Are your cryptid and villain!Luz aus dead? You didn't mention them in your au masterpost
I haven’t written anything for the Cryptid AU yet, and the Villain!Luz AU was never meant to become its own series. I may add one or two one shots onto it, but it won’t ever become a big thing like any of my others. My only ‘dead’/finished AU on there is Uncursed AU
Everything else is the same tho. Luz still comes to the Isles, Eda is still a wild criminal, but now she doesn’t have the curse to worry about and also her and Lilith are Chill.
Guard: Ms. Clawthorne, it appears that Eda the Owl Lady has acquired an apprentice
Lilith: Hang on, I need to make a call
Lilith on the phone: Eda what the fuck why didn’t you tell me sooner this is awesome
Most events in the show still go down, but without the little Rift she and Eda have. Er, not quite the SAME rift, really.
I call it the ‘bad things happen but it’s better than it was before’ au
In the Uncursed AU, does Luz still learn the light spell first or does she learn something different since the circumstances of how she learned the light spell aren't in play there?
She does learn it first, it’s just under the circumstances of the typical Bored Day In The House and the Snaggleback Broke In So Obviously It’s A Ghost and it was,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,a time
Considering your Uncursed AU had Mom Lilith, can I ask your opinions on what kind of an Aunt/Mother figure Lilith would be?
Complicated.
Lilith isn’t as openly loving as Eda is, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t care. Her praise is through refined words and nods, and allowing others to touch her. She gives praise often, even for small things. She used to try and be like Eda, but that didn’t end up going so well and she just went back to doing what she was comfortable with.
Lilith isn’t fantastic at emotional comfort, or talking about Feelings. But she can offer advice and will sit next to Amity when she’s having a bad time, offering silent comfort and her best opinion on topics. Amity doesn’t mind. Sometimes a quiet offer of condolences is all someone needs.
She’s tired from dealing with nonsense, but she never outright discourages it. She used to, but eventually stopped. Everyone knows she’s not a fan, but she gave up trying to stop it. Lilith only takes action when it’s something she truly believes could have resulted in serious injury or consequences. Then she has this face of restrained Fury and through gritted teeth asks for the situation to be explained and holding herself back from shouting as she explains just how stupid that idea was and that this will not be Stood For.
Her forms of punishment, when she’s allowed to give them per Eda, are mostly manual labor or having to read for hours on end and give her an essay. She’s a teacher at heart. Containment is often a form of punishment, as well.
Lilith knows Luz doesn’t know what to think of her and she doesn’t blame her. She politely kept her distance and stuck mostly to Amity, who was one of the few familiar faces that still spoke to her. Neither of them were touchy people, but Luz is. So when she starts to open up around Lilith, she’s suddenly getting hugs and bumps and getting knocked into without any flinches or stepping away. It reminds her back when she and Eda were closer...and its nice.
Lilith, as of recently, had been training Amity far more often. She wasn’t sure when it started happening, but it always made her feel better when she knew Amity was out of that forlorn mansion.
Which worked out wonderfully for her, since Amity loved training. She was always one to be on time, and rarely did she ever miss a lesson.
So, needless to say, Lilith was rather concerned when, one day, Amity was over ten minutes late.
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They trained in many spots across Bonesborough, so to be prepared for any kind of terrain. Today, she decided to be a little easier and train in a clearing in the woods, opposite of the Owl House.
She would rather not run into Hooty, if she could avoid it.
Lilith tapped her foot impatiently, each minute feeling like an hour. The witch was about to pull out her scroll to call the young witch when a sound from the foliage caught her attention.
“I’m here! I’m here!” Amity called, rushing into the clearing and nearly tripping over herself.
“Amity! There you are.” Lilith said, hurrying over to the young witch. “Are you alright? Normally you would inform me if there’s to be a delay.”
“I know, I’m sorry,” Amity apologized, ears pressed back. “I, uh...slept in…” She mumbled refusing to meet the coven leader's eyes.
Amity lightly kicked at the ground beneath her and held her hands behind her back, refusing to meet the witches eyes.
“Amity,” Lilith said, crouching down so as to be eye-level with the girl. “Did something happen?” She asked, concerned.
Call her a worrywart, but a million bad ideas ran through her head. Amity being late and sleeping in was very unlike her. Did something keep her up? Was there an issue at the mansion? Was it stress? Was she being too hard on her?
Amity sighed and her shoulders sagged.
“You remember the human, Luz?” Amity asked.
“Of course,” Lilith blinked, surprised at this. “Why?”
“So, I was in the library to, erm, grab something I left,” Amity stuttered, fiddling with her hands. “And it was the night of the Wailing Star, so I knew Ed and Em were going to be there. But turns out they also...brought Luz…” She trailed off.
Lilith tilted her head, slowly processing the words Amity had said.
“Oh, I see.” Lilith chuckled. “Let me guess, she pulled you into some far too chaotic adventure last night?”
“Yeah,” Amity sighed, looking relieved. “It was crazy! We had to fight the character Otabin, and Luz actually didn’t have that bad of an idea, and we almost got sewn into a book, and turns out Luz is, like, a huge nerd.” Amity rambled on.
Lilith only smiled and listened. She shouldn’t have been all that surprised. The residents of the Owl House had always been a troublesome bunch, it was to be expected Luz would be the same.
And Lilith knew from a lot of experience that once you’ve met the people of the Owl House, you're never completely free of them.
“I take it you're a bit too tired for training today, then?” Lilith inquired.
“Oh, no, no, I can train!” Amity insisted. “I’ll be totally fine.”
“Amity, I can see the bags under your eyes,” Lilith pointed out. “You’d do best to spend more time on your concealer.”
Amity poked at the makeup under her eyes and grumbled under her breath, embarrassed.
“Don’t worry, we can do something else today.” Lilith said, standing up again. “I heard that new merchants came to the marketplace today. We could go browse. If you’d like.” She added the last part quickly.
“Are you sure?” Amity asked, looking up at Lilith with such a shy hopeful look that she had to mentally reign herself back in.
“Yes, of course I am.” Lilith said with a smile. “So long you can keep yourself upright, that is.”
“Obviously, I’m a Blight.” Amity said, standing up straighter. “I can handle a few hours of walking.”
“If you insist.”
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Lilith pulled up the hood of her cloak, obscuring her face from anyone passing by. Obviously, if they looked closer they could see who she really was, but it was better than walking out in the open.
“As much as I admire the attention,” Lilith said to Amity. “I doubt you want us to be swarmed today.”
“Definitely not,” Amity agreed, almost shyly. “Where did you say the merchants should be?”
“Somewhere near the middle of the marketplace,” Lilith said, unconsciously side-eyeing any stand they passed that was selling junk. “Come along.”
The two had a more of a vague wander towards the middle, as Amity, and sometimes Lilith, would get distracted by the odd objects being sold. Ranging from baked goods to knick-knacks that looked like they’d been scrounged up from someone's basement.
There were a few moments she had to stop herself from impulse-buying raven sculptures. What was she, Eda? The lady who bases her entire theme around one type of bird?
A sudden crash tore her out of her line of thought.
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She and Amity looked towards the noise, and a part of Lilith wanted to be surprised at the sight...but she really wasn’t.
A worm the width of a human and triple the length had its head stuck underneath the rubble of a broken stand. It was thrashing about and knocking into other stands, causing what was, to the people of Bonesborough, no more than an annoyance.
King, of course, was clutching onto the worm's tail with his claws and mouth, trying to tug it back. Luz herself was pulling on the relentless demon.
“King! Te lo ruego, let go!” Luz demanded, digging her heels into the dirt.
King mumbled something back, but it was inaudible from the fact he was still biting the worm.
Lilith and Amity glanced at each other. Lilith’s face reflected that of someone who had seen this many times before, and was tired. Amity’s showing pure unease and confusion as to what to do.
Luz yanked on King, hard. The worm finally popped free of the rubble and spun around, revealing wide, circle jaws filled to the brim with spinning razor sharp teeth.
Yeah, that was more of a problem.
Luz yelped and scooped up King, stepping back as the worm lunged at them with a hiss.
Lilith had barely summoned her staff to help the two before Amity threw a handful of magenta fire at the beasts face.
The beast snarled and whirled towards them, opening its jaws wide.
“Amity?” Luz blinked, now noticing the two.
The worm shot at them, arching itself and whirring its teeth around.
Lilith raised her staff and the beast froze, enveloped in blue magic. Lilith drew a circle in the air and the monster shrunk back to the size this species was supposed to be at; barely bigger than a finger.
The worm fell to the ground, now as small as it once was. Upon realizing this, it dug back into the ground and vanished.
The surrounding shopkeepers breathed a sigh of relief and began fixing up their stands again.
“Are you two alright?” Lilith asked, walking over to the two.
“Yeah, we’re fine--” Luz’s relieved face turned to that of pleasant surprise when she looked up at the woman. “Oh! Hey, Lilith!”
“Lilith!” King exclaimed at the same time, happily bounding up onto a wooden poll that had been cut in half by the chaos.
“How in the world did you get a razorworm that big?” Amity wondered, hovering behind the coven leader.
“Oh man, long story.” Luz said, taking Lilith’s offered hand and brushing herself off. “See, first I was just helping Eda around the house, and then King wandered off to go dig, you know? And then--”
Lilith tuned Luz out as she rambled on her explanation to Amity, who was looking a little overwhelmed, but not like she needed immediate help.
“How’s you?” Lilith asked King.
“Great! Well, almost great. Then that razorworm got away.” King grumbled. “Oh, oh! I got Eda’s message! And I say hi back!” King said happily, tail wagging.
“That’s good to hear,” Lilith smiled, scratching the demon's chin. “It seems you’ve infected another one with whatever bad luck you’ve got.” She said, glancing over at Luz, who was still babbling on and gesturing wildly.
Amity looked less overwhelmed, and now was just politely confused, but still listening. Luz seemed calmer and happier at explaining now, whereas originally she had seemed nervous, like Amity was going to tell her to shut up.
Lilith didn’t realize she had been watching a bit too long until she felt King grab her hand and hug it, getting her attention.
“Do you still make those green cookie things?” King asked. “Those were the best!”
“Mm, not as much anymore.” Lilith shook her head. “But I can send a few to the Owl House if you miss them.”
“Yes!” King pumped a fist in the air. “Luz is gonna love those!”
“I have a feeling that if Eda is hesitant to eat something, Luz won’t be much better.” Lilith said, sounding uncertain. “Where is Eda, anyway?”
“Back at her shop,” King said casually. “She made Luz help me with the worm while she cleaned up the mess we made of her stand.”
“Of course,” Lilith chuckled.
“And then the worm broke some stand selling pottery, and then you showed up!” Luz finished at last.
“...you’re not used to having normal days here, are you?” Amity said after a moment, the corners of her mouth slightly raised.
“Nope!” Luz shook her head, still giddy off of excitement and adrenaline. “I’m still all wound up from last night, so Eda said I should spend all my energy now so I can crash later.”
“You haven’t slept?” Amity gasped.
“I think I had a thirty-minute nap when I got home?” Luz squinted her eyes in thought. “But other than that? Not really.”
“You really are Eda’s apprentice,” Lilith sighed with a shake of her head, causing both girls to look towards her. “Let’s get you back to her, then.” She said, her staff vanishing in a small flash of blue.
“Best not to cause more trouble than you already have.”
“That’s fair,” King shrugged, hopping off the pole and onto the ground.
“Oh, no, we don’t want to cause--er, inconvenience you further.” Luz quickly corrected. “Aren’t you here to buy something?”
“Just browse,” Amity shrugged, crossing her arms. “We decided not to train today, so it’s no big deal.” She said politely.
“You’re still training?” Luz blinked.
“Always are,” Lilith said. “Though you’re recent... adventure, lets say, put a bit of a halt on today's lesson.”
“Oh,” Luz winced. “Sorry, Amity.”
“It's...fine,” Amity said after a moment. “Let’s just find wherever that witch’s stand is.”
“Agreed,” Lilith nodded, gesturing down the marketplace road and looking down at King. “Demons first.”
“Ha, ha, very funny.”
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“There you two are!” Eda exclaimed, looking up from her stand. “How’d the worm go?”
“Almost got eaten by it,” Luz said casually. “Oh, but we met Lilith and Amity!” She added, gesturing to the two behind her.
“...wonderful,” Eda grumbled, pushing aside whatever gadgets she had gathered. “Whadda want?”
“We just wanted to make sure Luz made it back safely.” Lilith said calmly, occasionally glancing over at Amity, who was being shown human relics by a gleeful Luz. “I don’t even want to know how you made a worm that large.”
“Long story, Luz could probably recite it to you.” Eda waved her hand. “Sure you don’t want to buy anything?” She inquired, pulling her best con-artist look.
“Positive.” Lilith said firmly. “I take it you already heard the disaster Luz got my protégé into last night?” She said. “Do you often let your human do that?”
“Luz is her own person and can make her own near-death experiences,” Eda huffed, crossing her arms, though she seemed far from offended. “And yes, I did hear about it. Luz talked about it non-stop when I woke up.” She muttered.
“It was sweet, but she kept going on and on about ‘befriending ones rivals’ or something like that.”
“She wishes to befriend Amity?” Lilith blinked, turning her head to where the girls were now.
Luz was showing off a strange colorful cube to Amity while King, much to both of their dismay, kept trying to eat it.
“My kid likes yours, for some reason.” Eda shrugged. “Hope that won’t get in the way of your perfect image.” She taunted.
“Amity can make her own image, thank you very much.” Lilith huffed. “And if that image means becoming friends with a human…” She glanced at the girls again.
Amity smiled and tried to smother a laugh as Luz got her fingers stuck in a strange paper contraption.
“Then so be it.” Lilith said simply.
“Couldn’t agree more, Sis.” Eda grinned. “And if I’m lucky, she might start feeling generous if she befriends Luz.” She added thoughtfully.
“You are not going to scam a child, Edalyn.” Lilith said strictly.
“Of course not! I have standards, Lilith.” Eda snorted. “I’m just saying that if it ever comes up, or she has an offer, it’d be rude of me to say no.” She said simply. “Kids rich, you expect me to ignore that?”
“I shouldn’t have expected more from you.” Lilith sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose.
“You really shouldn’t have.”
“Uh, Eda?”
The two sisters turned, seeing that Luz, Amity and King had been cornered by some strange gray almost dog-like creature with a ringed tail. Luz had a stick in front of her to poke at the creature before it hissed and recoiled.
King was standing behind Luz, as was Amity. Although Amity looked ready to chuck a ball of fire at the animal.
“A raccoon snuck in with your stash!” Luz called, poking at the beast again before it suddenly bit down on the stick and began thrashing about.
Luz screamed and dropped the stick, jumping back. She tripped over King and fell over, crushing him beneath her as she scuttled back. At the same time, Amity threw a handful of magenta fire at the animal. It missed and instead set fire to the torn-up carpet it was perched on.
The sisters glanced at each other with a tired look as the three began yelling and shouting at each other, trying to herd the gray demon-thing as it ran about.
“Don’t look at me. I just dealt with the worm.” Lilith said, crossing her arms. “It’s your turn now.”
“Ugh, fine.” Eda sighed, summoning her staff and stepping out from around the table. “Nice to know you’re still the same, even with disasters.”
