Willow as she turned to face him. Absently, he thought she was standing kind of close.

"Well, um, I uh, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." He said, and her eyes looked down away from his. He would swear the smile she gave him when she looked up again was disappointed.

"Right, tomorrow."

"Goodnight, Willow." He found himself whispering it to her like he almost didn't want to say it. Her smile this time just felt sad as she leaned in, wrapping him in a hug.

"Goodnight, Hunter." He wrapped his arms around her briefly before she pulled away. For a moment as they were separating still wrapped in each other's arms, their eyes locked, and Hunter felt like he should lean down the few inches separating them and kiss her.

But instead, he let his arms drop to his side, and Willow took a couple steps back. She looked at him like she had something she really wanted to tell him, but she kept her lips pressed together and looked down at her feet before turning and walking away down the street. Hunter was planted to the spot, unable to stop watching her till she disappeared from view. He couldn't help the feeling that he'd done something wrong.

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"Willow! What the hell is Matt doing here?" Gus skated up to Willow and Hunter as people were filtering into the rink finding seats before the match started. Hunter looked over Gus' shoulder to see as a shorter man with what Luz would probably call a TikTok eboy haircut and dried paint flecks dotting his arms walked through the door looking down at his phone obviously trying to look casual.

"Well, I sent out a mass text about the match today. I guess his number must have found its way in there." Willow said with an air of fake innocence and a cheeky smile.

"You're a sadist."

"I would respond, but he's right behind you."

"Hey, Gus." Hunter watched as Gus' eyes grew to the size of saucers, and he spun around quickly to face Matt.

"Hey, Matt! You're here," Gus said with a smile Hunter could only describe as lovesick.

"Yeah, I uh, I wouldn't miss it." Matt fidgeted with his hands and matched Gus' lovesick expression.

Willow turned to Hunter and gestured with her head for the two of them to leave Matt and Gus alone.

"So, who is Matt exactly?" Hunter asked when they were far enough not to be overheard.

"He's a carpenter that built some shelves for me to store potted plants whom I then connected with Gus to build some sets for one of his productions, and now they're partners in a theater. By the way, never ever enter that theater when they're midproduction. Their fights are legendary."

Hunter looked back at the two men who were currently looking at each other like shy lovesick teenagers fidgeting nervously as they talked to each other, and he wondered just what their fighting could possibly look like. As he was watching the couple, he was able to see as Luz, Amity, Edric, and Emira walked through the door. It had occurred to him that they would all come to this match, but it had not occurred to him yet that that meant they would be meeting Willow, whom Luz knew was his gym crush, the same crush his three step siblings were relentless in teasing him about, and Luz was dating one of his siblings, which meant she would definitely have told them all about her roommate being his gym crush. The realization hit him full force in that moment as the three of them locked eyes on him, and the smiles they all gave him confirmed that the three of them really were all related. He cringed and turned to Willow.

"I'll be right back," he skated over to the group of four before they could reach him and Willow.

"Hey, Hunter. Is that her?" Emira asked, peering over his shoulder at Willow.

"Yeah that's Willow alright," Amity said teasingly.

"She's pretty," Edric said, copying Emira's movement over Hunter's other shoulder.

"I get it," Emira said with a lecherous look.

"Me too," Edric grinned looking Willow up and down.

"Ok, the two of you are going to have to stop being yourselves before you're allowed to meet her."

"Totally," Emira nodded.

"Definitely," Edric nodded. "One problem." He held up his index finger.

"Itty bitty problem." Emira held her fingers close together.

"Your girlfriend has other plans."

"Hi, you must be-" Willow started approaching the group from behind Hunter. Emira slipped around Hunter's side to take Willow's hand, shaking it.

"Emira."

Edric copied the movement slipping around Hunter's other side and taking Willow's opposite hand, crossing her arms in front of herself like an X.

"Edric."

"Pleasure to meet you both," Willow giggled at their antics. Emira and Edric executed a move where they spun Willow around by her arms so her back would face Hunter, uncrossing her arms in the process.

"Oh, please, the pleasure is all ours," Emira said as they spun. "We've been absolutely dying to meet you."

"Truly, we have. Now, you must tell us how many times Hunter fell on his face when you guys were practicing." Willow giggled again as the twins refused to let go of her hands and even leaned into her with matching flirty grins. Hunter could feel his cheeks heating up as they did their best to not only embarrass him but get on his nerves as much as possible by flirting with her.

"I can't believe you let them come here," he muttered to Amity.

"Hey, if I had to deal with this when they met Luz, so do you."

Hunter just steamed as he watched Willow giggle at his step-siblings until it was time for the match to begin. Once he hit the track, the rest of the rink disappeared, and he lost himself in the game and his teammates instead of his family in the stands.

They were down to the wire, and this last point would determine the winner. He made eye contact with Skara, and she nodded at him. The next second, they were moving together to support Willow. She barely acknowledged them, her focus on the match, the only motion she gave was a quick glance out of the corner of her eyes. And then, before he knew it, they'd successfully gotten Willow passed the blockers and scored enough points before the buzzer went off clinching the victory for their team.

The audience errupted into cheers and before he knew he was doing it Hunter had skated his way to Willow practically running into her as he scooped her up in his arms lifting her in the air spinning, the two laughing and screaming, lost in the celebration of the moment. He let her slip down in his arms until her feet touched the ground again, she was still wrapped in his arms, their bodies pressed together, her hands on his shoulders and the position reminded him of the night before when he had the thought to kiss her.

"I'll do it. I'll take the spot." He said, staring down into her eyes.

"Huh?" Her brows scrunched in confusion.

"You said there was a permanent spot on the team, and I could have it if I wanted it. Well, I want it." Willow's confused expression disappeared as a grin took over her face, before she could respond the rest of the team crashed into them turning their intimate hug into a group hug celebration.

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It had been Skara who suggested the team go out to the club and celebrate, she knew the bouncer and most of the staff from DJing there time to time, so she was able to get the team and all of their guests in free and easy. Hunter really wished he could have come up with a good excuse to get out of it, though. He'd always hated clubs, and this one wasn't really an exception, the music was too loud, the drinks were overpriced, and the entire place was too crowded. Mostly, he was there because when Willow asked him if he was going, the twins had materialized over his shoulders to instantly say he was.

Now, he was standing in the back of the club away from everyone leaning against the wall, wincing at the mass of people in front of him. Willow walked up to him, sliding into place, leaning against the wall next to him close enough their sides touched. He turned his head to look down at her, and she smiled at him. She made a gesture for him to lean down so she could speak into his ear to be heard over the music. He tried not to let the feeling of her breath against his ear affect him too much.

"Not having fun?" He chuckled at her question, moving to put his lips against her ear.

"Clubs aren't really my thing." She pulled back and looked him up and down before nodding once seemingly deciding something.

She moved to stand in front of him pressing her body against his as she leaned up on her tiptoes to speak into his ear.

"Dance with me," she said and his face lit on fire.

"Oh, I can't really-"

"Come on," she smiled and took his hand leading him to the dance floor.

She slipped through the bodies on the floor fluidly till she seemingly found the right spot to stop. Willow wrapped Hunter's arm around her waist, keeping their fingers intertwined as she pulled him close to her, slotting his front against her back. She reached her arm back to wrap around his neck, her hand going to his hair as his other hand came to rest on her hip, her head fell back to rest on his shoulder and she looked up at his face as he looked down at her trying not to get overwhelmed by everything going on around him. The music was deafening, the air was hot and stifling, the lights flashing different colors that reflected off her glasses, and even though they were surrounded by people he felt like they were the only two in the room as she moved them to the beat of the music. Looking down into her eyes being able to feel the warmth coming off her body as it pressed against his, the smile on her face lighting up his insides, feeling happier with her than he had in a long time, Hunter had a thought that made his blood run cold. He didn't deserve this.

"Hunter, can I ask you something?" Her voice interrupted him at just the right moment and he forced himself to nod in response. "Why haven't you kissed me yet?"

Hunter felt like someone dumped a bucket of ice water on him, his only thought a single word. What.

"I mean you've had every opportunity to, and I thought I was being pretty obvious that I wanted you to, but maybe I've misread this, and you don't like me that way." The look in her eyes forced the words from his mouth.

"No. You didn't misread anything." She smiled clearly relieved.

"Then what's stopping you? I mean, even now, you're not interrupting me or anything just letting me talk when I basically just told you I want you to kiss me."

Hunter wanted to, he really did, but as he thought about it, his brain was screaming at him, two thoughts repeating more than others, he didn't deserve her and she would regret it. The air in the room disappeared, and his vision started going fuzzy around the edges. Distantly, he saw her expression shift into one of worry, and suddenly, the two of them were on the move. She pulled him through the mass of people and out the club door, the cool night air hitting his skin like a slap. She dragged him down the street away from any of the people around. She turned to face him, cupping her hands on his cheeks, making him look in her eyes.

"Hunter? Look at me, you need to breathe, okay," she took one hand off his face and held up her hand, counting on her fingers. "Breathe in, two, three, four and out, two, three, four." She got him to match her breathing as she counted on her fingers. Once he'd gotten his breathing under control, he reeled back from her touch, taking a few steps back from her. He started rambling before he even knew the words were coming out of his mouth.

"I'm so sorry. You shouldn't be out here with me right now, you should be in there having fun. You should be in there with someone else, someone better, someone who wouldn't freak out like that. I mean, you deserve to be with someone who won't be such a-"

"Hey, stop." Willow interrupted him, her face scrunched up in worry. His mouth snapped shut his teeth clicking together with a loud noise that made her wince. She looked around at the people standing just a few feet away, waiting to get in the club before turning back to him. "Come on." She took his hand and started walking with him down the street.

The two walked in silence, and she refused to drop his hand. Hunter realized halfway to their destination that they were walking to his apartment building. When they made it to the door, he expected her to say goodbye and leave him to get himself up to his apartment on his own, but she just turned to him and asked for his keys. He handed them over, unable to speak and knowing even if he could the look in her eye would have made him quiet anyway. She barely paid him any mind as she took his keys and opened the building door for them. She led the way up the stairs to his apartment, opening that door with the keys she had yet to give back to him. As she opened his apartment door like it was her own taking his hand like it was the easiest thing in the world and moving the two of them through the maze of books to sit on the couch like she had been there a million times instead of one, Hunter couldn't help but wonder why she hadn't left yet.

She'd let go of his hand the second they sat down and let her eyes slip to her feet on the ground as he found he couldn't tear his eyes away from her. The two sat in a silence, Hunter felt like he was unable to break instead waiting until she would inevitably speak next.

"I spent a very big part of my life thinking I didn't deserve to be happy. That I was absolutely worthless, and the people around me were all too happy to confirm those beliefs. I was bad at everything I did, I felt weak and broken like I was half a person. I had an entire world of people happily making my life miserable, and it's really hard not to let that get to you and make you think you really deserve to be treated like that. I was so alone for so long, and it took me a while to realize that I deserved better than that life." She looked up into his eyes. "Hunter, I like you. I like you a lot, and you don't need to do anything to deserve me liking you, this isn't a hierarchy, I'm not above you in any way. I think you're sweet and cute and really smart, and I've liked you ever since I watched you help Mrs. Kwan, after her spin class, opening the door for her and carrying her bags out to her car." Hunter realized distantly that that had happened months ago, long before they'd met at the secondhand store. "I just hope you realize you don't have to do or be something anything other than who you are for people to like you and want to be with you." She looked away from his gaze back down at her feet.

Hunter wanted to respond, but his mind was unable to think of anything to say in response to everything she'd just revealed to him. He could only look at her, taking in her body language, from how she fidgeted with her fingers, to her slumped shoulders, and her pursed lips, realizing all of a sudden that she looked insecure. It caught him off guard that she could look or even feel that way, that she had ever been bad at anything, or that she could have ever felt weak. And even as he had her words repeating fresh in his mind, he could hear the echoes of his uncle clawing its way back, trying to take over instead. But Hunter forced himself to focus on Willow in front of him, drowning out the memories of his past by taking in every detail of her he could. As he looked at her, sitting on one end of his couch in his book invested apartment, he couldn't help feeling like he was seeing her for the first time. She wasn't his gym crush, a mysterious enigma of a woman he would never talk to anymore. She was Willow, his roller derby captain and his friend, who teased him, who helped him, who had a life full of ups and downs he had only just started to learn about. And in that moment, he realized he was going to do something he should have done a while ago.

"I should go." Willow stood up from the couch, walking towards the door. Hunter stood, grabbing her arm and turning her around before she could get any further than one step past him.

"Wait," he let his hand slip from her arm to wrap around her waist, resting on the small of her back as his other came to gently cup her cheek, pulling her into a soft kiss. She gasped lightly as their lips first connected, before she let herself melt into him in an instant, slipping her arms around his neck and deepening the kiss. Hunter felt like if this was a movie that the moment would have some kind of big meaningful swell of music behind it, but the world around them was peacefully quiet instead and he thought as he held Willow in his arms finally kissing her the way he'd been imagining since the first time he laid eyes on her boxing in their gym almost an entire year ago, that maybe it was better this way.

#ignore me #huntlow #the owl house #toh #hunter toh #willow park #fanfiction #my writing

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thatgayunoriginalbastard · 7 months

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Whumptober 2023 Day 10- "Can't you see that you're lost without me?"

Harsh Truth, Cold Love

AO3 Link

Word count: 2667

Summary: Alador could never get away from her. He could never really escape her. No matter what he did or how hard he tried. He would always be trapped with her. And she would always teach him just how bad of an idea it was to try and leave.

“Look who’s back, just as I said you’d be.”

Alador just stood by the front door, holes in his coat from the boiling rain. His face was streaked with tears, eyes red and dark as bags hung under them. In one arm he held Amity, so small and young, completely asleep. His other hand was being held tightly by Emira who was also holding onto Edric’s hand.

“Now why don't you come over here, my love?”

Silently, Alador handed Amity to Emira. Emira held her baby sister securely and nodded, going upstairs with her two siblings, leaving her parents in the entryway. When the kids were gone, Alador slowly walked towards his wife, embarrassed. He didn’t dare look Odalia in the eyes, even when he was close enough that she was able to reach out and cup his cheek in her hand. She scowled for a few moments when he flinched away from her touch, but went back to a calm expression quickly when she saw that he wasn’t resisting anything.

“That certainly was quite the show. The kids are unharmed, correct?”

Alador just nodded.

“Use your words, darling.” Odalia said, venom and masked impatience in her voice, “Our children are the future of the company. And it would be such a bad look on our parts if they got hurt. Especially if the reason they possibly got hurt slipped. Now, are they unharmed?”

“Yes. They aren’t hurt. Some damage to the clothing, but no burns.” Alador said, voice strained and raspy.

“There you go. Now was that so hard?” Odalia said, wrapping her arms around Alador’s neck, acting as if they were a perfectly normal couple.

“No. It wasn’t.”

“Now, it’s quite late, isn’t it? Let’s go to bed and we can talk about this little stunt in the morning.”

Odalia took Alador by the hand, her vice grip preventing him from trying to pull away, and led him over to the stairs. He trailed behind as much as he could, but she didn’t mind so long as he did as he was told. His enthusiasm was unimportant, so long as he was obedient it was enough.

“Now you can only believe my shock and horror at waking up to see not only you were gone, but the kids were gone too. And you all had even taken some of your things? Why I was worried you four had been kidnapped by some thieves who also robbed us and I would be getting a call asking for ransom. But no, just one of my friends telling me they saw you and the kids with suitcases going towards the vacation home of Head Witch Darius. Did he even know you were going to show up?”

“No. He didn’t.”

“And do you really think after what happened between the two of you back at Hexside he would help you?”

“No. He wouldn’t.”

“Well then why was his house the first place you thought of? Not your parents? Or any friends?”

“I don’t have any friends and my parents would just call you. His place felt like the safest option.”

“Ah yes, going to a coven head with stolen money and kidnapped children.”

“It’s both of our money and they’re both of our kids.” Alador said, with only the slightest sense of harshness in his voice so he could stay safe while also getting his feelings across.

“Oh honey, I think you’ve inhaled so many abomination fumes you’ve forgotten our contracts. We may share the company, but I own all the stock. As for the children, well, they are both of ours like you said. So wouldn’t you removing them from me without my consent be kidnapping?”

“They’re not the children, they’re our children.” Alador said, avoiding the question he couldn’t really answer.

“Oh please, you can’t be like that. You never even wanted children. I had to do most of the work. So don’t act like I’m the bad guy here when…what was it you said again? When I told you on our wedding night that I wanted kids?”

“That…that I thought the two of us should come first. And that having children right away could be bad for the business.” Alador sighed, the words having been ingrained in his head as he had relived that night so often.

“And what else?”

“That I would agree to have children so long as I wasn’t obligated to do anything more than expected.”

“And look at you now! Running off in the dead of night during a storm with them to your ex after what I can only imagine being some nonsense revelation or perceived slight. Ha! How times do change.”

The two of them reached the master bedroom door. Odalia opened the door and walked inside, but when Alador reached the doorframe, he froze. Odalia looked back at him, angry and confused, pulling on his arm to get him to come inside. But he couldn’t move.

“Alador? Come inside, darling.”

“N-no. I don’t think I will.” Alador said semi-nervously, finally looking his wife in the eyes.

“Honey, get in here now. Let’s go to bed.” Odalia said, teeth gritting together as she wore a forced smile.

“I think we should sleep in separate rooms. Things aren’t going well between us and it would be for the best of both of us if we had our own spaces to sleep.”

Odalia let go of his hand. She took a few steps towards him. He could see her adjusting her wedding ring. He took a few deep breaths and braced for the inevitable. He could stand his ground, just for the night, and deal with whatever consequences came from that.

“I will give you one more chance, Alador. Come. To. Bed.”

“No. I will sleep in one of the guest bedrooms tonight. Or on one of the couches. Or even in my workshop in the basement. Whatever you so choose, just not here.”

Alador took a deep breath in and closed his eyes, trying to not tense up. And when he exhaled, it was over. He opened his eyes and saw the fury in Odalia’s eyes. With a huff, she turned her wedding ring back so that the sharp metal and gemstone were at the top rather than down by her palm as it had been, turned upside down so that a slap wouldn’t carry a sting, but a slice. Alador didn’t even reach up to his cheek to try and wipe away the blood. He just wore a neutral expression and maintained eye contact as Odalia wiped off the metal and stone with her sleeve before dawning a much more sorry and sympathetic expression. She wrapped her arms around him again, pouting as she looked at him.

“Oh I’m so sorry, my love. You know I love you so much. And I don’t want to hurt you. You know that, right?”

“Of course.” Alador sighed with a neutral tone that had a hint of sadness.

He knew what she was doing to him. He knew that she always did that. He knew that none of it was real, that she didn’t love him or their kids. That all of it was just business and that his feelings would never be reciprocated.

And yet…he could never stand that look in her eyes. He always crumbled at that voice, that face, those words. He was lost without her, he could never leave her. No matter what.

Odalia pulled Alador’s head down and she kissed him. And he kissed back. She was full of passion and ambition and drive…but not love. But he didn’t sign up for love when he married her, no matter how much he tried to deny it. It was just a business arrangement, and nothing more. And he had to accept it.

So he did.

He didn’t put up a fight when she pulled him into their bedroom, only reaching back to close the door behind them. He didn’t say anything as she kissed his neck and unbuttoned his ruined coat. He did what she told him to do and never said a word. He let her do all the work and just laid there, doing everything he could to not cry. And when she was done and had cleaned up, he held her close, wrapping his arms around her and tucking his chin in the crook of her neck as they lay in bed and went to sleep.

The next morning when Alador woke up, Odalia was already awake and ready for the day. She noticed him sitting up in bed as she was just about to open the door.

“I’ve thought about what you said last night. And I suppose you have a bit of a point. I’ll have the abomination servants move your things to the spare room on the other side of the staircase today. You’ll have plenty of distance from me. I know the room isn’t big, but it’s what you deserve and you don’t have that many belongings anyways. I will require you some nights, but for the most part I will allow you to sleep in your own room.”

Alador was shocked, but mostly just filled with joy and gratitude that she actually listened to him and was going to give him that.

“As for the children, I have already spoken with the head of our legal team. I know you ran off because of that little suggestion about the kids being more involved in the company. I’ll have a contract drafted up and we can come to some sort of arrangement.”

Alador actually smiled at that. He got up from the bed and went over to her to thank her, but before he could even lean in to give her a kiss or reach out to hold her, she held up a hand and he stopped.

“I already have my makeup on and it took me ages. You aren’t messing it up. Thank you for the sentiment though, I’m glad you’re so thankful for my generosity.”

Odalia opened the door to leave, but paused as she looked him up and down.

“Now please get dressed. You already traumatized the kids enough last night. Oh, and use some healing patches for that cut on your face. We wouldn’t want there to be a scar, now would we?”

Odalia didn’t wait for a reply, because she already knew what it would be. She just smiled, blew him a kiss, and left to get some food and go to work. Alador just sighed and went to the closet. Sifting through all of Odalia’s things before spotting his own small stacks of clean clothes. As he got dressed, he noticed the small suitcase from last night, the expensive leather ruined from the boiling rain just as his coat was. One of the abomination servants had taken them when they returned, after all, so it made sense that it would have put his back where it belonged.

Moving almost robotically, Alador grabbed the suitcase, dumped out all the stuff inside, mostly just clothes and a few wads of money. He then grabbed his coat from the night before off the floor and put it inside. Then he grabbed the rest of his clothes from the floor and put them inside as well. He finished getting dressed then took the suitcase and left the room. He went to the Edric and Emira’s then Amity’s room, knocking on the door both times to see if they were inside and finding they weren’t, and took their suitcases and clothes from last night, emptied the stuff that they had packed, and put their clothes from last night inside.

All the suitcases in his arms, each made of very expensive material and now holding equally expensive outfits, Alador went downstairs. He heard the door slam from Odalia leaving and saw Amity, Edric, and Emira all in the dining room with their breakfasts. Edric and Emira were sitting in their booster seats and teasing each other as they ate and Amity sat in her high chair as one of the abomination servants fed her. As he walked past the dining room, trying to not pay attention to the kids, he could feel the twin’s eyes laser focused on him as he carried their suitcases away. He could hear the scrape of chairs as the two of them followed him as he went into the parlor. He set the suitcases onto the ground as he knelt to ignite the fireplace.

“Dada, why are you turning on the fire?” Edric asked innocently.

“And why do you have our bags?” Emira demanded, “Wait…are you destroying our stuff!”

“I have one of my favorite stuffies in there!”

“Ed, Em, don’t worry.” Alador sighed, “I unpacked for you. Well, I dumped out what you put in these. For yourself and your sister.”

“Then what’re you doing?” Edric asked.

“Last night was a bad night, okay? And we’re just going to say it didn’t happen.” Alador said, staring at the fireplace, “So we’re getting rid of any proof that it did. All that's in these suitcases are your clothes from last night, nothing more. I don’t want to…I don’t want you to be reminded of what happened ever again.”

The fire ignited and Alador threw his suitcase atop the flames first, watching as the magical, purple fire consumed the wood and leather, easily eating through all the material. Then, he threw in the twin’s suitcases, and the exact same happened with theirs. As he held Amity’s little bag, he looked at the little paint handprints on the bag.

What felt like such a long time ago, Amity had been getting her room painted because Odalia decided the color wasn’t smart enough. Amity managed to get her hands covered in paint, which of course led to her getting paint everywhere, including on her expensive, silk bag. Alador managed to convince Odalia to not throw the bag away and it quickly became Amity’s favorite bag. It’s why when Emira was grabbing stuff for Amity while Alador and Edric finished packing their things the night before, she picked that bag to put all of Amity’s stuff in.

And now the bag was not only stained with paint and sentiment, but awful, awful memories.

Alador threw the bag in the fire and just watched as it burned. All the memories, the good and the bad, burning away with it.

There would be no sign of what happened, no sign at all. He could only hope that Amity was young enough that her developing brain wouldn’t remember it and that the twins would repress it as they grew up. And that he could somehow repress it too.

“Dada, why didn’t we stay with Dari?” Emira asked, hugging Alador’s arm, “We were so close.”

“Well I noticed that one of mommy’s friends saw us and that made me remember that Darius was really busy. He’s a coven head after all. Wouldn’t want to disturb him. Your dad had time to think and realized how silly he was being.”

“What happened to your face?” Edric asked, hugging Alador’s other arm.

“Oh, your dad just fell out of the bed last night. Got a really big scrape.” Alador said with a soft smile, “I’ll be fine, no need to worry. Now, you two go finish your breakfast. It’s a school day.”

“Okay!” The twins said chipperly, rushing back to the dining room, already joking with each other like they had been before as if nothing had happened.

Alador looked back at the fire and extinguished it. He then sighed, got up, and headed to the kitchen to grab something to eat before he went to his workshop.

He could keep up the act. He could pretend everything was fine. What other choice did he have? He had to protect the kids. He had to protect their kids.

He had to protect his kids.

And he could only do that if he stayed exactly where he was.

#whumptober2023 #no.10 #“can't you see that you're lost without me?”#the owl house #fic #domestic abuse tw #dubious consent tw #marital rape tw #alador blight #odalia blight #fuck odalia #pre canon #manipulation #dead dove do not eat

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wildthingpoorboy · 4 months

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Tear You Apart

Edric woke up to a bounce on his bed. After the initial scare subsided, he saw his sister sitting on the edge of his bed.

“Hey you,” she said. Emira got up from his bed to pull her panties up, making sure to bend over first so her brother could get a good look at her ass.

“You know what today is?” she asked in a sing-song voice.

“Uh, Friday?” Edric guessed.

“Yup,” Emira chirped. “We’re going on a date today, after school.”

“Sounds fun,” Edric said. “Where to?”

“I don’t know,” Emira replied. “You’re taking me out on the date. Remember?”

“Since when?” Edric said.

Emira leaned forward and repeatedly kept poking her brother in the face with her finger. Edric tried swatting her hand away, but his sister was persistant.

“Hey! Em, quit it,” he said.

“You said you would be my boyfriend. Well I, your girlfriend, want you to take me out on a date today. You’re lucky you’re dating your sister because any other girl would have already dumped you after a response like that. You are going to show me a nice time or this relationship is over. Got it?” Emira ranted.

“I got it. I got it just quit poking me,” Edric begged.

Emira turned around and huffed away to her vanity mirror. Edric could see the reflection of her face. He could tell what she was feeling by the change of her expression. Emira scowled at her reflection before slumping forward with a sullen look. Edric walked up and gave her a hug from behind.

“Hey, my bad,” he said. “I just woke up. I’m just a bit out of it but I promise after school we’ll go out and have the time of our lives.”

Edric’s kiss on the cheek earned a smile out of Emira. She put her hands over his and rocked side to side.

“That was nice,” she said.

“I have my moments.”

“Like this moment with you grabbing my tits and your morning wood poking me?”

“Shh, let’s just enjoy it,” he said.

The school day came and went uneventfully. Emira hummed through most of her classes which only caused Edric to nervously tap his foot. The twins were usually disruptive during class, but this was different.

Edric and Emira headed home before the final school bell screamed, deciding to ditch the last half of their last class.

“So?” Emira asked. “Where are we going?”

“Uh, here!” Edric pulled Emira by the arm into the woods nearby.

“Wow. You really know how to show a girl a good time,” she said flatly.

“Yeah I do, but this isn’t it yet.” With a wag of his finger, a magic circle covered Edric. His hair color changed to brown and his school uniform changed to a black jacket and slacks.

“There we go,” he said. “If we’re going to go out, I wanna make sure we go all out. Don’t want anyone ruining our good time.”

“Way to think ahead, Ed.” Emira followed suit with another magic circle. Her hair changed to a red color with bangs covering one of her eyes. Her school uniform transformed into a purple top with a mini-skirt and black fishnet stockings.

“Nice,” Ed whistled.

“Thanks,” Emira said with a spin. “Been wanting to try the redhead look for a while.”

“Well then,” Edric said, holding out his arm. “Shall we, babe?”

“Sure thing,” Emira took his arm. “Lover.”

Edric and Emira went through Bonesboro during their date without anyone recognizing them. They started at the marketplace. Emira stopped at a clothing stand.

“Interesting,” she remarked. Emira went through the clothing racks a pulled a red dress.

“I’m going to try this on,” she said heading for a changing room in the back.

“Can I watch?” Edric joked.

“Sure!” Emira answered.

Edric, surprised for a second, waited until the shopkeeper wasn’t looking and dashed into the changing room behind Emira. Inside, Edric watched Emira take her top off. She handed it to him as he stared at her bra.

“Hold this,” she said. Emira put the dress on in one quick motion and examined herself in the mirror. She turned and look at the backside.

“What do you think?” she asked. “It’s kinda like the yellow one I have. Maybe I should take off my skirt first.”

“Good idea,” Ed replied. “It’s nice, but I bet it’d also look nice in the corner of our bedroom.”

“You’re just full of good ideas today, aren’t you?” Emira teased.

“It’s been a good day for me.”

“I think I’ll try on a few other ones first.” Emira took the dress off back over her head and grabbed her original top. “I saw another dress that I think we might like.”

“We?” Edric asked.

“The kind where I have to take off my bra to make it fit.”

“What color was it?”

Edric and Emira walked along the road carrying several bags. Emira’s happy humming was interrupted by a grumbling sound.

“That was me,” Edric said. “Wanna grab something to eat?”

Edric pointed toward a familiar food stand.

“We eat there all the time,” Emira whined. “We’re supposed to be on a date.”

“Then let’s go somewhere we’ve never tried before,” Edric suggested.

The twins spotted a diner down the road. Edric gestured toward it.

“It’s different,” Emira relented.

Inside the diner, the twins sat at a booth in the corner. They went through the menu with the tacky mascot on the front.

“You could have picked something nicer,” Emira complained.

“It’s nicer than a food stand,” Edric said. “Besides, the fancy places just remind me of the stuffy dinner parties mom and dad make us go to.”

“It’s better than someone recognizing us,” Emira agreed.

Edric puffed up his chest and grabbed his jacket. He spoke with an exaggerated tone.

“I dare say, is that the Blight twins over yonder? Together? How unorthodox!”

“My word,” Emira followed with a similar mocking tone. “Must they be whispering sweet nothings into each others’ ears?”

“Most unorthodox!”

Edric and Emira laughed before the waitress arrived with their food.

“That’s one light loaf plate for you, and the special for your boyfriend.” The waitress set their food down and placed a tall glass between them with two straws. “And one couple’s milkshake. Enjoy your date, kids.”

Emira looked down at the milkshake before looking back at Edric, who blushed.

“Did you order...?” she asked.

“Yeah, I mean, we are on a date.”

Emira put her head on her hand and smiled.

“You’re cute,” she said.

Edric climbed up the hill with Emira following. Opposite of the hill was a large screen with a movie projected on it.

“We’re almost there,” he said. There was a spot on the hill next to a tree where Edric stopped. Edric waved his finger and a blanket and a bag appeared.

“This way we can riff on the movie without having to pay for it or deal with people shushing us.” Edric set the bags below the tree and sat on the blanket. He patted the space next to him, inviting Emira.

“This would be considered really old-timey if we weren’t stealing a free movie,” she said, sitting next to him.

“Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people,” Edric said, “but the classics stay for a reason.”

The movie started. On the screen, the characters spoke nervously of a released axe murderer.

“Everyone fear the name of the killer who has plagued the camp for years: Mitchell!” Edric joked. Emira laughed.

The next scene started with the killer bursting through the wall wearing a mask, a jumpsuit, and a hooded cloak.

“I feel overdressed. Was today casual Friday?” Emira joked.

“I think this guy needs the phrase ‘a hat on a hat’ explained to him,” Edric laughed.

The next scene had the characters talking with the killer lurking in the background.

“Do you guys need any axe murdering done, cause if not I can just leave?” Edric joked.

Emira laughed. She shifted her weight to get more comfortable, leaning on Edric’s chest and wrapping her arms around his waist. Edric closed his legs.

“Ed, are you-?” she asked.

“It’s because of the movie,” he stammered.

The twins made their way back to Blight Manor, dropping their disguises before reaching the gate. Inside, they were greeted by their younger sister Amity.

“You guys missed dinner,” she said.

“Hello to you too, Mittens,” Edric said.

“You guys went shopping?” Amity asked, noticing the bags.

“Among other things,” Emira said. “I’m going to shower.”

Emira marched upstairs, not taking a second look at her siblings. Amity crossed her arms and glared at Edric.

“You guys are acting weird lately,” Amity said. She recoiled when Edric patted her head.

“I’ll tell you when you’re older, Mittens,” he teased.

Edric set the bags on Emira’s side of the room. He went towards the bathroom door, only for it to swing open before he could open it. Emira stood with her bathrobe on.

“Hey,” she said.

“Hey,” he replied.

The twins embraced and kissed each other.

“I had a really fun time today,” Emira said.

“We are the most fun people we know. And we’re just getting started,” he said.

“Yes, we are. But clean yourself up first. I got a surprise for you.”

The twins switched places with Edric entering the bathroom. He tossed his clothes off as quickly as he could, using magic to wash himself and brush his teeth at the same time. It only took a few minutes, but Edric couldn’t wait for his surprise any longer. Wrapping a towel around his waist couldn’t hide how stiff his erection had gotten. He gave one last deep breath to try to contain his excitement and opened the door.

Emira sat naked on Edric’s bed. Her legs spread open wide enough for Edric to see her pussy. She leaned with her arms behind her back, pushing her breasts forward.

“Looks like you’re happy to see me,” she said.

“So do you,” Edric said letting the towel around his waist drop to the floor.

Emira smirked at the sight of her brother’s naked body. He wasn’t very muscular, but he was lean. A handsome body that was highlighted by his cock, now thick and erect that it might as well as be pointing at her. It had every reason to be. Edric stared in awe at his sister’s nude form. Her smooth skin, her long legs, her perky breasts, everything about her was a sinful temptation that he couldn’t turn away from.

“Come get your reward,” she beckoned. That was all it took for Edric to answer the call. He rushed over to his sister, his lips meeting hers in a passionate mess. Her hands grabbing his cocks, pulling him closer to her. His hands groping her tits and ass. The twins made out until Emira flipped her brother onto his bed. His cock pointed straight up while he laid flat on his back.

“I can’t wait anymore,” Emira pleaded. “I’ve been looking forward to this all day!”

“I knew we were on the same page,” Edric said. A smug smile went across his face as he watched his sister guide his cock into her pussy and sink into it.

“Oh fuck,” she moaned. “This feels better than the first time.”

“Wait a sec,” said Edric. He waved his finger and a blue glow covered the walls of their room for a moment.

“There,” he said. “Now we can be as loud as we want.”

“Fine!” she yelled. Emira lifted herself slightly only to slam herself back down onto Edric. She repeated, each time a bit harder and a bit faster until she needed to hold on to Edric’s shoulders just to keep upright. Edric met her motions, trying to thrust his hips up to meet hers. Their motions causing the room to filled with sounds of flesh slapping and the headboard banging against the wall. Sounds anyone would be able to hear if it weren’t for Edric’s sound buffering spell.

Edric couldn’t keep his hands to himself for long. He grabbed both of her breasts bouncing in front of his face, kneading and pinching them.

“Fuck!” Emira screamed. She gritted her teeth to try to control herself, but the moans still came out.

“Em!” Edric cried out. “I’m so close. I’m so close.”

“Just do it,” she said. “I got a birth control spell. Just do it. I want it.”

“Fuck yes!” Edric yelled. He grabbed his sister by the hips and pushed her down while he thrust himself as deep into her as he could. Edric groaned as his orgasm hit, shooting his hot cum inside his sister.

Emira moaned and threw her head back. The feeling of being filled by her brother’s seed brought her to her own orgasm. She gripped on her brother’s arms, riding the waves of pleasure rocking her body.

Emira leaned forward after a few moments. Edric could feel her pussy still clenched around his cock. Slowly, Emira began to rock her hips.

“Wait, Em, I’m still sensitive,” Edric warned.

“There’s no way I’m only going one round with my boyfriend on date night,” she said. “I’m going to ride you until we pass out.”

“Bet you pass out first,” Edric challenged.

“You’re on.”

Emira closed the medicine cabinet in her bathroom and stared at her reflection. It had been a few nights since her brother took her out on a date. They’ve been having sex every night since then and she didn’t feel bad about it. She was having her fun and all the sex she could ever want. Her boyfriend might be her brother, but he was as hot as she was. He was as mischievous as she was and always knew how to make her laugh.

“Hey,” she called out. “I was thinking about what we should do tomorrow night.”

Instead of her brother’s response, Emira heard an odd scraping sound.

“What are you doing?” she asked, peeking into their room.

Edric had pushed their two beds together to form one big bed in the center of the room. Edric patted the bed, inviting her. Emira smiled and let her bathrobe fall to the floor.

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Day 13: #OOTD - 5 Outfits Cruz saw and thought, I wish I could pull that off.

Eilonwy's look at Mufasa's Memorial Gala

In general Cruz wishes she could feel comfortable in dresses let alone look good in them. I think as a rule of thumb Cruz probably sees what Eilonwy is wearing (like what she wore to this years prom could also be here, or even just what she was wearing in that thread with Willow when Willow was wanting to join Women in STEM and thought it was for plants <3) and is envious of her style and looks! I chose this one in particular because Mufasa's Memorial was where Cruz was excited about the scholarship announcement and was trying to figure out what to wear to something that important, but never found anything Good Enough and then showed up and saw Eilonwy in the masses and was like, OUGH. WISH THAT WAS MEEEEE-

2. Mirabel in Desperatley Seeking Advice with Jeremy

THAT BEING SAID, I also think Cruz looks at Mirabel's style and also feels envious of her, just for opposite reasons to Eilonwy <3 I do think Mirabel is more on par with what Cruz usually wears, only Cruz wears more athletic wear/athleasure compared to what Emma usually posts for the lovely Mira. And Cruz WISHES she could dress like Mirabel and pull it off. The layering, the cute trousers, and whatever embroidery stuff Mira adds to her wardrobe. I always think of their first thread together, when they were moving into the dorms, and Mirabel was offering to touch up Cruz's clothes. That is when it all began <3 But yeah, I think Mirabel is an achievable style that Cruz would want in comparison to the other looks on here, since she isn't totally femme as far as her clothes go and what she's comfy in, but she just doesn't think she could reach the bar if she were to go that route with her clothes.

3. Roxanne at the Barbie Themed Party

This was deffo coming from a place of, "Oh my god, this person used to be my best buddy in the whole world and I can't even say how SLAY she is right now because that would be sooooo weird." as well as place of envy because Cruz could never wear this (she doesnt think she could anyway!) and would have looked at Roxanne like embarrassed about her own fit in comparison. She can't do skirts and she doesn't really do the midrift/crop top look either. So this whole thing just had her sighing to herself.

4. Vanessa's (initial) Prom 2023 Look

Vanessa is also someone Cruz admires (from afar <3) because of her (Cruz's perceived <3) attitude and general ~coolness~. Cruz doesn't think of herself as having a style so much as she has clothes she got handed down and now just wears them and doesn't waste money on new clothes because why would she do that. Anyway, the point is, she admires Vanessa's aesthetic !!! esp here!!! also the emphasis on the Legs of it all. Cruz would never even imagine wearing something like this and wishes she could <3. Even down to the make up !

6. Amity's Pride Look

Another girlie that Cruz admires for her attitude and fashion, as well as her Magick Grand Prix skills <3. ANYWAY, her looks are always sauuurrrrr /clenches fist. I chose this one though because of the additional context of the Pride celebrations going on and going out there in a nice black mesh shirt. Back on the whole crop top thing, Cruz is too self conscious to show off this much skin and be confident about it! Even at something like Pride, where no one gives a shit and it's just a nice, good time. This is one of those moments where Cruz would have looked over, seen Amity walkin around in something simple yet amazing and Cruz would have looked down at her baggy ass t-shirt and Nike shorts and been like, ouGH why can't I wear something like her :(

7. Kleo in Roomates? More Like Best F(r)iends with Emira

Another dress, another day Cruz was walkin' out of the dorms building after seeing the new girl moving in thinking to herself, "Dear God, it's me, Cruz. Why didn't you give me the gift of slay???" On top of falling in love upon first sight, Cruz deffo would have seen this dress with the boots and just WISHED she could wear something like that without feeling goofy about herself. And like she knOWs she could, but she also knows she wouldn't feel comfortable in it either. She doesn't like em or how they look on her for some mental block-ing reason. Also just like, the effort of it all is probably something that stops her a lot since she doesn't think the reward is worth the time with herself. But yeah, fer suuureee this is something she wishes she could pull off.

#swynwrimo

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acaiyatree · 3 years

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emira my beloved.....

#the reason i drew this was because when i saw the family pic #and i saw emira's clothes i was all like #omg !!!! it looks kinda like edwardian clothing #and i wanted to make it look more edwardian-ish and like #i fucking failed lmao #but STILL whatever #the owl house #toh #the owl house fanart #toh fanart #fanart #art #owl house #emira blight #the owl house emira #toh emira #my art >:DD

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traumatisedbabygay · 2 years

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TOH Spoilers

Just had a thought abt the "concealment stones" that Ed and Em use in Reaching Out, and how, once theyre taken off, Edrick is just in comfy sweats and Emira has visible acne. Like they legit just look like normal teenagers.

This HAS to have something to do with Odalia, right?

Buttt....Odalia (from what we know) didnt give these stones to them. Or at least, she didnt give one to edric. Because emira said she saw edric "take one" that morning, whereas emira always has hers on (its a part of her outfit). So is this a thing where Odalia is harder on the girls in her family, and wants them to always look perfect?

Also, the things that we saw change with edric are things that he change anyway. It was literally just that his hair was unstyled, and he wasnt shaved. Emira on the other hand, had hers covering her acne...something she cant just make go away with a bit of grooming.

So heres my theory: Odalia has ridiculosly high standards for her children (as we already know). Up until this point, however, we've only really seen this affect amity. The hair dying, the emporers coven, the grades, ect. We havent truly seen Odalias impact on the twins...until now.

Emira is in the illusions track. So it goes without saying that she created these glamour magic stones, most likely for herself, as the one edric stole was a blue necklace (that weve never seen him wear before) that feels more Emira's style. This shows that Emira has some serious self esteem issues when it comes to her looks, and her acne especially, to the point where she made her stone a permanent part of her outfit, so she always looks "perfect".

Edric doesnt need a stone most of the time, bc as we saw the only things it covered were grooming related. If he'd planned to leave the house, he probably wouldve just...shaved his face and styled his hair. But, on a time crunch, he didnt have the time to do that, and get into his "proper" clothes, ect, so he just used one of the stones.

However, despite the show giving us a sort of "grand reveal"...we see absolutely no one bat an eye at edric and emiras more casual looks. This proves, yet again, that its something Odalia probably makes a big deal of, but like...outside of their house no one actually gives a shit.

And why would they? The twins just look like regular 16 year olds.

I also find it interesting that, on amity, the stone makes her look more like Odalia. Is that just me? The bun, the gold earrings, puffed shoudlers...

...so is it designed to make the person look how they themselves think is perfect? Or how they themselves think theyll best get their mothers approval?

Either way, the fact these were created at all is fucked up, and shows yet again how unfit to be a parent Odalia is.

#toh #the owl house #edric and emira blight #odalia blight #amity blight #i feel so bad for these kids i stg yall deserve better #toh spoilers #toh season 2

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minlein · 3 years

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Welcome to Swap! Lumity AU, i hope you guys enjoy this :")

This post will have 2 categories, the canon ☑️ and not canon ⭕. I mostly made their habit and stuff to be canon whilst some of my lore about them is not canon, it can be changed and stuff ^^

Swap! Luz Noceda

Canon ☑️

-Potion Coven still.

-Unlike Canon Amity, Swap Luz is rather quiet, not really trying to be the number one student. Though she tends to be a snob and ignorant (or so what they say)

-Swap Luz only dyed her hair to look like Hecate's hair colour.

-Unlike Canon Amity, Swap Luz tends to ignore Amity. Though Amity just kept accidentally stumbling upon her, making Luz annoyed by how friendly Amity is.

-Luz is rather smart. She used to be the head captain of the Grudgby Test (can't think of a creative name for an intelligence contest stuff xd), she left after Willow and her team was assumed to be cheating after Luz attempted that one scene in Hecate series, making them lose.

-Unlike Canon Amity, Swap Luz teaches children about sports. Making them practice and give them tips and tricks. Amity saw this and pretended to be a bench when the kids left, Luz saw her still-

-Swap Luz has a secret basement in under one of the bleachers of the sport field. It got the usual desk, some sport equipments, and most importantly, her diary and Hecate books.

-Swap Luz seems to be alot slower at reacting, taking a bit of a time to know what's going on before having a reaction. An example is Amity complimenting her, she'd freeze first, before her fwip fwip would come in.

-Though despite being slow mentally and emotionally, Luz is surprisingly accurate and quick when it comes to playing sports.

-Swap Luz is quiet because she struggles in socializing, she looks menacing enough for the other witches to leave her alone. She felt lonely but she can't do anything about it.

-Swap Luz has better connection with children compare to her age and above.

-Her struggles in socializing make her run away from people. An example is bumping onto someone and her not knowing how to help and what to do, making her flee the scene.

-Though during her inner panicking, she gives out menacing look towards the said someone. Making witches have a rumour about her being this ignorant and snobby witch.

-Unlike Canon Amity, Luz doesn't have abusive parents (by that i meant Odalia Alador style). But rather a busy one (let's just say neglectful), this is one of the causes that made Luz quiet and have social struggles.

-When having fwip fwip, Swap Luz would lift her hood up, covering her ears and face. Just enough for Amity to not see it.

-Swap Luz is alot taller compare to Amity, both canon and swap wise. She's basically just a big strong awkward cinnamon bun bun.

-She has two siblings, Vee and Hunter. The two are rather close but felt really disconnected towards Luz. But after awhile, they'll slowly connect because of Amity.

Swap! Amity Blight

Canon ☑️

-All Coven

-Unlike Canon Luz, Swap Amity has a proper social life and did not get sent to a summer camp.

-Her cause of accidentally getting in the Boiling Isles is her, running away from her parents. The amount of expectation and such pressured her so much, she packed her bag and ran away, with also her favourite series, Witch Hecate, being with her.

-Swap Amity is fashionable and really likes aesthetic classic clothing.

-Unlike Canon Luz, Swap Amity is more cautious. She can be skeptical on some things and not easily fooled unless she sees an evidence. An example of this is the Wizard's "prophecy", she's not interested until she witnessed the scroll's magic scroll effect.

-Swap Amity learnt fireball glyph first. Which is a reference to how Canon Amity learnt her fire magic for the first time.

-Swap Amity doesn't have a biological sibling, as for Edric and Emira is swapped with Hunter and Vee.

-She usually initiates first, but would crumble if Luz initiated first. She's a glass canon to say.

Swap! Luz's Perspective Scenarios

Not canon, can be used as an idea ⭕

-Amity saw her after Luz and Boscha accidentally bumped each other, Boscha being knocked off because of how strong the bump is. Luz just looked at her with a cold gaze before leaving, making Amity went to Boscha and help her up.

-Unlike Canon Amity, her biggest fright is Amity abandoning her, not rejecting her. Because of how Swap Luz tend to be alot slower at understanding her feelings, she did not know that she fell in love with Amity. But she is scared of Amity abandoning her like how her dad did to her.

-Swap Luz realized she's inlove with Amity after the grom. She became alot fidgety and awkward around Amity during the Grudgby Test.

-Unlike Canon Amity, Swap Luz was just quiet, letting out mumbles and very stuttery words before covering her head with her hoodie and running away.

-As the series progress, Luz would slowly open up to Amity, making her feel alot confident and talkative. Though she's very protective towards Amity.

-Her face before looked stone cold, but after falling inlove, her face looked alot softer. Tamed looking even. Many witches noticed this after Swap Amity and Luz got together.

Swap! Amity's Perspectives Scenarios

Not canon, can be used as an idea ⭕

-She encountered the house when it started raining hard during her escape from her home, she saw the abandoned house, entered it, and hence the start of her adventure with Lilith being Amity's teacher.

-Swap Amity and Boscha became friends after the bump incident, Amity asking to sneak in the school to take glimpse of it.

-During the children sport scene, after being found by Luz and left her, Swap Amity encountered Vee and Hunter also hiding in one of the benches.

-The reason: Vee and Hunter trying to gain information for their anti-social sister so that they could have sibling bonds together.

-Swap Amity, wanting to also befriend Luz, agreed upon gaining information and hence the start of finding her diary.

-Swap Amity started feeling guilty as soon as they got the diary, making her not give it to Vee and Hunter. Due to desperation of the siblings, they had a fight for it and it made some pages fell off, like in Canon, Swap Luz found them and got mad.

-Though unlike the Canon, Swap Amity chased after Luz and apologized to her, Luz accidentally saying something dumb, this made Swap Amity laugh. Telling Luz how interesting she is.

And that's all for the Swap! Lumity Lore!

I noticed that i accidentally made a lore about it so i stopped before i could even finish it to season 2 xd

Though if requested, I'll try and start adding characters too like Willow, Boscha, Gus, Hunter etc. Once this is posted, I'll try and make another poll in around 2 days or so xd

#amity blight #the owl house #lumity #luz the human #toh #amity x luz #the owl house au #Swap! Lumity AU #wiccs announcement archive

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I saw anon say Trans Emira and AHHHHH I LOVE YOU Like Drabs sense you always got info dump do you think you could make something up for Trans Em

can do! trans Em my beloved

Emira didn't even TRY to pick a name that followed the twin-theme with Edric, she swears she didn't. Odalia Very Much wanted her two, because twin-themes or whatever, and had a list of ideas for a new name that all followed it. Emira didn't pick a single name on that list and instead chose Emira. she's so mad that it follows the twin-theme but she likes it way too much and hasn't found one to top it, so, it stuck. Ed bullies her about it

spent HOURS in her room after her hair grew out figuring out how and what ways to braid it. it usually fell apart because it'd divulge into her just running her hands through her hair while looking in the mirror bc :) its the length she likes it at now :) and then she'd remember she was supposed to be braiding it. for this reason, Ed and Amity got very good at braiding her hair when she wasn't in a focusing mood that day

have you SEEN how long her hair is? girl would go AGES without even trimming it until her parents made her go to the barber to even it out. her siblings are convinced she'd grow it even longer if it wouldn't start to knock against her legs when walking. it gives her much gender

looked up like 20 different makeup tutorial videos when she was much younger to try out on Ed when they were bored, and now has begun to try them on herself. struggled SO MUCH but she got there. is now ridiculously good at winging her eyeliner that she barely has to try. worked out for her, because then she became the one to teach Amity how to do her makeup, which just made her ALL kinds of excited

you know those gem fashion things Eda and Lily have on their chests? I don't believe I've ever seen any guys on the show with one of those, so I assume it's probably something commonly worn by women, though I imagine anyone can have one. Emira spent like 3 hours in the store picking out a gem. Odalia eventually gave up and bought the, like, 11 or so Emira liked so she could try them all. she cycles through them depending on her outfit and how she's feeling

Ed burst into her room like two weeks after she came out and they stared at each other for a moment before he went "does this mean I can have all your old clothes" and this is how Ed came into possession of an entire new wardrobe

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sepublic · 3 years

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Escaping Expulsion!

LUMITY! LUMITY DEVELOPMENT! LUZ REALIZING HER CRUSH!!!!

Amity calling her MY Luz… Amity and Luz back-to-back! Playing tricks together that’s so ADORABLE!

There’s so much to this episode, I… I…!

Gus! His growth spurt will take a lot getting used to, it’s like watching your favorite kids grow up… At this point he may as well go back to Augustus! And Perry, I love seeing more of him!

WILLOW’S DADS! They’re GOOD parents I tell you, they talk a lot about grounding or whatever, but then IMMEDIATELY drop their jobs for Willow’s sake!? To home-school her, to have fun! GOOD PARENTS! And the Glasses Dad, he’s a really chill dude, sees Willow going behind the back and is like “I won’t tell!” Nice. VERY nice…!

BUMP! Not only do we get confirmation that he’s in the Abomination Coven, BUT HE’S A SWEETIE! He’s an utter sweetheart! This really all adds to my headcanon that he felt bad about what happened with Eda, and I bet he was being reminded a LOT of that when he had to get rid of Luz, Willow, and Gus… At least with Eda she more or less left of her own volition, but these kids WANT to come back! I love this principal and his layers… Also Frewin’s tail moving?

I agree with Alador, and I find it hilarious that he doesn’t seem to understand Frewin that much either… Or he does but he’s still curious! Al IS interesting like Odalia said… Not exactly a good parent, but he is a man of his word! Also WOW he looks like an utter mess, nothing like the prim and proper noble we all expected! I guess Alador from Amity’s flashback was in dress clothes for Amity’s birthday and all that… But yeah he IS fascinating as Dana said! I guess he is the inventor as some people suspected…

His whole demeanor matches his brief depiction in YBOS pretty well; Looking like he’s mostly just kind of THERE, just kind of chilling for the ride. Has his head in the clouds and focuses on the inventions, on the technical know-how, on carrying out the orders and seeing them through, while Odalia is the leader who instructs things- Just as we suspected! I can already see the neurodivergent Alador headcanons… If Amity is autistic, does she get it from him?

ODALIA… Ugh. I mean, she’s about as rancid as we all expected, but it’s interesting that she DOES listen to Alador, so there is still that respect there! But JEEZ, she’s an attempted child murderer?! Goes back on her word!? I have to wonder if Alador was the original Blight actually, and Odalia was the one who married in; That, or Alador just has actual integrity and acts as like… The second voice who helps rein in Odalia and remind her of things every now and then. Interesting… But yeah, I loathe her!

Of course, back to Al- He may not necessarily be so great himself. He does seem to prefer the easy path, the path of least resistance; He adapts to Amity standing up to him and Odalia by instead considering how she could replace the current Abomination Head one day… Which makes sense, that’s HIS expertise, and daughter takes after father! And Odalia really is an Oracle as we thought… Oracle magic for spying, makes sense, but that necklace…

UGH… Remember when we all liked that necklace! How we thought it was SO CUTE? How Amity wore it at first in Adventures in the Elements… But then she rarely wore her casual outfit? WELL NOW WE KNOW… Here’s hoping the intro changes to remove the necklace, but WOW I was genuinely feeling sick in my stomach when I saw that!

And Odalia and Alador are even WORSE, because they’re literally arms-manufacturers! Do I even need to explain why that’s awful? But I’m really having a lot of fun with the idea of Abominations as robotics; I’d considered the idea of Abominations melding with Automatons, and the show just confirms and validates that! I love this show… I have to wonder if we’ll see Amity and the Abomination Head interact more? And I like how Abominations is basically shape-shifting and form-changing, but applied to a magical goop that Abomination Witches can control…

Belos and the Golden Guard! More worldbuilding- Of course Belos is monopolizing and taking things into his own control, he’s expanding his influence! And of course, as Golden Guard pointed out- Not only does he want soldiers –glad we’ll see more of these Abomination things in practice- but also… He doesn’t want anyone raising a private army against him; Which again fits with how Belos operates!

But the way Odalia and Alador look at one another… WERE they intending to raise a private army? Or were they always open to selling out to the highest bidder- With their desire to install Amity as the new Abomination Head, we might see them ally with a rebellion, but for their OWN purposes… With how their audience and customer base was cloaked, they may have been unknowingly selling to people with a vested interest and stake in taking down Belos!

EDA AND LILITH! This show once again confirms my read on glyphs; Not containing magic, but more commanding the magic around them! Lilith is SO smart, figuring out how it works… And YES, I love delving into the mechanics! How glyphs are about COMMUNICATION with the Isles, that calls back to Adventures in the Elements! I wonder then if Belos can communicate with the isles too, possibly through glyphs…

But we get more insight into their dynamic! Eda was always that talented kid, so she could always breeze the basics and get right into experimentation! It was good for critical thinking, but as we see, she can be really hyperactive and impatient… And of course, this frustrates Lilith, who is very stoic and rule-bound! God she was adorable this episode, how she clearly wants validation… She really is the embodiment of “My child is fine!” “Your child was a pleasure to have in class.” Couldn’t get validation from Gwen, so Lilith went to teachers…

AND JEEZ, no wonder Belos’ approval meant so much to her! Maybe like Marcy and Andrias from Amphibia, Lilith kind of latched onto Belos as a potential found family figure for her… But as we know, she still had her own desires and wants because she IS a person and not a mindless drone.

BUT YES, I love the show delving into how Lilith and Eda work as different people! Lilith is by-the-book, and Eda recognizing that Lilith’s methods have value, because Eda is really out of her own element here. I love seeing Eda experiment with glyphs, just the way they experiment with glyphs- I’m glad it’s not just Luz! Also it’s interesting… The show seems to imply that there really are only four glyphs in existence; Light, Ice, Fire, and Plant! That’s a shame because I’d have liked to see more glyphs in the future, just a few more…

BUT YEAH, this hearkens back to that shot of Luz combining Glyphs in the trailer, and I’ve always hoped that mashing Glyphs can unlock more complex spells! I love this kind of worldbuilding where basic elements are combined in certain ways to yield more specific things, it’s making my worldbuilding brain buzz happily! And I love Luz just freely giving out stars… Lilith is SUCH an Elsa, and her friendship with Hooty is adorable! And here’s hoping that Eda uses that messed-up spell anyway, against enemies…

Overall this was an AMAZING EPISODE, so strong! Luz isn’t dense, like Alador she’s just distracted… Oh dang, maybe my Luz and Alador parallels idea wasn’t so far off? BUT YES this show promises and delivers through on these characters! I do wish we got to see more of Willow’s thought process about Odalia and Alador interrupting her life again, but with how the episode is already jam-packed with glyph lore AND Luz’s own thing, and I can see why they had to leave it out-

But give her some more spotlight, please! I wouldn’t be surprised if some things had to be cut out thanks to Disney downsizing the show… Also again, it’s interesting that based on what this episode implied; The Plant Coven is the ONLY Coven to have such a close basis in nature. If there are only four glyphs in nature, theoretically there should only be four main covens…

Belos, your system is beginning to look even MORE sketchy now! And dang, the revelations, the lore, the reveals… Not much of Emira and Edric alas, but what we got was short and sweet, and I love how they felt the need to be nice but also sneak in a prank, but Amity just sees them! And also CAT ABOMINATION, the fanart came through!

And Amity just immediately recognizing her girlfriend’s work to figure out Luz was there, I love it so much! Overall, an AMAZING episode that blew my expectations out of the water! Now after this we have Echoes of the Past, which promises even MORE in regards to King! I love that these characters are getting a lot of focus now.

Also it just occurred to me, but yeah- Edric’s occasional air-headed moments, Emira being a bit more bossy and strict… As we all speculated, they get it from their respective parents!

(Also Hop Pop cameo I see you TOH crew.)

#the owl house #the owl house luz #luz noceda #lumity #the owl house amity #amity blight #the owl house odalia #odalia blight #the owl house alador #alador blight #the owl house eda #edalyn clawthorne #the owl house lilith #lilith clawthorne #the owl house gus #augustus porter

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crafty-light · 3 years

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(Author's note:Thanks for sending in your request @just-mimebomb I had fun writing this!)

Edric Blight x female!reader:

It was viney that introduced you to the blight twins

They knew a little bit about you from what viney told them.She said that were one of her friends and that you were part of the healing track.

When you did meet them you got along with them mostly with edric

Sometimes you'll pull pranks with edric other times he'll show you a new allusion.

You and him study together since edric likes how you explain things from the healing coven when he has a question about it.

Edric asked you out with a little help from viney and emira.Since they both saw how you and edric liked each other sometimes emira teasing edric of his crush on you.

Edric loves giving you hugs and forehead kisses whenever you want some love from him or when he surprises you with them.Sometimes he gives you small gifts mostly of jewelry and clothing.

Couple outfits and pictures with him as edric likes matching with you.For pictures he takes them so later you can see them with him while cuddling.

Since you’re in the healing track edric always says something cheesy like ‘’y/n i’m no organ donor but i’ll be happy to give you my heart’’

‘’Edric babe that was such a sweet thing to say.’’you said blushing a bit before going back to your book of healing

‘’Wait did you just call me babe???’’he asked you surprised since he didn’t ask if you wanted to do nicknames in your relationship

‘’Yeah do you not like it?cause if you don’t I won’t call you that.’’you said turning the page in your book

“No it’s fine really!if we’re doing nicknames i’m calling you sunshine.’’he said before kissing your forehead before making an allusion of a small sun dancing around the room of his.

It was because you always knew how to brighten up his day which was one of the reasons that edric chose that nickname

When it came to grom you and him went together as you were there with him and emria,amity trying to teach luz how to defeat grom.Just to make sure no one got hurt and if they did you could heal them.

Edric and you matched when it came to your dress and his tux.He gave you flowers before coming to grom he wanted to make a good first impression on your parents since it was the first time meeting them.

You dyed your hair to match edric’s since it was his idea saying ‘’y/n if you wanna dye your hair you could try dying it to match mine’’

You only did highlights which edric helped you do since it was your first time dying your hair.It was fun since edric brought some snacks for you and him and the green hair dye.

Study dates are something you do when both you and edric have to study for your track.You and edric study but then edric gets bored and tries to distract you which works sometimes other times it doesn’t.Which edric acts all pouty causes you to try to earn his forgiveness with hugs since he really likes your hugs.

He does forgive you when you do win but to edric it’s a win-win situation.As he gets hugs from you and you get hugs from him maybe one or two kisses too.

He leaves cute notes in your books or notebooks which you find during class.After he returns it to you in the morning before school starts.

If you like reading he’ll try reading the same book that you’re reading so he can highlight lines that remind him of you and things he wants to do with you.As he gives you the book to you leaving you blushing after finding his notes.

#the owl house #edric toh #x reader #edric x reader #cute #request

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corvidaequeer · 2 years

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While I 100% agree that Ed & Em use the concealment stones when they're too lazy to clean up- I also think Odalia is a major factor.

Even though she wears a concealment stone at all times, Emira clearly doesn't care if anyone sees her with pimples & unmanaged hair. She doesn't even care if people know she one. She wears it on her chest everyday & doesn't try to hide it.

So that makes me think wearing one is just because her mom expects them all to be perfect, pretty, & uniform/symmetrical. I mean she doesn't even HAVE a mole! She just has a fake one so she mirrors Edric (& so Edric doesn't have to hide his).

For Emira, Odalia's dislike of certain parts of her appearance doesn't affect her self esteem in anyway. Odalia's opinion has no value to Emira, she just keeps it up because she doesn't want to get in trouble.

Edric, on the other hand doesn't seem to care quite as much about whether he gets in trouble or not, but he very much cares about his appearance & how people he's not very close with see him. Ed also doesn't want anyone to ever know he uses a concealment stone either.

Unlike Emira, for Edric, Odalia's opinion is a major factor in his self esteem & actions. As we saw in this episode, Edric doesn't even seem to like illusion magic that much. So that makes me think, Odalia wanted Ed & Em to match in covens/tracks so that are perfect mirror images of each other & match with the family.

More examples being Ed's mole/glasses & Em's lack of a mole/glasses to be corrected so they mirror. Ed & Em having matching clothes. As well as Amity to have matching hair to all of the non messy Blights (she knows Alador is a lost cause).

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hootysblog · 3 years

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Day 24 of the 31 day fan fiction challenge!

This story takes place before Amity gets Ghost.

Enjoy!

You need to stay awake

Amity is pacing on the cave floor. She can't believe this happened. All they were doing was playing around in the snow and next thing they know, a snowstorm hit and they took refuge in this cave.

*** "It's it just me or are those clouds getting darker?" Luz questioned.

Amity looked up. They both looked in the direction of the clouds and could see a storm brewing. They looked at each other and started running.

"Oof!"

"Luz!" Amity cried and ran back towards her girlfriend.

"Go, I'll be okay!" Luz yelled while getting up. Amity stopped running, but resumed after she saw Luz get to her feet. The wind started to pick up more and it was getting harder to see. Amity turned back around and didn't see Luz anywhere.

"Luz? Where are you?" Amity called out in the storm. She tried to trace her steps back and then she saw Luz struggling to keep up.

"Luz!" Amity rushed over and grabbed her girlfriend. Amity looked around and saw a cave that they could take refuge in.***

Luz is shivering and Amity is trying to build a fire.

Amity is getting frustrated, but she knows it's not her fault. There aren't any dry sticks to make a fire with and if she tries to make a fire, that could weaken her. Amity looks over to Luz, who isn't looking well.

"You doing okay?" Luz asks.

"I should be asking you that question," Amity says. "You're the one that twisted your ankle in the snow and then struggled to keep up with me?"

"I'm f-f-f-fine," Luz says.

Amity feels bad. "No, you're not. You're shivering. I need to get you out of those wet clothes."

Luz blushes at that. Amity walks over and helps Luz get out of her clothes. Luz keeps a pair of leggings and her undershirt on. Amity tries to look outside and sighs. "It looks like we're going to be stuck here a while."

"D-d-do you think Eda and your family will n-n-notice that we're gone?" Luz questions.

"To be honest, the twins will notice I'm gone. My parents won't," Amity sighs.

"S-sorry."

Amity walks over and sits next to her girlfriend. Amity snuggles next to Luz.

"N-n-no Amity. You're going to get cold."

"And if I don't snuggle with you, you're going to freeze to death." Amity bites her lip at her statement. She takes her coat off and uses it as a blanket for Luz.

"I want to sleep."

Fear sets into Amity. "Luz, listen to me. You can't go to sleep, because if you do..."

"I'll d-d-d-die."

"I wouldn't go that far," Amity says.

Amity rubs her hand up and down Luz's arm.

"Mmmm, that feels nice."

Amity smiles. "I'm sorry."

Luz looks up at her with confusion. "I shouldn't have kept going until I knew you were right behind me."

"D-don't apologize Amity. I should've said s-something when I fell."

Amity wraps Luz into a hug, while still rubbing her hands up and down Luz's body. They stay like this for a while.

"You feeling better?" Amity asks.

Luz hums. "Actually, I do feel warmer." She looks at Amity. "Look at you, you saved my life."

Amity chuckles. "I wouldn't go that far, but I appreciate the sentiment behind it."

They hear voices outside, but can't hear it clearly until they come closer.

"Luz?!? Amity?!?"

Luz and Amity perk up. "Is that Eda?"

"Oh Mittens! And her cute girlfriend! Where are you hiding??"

Amity growls at her twins, while Luz is blushing, but trying not to laugh.

"Do you feel strong enough to get up?"

"Yep!" Luz exclaims.

Amity helps Luz up and they walk towards the entrance of the cave.

"EDA! WE'RE OVER HERE!" Luz screams.

Amity flinches at Luz, but know because she just screamed in her ear.

Eda flys over to them and pulls them into a hug. "You guys have me a scare. You both okay?"

"Well I sort of sprained my ankle running away from the storm," Luz admits.

"And don't forget you almost got hypothermia," Amity adds.

"MITTENS!!!"

The twins crash into Amity and they fall into the snow.

"Ugh, get off of me!" Amity pushes them away.

"You okay?" Emira asks.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"She saved my life!"

Amity looks at Luz like "why did you just say that?"

*Gasp* "It looks like you're her fearless champion," Edric claims.

Both girls go red, while Eda and the twins start laughing.

"Let's get you two warmed up okay?"

They all gather around a nice, warm fire, where Luz and Amity lean against each other, knowing that they'll be okay.

#lumity #the owl house

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person-with-multiple-interests · 3 years

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Tomorrow Hill chapter 2 part two

They arrived at the mall’s parking lot, time to do what they came here for, back to school shopping. Hunter was afraid of this, afraid of doing his tics in public and just genuinely anxious about the whole thing as well.

The two of them walked into the mall looking for school supplies. Hunter is hoping that his foster parent will allow him to get more art supplies and a new sketchbook. Then he saw something that stole his breath almost instantly.

It was a guy hazel eyes and hair dyed emerald green and a beauty mark under his left eye. Standing next him were two girls one who looked like she could be his twin, maybe they were identical twins and one with lavender hair she probably dyed it as well. Either way that guy was really eye catching Hunter couldn’t stop looking at the other boy maybe it was better for them not to know each other. Hunter felt a blush creeping on his face when the other boy laughed, that laugh was just ear candy to Hunter.

Bump took notice that he didn’t have Hunter’s attention anymore he was about to ask Hunter if found something he until he saw who he was looking at. Edric Blight, one of the three Blight siblings. Bump saw the look in Hunter’s eyes it was basically love at first sight so he decided to throw this love struck child a bone.

“You like him?”

“Huh, like who?”

“Him right there, do you want to talk to him?”

He nodded. But he was confused guys are supposed to like girls……right?

“Then do it you need practice for when you get to school anyways.”

Hunter took a few deep breath’s and started making his way towards the boy he was already feeling like he’s going to have an anxiety attack.

Edric was just scrolling through his phone when he looked to the right and saw someone standing next to him. Bleach blonde hair and an undercut extending to the back of his head leaving the bit of hair at the top left, ruby red eyes that were so beautiful that Edric had to do a double take, pale skin he did have a bit of color but other than that he was mostly pale, and a scar that went from his jawline to a bit of his cheek Edric wondered what could’ve happened to have the boy standing next to him receive that scar.

Hunter’s body suddenly lunged forward, he felt like he was going to fall over had it not been for the emerald haired boy catching him.

“You okay?”

“I’m pop just fine. I’m used to it click actually.”

That made no sense to Edric but then again he could ask Amity about this interaction she was planning on becoming a neurologist.

“Ok.”

Edric walked away leaving to ask his little sister about the interaction but Edric had admit in his mind that boy was kinda cute not the body jerking, to Edric it looked kinda painful but Edric did know that the blonde couldn’t control it, aside from that he was cute.

Hunter was standing there frozen in place then walked back to his foster dad.

“How’d it go?”

“I messed up, I think he hates me.”

“Hey no worries you’ll have another chance.”

“Yeah maybe, anyways do I have art classes on my schedule?”

“Uhh hold on let me check. You do have art on there, do you want to pick up some art supplies and a sketchbook for that next?”

“Yes I do want to do that.”

“Alright that’s our next stop.”

Edric finally caught up with Emira and Amity in the clothing section when Amity’s eyes caught something. A purple hoodie with cat ears on the hood. Amity gasped.

“This is perfect for Luz, favorite color, cat ears, hold on is it soft?”

She felt the texture of the hoodie seeing if it was soft like Luz liked it knowing that her girlfriend had issues with certain textures on some clothes especially hoodies.

“It is. I’m getting this for her and giving it to her tomorrow, she’s going to love it.”

Emira chimed in.

“Oh yeah, I’m sure she’s going to love it mittens.”

Emira saw Edric making his way towards them.

“There you are! What took you so long?”

“Sorry Em, just met someone.”

Amity’s interest was peaked.

“Oh ho and who was this someone?”

“I didn’t catch his name but actually I wanted to ask you about him mittens.”

“Okay go for it what’s the question.”

“Actually never mind.”

Amity just shrugged as she headed towards the register to pay for the stuff they got.

“So you’re just going to leave us hanging?”

“Yes I am.”

“Dude that is such a dick move.”

“I know Em.”

“Well I’ve already payed for the stuff we need.”

“Nice one mittens.”

Hunter saw that boy was about to leave, and knew he didn’t want to lose him so without even a second thought he started speed walking towards the boy clearly on auto drive.

Edric was five inches from the exit when he suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder. It was that boy.

Hunter extended his hand (maybe if you suppress your tics then he’ll be your friend at least) surprisingly the other boy took his hand and shook it.

“Hey.”

“H-hi.”

Hunter was already nervous about this he didn’t even know what to say.

“I wanted to ask you something.”

“Alright what is it?”

“Back there your body just kinda pushed you forward and it looked like you couldn’t control it what did you mean by you were used to it?”

This is what Hunter was afraid of.

“Yeah sorry about that. That was just….one of my tics.”

“Tics?”

“Y-yeah I have click Tourette’s.”

Edric had seen Amity doing research on it so he had a basic understanding of it. Hunter felt like he had to continue the silence was deafening.

“It’s a neurological condition that causes-”

“I know what it is it’s just I’ve never met someone that has it.”

“O-oh your pop okay with that.”

“Why would I not be.”

“R-right.”

“Give me your phone for a bit.”

“Why?”

“You’ll see. Oh yeah what’s your name?”

“H-hunter, and yours?”

“Edric nice to meet you Hunter.”

“Nice to throat clear meet you too hiccup Edric.”

Edric began to type his number into Hunter’s contacts, then Hunter spoke pretty quickly.

“I mean if you want to hang out tomorrow that’s fine but I’d understand if you didn’t wa-”

“I’d like that. So tomorrow it is?”

Hunter was at a loss of words this drop dead gorgeous guy was accepting his proposal to hang out. He didn’t even know what to do.

“Yes pop tomorrow it is.”

“Cool see ya.”

Edric gave Hunter his phone back then winked at him as he walked away which caused Hunter’s face to turn bright pink. Hunter was new to this the only other friend he had was his foster sibling Skara other than her he didn’t have any other friends.

Maybe this won’t be so bad after all.

Now was the difficult part asking his foster father if he could hang out with him. Hunter was still shell shocked over the interaction that he forgot about why he was there in the first place.

“There you are kid. You ready to go home.”

“I want to tch ask you something?”

“What is it.”

“Remember that guy from the mall?”

“Yes I do.”

“Well grunt he and I have made pop plans to hang out cough tomorrow, is it ok if I go to his place?”

“Of course it’s okay.”

“Thank you.”

“Anytime kid, now then let’s head back home.”

#hunter toh #toh fanfic #tourettes #tourettes syndrome #foster care #principle bump #edric blight #emira blight #amity blight #huntric #goldric

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erzaguin · 3 years

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Huntmira Week 2021 Day 1: First Meeting

Emira

Ed is out on his big date, Amity is locked in her room freaking out about Luz, and I’m spending my first time on my own at the library. That's kinda depressing. I decided I wanted to go out but didn’t know where to go. Before I knew it I was at the front steps of the library. I guess this is what I get when the only places I really go to are home, school, and the library thanks to Amity.

Well maybe it won’t be so bad. I can take this time to walk around and explore a bit. Whenever Ed and I come here nobody ever pays that much attention to us. It’s kind of nice that everyone is in their own world so they don’t see anything beyond the book they are reading. I guess this is why Amitty likes this place so much. It’s free of the pressures of being a Blight. I never really gave it much thought but this is probably one of the few places where I feel I can be myself without any pressures.

I must have spaced out a bit there. I don’t recognize this part of the library. Not that I know the library like the back of my hand or anything but still. It looks older than the rest of the library and there’s nobody here. It’s also somehow darker than the rest of the library and also dustier. I guess not many people come to this section. It's actually kinda nice if you don't mind the dust. There's nobody around and the lighting is actually soothing. Maybe a bit too soothing. What's that noise is someone snoring?

I followed the noise to an opening with several empty tables with the exception of one. This table had several stacks of books that almost looked like a child's fort. It was also the source of the noise. As I got closer I saw that the source of the noise was a sleeping boy. He looks to be about my age. Yet the bags under his eyes and the scars on his face and arms almost make him look older. He must have a pretty hard life? I took a seat next to him, careful not to wake him and studied his features.

His ashy blond hair is actually well combed. I wonder how he got those scars. His clothes are of really good material so he must be from a wealthy family. I continued to watch him sleep while trying to figure out what his story was. Hmm, is that a mask? I must have dozed off because when I came to I was in the middle of a book avalanche.

Hunter

Oh no I fell asleep again he said startled at the realization that he had unintentionally taken a break. How do you want to prove your worth when you can’t even stay awake while doing research? *sigh* It’s not like it matters. I didn’t find anything useful today. The number of missions I've been on lately have started to wear me out. I can barely make out the words in these books with how tired my eyes are. My tiredness is just a sign that I need to do better. That's right, I have to be better for him.

That's why I started coming to the library to do research on wild magic in the first place. I want to help Emperor Belos. It's a slow process but I have learned a lot. I know that somewhere within one of these books I'll be able to find a way to help him. Although falling asleep during my research time won't do any good. At the very least I managed to get some sleep in so maybe now I’ll be able to focus … *chu*

Huh? What was thaAAAAHHH! Exclaimed Hunter as he jumped up after noticing the girl sitting next to him. His outburst caused the towers of books on the table to come tumbling down on the sleeping girl.

First Meeting

"Ouch that hurt. What are you doing? Why are you yelling?" Muttered Emira as she nursed her head which had been bombarded by books.

"What? Me?! You! Why are you here? What were you doing?!" Stammered Hunter as he tried to make sence of the situation.

"Isn’t it obvious? I was taking a nap before I was so rudely interrupted." Said Emira cooly as she dug herself out of the mountain of books.

"S..orry you surprised me. There's never other people in this section of the library." answered Hunter in a more composed tone as he offered his hand. "Plus people don’t normally take naps with strangers."

"I know but you looked so peaceful sleeping that I just had to join you" responded Emira as she took his hand.

"...Right?..."realization filled his face as he gazed up at the golden eyed emerald haired girl. "I know you, you're the eldest Blight daughter right?"

"That’s interesting because I don’t know you. Are you one of my secret admirers?" Teased Emira.

"What?!" Retorted Hunter in taken aback by her coment. "No,... everyone knows who the Blights are."

"That's a compelling argument..." said Emira as she got a bit closer to the boy meeting his gaze. "...but why are you still holding my hand then?" Jested Emira with a sly smile.

Hunter quickly pulled his hand away and turned so the girl wouldn't see his blushing face although his crimson ears gave him away. “I think you should go.” stuttered Hunter, still not wanting to make eye contact. Something about the way she looked at him made him very nervous.

“Oh don’t be like that, I was just teasing. Besides, it looks like you could use some company plus I could be of some help with whatever you're doing” she said as she started rummaging through the books that were still on the table.

Hunter turned to look at her wearily. “I don't need any company, I'm fine on my own. Besides, why would a Blight want to help me?"

Without looking up from what she was doing she simply stated “ First of all I have a name, it's Emira and secondly I have nothing better to do and I’m curious about you?”

"What do you mean?" Responded hunter with his own curiosity starting to peak.

"For starters your appearance, the clothes you are wearing make it obvious that you are from a wealthy house and yet I have never seen you before. You seem to be around my age but you're definitely not a student at Hexside. So tell me, who are you?" she said while staring intently at him.

Hunter was taken aback by her sudden bluntness and a bit impressed by her observation skills but he would not let on. "Who says that I am not a servant? Or that I stole these clothes? And what makes you so sure I’m not a student at Hexide? Maybe we’ve just never met?

"Oh you’re definitely from a wealthy house,'' she stated matter of factly. “You could be wearing rags and it would still be obvious. And as you so blatantly pointed out I am a Blight it is our business to know everyone who could be a potential ally or competitor. If you went to Hexide I would know it. Don’t worry though I won’t pry on who your family is but do you have a name I could call you?”

The boy paused for a moment trying to take in the situation he was in before finally saying “ My name is Hunter”

“Well Hunter it’s a pleasure to meet you, '' she said as she stretched out her hand. Hunter looked at it before taking it hesently remembering her earlier jest on his behalf. “It's a pleasure to meet you to . . . Emira'' he stammered trying not to make eye contact. Emira gave him a mischievous grin before moving closer to him “This feels like the start of a beautiful friendship don’t you think?”

Hunter instinctively tried moving away from her. Her gaze was still unsettling to him and although he wouldn't admit it, something about this girl scared him.

#the owl house #toh #huntmiraweek2021 #the owl house hunter #hunter x emira #goldmira #huntmira #huntmira Week 2021 day 1 #the owl house emira #emira blight #golden guard

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ragrottend0ll · 3 years

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School Crush (Vinira Fanfic)

(In december I posted this little idea and now I decided to started it, hope you enjoy and forgive the misspelling, english isn’t my first lenguage)

Chapter one:

‘‘I like girls’’. Emira started.

‘‘I like girls, too’’. Amity seconded after a few seconds of silence.

‘‘Ok...’‘. Alador responded a little shook. ‘‘I-- Wow, yeah, ok.’’

‘‘Is that all you are gonna say, dad? Really?’’. Asked Emira. She didn’t spend seven years in the closet for just to get an ok.

Alador shruged a little. ‘’Congratulations...?’’

‘‘Fine, that’s better’‘.

The Blight siblings and Alador were hanging out. This was something that have been happening some time ago. At first it started as a sisters’ night, just for Amity and Emira, but then Edric discovered this and was begging, crying and basically annoying his sisters for let him ‘’in’’.

He finally achived it.

So, every friday night, while their parents were in important meetings or fancy restaurants, the three would reunited in Emiras’s room and just talk. Sometimes they watched a series or practice some makeup. Even tried on clothes from either Edric or Emira. Sometimes they would sing a karaoke or just talk about their day, their friends, Luz, and throw bullshit of their parents.

They didn’t need to worry about the mansion’s staff. They all like them and have never said something bad of them to their parents. Plus, some have sewn up mouths so... Anyway.

What they did not expected was that, one night, their father would return early.

Alador was honestly tired. He have been awake for three days straight and needed some sleep. Even when his lovely wife, Odalia, told/demanded him to stay awake and attend another important meeting, he denied. Alador was sure that, if he stayed awake for another hour, his body will just collapse.

When he arrive to the mansion, the buttler (he never can remember his name, really) was there and took his coat. Alador didn’t wait more and went upstairs. The Bight manor was splendant, huge and, now that he was walking alone through the corridors full of old portraits in the middle of the night, he would consider it spooky.

The portraits gave him chills in his back. He felt like the eyes of his wife’s ancestors were following him in every step he took.

‘‘I wouldn’t be surprise’‘, Alador tought. ‘‘They may be haunted for real’’.

‘‘I should probably ask Odalia about it’’.

Alador walked to his bedroom’s door, and when he was about to open it he heard something.

It was a scream.

‘‘The kids’’. He tought.

Alador ran as fast as his tiredness allow him to the wast wing, where the children’s bedroom were. The screams kept going, ‘’Where is the staff?’’ Alador asked himself mentally. His kids could be diying and non of the guards he hired were even near.

The screams were coming from Emira’s room. But the shouting didn’t sounded like Emira.

He looked at Amity’s and Edric’s doors. They haven’t come out and their doors were closed. Alador was tempted to open the other two door, but decided not to. If his children were being kidnaped, he’ll deal with the kidnapper in Emira’s room first.

Alador took a deep breath and casted a spell, ready to attack if he needed to. He opened the door, fast and hard. What he saw let him speechless.

There was no kidnapper. There was no danger.

But, he really didn’t know what to think about the scene that was display infront of him.

Emira’s room was a disaster. There were snacks in the ground, Alador wonder if Odalia would be mad about it, he answered himself almost inmediatelly with a yes. The room was dark, except for the karaoke that, Alador supposed, one of the twins bought.

Edric was lying in the floor with a microphone in his left hand, while his right hand where finger-brushing his hair. Oh, and he was using Emira’s lastest grom dress and a twelve centimeters tall heels.

Amity was sitting in the little sofa that Em buy two years ago. Her face had some very excentric makeup, specially her eyes. A wildly combination of pink, glitter and black. With red-sparkled lip gloss. Her triangular earings were replaced with a pair of Emira’s expensive earings that were only used for important meeting or fancy parties. She was wearing her regular pajamas, with the slight difference that, over her pants, she was wearing a puffy skirt. And that her feet were covered with long cowboy boots.

Emira was sitting in her bed, face was covered in some kind of skin care treatment. A phosphorescent green skin care treatment. Even with that, she was the most normal looking of the three. All her makeup was in the bed, (probably the responsable of Amity’s face) and her hand was grabbing her scroll, that was recording Edric’s performance, before he opened the door, at least. The scroll was still recording, by the way. Em didn’t have time to stop it before his father abruptely came in the room.

The Blight siblings were looking at him like deers flashed by a light. Each of them praying in their heads that if they don’t move Alador wouldn’t be able to see them, like some of the animal in the isles.

‘‘You... uhm,... arrived early’‘. Edric stated the obvious, crearly nervous. But, can you blame him? Not everyday your dad found you wearing a dress and using heels . Actually that never really hapened to him.

The music of the karaoke was still playing. Alador connected the dots and figured out that his son was the responsable of the screams.

‘‘Yes, I did’‘ Alador responded. He never had been a man of words, but in this moment he didn’t know what would be the correct way to react.

Should he scold them for being up at one in the morning making a fuss? Or He should just close the door and pretend that none of it happened?

He was definitely going to ask the servants if this was something that happened often and why they had not reported those... meetings that their children did.

‘‘Mom’s here, too?’‘ Amity asked. Her face now was now also covered with a strong blush of embarasment, that reached even her neck.

‘‘No, she is still in the meetong with the Hogson’s’‘ Alador answered.

‘‘Do you want to talk this now, or would you preffer to wait until the sun comes out?’‘ Alador asked. He wan’t sure if this was the right thing to do, but the words came out of his mouth even before he could think about it. That was something that didn’t happened to him since high school.

The kids glare at eachother and said a ‘’now’’ at the same time. If they waited for the sun, Odalia was probably going to arrive and they didn’t wanted to have that conversation with their mother.

None conversation, actually.

‘‘Alright’‘ their father said ‘‘Clean your faces and put on presentable clothes’‘

And with that he leave the room.

‘‘That could have been worse, right?’’ Edric said. He finally stoped doing the pose with his hand trought his hair.

‘‘Yeah...’’ Emira answered him ‘‘Mom could have catch us’’

‘‘Titan forbid’’ Amity said.

Once they cleaned their faces and put on their pijamas, the three siblings made their way to Alador’s office, who has completely forgot how tired he was.

They were nervous, Edric, specially. And were honestly surprised when the scolding was more about how they broke the curfew than about all the mess they did.

And after that, things evolved rapidly. The kids felt better in Alador’s pressence than ever before. They trusted their father even more because he didn’t said a thing to Odalia, and even gave the order to the servants to keep those meetings as a secret.

Two months later, Alador found himself spending the family-bonding-time, as Edric renamed it, with his children. The bonding-time had to be moved to saturday’s night, because Alador had the obligation to go to the meeting on friday. But the kids weren’t mad at all.

‘‘Dad?’’, Edric called for him. It has been five minutes since Emira and Amity’s comming out and Alador haven’t said anything esle since the congratulations. ‘‘Girls, I think you shouldn't have done it at the same time; now you’ve killed him’’.

‘‘We didn’t!’’ Amity shouted inmediately.

‘‘No, I think we actually did it, Mittens’’ Emira seconded.

‘‘I’m fine’’ Alador said some time later. The twins were disscussing if they should call an ambulance or just leave their dad there. Emira was drafting in her mind all the possible ways to hide Alador’s corpse in the manor, too. You have to be careful, right?

Alador sit up straight in the couch were she was lying. Before his both daughters come out to him some minutes ago, they were all watching a movie. If Alador had to be honest, he wasn’t really paying attention. He was falling asleep. This week has been rough, but for no reasom he would cancel the saturdaynight bonding time™.

‘‘None of my kids are straight, huh?’’ Alador thought.

Ok, to be fair, Edric haven’t come out to him (yet), but Alador prectically confirm his son’s orientation when he founded him performing when he discovered that friday sisters’ night. No straight, cis, man would use a dress and heels. Not even walk on them in the propper way Edric managed to do.

‘‘So, uhm, are you... mad or...?’’ Amity began.

‘‘Oh, no. No!’’ Alador answered, with a little laught that lately the siblings were more used to hear ‘‘I’m actually kind of relive.’’

‘‘Relieve?’‘ Edric asked, genuinely curious.

‘‘Indeed. I don’t have to worry about any potencial boyfriend and the concecuences that would imply-’’

‘‘Shut!’’ Amity and Emira shouted at the same time. ‘‘The school already teach us that. No need to repeated.’’ Emira continued.

‘‘I was talking about a heartbroken, but yes, sexual education is very important too.’’ Alador said. And, tho he seemed serious, he was teasing his daughters.

‘‘So, you are ok with this?’’

‘‘Yes, Amity.’’

Actually, I’m kind of a pansexual, myself. Alador tought, but keep shut.

The movie was paused. Probably since some time ago but Alador didn’t notice. He glare at Emira’s wall clock. 12:05, it marked.

It was early, Odalia wouldn’t be back until three in the morning. Anyway he open his scroll to verify that his wife haven’t texted him or something.

There was nothing, as expected. Only Odalia’s last message where she told him that she was going to leave the party at 1:45 and was expecting been home around 3:00 a.m.

‘‘So,’‘ Alador started ‘‘any particular reason to tell me your orientation?’’

Yes, it was sweet, but Alador did knew his daughter a little and can almost tell that, at least Emira had something else to say.

‘‘No, no reason.’’ Amity answered. ‘‘Just to tell you with Em.’’

Alador look at his older daugher, waiting for her answer.

Yes, they were closer than bever before, but the sad truth was that even if his children did trusted in him, he didn’t think that they trusted him that much.

It was reasonable, not less hurting, but understandable.

‘‘Well... You see, er. Ok, so. I actually wanted to tell you because, uhm....’’

Alright, now this was new. Alador never in his life had heard Emira stutter.

All his children were raise to be the embodinment of perfection, as Odalia describe it. The three took classes of everything. From music to etiquette, and diction was not left behind.

Now, Alador was sincerely curious.

‘‘There’s this girl in the school, and well-’’

‘‘Emira has a big crush on her.’’ Edric interrupted.

‘‘But Emira can be around her without being a red mess.’‘

‘‘You are one to talk, huh, Mittens.’’ Emira asked. Her cheeks were already a little blushy.

Amity looked away and Emira continue: ‘’My point is, that, her dad is kinda, a little... short budget. And-’’

‘‘Emira, I love you, but if that girl is using you for your money-’’

‘‘No! She isn’t! Sh doesn’t even know that I liked her’’

‘‘Well that’s debatable’’ Edric said ‘‘It’s really obvious and Viney it’s not as oblivious as Luz, plus-’’

‘‘Who’s Luz?’‘ Alador asked.

‘‘It doesn’t matter right now’’ Emira stated. ‘‘The point is, dad, that she didn’t even tell me his dad was in a little hurry. I was walking towards her and she was talking to her friends about it and I just heard a little. When I told her I could give her some snails she declined and actually was pretty mad about it, until last week, when I apologized. But I really want to do something about it.’’ Em talked fast, but Alador, as the good listener he had always been, didn’t missed anything.

‘‘And how can I help?’’ Alador asked.

‘‘Well, you can make him get a job? Maybe here in the manor or somewhere else. Her dad is in the construction coven, I think he is like, the right hand of the leader.’’

Alador hummed. Contruction coven right hand? He was a right hand once, before he was level up to coven leader. And he knew very well the salary of the seconds on board. It was a great amount of snails.

‘‘And before you say something like ‘she’s scamming you’, I want you to know that her family is really big. She has like, twelve siblings, not including her.’’

Alador sigh.

‘‘She really is a good person, dad. And if I can help her, I will.’’

‘‘She’s one of the noblest people we’ve met. There’s no danger’’ Edric said in favor of Emira’s propose.

Alador looked to Amity, who haven’t said much, and asked her with his eyes for her opinion.

‘‘I don’t hang out with her a lot, but she’s indeed good.’’

‘‘Well, I guess I have no other option, do I?’’

‘‘Thank you, dad!’’ Emira shouted and jump to her dad’s lap to trap him in her arms in a tigh hug.

‘‘I don't promise anything, but I'm going to see what I can do.’‘ Alador responded and hug Emira back.

He looked at Edric and Amity and with a head movement he invited both of them to join the hug.

Edric took Amity’s hand and join to it.

Well, Alador thought, I guess I have some work to do now.

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